Marital Arts

A Chapter by alma21

Katara is walking when she sees Aang outside. He tells her a little about himself and some strange things go through her head.

     As Aang got home he went straight to his room and got out of his school clothes. He couldn’t believe that they found him already, now he has to move again. He didn’t want to move he wanted to stay here with his new friends.
   How can I lose them! Aang said to himself. I can’t they will never leave me alone until I do what they want me to do, but I won’t! I will never!
   He ran out of his room and the house. He stood there waiting for them. He then heard something move and got into his fighting stance.
   “Come out!” He yelled.
   “Aang?” someone said behind him.
   “Katara?” he said and turned around, “what are you doing here?”
   “I was just walking around and then I saw you. Why are you wearing a karate uniform?”
   Aang sighed. “This is my uniform and I don’t practice karate.”
   “Then what?”
   “A lot of different marital arts,”
   “What are they?”
   “Uh…Tai chi, Hung Gar, Northern Shoaling, and Ba Guar,”
   “Wow, that’s amazing,”
   “Than-” Aang stopped and faced the other direction, “Hey Katara lets go inside okay?”
   She nodded.
   Inside, Aang started to make some tea, and got out some cookies.
   “Here have a cookie,” he offered Katara.
   “Thanks,” she said grabbing a cookie out of the plate, “so for how long have you learned these marital arts?”
   “Well for as long as I can remember I guess,”
   “Oh,”
   An awkward silence went through the room. Katara looked around Aang’s living room. There were no pictures of his family or friends just furniture.
   “Do you live by yourself?” she asked.
   “Yes, my parents died a long time ago,”
   “Oh, I’m so sorry,”
   “Nah it’s okay,”
   She couldn’t believe that a fifth teen year old could live by himself.
   “How do you get money?” she asked.
Aang looked away, trying to think off another subject. Then the tea pot squealed.
   Thank you tea. Aang said to himself. “I should get that.”
   Katara nodded and looked away. He is hiding something but what?
   “So Katara um…is Sokka going out with that Suki girl he was talking about?” Aang said changing the subject.
   “Yeah, for three years but they have stopped being so obsessed with each other, I mean the first two years where awful. All I could here from Sokka’s mouth was Suki this and Suki that and the same goes with Suki. God I’m not even that obsessed with my boyfriend!”
   Aang stopped pouring tea. “Wait, you have a boyfriend?”
   “Yeah, his name is Jet he is in the same grade as us,” Katara smiled at the thought of her boyfriend.
   “Oh…that’s cool,”
   “Do you have a girlfriend, Aang?”
   “No, never had one,” he said bring the tea to the living room.
   “What?! Really?”
   “Yeah, I was always to busy…” he stopped and gave Katara her tea.
   Crap! I almost said something! Aang yelled to himself.
   “To busy doing what?” Katara asked.
   “Uh…studying! Yeah that’s it” Aang lied. He looked away and sat back down on his seat.
       Katara looked at Aang and smiled. He is so cute! She said to herself. I wonder why girls don’t ask him, I would if…Wait what am I thinking!? Me asking Aang out…no way!
   Aang looked at Katara and wondered what she was thinking.
   “Katara, what are you thinking about?” He asked.
   “Uh…not thinking about asking you being my- I mean this tea is great!” Katara shouted blushing.
   Aang chuckled and took a sip of his cup. “Yeah, it is.”