Mini-Series Alert. A bunch of chapter from now will tie in together. Take that!, people who say I am getting repeatative!
Sadie Hawkins
"What?" Toph didn't understand.
"You don't get it?" Katara wasn't getting through to her. Katara had tried to explain to Toph what a Sadie Hawkins dance was, but the tomboy was still clueless.
"Why would I care about a dance anyway?" Toph's eyebrow rose.
Ever since they became friends, Katara had been steadily trying to get Toph to act less like a tomboy and more like…well, herself. But with Toph being as stubborn as a rock, Katara had had very little success.
"Toph, it's the Valentine's Day dance!" Katara tried a different approach. "Everyone is going to be there. But it's a Sadie Hawkins dance, so you can go if you want."
"Why?" Toph didn't understand."
"Look: in a Sadie Hawkins dance, the guy doesn't ask you out. You ask him out."
"And why would I care about this?" Toph slammed her locker closed.
"Because." Katara said, like Toph should know.
"Because why?"
"Come on. There isn't anyone you'd like to ask out?"
"Nope." Toph said plainly.
"No one?"
"Not a single person in the whole wide world, OR the moon."
"Okay." Katara said, looking disappointed.
In her own little girly mind, she thought that Aang and Toph would make a cute couple, but every time she pried, Toph never confessed to anything. She showed no sighs of interest in Aang beyond than that of a platonic relationship.
"Why?" Toph asked.
"Just…curious. That's all." Katara bluffed.
"So…who hasn't asked you out yet?"
"I…oh, thanks Toph." Katara thought it was a compliment. Toph was picking on her. "Actually, no one has yet. But I hope someone will soon."
"Don't worry Sugar Queen. Someone will jump on that grenade sooner or later."
"…what?"
"I said, you're so pretty!" Toph raised the pitch of her voice, mocking Katara further. Katara glared at her, knowing full well what she was doing.
"Anyway…do you have lunch period next?"
"Yeah."
"Wanna go get something to off campus?"
"Sure. Just give me a minute. I'll meet you at your car."
"Kay. Be waiting." The beautiful junior dashed off to the school parking lot, checking her purse to make sure she had enough change.
Toph checked over her shoulder to make sure no one was looking before she opened her locker. A little magnet clip hung on the inside a chain of black and white photos of her and Aang in picture booth. Aang was smiling in every one. Toph flipped off the camera in one shot.
A thousand times she looked at it and every time she noticed a different things about it. The surprised look on Aang's face in one, his old jacket, the lines on his forehead he got when he laughed. It was the only picture she had of him and it always made her smile.
Toph though about the Sadie Hawkins Dance...and became overwhelmed with doubt.
"Who am I kidding?" Toph put the picture back on the clip. "He'd never go out with me anyway." She closed her locker and ran after Katara, pretending she didn't feel a thing.