True to Life

"Cut!"

Katara and Aang moved their lips apart.

"Congratulations, people. We've just finished Avatar!" the director clapped.

"Yes!" Sokka and Aang jumped. Katara let out a relived sigh. Suki and Mai walked towards Ty Lee. Then Toph landed on her knees. Seeing this, Zuko came to her while the director compliments Aang and Katara for their last scene.

"What's wrong?"

Toph looked at him, sighed, "I'll miss my character."

Zuko chuckled. "Well, you can continue to pretend to be the blind Miss Bei Fong you always were and pretend to be earth bending."

Toph put hands on the ground, "That's exactly what I'm going to miss, earth bending. The crew did so well I thought I was really bending the earth with my hands!"

Zuko smiled, "Yeah... I guess I'll also miss the fires coming out of no whe-"

"Toph!" Suki interrupted. "Oh I'm sorry. We're you guys talking?"

Zuko stood up, "We've just finished by the way." he smiled at Suki, then faced Toph and offered his hand to help her stand.

"Thanks, Sparky." Toph said, making Suki giggle.

Zuko was called by the director. And he so he bid the girls goodbye.

"You know, Zuko is so sweet while he's character was always aggressive." Suki said.

Toph shrugged. And then Katara came over.

"Toph, Suki, would you like to come with me? I'm going to a spa to relax." Katara said.

"Of course! I'd love to. Let me just remove my make-up." Suki said joyfully.

"I can't wait. I'd like to have a foot spa after all that walk I did." Toph looked at her toes.

"Everyone!" Michael, the producer called their attention. "We would like everyone to celebrate this successful day."

"So," Bryan, co-producer, backed him up. "this saturday, we're holding up a celebration to all that has been a part of the show."

"That's great!" Aang came running towards them, feeling high and mighty for he is the main star of the show, "Where will we have it then?"

Michael mentioned a hotel he booked three days ago, a surprise for all the cast and crew.

After a few minutes all the cast were inside the dressing room.

Katara looked at all the people she had worked with. She brushed her long soft hair as she glanced at each one of them.

Suki washed away her white make-up. Toph removed her contacts which made her look blind. Aang brushed the arrows on his body. Mai, Ty Lee, and Azula fixed their selves up. Jet and Sokka compliment their looks on the mirror. And Iroh, too tired from all, sat on a chair as he drank his tea.

Katara made a light smile, the Iroh she knew and the Iroh character were just the same. But, wait- somehow, someone was missing. These words flashed in her mind, but she did not stress herself to think who might that be. She stood up, headed to the door, going to a bathroom.

Suki saw her, not knowing where she will go, so she called, "Katara!"

Katara looked at Suki, but still continued opening the door.

The noisy dressing room became quiet and when they heard a big noise from the door.

Katara was surprised. Zuko was on the floor. Zuko, scar-less, on his feet, yet eyes closed and seeing stars in space.

"Zuko! I- I'm sorry. I didn't see you." Katara held her hands up, about to touch him.

Azula walked towards them, "Oh Zuzu, you've got a boo boo!" Azula's scary voice was gone, it was rather a sweet little voice.

All of them laughed, but Katara tried not to. Zuko smiled at her when he came to.

"It's ok." His amber eyes stared into her blue eyes.

Unable to touch him, she put her hands down. Then he passed her, came inside and sat next to Iroh.

"Gee, I can't wait to celebrate!" Aang cut the silence, almost done with his tattoos. "Why don't we celebrate tonight too?"

Sokka jumped, "Yeah! Why not?" Then he looked at his love partner, Suki.

Suki smiled, "I'm sorry, Sokka, but we also have a celebration to attend, called 'girl's night'."

"Fine, we're also making our own 'boy's night'! You, you, and you! You're coming with me!" Sokka pointed to Aang, Jet and Zuko respectively.

"Where are you guys going?" Ty lee asked, interested.

"We're drinking!" Sokka crossed his arms.

"What?!" Aang and Zuko jumped.

"And how old are you?" Toph leaned on a wall.

"Toph, I'm like seventeen, I've at least aged while doing the show." Sokka said.

"Oh yeah," Katara came back, "Isn't Zuko eighteen now?"

They all looked at her. "What?" she blushed.

"How'd you notice that?" Toph smirked.

Zuko felt awkward, and so remained silent.

"Well, he is the oldest since the show started." Katara looked away.

Toph and Suki glanced at each other and smiled.

Azula sat on the table across Zuko. "Zuzu's blushing."

Zuko leaned back on his chair, "Don't mock me, sister." Outside the show, they're not really related.

Mai, the known as boring Mai put her arms around Sokka and Suki, "If I were you, I'd rather not drink today." and whispered on Sokka's ear, "and post pone that drink on saturday 'cause we're all going to stay over the hotel."

Sokka's eye widened, his mind full of ideas. Then Mai went back to Ty Lee. Suki, on the other hand, was displeased and then looked at Sokka.

The silence was defeaning. Iroh stood up, done with his tea. "Why do all those when it's better to relax somewhere else without our priorities?" the old man smiled.

Sokka jumped "But we have a lot to do! The photo shoots! The interviews! The -"

"I'm game!" Toph said.

"Me too!" The fun Ty Lee will always be the fun Ty Lee.

They all looked at the old man who explained to them that he owned a rest house. Sokka kept giving excuses but the almost all of them wanted to run away from their jobs.

"Does it have a pool?" Suki asked.

"Yes." Iroh smiled.

"Does it have a lot of rooms?" Aang asked.

"Apparently, no. There are only two guest rooms, and each room has one bed, you can share it though."

"Forget it" I'm not a star who's going to sleep on the same bed with other people." Mai snorted.

"But we're not other people, we're friends!" said Ty Lee and gave her a hug, "It's going to be fun."

"Yeah. Let's spend some time together just to relax." Aang said.

"Okay, I want in. Katara? Jet?" Sokka looked at them.

Jet smirked, "Sure, are we going to take Haru, too?"

"Yeah, let's ask him." Sokka said, then looked at Katara, "what about you?"

"Of course." She smiled at him, then looked at Azula who was teasing Zuko.

"Azula. Zuko." Iroh called. "Would you also come?"

Azula jumped to him, "tee hee, sure, 'uncle' Iroh."

Everyone else waited for Zuko to response..."Sure... so when do we do that?"

Author's Note:

(uhm, i just did a few editing that's all)

hey....hi everyone, this is my first fan fiction.. but not really my first story. I did some mistakes but please go easy on me ^_^...

i'm an avid zutara fan like some others...please review, it's just the first chapter, but i promise, the other ones will be better. I just have to stop here..^_^

thanks for reading..^_^

deathangel acey here..