Sorry, sorry, SORRY for not uploading for such a long time! I somehow wasn't in the mood for this... But now, I am. I hope you'll still enjoy this story! Reviews are always welcome! ^_-

I love the part with Iroh at the end. He's such a wise cutie^^ I love his sentence in this chapter.

Oh, and I didn't add something by Sixpence None The Richer this time.

I do not own Avatar - The Last Airbender

- -Day 2- -

It was early morning when Aang woke up. He opened his eyes, stretched and yawned delightfully. He then recognized where he was. The green sofa under him, his body wrapped up in a thin blanket, in the main room of Iroh's tea shop. The remembrance of yesterday's events came back to him in few seconds and now he sat there, smiling.

"I hope she isn't mad at me for drifting off to sleep so fast..." he murmured and stood up. The sun already shined and he could hear some birds singing their sweet melodies outside and it could've been an easy morning. But there was something that made this morning different.

Katara was his girlfriend now.

They were in a relationship. He was her boyfriend, they were together. How nice that sounded.

Would it be much different from being friends? Would they do stuff like kissing, holding hands and whispering lovey-dovey things? Or just... simply be together?

Aang couldn't wait to see her beautiful face, to kiss her and say good morning, to hug her and eat breakfast with her, to look at her without being worried she could catch him, to give her compliments and get a kiss on the cheek from her, to be with her.

He wasn't quite sure if their relationship would be like this and he honestly couldn't tell because he never had a girlfriend and he knew that she never had a boyfriend. So he waited for her to get up, for anyone to get up, but no one showed up in the door. Suddenly, he noticed the cup of tea next to the sofa. Someone must have forgotten it. But strangely, the cup was full. He picked it up; it was cold, so he tipped it away and went outside to greet the sun. He blushed a bit as he remembered the last sunset - with Katara. Her kiss was still burning on his lips and suddenly he felt very dizzy.

His feet moved back inside where he sat down again. Sighing, he took place on one of the tables and played with his fingers. The table was dark brown and his skin was pale. It looked like his fingers on her skin.

"Good morning, Aang" a voice suddenly said. Aang knew this voice, he had waited for this voice and he loved this voice. Quickly, he stood up to see his girlfriend.

Katara wore that green Earthkingdom dress from yesterday. Her hair was already combed and she smiled.

"Hi, Katara", was the only thing Aang could stammer. "Y-you look beautiful."

She giggled and hugged him. Her hands made their way down on his back and he buried his face in between her neck and shoulder. "Thanks, my love. How did you sleep?"

"Great. What about you?"

"Best night of my life so far".

Aang blushed. She just smiled and let go of him. "So, are we the only ones here?"

Aang nodded.

"Are you hungry?"

"Not really. You?"

"Nope."

And somehow both landed outside. Maybe it was just an impulse, maybe not. The waterbender leaned herself against the balcony and looked over Ba Sing Se's houses.

"Katara?", Aang murmured shyly.

"Yes, Aang?"

"We are together now, aren't we?"

Katara laughed at this. "What do you think? ...Don't you want us to be together?" She frowned at this and Aang didn't know if she did it because of the sun or his question.

"Of course I want!"

"Me, too. So please, don't worry."

He nodded. "I think it's good that we've talked about this a bit now. Yesterday, we didn't really do..."

"I guess that's the bad thing about becoming a couple in the evening," she joked and he laughed. Katara regarded him while he did -she loved seeing him so happy, it made her feel warm inside and her heart fluttered. Suddenly, she wanted to kiss him badly.

"Twinkle toes, please not another making-out session!" They turned around and saw Toph standing at the entrance. "Are you coming? Iroh made some breakfast."

"Yeah, we're coming!"

Everyone enjoyed the breakfast. Mai was the only one who didn't talk. Zuko knew that she didn't really like his new friends; she only chatted with Suki, they seemed to have a bit fun, at least because Katara seemed to be in pain. She covered it up so no one noticed. Even not Aang or her brother.

After breakfast, Sokka and Zuko wanted to go for a walk through Ba Sing Se. Suki, Mai, Toph and Iroh stayed in the tea shop for playing pai sho and talking. The friends still needed a new home for a while. Katara disappeared into the storage room and Aang sat around and didn't know what to do. He had wanted to ask Katara for something to do with him, like going for a walk or a picnic on one of Ba Sing Se's hills. She said she'd love to, but she had stuff to do. The day had started as a great day! And now...? It could become the worst day ever. Or something like that.

He sighed. That was not the way he imagined their first day as a couple. Maybe he should go to her and just take her with him... Would she be angry? Actually, he had nohing to lose. No, that wasn't right: he had much to lose because he was in a relationship now. On the other hand, Katara wouldn't react this way... would she? He remembered the night on Ember Island and frowned.

Perhaps the best was just to wait for her to come to him.

He wouldn't put any pressure on her ever again.

Katara was sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall. Her head felt heavy. Her legs felt heavy. Her hands felt heavy. So she stayed how she was. She knew that her boyfriend waited for her but she couldn't go to him right now. She needed time to think. She'd like to spend some moments and hugs with him though.

"Hey, Aang, why are you taking a nap on the floor?"

Aang suddenly opened his eyes and looked into Sokka's. The older boy stared down to him. Aang saw their friends standing in the background, regarding them.

"Sokka, I'm not taking a nap. I only closed my eyes."

"But you were lying on the floor."

"Only resting my legs."

"I understand! You're taking an Avatar nap!" he said and started to laugh wildly. "Hahaha, an Avatar nap!!! Too good!". He put his hand on his stomach as if it'd hurt because the joke was so funny. "Hahaha, it's still too good!"

The other ones rolled their eyes. "Sokka, this joke isn't funny" Suki said. "It isn't even a real joke" Zuko added. The watertribe boy looked at them with a "I'm-so-disappointed-of-you-you-are-my-friends-but-now-I-should-say-you-were-my-friends" look. "Anyway, Aang, what were you doing there? Aren't you supposed to do lovey-dovey things with Katara?"

The Avatar looked away. He didn't really want to tell them about this rocky start of their relationship so he kept his mouth shout and then said, "she has some things to do. You know, waterbending stuff".

Toph and Zuko raised their eyebrows. "Waterbending stuff? Few hours ago, I thought she wanted to...-" "She has a lot of things on her mind, okay?" Aang shouted.

Silence.

"...I-I'm sorry... It's ju-" he stammered desperetaley, recognizing his mistake.

"Go to her." Iroh said and smiled. "I'm sure there's no other person she likes to see more than you. And if she has a lot of things on her mind perhaps she wants to share them with her boyfriend, right?"

Aang smiled a bit, too. "Thanks, Iroh." He bowed to his friend's uncle and disappeared into the storage room.

"Iroh, you should open a dating agency."

"Oh Sokka..."

Katara heard someone knocking at the door. "Come in!" The door opened and the young Avatar entered. Her eyes fell away.

"Hey, Katara... I wanted to drop by and see what you're doing..." he stuttered. She blushed. 'Seeing what she was doing'... She did nothing. She sat against the wall and did nothing.

"Katara... please, look at me..."

"Aang, I..."

"Please". His voice was shaky and sad. "What has changed? In the morning, we were both so happy and...in love, and now you're hiding yourself in this room and avoiding me? It's like we had a fight or so. But we didn't, right?"

Yeah, my friends, a little CLIFFHANGER!!!! But to be honest, we all know the answer, right? Look into your Kataang soul and you'll know it.

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