A/N: Well, I was going to wait a few more days to even start writing this, but I have NOTHING to do! D: Wow, summer kind of sucks. Anyway, I hope to get some reviews. Please enjoy Chapter 16!

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Toph was impatiently waiting by her locker for Sokka. She really had to talk to him this time. Just as she was thinking about saying “Screw it,” and going home, she saw Sokka walking out of a classroom on the other end of the hall.

“Sokka!” Toph exclaimed, not sounding happy at all. She waved her hand, seeing Sokka look wildly around for the voice. He spotted her, jogging over to her.

“What, Toph?” Sokka asked, sounding very tired. By the looks of it, the past two weeks had been very rough on him as well.

“I really need to talk to you about Aang. I think-“

“Toph, I’m not going to put him through another torture session because you think it’s good for him. We really need to stop this,” Sokka calmly said, starting to walk down the hall Toph followed him, stomping her feet in frustration.

“That’s not what I wanted to talk about, ok?! Something is wrong with Aang, in case you didn’t notice. He hasn’t talked to anyone since the thing at my house. Something had to have happened, I know it,” Toph almost desperately said. Sokka stopped walking, turning around and looking at Toph. He looked… angry, frustrated, upset? Toph couldn’t put her finger on it since she had never seen Sokka with an expression like that before. The look alone made her speechless.

“Well, yeah something’s wrong, Toph. Maybe we pushed it a little too hard, or tried to move things too fast. It’s all because of this stupid plan-“

“What plan?” An angry voice boomed from behind Sokka. He turned around, just in time to see Zuko round the corner of the hallway. Sokka wanted to run, and run as far away as humanly possible.

He knew that Zuko would kill them. But did Toph listen? No.

“What. Plan!” Zuko asked again, getting madder by the second. He took a few steps closer to Sokka, totally ignoring Toph. Sokka heavily breathed in, accepting that he might die then and there.

“There was a plan to get you and Aang together.”

With lightening speed, Zuko shoved Sokka up against the lockers behind him, holding his arm over Sokka’s throat. Said boy squealed in shock.

“What the fucking hell, Sokka?! Why did you have to go and fuck everything up?!” Zuko screamed in Sokka’s face. Sokka tried to reply, but lack of oxygen prevented him from doing so.

“Answer me!”

“Let him go! NOW!” Toph’s shrill voice screamed from behind Zuko. He turned to tell her to fuck off, but her fist met his face first. Zuko went flying sideways away from Sokka. Sokka slid down the lockers, gasping for air. Toph quickly moved over to him.

“Are you ok, Sokka? Do you-?”

“What the hell, Toph?!” Zuko exclaimed. He quickly pushed himself into a standing position, rubbing his sore cheek.

“You were chocking him! What else was I supposed to do?!” Toph screamed back, standing up as well.

“Gee, I don’t know? Let me!” Zuko retorted.

That’s it. Toph was pissed; beyond pissed. She lunged towards Zuko, pouncing on his chest and punching him in the face at the same time. They both hit the floor, Toph on top of Zuko. The earth bender continued to punch Zuko in the face, each punch harder than the last. Zuko started to punch around randomly in some sad attempt to get Toph off of him. Hey, hand-to-hand combat wasn’t his best. After a few wild punches, Zuko punched Toph square in the jaw. Toph stopped.

“You hit me! You can’t hit me, I’m a girl!” Toph screamed in Zuko’s face. Zuko took this as an opportunity to grab Toph’s arms and throw her off him.

“You’re not a girl! You’re a she-man –thing-a-ma-bob!” Zuko screamed, waving his arms around and looking stupid. Toph quickly stood up and moved to jump on Zuko again, but Sokka stepped between them.

“Stop, just stop! This isn’t solving anything!” Sokka exclaimed. But did that stop Zuko? No, he just threw Sokka aside.

Sokka cried in pain as his shoulder-blade hit a lock on a locker. Toph almost turned to see if he was ok, but decided against it.

“Don’t take it out on Sokka, ok?! It wasn’t his fault! Everything was my idea! I dragged Sokka along with me because-!”

“What?!” Why in fucking hell would you do something like that?! Aang hasn’t talked to me in over two weeks!” Zuko exclaimed. Anger and frustration rose and was slowly clouding his common sense.

“I did it because I wanted to see you guys happy! That’s the only reason I came up with that stupid plan!” Toph screamed. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Sokka slowly standing upright.

“Z-Zuko, you need to calm down. Please, this isn’t something Aang would want,” Sokka slowly said. Zuko looked back and forth between the two of them, growing even angrier. Now everything made sense. Everything that had happened in the past few months finally made sense.

“We can go talk to Aang and maybe clear some things up and-“

“Shut up! Just everyone shut the fuck up!” Zuko screamed. He sent out a shock-wave of flames, barely missing Toph. She didn’t pay any attention to it, though. Zuko was close to hyperventilating now. He just really wanted to go home, crawl under a rock, and die.

“Zuko, we should talk to Aang. But why-“ Sokka had started to say.

“No! I don’t want to talk to Aang!” Zuko screamed back, looking like a little kid. Toph and Sokka stared blankly at him.

“Zuko… what exactly happened two weeks ago?” Toph carefully asked after a minute. Zuko’s eyes widened for a second, but then he tightly closed them in a pathetic attempt to block out the real world.

“Nothing of your concern!” Zuko screamed. Sokka flinched slightly, but Toph kept her face straight.

“You like him, don’t you?” Toph asked. Zuko looked at her. Why was she asking him that? She already knew the answer, so why did he have to say it again?

“You already know the answer!” Zuko screamed, turning around and sprinting down the hallway. Toph sighed, turning towards Sokka.

“Are you ok?” She asked. Sokka nodded his head.

“Go see if he’s ok. I’ll try to find Aang,” Sokka said, slowly getting up. Toph gave a short nod, sprinting after Zuko.

Wow, things sure do get difficult.

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Well, there you guys go! I know it seems a little rushed, but I was using notes to write this whole chapter. I was going to end it differently, but I thought this way was better. Anyway, please leave a review for me!