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Aang really had no idea how did he manage to get this job, but he really need one anyway he couldn't let Sokka and Katara pay everything in their apartment alone so he went to the interview for cleaner in the famous Studio Gaoling but what happened is that he confuse the days and when he went there it was an interview for DJ and lyric writer.
But the interviewer liked him so much that he agreed to give Aang a job in the Studio, that's how he managed to be in the backstage helping to organize the final details in the show of the Toph Beifong one of the most popular singers in the Earth Kingdom.
She win the Painted Lady in the category of revelation artist last year and three of her songs were in the Top Listen for four months.
- Hey, Aang. - One of the staffs call him. - I have to fix a problem with the effects, could you get Toph please?
- Sure. - He said, she thanked him and ran away.
Aang walked in the direction of the door with Toph's on it and knocked, he dosen't hear anything so he tried again. He begins to worry, Aang says he is coming inside and enter the room only to see the singer hugging her knees in a small corner of the room.
Worried, Aang came closer trying to see how he could help her. With a little attention he could say that it looks like a panic attack, he saw happening with his friend Zuko one time and it was not pretty.
- Hey, hey. - He started to call her, he needed to make her focus on him first. - It's okay, you're okay. - He said when he caught Toph's attention, this was things he remembered to hear Sokka says to Zuko. - It's everything okay, now I need you to focus on breathing, okay?
She nodded and slowly her chest began to up and down like Aang's with the breath exercise. He tried to touch her arm to help her get up but she pushed herself away and he take his hand back.
- Sorry. - Aang said. - Do you want water or something?
- Water. - Toph said, the voice low.
He got up and get one of the water bottles in the mini refrigerator, he opened it and gave it to her. She drank most of it and started to breathing slow again before saying to Aang to help her get up.
- You're okay now? - He asked still worried helping her sit in front of a desk with a mirror.
- I am. - Toph said looking at the mirror and seeing how was the damage in her makeup. - How much until the show begin?
Aang looked at the clock on his wrist. - Fifteen minutes.
Toph nodded looking at the makeup products on the desk.
- Okay. You can leave now. - She said making a gesture to the door.
- Hum, we all received orders to not to take our eyes of you. - He said uncomfortable. - Miss.
Toph looks at him, still standing in the middle of the room. - I still have to change, dummy.
Aang blushes, blinking he says a quick sorry and goes to the door, but before he could leave Toph calls him again.
- Hey - She tells looking at him in the mirror. - Thank you.
- My pleasure to help. - Leaving this phrase, he leaves the room.
Toph looks for herself in the mirror giving little slaps in her faces and starts to fix her makeup.
(...)
The show was over, Aang and the equip have already organized the materials used for the show and put it on the studio's truck. He was in the parking lot ordering a uber when a car stops in front of him, the window in the back opens to show Toph.
- Hi. - She says.
- Hi...? - It was more a question than a word alone.
- I'm gonna go eat a pizza, do you wanna come? - She asks him.
Toph Beifong, probably the greatest singer of the new generation was asking him if he want to go eat pizza with her, am I hallucinating? Aang asks himself internally, Toph let her hand out of the car and snap her fingers to get his attention.
- You're coming or not? - She inquired.
- Yes. - He said. - I'm going.
- Good.
While Aang was entering the car, Toph smiled and close the window.