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Post by belated valentine on Jan 22, 2011 14:24:08 GMT -5
Aang handed the second one to her as they made their way to the register. The person working there rung up the object and placed it in a bag. "That'll be 250 dollars and 76 cents, please." She said, handing the bag over. After Toph paid for it, he followed her out of the store. "I'll pay you back." He said, looking down at her. "I need a job first though, and I hear they're hiring at the toy store downtown. I could look later." He said. He did need a job to start paying off his school tuition. Going to school at A-Star cost a decent amount of money, all of which he hadn't even paid back yet.
He looked around the mall. "Okay so what do you want to do now?" He asked. "What's the first step in winning Katara over?" He asked.
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 1:17:28 GMT -5
Toph put her debit card in her wallet and stuffed it back into her pocket. "Don't worry about it, Twinkle Toes. It was my idea and I don't mind paying for it. That just means that when we're done, it's mine." She grinned at him and started to walk with him. Pulling the box from the bag, she opened it and ran her hands over the plastic and took out the microphone and tossed him the ear piece. "Let's test this out." She said, turning it on and putting the battery inside of it.
"Make sure that it's hooked up the right way." Saying that she couldn't tell that it would work properly would be a hit to her pride, so she just made it his responsibility.
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 14:43:57 GMT -5
Aang read the instructions on the back, sitting down on a bench next to one of the stores. He opened the box and examined the pieces within. He set them the way the instructions said to and handed her one to put in her ear. He also handed her a small microphone that could be attached her to her clothing. "There's a little remote that comes with each." He handed her one and then realized she couldn't see what the buttons said, so he placed his hand over hers, guiding her finger to the first button. "This one turns the device on." He moved to the next. "This one here turns down the volume, the one right beside it turns it up. And..this one turns up the sensitivity of the mic." He said, smiling.
"Now let's test it out." He said, placing a mic on his shirt and the ear piece in his ear. He adjusted it and put the remote in his pocket. "Alright, I'm going to move back some and you start speaking."
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 14:53:07 GMT -5
Toph listened to him read the instructions and memorized most of the important details. When he handed her the remove, it wasn't hard for her to memorize all the buttons. "Thank you." She added, smiling. She turned the on button, which was the largest one. "Alright, I'll be right back." She'd be able to hear him if she stayed too close. She adjusted the volume of the microphone and ear piece as she walked off. She made sure the microphone was higher than the one in her ear.
Leaning against the wall a distance from Aang, she leaned against the wall. "Okay Twinkle toes, can you hear me?" She asked, speaking normally. She slid the remove into the pocket of her jacket.
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 15:19:42 GMT -5
An unrecognizable choking sound erupted from Toph's earpiece as Aang realized he'd forgotten to turn the volume down and nearly screamed. He tore the object from his head, an obnoxious ringing overtaking his ear. "God.." He pushed it into the ear that wasn't ringing, turning the sound down some this time. Why did these things come turned up all the way anyway? "Y-Yeah, I hear you. Loud and clear. What about you?" He asked, ignoring the glances from the people as they passed him. Instead, he leaned back against a wall and pulled his hood up and onto his head, not wanting to be recognized by anyone.
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 15:25:45 GMT -5
Toph smiled when he started to freak out and lowered the volume. "I hear you. They come with the volume all the way up to make people look like idiots and out them before they try to become spies." She teased, moving her feet. She pulled up her hood and grinned. Okay, well that worked out just fine. "I sense Katara is coming toward you with a group of her friends. Avoid them. Come towards..." She stopped because Katara had noticed Aang and was moving towards him. Shit.
She was carrying a bag, from what Toph could sense. "Where did she buy something from..." Toph asked Aang, knowing he couldn't really answer her without looking stupid. Then again, if he could answer her while talking to Katara. "Tell her that her hair looks nice." She'd spent twenty minutes complaining to her how long it had taken to do this morning.
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 15:48:31 GMT -5
Aang stumbled to his feet when Toph mentioned that Katara was on her way over. He tried to shuffle away but she had already called out to him, so he turned around and straightened himself up. "H-Hey, Katara." He said. His grey eyes flickered to her bag and he read the label quickly, blurting something out before he had the chance to process it. "I see you got something from Victoria's Secret, I bet that will look nice. WAIT! I-I didn't mean it like that! I mean um...your hair looks nice, it's very um...hairy?"
Katara stopped, her face contorting. "Um, alright? Thanks, I guess." She said, glancing down at her bag before she looked back at him. "Maybe we should just hang out later, I need to get some more shopping done."
"NO!"
Katara stopped. "What? You're being weird, I don't want to be around you i you're gong to act like that."
Aang rubbed the back of his head. "J-Just wait for a bit, okay? I just um...saw Sokka dance so I'm still recovering."
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 15:53:08 GMT -5
Toph couldn't really help Aang on what to say considering she was laughing too hard. After she recovered, and was able to speak, she let out a sigh. "W-Wow.. that was so bad..." She muttered to him. "O-Okay... you're an.. idiot." She rested a hand on her chest to try to stop laughing, but it was so hard. He was so awkward. "From now on, you're going to have to say exactly what I tell you."
She looked around and walked down the mall in the opposite direction. "Say: 'Sorry about that. He was walking down the mall trying to jerk, it was frightening, someone ended up pushing him into the fountain.'" She said slowly and clearly so he could repeat it. " 'I can help you go shopping later, I just have to get a few things for my dorm. Do you want me to meet you when I'm done?'"
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 17:41:36 GMT -5
Aang sighed as she laughed at him, trying not show the sudden shift in his mood. He tried to repeat what she told him almost exactly, having to pause in between words to remember exactly what she'd said, making it seem even more awkward.
Katara raised an eyebrow. "Why would you want to help me shop for clothes? You're a guy." She said, blinking. "Anyway. Just go get whatever you need, I'm going to finish up my shopping too and we can meet in front of the mall when we're done. Sokka's getting a ride from a friend to the beach, and I told him we'd show up too. If Toph is still around, I'll give her a ride too."
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 17:49:34 GMT -5
Toph sighed. Well, they'd definitely had to work on his awkward inability to repeat what he hears. Then again, all Toph had to go on was words so she could naturally remember things she heard better. When Katara walked off, Toph met up with him and slapped him on the back. "I'm sorry." She said, sighing, rubbing the back of her neck. "I sort of figured you'd be better at repeating my instructions." She pulled her hood down. "We'll just work on it before we go to the beach."
Taking his wrist, she turned off the communication with her remote and lead him down the walkway. "Okay, so I need to think..." She said as they walked. "Let's go pick up something for your dorm so she didn't think you were lying. Surely you need something?"
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 18:07:20 GMT -5
Aang sighed. "I completely messed that up, didn't I? She wasn't impressed at all, I think she actually thought I was being creepy." He said, walking off with her. He took the ear piece from his ear and dropped it back into his pocket, upset. When she brought up going to one of the stores, he shrugged. "I guess I could pick up a lamp or something." He said, though he really wasn't all that interested in home decor or having to shop for it.
"So do you think you could fix this? I mean, what I did. This is actually a lot harder than I thought it would be." He said, putting his hands into his hoodie pockets.
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 18:14:01 GMT -5
Toph nodded, as they walked. "If you don't need anything I could get something and then just make you carry it, then pick it up from your dorm later." She said, rubbing her eyes. "Well, I think what we should start with is you repeating what I say." She trailed off, pulling the ear piece out. "We should most likely wire my microphone under my shirt so she doesn't see it." She added with a sigh. This was a pain in the ass, she wasn't sure what to do about it right now.
"For tonight, you shouldn't really try being alone with her until we can get this." She pulled the microphone off and put it back into her hoodie. Well this was going to be much more of a challenge, which she welcomed. This was something she could easily accept as her pet project to prove her epicness.
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 19:12:02 GMT -5
Aang nodded. "Sure, just don't buy a pink pillow or something, I don't want her to think that I'm into men." He said. He listened to her talk, sighing lightly. "Yeah I suppose you're right. I think I made enough of an impression that she won't need to talk to me for awhile. I just hope the next time I can do a little better. I don't know, I just get nervous around her and then I forget things and I make stupid mistakes." He said, recalling the Victoria's Secret incident. A shiver ran over his body as he did so.
He walked into the home decor store, looking around. "Okay, let's see.."
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Post by Fateful on Jan 23, 2011 21:32:35 GMT -5
Toph started laughing. "Well I won't buy a pink pillow unless you let me. Keep in mind, I can't see." She knocked on his forehead teasingly. They walked off and she tried to think of something she could buy that Aang could carry and she could go get him. As they walked, she wondered how this was going to work out. She needed to talk to Katara about what she wanted in a boyfriend. Maybe she could do it to ask for advice? Yeah, then she'd have to suffer through Katara's voice and having to deal with her. "Okay, what do you think I should buy? I honestly have no idea what to buy that I can use..." She glanced up at him.
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Post by belated valentine on Jan 23, 2011 23:29:22 GMT -5
Aang looked around, pursing his lips. There was a calender, but Toph didn't need one of those. There was also a lamp, but he realized how unnecessary that was as well. A clock was equally as useless. He sighed and continued to look around. "How about a blanket? Or a rug?" He asked, poking through a few things. He found a green blanket and pressed his fingers into it, surprised by how soft it was. "Hey, this is cool. You should get it. I bet it's really warm." He said, holding it out for her to touch. "And it's your color too."
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