Summer is ending in my story for now because I really, really want to get to their high school days. I'll have so much more to write about. Plus, the summer goes by really fast when you have good friends to share it with, and Toph has just that.

So readers...enjoy both while you can. Summer time and friends, that is.

Summer Regrets

Toph sighed. Her eyes darted between the setting sun and the folded piece of paper between her fingers. Her leg swung off her knee, her foot dangling in the air.

Safe in her secret spot, Toph felt comfortable thinking about things she wouldn't dare talk about around other people. Just before the town's limits was an old stone wall that stretched from one end of a green field to the other. No one went there anymore. It was the perfect place to be alone.

"Sigh." Toph moaned again. She unfolded the little piece of paper and looked at her class schedule, already despising it. Everyone knew she hated school, regardless of the subject. Toph made sure of that. The idea of forcing kids to learn things that they didn't really need to know always rubbed her the wrong way. Yet in one week she would be back there, in the place she hated so much.

"Look at these classes." Toph read her schedule out. "Basic Math. When are we every going to use that?" She scanned the rest of the list, judging every word on the page. "English…with Mr. Pakku…he sounds like a jerk already." Toph sneered. "Gym…I mean Physical Education. What a load." Toph laughed. "…Science…Foreign Language…crap…crap…crap."

Bleep-bleep!

Toph's cell phone interrupted her criticizing reading. A text message.

-Aang: Where r u-

Toph grinned. -Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-send-. Toph looked back at the falling sun and sighed again. She watched a car go by on the road below her and tried to memorize the license plate but she forgot the digits as soon as the car was out of view.

Bleep-bleep!

-Aang: Hang out b 4 school starts?-

Toph smiled and typed her response back to him. Just the letter K. Aang showed her his schedule yesterday. She had only one class with him, but they had three same classes at different times. Thank God, Toph thought. She would never last if Aang wasn't there to help her.

A strong flicker of light blinded Toph for a moment. The sun was just about to go down over the horizon. Seeing the day go away, feeling the night coming, Toph could only remember her summer vacation and how she was going to miss it. She was with Aang every other day, but she still wished that she had spent more time hanging with him…and Katara…and even Sokka, that idiot. "It's strange," Toph thought, "how bad times in our lives go by so slow yet look short in retrospect…and happy times go by so fast but seem like they were so long when we look back at them."

Toph remembered her life being very, very long and uneventful at the same time...before she met Aang . Ever since they met, her life was brighter, faster, richer.

"I can't believe that dork got me to go in the ocean." Toph faked a smile.

DOUBLE POST! Short, yeah, BUT this secret spot will be important for future chapters. I'll see you all when I get back from Jersey.