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Azula, Mai and Ty Lee were perusing the drug store candy aisle after school at the start of the first weekend of winter break, a weekend they planned to spend lazing around, watching endless movies, and gorging themselves on sugar and snacks.
They had Azula’s house to themselves as Zuko and his friends were going on vacation to some sort of ancient ruins.
Ty Lee wrapped herself tightly around Azula’s arm as her girlfriend tried in vain to pry her off.
“Your own two legs aren’t good enough for you? Do you need my support too,” Azula snapped in frustration, in a tone that could make grown men cower.
Ty Lee just giggled.
“Are you saying you’re too weak to support me,” Ty Lee said playfully.
Azula rolled her eyes.
“You can’t bait me into holding you up. I will count down from five and you better be on your own feet or else you’ll regret it,” Azula said.
Mai thought the threat was a bit much but Ty Lee just narrowed her eyes and stared at Azula.
“Five,” she said slowly. Ty Lee held tight.
“Four.” Ty Lee raised an eyebrow.
“Three,” Azula said, leaning into Ty Lee’s ear.
“Don’t be a brat,” she whispered.
Mai didn’t hear what she said but she noticed that Ty Lee looked less assured in her stance.
“Two,” Azula said. “One.”
Ty Lee let go of Azula’s arm and stood up straight.
Azula smiled and brushed Ty Lee’s hair back from her shoulder and leaned into her ear again.
“Very good girl,” she whispered, kissing her neck.
Ty Lee blushed as she felt butterflies in her chest and stomach.
As she leaned away Azula trailed her fingers along Ty Lee’s necklace which had a rose gold chain and was as pristine as they day she’d gotten it for her. She stopped when her hand was lifting the necklace in front of Ty Lee’s face and she pulled her in gently for a kiss.
Mai groaned.
Azula released Ty Lee, grabbed peanut butter cups and tossed them in the basket as if nothing happened. She began to continue walking down the aisle before realizing Ty Lee wasn’t next to her anymore.
She turned back and looked at the girl who was just watching her. Azula tilted her head to the side and Ty Lee mimicked her.
Azula smirked. Ty Lee smirked. Azula took a step forward. Ty Lee did the same.
“If I’m such a good girl maybe I deserve a real treat,” Ty Lee said.
Mai’s eyes widened and she looked around but they were the only customers in the store.
“I don’t think that’s how it works,” Azula said. “You’re a good girl and then I decided when and if you get what treat.”
“Can you two go three days without making everything about sex,” Mai deadpanned. “Just a solid weekend without being disgusting.”
“No,” both of them said.
“If you do I will genuinely...”
Azula turned her attention to Mai.
“You will genuinely do what?”
“I don’t know. I can’t even offer to buy you off, because what is money to you,” she sighed. “As you were, I guess,” she said waving her hand dismissively.
Ty Lee bounced over to Azula quickly and pulled her head towards her to whisper in her ear.
As she talked, Azula’s eyes sparkled and she nodded, her mouth widening into a wicked smile.
Wrapping her arm around Ty Lee’s waist, which the acrobat looked very pleased about, she stalked towards Mai.
“How willing are you to put your money where your mouth is,” Azula challenged.
“Extremely,” Mai said.
“I believe we may be able to strike a deal then,” Azula said.
Rapidly, thoughts flew across Mai’s mind. What could Ty Lee have thought of that would make Azula so sinisterly excited.
“What deal,” Mai asked, crossing her arms.
“Well,” Ty Lee said, but Azula dug her fingers into her side.
“Not here,” she said, cutting her off. “Let’s discuss at my house.”
Ty Lee nodded and looked at Azula as if she expected something.
Azula rolled her eyes.
“I’m not going to compliment you for the bare minimum of human courtesy or for the idea,” Azula said. “I probably shouldn’t have even complimented you before if I knew it would go to your head this much.”
“But you did,” Ty Lee said with a smile, poking Azula’s stomach. “Because, you’re a secret softie.”
Azula growled and smacked her hand away.
“Not here,” she said.
Ty Lee poked her again, trying to tickle her.
Azula grabbed her wrist and tossed it away.
“Now you’re in trouble,” she said.
Ty Lee giggled.
“No,” she said, darkly. “Real trouble.”
Ty Lee’s grin faded and she got quiet.
“That’s what I thought,” Azula said.
Mai was about to turn around and leave the aisle from the other end but luckily for her the bell over the door jingled, indicated someone else had entered.
“Oh thank Agni,” she whispered when Azula and Ty Lee noticed that they were no longer alone.
Azula stalked towards the cash register with their chips and candy and paid while Ty Lee and Mai waited by the door.
“Did she seem really mad or just joking mad at the end there,” Ty Lee whispered.
“Your dynamic is too fucked up for me to comment,” Mai said back.
“Let’s go,” Azula said as she brushed out of the store with two shopping bags.
Mai and Ty Lee followed her to her car.
Ty Lee started to get in the passenger seat before Azula stopped her.
“You can’t sit in the front,” she said, refusing to unlock the door.
“Why not,” Ty Lee whined. “I always sit in the front!”
“You’re being punished,” Azula replied.
“I don’t deserve this,” Ty Lee huffed, moving to the back.
“Does that mean I can sit shotgun and aux,” Mai asked.
“Feel free,” Azula said, finally unlocking the doors and getting in the car.
Mai slid into the front as Ty Lee crossed her arms and huffed again in the back seat.
Plugging in her phone, Mai started up her pop punk playlist. Azula turned it up, drowning out Ty Lee’s angry sighs, and began singing along with Mai.
When they got to Azula’s house Ty Lee jumped out of the car and tentatively walked up to her girlfriend.
“Is my punishment over,” she asked.
Azula exhaled and smirked. She brushed a hand over Ty Lee’s head and pulled her into her side for a hug, kissing the top of her head, causing Ty Lee to grin happily.
“You know I can’t stay mad at you,” she said. “You have to watch how you act in public though,” she warned. “Keep it more appropriate.”
Ty Lee nodded.
Azula unlocked the door and the three girls entered the house.
She brought the goodies to the kitchen and dropped them on the table.
“Ty, get a piece of paper and a pen and come here,” Azula said, kissing Ty Lee’s cheek.
Ty Lee hurried off to get what she asked.
Mai sat down at the dining room table next to Azula as they waited for the acrobat to return.
“What’s going on,” she asked.
“You’ll see,” Azula said, the sparkle returning to her eyes.
Ty Lee came back with a sheet of paper and a pen.
She stood and looked at the table, specifically at her girlfriend.
“Can I help you,” Azula asked, feigning like she didn’t know exactly what Ty Lee wanted.
“There’s nowhere to sit,” she said.
“Actually there are four other completely empty chairs,” Mai pointed out.
“Like I said, nowhere to sit,” Ty Lee repeated.
Azula chuckled and slid back, allowing Ty Lee to sit across her lap.
She wrapped one of her arms around her waist, hugged her close, and kissed her head.
Ty Lee turned her face towards Azula and kissed her lips.
“Gotta get a proper one,” she whispered.
Picking up the pen, Azula wrote the date at the top of the paper.
“Okay so, you would like us to refrain from, what exactly?” Azula asked Mai.
“Inappropriate touching, overly public displays of affection, overall gross stuff,” Mai said, counting on her fingers.
Azula jotted down everything that she said, leaving a few inches of empty space at the top of the paper.
“You need to be more specific. There are some large loopholes,” Ty Lee said.
“Before I continue, what am I signing away,” Mai asked.
“Well, you’re eighteen,” Ty Lee said.
“This is true,” Mai agreed.
“Me and ‘Zula are only seventeen,” she continued, nuzzling into her girlfriend.
“So far I’m with you.”
“To go into the sex store on main street you need to be eighteen,” Azula said bluntly, cutting to the chase.
Mai visibly cringed.
“No, no way,” she said, leaning back.
“We are willing to forgo all the things that make you uncomfortable, starting from the moment we sign this for 72 hours,” Azula said.
Ty Lee did some quick math on her fingers.
“Until Monday afternoon,” she clarified.
“I got that,” Mai said.
“Smart girl,” Azula said, kissing Ty Lee on the cheek.
Ty Lee smiled and turned her head to kiss her on the lips again.
Azula brought her hand up to hold Ty Lee’s skull and pull her closer for another kiss, and then another.
“Okay, put that on the list too,” Mai said, causing her friends to separate themselves.
Azula raised an eyebrow.
“We haven’t told you what you would have to buy for us,” she said.
“I don’t care. If I can get three days without you calling her “something girl” or sitting on each other sucking your faces off I’ll do it.”
Azula jotted the two new points down on the paper.
“For the sake of this negotiation I will still give you all of the facts,” Azula said.
“Why are you being so weirdly formal,” Mai asked.
“Business ‘Zula is hot,” Ty Lee said.
“Put that on your list. No hot, no cute, no baby,” she said.
“We don’t call each other baby,” Azula said, writing it down anyway.
“Wait ‘Zula wh-”
Ty Lee was cut off by Azula pinching her leg, hard.
Mai rolled her eyes.
“Okay, back to what I was saying,” Azula said. “Inside of that store is a fabulous eight inch, harness compatible, vibrating, pink dildo.”
Whatever Mai had been expecting, that wasn’t it. She turned more pale than she usually was and retched. She got up and walked quickly to the fridge and got herself a can of seltzer.
She popped it open and took a long drink. She walked back and sat down only for Azula and Ty Lee to exchange a conspiratorial glance.
She got up again and rubbed her face with her hand.
“Agni,” she said.
“Look how uncomfortable she is ‘Zula,” Ty Lee giggled.
Azula smirked and rubbed Ty Lee’s leg. Then she started writing in the blank space at the top of the page.
After a few minutes of deep breathing Mai sat down and saw that Azula had written “In exchange for purchasing them a new strap accessory Azula and Ty Lee will forego:” on the paper.
“Why can’t you just buy that on the internet and pretend you are 18,” she asked.
“Would if we could,” Azula said. “We can’t find it.”
“Not for lack of trying,” Ty Lee added.
“It just doesn’t seem to exist outside of that store,” Azula finished.
“Don’t you know any other adults?”
“I can’t ask Zuko,” Azula said, counting off on her hand, “because he might pass out if I asked. I can’t ask my uncle because then I would pass out, and also die.”
“We can’t ask my sisters because the two older ones went off to live as Air Acolytes and the younger ones can’t help,” Ty Lee added. “We can’t ask my parents because, well, they are my parents.”
“Bringing us back to you,” Azula said, pointing her pen at Mai. “Our dearest and closest friend.”
She said it with sarcasm but it was the truth. Outside of each other, there was no one that Azula or Ty Lee were closer with than Mai.
“Okay, then I’m ramping up the challenge,” Mai said.
“Fine,” Azula said nodding.
“No kissing in general,” Mai said. Azula wrote it down.
“That includes on the cheek and the lips as well as anywhere else on the body,” she added.
Ty Lee pouted.
Azula kissed her on her puffed out lips causing the smile to return.
Mai rolled her eyes.
“I have to get them in while I still can,” Azula said.
“What about when Mai isn't looking,” Ty Lee asked.
“We will honor this agreement Ty,” Azula said. “A challenge is a challenge.”
“Write down no kisses good morning, good night, good girl, whatever…” Mai said, looking at the paper. Azula copied dutifully.
“Anything else,” Azula asked.
“I want to specify inappropriate touching to include hugging, hand holding, hair stroking, butt or boob touching, caressing anywhere on the body, and cuddling,” Mai said, getting excited. “Gross stuff means sex or any foreplay type things, obviously.”
Years of putting up with her friends’ disgusting habits was about to come to an end, at least for a few days. Mai decided to enjoy it as much as she could.
“Also, you have to sleep separately,” she added, leaning back and crossing her arms.
“No!” Ty Lee said quickly.
“You can’t sleep in your own bed for three nights?” Mai asked.
“Please, you won’t see and it won’t be gross,” she pleaded. “I want to use my veto,” she said, turning to Azula. “Usually there are vetoes.”
“We didn’t discuss vetoes before,” Azula said.
“What do you mean usually?” Mai asked.
Ty Lee tilted her head and Mai’s eyes opened wide.
“Don’t say it,” she growled as Azula opened her mouth.
She closed it and shrugged.
“What’s the big deal with sleeping alone,” Azula asked, turning towards Ty Lee.
“I can’t sleep alone anymore,” Ty Lee said uneasily, tucking her head between Azula’s shoulder and neck.
Azula sensed an untruth but decided to reexamine it later.
“I don’t know,” Mai said. “The same bed opens too many opportunities for violating “no cuddling,” or “no kissing.”
“What if we do sleeping bags on top of the bed and we have to stay in our own bag,” Azula suggested, bringing her hand up to rub Ty Lee’s skull.
“Fine,” Mai said.
Ty Lee bit her lip but nodded.
“Are we signing now,” Ty Lee said, looking at her phone. “72 hours is a long time.”
“I have a few more things,” Mai said.
“You’re almost too happy about this,” Azula said with a smirk. “I don’t think I’ve seen you this energized ever.”
“Payback to the max,” Mai said. “Okay, you can’t go into the bathroom together. No feeding each other or sharing drinks.”
“Sharing drinks isn’t a relationship thing, it’s a friendship thing,” Ty Lee protested.
“You already used your veto,” Mai said.
Azula flipped the page over and looked up at Mai expectantly.
“You need to be fully clothed the entire time except for going into the bathroom to change,” she said.
Azula wrote that.
“I’m done,” Mai said.
“Once we sign you can’t add anything or say anything that wasn’t consented to,” Azula warned.
“Wait one more then,” Mai said. “You can’t talk about anything that sounds at all sexual or that references sex that you’ve had.”
“That’s vague,” Azula said.
“I can decide what is appropriate on a case by case basis,” Mai said.
“That’s not how this works. The whole point of the contract is to say exactly what is expected,” Ty Lee said.
“Fine,” Mai said. “No sentences that start with “remember when we did” and end with whatever weird sex thing you guys do.”
“We’ve never done that,” Ty Lee said.
“I don’t want you to revert to it now. Also no dirty talk or whispering to each other. Now I’m done”
Azula nodded and drew three lines on the bottom of the page. Picking her phone she checked the time and wrote 4:30 on the bottom of the page.
“I’m going to read it aloud to make sure everyone knows what this will entail,” she said.
“In exchange for Mai purchasing them a new strap accessory Azula and Ty Lee will forego: Inappropriate touching which consists of hugging, hand holding, cuddling and hair stroking, butt or boob touching, and caressing anywhere on the body. Additionally, no overly public displays of affection, no gross stuff which consists of sex and foreplay, no calling each other girl as well as hot, cute or baby, sitting on each other, no kissing anywhere on the body in any and all of the following cases: good morning, goodnight, good girl or other. They must also sleep in separate sleeping bags if they are on a bed together, they can only be in the bathroom one at a time, they can’t share food or drink and must remain fully clothed excluding the period of time they are in the bathroom where they can change. There will be no sentences starting with “remember when” that detail sex acts, no dirty talk and no whispering. This contract will last 72 hours starting at 4:30pm on Friday night and terminating at 4:30 pm on Monday night,” she finished.
She signed in neat cursive and handed the pen to Ty Lee whose letters were loopy and slanted. Mai took the pen and printed her name.
“It’s an honor contract so if we uphold our end you have to uphold yours,” Azula said, taking a picture of both sides of the page.
“Great, you guys already lost,” Mai deadpanned.
Ty Lee quickly jumped off of Azula’s lap.
“4:29,” Ty Lee said, showing Mai her phone. “Always have to set it a few minutes forward.”
“You just referenced sex,” Mai said.
“It didn’t start with “remember when”,” Azula said.
“Whatever,” Mai sighed. “You guys won’t make it 72 hours anyway.”
“Or else you have to buy a shiny pink dildo!”
Azula smiled at Ty Lee’s excitement and crossed her arms to prevent them from losing immediately.
“Shall we commence winter break?” She asked, taking her grocery bags and dumping the food on the table.