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What Was The World Coming To?
Chapter 17
Natalie
Envy smoothed over her skirt and walked quickly over to Nadras' house, her pink scaled purse hanging over her arm. Ivy jogged to keep up with her sisters fast walking.
"Hurry Ivy, I want to see her suffer over this." Envy's mouth curled into a devious smirk as she quickened her pace, her heels clicking at each step on the cracked cement.
Ivy stopped and bent over pant lightly, "I-I'm coming, Envy!" as quickly as she went down she rose back up and jogged to be back with her sister. Envy slowed at upon hearing Ivy's quiet and tired pants from below.
Envy reached down and patted her younger sisters' head, "I'm really glad you made that bet with the twins." She thanked. Ivy looked up and returned her with a smile, "You're welcome!"
The bet; Ivy had actually forgotten that bet ever happened. If she had forgotten then the twins and Nadra had probably forgotten too. To her, she was doing all this for her sister. She felt bad about making the bet since she knew Envy bribed the judges to choose her as the winner. No one knew of that info except her and Envy.
Ivy still didn't know why she was so determined to beat her in dancing when she really wasn't interested in it anyway. She wasn't born when she and Nadra were friends so she didn't understand when she told her the story. Why couldn't they just continue being friends and move on? She never dare question her motives though.
Envy rounded the corner and skipped two steps at a time then smoothed her skirt again and waited for Ivy who scurried to the top of the flight of stairs panting. She slowed her breathes and fixed her blouse.
Envy rung the door bell and cleared her throat as she straightened her back as she heard footsteps from behind the door.
A man opened the door wide, "Yes?"
Envy recognized him from when she would come over with her mother for play dates in Nadra's backyard. "I'd like to speak with Nadra." The teen replied.
Normally if it had been someone she didn't know or cared for that had answered the door, she would have pushed past him or her and storm up the stairs and into Nadra's room- but she was raised with manners and Christopher was always nice to her.
Envy and Ivy waited patiently outside the cracked door as Nadra jumped down a couple steps and opened the door, "He- oh."
She sighed and stepped outside then closed the door behind her, "Come to rub your victory in my face?" Nadra asked with a yawn.
Ivy quirked a brow, wasn't she supposed to be suffering in her room, or something? That's what Envy said was to happen. Envy was just as surprised, "Why aren't you sad?"
Nadra laughed, "You really expect me to give into you and give you the satisfaction of me suffering?" she snorted and leaned against the glass door with her arms crossed under her chest.
Envy did expect her to do exactly that, "Oh well, I actually did but nevermind. I have something else." She retorted.
Nadra was ready for anything, she made comebacks and played scenarios in her head that would make her run for her mama in her five inch heels.
"Our bet, Nadra."
Though, she wasn't ready for that. She had forgotten all about it- so did the twins.
Nadra's face fell as Envy's brightened she would finally get the satisfaction of her getting onto her knees and begging for the bet to be off.
Nadra scratched her wrist- a bad habit Envy recognized all too soon- she was getting hives out of nervousness. Envy smirked as she saw Nadra's knees click together as she slouched a bit.
Ivy fidgeted with her hands as she bit down on her lip silencing her. This was wrong. Ivy debated in her head whether to tell Nadra that the bet was off and Nadra cheated to win, but the consequences for that was to lose the trust of her elder sister whom she adored despite her every action.
Nadra hung her head as her knees threatened to give. She remembered the bet as clear as day in the Californian skies. If Envy won then she'd have to stop dancing, if she won then Envy and Ivy would have to leave them alone. Forever.
Her raven black hair shielded her face as she stared at the 'welcome home' mat and the hot pink five inch heels tapping themselves on the mat waiting for her to give.
Nadra sighed, she wasn't one to give, but she just couldn't fake this like it was nothing. "Alright Envy, you got me. You win, I lose."
Envy smiled happily and half hugged her little sister who forced a smile back, she returned her composure and nodded, "Finally you realize who's better. Well, I've gotten what I wanted, so I'll leave."
Nadra lifted her head and nodded as Envy turned away and jumped the two last stairs as Ivy followed closely behind.
"I just wish you had better judgement, Natalie." Nadra muttered inaudibly.
Unknown to her, Envy or Natalie, heard. She slowed her pace and looked back at the girl on the patio. Envy watched as Nadra hung her head with her hair covering her face, her knees clicked together and gave way onto the floor of the patio. Her arms hung limply on each side.
Ivy didn't dare look back; she looked straight ahead and tugged on her sister's blouse to earn her attention. Envy looked at her sister then looked ahead, they exchanged looks and hurriedly walked on the cement then rounded the corner.
"No one's ever called me by my first name in a long time…."
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"Wasn't it awesome! They danced frickin' awesome! Did you think it was awesome? I thought it was AWESOME!"
Spade ranted with a permanent grin on her face as she leaned over the table invading Toph's personal space bubble. "It was alright, I mean, I've seen better." Toph mused.
"Really! You have? Oh my go- Hey…..you were blind….." Spade pointed out numbly with a pointless stare then caught her drift as her held back a small laugh.
"Toph!" Spade whined, "I was in the mood, you know? I was getting into the fangirling, then you ruined it." She stated flatly as she sat back down in her seat.
Toph shrugged and pulled her feet up on the coffee table, "That's what I do, Spade."
Iroh chuckled form the side of the couch as he surfed through channels with one hand and held his tea in the other, "You two are quite entertaining to be around." He commented and took a sip of his tea.
Spade scoffed, "Pfftttt, well, you know how I do." The girl grinned. Toph chuckled then leaned over and chugged her tea, "Some good stuff. But not as good as Tea Man's."
Iroh chuckled, "Why thank you, Toph." He thanked and stopped surfing the channels and settled for watching FoodNetwork.
"I hate to ask…." Spade began, "but sooner or later you guys are going to have to go home, and yesterday Nadra phoned with some questions regarding that….so what's happening?" she finished with a small frown. She hated to see them go, it was so fun with them here; she had a family again. It would be difficult to see them leave.
Toph reached for the remote and turned the T.V off, "Soon. I need to get back to saving the world with Twinkletoes." The earthbender answered.
"Yes, soon, but we haven't gotten a date yet." Iroh quipped from his spot on the seat.
'HHHEEEERREESSS JOHHNNNYYY'
We all jumped a little and chuckled quietly at our surprise at the phone ring. Spade jumped to her feet at the third 'Here's Johnny' and picked up the phone, "Hello?"
There was silence in Spades house as they waited for her to speak, "Oh, hi Nadra. Okay, I'll ask." Spade put her hand over the phone, "You guys wanna go to the beach?"
Topy and Iroh exchanged looks, shrugged then nodded. Spade lifted her hand then spoke to Nadra again then said their goodbyes. Spade put the phone back on the receiver then sat back down.
"Toph, you can borrow my old green swimsuit for can go shopping again for your trunks Iroh." Spade instructed. Iroh shook his head and sipped the last of his tea, "No thank you, Minya. I'm not swimming tomorrow."
Spade 'oh'd then nodded. Toph yawned, "Cool, cool."
Spade grinned and surfed through channels and thought about how tomorrow would go. As far as she was concerned it was going to go great. It was going to be a good day, with volleyball and swimming and her new family.
Then there was cute boys then Zuko and Sokka, who was in a whole different category of 'sexy'.
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"Take her to the guest room." Ozai ordered as the servants ushered her to follow them into the gran clad in red and iron hallways.
Cindy looked around, her mouth slightly agape. She had never seen a place this big. It was frickin' huge! She was only a peasant girl from a quiet place in the Earth Kingdom, and here she was! In the Fire Nation palace.
The servants stopped in front of a door and moved aside then bowed. Cindy bowed her head and entered the room. The servant on her left held her wrist, "We'll be back for dinner. If you need anything do not hesitate to try and find me or my sister." She gestured to the servant on Cindy's right.
Cindy gave them a small smile nodded, "Oh, um, thank you." The servant bowed then left and disappeared the long and grand hallway.
Cindy closed the door behind her and instantly jumped onto the bed and exhaled deeply into her pillow. Zhao's ship docked upon the shores of the Fire Nation an hour ago, Yew-Ta led her around his nation then to the palace and he left to do…whatever he needed to do.
Cindy rolled over to stare at the ceiling and twitched her nose. The Fire Lord hadn't told her why he needed her. Cindy though it must be important if he had Zhao abduct her then bring her across the world. She hoped it wasn't bad.
A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts. Cindy sat up and swung her feet over the bed, "Come in." she said louder than normal. Certainly it wasn't dinner, she had just been escorted to her room a couple minutes ago.
The door pushed open to reveal a thin pale girl with blue eyes and waist length hair leaning against the door frame, "Uh….hi. My name's Zita DeVario, we'll be working together for quite a while soon."
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Nadra reminded everyone of the bet and told her crew. Everyone was against her actually obeying it, but Nadra was true to her word and vowed against dancing- but the vowing started two days from now.
Nadra took a walk down her halls and stopped when she came across Zuko's room. He'd been a little angsty after losing and 'letting her down'. But, truth be told, Nadra didn't mind him losing. To her, it was fine, sure she couldn't dance anymore but…..she guessed that was okay.
Nadra inhaled then exhaled and knocked, "Hey Zuko? May I come in?" she was met by silence. And she took that as a 'yes'. "Okay then, I'm coming in. Please don't be butt-naked, okay?"
She twisted the door knob and opened the door to a creak and peeked inside. He wasn't butt-naked- which was a good thing. The raven haired girl opened the door only as much as she needed to get in then closed the door behind her.
She waved small and smiled nervously, "Hey Zuko." She said quietly. Zuko turned his head to look at her then put his gaze back to the ceiling, "Hi."
Nadra rolled her eyes, "You do know I'm not mad nor am I disappointed in you? And if you're disappointed with yourself for failing, don't be. You've done so much and succeeded in this even though in the competition you lost." She explained.
Zuko shrugged, "I know."
She sighed and facepalmed, "Okay then, why're you up here being angsty? I don't think it's healthy for people like you."
Zuko quirked a brow, "People like me?" Nadra chuckled and pushed his feet away and sat on the edge of the bed, "Yes people like you. Your ego is huge. It needs exercise and being angsty up here is not exercising it."
"My ego is not that big." Zuko retorted defensively. Nadra nodded, "Uhh, yes it is." She argued back playfully. Zuko sighed exasperated and rolled his eyes, "Whatever."
Nadra nodded and slapped his thigh, "Oh yah. I won." She giggled and smiled at him. "Stop being angsty and come down for dinner you when you decide your ego needs exercising, okay?"
Nadra felt that he didn't need comforting- he just needed some time alone. Frankly, so did she, but she had so much crap to do and so much shit to deal with she couldn't have time to herself. And even if she did, everyone would think she'd gone emo and everything. She stood up and walked to the door, "Don't worry Zuko, you'll be going home soon."
It hurt her to say that, but it was absolutely true. He needed to go to his universe or world or whatever and so did Aang and his friends along with Appa and Momo. They couldn't stay here- the gang had to save the world, Zuko needed some serious soul searching to do and Iroh needed to buff up.
She put her hand on the door knob and slowly opened it; she creaked it open and slipped through the door.
As she closed the door behind her, she could've sworn she heard some ruffling and an 'I know, I'll miss you.'
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"Sokka's cute."
Toph chocked on her tea and her saliva, "What!" Spade shrugged, "What? You know it's true, you can see now and now you know what he looks like. So technically, you can care about how people look." Spade told her.
Toph wouldn't admit it but she was right. She had sight now, and yah Sokka was cute and yah she could care about looks now.
"Looks aren't everything." Toph quipped back. Spade nodded, "Well yah but you need to be attracted to someone to talk to them. Did you know, in the first five seconds of men seeing you, they'll know if they're attracted to you or not." She said a matter of a factly.
Toph waved her finger in the air, "Whoopie." Spade, "Yah….you couldn't see basically your whole life so it doesn't really matter to you." She chuckled, "Right….but still, Sokka's cute. Zuko is too, but I think he got the hots for Nadra."
Toph nodded, "You can see it to? I can feel it as well his heartbeat picks up just the slightest bit around her."
"She is right? I like her skin. Not a lot of Californian girls have pale skin like that." Spade explained.
"Ow!"
Toph had just punched her. Probably out of affection.
Spade rubbed her bruising arm with a pout, "Gee thanks. I love you too, Toph."
Toph grinned and punched her other arm. "Owiieee! Toopphhh!" Spade whined as Toph laughed at her misfortune.
Spade rolled her eyes, "Quit laughing!" Toph whipped her eyes, "Oh, you're funny."
Spade cleared her throat and sighed dreamily, "It sucks Sokka doesn't like anyone."
Toph raised a brow, "Why do you keep bringing up Sokka? You like him?" she smirked. Spade shrugged, "I think it's a crush…..or infatuation, I don't really know." She laughed.
Toph tapped her chin, "I think he thinks you're cute. His heartbeat increased a little when he saw you."
"Really!" Spade squealed, "But then again thinking someone's cute and liking them are two different story."
"Did you know, in the first five seconds of men seeing you, they'll know if they're attracted to you or not." Toph quoted while Spade chuckled, "I suppose you're right, but we may never know."
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It was strange but it was awfully quiet around his home with Zita either wrecking something or teasing him for being a loser. He pushed around a pea on his place with his head propped on his hand, "Bored…" he muttered.
In the middle of lunch Azula came by and asked for her. Zita told him that she'd be back by dinner. But here he was alone at the dinner table picking at his food with a cold dinner sitting across from him. He was beginning to wonder if she was okay.
Will pushed his plate away and shuffled his way to the back door and to his backyard. He sighed and shook his head and scoffed to himself. Zita is strong and headstrong she could take whatever they brought to her. It's not like they'd hurt her or whatever, they liked her. It was weird.
He sat down on the grass Indian style facing the side of his house. He looked up and did a double take. There was a black burn mark on his house. He leaned and grazed it, "What the hell?"
Zita.
Will leaned back and sighed, she probably had done something to light that part of the house on fire or something to piss him off. He chuckled, even when she wasn't here, she always had a way of just making his day alittle more brighter and a little less boring.
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TBC