Friends with benefits // Modern Tokka

Chapter 8: Preparation

  One week until the homecoming dance. Girls doing their last minute shopping before the dance and what the plan was for that day. 

Toph was one of these girls. Before she came into school, she was excited for these dances, but then when it actually came around and she heard what goes on in these dances - the boys who get to confident around girls and would start to get touchy. The kids who got high in the back of the school, which she didn't care about much - She wasn't as interested in going as she was before. But Katara convinced her to go. 

"I can't believe I let you drag me into this" Toph said when they got out of the car. 

"It's your first time at a real school. You should get to experience it" Katara stated

"yeah yeah, lets just go and get this over with" Toph walked past Katara to the mall entrance, Katara followed behind. 

Toph had been to the mall before, but that was with her guards and she usually wouldn't pay attention to other stores except the ones she was interested in. So she didn't know which stores had dresses and all the fancy stuff.

"Soo, where do we go?" Toph asked once they got inside. Katara grabbed her hand dragged her to the nearest store with fancy clothes.

When they walked in, where they were greeted by an employee. The employee was a girl who looked to be in her late teen years. The store wasn't big or to small, but you could see everything from any side of the store . The girls started to look through the racks and picking out whatever dress they liked. Katara grabbed a lot of dresses where Toph barely grabbed any dresses.

"Toph, I thought you would have many dresses by now, instead of 3?" Katara said, confused.

"Katara, we have only been here for like 10 minutes and you already have like 9 dresses in your arms. Why don't you go and try those one and I'll rate each one?" Toph suggested.

Katara nodded and walked to the dressing room. While Toph looked through the racks, she noticed the employee that greeted them, watching her from a distance.  Toph figured it was just someone who noticed her, but the way the lady looked at her, it didn't look anything like a fan would when she was noticed. It looked as if she was about to commit a crime and the employee was keeping an eye on her.

Toph grew uncomfortable and walked to the fitting room. Luckily, Katara had just finished putting on a dress and stepped out for Toph to see. Katara twirled around in the dress so Toph could see everything. Toph shook her head as a disapproval and Katara went back into the room to try on another dress.

Meanwhile, Toph thought she would try again and check out the dress again, hopefully I don't get followed again

Toph walked out of the fitting area and spotted a dress that caught her eye. It was a short, dark green bodycon dress, the straps were faux diamonds, which were what mostly caught her eye. Toph quickly ran up to the rack with the dress, and grabbed the dress. She walked back the fitting room and told Katara she would be trying on a dress next-door.

Toph hanged up the dresses she had on the hook and set her purse down. She decided on leaving the dress she really liked, for last. She took off her pants before taking off the oversized shirt she was wearing. She unhooked one of the dresses and tried it on. It was a knee high sage dress with a neck line. It was decent, but not for the dance. She switched dresses, but as she was putting it on, she already didn't like it, so she didn't bother to put it on all the way. She let the dress fall to her feet, then stepped out of it. She picked it up and set it on the chair that was in the room. 

After trying on the other dresses, It was finally time to put on the dress she really like. She stepped into the dress and pulled it up. She struggles a little with the strap, careful not to break it, but in the end she it got on. She looked in the mirror and fixed some sides of the dress to make it look good and comfortable.