Me again!!! Wooh, yeah, it's been awhile for this story, right? I know, cause I've been working on my other ff story after I had complete writer's block for this one. But hey! It must go on, right? Yeah! Lol, okay, I think I'm babbling like I always do, so I'm going to stop and give the important information: I DON'T OWN A:TLA!! And in case you guys were wondering, the lyrics are from a Hey Monday song..."How You Love Me Now" Which I don't own either. boo.

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15. Whirlwind of Confusion

Can't understand?

I'll slow it down for you.

"So...I guess you're our new room-mate now," Aang said, watching as Jet unpacked his luggage on Haru's empty bed.

"I guess I am," Jet replied, unaware to the stares from the rest of the guys in the cabin. Jet stripped off his shirt, grabbing his tank top from his suitcase. He pulled the top over his body, then closed his suitcase and dropped it to the floor next to his bed.

"What's your name again?" Aang asked, as he stroked his hand through Appa's fluffy fur.

"It's Jet," he answered, laying down.

"Oh," Aang said, looking around the room somberly. A silence had occurred, since Aang couldn't think of a better reply, and Sokka didn't even want to talk to the boy, because of his relationship with his sister. And then there was Zuko, who wanted no part of the conversation, judging by the expression on his face.

"Your name is?" Jet asked after a long pause, looking over to Aang on his bunk.

"Oh, I'm Aang," he answered, "And this here is Appa," he introduced his fluffy dog.

"I didn't know we could bring pets here," Jet replied.

"We can't. I just couldn't leave him home alone," Aang said, "By the way, don't tell anyone he's here."

" I won't."

Aang let out a sigh of relief, leaning back on the frame of his bunk bed, holding Appa in his arms.

There was another awkward silence that filled the room. Aang figured it was because of their loss of fellow team member Haru. Maybe that was one of the reasons why Sokka and Zuko wouldn't talk to Jet. It was alot to deal with; Team Kuruk had lost two of its members. But, to top that, there weren't any teams anymore.

It was just...them as individuals.

"You two should stay in their cabin."

"Why us?" Mai asked in her boring voice, once the three girls were secluded in their cabin.

"Yeah, Azula. Why can't we just stay in our regular cabin with you?" Ty Lee added, braiding her ponytail, with her back facing her two friends as she stared into the wall mirror.

"Because, there are only two empty beds in their cabin, and I've got a great idea," Azula said.

"Why does your great idea have to involve us sleeping in the same cabin as that blue-eyed slut and the tomboy?" Mai asked, a little venom in her voice actually making her sound human.

"C'mon, Mai. You only think she's a slut because she stole your boyfriend," Ty Lee snickered from the corner of the room. Azula chuckled.

Mai groaned, rolling her eyes at the two as she tried to change the subject. "So, Azula, what exactly is your plan?"

"Well, it's quite simple, really. All you two have to do is befriend those two Kuruk girls for a little while, get into their heads a little bit. Then, get the information we want, and stab them in the back," Azula smirked.

"What's the info we want?" Ty Lee asked, now half turned towards her friends.

"Do I have to explain everything to you?" Azula started, a scoff apparent on her face, "The information we want, is the information we don't have."

"Are we going back to our soap opera days again, Sugar Queen?"

"Huh?" Katara asked cluelessly, looking up from her place on her bed.

Toph groaned, rolling her eyes as she untied the blue bandanna from across her arm. "Now that that pretty boy ex-boyfriend of yours came back, all you've been doing is sulking around. I thought you moved on to Emo Kid already."

"I don't like Zuko! How many times do I have to repeat that?" Katara snapped, letting go of her grip on her knee-caps .

There was a smirk plastered on Toph's face that Katara couldn't see when she turned to lean on the bed post, "Whatever you say, Sugar Queen. Still, the point is that I'm sick of seeing you lie around lifeless like a lazy bum."

"I'm not," Katara ignorantly protested, "I just...don't want that guy to be back."

The younger teen in the room groaned once again. "GET OVER IT ALREADY!! This is a camp, we're only here for a couple of weeks. Stop taking it so serious. Geesh."

"Ow, Toph!" Katara cried out, when the rock that Toph had launched at her hit the side of her ear. "What...why do you carry rocks around in your pockets?"

"Why not?" Toph countered with a smirk. She jumped up, "You can stay here and be emo if you want, but I'm going to join Twinkle Toes and the rest of the guys outside."

Katara huffed as she watched the cabin door shut behind the younger teen.

"What's up with you?"

"What? What do you mean? I'm...I'm fine," Katara answered rather quickly, stealing glances of Jet across the mess hall, leaning on the wall smirking at the two girls before him.

"You don't have to hide it," Zuko replied, twisting the plastic fork around in between the nooks of his fingers.

Katara avoided looking him straight in his eyes; she was too busy fidgeting around anxiously in her seat.

"I can tell," Zuko added. Katara purposely dropped her spoon on the table.

"Why are we talking about this? I mean, do you really care about me and Jet?" Katara suddenly asked, her mind racing back to the first time he spoke to her---well, the first time he'd yelled at her.

Even though Katara's eyes kept darting around the room, Zuko looked up at her, a sly smirk plastered across his face.

"Hey, we're friends, right? I'm just trying to make you feel better."

There was a moment of silence in between the two. "Alright. Okay, I'm sorry, for snapping on you just now. It's just, he's a jerk! I mean, who does he even think he is? Coming back here and thinking we can just pick up where we left off? What an idiot! And then, he was using me the entire time! I'm not that stupid. Ugh, stupid jerk. I hate him," Katara went off ranting, waving her hands around in the air for emphasis.

"Ignore him," Zuko spoke, then mumbled, "That's what I've been doing."

Why is she so hung up on him? Zuko thought to himself.

Jet is really nothing special; he should know after so long hanging out with the guy. Katara probably doesn't even know that Jet doesn't really have feelings for any girl he's been out with. And Jet's dated alot of girls, even in the time Zuko knew him. Jet strings girls along with no care about how the girl he's dating feels about him. He does that with every attractive girl his eyes meet. Sadly, Zuko knew in his head that to Jet, Katara wasn't any different.

And if he even dared to tell Jet to lay off of her because he holds feelings for her, Jet would only pursue her further and date her right in front of his eyes.

Katara smiled, quirking her eyebrow as she swiftly changed the subject. "What's got you in such a happy mood? You're smiling."

Zuko chuckled, shrugging at his shoulders while he failed to answer her question. All the while the answer to her question floated in his head. You.

"It's kind of weird, seeing you be normal, rather than your regular emo self." Katara spoke, nudging his shoulder with a grin on her face. At least she was smiling, unlike how she looked when she first sat down at the table.

"I thought I was normal before," Zuko hesitantly replied.

"You were-----I mean you are. It's just usually you have a scowl on your face."

Zuko quirked his eyebrow at her.

"You know sis, you're really giving me a headache. One week you're dating that guy over there; the next you're angry at him; and then you've moved on to Zuko here; the next week you're angry at that cocky guy; and now you've seemed to move on to Zuko again. I'm confused as to which one of those boys' asses I should kick," Katara's brother said, his palms laid on the table as he came up to the two teens. Sokka was talking to Katara, but it was Zuko and Jet that his eyes kept glaring at.

"Sokka! Really? This is starting to get annoying---- I'm not dating anyone! I thought we went over this already; you don't have to be so protective!" Katara replied.

"Yeah, I do. I understand you're older now and blah blah and I agreed to back off just a little, but I'm still you're brother and it is my duty to closely examine the boys you take interest in," Sokka said in his regular, overly exaggerated voice.

Katara sighed, "Well you don't have to worry because I hate Jet, and me and Zuko are just friends."

Sokka looked at Zuko, with a I-still-don't-trust you-because there-is-no-way-that-a-boy-and-girl-can-be-just-friends-in-a-guy's-mind-after-they-kisslook on his face. In this case, though, Sokka was right. Zuko had more than friendly thoughts about Sokka's sister, and if it was up to him, they would be more than just two friends.

"What's up with that ponytail guy?"

"Oh, you mean Sokka?" Aang answered, dumping his trash in the bin as he followed Jet outside. "I guess he's given you the 'Stay Away from My Sister' talk, huh?" He chuckled.

Jet heaved a sigh, nodding his head. "It's pretty annoying, and he keeps staring at me with some weird look on his face everytime he sees me."

Aang laughed, "Well you're not the only one he does that too."

"Really?" Jet asked with an eyebrow quirked up.

"Yeah. He's done that to about everything male member of the Kuruk team, including me. But after you left, he focused on Zuko." he replied.

"Zuko?" Jet repeated. Why Zuko? he thought.

"Well Zuko----the boy with the um, scar---- is the other guy who kissed Katara."

Katara kissed Zuko...what the hell?Jet thought. Zuko---the emo dude he used to hang out with---is he the reason why Katara won't speak to him? How could Katara have kissed him? Jet kissed her, and yet Katara can't even look at him. But she still speaks to Zuko. Why is that?

"They're actually gone. I can't believe it."

"Oh quit your grieving, Twinkle Toes. It's not like they died!" Toph exclaimed, punching Aang on his arm as the two walked to the middle of the camp ground together to join the huddled group around the lamp post.

"I know, but still. It feels so empty without them," Aang replied, bending down to retrieve a rock in his hand.

"You'll get over it," Toph said, grabbing the rock from his hand and throwing it out into the forest. Aang stared at her with a blank face, then bent a few inches and gave her a surprise kiss. Toph---yes, Toph----found herself silently blushing after he'd pulled away.

"Ahh, young love. So cute," Sokka sighed dramatically, sitting on the boulder a couple feet away from the lamp post. Most of the people in the group were watching the two teens----but neither one had noticed until Sokka had made his statement. Toph walked over to the older teen and smacked him on the back of the head. "Oh, shut up."

"You've got to stop doing that!" Sokka yelled, rubbing at his brown wolf-tail.

"Yeah, I should. But I won't, so deal with it," Toph answered.

"Wait, Toph, are those Sozingirls moving their things into our cabin?" Katara asks, abruptly changing the topic as she walked over to her room-mate and pointed out the two female figures rolling suitcases into their cabin. Both girls furrowed their eyebrows at the sight. Toph blew her bangs up as she heaved a breath.

"Oh crap," she replied.

"Well, see technically, they aren't Sozin girls anymore, since Kianu told us there's no more teams," Sokka interjected. The two girls decided to ignore Sokka's interruption all together while they continued to watch the other two girls bringing all their belongings into their cabin.

"They're up to something..." Toph concluded.

"Like what?"

"I don't know...it's just not right."

"Ugh, I don't see why we have to do this...why does she get to have her own cabin, and we're stuck living with that slut and her friend?"

"Oh Mai...you're still jealous she stole your boyfriend. I'll admit Zuko is pretty hot, but you're gonna have to get over him sometime. What about that tall cutie who just came back? Jet--I think. He's the only free man, since the curly-haired boy's taken by that short girl, and the guy with the ponytail is all mine," Ty Lee spoke, unpacking her things on one of the beds that looked the least occupied. Mai groaned.

"So, how are we supposed to do this? We can't just start talking to them," she changed the topic, just like she always did when the conversation started to revolve around her relationship with her ex-boyfriend.

"Of course we can!" Ty Lee exclaimed, plopping on her newly claimed bed.

"Wouldn't they suspect something? We're already moving into their cabin suspiciously."

Ty Lee waved her hand, dismissing Mai's comment, "They'll get over that----once we befriend them like Azula said."

Mai groaned again, "I don't want to speak to them."

Ty Lee was already leaning off her bed---of course she claimed a top bunk----her long braid hanging off the edge with her legs wrapped around the bed posts to make sure she wouldn't fall off. "You hardly want to speak at all. Just think, though, it's not for long...just 'till they slip up and tell us whatever Azula thinks is impor-----"

Her statement was cut short when the girls heard the door creak open. She flipped off her bed to stand in front of the two former Kuruk girls. Ty Lee wore an overly cheery expression on her face as she greeted them.

"Hi! We're you're new room-mates."

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