…Avatar: Modern Times and Loving Minds…

Chapter One…Airhead

You know how on the first day of boarding school, every treats you like crap and you only got a few friends coming with you? Yeah. That's how it was for a certain boy with an arrow on his head.

"-Yeah Arrowhead! That's what you get when ya' stand up to us!" The bully jeered in Aang's face. A few guys stood next to the bully, and walked away with him. Aang picked up his back-pack and flipped the bully off when his back was turned. He slung the bag over his back and began walking to the door. He looked down at his ripped shoes and muttered a few swears. He walked out the door and rounded the corner to his dorm. He was still looking down and-BAM! He fell on the paved walkway along with the person he just walked into. "I'm really sorry! Let me help you with that…Katara?"

"Hey! What happened to you?! You look awful!" Katara said in a motherly tone. Aang smiled at the opportunity to flirt came along.

"And you're beautiful. Now that we've pointed out the obvious, I thought that you weren't coming!" Katara giggled and helped her friend up.

"Well, I explained a few things to my dad, begged, and promised I wouldn't be out of my room by 10:00. So what happened to you?" Aang explained the whole situation about the bully, and Katara gasped. "You should tell Principal Ozai!"

"No thanks. I wouldn't want to be a snitch on the first day. Just a little pain won't hurt that bad!" Aang chuckled. "Anyway, I've had worst than this. Once fell out of a tree and broke my arm."

"Hope it didn't hurt that much…Aangy!" That's not what she usually what she called him, but every few times she did call him...every since they met…

10 YEARS AGO…

"Now Aang. Don't wander too far from the others!" Gyatso said to the two-year-old Aang. Aang let his eyes wander around the public park and looked at a few of the other Air Nomad orphans.

"Katara, don't wander too far away from us! And please stay close to your brother!" Hakoda said to the two-and-a-half-year-old Katara. Katara nodded and began wandering away from Hakoda and her mother…and of course her brother, Sokka, who happen to be playing with one of the Water-Tribe boys. Aang walked around, sloppily, towards the trees. Katara also walked sloppily towards the trees. They both collided with each other and smiled.

"Hewo! I'm Aang! What you name?" Aang said. Katara smiled.

"I'm Katara! Wanna pway tag?" Aang nodded. "You it!" Katara laughed and picked herself up. She started running away from him, and Aang ran after her. "You can't tatch me! You can't tatch-Umph!" Katara tripped, and turned over to her back.

"Wook out!" Aang tripped and fell on top of her and they both started laughing. "I guess you it!" Just then, he was quickly pushed off someone else. "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Aang hollered as he rolled down the hill.

"Stay away from my sister you freak!" Sokka yelled. Katara glared at him. "Katara are you alright?"

"Daddy!!!!!" Katara cried. Hakoda rushed over to the two sibling now fighting and yelling at each other. "Daddy! Sokka pushed my new fwiend down da hill!" Katara pointed at Aang, who had just rolled himself into the rose bush.

"Sokka! You know better than that!" Hakoda grabbed Sokka's arm and pulled him away from Katara. "Go play tag with your other friends!" Sokka rushed off to his friends while Katara rushed to the rose bush. Katara heard whimpering and wails from the center of the bush. She found Aang in the middle with tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Aangy, are you okay?" Aang shook his head.

"I got a boo-boo by that stupid pricker! And it hurts so bad! I want Gyatso!" Aang wailed. Katara hugged him and rubbed his arm. "It hurts so bad Katawa! It hurts weal bad!"

"Don't wolly Aangy! It'll be awight!" Katara said cheerfully. She kissed his bleeding finger. "All bettah! Wet's go!" They stood up and walked out of the rose bush. Aang stopped crying once they reached the top of the hill.

"Bye-bye Katawa!"

"Bye-bye Aangy!"

END FLASHBACK…

"Aang! Come back to earth! Aang!" Katara snapped her fingers. Aang came back to reality, and smiled. "So do you want to come my room or not?" Aang nodded. "Then follow me Airhead!" They walked side-by-side to the Water Dorm. The dorm was huge, filled with people.

"This is your dorm?! Mine is like One-Hundredth of this!" Aang whispered. Katara smiled and nodded. She fished a key out of her pocket and put it in the slot to one of the doors. The door opened with a 'click' and it felt like paradise to Aang. "THIS is your room?! This is like-"

"Yeah I know it's big. It's just that my dad knows a few people who work here so me and Sokka got this room…" The room had a Mac Laptop, a TV, a radio, an iPod charger, and two twin-sized beds. "…And so here we are!"

"What I wouldn't give to have this room! I guess you have an iPod!" Katara nodded.

"Wanna listen?" Aang couldn't nod any faster. She walked over to the iPod Charger and unplugged it. She stuck one earphone in his ear and the other in hers. The music started to play softly.

"…She loves you, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!..." Katara blushed and quickly changed the song. "…Accidentally in Looooove, Accidentally in Love… " She blushed harder and changed the song again. "It's love, It's love that's Bigger than Us! It's love, It's love, that's Bigger than Us!..." Katara quickly turned off the iPod entirely and put it under her pillow. Aang was sort of blushing, and Katara was blushing furiously.

"May-be I should go…See you tomorrow!" Aang backed up to the doorway and shut it.

"You idiot! You idiot!" Katara picked up a pillow and slammed it in her face. "You just ruined another chance with Aang!" She screamed, muffled by her pillow.

THE NEXT DAY…

The alarm clock began to ring in Aang's room. His hand darted out from the covers and hit the 'Snooze' button. He poked out his head out from under the covers and read the clock.

"8:20?! Class starts in 10 minutes!" Aang hopped out of his bed and grabbed his clothes. He slipped on his pants and pulled his shirt on. He ran to the bathroom and brushed his teeth. He took his razor and started shaving off the little bristles of hair on his head. He ran out the door and checked his watch. 8:25. He ran faster towards the school. He reached the classroom with only 20 seconds to spare. He sat down next to Katara, panting.

"Nice move Airhead! You were almost late!" Katara whispered. Aang barely smiled and sighed. A white haired, bearded man walked into the classroom and stood in front of the class.

"Good morning class. Today we are going to talk about the Grand Canyon," Professor Roku began. "Now, the Grand Canyon was created by…"

ONE HOUR AND ONE LESSON LATER…

"Aang! I need to show you something!" Katara said. Aang followed the girl outside the school building. They went under the bleachers and sat down on the grass. "Look over there!" Katara pointed over to were the Emos and the Goths hung out. Zuko, with his odd, red birthmark on his left cheek hung out with the other emos. Mai, with her interest in very sharp things hung out with the other goths. "Look at Mai and Zuko! They're looking at each other! Wouldn't they make a cute couple?"

"I know two people who would make a better couple," Aang muttered looking at her. "Well, I have to admit, an Emo and a Goth would make an okay couple." If the world doesn't end.

"Well, know that we've had our daily dose of spying, let's go hurry to gym!" Katara whispered. Katara grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the Recreational Hall. The hall was large with huge lights and scoreboard. Other kids sat on the indoor bleachers and chatted with each other. The nerds with the nerds, the rich kids with the rich kids, the punks with the punks, and the skater dudes with the skater dudes.

"Yo Aang! Come over here!" Sokka hollered. Aang walked over to Sokka sitting on the top bleachers. "Yeah, why do you keep hanging out with my sister? When I got to our room and Katara kept muttering about messing up something with you."

"We just hung out a little, nothing big. We just listened to a few songs…Which happened to have something to do with love…and then I left." Sokka frowned.

"Just stay away from my sister, and nothing bad is going to happen to you," Sokka threatened. Aang backed away and knocked into Katara. They both fell to the floor on top of each other. Every eye in the room turned to them…until they turned to the gym doors, which had just opened. Azula. And of course, her gang. Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai, who they had just spied on. Ty Lee was the head of the gymnastics team, and Azula was just pure evil. You know the gothic story about Mai.

"Hey look. It's the Water Peasant and the Airhead Orphan. I always knew they would be touching each other in a few days." The entire gym was filled with laughter. Taunting laughter.

"Shut up you spoiled brat!" Katara yelled back without thinking. Everyone gasped and then began to snicker. Azula smirked.

"Do you really think I care if I'm insulted by an ugly little whelp of fat that makes her boyfriend look like a wimp by standing up for him?" Azula snickered. Katara bit her lip hard to hold back tears. She just simply walked off to the bathroom. Luckily, it was a Unisex bathroom with only stalls so Aang hurried after her.

"Katara! Are you okay? Katara? You're not letting stupid Azula's words get to you. I mean, you're not fat, not ugly, and you don't make me look like a wimp! You're beautiful, you're skinny, and you're my best friend. Katara?" He looked around with no one to be found. One stall burst open and Katara hugged Aang. She buried her head in his shoulder, her tears rolling off her cheeks onto his shirt. She sniffled and buried her head harder into his shoulder.

"Never go away Airhead. You're the only thing that made me come here!" Katara yelped.

"I love you."

"What was that?" Katara asked. She smiled and looked at him straight in the eyes.

"Nothing. But just remember, I'll never leave you…Well maybe in about 80 years." The two held each other tight in the Unisex Bathroom, for what seem like hours.