modern au where sokka and zuko meet bc they're both on the premed track and share a lot of the same classes - except they're really just classmates who can at most tell you where the other sits, their name, and.....that's about it

so when sokka gradually stops showing up to their labs, zuko notices but doesn't think much of it other than a fleeting thought that he must have changed his lab days. and when zuko doesn't show up for one of their finals, sokka just assumes he got accommodations to take it elsewhere

but then they don't see each other for another two semesters, when they end up in the same late-night pottery class (sokka signed up for fun, and zuko did bc ty lee made him). turns out, they both dropped premed that same semester, which......actually, is a great way to bond and get to know each other lol

(that, along with having to share the same potter's wheel for most of the semester, after zuko's assigned one broke and ty lee, for some reason, was so stingy with her own....)