Too Close

Intro

"You can't be serious,"

"I thought he was in prison again,"

"It'd be prison for a whole,"

"I can't believe they'd allow that,"

A sophomore boy with dark brown hair and grey eyes watched the clock as it ticked down to the end of the day. As soon as the bell rang he jumped over his desk with his backpack around his shoulders while he escaped to his friends, his blue headband wrapped around his hairline whipped in the wind as he sprinted.

"Slow down!" The teacher called after the energetic boy.

"Sorry!" The boy called back but as soon as he turned the corner he slammed into a body walking into the administrations office.

"Sorry, I didn't see where I was going," the boy smiled backing away as a taller boy ignored him and went into the office with his beat up black jean jacket on.

The short boy made a face not seeing his face but shrugged it off as he went to find his friends outside where they always met every day after school.

"Yes! First one!" He jumped down the six first steps in the front of the school, his fists high in victory.

"Sorry twinkle toes, still second place, again," a blind girl sat on the side of the stairs with her red and white cane at her feet, her black hair tied back into two messy buns as she didn't care for her bangs in her face. Her legs crossed as she chewed gum on the stone stairs.

"Aw man Toph, how'd you get here again?" Aang whined standing in front of her, his hands on his hips.

"Because your slow," she smirked while Aang looked behind her seeing three other students walking out of the cement building.

"Hey Katara," Aang smiled over at the junior with her long chestnut brown hair braided down her back.

"Did you finally beat her?" Katara smirked at Aang, he got excited but lost his enthusiasm realizing his fail once again.

"You do know Toph skips her last hour of class right?" Sokka walked down the steps with a red heads hand in his own, as Katara sat with Toph.

"What?!" Aangs jaw dropped.

"What's the class?" Katara looked at Toph as Aang ranted to himself on the side line.

"English, reading and writing, that fun stuff," Toph smirked a little tilting her head back.

"You should still go a couple times a week, it's a big part of your courses," Katara told her softly.

"I can help if you need some," she offered.

"Yea? And how's that gonna help me?" Toph snorted shaking her head.

"I mean kinda makes sense," Suki looked at them as Sokka listened to aangs rant curiously.

"It's literature, not just how to read and write," Katara said flatly and Toph rolled her blind eyes.

The girls chatted as Sokka ranted with Aang now in the grass next to them. Katara glanced up seeing three girls walking past them and recognized them as what you'd say the 'mean girls', as in rich, pretty and bitchy, but they were still the most well known in the entire school, popular was an easy way to explain it. For some reason they're adored, or feared.

"I'll see you tomorrow at school Zuzu," Azula waved at a boy who was walking the opposite direction of the girls, Katara only saw the back of his head that was covered in thick black hair, as he wore a black beat up jean jacket and black jeans. A helmet in hand as he didn't look back.

She shrugged it off but noticed the glare on sukis face and how Aang stopped to watch Azula and the boy she was talking too.

"You know him?" Katara asked Suki seeing she seemed bitter.

"Just an asshole you guys missed a while back," Suki waved it off as Aang still seemed surprised.

"Aang? You okay?" Katara asked concerned.

"Yea, I'm fine," Aang pursed his lips watching the boy ride off on a red and black sports motorcycle.

"I thought he was still in jail?" Aang looked at Suki.

"That's what everyone thought, the guys been gone for a while now," Suki scoffed rolling her eyes.

"Who? Do I need to know him?" Sokka asked looking back and forth from the biker to his girlfriend a little frantic.

Katara was now fifteen but was younger for the  grade while her birthday was coming up and Sokka was seventeen. He was able to go their high school two years ago as Katara had to wait till she was old enough to be a freshman, but she also tested into a grade higher when they applied, she was a junior but was taking senior classes and a college class as Sokka a senior who was younger for his grade.

They were home schooled most of their lives due to their father being part of the military, but they finally were able to go to a school in their grandmothers name.

"He's been gone for three years, I doubt he'll be a threat anymore," Suki leaned back on the stairs rolling her eyes.

Three years ago one of the students snapped the first week of high school and beat half of the freshmen class within that week, sent a few to the hospital. He was dragged out of the school by police and last anyone heard of him was that he was charge with assault and was now stuck in prison.

Yet it's only been three years and here he was, apparently not expelled. But that girl that mocked him seemed to have no fear of him, but almost an amusement to his frowning face.

Katara heard of the rumors when she first attended the school, Sokka told her some things of it. Some where just awful sayings, to outraged to be actual true. Aang mentioned that he was his bully in middle school even before that and Suki was threatened by him. But if he was that same student, she'd find out soon enough if he was just as violent and insane as other people made him out to be.