-Snow And Juno-
Yori smudged over another thick line to give her drawing a shadowed line. Yori really loved sketching. She was drawing a picture of... well, she didn't really know what it was. There was a girl in a room with large windows that didn't really let in any light and she was sitting at a small table with a few pathetically small present boxes.
Agni, Yori was sure acting emo.
She closed her sketch book and looked around her apartment. It was really tidy, which was strange because Yori really hated cleaning. The snow was being plowed in her street and she could hear the truck. There were also a few loud kids playing in the snow. She wished she was a loud kid who could play in the snow.
She had been so bored since she got into a fight with Zuko. She hadn't been able to know I he had been calling her since she had been dependent on her cell phone since she moved out of her parents house that she had never needed to buy a landline and never did. She sat down on her couch with a heavy thud. She sighed, she was getting big again. Zuko was such a liar.
The intercom buzzed and she slid in her socks over to the intercom. "Who is it?"
"Zuko," Zuko said.
Her heart actually skipped a beat before it began to pound in overdrive. "I'm buzzing you through," she muttered before unlocking the door.
It took him about five minutes to climb the seven flights of stairs before he was pounding on her door. She opened it slowly and the first thing he said was;
"I brought your phone. The guy behind the front desk is kind of mad with you, I wouldn't recommend going back when he's on shift." He handed her the waterlogged phone wrapped in a paper towel. "I guess this is why you wouldn't return my calls?"
"Maybe so," Yori said, letting him into the apartment.
"It's still really hot in here. You really should tell your super to fix the heater."
"Yeah, I should."
He took his shoes off and went to sit on her couch. Yori figured her couldn't feel the uncomfortableness in the room.
"So did you come here to return my phone?" she asked. She put the broken electronic onto her counter.
"Well I came here to apologize and this seemed like a good excuse to come over here. I didn't really know if I should come."
"Oh well then maybe you should hurry up and apologize so you can leave."
"Yori, don't be like this."
"Be like what Zuko?" she asked, almost livid at this point.
"Yori, I am sorry that I said what I said about your weight. It was childish and stupid and rude, so please forgive me."
Yori walked to the front door and unlocked it. "Yeah, I forgive you, now can you please leave?" she asked, holding the door open.
"Well, no I can't please leave now, but I will go over there and give you a huge hug," Zuko said, standing up from the couch and pulling his girlfriend onto his arms. Yori squirmed for a little bit before finally giving up and letting Zuko hug her.
"So now what do we do?" she asked when he first let go of her.
"I don't know, so you want to go for a drive or something?" he asked.
"No, it's snowy as shit," she said. Yori walked into the kitchen and pulled a bottle of water from the fridge. "And I told Toph I would meet her in a half hour to hang out because Sokka had to go to work."
"Oh," Zuko said. "Can I come?"
"Probably not."
"Toph wouldn't mind," he said flippantly.
"Fine, ignore me completely," she muttered under her breath.
She walked into her bedroom to get changed. She changed from her thin home clothes into a thick wool sweater and dark jeans. The sweater had reindeer and Christmas lights. Festive.
"Zuko," she called from her room. "Don't get comfortable. I just put on my winter clothes so if I spend more than five minutes in this sauna of an apartment, I'll die."
He got up from his position on the couch. "Got it."
She rubbed her eyes and walked into the living room. She stepped into her DM's and left the apartment.
"Don't you want a coat?" he asked, putting on his warm jacket.
"Naw, it's only three blocks."
They silently walked in the snow together which would have been incredibly romantic if
Yori wasn't still mad at him. She stuffed her hands into her jean pockets.
From behind the awkward pair a voice called out, "Yori?"
They both turned around to see a tall man trudging towards them.
"Greg?" she asked, squinting and pushing her purple locks from in front of her eyes.
"I thought it was you!" he pulled her into a large hug. "I never thought I'd see you again! How's your sister? Is she still a miserable wretch?"
Yori laughed out loud. "Yup, she'll never change. Have you seen Ned lately?"
"You haven't?"
She shook her head.
Zuko stood off behind her when this exchange took place. Zuko recognized Ned's name as her brother.
"I thought he just moved here," she said, rocking on her heels. Ned was an uncomfortable topic for her.
"Yeah. I can text you his address sometime."
She beamed, and then her smile drooped, "I threw my phone into a fountain though..."
He laughed loudly. "You always were a weird one."
She giggled.
He reached into his pea coat's pocket and pulled out a pen and a few receipts. He put the receipts back into his pocket and smiled, "A writer's always got a pen." He began to scrawl onto her hand. "There, when you get a new phone, call me." he winked at her and walked away.
"Bye Greg!" she called, waving his phone number back and forth.
He waved back, but didn't turn.
Zuko scoffed loudly. She turned to look at him. "What?"
"Who was that piece of meat you were salivating over like an underfed dog?"
"Eloquent. You trying to be more poetic than the writer?"
Truthfully, Zuko was writing that one in his mind since he heard Greg was a writer, but he would never tell Yori. "Shut up."
She giggled, "He's my brother's best friend."
"You're older brother or your younger brother?"
"Ned's my older brother."
"The one that doesn't talk to you?"
She stopped walking to kick the snow in front of her. "Yeah. The one that hates me."
"No one ever said anything about hate."
She rolled her eyes. They arrived at Toph's house and Yori pushed the intercom button.
After a few minutes of waiting for Toph to open the door, she pushed her finger on the button for 8D and held it for twenty some seconds.
"What?" a deep masculine voice boomed from the intercom. "Who the fuck wants to be in my shitty apartment that bad?"
"Sorry!" Yori said letting go of the talk button.
"Who the fuck is this? I'm gonna go downstairs and rip your fucking head off!"
Yori turned to Zuko?
"What the fuck? You don't know what apartment they're in?"
"No! Which is it?"
"8E."
"Shit!" she yelled. "That psycho's gonna kill us!"
Zuko rolled his eyes. "No he's not. He probably won't even really come out."
"Zuko were going to die tonight! And last words?"
He scoffed and pressed 8E.
"You're early-"
The door pushed open and an angry looking man wearing a dirty wife beater and dirtier pants came out. "Were you the two assholes ringing my bell?"
Yori's eyes widened.
"No, but maybe it was the kids who just ran down the block-"
"Was there a girl?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Thanks mate."
Zuko nodded indifferently. The man took down the snowy street.
"Is he barefoot?" Zuko asked.
"Yeah I think so," Yori responded.
Zuko had been holding the door open for he enraged man and now ushered Yori inside.
"Hurry up."
"Shut your face." Yori walked into the old building. "We've got to go up eight flights?"
"There's an elevator."
"There's an elevator?" she asked. This building was almost identical to her apartment.
"But this one is just like mine except not awful!"
Zuko laughed.
"Maybe I'll move here. I've got to move soon anyway because some guy bought my entire building and is kicking everyone out in three months and wants to build condos."
"Really?" Zuko asked. "Is that legal?"
"Who cares, it just gets me out if my lease, which is good because as much as I love my apartment but the building is a shit hole."
Zuko smiled and bravely took her hand. She held onto it so tightly her nails dug into his skin. He couldn't even feel the pain because he was happy. Yori pulled Zuko around the lobby and then he pulled her to the elevator.
They were the only two in the elevator. Yori closed her eyes for a second before saying,
"I've been eating." He looked at her, but she turned away. He broke out into a large stupid grin. He looked at her blushing, turned away face and pressed his lips to her cheek. The elevator opened at the eighth floor and the stepped out and walked to Toph's apartment. Yori loudly rapped on the door. "Open the door Juno!" Zuko snickered.
"Hey!" Toph yelled from the other side of the door. A minute later Toph swung the door open. She gave one look the Zuko and exclaimed, "What the shit are you doing here?"
"He came over and then invited himself here," Yori stated, taking her huge friend into the apartment and walking her into the living room.
"Go home Zuko!" Toph said. She plopped down onto the couch. "We're gonna talk about periods and vaginas and stuff. Strictly girl talk."
"Uhm, you don't even get your period anymore. And if you're going to talk about vaginas I think I'd like to be there for that." Toph flipped him off.
Yori laughed loudly and kissed her boyfriend. "You're really adorable sometimes, Sugarplum."
"I'm adorable all the time."
"You two are disgusting," Toph said. "If you're going to be like this go away."
"Sorry," Yori said, releasing Zuko and hugging Toph. She rubbed Toph's belly. "Your baby is going to be the best kid ever."
"Better than your kids?" Toph asked.
"Of course!" Yori smiled.
Toph kissed her. And then she cried and blamed it on the "fucking baby".
They stayed at Toph's house until Sokka got back late at night. He looked tired and ill.
"What are you guys doing here?" he asked, taking off his tie and flopping down onto the couch next to his girlfriend.
"We came to keep Toph company."
"Really? Thank you guys so much. I always think she's too lonely."
"You don't have to thank us!" Yori giggled, "She's our friend!"
He smiled and hugged Yori. "Thanks."
Yori blushed deeply and pulled away from him. "We ordered a pizza earlier, we left some for you. I'll put in the oven before Zuko and I leave."
"You're the best," he smiled, tapping her nose.
"I know! To take a quick shower or something. Relax, okay?"
Sokka nodded.
Yori watched Sokka walk to the bathroom and did as she said she would. She took the pizza box from the fridge and placed the whole half of the pie into the oven, still in the box.
"Juno, I'm heating up some more for you now. Take it out in fifteen minutes. It's really cold because we put it in the fridge."
"Stop calling me Juno."
"No," she said, walking back to the living room. "Zuko and I have to go now, so make sure you're nice to Sokka when he gets out of the shower, okay?"
She scowled and grabbed onto her sweater sleeve. "Stay 'til he gets out!"
"I really need to get back!"
"No you don't. You live a boring life so stay with me for twenty more minutes."
"Fine," Yori grumbled. She sank down into the couch next to Toph. Zuko chuckled at his friend and girlfriend.
Ten minutes later, Sokka came out of the bathroom, wrapped in a fluffy towel. "You two are still here?"
Yori giggled. "Should we not be?"
"No, that's not it-"
"It's cool, we meant to leave, but Toph made us wait while you showered. She was lonely."
"No I was not!" she growled. Her face gave it away though, she was lonely. His face looked lonely too. Yori's heart cried for the poor couple.
"Look guys, if you ever want to do gross things that you can't do with the kid around once it's born, I'd more than happy to look after it."
Toph kissed Yori again. And cried some more.
Fucking babies.
Zuko collapsed onto Yori's couch the second they got back. "You were really sweet to Toph today."
"I'm always really sweet!" she said, still taking off her shoes and sweater by the door.
"Yeah," he laughed, "But you were exceptionally sweet today. You're a really good person." She blushed. "I'm really glad you're my girlfriend."
"Oh Zuko!" she squealed, jumping onto him. She nuzzled her face into his neck and peppered kissed there. His hands held onto her waist as she did this. He used on hand to pull off the shirt she was wearing. "You too," she said, taking his shirt off for him. She began to unbuckle his belt and very soon, everything stopped being so PG-13 rated.
Yori woke a few hours later. Zuko was awake too. He stared at her. "That's creepy," she said sleepily.
He laughed and kissed her. It wasn't a light kiss, but it wasn't heavy like the ones last night.
"It's still early isn't it?" she asked.
"Yeah, go back to bed. I'm going to keep being creepy whether or not you like it."
She snorted and her eyes flitted shut.