Hello everyone! Thank you soo much for all the reviews I'm soo happy everyone is enjoying this! -does happy little dance- -cough- Lol, yes Aang's a freshman, (so am I –cough-) but thankfully I don't have to go through all that crap cause I'm home schooled WHEE! Yeah…so it's really a lot better than going to school cause I can just sit at the computer and do school work and I can sleep in and go to the mall for lunch…but then there's the wee problem of me having NO SOCIAL LIFE (except for on the internet and chatting with you guys ;), but of course I'm going back after xmas break…ugh oh well. I won't shun my real friends forever) So…um yeah…in this update we get to see Aang's house (YAY) and I tried to incorporate the Air Temple as much as I could and we get to Katara's party (which is what jumped into my brain and spurred the whole idea for this fanfiction) so YAY! Enjoy the extra long post! You guys deserve itToph gets to do disclaimer!
Toph: Kat does not own us! But she does own a pair of kitty socks that are very stylish –sarcastic-
Why thank you—WAITAMINUTE! –realizes she was sarcastic- GRRR!
Toph: LOL! Read on without me! Noooo! -kicks my butt- Never mind let's continue.
A/N: So I wasn't really sure if Toph was blind in this, but I was like eh what the heck, I'll keep as close as I could to the series. So she is but she can still feel through vibrations…THROUGH HER SHOES WITHOUT EARTHBENDING! Or she has special shoes that let her feel vibrations…because she's just even cooler in my AU than she is in the series. Okay, you know.
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Aang lived up in a mountainous area and was only about twenty minutes away. It was a very steep ascent to the eccentrically designed house. Sokka stopped at the drive.
"Okay, get out." Sokka told him.
"What? Sokka, c'mon. I'm not walking all that way. I'll get up there by the time Katara's party starts. There's a turn around up there you can use to get down and it's not icy." Aang told him.
"God, Aang. Can't you and your Uncle live somewhere, uh, normal? Maybe somewhere in suburbia? With normal driveways?" Sokka rolled his eyes as he carefully started up the driveway.
"Sokka, my family has lived in this house for generations! It's apart of our history!" Aang argued.
"Okay, whatever. Now let me concentrate or we both go over the edge and die." Sokka told him.
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Katara finished putting out the food out when she heard the doorbell. She dashed upstairs dashed upstairs and opened the front door.
"Hey, Katara." Aang grinned giving her a hug.
"Aang, I'm so glad you're here!" Katara hugged him back. Aang picked her up and spun her around. "AH! Aang! Put me down!" she squealed. Aang laughed as he put her back down. He took off his jacket and untied his shoes and followed Katara downstairs.
"So this is the 'party' room." Katara said sitting down on the couch. Aang just sat on the floor while Sokka sat on one of the arms of the couch.
"I expected a lot more people than this so I had all this food and music planned and all these games like spin the bottle and truth or dare…" Katara trailed off.
"That's okay, Katara. We can have our own fun." Aang smiled.
"Yeah, let's see. We can play truth or dare. Katara truth or dare? Truth. Do you like Aang as more than friends?" Sokka asked. "Yes!" he answered himself in a high voice. "Aang, truth or dare. Dare! I dare you to ask Katara out. Katara I was wondering if you'd like to go out sometime. Oh, yes of course!" Sokka mimicked them. "Now you said you had spin the bottle, we can still play that, see watch." Sokka said getting up. He picked Katara up and put her down to sit by Aang and grabbed the bottle. "See Katara spins the bottle," Sokka spun the bottle for her, "bottle lands on Aang," Sokka pointed the bottle towards Aang "you two get up," Sokka picked them both up by their collar "and go to the closet." Sokka pulled open the closet and pushed them in. "Have fun!" he called.
"Erm, this is awkward." Aang said in the dark no having any idea he'd end up in a dark closet with Katara tonight. Katara kissed him.
"Don't want to break the rules of spin the bottle now do we?" she asked.
"Well, no." Aang sat in shock. "B-but it wasn't really formal, Sokka sort of told us to, but I suppose…" he leaned forward and kissed her again. The doorbell rang they froze.
"That's Toph, she must have gotten out." Katara mumbled.
"Sokka can get it can't he?" Aang asked.
"Well, I suppose." Katara smiled in the dark, reaching out for another kiss.
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Sokka ran up to get the door.
"Hey, Toph." Sokka greeted.
"Hey, Sokka, where's party girl?" Toph asked.
"Currently in the closet with Aang." Sokka explained.
"Um…okay…I don't want to know." Toph said taking off her jacket.
"They played two person spin the bottle." Sokka laughed.
"Well, they better come out soon, you don't know what hell I had to fight through to sneak out." Toph pushed her way past Sokka. As they got downstairs Katara led their way out of the closet, her and Aang's face completely red.
"Toph! Good to see you made it!" she smiled giving her friend a hug.
"Yeah, you too, though it sounds like you and Aang already started your own fun." Toph rolled her eyes.
"Um, yeah…chips?" she offered.
"I'm good on chips." Toph refused.
"Okay…" Katara nervously giggled. "Um…" Katara stumbled and she turned on the music to fill the empty silence. "Okay, this is boring." Katara sighed. "I'm sorry you snuck out for nothing."
"Hey I could always invite—"
"You're not inviting your girlfriends over, Sokka!" Katara shouted.
"Come on, you like Suki!" Sokka yelled back.
"Not now," Katara rolled her eyes.
"We could watch a movie?" Aang suggested.
"That sounds good." Toph agreed.
"No chick flicks!" Sokka shouted.
"Okay, what do you want to watch?" Katara asked.
"It Came From Under The Bed…" Sokka paused dramatically, "…Three!"
"Isn't that rated R?" Aang asked.
"Yeah," Sokka crossed his arms. "And Katara hasn't seen it. When it gets really scary, which is basically the whole thing, she'll be hanging all over you." Sokka whispered.
"Alright!" Aang exclaimed. "Let's watch it!"
"Sokka, you know Aang and Toph aren't allowed to watch that one!" Katara scolded.
"My Dad won't let me watch it, so let's watch…er…I'll listen!" Toph shouted jumping on the couch.
"What about you Aang?" Katara asked.
"I'm fine Katara, Uncle Gyatso doesn't care." Aang boasted.
"Really? Last time I checked he said you couldn't watch rated R movies." Katara crossed her arms.
"Are you my mother or my girlfriend…I mean my friend that happens to be a girl!? C'mon let's watch that movie!" Aang followed everyone else and jumping onto the couch. Sokka put the DVD and hit play as Katara curled up onto the couch and spread her favorite sapphire fleece blanket over her.
"Here, you want some?" Katara offered.
"Thanks," Aang took a corner of the blanket. The movie started out with a dark scene with lots of things jumping out. Each time Katara clung to Aang harder and harder. Aang was truthfully scared to death and jumped every time but enjoyed Katara clinging to him. Next, there were lots of gory, gross parts; Katara buried her face in Aang's shoulder and Aang grabbed onto Katara strongly, as if protecting her. Sokka smirked as he popped a cheese puff in his mouth. The next scary part Toph screamed and jumped onto Sokka's lap, grabbing onto him and Katara let out a little scream and clutched onto Aang harder almost drawing blood with her nails.
"I'm done!" Katara shouted grabbing her blanket and running upstairs and Aang followed. "Gran?" Katara asked as Aang made it by Katara's side. Katara looked over at Aang. "Can you make Aang and I some of your hot chocolate?"
"Of course," she smiled. Katara went back to the living room and turned on the TV for background noise as Aang sat on the couch with Katara and he brought himself under the blanket with Katara. Katara yawned and looked at the clock.
"Wow, it's late, you probably should have been home by now." Katara sighed.
"It's okay, Uncle Gyatso doesn't care." Aang told her for the second time that evening. "He knows I'm at your party, he wouldn't even care if I spent the night!" Aang told her. Katara looked a little disturbed. Aang's face started to burn. "Well, what I was trying to say was that it was Sokka's house too and that we're all good friends and that…"
"I know." Katara sighed; exhausted putting her head on his shoulder and Aang blushed again feeling her stray hair tickling his cheeks. Gran brought the hot chocolate in and they both smiled in thanks as they started to sip on it. Gran pulled a picture from the mantle.
"I remember having your first snow day with Aang in the first grade Katara. He came over to play in the snow and this is you two sharing hot chocolate, just like you two are now." Gran smiled. Katara took the picture in the frame and they studied it. It showed her and a rosy-cheeked Aang under the same blanket drinking hot chocolate with their snow boots and snow pants discarded to the side. In the background Sokka struggled with getting his boots off and they both chuckled slightly.
"Weren't we so cute?" Katara giggled putting her hand over his and Aang's cheeks turned the same color as they were in the picture. He squeezed her hand back.
"Yeah," he sighed. Gran smiled as she walked off.
"Katara?" Aang asked taking a deep breath.
"Yeah?" Katara replied taking one last glance at the picture and setting it down.
"Well, you know this homecoming dance?" Aang asked.
"Yeah?" Katara smiled.
"Well, you don't have a date do you?" Aang asked her.
"No…" Katara waited for him to ask.
"Oh, well then maybe, you know since we're friends, we could go? Maybe? I mean if not…" Aang asked uncertainly.
"Oh, Aang, I'd love to go with you." Katara threw her arms around him. Aang looked shocked at first and then he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her back.
"Movies over!" Sokka announced coming up the stairs. Toph came up looking traumatized. "We're we interrupting something?" Sokka asked seeing the two in a tight embrace.
"Uh, nothing." Aang quickly let go.
"Aang asked me to Homecoming!" Katara announced. Sokka winked at Aang, giving him the thumbs up. Toph seemed to come out of her trance.
"Well, congratulations to the couple who started the evening out in THE CLOSET!" Toph rolled her eyes and they both blushed.
"Its called 'Spin the Bottle'." Katara rolled her eyes.
"Well, I better get Aang back." Sokka picked his keys up.
"And I better get back before my Dad checks in on me." Toph grabbed her jacket and headed out the door back to her house next door.
"Bye, Toph!" they waved.
"Let's go, Aang…and pray I don't fall off that cliff of a house you have." Sokka rolled his eyes.
"Okay, bye Aang." Katara smiled.
"Talk to you this weekend, okay? I'll call you tomorrow, like always." Aang gave her an awkward hug.
"Like always." Katara repeated.