Double Bender

Part 45

I changed into the suit and walked back outside. Sokka was sitting in front of some sort of blob creature he made out of sand and Geo was laughing at it. Then she turned around, saw me and smiled. "Glad to see you're no longer a stick in the mud." She said. "I just put this on to make you happy. I'm not going-" She pointed at me and then at the water. "You, water. Now!" I crossed my arms. "I really don't feel like-" Before I could finish, she had shoved me in the water with her earth bending. I stood in the water looking pissed. "Very funny," I said. "Now I'm-" Before I could finish my sentence, Katara had used water-bending to move the waves around me. "Cut that out!" I shouted. "Come on!" she shouted back. "Try it! It's fun!" I rolled my eyes, bended the water into a column around me, and froze the water around my feet. Then, I started surfing. And...it felt amazing. I forgot about everything. I forgot about how much my mother loved the water. I wasn't brooding on it anymore. It was just me and the water, with the wind blowing through my hair. I rode up to a wave and did a flip. It was the most amazing feeling in the world, I felt alive. Then, I did the most unexpected thing in the world; I shouted with glee at the top of my lungs. "WOO-HOO!" I yelled. It was the most unexpected felling in the world. I hadn't had this much fun since... heck, I can't even remember having this much fun! I forgot about every bad thing that was happening in world. I felt like a little kid again. If only Zuko could water-bend. Then he'd know how much fun this is-Hey where is he anyway? Oh right. I forgot. He had gotten mad at us and stormed off. He still knew that...thing that was really important. Wait, he was at his father's palace before this. Maybe it was something his father told him-

Before I could finish my thought, I had lost my concentration and my ice-board had turned back into water and I had fallen back into the ocean. I resurfaced and swam to the shore. "What was that about?" Geo asked. I didn't answer. "Where are you going?" She asked. "To find Zuko." I said. "Have fun with that." She yelled back.

I was right, Zuko was in the cave, sitting by himself. The cave looked even better in the daytime, the sunlight reflecting off the walls, giving them a fluorescent green light. Zuko was looking at the water, with a look on his face that seemed like he'd failed. He looked really sad, like he knew something terrible was about to happen and he was the only one who knew, and he didn't want to tell because he knew it was better if we didn't know. I sat down next to him. "What's wrong?" I asked sympathetically. "Nothing." He lied. "Zuko," I said, "I know that something is wrong. Lying to me is not going to make it any better, especially if you keep brooding like that. Now just tell me and everything will be alright." He looked back down at the water and sighed. I put my hand on his cheek. "You can tell me anything. This is our place, remember? No secrets leave this place." He was silent, I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him. "You're soaking wet." He said. I realized that if he found out we'd been having a beach party, he'd be even madder at Aang than he was before. "Oh...no reason..." I said pitifully. "Where'd you get the bathing suit?" "Oh is that what this is?" I said. "Not buying it." He said. "Tell me what's going on." He said. I took a breath and said, as a last resort, "You know what, why don't we get out of this cave. It's cold in here. Let's go back to the house. Shoot, if we go that way, he's going to see the beach party-" "What?" He said. "Nothing." I said. "Something's going on." He said. "Me and my big mouth." I muttered. "They're just lounging around and having a stupid beach party when there's a comet coming in three days and my dad's going to destroy everything-" His eyes widened like he had just said something he wasn't supposed to. "What?!" I said. "I need to talk to Aang." He said angrily. He stormed angrily out of the cave. "Zuko! Wait!" I yelled.

Oh boy. Zuko's mad again.

What do you guys think?

Can't talk for very long, I'm sitting backstage at the AHC production of Once Upon a Mattress, I'm the nightingale, and apparently I'm funny, well that's what they tell me.

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Wafflebunnies, that's what I'm calling you guys now

~Maeve