Prom Night for Katara (Original link)

Author: Lady_mage
Rating: K
Characters: Katara
Genre: Angst

Katara sighed as she rest her chin on her hand as she watched the people in the center of the gym dance to music for a DJ. It was prom and she was sulking at a corner table, dressed in a simple but pretty floor length prom dress, her “date” Haru was off talking to some of their fellow classmates, which she didn’t mind for they had a agreed to go together as friends.

    Katara wasn’t really into the prom scene but everyone had convinced her to go anyways and it started out being fun but as the night progressed it became over rated. Everyone she knew was doing something; Sokka was practically groping his girlfriend, Suki, on the dance floor. Aang, who was covering the prom for the school newspaper (for an underclassmen he had a lot of talent when it came to reporting and writing) and Toph, his date was always close by. Even Jet was dancing with Azula no less. And here she was in the corner doing absolutely nothing.

    To help ignore the lovely dovey couple she let her mind wonder a bit to Zuko. She hadn’t seen or heard from him since the beginning of high school and she had to wonder what prom would like with him here. “Probably sitting right next to me” Katara snickered to herself.

   “I would probably be his date too, knowing him he’d been to nervous to ask anyone else.” She though, thou she won’t have minded.  She smiled at the memory of a small shy Zuko in his stupid red shirt her never seemed to change. She could imagine a taller, little older Zuko dressing in a tux picking her up at her house, blushing feverously when he saw her in her dress, giving a mink “you look nice” then offering her the corsage. They would probably dance, get pictures but for the most part sit in the corner and talk/watch.

    Giggling to herself Katara couldn’t help be feel her mood change for the better and the couples didn’t looks so grossly cute anymore. She’d have to see if she could get Azula to give her, her uncle address so she could write Zuko or possible visit him. “Its been to long…” she though with a smile “I wonder if he still likes Twinkies.”