I do not own Avatar (or anything really... im poor)

my first story ive ever written don't kill me i know it sucks but yeah :[

EDIT: 6 years later and ive come back to fix the grammar errors and spacing!(sorry for the pain i've caused!)

Chapter 1: Aang's secret

It was a cold night in the great city of Ba Sing Se, and Aang couldn't sleep. He was looking at the ceiling his eyes wide with thoughts. Everyone was asleep except Momo who was chasing flies around the room. When morning came, Katara was first to notice Aang wasn't in his bed.

"Sokka, Toph?" She exclaimed, "Have you guys seen Aang?"

Toph woke up with her hair going in all directions.

"Uhh...sugar queen, why do you have to wake us up this early? Look for him yourself," she mumbled half asleep.

Sokka was still sound asleep during all the noise oblivious to the missing air bender.

Katara went to search the streets when she saw the familiar arrow on her friends head.

"Aang?" Katara cried out, "what are you doing? Why did you leave the house without telling anyone"

Katara saw the tears in the boys eyes, "Aang..? Is something wrong?"

"It's just...Well it's nothing," he replied sheepishly.

Katara saw something more in his eyes, "Aang is something else bothering you?"

Aang looked at Katara, eyes red and watery, "I wish I could tell you but I can't, I'm sorry Katara...I just want to go home."

Aangs secret was something that had been haunting him his whole life. He thought of it as a curse or a disease. Aang was gay. When they returned to their house, Sokka was just waking up. Aang gazed at him as he got out of bed, putting on pants.

"Um, hi Aang," Sokka looked at him with confusion in his eyes, "is something wrong?"

"Err sorry" Aang ran off red faced thinking about what an idiot he was.

Sokka followed him into the livingroom.

"Aang why did u look at me like that?" His voice rose, "there's something on my face isn't there?! Katara get in here!"

Katara came running in, "what's wrong Sokka?"

"Is there something on my face?" Sokka was acting like a teen on prom night with a blemish.

"There's nothing on your face Sokka calm down" Aang said with his face back to its normal colour.

"Oh thank God," Sokka sighed with relief.

A couple hours later, Katara and Toph went to town looking for supplies for their new house. Aang was playing with Momo, but secretly staring at Sokka trying to get Appa off of his boomerang. Aang giggled, and when Sokka looked over he quickly looked down and pretended he was preoccupied.

His mind was filled with thoughts, "why can't I just get this longing out of my head? I'm cursed to be in love with a gender that will never love me back."

This went threw Aangs mind a lot. He knew that being gay wasn't accepted in the world he lived in.

Aang walked over to to Sokka, "um hey, I have this friend that is different from everyone else and is afraid of what other people think?"

Sokka gave him a stink eye, "Aang, you only have 3 friends, so is it Toph and her blindness, or Katara and her bossiness?"

Aang felt like he was getting nowhere when he decided to just tell Sokka that it was Toph.

"Toph should accept the way she is," Sokka replied, "how about I just talk to her myself?"

Aang's eyes opened wide "um, actually you don't need to do that, I'll tell her myself. She might get mad if she found out I told you she was feeling different"

Sokka shrugged and then went back to getting Appa to cooperate.

Aang sat on his bed deep in thought,"I wish I could be normal like Sokka, he has the easy life."

The girls returned from the market place and asked the boys to help put the stuff away. Sokka walked over with a grunt as he grabbed the groceries.

"Sokka can you come with me to look around the shops?" Aang asked

Sokka dropped the bags he was carrying and hugged Aang for saving him from the hard labour. Aang blushed, his white skin turning a reddish pink as hot blood rushed to his cheeks.

The two were walking until a small girl approached Aang, "you're the avatar right?"

Aang turned a little red as he stretched his arms, "yeah that's me."

He could almost see hearts in the little girl's eyes as they were fixated on his face.

Sokka nudged Aang "you should invite her for dinner, she's cute."

Aang lied and told sokka that he had to practice water bending tonight so he couldn't invite anyone. The little girl was waiting for him to say something when she noticed him looking at Sokka with passion in his eyes.

"Avatar, why are you staring at him like that?" She asked, "do you like him or something?"

Aangs face rapidly turned red. He felt the embarrassment tie knots in his stomach, and hot tears start to collect in his eyes. He scurried back home before it could get any worse.

Sokka walked in the door, mad that Aang ditched him.

"Aang what the hell was that about?" His voice in a half shout.

Aang was helping katara with dinner, "Sokka I had to use the restroom badly, I'm sorry about that."

Sokka was starting to get suspicious, "what's up with that kid today?" He thought as he slowly exited the room.

Hours past and everyone was sleeping except for Aang, he had too many thoughts racing his mind, "should I tell them? No, they won't accept me and I can't lose my friends."

Aang got up to look at Sokka and seen a bulge under Sokka's blanket

."Sokka is a heavy sleeper, I should be able to sneak one little peek."

Just as Aang lifted the blanket he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"What do you think you're doing?". Aang turned around to see Katara in her pajamas looking at Aang with wide eyes.

"Uh katara, I was just seeing if Sokka was sleeping okay," Aang lied.

Katara interrupted, "Aang, I know your body's changing and you have questions, but sneaking up on people to see them sleeping is not the way to find out, trust me. He's a boy he can help you," Katara scolded him in a mother-like tone, "I'll tell Sokka to talk to you about it tomorrow."

Aang was happy she didn't know what he was really doing, and decided to go back to sleep and wait for the morning to come.