A/N: HEY EVERYONE! No worries-I won't make you sit through my huge list of (real) excuses this time. You've been waiting for a chapter so that's what I'll give you. (:

On with the Tokka!

The trip to my house was awful!

Let's recap shall we?

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"So…everyone ready to start rockin?"

Yeah, that was Zuko's poor attempt at starting a conversation.

"Uh…yep. Sure am." Sokka replies awkwardly.

"I thought of it, so why wouldn't I be?" I commented still pissed at what happened before we left.

"Well I don't know…just thought I'd ask? Geez, why're you so ticked-" He looks over to see me glaring. "-oh right…sorry about that."

"Yeah, you can say that all ya want, but it won't matter." I turned my gaze to the window.

"Hey, what do you want me to do? Get on my knees and beg for forgiveness?" I start to smirk. "Uh…haha, no disregard that comment. …please!?"

"I don't know. That's sounds like a pretty good idea to me…"

"Um I don't mean to be rude or anything, but… what are you guys talking about?!" Sokka asks from the backseat.

I tense when Zuko starts to explain.

You better not tell him a thing!

I'll tell Mai about your little secret!

"Well because Toph was about to…wait, no. Nevermind. She'll tell you later. We're almost to the house anyway." He quickly recovered shooting me a I'm-SO-sorry-please-don't-kill-me look.

Hah my telepathic threatening powers are getting better…

Eh. It's hard to be mad when I look at that huge, stupid bruise.

That I was mainly the cause of…

All because of Sokka.

Again, I stare out the window and catch Sokka with a worried and confused look on his face in the rear-view mirrors.

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Another pang of guilt.

Damn mushy girl feelings.

You had to go and screw up almost everything in my life, didn't you?!

Eh…well the past is the past.

It's too bad I don't really have anything to look forward to in the future.

Except for this whole band thing.

If we're good.

What song are we gonna do?

And who's going to play what?

Hmmm…

Sokka, Aang, and I will be on guitar, Zuko on drums...

What's Sweetness good at other than complaining? Maybe she can be the manager. Haha.

"Um hello? Earth to Toph." I turn to see Katara at my door.

I slowly remember that I've been sitting on my bed and playing my guitar.

"Yeah?" I reply after she just looks at me, obviously expecting a response.

"Everyone's finally here. I was sent up to get you. By the way, did you know you have an amazing voice?" She said, coming in and starting to pick up my white Washburn electric guitar.

"Um, no I don't. And what're you doing?" I give her a doubtful look and set my acoustic down to get my electric guitar before she could take it.

"Yes, you do. And I'm just helping you carry your stuff downstairs. What was that song you were playing and singing to anyway?" She replied while stopping to look around my room.

"Whatever. It was The Only Exception by Paramore." I answer awkwardly, inching towards my poster covered door.

"Well it was really nice. You should sing for the band. I'm sure it'll help you with getting my brother to like you even more." She states randomly, stacking my manga novels sprawled across the floor.

O-kay.

That really threw me off guard.

She compliments me then gives me some advice.

And cleans my room.

I mean we don't hate each other, but we're not exactly on complete discussion terms.

You know what I mean?

"Uh… I don't know what you're talking about." I reply, about to bolt out the door.

"Uh huh. Sure you don't." She winks at me and walks over to block my escape. "Look, just tell him and get it over with. He obviously likes you too. Trust me." And with that, she's out the door.

Yeah, she better run.

Who does she think she is??

Cleaning my room, telling stupid lies…

I mumble some not so nice words and reluctantly make my way downstairs.

"Okay! Now that everyone's here- " Zuko looks over at me and in return I stick my tongue out at him. "We can get started. Go ahead Toph. Explain."

I just look impassively at him and cross my arms. "Why do I have to do it? You're obviously the better leader."

He palms his forehead, but starts anyway. "Fine. Let's see… I know that Toph's on guitar, Aang can do bass, and I'm up for the drums. What do you two wanna do?" He asks looking over at Katara and Sokka.

"I can play guitar. That's about it… heh." Sokka scratches the back of his head uncomfortably.

After a while of silence and staring at Katara, she replies. "Oh, umm… I can play the piano or keyboard, I guess. Or if you need a manager…?"

"Hmm. You can do both I suppose. We won't need someone on the keyboard all the time though, so I hope that's okay." Zuko replies.

"Yeah, sure. I honestly wasn't too into this band thing anyway." She comments, instantly rethinking her choice of words.

"Then why the hell are you here??" I ask in amazement.

"I wanted to see how things were going. And I didn't mean it like that! I wanna be in the band, but I'm really indifferent about what you have me do." She shoots back putting her hands on her hips.

"Yeah right. You just wanted to see your secret boyfriend as much as possible." I say, sitting back down.

I try to keep my cool 'in your face' look on.

But her response is hilarious!

Relax and stay chill Toph. Stay chill…

..

Can't do it.

I start laughing when I also take a look at Aang's face.

They both have a horrified look on their faces.

"How did you know?!" Aang asks going deep red.

"I didn't. It was just meant to be a joke." I reply, still laughing.

I thought Sokka would be pissed, but he didn't seem like it.

Maybe he knows he can trust Aang.

Everyone's laughing it off.

Everyone except Katara.

And the good time ends with one comment.

"Toph volunteers to sing."

I will get you back Sweetness.

Good.

And that's not a threat. That's a promise.

A/N: And that's a wrap. It doesn't seem as great as my other ones. At least not to me. This would've been done during Thanksgiving Break, but writers block made sure that didn't happen. I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting, but I hope you enjoyed this!

Thanks for staying with me!

-The Runaway