Zukka Fanfic

FIVE

DECEMBER 27TH AFTER THE TRIP
ZUKOS POV
It's been a day after that trip, and I had so much fun. Before we left we made sure to get Souveniers, and here I am polishing the mini statue Toph made of me.
"Nephew! Come down, you will be late for school." My uncle calls.
"Just a second Uncle!" I call out and buckle my belt, then hurry down the stairs and catch the bus.
"Good bye Zuko, have a wonderful day!" My uncle waves just as I leave the doorway.
SCHOOL
Once I arrive at the doors of the school, Sokka spots me (I've gotten used to it) and drags me along to the gaang.
"Hey Zuko!" Aang waves.
"Guys new years is soon, and everyone knows tradition!" Katara points her finger up.
"Party at Tophs!" Sokka and Aang say in unison. "Zuko, every New year we invite everyone at school over at Tophs since her house is the best on the block and everyone sleeps over! Of course the gaang has designated rooms, you can take the spare room though." Sokka explains to me from the puzzled look on my face. "Uhm, I think I could be able to go.." I respond quietly. "Great! We come at the house at 6 to set up, and everyone else comes at 8." Aang explains to me. "Okay." I reply. The bell rings. Mathematics.
I sit down on my desk and take out my homework to check it incase I got anything wrong.
"This is rounded to 347.92.." I mutter outloud and Sokka hears me. (Of course he does)
"Can I copy off of you please?" He asks me whilst leaning towards me. I blush a little and nod.
"Thanks!" He says before he quickly jots down the exact same answers I have. "You have good grades in everything, hooowwww do you do it?" He asks me when he's copying off answer number 6. "I just study a lot..." I keep a short ans sweet answer to not embarrass myself. A few moments of silence go by. "I like your eyes." He says to me whilst looking straight into my eyes. I look down and fiddle with my fingers. "Thanks. I like yours...too." I reply, not trying to be rude. He quietly chuckled and then the teacher enters the classroom.
LUNCH
After Science class is finally lunch. This time I go to the gaang instead of Sokka dragging me, I'm really getting comfortable with them. "Hi guys." I say and wave to them. "Hi Zuko!" "Sup" "Hello" "Hey Zuko!" They all say at the same time. We go to our signature table and start talking.
"Should we go shopping after school?" Katara suggests whilst she files her nails.
"Yea I guess, I want new beanies!" Aang jumps in,
"Aang, you have at least 200 beanies! When will you have enough?" Sokka says as he gets into a comfortable position, which is his legs on the table and him leaning to the side.
"Zuko, you comin ?" Toph asks me and then everyone looks at me.
"Yea sure, I can come." I reply.
"Who's car are we taking?" Aang asks.
"We can go in mine." Sokka suggests. I've never been in Sokkas car before, I wonder what it's like?
"PHTEH!" Toph spits out the school chicken nuggets. "This is disgusting!" Toph says after we spits it out.
"This school uses like radioactive racoon meat for their chicken nuggets ,like seriously where did they get the recipe from?" Sokka jokes, and everyone chuckles. Even I do.
"Zuko you coming to practice after lunch?" Sokka asks me.
"Zuko is in basketball?" Katara asks Sokka before I can answer,
"He sure is, I didn't know he was sporty, guess I don't know people like I think I do" Sokka strikes up a conversation.
A few minutes later the bell rings
AFTER SCHOOL
I walk out of History, the last class of the day and try to find the gaang, eventually I do, They're outside the school next to one of the tables.
"Come on guys in the car!" Katara says and leads everyone to Sokkas car. Sokkas car is a nice black car with silvery blue accents. It's really nice. But is it able to fit all 5 of us?
"I can sit in the middle guys, it's fine" Aang suggests, It makes sense since he's the smallest of us all. I sit in the front next to Sokka, who's driving, Katara, Aang, and Toph are in the backseat. Sokka drives out of the school lot and gets on the road. I'm looking out the window and Toph and Aang are having a conversation. I don't want to try to have a chat with sokka because I know I'm just gonna make it awkward. But he strikes up a convo anyway.
"So what do you wanna get?" He asks me, not taking his eyes off the road. "I don't really want anything," I mutter. "Nonsense! Get whatever u want." He looks over at me and smiles. How is he so nice? It makes the butterfly's in my stomach flutter. Okay maybe it's because that hes letting me get whatever I want and hes paying, but i promise it's not ONLY that. It's his eyes, his skin, his nice silky hair, his perfectly toned bod-nevermind. I should probably text uncle I'm going out with friends.
AT THE MALL
"EEEE! shopping!" Katara crys out and quickly separates from the rest of the gaang.
"I'm getting some beanies!" Aang says and quickly resorts to a shop.
"I guess it just leaves, me, sparky, and captain boomerang." Toph points out.
"Let's go over there first!" Sokka points to a shop and drags both me and Toph along.
INSIDE THE SHOP
We're inside the shop and I've picked out about 3 pieces of clothing. 2 baggy jeans, and 1 graphic T. Meanwhile Sokka has a whole cart full of clothes. Typical him. I don't know why but I smile at the sight. Toph on the other hand is just sitting on a bench. A few minutes later i get a few more clothes and we check out.
"You should've gotten those sweatpants Toph, they're super cool!" Sokka says to Toph.
"I already have a bunch, I don't need anymore" Toph says casually and waves her hand to Sokka.
I stay quiet as usual.
"Where to next?" Sokka asks me.
"I don't know" I answer truthfully.
"How about we get some shoes!" Sokka suggests and we both agree, We enter a shoe store and Sokka is like a kid in a candy shop. Soon we make a stop at an actual candy shop (turns out Sokka has a sweet tooth, and not gonna lie, so do i), and lastly we stop at Sephora and I get a promising looking moisturizer, and Sokka gets a bunch of toners or serums or whatever it is. Toph doesn't get anything she just judges people. Typical Toph. We meet up with the rest of the Gaang and now we are on our way to a resturaunt. Do these kids not have homes?
We arrive at the resturaunt and enter, this place looks promising. We take our seats and we have a booth, and since Toph wants her "personal space" (which is really almost the entire side of the booth) we're all squished, and of course, I'm sitting next to Sokka. (I'm pretty sure I'm a tomato or something). Then suddenly Toph passes me a note whilst smirking and it reads. "Your heartbeat". Isnt she blind, where did she learn to write? I don't know what she's talking about..! Anyway we all order our food and I couldn't be more flustered + squished. After we eat Sokka drops everyone home, and I was last. This time Sokka gets out with me and hugs me. I like this hug. It's warm and I feel safe. I think I fell for this man 10x harder. He leaves and I enter home. "Hello Uncle!" I call out and go to my room. My uncle waves.
I collapse on my bed and just barely take my shoes off. I wish I could have the hug again, it truly was magical. I wish.