Friends with benefits // Modern Tokka

Chapter 2: Tessa!?

Fourth period had ended and the girls started heading to lunch. Everyone was already at the table waiting for the two girls. Prior to lunch, Katara had texted the group chat, asking if it was okay for Toph to sit with them.

"No way? seriously! He tried to flirt with you? With that pick up line?" Katara asked toph.

"Yes! i'm telling you he was soo bad at flirting!" The girls sat down at the table laughing at Toph's story. Through the periods Toph gotten accustomed to Katara.

"Hey guys! Who was bad at flirting?" Aang asked

"When I was on a business trip this guy tried to flirt with one of his so called" She put her fingers up in quotations marks. "good pick up lines"

"What was it?" Zuko asked

"It was 'I don't know what takes my breath away more, those stairs or you'"

"oohhh" The group said in a disgusted tone

"He just needs some good old lessons from a flirting expert" Sokka said, pointing at himself.

"What makes you think your an expert? You had me help you flirt with Suki" Katara said, exposing her brother

"Damnn Sokka, you used your sister!" Zuko laughed at his best friend "I'm the true flirting expert"

"What are you talking about. You keep getting rejected by girls. You only dated one person and that was your ex" Aang said

"Hey I don't have a girlfriend because my sister keeps on scaring them off!"

"Mhm keep telling yourself that" Katara said before she drank her water. Everyone took out their lunches except for Toph. "Toph your not going to eat?" katara asked. 

 "I'm not hungry. Im supposed to meet up with my cousin but she won't respond to my texts" Toph looked at her phone hoping to see a response from her cousin.

"Who's your cousin?" Sokka curiously asked

"Her name is Tessa" Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Toph. Toph felt uncomfortable with everyone's eyes on her."Why are you all looking at me like that?" 

"Tessa!?" everyone said in unison. 

"Yes, my cousins name is Tessa. Do I have to repeat it again?" Toph replied, starting to get a little annoyed.

"Tessa! the girl with brown hair and is always "fashionably late" to class Tessa!?" Katara asked and Toph nodded. 

"Tessa!? the girl I used to date? The girl who was in a fight with a girl and gave that girl a concussion Tessa!?" Zuko asked wanting more clarification. 

"Oh right! I forgot Tessa dated you, prince boy" everyone laughed at Toph's nickname for Zuko. "But yes that Tessa" 

When Tessa and her were younger, they took self defense classes. They would fight each other for fun and come up with different fighting moves.

Everyone was caught off guard at Toph's response. Tessa never talked about having a celebrity cousin. Or being a beifong. Even when she was with Zuko. 

"I remember when she told me she had gotten in a fight at school. She was pretty proud of herself" Everyone just looked at her confused.

"And it's still my proudest moment" Tessa said with her arms crossed. Everyone jumped when they heard Tessa speak from behind them. 

"Uh hey Tessa" Zuko said, rubbing the back of his neck. 

"Hey Zuko," Toph quickly got up so it wouldn't be awkward between the two ex's.