Another Avatar University Story

Chapter Eleven

I didn't sleep as well as I thought that Friday night because when I woke up on Saturday morning, I was suffering from a pretty nasty cold. Go figure. Being a gentleman has its costs I guess. I didn't have the drive to do much, my laziness probably owing its existence to my sickness, but I did manage to scrape up enough effort to bang out the rest of my essay due a month from now. After that though, I sat around my flat bored, from Saturday till Sunday. So, when Monday's lecture came, I was eager to make it to the University, hungry for something to do.

I walked into the English hall about fifteen minutes early and saw Katara sitting in her usual seat while Sokka sat in my seat. There was a third person sitting in a chair in the row behind them, hunched over and propping her head with her arms on the row in front of her. The closer I got, I realized it was Yue.

"'Morning guys!" I waved to them, speeding up to them and sitting in an empty seat beside Katara.

Sokka nodded his head to me, as he always does, while Yue and Katara both smiled and waved back at me, returning the gesture.

"So," I asked "Why are you guys here?"

"We figured that you'd sit here" Sokka replied. "Katara told me that you two share a morning class together. We all just wanted to tell you good morning and all."

Katara tilted her head slightly and smiled my way to which I smiled back. Sokka slung an arm over Yue, who sat behind him, and drew her close. I leaned my head to get a better look of Sokka and Yue.

"I take it you two had a great weekend?"

Sokka glared at me, telling me through his gaze to knock it off. His face grew more and more flushed and red, especially at his cheeks. Yue, on the other hand, giggled and had a faint red hue on her face. "We only talked and FaceTimed each other."

She soon hunched over the divide between Sokka and Katara's chairs and turned to face me. "You never told me you had a plan to stop Ozai from winning the election the other day."

I nervously laughed. "Well, uh- I figured maybe I should just.. Introduce ourselves first.."

"There's no need to be embarrassed," she replied while chuckling. "I want in on this little movement of yours."

Katara, Sokka and I looked at each other. Although we knew that she'd want to join our movement to see her dad in office, we were nervous as we should go about doing this. We had the general idea in mind, but conveying it to Yue, to all of us, was just difficult. I couldn't explain why and I am sure it's likewise for the two Water Borough siblings. I figured that I should start, just like the other day, speaking on behalf of Katara and Sokka who didn't look too eager to start this conversation.

"Well... um, we were all thinking if you could like uh-" I stammered before picking up the words that spilled out of my mouth and organized them. "We were just thinking if you could like, uh- convince all the Water Borough people here.." I was cut off by Yue.

"You want me to convince all the students here on campus who live in our part of the city to vote for my father?" she finished for me.

I nodded my head to which Yue sighed.

"You know, the student population alone won't win my father mayorship."

"We figured," Sokka said, to my surprise. "We're just hoping that these people will convince their parents to vote alongside them."

Yue sighed again and turned her head to look at each one of us. "This sounds nice and all, and I'll do my best to talk to all of my peers about this, but you guys will also have to pitch in and help. I suggest that maybe you three find time every now and then and campaign for my father on the streets outside..."