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Chapter 87

Suki and Mai had come over right after the men left for the meetings. "Jade, would you like to tell these lovely ladies your wonderful news?" Katara asked her.

"... Ladies, Haru took me on a romantic floating lantern lit picnic... He gave me this..." Jade showed the ladies her new necklace.

"Oh, wow it's so beautiful... Congratulations!"

"What wonderful news!"

"I'm so happy for you!"

Jade was blushing bright red. "Thank You so much Ladies!" She was receiving such wonderful praise from 3 of the world leaders' wives; Lady Mai, wife of the Fire Lord, Princess Suki, Wife to Prince/Chief to be Sokka, and of course her best friend Lady Katara, wife of Avatar Aang And Princess of The Southern Water Tribe... Life as an Air Acolyte was so much better than anything she could have had... before her and a few of her friends saw Avatar Aang handing out fliers while he was searching for Appa. Now she knows a few of the World Leaders, she knows their wives, actually she would almost consider them some of her friends.

"Ok, ladies," Katara said, "Let's go get some air. I need to let my Mini-Airbenders stretch their wing. They are getting grumpy. We can all go down and spend time soaking in the cool ponds since it is a hot summer."

After a beautiful walk through the Southern Air Temple grounds and a nice soak it was almost lunch time so all the Ladies went to their own apartments to make lunch so that they could have a bit of family time with their husbands. They were going to have another collective dinner tonight, like they did the first evening after the meetings.

Mai and Suki were back and at Katara's, the younger Maidens had all the babies in Gyatso's room while their mommies cooked a great dinner for the family. They were all just one huge happy family. After they finished cooking they sat at the table in the kitchen drinking tea together.

Katara heard the front door open then a minuet later it closed. "We're back from our meetings." Aang called.

"Dinner is ready when you guys are ready to eat." Katara said coming out of the kitchen, she had a tray of tea cups in her hands. She set it on the table and passed a cup to each of the men.

"Are we having any meat with dinner tonight?" Sokka asked.

"Yes, I made Smoked fish soup." Suki told him. "Katara made vegetable dumplings and friend dough. Mai made fresh bread, and the desert."

"It all smells delicious." The men said.

They all sat down around the large table in the large dinning area, all the children sat with or near their parents.

"Mommy soup?" Gyatso asked.

"No soup for us Little One." Katara said.

"Why?" He had a confused look on his face.

"Because it has meat in it. We don't eat meat." Katara was trying to teach her son about why he couldn't eat the soup.

"See! She said she doesn't eat meat anymore... He's brainwashed her!" Sokka said.

"Not now Sokka, I'm trying explain why we can't have the soup. I'll make vegetable soup tomorrow Little One, for lunch Ok?"

"Ok, NO meat..." Gyatso said.

"Yes, Little One, No meat." His mother was pleased at how fast he learned things, not just Airbending, but speech and he understood almost everything he was told, too.

"Sokka, I choose to no longer eat what the rest of my family doesn't... How can I teach him not to do something that I am doing? So, yeah I don't eat meat anymore, but that is MY choice and not the result of any brainwashing."

The other ladies had come over in the morning but they had all left, all the babies were tired and needed a nap so they had all went to their apartments.

"The World Leadership Meetings are almost over, Jade how are you doing?" Katara asked her friend. "Are you nervous about seeing your father again?"

Katara and Jade were sitting in the front room looking at fabric samples for Jade's dress, Katara is going to make Jade's dress for her, and having tea.

"Yeah, I'm pretty nervous... it's been about 10 years... I can't believe that my dad's friend lied to me, She said he had stopped sending money... I thought... she said he didn't care about me." Jade started crying again "He did care, he still loves me, he thinks about me still..." She sniffled then let out a small laugh, "He wanted to set 'Kuzon' up with me if he didn't win the tournament for you. That's funny."

"Yeah I guess it is, you only ran around Ba Sing Se with his face on your dress." Katara laughed with Jade.

"No, offense Katara, but I'd much rather have Haru." They laughed together.

Aang came walking into their Apartment, "Lunch break!" He said as he came in. "What are you two lovely ladies laughing about?"

"We were talking about Jade's dad, about how he wanted to set 'Kuzon' up with Jade..." Katara said.

"No offense Aang But I'd much rather have Haru." Jade finished.

"I have Vegetable and noodle soup cooking for lunch, Sweetie." Katara told him. "The vegetables should be soft enough for Kya and Sapphire, it's about time for me to put the noodles in."

Katara went into the kitchen and poked a carrot with a knife, it easily fell apart. She put her hand made noodles into the soup to cook for a couple minuets and Lunch will be ready. "I just put the noodles in, It will be ready in 5 minuets I'll make some tea to Sweetie."

He walked into the kitchen, walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. "I love you. Let me make the tea."

"Well aren't you a sweetheart, My Little Flirt." She turned around and went up onto her tippy toes and kissed him. "You make me feel so short sometimes." She laughed.

He quickly made the tea for them all. Katara put the pot of soup on the table as well as 2 loafs of bread she had made that morning and some fresh butter from the kitchen. Baking bread every morning was almost ritual for Katara, she always made it right after breakfast.

"Jade can you bring Kya and Sapphire in here please? Lunch is ready Little One! I made the soup you wanted." She called out.

Gyatso was in his room playing with the windmill toys he had gotten for his birthday. Daddy said they would help him focus his bending on one specific thing.

Kya and Sapphire are able to crawl around and pull themselves up... They were almost 8 1/2 months old now. Sapphire could blow puffs of air but not really much more yet. Gyatso was way more powerful than Sapphire. Kya was able to make containers tip over and the liquid spill out by shaking her tiny fists, if she got too angry water (liquid) was going everywhere. Between Kya and Gyatso... it felt like a storm was unleashed inside... Wind blowing, water flying everywhere.

Jade had brought the baby girls into the Dinning area as Katara was putting soup into the 6 bowls. While Aang sliced the bread, and Jade buttered it. After all the bowls were full Aang quickly cooled the 3 bowls for the children.

After lunch Katara had put her 3 little ones down for an nap and returned to helping Jade plan her wedding. Jade had described to Katara what she wanted her dress to look like, Katara was working on a drawing of the dress as Jade was trying to figure out what colors she liked best. "Which do you think looks prettiest Katara?" Jade Needed her best friend's advice.

"I like the jade green, Jade, It matches your jade green eyes and the jade stone on your betrothal necklace." Katara laughed. "Like how Sapphire's sapphire blue eyes match the sapphire stones in my betrothal necklace." Katara said teasing a bit, Jade laughed too.

"It must have cost him a lot for the jade stone." Jade marveled as she rubbed the stone between her fingers. Katara noticed Jade often rubbed the stone attached to the white ribbon around her neck.

"Look at mine... I still don't know where Aang got the money for it." Katara said.

"Katara, would you wear your beautiful blue gown, the one you chose as your wedding dress that you never got to wear. I would really like you too." Jade asked her.

"If that is the dress you want me in, then it will be the dress I will wear." Katara told her friend.

"I talked with Haru... Aang told him he can't be Haru's best man..." Jade said.

"Yeah Aang told me." Katara said.

"Why can't he be? You guys are the reason Haru and I even know each other." Jade didn't understand.

"Because he is the Leader of The Air Nation." Katara explained.

"But..." Jade started.

"He is the Patriarch... he has to preform the ceremony... He has been going over books upon books to teach him how to do it..." Katara explained.

"Aang has to marry us?" Jade asked.

"Well unless you want someone from the Earth Kingdom to do it." Katara told the young woman.

"Oh, No, of course not... I am a Air Acolyte, part of the Air culture, as long as it is what Haru want's I'd rather have Aang do it, he is one of my closest friends, it would be an honor to have him marry us." Jade was really happy about finding out Aang would be preforming the ceremony.

"Ok, we need to measure you, so I can start working on your dress, now that you finally picked out your fabrics." Katara told her.

"Katara..." Tears started running down Jade's cheeks. "You don't even know how much your friendship means to me... Aang knows my father, I haven't seen him in about 10 years... I thought he didn't care about me anymore... You, The Wife of the Most Important, the Most Powerful man in the world, are making my dress, You have made some of the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen... You brought my husband to be here to get to know me... Everyday I am blessed by your friendship."

"Jade, Aang and I love you, you are more like a sister to me than a servant, when you offered your help to us that day we first brought Sokka and Suki here, I was happy, I was serious that I wanted you to come visit when I asked you to... Yeah I have the 4 younger girls, but I needed someone closer to my age, someone to be a friend here... There are just things you don't talk about to with young girls." Katara hugged her friend.

"Katara, Would you spend the night before my wedding with me, like a mother would?" Jade asked her.

"I think I'm a bit young to be your mother." Katara laughed. "Yes Jade, I will, ALL the things a mother is supposed to do and tell her daughter... I spent the night before my wedding WITH my husband to be, but I guess I'm a bad girl." Katara laughed. "Nothing new, our son was 9 months old. Proof I'd already been a bad girl."

"You and Aang are so perfect together." Jade told her.

"I hadn't even realized Aang was flirting with me until after I had seen Aunt Wu, and Sokka said Aang was a Powerful Bender."

Katara quietly walked into their room after putting Kya and Sapphire down for the night. Aang was meditating, like he always was when ever she came into their bedroom. Nursing time had increased to a half hour EACH girl.

"You know, it's taking you longer and longer to put them to bed." Aang said as she came into their room.

"It's about half an hour for each of them to nurse and drift off to sleep... Gyatso took half an hour at their age." She told him. She started getting ready for bed when he came up behind her. He leaned over and kissed her. Her arms immediately wrapped around his neck, he picked her up cradling her in his strong arms she deepened the kiss as he walked over to their bed.

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