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Our computer got a virus, so, no computer for AGES! I managed to save all of my writing though! Enjoy the latest chapter, I'll try and put another on asap, Ok?

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Chapter 16

Kaiya was reading an earth bending scroll on the lawn at this present time, unaware that her best friend was freaking out at that present moment.

"So the left is the most important here..." Kaiya muttered to herself. "Right."

She traced the arrows up and down. Her earth bending teachers loved to give them scrolls to study and memorise, their favourite type of torture. Little did they know that Kaiya actually liked these types of lessons.

She went over the rest of the scroll easily and was soon finished. Now she just had to locate her AWOL friend and have some fun. It was weird, maybe Lee forgot that they were supposed to be studying outside tonight. It wasn't like Lee to miss studying sessions. It worked great, Lee would help Kaiya with earth bending homework and she would help Lee with his History Homework. It was a private joke to her that she knew more about his nation's history than he did.

But then, she did have a knack for remembering dates. That was probably why.

Kaiya stood, snapping the scroll shut. Well, I did my homework tonight without him. Its fine, he probably had something else on.

She set off for the temple sleeping quarters, planning to drop her study stuff off in her room before starting her search for Lee.

She trudged up the hill to the temple and through the back entrance. At the door to her room she stopped dead.

The door was wide open displaying the wreckage of what looked like a tornado aftermath.

There was paper shoved everywhere, her desk had been tipped over and her bags up ended on the floor. Someone had trashed her room while she was out.

Kaiya turned back to the corridor. The girls that usually hung around and sniggered when she walked past weren't there. She tip toed down the hall, heading for the ringleader's bedroom, at the end of the corridor.

She silently kicked the door. The lock clicked and it swung open. Inside was a hoard of giggling girls. Most of them laughed out loud when they saw her. Kaiya knew then they were the culprits. And this panicked her, what if they had seen? Her throat seized up.

She located the Leader, a snobbish girl named Sara.

"What do you want freak?" She looked down her nose at Kaiya, raising her eyebrows. "Did you like our redecorating skills?"

Kaiya cut straight to the chase. She grabbed Sara by her nice silk clothes and held her up in the air. She was much stronger now, due to all the earth bending. Sara squealed like a pig and scrabbled at her hands.

"Let me go Freak!" she yelled

The other girls were shocked into silence; they all watched and waited to see what would happen.

Kaiya slammed her into the wall, hard.

"I need you to tell me exactly what you did in my bedroom." She said fiercely.

"No...nothing." the girl stuttered. "We were just kidding around."

"What did you look at? Did you go through my things?"

"No... we just shoved the paper around and emptied your bags... that's all. It took, like, five minutes, Right girls?"

The group nodded numbly.

Kaiya relaxed her grip, letting Sara slip to the floor. She didn't actually want to hurt anyone, just frighten them a bit. She didn't really like violence.

"Stay OUT of my room from now on. GOT IT?" she glared at the gang of girls.

They all nodded, not surprisingly.

Kaiya gave them one last glare before sweeping out of the room and back to her own to start cleaning up.

It took her another hour to gather up the paper and stow all her things away. She discovered her water tribe clothes under a giant mound of Kouyo's letters. She usually kept them hidden in the bottom of her earth kingdom bag.

By the time she had finished it was time for Dinner and she still hadn't gone looking for Lee. She walked to the dining room, hoping to see him there.

As she walked in the girl table went silent, staring at her. She turned her back on them and went to get some of the stew that they were serving tonight. It looked like it was some kind of mushroom and beef stew, but she wasn't sure. For all she knew it could have been broccoli and chicken.

She walked slowly with her tray to the back of the dining room, where she and Lee usually had a small table to themselves. Her luck was in, Lee was already seated, picking at his stew and not eating a single bite.

Kaiya frowned, that wasn't like Lee, he was a boy on the verge of puberty. No food survived in his presence. So why hadn't that stew disappeared yet?

"Hey!" Kaiya said cheerfully, sliding her tray down next to him. "What's up? Why didn't you come to our study spot today?"

Lee said nothing. He picked up his spoon and started to slosh around the cold liquid.

"Hello?" Kaiya waved a hand in front of his face. "Earth to Lee?"

Lee turned away, swivelling his body until he had shut her out completely.

"Are you mad at me or something?" She said nervously.

"No." It was the first thing he had said to her all night.

"Why are you ignoring me?" Kaiya heard her voice go slightly louder than ordinary. Other kids had started to stare at them now.

"Just leave me alone, I'm confused, back off!" Lee almost yelled the last sentence, drawing the full attention of the dining room. He stood, avoiding her gaze and stormed over the washers. He placed his still full tray down with a bang and departed the room as fast as he could.

Kaiya felt like crying.

She didn't bother to follow Lee; he was still a better earth bender than her. He would easily be able to overpower her and kick her butt. Instead she sat, picking at her food while the entire temple whispered and stared. Only once the stew grew cold did she finally pick up her tray and take it over to the washers.

Lying awake that night, she thought.

She thought about Lee, and what could possibly be wrong. Was it something I said? Something I did? She wished she knew.

She thought about Kouyo, living normally back at the North Pole. Is he scorned now as the freaky water bending girl's brother? Did he get dirty looks from strangers now because of what I did? Kouyo also had to live with water bending lessons everyday under Master Perrou. She felt sorry for him about that.

She thought about earth bending.

And water bending.

And fire bending.

And air bending.

Will they be hard? Hard to master? I'm so confused. I wish there was an avatar to teach me, I wish that there was someone who could teach me what I'm supposed to do. I have no idea what I'm doing after I leave the air temples. Do I just sweep back to the north pole and shout the truth to everyone?

I don't know.