A/N: here's the second chapter! Sorry for the long wait. I started this chapter before, but I thought it was bad, so I had to leave it alone for a while. I also had an idea for another story that I typed up, but I'm not sure if I should post the first chapter, or if I should wait until I'm done with this one.
Anyway, here's the chapter. It has a lot of flashbacks that explain what happened to Suki and Sokka beforehand. Hope you guys like it!
Suki ran into the bedroom of the hotel in a huff and flopped on the queen-sized bed. She couldn't believe it- Sokka kissed her! Not only that, but 10 minutes after he saw his girlfriend. What could this mean? Could he still have feeling for her or was it just a reflex? Suki smiled at that thought, remembering parts of the past.
She remembered clearly the first time they met. She met Katara, Sokka's sister, in sophomore year and they became friends. At one point, Katara invited Suki into her house and that was when she first officially met him…
Suki rang the doorbell twice before someone answered it. A tall skinny guy opened the door and stared at her.
"Hi," Suki shortly waved at him.
"Who are you?" he asked still not letting her through the door.
"I'm Suki. I'm a friend of Katara's. Can I come in?"
He opened the door wider and Suki walked in. She could feel his eyes on her.
"So your Sokka right?" Suki asked, turning around to face him.
"Yeah. Why do you want to know?"
She shrugged. "I think you're in my history class. You sit in the front right?
Sokka nodded. "You answer a lot of questions. You must be really good at that class."
Sokka started to blush as he cleared his throat. "Yeah, uh, thanks. Katara's upstairs in her room. You can go up there if you want."
"Okay, well it was nice talking to you." Suki replied and turned around to walk upstairs.
"Yeah, you too." Sokka murmured.
That was one of the awkward moments, but eventually they got along better whenever Sokka would see her at school or when Suki came over. It took him a little while for him to ask her out, but when he did, they instantly connected.
Overall, they were together for two years and nine months. There were many ups and some downs in their relationship. After about a year, things started to get really serious. It started on their year and a half anniversary.
"Are we there yet?"
"No, we have a little bit more to go."
Sokka held on to Suki's hand tightly as he lead her to their destination blindfolded.
"Well hurry. I don't like not being able to see where I'm going."
"Don't worry. I'll tell you if you're going to hit something or not."
They walked a little bit more until Sokka stopped; signaling that they had came to the place.
Sokka carefully took the blindfold off of Suki's eyes. When she was able to see, she gasped at the sight before her. Sokka laid out a blanket with a picnic basket and two lit candles.
"Wow Sokka, you didn't have to do this."
"Yeah I did," Sokka answered. "We've been together for a year and a half. This is huge!"
Suki smiled as she carefully walked over to the blanket and sat down. Sokka followed suit.
After they ate the food from the basket, Sokka pulled out another object from the basket.
"Here," Sokka handed it to Suki. "Happy Anniversary!"
"You didn't have to…"
"Just open it!" Sokka commanded and Suki tore off the paper.
"Wow Sokka, it's beautiful!" Suki breathed as she took it out of the box.
The gift was a fan, not just any fan though. The fan part was gold and the outer sides of it were made from polished wood. Suki turned it over in her hand to examine it further.
"I got the idea from one of the concepts from history we studied. The teacher talked about these warriors called the Kyoshi warriors. They reminded me of you, so I did some research and found this."
Suki faced Sokka. "Thank you so much Sokka. I love it. I forgot your present at home, though."
Sokka smiled slightly. "Don't worry too much about it. I can get it later."
Sokka leaned in and their lips touched. It was short, but it was full of meaning.
"Suki," Sokka whispered. "I love you."
Suki paused and smiled at Sokka. She kissed Sokka softly before answering.
"I love you too."
That was a vital point in their relationship. From then on, things were a little bit different. They spent a lot of their time making out, and trying to take their relationship further.
Sokka lied on top of Suki as they continued to kiss. Suki's hands were looped around Sokka's neck, and Sokka's were around Suki's waist. Suki gently took her hands from his neck and put them on the front of Sokka's shirt, slowly unbuttoning the top buttons. Sokka stopped kissing and pulled away slightly.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Sokka whispered.
Suki locked eyes with Sokka. "Yeah. I'm ready."
Sokka leaned in again and took control. He slipped his hands over Suki's pants and tried to unbutton her jeans. Sokka stopped again and pulled back.
"Maybe we shouldn't."
"Why not?"
"We should do it some other time, so it can be special."
Suki smiled. "Okay."
Suki sighed. Even though it was a good idea, that special day never came. They had been in that position several times and came to the same conclusion. Suki thought of it now as Sokka's way to avoid the whole situation. He obviously hadn't loved her as much as he loved Yue. Now, she wished that they could have done it when they had the chance, because later on things got too rocky…
Senior year came quickly for them and they were immediately flooded with questions about where they were going to go to college. Sokka decided on one and only one school that he wanted to go to; Ba Sing Se University. His father went to school there, and there was a major chance of Sokka getting in too. Suki decided between Kyoshi and Ba Sing Se University also. Sokka thought that they should choose colleges separately. He didn't want Suki going to BSSU because he was going there. Now that Suki thought about it, she did partially want to go to BSSU because Sokka was going there, but didn't let it show. She assured him that she wanted to go there because of their martial arts team. They weren't as good as Kyoshi, but they were up there. They both helped each other fill out their applications and sent them in. The part Suki clearly remembered was getting letters back.
When Sokka was accepted into BSSU, everyone was ecstatic. Suki and him went out to celebrate with a few of their friends. When Suki was accepted into Kyoshi, there was also a celebration, but Suki wasn't as happy as all the others were. She still hoped that she would be getting into BSSU. When the letter from BSSU came for her, it was one of the most important moments of her life.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Sokka. It's me."
"Suki, are you okay? What's wrong?"
"I-I…can I come over to talk to you?"
"Yeah sure, see you soon."
When Sokka opened the door for Suki, he immediately knew something was wrong. Her face wet from tears, and her eyes were puffy. When she finally came into the house, she hugged Sokka tightly.
"I didn't get in," she sobbed into Sokka's shirt.
Sokka
slowly led her up to his room. "What happened?"
She thrust the small letter into his hands. "I didn't get in! I was rejected."
He carefully read over the letter then enveloped her into a hug. "I'm so sorry. But at least you got into Kyoshi. You still have some place to go."
Suki shook her head furiously. "That doesn't matter. How could I have not of gotten into it? My grades are just as good as yours!"
"I don't know Suki." Sokka murmured as he rubbed her back.
He sighed. "We're going to have to figure this out."
"Figure what out?"
"Our relationship." He whispered.
"What does have to do with anything?" Suki angrily questioned.
"Kyoshi's in Florida. I'm going to be in Maine. That's more than a thousand miles away from each other!"
"So what?"
"So we should probably break up." Sokka said softly.
Suki shook her head again. "That can't be the only solution. You could still apply and see if you can get into Kyoshi."
Sokka grimaced. "But I don't want to go to Kyoshi. There's nothing for me there."
"We can make our relationship long distance. It'll be hard, but it could work."
"No it wouldn't. We can hardly stay away from each other for a weekend! Do you know how difficult it would be to stay away for nine months?"
"It would be the same when we break up!" Suki tried to reason.
"We would be able to see other people. It would be better than being tied down."
Suki tried to come up with another way for it to work, but couldn't come up with any.
"So that's it. We'll break up in August before we leave for school."
"It's the only way…" Sokka replied.
Suki stood up. "Well, I better go home. I'll see you tomorrow at school."
Sokka stood up also. "You can still stay here. We're not breaking up now."
"I would stay, but I have stuff to do." Suki lied. "I'll see you later."
Graduation was an exciting but sad event for Suki, for more reasons than one. She was going off to college, but she was leaving all of her friends and her boyfriend. In June and July, she hung out with Sokka and her friends mostly every day. All of the fun stopped one day in July. Sokka was going to Maine early, to see his father and would stay up there for the rest of the summer. Instead of waiting until August, he thought it was a good idea to do it in July.
For a while, Suki had kept her cool about the whole thing. She didn't become really upset until they officially broke up. Suki and Sokka exchanged their goodbyes at the airport, where Sokka's flight to Maine was.
Suki helped Sokka carry his stuff over to where his plane would be leaving. Now all they had to do was wait for the plane to come.
Suki waited with Sokka with their fingers entwined together. Since the decision was made, Sokka wanted to keep their contact with each other to a minimum, so the departure wouldn't be as hard. But today, he made an exception. They sat together in silence, not wanting to say anything and ruin the moment. Suki wanted to put off the goodbyes to the very end.
"We are now boarding 6B, the flight to Maine."
Suki's heart froze as people around them started to get up and form a line at the entrance. Sokka started to get up and Suki did the same.
"Well, this is it." Sokka whispered.
"Have fun in Maine." Suki replied.
Sokka slowly took his hand away from Suki's and picked up his bag.
"I'm going to miss you." Suki whispered as she hugged him tightly.
They hugged for a while until the second call for Sokka's flight was called.
"Take care of yourself Suki." Sokka said as he pulled away from her.
"You too."
Suki leaned in and kissed Sokka softly. "I love you."
"I love you too."
Sokka turned around and boarded the plane, leaving Suki with tears streaming down her face.
Suki still remembered that day and the months afterwards. She had a hard time getting over it, even now. After she saw Sokka off, she went back home and cried. Katara and Toph tried to comfort her as much as they could, but it was no use.
Now, Suki knew that she still wasn't over Sokka. When he kissed her, even for that little while earlier in the day, her heart wrenched wanting Sokka to hold and kiss her like he did before.
The phone then violently rang, interrupting Suki's thoughts. Suki stretched to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Hi, It's me, Sokka."
Suki frowned. "Why are you calling me?"
"Listen, I wanted to talk to you about…stuff. I'm sorry about what I did earlier. Maybe we could talk about our relationship."
Suki's stomach churned. "What about our relationship?"
"I don't know, just about us, and what's been going on while we were away."
Suki sighed hesitantly. Was that really the thing they needed to do? Maybe it would clear stuff up; she might be able to understand what happened better.
"Sure…the same place we were today? … Okay, see you then."
Suki flopped back on to the bed. Hopefully this time wouldn't end up like it did today.
So that's it. Please review and tell me what you think!
Also, I'm not sure when I will be able to update this story in the near future. I give up my school laptop on June 20th and then I go away to camp on June 28th, so I'm sorry if the updates won't be as fast as before.