Another Avatar University Story

Chapter Fourteen

"And, above all, try to act formal. This mainly applies to you, Sokka.."

Yue, Sokka, and I were gathered in the living room of the sibling's apartment, going over proper snotty rich people etiquette. Remember to stand up straight. Maintain good and straight posture. Talk with a soft volume. Hold your pinky out when you drink from a glass. All that unnecessary stuff. While we were doing this to prepare ourselves for the exhibition tonight, we were also doing this to pass the time as Katara was still getting ready in her room. After laughing our lungs out at Sokka, as per usual, we quieted down to hear a voice coming from a room.

"Alright, guys, I think I'm ready to come out."

Yue perked up. "Well, come on out! We're dying to see you!"

"Yeah, come on! We're waiting for you!" Sokka added.

Little did you know, you two are speaking on my behalf.

Soon, the three of us watched as the door crept open revealing Katara's figure. She was wearing a sort of cyanish-cerulean colored blue dress that wrapped around her torso, starting from just below her shoulders and narrowing down to her waist, which was tied in place with a simple piece of fabric. From there, the dress exploded outwards down towards the floor. As she walked towards us, the dress would sway to and fro, sometimes revealing her legs, bare. Lighter blue pieces of fabric, almost transparent in manner, were loosely wrapped around both of her arms, which followed every movement her arms would make. Around her neck was a necklace, an oval amulet, with a Water insignia etched into it, tied to a piece of dark blue fabric.

"Well, how do I look?" she asked us.

"Holy shit! You look gorgeous!" Yue shouted, bobbing up and down.

Both Sokka and I looked at Yue, surprised she had it in her to say such a thing, before Sokka broke off to look at his sister. "You look amazing, sis."

"Aang? What about you?"

I paused, trying to craft the perfect answer but failing miserably in doing so. My mouth, on the other hand, had some other thing to say.

"Beautiful. You look beautiful."

She stood there, blushing madly at my response. Inside, I celebrated, happy that she was happy with what I've said. Outwardly, I was grinning and blushing just as much as she was.. And she hadn't even complimented how I looked yet.

Yue brought herself off the blue couch she was sitting on and brushed off the back of her dress. "Well, our ride is waiting. How about we all go downstairs and meet up with him?"

We all shuffled downstairs, Sokka and I being careful not to catch dust on our blazers while Katara and Yue lifted their dresses so as to not catch dust and dirt on the bottom. When we made it to our ride, Yue opted to sit in the front, probably because it had more space compared to the back but who were we to tell her where to sit in her own car. Because of that, the rest of us sat in the back, much to our dismay but especially for me since Sokka decided to sit in between Katara and I, essentially cockblocking me. I had a hunch he was fed up with our brief change of words in his living room and this was his way of dealing with it.

The drive was quick. We drew the roof window down and let the city breeze flow and whip its way through the car while we all continued to have small talk about the expo we're about to go to as well as our school year so far. I already knew Katara was a nursing major but I also found out that Sokka was majoring in engineering since he had a knack for thinking up the craziest of ideas and inventions. Yue was a political science major, which made sense since her father was a part of the city council and so she was probably following in his footsteps.