Questionnaire

"Oh! Here. Look, which guy…"

"Do I think is cuter?" Toph chimed in as Katara pushed another girly magazine in front of her, not interested.

Katara got the message.

"Fine." She flipped through the thin pages and quickly found another article. "There's one on celebrity gossip. Wanna read that?"

"No, I don't! Katara, I know you're trying, but I don't like this stuff! I don't even know who these people are!"

Katara sighed. She had hoped that, after several long months, she would find some common interest between her tomboyish friend and herself, but she was running out of hobbies to explore.

"Alright." Katara put her magazine down. "Wanna just get the homework done?"

"Yeah. That's why I'm here sugar queen." Toph nodded

"Kay." Katara looked around for her backpack. "Where's my stuff?"

"What stuff?"

"My backpack?"

"How should I know?"

"Great. I probably left it in Sokka's car. Give me a minute?"

"Yeah, yeah. Take your time." Toph said, not eager to get started on her Algebra homework.

Katara left and headed to her brother's room. Toph heard her trying to wake him up through the thin walls.

Alone, Toph began to look around Katara's room. Everything smelled nice and was very clean…and Toph wasn't allowed to touch anything. Toph loved the ironic facts, of how Katara was an extreme neat freak and her brother lived in a pig sty.

Toph glanced at the pink and yellow girly magazine on the small Japanese table in the middle of Katara's room and sneered at it. She read the titles on the cover and thought how ridiculous the articles inside must have been.

"Celebrity feuds heat up!" The answer may surprise you." "Ha! That's probably worth a few laughs."

"Are you a spring or a summer?" "Wow! That's really important." Toph laughed.

"How to tell if that special boy likes you!" Toph blinked.

She stared at the magazine for a few moments, wondering how a few pages could possibly know about those things.

She glanced out into the hallway, checking to make sure no one saw her, and then picked up the magazine and flipped to page 88.

Here are some things to look for to know when guy likes you:

1. Keep an eye on him. How many times do you catch him staring at you?

Toph stopped reading for a second and wondered if Aang ever looked at her in class, but remembered that Aang always sat in the front of the classroom and she was always hiding in the back, so she moved on to the next question.

2. Does he smiles at you a lot when you are around?

"Phh. Aang's always smiling." Toph ignored that one.

3. When in a crowd, does he focus on you?

Toph's eyebrow rose. Aang and Toph were rarely in crowds, but when they were, they always talked to each other, but that was because of Aang's shyness. She didn't know if that counted so she moved on.

4. Does he suddenly take more interest in your friends?

Toph was starting to get fed up with the article. Toph knew all of her current friends because of Aang. She did, however, know that Aang was always ready to do whatever Katara asked of him, but he had always been that way.

"Stupid magazine." Toph said when she thought of Katara. Toph was close to throwing the magazine away, but then she read the last question.

5. Has he had any significant changes in his behavior toward you recently?

Toph paused and thought carefully. Aang was always a strange kid, but, in the past, she remembered him being bookish, shy and a little socially withdrawn. It may have been because they were now in high school, but Aang had definitely changed. He still studied a lot (maybe too much), but now he was out every Friday night, he told jokes more often and took more risks, though they were small risks and he preformed them sparingly. Toph had noticed his changes, but she did not give them too much thought.

Now that it was brought to her attention though, she did not know what had caused it.

Thump-thump-thump

Toph heard Katara coming back upstairs. She threw the magazine back to onto the small table and tried to act nonchalant.

"Sorry that took so long." Katara slid inside her room and closed her door.

"No problem." Toph picked her teeth with he fingers and tried to act normal.

"Alright…" Katara sat down again. "…let's get started."

"Yeah. Okay." Toph grabbed her pen and tried to forget about the stupid article.

-Later that Week-

"It's a little crowded, isn't it?" Aang asked Toph.

Sokka had dragged them out to a party at one of his friend's house. Aang didn't want to go, but Toph convinced him when she told him Katara was going. Still, Aang didn't leave Toph's side, out of habit.

Toph kept quiet for most of the night as Aang talked her down. Aang wasn't bothered by it at first, but then he grew worried, knowing that Toph liked to be the one to take control of a conversation.

"What ya thinking about?" Aang asked when he had nothing left to say. Toph was thinking of the questionnaire.

3. When in a crowd, does he focus on you?

Toph looked at Aang and noticed his big smile. 2. Does he smiles at you a lot when you are around?

"…it's not importantAang." She said, weakly.