Someone To Yell At
"No, no. No, no, no-NO!" Toph screamed and pressed the controller buttons wildly.
Bang!
"RED TEAM…WINS. GAME…OVER."
"Dammit!" She tossed the controller in the air and watched her rank drop.
She looked around, angry, like she was expecting someone to be there to yell at. She began to breath faster, growing more frustrated by the second, wishing there was someone to hear her vent.
RIIIING! Karma called.
Toph's cell went off. Katara's name popped up on the caller I.D.
"Yeah?" She grunted as she answered.
"Um, hi Toph." Katara's coy voice squeaked back. Toph heard Appa bark in the background. Katara had nobly volunteered to dog sit.
"I'm trying to play a game here. You're breaking my concentration."
"Sorry. I was just wondering what you were doing."
"What am I doing? What's that supposed to mean?"
Katara paused. "…um…I was wondering if you want to hang out. Or go to the mall or something. But…if this is a bad time…"
"Yeah! It is a bad time Katara. You always have such wonderful timing, ya know that?" Toph spat a little.
"I'll call back." Katara rolled her eyes and hung up.
"Sure. Call back. Take your sweet…" CLICK.
Toph pulled the phone away from her ear and looked at the screen. Call End. 39 sec. She growled and slammed the phone down.
"Ya know what really bugs me?" She asked out loud. Then remembered that no one was there to hear her.
Toph looked at the photo of her and Aang on the top of her TV. Aang was smiling. Toph decided that she hated the way he was always smiling. She grabbed her pillow and threw it at the picture. It knocked over with a clack. Toph didn't hear the glass frame break.
"Why did you have to leave?" Toph mumbled into her mattress, hoping that no one would hear her. The clock in her room ticked. "That loser. I wish I'd never met him." She punched her mattress and the springs squeeked. She sighed after the clock ticked again. "Dammit Aang...I wish you were here. So I could yell at you."