WARNING: SUPER LONG POST AHEAD. Yes you heard. Make yourself a nice cup of tea or cocoa or go crack open the eggnog as you read this update! I'm trying to get as much posted as possible. Here's my schedule I'm hoping to go by, next update should be Homecoming dance FINALLY. The update after that should be some filler fluff stuff and then after that will be CHRISTMAS update, which I'm already working on and it's VERY fun to write ;P.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who reviewed! A Great And Terrible Beauty, I've seen many a-fanart with a modern Aang as him being bald and seeing as a kid wouldn't have tattoos he has like a beanie with an arrow on it. I believe there's Avatar merchandise like that, lol! Libowiekitty, I'm honored that this is you and your friends favorite fic! MyOtherName, I was actually considering something along those lines but it just doesn't seem Aang and I wanted to keep them IC as possible. But yes that would be a major LOL! Kumori Doragon, thank you! I'm glad I hit that nail on the head…seeing as I've never had a date in my life unless you count going over to a boys house in kindergarten. Yes, I'm from some other planet. My friends and family want to send me to a psychiatrist. But I could have just known that from watching all this teen crap on TV now. But it's good teen crap XD. Sokka's turn to do the disclaimer.
Sokka: Yes! You know this disclaimer is a lot more fun to do now, more fun than any of your other fan fictions.
Really?
Sokka: Yeah, cause we have more stuff to say.
Okay, just do the disclaimer.
Sokka: Okay, Kat does not own us, The Sims 2, poptarts, Wester's dictionary or any of the TV shows or movies mentioned. You're pretty proud of yourself that you managed to fit Harry Potter in here aren't you?
Yes! I can squish both of my fandoms together if I want! Now shush and let the nice people read. We've already wrote WAY to long of an Authors Note it's a PAGE long in word.
Sokka: What's this WE stuff? You wrote all of this stuff –points up-
Okay, well you ain't helping. So SHUT UP!
Sokka: Okay.
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When they arrived back home they dropped their bags and Katara led them into her room. Sokka threw himself on Katara's chair and put his feet up.
"Get your stinky feet away!" Katara pushed his sweaty feet to the floor. Aang sat on her bed and Katara leaned against the windowsill.
"So what now?" Sokka asked.
"We could…just visit, y'know?" Katara asked.
"So am I staying for dinner?" Aang asked.
"I suppose. I don't know how long you want to stay." Katara told him.
"Hey, Aang. You could spend the night and we could play my Playstation or something! Or…you'd probably spend all night with Katara." Sokka gagged.
"No, that's a good idea! We can all hang out," Aang agreed. "I promise I won't be all mushy with Katara. Really, I promise. Let me call my Uncle." Aang told them.
"Okay," Sokka rolled his eyes, "I'll go ask Gran."
Aang took out his cell phone and dialed his house. His uncle picked up and asked if he could spend the night over at Sokka's. Gyatso agreed and he grinned as he hung up.
"Yeah, I can stay…though I don't have any fresh clothes." Aang smiled.
"Good, well you can just sleep in what you have or borrow some of Sokka's clothes to sleep in and wear those clothes home tomorrow. You really should just keep some clothes here, you spend the night so much." Katara smiled back.
"Yeah, heh, heh." Aang laughed nervously. It sounded like Katara was basically asking him to move in.
Sokka came back in.
"Gran didn't mind, as long as you don't mind having order in for dinner." Sokka laughed.
"No, I don't mind a bit." Aang smiled lopsidedly.
"So…now what? You want to play now?" Sokka asked.
"Or we could just visit." Katara shrugged.
"That's what girls do. They sit around and gossip about boys. Well, we're men and we aren't talking about makeup." Sokka stood up.
"Well, let's find something we can all do!" Aang told them.
"The problem-solver," Sokka rolled his eyes.
"Do you have a game you like to play, Katara?" Aang asked.
"Well, usually I only play The Sims 2 on my computer…but that's not really fun…" she trailed off.
"Oh, are you kidding? Its lots of fun!" Sokka got a mischievous look in his eye.
"Okay, let's do that then." Aang agreed.
"No, really that's okay." Katara argued.
"Well, if it's something we can all do Katara…" Aang told her. Katara glanced nervously as Sokka opened the program. He clicked on one of the neighborhoods and opened a house, Katara bracing herself.
"Gee, this looks familiar. Who lives in this house? Aang and Katara? With their—" Sokka gasped, "One, two, three, children? With another one on the way?" Sokka laughed. Aang who wasn't paying attention snapped his eyes to the screen looking around.
"Hey! There's Katara and me! Aw! Look! We have two girls and a little boy!" Aang laughed. Katara's face was burning as she buried herself under the pillows.
"Sokka! You've ruined my life!" she shrieked.
"Don't worry Aang, she made me and Yue have four kids and three of them were sent to military school." Sokka sighed. Aang turned his attention away from the screen.
"Katara, I don't think that's stupid. You shouldn't be embarrassed! I think it's—it's I dunno. Cute, maybe?" Aang tried to think of the words.
"Just turn up the mush why don't you?" Sokka groaned.
"You're the one who decided to show me this!" Aang hissed. Katara sat up.
"Really?" she asked.
"Well, yeah. If I had that game I probably would have done the same…but seeing as I'm broke I can't buy any of these games…" Aang trailed off. Katara smiled giving him a hug.
"Gahhhhhh…" Sokka rolled his eyes spinning on Katara's office chair. "Boredddd to deathhhhh…" he kept spinning. "With my sisterrr and best friendddd being mushyyyy and gushyyyyy. God, I'm nauseous!" Sokka stopped putting a hand to his mouth. Aang and Katara stopped hugging and Katara yelled at Sokka to go to the bathroom to throw up. "No, I'm fine…" Sokka told her, but then ran off to the bathroom and Katara looked at Aang who shrugged.
"That's what you get for spinning on my chair!" Katara called, straddling her chair. They heard a flush and Sokka returned wiping his mouth and saw Katara now spinning in the chair and ran to the bathroom again as Aang started to laugh.
"No! I'm good." Sokka collapsed against the doorframe. "Let's do something non-spiny, okay?" Sokka asked, still looking pale.
"Okay," Katara stopped spinning. "Well, Gran should be ordering pizza soon. And then we can get in the hot tub." Katara suggested.
"You guys got your hot tub?" Aang asked.
"We got it last weekend." Sokka jumped on Katara's bed.
"I don't have my trunks." Aang told them.
"Borrow some of Sokka's." Katara suggested.
"Will they fit?" Aang asked.
"Are you calling me fat?" Sokka sat up.
"No," Aang laughed.
"Then yes. They have drawstrings on them." Sokka fell back on the bed again.
"Keep your lunch in." Katara told him.
"I already spit it up, what are you talking about?" Sokka asked.
"TMI!" Katara exclaimed and Aang looked at her. "Too much information." Katara explained.
"Right," Aang nodded.
"Gosh, Aang! I can't believe you didn't know that!" Sokka threw a pillow at his head.
"Hey! My pillow!" Katara exclaimed. Sokka threw a ragged teddy bear at Aang. "Stop throwing my Foofoocuddlypoops! You know how many times Gran has had to repair him?" Katara demanded.
"Hey, I recognize that…didn't I give you that?" Aang asked.
"Yeah, when you were in the first grade and it was my birthday or something. Sokka helped name it and it kinda stuck." Katara hugged the stuffed animal.
"You still have that? Dang, Katara. You kept all the dumb gifts I gave you?" Aang asked.
"They weren't dumb!" Katara exclaimed going to her closet.
"Watch, it gets good. She has like a shrine devoted to you." Sokka whispered to him.
"It is not a shrine! I do not worship him!" Katara yelled showing him a shelf on her shelves in the closet.
"See? There's the sculpture you made in art class and gave to me in the fourth grade…and the candle you bought two years ago…lavender…I love it…anyway…look the lily from our date on Valentine's Day last year…Gran showed me this thing where you can turn real flowers fake so I can enjoy it forever. Look! Here's our picture at Chuck E. Cheese in the second grade! Aww…we were so small! You're…attempt to sew me…something…" Katara looked through.
"It was supposed to be embroidered something…I can't remember now." Aang scratched his head. Katara laughed as she shifted through.
"Anyway…oh! I can add this today." Katara said finding the stuffed animal Aang had pulled from the claw machine.
"Then of course…the locket you gave to me in the third grade." Katara pulled from under her shirt. "I wear it everyday and look…" she opened it and caught the key to her diary. She showed the picture of them at the beach last summer. It was the two of them and Katara was placing a large kiss on his cheek and he looked shocked. He remembered Sokka and Katara had planned it. Sokka told Katara and Aang to get together and Katara grabbed a smooch and Sokka took a picture. Aang laughed as he trapped Katara's fingers looking at the picture. He silently shut it and looked up and found their faces extremely close. Slowly he reached forward and kissed her gently.
"EURGH! GRAN! AANG AND KATARA ARE KISSING!" Sokka ran out of the room.
"I'm sorry about Sokka." Katara apologized through their kiss.
"It's okay." Aang continued it.
"Sokka! You leave your sister and Aang alone!" Gran yelled up at Sokka.
"But they're being mushy! And-and boyfriend and girlfriendy! This was me and Aang's sleepover!" Sokka shouted. Katara laughed as their lips slid away from each other.
"I'm sorry, you and Sokka really should be hanging out." Katara smiled. Aang grinned sheepishly as he covered her hands with his own.
"Yeah, probably." Aang sighed. "SORRY, SOKKA! We're done!" Aang called running down the stairs.
"Yeah, you better be." Sokka crossed his arms. "Look, Gran said pizza's here in ten minutes. So…what are we doin' till then? And you two are not kissing."
"We never said we were!" Katara defended. "C'mon we can go play DDR!" she suggested.
"Aw, Katara! You already kicked my butt today! Do you have to do it again?" Aang groaned.
"Quit complaining." Sokka flicked Aang's head.
"Sokka!" Katara shouted.
"Let's just go play until pizza gets here." Sokka grumbled. They went upstairs and started to play for a bit (the person sitting out playing the winner) until the pizza arrived. They all grabbed the two boxes of pizza for them (for Aang and Katara, the vegetarian pizza and for Sokka the meat lovers) and ran downstairs where Sokka flipped on the TV. A football game was on.
"Sokka, please. I don't want to watch football." Katara begged opening her and Aang's pizza.
"Fine," he turned the channel and Spongebob was on.
"Okay, not much better." Katara rolled her eyes. Sokka turned the channel again.
"Phil of the Future? Okay, whatever. Your so immature watching these kids channels!" Katara rolled her eyes.
"Hey! You like some of these shows!" Sokka exclaimed. They ate their pizza and finished watching their show, then cleaned up and put any leftover pizza in the fridge.
"Okay, so are we gonna go get in the hot tub?" Katara asked.
"Uh, yeah. I have to borrow Sokka's trunks remember?" Aang asked.
"Right," Sokka agreed heading upstairs towards his room. Aang and Katara followed him upstairs, Katara parting into her room to find her bathing suit. Sokka started digging through his dresser before finding a pair of blue trunks with a wave pattern on them.
"Here, these were getting small on me, they might fit you." Sokka tossed the trunks at him.
"Thanks," Aang walked out of the room and towards the bathroom to put them on. He shut the door and stripped of all his clothing and pulled the swimming trunks on tightened the drawstrings around his thin waist. Then he opened the door to find Katara scrounging around in the closet to find towels. She was wearing a blue bikini with a hibiscus pattern on it.
"Here," she smiled tossing him a towel. It landed lamely at his feet although he could have easily caught it. He was staring at Katara, his mouth slightly agape. "You okay?" Katara asked.
"Hey!" Sokka came out of his room. He grabbed Aang's face and put shut his mouth. "Stop staring at my sister in her bathing suit!"
"Aang, you've seen me in a bathing suit before." Katara giggled.
"N-not this one. O-o-only the full piece ones you wear at swim meets." Aang stuttered. Katara giggled some more.
"What about the one when we went to the beach last summer?"
"He stared at you then. He's always going to stare at you okay, Katara? Now, you two stop flirting and lets go." Sokka told them heading downstairs. He opened the deck door and stepped out into the cool fall night. Sokka threw the hot tub cover off and checked the chemicals and the temperature. He threw his towel on the one of the deck chairs and swung his legs over the side and Aang and Katara followed suit. It took awhile for Aang to get accustomed to the temperature, but eventually he settled down next to Katara. She smiled as she rested her head on his shoulder. Sokka splashed them.
"Sokka!" Katara exclaimed standing up and splashing him with a huge wave as they started a three-way water fight, Aang and Katara ganging up on Sokka. Half of the water sloshed out of the hot tub and at last they all sat down laughing. Katara suddenly stopped.
"Oh, my God," she hissed. "Shit, I lost my top."
"Jesus Christ, Katara! How the hell do you loose your bikini top?" Sokka demanded.
"I think the clasp broke and it just fell off while we were playing." Katara was frantically searching the bottom.
"Aang, did you see anything?" Sokka asked. Aang shook his head innocently. "Good, stay away from Katara." Sokka shot at him. Aang silently moved to the opposite side of the hot tub, not daring to disobey Sokka's orders. They continued to search for the missing top.
"Found it!" Aang held it up. Sokka snatched it and gave it to Katara.
"And that's the only time I want to see you with Katara's bikini top!" Sokka hissed.
"Damn it, the clasp is broken." Katara sighed throwing the broken bikini top to the side and sank back in the water.
"So you're just gonna sit here naked?" Sokka asked.
"I'm not completely naked!" Katara argued as she moved towards Aang, making sure she kept her chest under the dark water. "Hey! You keep away from him! You go get a new a swimming suit if you want to sit by him." Sokka told her. Katara rolled her eyes and bent over the side of the hot tub as Aang diverted his eyes. He was lucky it was dark. He hadn't blushed this hard, ever.
"Nice view of your partially covered ass." Sokka splashed water towards Katara's backside. Katara quickly flipped back with her top and splashed him back. She put the top back on and tied the two loose ends.
"There happy?" Katara asked moving towards Aang again.
"Fine." Sokka rolled his eyes. Katara beckoned Aang closer and he leaned down as Katara cupped her hands.
"You know, you can't really tie this bikini top. I don't really have my it on." Katara whispered, giggling and Aang stared at her wide-eyed, desperately trying not to look down.
"So, Sokka…how's things going with you and Suki?" Aang quickly changed the topic.
"So are we gonna stay up all night and watch movies?" Sokka asked.
"Sure. NO SCARY MOVIES THOUGH!" Katara shouted.
"Lord of the Rings?" Sokka asked.
"Eh, that gets gory and kinda scary at some parts. Maybe during the day some other time." Katara shrugged.
"Harry Potter?" Sokka suggested.
"Hm, yeah that's okay. They can be dark and scary but better than Lord of the Rings." Katara shrugged jumping on the couch. Sokka opened the first one.
"Well, the first one isn't bad, they all just look like five year olds running around a castle." Sokka shrugged. Katara leaned against Aang as Sokka started the movie and sat down. Within ten minutes he was asleep.
"Sokka?" Katara asked, noticing he was fast asleep. She prodded him with her feet. "He's asleep." Katara giggled.
"Well, that means I can…" Aang pulled her into a warm kiss.
"Mm-hmmm." Katara groaned in agreement.
"AHA! I CAUGHT YOU TWO!" Sokka jumped up.
"What are you talking about Sokka?" Katara asked.
"You two were kissing! None of that!" Sokka yelled.
"Pfft. What? You must have been dreaming." Katara giggled.
"I PRETENDED TO BE ASLEEP YOU MORON!" Sokka roared.
"Just do us all a favor and go back to sleep." Katara rolled her eyes.
"I never was asleep!"
"Just watch the movie." Katara hissed through her teeth.
Aang slowly awoke to the menu on the DVD player playing over and over. Katara's head was resting in his lap as she slept peacefully. Sokka was stretched out in a sitting position snoring with a bit of drool coming out of his mouth. Aang chuckled quietly as he shifted a bit. Katara woke up as she looked around and smiled when her eyes landed on Aang.
"Morning," he stretched.
"Good morning." Katara grinned. She sat up and turned the TV off which startled Sokka.
"Flying pink monkeys!" Sokka snorted as he woke. Aang and Katara started to laugh. "Whoa, I was having this dream where—"
"We don't want to know Sokka." Katara told him.
"Whatever." Sokka rolled his eyes. "Let's go get breakfast."
They went upstairs and got a healthy breakfast of double fudge poptarts and milk.
"Good morning, did you all sleep well?" Gran came down the stairs from her room in her morning robe.
"Yes!" they all told her.
"I came to check in at midnight and you were all out. You don't have cricks in your necks?" Gran chuckled.
"Nope," they grinned.
"Alright, Aang you should find out when your Uncle wants you home." Gran told him.
"Okay." Aang nodded. He called his uncle and Gyatso told him by noon. He finished up his poptart and glanced at the clock. 11:00.
"I have to be home by noon." Aang told Katara and Sokka.
"Hey! While we're waiting let's call Toph." Sokka took out his cell.
"What about her Dad?" Katara asked.
"She's got her phone on vibrate and she stays in her room locked up most of the weekend." Sokka told her.
"I don't know how she lives." Katara sighed as Sokka found Toph's number. He put it on speaker as they heard it start to ring.
"Hello?" Toph picked up.
"Hey, Toph. It's Sokka, Katara and Aang. What's up?" Sokka asked.
"You know, just having the time of my life. Up here…in my bedroom…thank God you called. I was about to kill myself." Toph told them.
"Don't kill yourself!" Aang shouted.
"God, Twinkle Toes. Chill, it was a SARCASTIC REMARK! Meant to be witty. Do I have to look it up in the Webster's Dictionary for you?" Toph asked.
"No. AND STOP CALLING ME TWINKLE TOES! Just because I had to do a dance in the second grade play…" Aang growled. Toph giggled.
"You'll always be Twinkle Toes to me, Twinkle Toes." Toph told him. Aang groaned. "So what have you guys been doing?" Toph asked.
"Last night, Aang spent the night." Sokka told her.
"Damn my Dad! I want to come over!" Toph sighed.
"No you don't. Aang and Katara were being mushy all night." Sokka told her.
"Oh, really now?" Toph laughed.
"It's not funny. They were all kissing…and then when we got in the hot tub Katara lost her top. I'm starting to think it was on purpose." Sokka growled.
"Whoa there Katara, I didn't know you and Aang were getting so serious! It's not even Homecoming yet!" Toph laughed.
"God, you two!" Katara hissed. "It was not on purpose! I told you the clasp broke!"
"Conveniently, it happened when Aang was over too." Sokka rolled his eyes.
"Anyway…" Katara sighed.
"Oh shit, Dad's coming. Talk to you guys tomorrow at school!" Toph hung up. They all sighed.
"Well, I should probably get home. Let's see…I don't have anything together." Aang laughed. Katara smiled.
"Okay, let's go then." Sokka stashed his cell in his pocket and put his shoes on. They both followed suit and Aang grabbed his jacket as they headed out the door.