Odin looked at his sons Thor and Loki troubled. "My sons, you know of our new aliance with Vanaheim. Because together we ended the 13year war with Jotunheim, Vidkun would like his daughter to return home. Unfortunatly, as you know, he has been hurt and is unable to go. My duty is here in Asgard, so I cannot leave to bring them home. However, Thor, we have been thinking you could go find them and return them to Vanaheim. You were always one for adventure, so here is an adventure for you."
Thor stepped forward and looked at his father, "What of Loki?" He asked motioning to his brother.
"Loki is going to Vanaheim to look after Vidkun. He will need Loki's assistance because Idony has decided to stay at Vidkun's bedside. As you know, a kingdom cannot be ruled while laying in bed. Loki is needed to rule under their order while Vidkun gets better and Astrid is retreived. I trust Loki is mature enough for this?" Odin said looking at Loki.
Loki stepped forward so he is at Thor's side. "I am most ready for the task father."
"Very well, to the Bifrost." Odin said leading the way to the bridge, and to the man that will send them into different worlds.
Ashlynn skipped into the small dining room of their Florida house and sat down at the circular table in the center of the room. "There are officially 12 days left of school for us seniors." She said with a smile. Her teeth were always bleached to perfection.
Derek, the boy escaped with Ashlynn and Valo, sat up in his chair. "So that means senior ditch day, prom, the after-party, and graduation. Am I right?" He said with a sly smile as Valo finished making up his bagel and sat down.
"Ya got a date for prom yet?" Valo said awkwardly. He didnt like the idea of Ashlynn dating, not that he would say anything. He knew she was a teenager, and that she would one day find love, but he didnt want it to happen until she was back home in Vanaheim for her parents to deal with.
She huffed a sigh. "Not yet. I heard a few people want to ask me, but no one has yet. Not to sound sassy, but I dont wanna go with just anyone. You know?" She looked over at Derek as she finished her sentence. Valo let go of the breath he didnt realize he was holding.
Derek nodded. "Gotcha. I mean, it took me a good while before I decided who I was gonna go with. My friend, Rob, didnt even ask someone until 2 days before," he let out a laugh "he asked some chick from the internet then she canceled the night before so he had to take his cousin. We all thought it was the funniest fuckin thing ever." The 24 year old said remembering his prom from 6 years ago.
Valo punched Derek in the arm. "Hey! I told you no fucks at the table!" he said with his mouth full of food. Derek grinned like mad and rubbed his arm. Ashlynn always loved Derek's grin just because it was so big and took up half of his face.
Some Girls Freak Me Out started blasting out of Ashlynn's droid which was sitting on the counter in the kitchen. She smiled at the two boys infront of her with a sigh. "Thats probably Heidi." She said looking at her phone from across the room. "Well, I'm off to work!" She walked to pick up her ringing phone, pushed ignore, shoved it in her metellic green purse and walked out the door. Everyone only screaming their goodbyes when the door is closed.
A yellow Mustang GT was sitting in the driveway with the horn going off. When Ashlynn go in the car only then did the driver stop honking. The girl driving had her brown hair up in a high ponytail and had a black bandana for a headband. She was wearing a black floral romper and had pink cowboy boots. "Cute outfit." She said to Ashlynn while quickly pulling out of the driveway.
Ashlynn looked down at herself self-conciously. She had a pale tan lace shirt tucked into a darker tan skirt. She adjusted the beanie that matched her shirt. "I thought it was.."
Heidi looked over at her and pulled her eyebrows together. Ashlynn always thought Heidi's eyebrow ring looked awkward when she did that. "It is cute. That's what I said. Anyway, your driving us to work tomorrow, right?"
"I thought I told you I wasnt working tomorrow? I have the day off." She said while picking at her nail polish.
"Boo you whore." Heidi said as they merged on the freeway. Ashlynn laughed to herself and smiled at her friend's favorite saying.
Ashlynn had a huge smile on her face while she said the phrase for what felt like the 467,000th time that day. "Have a nice day." She handed the teenager their bag and turned to fold more returned clothes behind the counter.
Heidi was sitting on the floor behind the counter eating a pretzel. "When do you go on your lunch break? I'm tired of hiding from your boss. Plus my ass hurts." She was examining her pretzel as she ripped off another chunk and popped it in her mouth.
"It's not my fault Pac Sun lets you go on a lunch break pretty much whenever you want-" Ashlynn started.
"Aye! Not my fault my aunt owns it. We offered you a job but your all 'No, my name is Ashlynn, I wanna work at Urban Outfitters because my name is Ashlynn blahblahmehmehmehblah.'" She said with a pretzel chunk in her hand all the while pointing at Ashlynn.
She rolled her eyes at Heidi. "Anyway, I get my break in like 15 minutes. So calm down." Ashlynn went back to folding clothes.
Heidi was silent for all of 5 minutes before she looked up at the man comming in the door. "What the balls.?" She said with confusion.
Ashlynn looked over to where Heidi was looking and she saw a huge man at about 6'4" tall. He had long-ish blonde hair, a beard-ish thing, and insanly blue eyes. But it wasnt that which caught Heidi's attention. It was the fact that he was wearing armor and looked like he belonged at a comic book convention. Oh, and he was carrying a hammer. He walked straight up to the counter and stared at Ashlynn. She pulled her eyebrows together and kinda shook her head. "Can I help you, Sir?" Her voice wasnt as perky as normal because she was so confused.
"Astrid?" He asked. Ashlynn looked back at Heidi thinking that he was asking something in a different language. Heidi just mouth that he sounded Australian.
She raised her eyebrows, "Pardon?"
The man looked a little annoied. "Is your name Astrid?" Ashlynn just shook her head no. Truth be told she was a little scared of the mammoth man. He looked to be at least 10 inches taller than her and two of her wide. "Sorry, my mistake." He said before abruptly turning and walking out.
Heidi coughed and pulled her eyebrows together again. "Huh. Well, that was weird."
