It's a Hit
Aang stared at Katara; Katara stared at Aang.
The waterbender narrowed her eyes in warning, and he mirrored it; Aang even went a step further by sticking out his tongue. Katara, seemingly offended, moved back with a frown.
But then she was sitting right back down on the ground across of him, re-narrowing her blue eyes and sticking out her tongue as well.
"What is going on?" Sokka asked as he came into the room, his lackluster tone contradicting his inquisitive question.
"These two," Toph sighed, "Are having a duel."
"A duel?" Sokka asked, interest perked; but when he looked back at them, silently holding still (although, quite tensely), he frowned. "They're not dueling, they're just sitting there."
"Oh, we're dueling alright," Katara shot out without breaking eye contact with the younger teen.
Sokka sighed and turned to Toph for an explanation; she rolled her unseeing eyes before stating; "Well, Aang commented on how they've never really said those, I quote, 'special three words' to each other even though they've been together for a while now, and then Katara said he should say it and then he said that she should say it and now-"
"Now we're waiting to see who caves in and says it first," Aang interrupted to finish, leaning a little closer to his girlfriend.
Sokka blinked before face-palming himself; "You guys are such nerds it's astounding."
"Don't distract me," Katara said before she wiped a few beads of sweat off her forehead, "I'm concentrating; this is unexpectedly hard."
"I agree," Aang commented.
"On not saying 'I love you?'" Sokka asked with disbelief, hands on his hips; "I thought you guys spewed that sort of stuff constantly."
"I'm going to have to agree with Katara, Sokka," Aang said, "You're distracting me; can you please be quiet?"
Sputtering at the impudence of these two, the swords master opened his mouth to retort and yell, but Toph yanked him down on the couch next to her and just said to watch. And that's exactly what the two of them did as Toph handed him pieces of his own jerky; they waited.
At first it seemed the two were invincible; then sure signs of fatigue started to peak through.
Their shoulders were slumping and they had dropped their arms, their heads hung a little lower and closer. Their lips, that they had been biting at to try and distract from the urge to yell their feelings, seemed red and bruised from the unjust abuse.
Just as Sokka was about to yell that they should just get over this stupid thing, something happened.
They both stood up with a start and threw their arms up for the other, crushing their bodies together.
"I love you!"
Sokka and Toph turned to each other and Sokka stated dryly, "They just said that at the exact same time, didn't they?"
The two on the couch frowned in a similar unison to the still-hugging couple who now, since they'd said the statement for the first time, couldn't stop.
AN: I was originally going to do the idea of who saying 'I love you' first really dramatic and insecure on both their parts (cause, you know, confessing is a bitch), but then Toph and Sokka wanted in and my idiotic, fluff-loving brain took over. I hope you didn't mind and enjoyed it all the same XD