It was cold and snowy as usual in Holland Michigan tonight, just like it was last night and the night before that. Winter was fun but a bore if you had nothing to do. Most places had something fun and exciting to do, but not this bore of a town. I was walking home from my part time job at Walgreen. Nothing extremely exciting happened today and I doubt it ever would. You see I was a girl who always had my head in the clouds. I was always day dreaming always fantasizing. I never really had anything exciting happen before and now I was starting to doubt it ever would.
I pulled my jacket on and left the store saying goodbye to my coworkers. I walked out into the cold winter air regretting not buying a car. I trudged through the cold snowy air all the way back to my cold dark apartment. My parents were never home so I basically lived by myself since I was 12.
I unlocked the door and walked into my apartment, welcoming the little heat that still remained in the house. Sighing, I placed my backpack on the counter and turned on the heater. I walked into the small kitchen and grabbed a pack of ramen noodles. Too lazy to even cook them the right way I just decided to nuke them in the microwave. 2 minutes later I was eating noodles and working on geometry homework. After 10 minutes of staring at the same problem and nothing clicking I decided I would do it tomorrow. I was such a big procrastinator.
I walked into the small area we call a living room. It was only able to hold a couch, coffee table, TV, and little accessories. That was it, even though the TV was mounted on the wall. So believe me when I say small I mean small. I walked up to the little DVD stand that was next to the TV, and pulled out one of my favorite movies How to Train Your Dragon. I just adored the movie; I swear I've watched it a 1,000 time this week. I popped it in and pushed play, as the opening ads and junk were playing I walked back to the kitchen and grabbed a Mountain Dew and my phone.
Walking back to the living room I put my stuff down and ran to my room to get changed and grab my blanket. I ran down the small narrow hallway that led to my room, and yanked open the door almost pulling it off the hinges. I pulled out a pair of black fleece lined leggings and a grey hoodie along with my harry potter tee shirt. I quickly undressed and redressed before looking in the mirror, which I also have a habit of doing (I am extremely self-conscious). I was sick of having my hair in my face so I put my shoulder length brown hair in a ponytail and pulling out the strands that were too short, before grabbing my multi- colored polka-dot blanket and sprinting back to the living room.
I had missed about the first five minutes of the movie and had to rewind it. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed my container of chips ahoy cookies before finally settling down on the couch. I stretched out taking up the whole couch and placed the blanket over me, I opened my mountain dew and chips ahoy, pushed play and got ready for the movie marathon weekend.
I checked my phone to see if anyone texted me and sure enough I had one from my mother.
MOM- Hey honey how is it going at home
ME- Good just sitting down watching some HTTYD
MOM- You're too obsessed with that movie
ME- Don't blame me blame DreamWorks
MOM- Anyway just wanted to know how you were doing and tell you I love you
ME- Love you too mom
MOM- Night sweetie
ME- Night
I turned my attention back to the movie only to realize the screen was black. I put my phone down and got up to flick the light switch on. The lights came on so it wasn't a power outage, the DVD player was on so the movie didn't stop, and the TV was still on so what was it? I walked up to the TV to see if any chords were unhooked when the weirdest thing happened. As soon as I got close to the TV the screen flashed a very bright white and I could feel it start to suck me in. I closed my eyes because I was temporarily blinded. What the hell is happening!
When I opened my eyes I was definitely not at home anymore. Nope I was falling to my doom; in the distance I could see an island and a few black dots above me. Scared shitless I screamed.
"AHHHHH WHAT THE HELL HAPPNED" as I silently prayed to be saved. Soon after the sensation of falling stopped. Well then. I looked up to notice that I was being carried… by a dragon….that was holding me upside down by the leg. So to keep myself away from a mental break down I yelled,
"HEY NOT THAT I'M NOT GREATFULL AND ALL BUT COULD YOU PLEASE LIKE MAKE IT SO I'M NOT UPSIDE DOWN!"
The rider grunted in response and had the dragon drop me, and then kept on flying. Gee thanks, Just as I was about to scream again, the dragon and rider made a quick nose dive towards the water and flew right underneath me. I fell right into the riders arms. He just sat there and hovered and didn't make a move that indicated he was flying anytime soon. I reached towards my heart and grabbed my shirt with all my might.
"What in the holy hells was that" I said aloud trying to calm my rapidly beating heart. The rider sat me down in-between him and the dragons head. He went to remove his helmet and mask. Holy. Shit. I rubbed my eyes and felt my jaw drop. Nope. No way. There is no fucking way. I'm dreaming. This is definitely a dream. There is no way I'm looking at Hiccup, and riding on toothless. There not real. I probably fell asleep watching the movie. Yeah that's what happened.
Realizing I was staring I looked away and all the sudden found my hands to be real interesting. Hiccup just shrugged then he coughed and got my attention.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Well, besides the fact that I almost just died and I'm pretty sure I had a heart attack I'm just peachy. Oh and by the way thanks from saving me from certain death." I said like I didn't just drop thousands of feet.
Hiccup erupted into laughter and I gave him a confused look.
"What's so funny?"
"The fact that you almost just died and you act like it's nothing."
"Pshh. Trust me I'm a danger magnet there's been worse."
"Anyway I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third III" He said sticking his hand out.
"I'm Tarren Elizabeth Scott the first" I said shaking his hand.
"Well you must be freezing let me get you back to Berk and we can get you a change of clothes."
"Nah. It's warmer here then it is back home." He just gave me a disbelieving look.
"Where do you live?"
"Holland."
"Where?"
"Holland Michigan."
"Where is that?"
"I'll explain it when we get to Berk."
He just grunted and grabbed the reigns around me. Then we headed to Berk. I cannot believe this is happening.
