-Breakfast And Beat-
Yori re-zipped her dress (with help from Zuko) and bustled around the kitchen, prepping things for her two guests.
Zuko came out of the bathroom fifteen minutes before they were meant to be there. He was wrapped in a towel and his hair was dripping wet.
"Yori," he called to her.
"What?" she snapped, opening containers of food.
"Chill."
"What?" she said angrier, turning to Zuko.
"Toph and Sokka are totally low maintenance. They'll eat anything as song as it's food. And Sokka's been known to eat things that aren't food on occasion."
"Woah," she breathed out.
"What?" he asked.
"You're hot!"
He snorted, "You should finish what you're doing." Zuko walked down the hall and into her room.
She quickly washed her hands and ran after him. "Zuko you're so hot! Come back here!"
When Yori got into her room, he was trying to get his hair dry so he could get dressed. She jumped onto him, causing them both to fall onto her bed.
"What are you doing?" he asked, pushing her up.
"You know that I like you for who you are and everything, but it really doesn't hurt that you're ridiculously hot."
Zuko pushed her off of him, blushing profusely.
She managed to get back on top of him.
"Zuuks stop running away!" she whined, laying atop of him.
"Are you done?" he said, sitting up causing Yori to slide back a fraction. She shook her head. "Toph and Sokka will be here any minute."
She groaned, "Fine!" but then she leaned forward and kissed him anyway.
As Yori rolled off of her boyfriend, to doorbell rang. "Put your clothes on," she said, walking to the front door.
"Hey!" she said hugging Sokka, even though she had seen him an hour ago, and then, to Toph's dismay, she hugged her too.
"Hi Yor," Sokka said, walking into the house.
"I thought Sparky was here."
"Zuko? Yeah, he's in my room getting dressed."
Toph nodded. "Tell him to hurry up, I'm starved."
"Yeah, just take a seat," she said, indicating to her dining table that was in between her kitchen and her living room. "I'll hurry him up."
Yori walked down the hall and peeked her head into the room, "Put your pants on and come out."
Zuko looked down at himself, "My pants are on."
"Well then good, come on out then."
Zuko followed Yori out of the steamy bedroom and into the dining room. "Hey guys."
"Hey, Sparky!"
"Did you do what I told you to do?" he asked her, a serious look on his face. Yori and Sokka exchanged curious looks.
"I just got up," she grumbled as a small child would when being scolded by an adult. "I'll do it later."
"Do it before you leave."
"Fine!"
"What are you talking about?" Yori asked.
Zuko just winked at her, "Nothing to worry yourself about." So she shrugged and didn't worry herself about it.
"So," Toph asked, serving herself a plate of food (that Yori had just brought out, since she was side tracked earlier), "Why'd you invite us over?"
"Ponytail and I are good friends!" Yori exclaimed. Sokka smiled at her. "When I was away for sophomore and junior, Sokka always sent me letters and packages and stuff. He was the only one of my friends from school who talked to me for those years."
Sokka blushed.
"You sent her letters?" Zuko asked, putting some scrambled eggs onto his plate.
"Yeah..." Sokka said, clearly embarrassed.
"Every week," Yori said, smiling brightly at him.
"That's really nice," Toph said, punching Sokka affectionately on the shoulder. "Zuko why didn't you ever send her letters?"
Zuko blushed now and mumbled something inaudible into his eggs.
Yori shrugged and rubbed his shoulder, "It's okay, I don't really care."
"You should have sent her letters-"
"So, you're having a baby?" Yori asked.
Toph half glared at her. "Yeah."
"How far along are you?"
Toph stopped to think, "Uhm..." she blushed deeply when she figured out the answer. "Around four months."
Sokka choked on the pancake he was chewing. Zuko handed him a napkin.
"Did your morning sickness stop?"
"Not completely but it's letting up."
"Sokka, have you been helping her?" Yori said, sounding a bit like all of their mothers.
"I only found out three weeks ago."
Yori ignored him completely even though she was the one to ask him a question. "You should start showing soon, shouldn't you?"
"Should I?" Toph asked.
"Yeah. About four months is normal. You generally start showing after morning sickness is over."
"Really?" Toph squeaked.
Zuko wiped his mouth with a napkin. "You sure know a lot about babies."
She shrugged, not noticing what he was alluding to. "I used to have a lot of friends with kids."
Toph put her fork down and didn't eat anymore.
"Oh, did I make you lose your appetite?" Yori asked, "Sorry."
Toph just shook her head.
Zuko looked at his sullen friends and then to his girlfriend. "Are you not hungry?" be asked in the most normal way he could.
Yori reach across the table to grab a muffin and began to peel off the paper. "Well okay, now I feel awful."
Sokka shook his head, "No, no it's fine Yor. So bow have things been with you?"
"They've been good," she said, smiling. "My team and I are almost finished with the billboard we're designing, so when we are, I can take a break from work."
"Oh, well, that's good."
"Yeah, especially since I can't stand my team. They're all really mean." Sokka laughed.
"So what do you guys do?" Yori asked, still unwrapping her muffin.
"I work at my parents company," Toph said, embarrassed to say so. "Bei Fong Industries."
"That's so cool!" Yori said, bouncing in her seat. "My team worked there for a while. We did a whole campaign when they were launching a new line of furniture."
"Really?" Toph asked, "When?"
"Last year."
"I know what you're talking about! That was a really awesome campaign."
Yori smiled. "So, Ponytail, what do you do?"
"I work with Toph."
"What the hell, do none of you have regular people jobs?" Sokka shook his head. "So you all are, like, big shot CEOs and what not?"
"Aang's an editor."
"And Katara works at a boutique."
"Good, a humbling job for at least one of you."
"Well, she owns it."
"You guys are annoying."
"None of your friends have nice jobs?" Zuko asked.
"Friends?" she asked, "What friends? Ponytail has been my only friend since I was eighteen years old."
"Really?" Zuko asked, chocking on his toast.
"True shit."
"How have you gone on for eight years without a single friend?"
"When I'm at work I focus on work exclusively and then after work in go straight to bed. There's not much time to wallow in my old self pity."
"But how can you have no friends? That doesn't seem possible unless you like, never leave your house," Toph said
"I have acquaintances. I'm not socially awkward but most of the people I know are douche bags."
"We'll be your friends." Toph said in a patronizing tone.
Yori laughed, "How sweet!"

Toph and Sokka left the apartment. Yori flopped down on the couch and she couldn't stop smiling. Zuko smiled too and walked over to her. He crouched down next to her and poked her cheeks. "You'll break your face like that."
She laughed and swatted his hands away, "No one gets hurt by being to happy!"
He kissed her cheek. "Why are you so happy?"
"I forgot how awesome people can be. Their going to have the best kid in the world."
"Yeah, I know. I can't wait until they have it."
She leaned over and kissed him, "Your friends are cool." Zuko stood up and lay down on top of Yori, who 'Oooph!'ed and squirmed until he had her flipped, and laying on top of him. "Zuuks when are you leaving?"
"I'm not sure."
She has her head to his chest, and her ear was right above his heart. "Your heat is beating fast."
"Is it?" he asked. Yori nodded. "Cool."