Yo, yo, my friendos! ^_^

After a long and undeserved haitus from Fan Fiction, I've decided to join the cause again.

And before I go on rambling, if any of you actually decide to continue reading, then you are truly the most amazing people ever!

As Always, Enjoy!

TOPH'S P.O.V.

Things have been pretty stale around here ever since we found out about Katara talking to Azula. I haven't exactly been speaking to her and I can tell it's making everything awkward.

"I don't know what to do, Aang," I sigh, flopping face-down on his bed. We've been having these secret meetings at the old mansion, after I'd find my way into his window.

"About?" he asks, twisting a Tootsie roll in half and popping it in his mouth.

"Katara," I groan.

"Still not talking, huh?"

I shake my head violently.

"Well," he begins in his shrink-like tone, "confrontation isn't the answer but maybe just try talking to her."

"I would," I say, "but I'm not really the best at, uh...articulating my feelings."

"Nice vocab."

"Thanks, Twinkles," I say quickly. "But I don't want to say the wrong thing, you know? And I don't want to screw up our friendship. Besides, she's my sister-in-law so, I don't want to mess that up either and-"

"Wait, what?"

"What?" I ask, halting and confused.

"Sister-in-law? What?"

I pine through what I've just said, catching the 'sister-in-law' bit in a delayed-reaction, my hand flying to cover my mouth.

"You didn't hear that," I say bluntly.

"You're getting married?" he shouts unexpectadley.

At his sudden aggressiveness, I recoil.

"I'm your brother and you didn't tell me? Did you just plan on hiding it until it was over with? You don't think I'd want to know something like this?"

I frown. "When would've been the right time, Aang?" I'm doing more harm than good, I know. I'm basically digging my own grave with this one but the wrong words spill out and they don't stop.

His nostrils flare. "Are you kidding me? Anytime would've been nice, Toph."

"Aang," I say calmly. "Calm down."

"Stop," he counters. "Don't...just...just don't tell me what to do right now, Toph. Not right now."

I feel a scowl peel over my face as my own temper flares within. I grab for my boots throwing them on.

"Wait, Toph, where're you going?" he asks as I swing my legs over the now-open window.

"Home," I retort.

"But, you don't know where you're going. You can't feel anything," he says, sounding a little more worried. Good. Let him worry.

"It's not like I've never snuck out before." But before I go, I decide to leave him one last parting word. "I thought you'd be happy for me."

And before he can protest, I drop into the snow, stumbling along the unlit lawn. I slip between a gap in the fence, and fall onto the pavement.

"Fuck," I say, wiping the water that's seeping out of my eyes away. I don't cry. I'm Toph Bei Fong, for shit's sake. I. DON'T. CRY.

But I am crying and I'm unable to help it because everything that's been piling up over the last few days is flowing out like a dam in my head has broken. All of it: getting engaged, my being replaced, Aang and Katara most likely hate me now. I stop walking, my hand thrown out in front of me to find something, anything to grab on to. I want to hit something and this unknowing street sign is my victim as I swing my heavy-duty boots into the spine of it, making it sigh and creak and whine. And I don't realize it but I'm screaming and grunting, letting all the frustration and anger about everything- not just now but before, too, when I first met Sokka and everything beyond that point.

The worst part is, once I've calmed down, I realize two things: I'm lost as fuck. And those aren't birds chirping in the distance.

Those are cops cars.

Paranoia is flooding over me as I take off down the sidewalk. It might not be for me but there's a high likelihood it is for me. Who wouldn't call the cops on a crazy, screaming blind girl who's attacking a street sign?

I don't know where it is I'm running to and I don't care as long as it isn't into the arms of the law.

And suddenly, I'm on the ground, a wave of pain overcoming my freezing body.

And that girlish shriek I hear couldn't have made me more happier. I feel the grin plaster itself on my face as I plunge forward and wrap my arms around the body.

"Sokka!" I shout.

"Toph?" he asks, a little disoriented from my tackle. "Toph!" He bear-hugs me as I bury my face in his shoulder.

"What're you doin' out here?" she asks.

"Aang called me. Said you left on your own. So I came out looking for you," he says.

"I told him we're engaged," I admit.

He hugs me tighter. "I know."

In the shadow of the apartment complex we're sitting in front of, the cop car flies right by us.

Maybe a little early for a freak out, but there's a point to all of this (and I also got all my idears after I worte this and I thought it added to the drama so...) *sweatdrop*

But anyways, I hope you guys liked it. I've noticed there've been less and less Tokka posts and it made me sad. *violin plays*

Until next time (which, I predict, will be very soon)

Peace, L.