Hiccup woke to the sound of people moving in and promptly rolled over with a groan to try and fall asleep again. The effort was futile however as the family moving in their "precious baby boy" had to move right past his room to get to their own. "Typical," he said as he rolled over and put his feet to the floor and sat up to look at the alarm clock next to his bed, 7:05 AM it blinked back at him. "Ugh," he groaned falling back onto the bed, covering his face with his hands.
He then stood completely up and turned to his bed. Running his hands over the mess of covers before reaching under and grabbing the lump he had found revealing a black, plush dragon about as long as his forearm with bright green eyes. The tail extended past his fingertips and ended with mismatching fins on either side of the tip. The one on the left side, that didn't match the rest of the dragon was red and had a skull with horns on top and ended at the top row of teeth. He was quite proud of the design he had made. He sewed the fin on himself when the other one ripped off and was lost, although it still made him angry whenever he thought of why his best friend was hurt in the first place.
But Hiccup just shook these thoughts out of his head and gingerly put his friend on the side table so he could make his bed, "It's probably for the best anyway, eh Toothless? I have no idea when my roommate is getting here and I would hate to have him walk in on me while I was asleep and looking like, well… this." He paused in his work to step back and gesture down at himself in his flannel pj's that featured vikings symbols and dragons on them. When finished with his bed, he put Toothless onto the pillow gently, "I suppose I'm going to have to stop talking to you whenever he gets here," he said sadly as he turned towards his wardrobe, "of course that is assuming he is still coming," he grumbled, as an after thought.
Not one to lie to himself, as he's terrible at it, Hiccup admitted he wouldn't mind if the boy decided not to come to school. He looked the kid up on facebook, even sent him several friend requests that went ignored, and inevitably ended up creeping on him. He just didn't see the two of them getting along at all. This boy was just so… flamboyant and loud looking. Every picture of him on there was of him in some wacked out colorful attire with huge earrings that didn't make any sense . Almost all of the pictures also featured him posing next to some girl whose emotions ranged from accepting, to bemused, to downright murderous. That is, when the girl knows she's in the shot. And if those selfies weren't bad, his statuses were worse. The only good things he had to say were about himself, otherwise he pretty much degraded everyone. Hiccup was not looking forward to the meeting of his roommate.
The familiar sound of his phone going off jolted Hiccup out of his thoughts and he dove back across the bed to get it.
It was a text from his friend Merida: "Oiy dragon bait you up yet?"
"Yeah, the jerks moving in won't keep it down," he responded, throwing his phone back to his bed so he could finish picking out his clothes.
He didn't even have time to finish laying them out before his attention was drawn back to the buzzing phone, "Well then meet me outside in 20 i just got back from a run and need to shower but we can grab some grub before anyone interesting gets here."
"Sounds good, meet you out at the park!" he texted back before grabbing his shower gear, keys and the rest of his clothes, and heading to the bathroom. He took his time in the shower, enjoying the fact that it might be the last time in a long time he'll get to reap the benefits of being the only one in the dorm. "Next time I do this, who knows who might be showering next to me."
When he got out he quickly threw on his outfit: jeans with a slight rip in them and a green t-shirt with the Deadly Nadder's symbol on it. Moving on to the mirror he tried to get his hair to stick up a bit only to have it continually fall down, almost to his eyes. Eventually he gives this up and just tries to get all the brown wisps to go down. He fails at this too. With a sigh he looked down at himself, the band's t-shirt is a bit big on him which only serves to make him seem smaller than he actually is. And he was already pretty scrawny to begin with. He lifted his hands up to inspect them; they had some callouses from the odd jobs he did for the maintenance man and his time at the forge club, but were mostly pale and un-scared. He then looked back at himself in the mirror and meets his green eyes before wandering around the rest of his clearly pre-pubescent face. Taking a closer look, he tried to find any sign of hairs for a beard but can't find a single hair on his soft jawline.
Stepping away from the mirror, he smiled sadly and looked himself in the eyes again, "Maybe it's like deer and eventually I'll trade these spot like freckles for some antlers. Or a beard in this case. Please don't give me antlers." He started to turn and then quickly turned back, "You talkin' to me?" He stepped closer pointing a finger at his reflection, "Oh, bad idea bud, you do not want to mess with all of this!" he said as he turned his fists upward and flexed his biceps, revealing the tiniest bump that could be considered muscle, maybe, if you squinted. He then spent the next 30 seconds making faces and "rrrg" sounds at himself before nodding with a, "that's what I thought," and walking away.
He walked back to his room to find the door wide open and began to approach it cautiously, as if going into a dangerous dragon den. And the only thing I have to defend myself is a bottle of shampoo, "Great, I'm going to die with the worst epithet."
His ears became radars, picking up on the smallest of sounds, when he heard a strange voice, "OK, well why don't you go see who's in charge of this dorm process and get them to fix this insult to humanity! This is just absolutely ridiculous that I," Hiccup reached the doorway and looked in to see a kid with shoulder length, black hair, a red shirt with gold at the collar and darker red jeans all tied together with gold and black sandals. The kid's back was turned to Hiccup but he could see one scrawny arm bent up so that the hand was against his chest. Or her breasts, he couldn't really tell at the moment. Regardless, the kid continued anyway, "would have to share a room with anyone, I mean," and he turned around and flung his arms out so his fingers were splayed and his palms up, "AMIRIGHT?"
"Oh, yes master," Hiccup turned to see a short, plump woman hurrying out from next to the wall and over to the person he now recognized as his roommate. "Wait no, I mean no, it is against school rules. That is to say, you have to have a roommate as a freshman, all freshmen have to. Well, I mean, it is a requirement for all freshmen on campus who are dorming, you could commute... but home being so far away, and your parents definitely don't want you to get an apartment off -"
She is cut off when the boy raises his hand as he noticed Hiccup for the first time, one perfectly manicured black eyebrow arched while his other hand goes to his hip. "Can I help you?" he said in a tone that clearly says, "get away from me you loser you don't even have the right to look at me let alone speak." It was a tone Hiccup was quite familiar with.
"Nope, just coming back into my room," he said, walking into the room, past his bed and dropping his shower stuff off on the desk.
To Hiccup's surprise the boy's face actually lit up as he smiled, "Oh perfect, well then this solves everything! Listen kid," he moved closer and grabbed Hiccup's shower supplies and handed it back to him, "I don't do the whole 'Roommate thing,'" he said using his right hand to put up the air quotes and his left one to start pushing Hiccup out the door. "So I'm going to need you to find somewhere else to go, you know, someone else to live with. OK? OK great, good, fabulous, this was a good conversation. Glad we had it. You can come back and get the rest of your things when I deposit them in the hall OK? Great, and again, glad we could sort this out." The last line was delivered to a Hiccup with arms wheeling forward trying to catch himself before he hit the opposite door, to no avail.
"Hey, no, wait a minute!" he said to the door which had just slammed shut behind him. He heard the familiar click of the lock and stood there in total disbelief. Closing his mouth he grabbed his lanyard from around his neck and opened his door to find the boy looking at all of this things, pointing out the objects he found "tacky."
"OK," Hiccup started, putting the lanyard back around his neck and placing his shower gear down in the doorway, "We obviously got off to a bad start there so let's start over. Hi, my name's Hiccup, you must be Kuzco." He waved his right hand at the boy and then extended it into a handshake.
Kuzco merely looked down at it, eyebrow arched and lips pursed before putting on the fakest smile Hiccup had ever seen, "Yeah, don't think so, no touchy. Now, do I have to tell you again or are you going to show yourself out of my room this time?"
Hiccup started getting angry, "Look, it isn't just your room, we share it. We are roommates and as your -" he drew a blank and simply settled for pointing at the small woman nervously tapping her hands together, "...said, if you're going to live on campus you have to have one so let's try to make the best of the situation." He extended his hand again only to have it shot down with the pursed lip look, so instead he reached down and picked up his shower gear, his left hand rubbing behind his head, "Who knows, maybe we could even become friends."
The laugh that came from Kuzco, while tight, seemed genuine, "Yeah, don't think so. Come here, I'm going to tell you a secret." Hiccup moved closer, "No come on a little closer," so he leaned his ear right next to Kuzco's mouth, "I DON'T MAKE FRIENDS WITH LOSERS!"
Hiccup stumbled back, "Oh Odin!" and rubbed his ear.
"And I certainly don't room with them. And if you think for a half a second…" he paused the tirade to look up at the door, Hiccup followed his gaze to see the senior RA of the male freshman/8th grade dorm standing in the doorway. "Oh let me guess," Kuzco continues, "You have to room in here too?"
"Actually no. I'm Shang, the RA of this dorm. Is there a problem here?" He said in a "no bullshit" kind of voice Hiccup hoped he never incurred the wrath of.
Kuzco didn't seem to get that message, "Oh, thank god, can you tell this ingrate to get out of my room I need the extra space, thanks."
Shang looked at him as though expecting him to say "just kidding," but the look only lasted a few seconds before his face hardened. "All freshmen and 8th graders living on campus have to have a roommate that is assigned to them over the summer. You cannot change that." He motions to the brunette, "Hiccup, I assume, is that roommate for you. And trust me you could do worse than him. I've seen him around the past few day, he may be a bit awkward," Ouch, "and scrawny," Double ouch, "but he is also quiet, and seems like a good kid. Now why don't you two shake hands and get rid of any bad feelings this encounter may have brought."
"Um yeah, don't think so. How about you two shake hands and figure something out because this is not happening," he said putting his hands on his hips and puffed out his chest as if he were trying to look bigger. The effort was completely wasted next to Shang who was easily twice the size of this boy without exerting himself.
"Look kid, you're obviously new here, didn't come last year for 8th grade, did you? That's fine, we accept new students across all grade levels but we expect for those students to follow the rules. Now I don't want to have to write you up but consider this your first warning; you are on my list of 'people to look out for' so I'm going to be watching you very carefully. And while you two don't have to be friends by any means, you will have to live together, so I better not see any of Hiccup's stuff outside of this door unless he put it there himself, " at this Shang turned to Hiccup, "which, as I'm sure you know, is a fire hazard and thus against the rules?" When Hiccup nodded he continued, "Good, then we are all at an understanding and I won't hear anymore on this matter, clear?" Hiccup nodded again this time with a completely serious "Yes, sir" attached to it. Kuzco just kept looking Shang up and down before nodding his head in defeat. Shang nodded back once, "I'll be seeing you boys around, and remember, I've got my eye on you."
Kuzco waited until Shang was gone completely before turning back to Hiccup, "Alright, we can room together buddy, but don't get too comfortable, because as soon as I figure out who's really in charge here, you're hitting the curb."
He just rolled his eyes, already tired of the amount of bull shit his roommate was flinging at him, "Yeah, whatever, why don't you just stay on your side of the room and I'll stay on mine, OK?"
"Yeah, no, if you are staying here for any length of time you are going to have to move over. I need at least 75 percent of this room for myself OK?"
"No, not OK, didn't you just hear -" but he was cut off by Kuzco's phone ringing, it was a strange tone that just had a chorus of people spelling and singing his name. Did he seriously hire someone to sing this song? Kuzco picked it up and started to talk vehemently to someone on the other side, so Hiccup rolled his eyes and shook his head, ready to move on to anything else. After putting his stuff on the desk, again, he grabbed his phone: 7:38, shit, "Well, it's a good thing Merida's usually late." He walked back over to Kuzco and waved his arms to get his attention, "I have to go now, but if you have touched any of my things by the time I get back I'm going straight to Shang." He exchanged his shower flip flops for a pair of brown converse, grabbed his sketch pad and pencil from his bedside table, and mumble under his breath, "see you later Toothless, guard my stuff!"
He shut his door before racing down the hall and out the dorm door, which was wide open to let everyone move in.
Directly out the door was the quad he had texted Merida about: Pawn Park. It was made in the space between the two freshman/8th grade shared buildings made. It was dubbed "Pawn Park" for two reasons. One, it was where the youngest kids lived, the "fresh meat." Two, all of the dorms on campus were set up loosely resembling the movement of each of the chess pieces. If you were to look at the freshman dorms from the sky, you would see two identical but flipped buildings that look like giant tetris blocks. As Hiccup faced into the quad between the buildings he took in parallel walls forming its frame of the quad. Behind him the buildings were closer together, almost a bottleneck, if a bottle consisted of a large square with a rectangle on top. to form a bigger frame for the underclassmen to hang out. This layout broke the buildings up into three major shapes: a long rectangle where the 8th graders lived which was closer to the school than the rest of the dorm, another equally sized rectangle where the freshman live which is closer to the gym behind the dorms, and the square of a lobby that connects the two. The Lobby was a simple square with the door to get into the building and a desk for security guards whose sole job was to make sure the only people who got in after hours were those who lived in the building.
As Hiccup looked around the park he took a deep breath, letting all the air fill his lungs. This was the second best dorm-park on campus, in his opinion. It was a nice, concrete bit of land with a bowl of grass in the middle and trees in various places around. His favorites were the cherry blossom trees, two near each dorm that that would take turns blooming every other year so each spring the two dorms would each have their own cherry blossom tree. The only down side was the lack of privacy in the park as it opened up on one side so all the upperclassmen, and anyone else near the school, could see what they were doing. Hiccup didn't really mind it too much but when the campus was empty he preferred the shelter of the Knights Park. The 'L' shape of the buildings provided an excellent shield from wind on the days he just wanted to draw. Other students called it King and Queen's Court because all the juniors and seniors live there. Plus, Knights Park had a flat, grassy terrain throughout and several Dogwood trees that would put each of the other cherry blossom trees to shame. His least favorite was the sophomore, aka the Bishop's, dorms as they were just two buildings put facing eachother diagonally like a 'V'. Their park only had a few trees, one cherry blossom, some benches and a fountain. It was also totally made of concrete so many of the sophomores would go to the inside of the track field or Pawn Park to play sports.
His quick scan of the park didn't reveal a head of fiery, red hair so he set off right toward the girls' dorms which was also, thankfully, open so people could move in unhindered. He knew exactly where she lived so walked right up to her door and knocked, "Merida, you in here? Come on, tell me you're at least out of the shower?"
He wasn't too surprised when the door swung open, however he was surprised when he saw her in a bathrobe trying to fit all of her red mane into a shower cap. "Jeez Merida you haven't even showered yet?"
She finished getting her hair up and took the shower cap from in between her teeth to put it on, "Not my faul' dragon bai, my mum called askin' wha I was wearin' to meet my new roomma'e an' kep' me on the phone too long. Said she wants me to look nice an' that she wants a picture o' our first encounter… Tha' I had be'her be dressed appropriately."
"Ok then I suppose I could forgive you for being completely late," he replied as he made his way to the left side of the room where her bed was, "mind if I wait in here for you? My roommate just got in and he's delusional."
She shrugged to let him know it was fine, "How so?"
"He was in the room when I got back and was yelling at this little old woman who came with him about how he wasn't going to room with anyone. Then he kicked me out and when I went back in he yelled so loud in my ear Shang had to break it up and tell him to knock it off."
"Th' nerve! Need me to knock his block off?" she raised her fist as she said this to prove her point.
"Nah, I think Shang handled it and I don't want to make another enemy before school has even started."
"Fine," she said, pushing him back onto the bed to make her next point, "but I still think we shood beef ya up a bit this semester so you don' have to tak' sheet from punks like heem anymore."
He rolled his eyes at her, "Fighting isn't going to solve anything."
"Well neither is lyin' down deid an' takin' it," she said on her way to the door, "stay here I'm locking you in," and she turned out and did just that.
He kicked off his shoes, laid back on the bed, and opened his sketchbook. Flipping through to the last page, it was mostly full of dragons and designs for weapons or other things he wanted to build. But the last few were of people, something Merida thought he should start doing to "woo women." He did one of this sophomore girl he really liked but didn't think it quite captured her right. Instead, he was trying to up his talents by drawing Merida, with the hopes that he could give it to her to thank her for the friendship she gave him.
He smiled as he continued the drawing, remembering how they had become such good friends. Well, they weren't when they first met, in 8th grade, because she was training to get into all the sports in the days before anyone else showed up. They were always the first on campus besides the RAs. Merida, because her wealthy family in Scotland could afford to have her move in and settle before the other students arrived. Hiccup's father had to go north to chop down any last trees before winter arrived and thus it was easier to see his son off earlier rather than not at all. His family wasn't rich but their family friend, Gobber Blech, is the maintenance man, gym teacher and coach of various sports for the school, so he had connections. That's also how Hiccup got his job on campus at an age students still aren't allowed to work at.
Anyway, they weren't friends at first. They would eat together because there was no one else, but otherwise she would be training and he would be drawing or working. He also knew she didn't like how scrawny he was so he didn't have high hopes of continuing the friendship throughout the year. That was, until she caught Snotlout Jorgenson picking on him one day after her practice. She grabbed the sketch book Ruff, Tuff and Snotlout were tossing back and forth before beating them over the head with her bow. After that they had become fast friends, the first good friend since Toothless, Well and Fishlegs but even he doesn't like to acknowledge my existence when Snotlout's gang is around. He was not looking forward to having the potential of seeing Snotlout and his crew every day again but at least Merida would be right behind him to kick their butts. It reminded Hiccup of Hogwarts, how all the Hufflepuffs have Slytherins, or in this case Gryffindors, looking out for them.
She wasn't washing her hair so Hiccup expected her to be back any minute which is why he wasn't perturbed by the sound of the door being unlocked, "So, was the shower working, Red?"
"Um, haven't tried it yet, why?"
Hiccup nearly choked on his own spit when he jumped and fell off the bed, hitting his head on desk in the process.
"Ohmygod! Are you ok?"
He looked up while rubbing his head strangely enough, he saw a redheaded girl whose hair was in an intricate braid that looped into a high bun. She was very pretty, with a heart shaped face, a light dusting of freckles and blue-green eyes that were full of concern. She was bent over looking at him with her hands on her knees, one clutching a key, the other holding a stuffed white thing under her arm.
Trying to save the last bit of dignity he had left he jumped to his feet, causing the redhead to also jump. He tried to act cool, even though his body was stiff as a board, "Yeah, no, I'm totally fine." He swung his arms back and forth before clasping his hands them in front of himself then, deciding against that, he put his right hand behind his head as his left hand opened and clenched at his side, "So, uh, are you - I mean, do you - uh, come here often?"
She laughed at this, putting her right hand to her mouth as she tried to suppress it. OK, cool made her laugh, who was it that said "laughter is the key to a girls heart?"
"Well," she starts, pulling Hiccup from his thoughts as she removed her green back pack, "um, I haven't been here before but I'm going to be here a lot… This is the room I've been assigned, unless… Oh no," both of her hands flew to her face, cupping her cheeks in embarrassment, "is this the boys' dorm?! Oh my god, did I go into the wrong dorm!" she turns around and looks back at the door, "I mean Rapunzel said this was the girls' dorm but what if she was wrong?"
"Oh no, don't worry-"
"Or what if they changed it and she didn't know?" she continued, turning toward the left, facing the empty bed as her right hand went to her forehead.
"No, she was-"
"I am so sorry! But also, we should talk to the people who run this place because they either gave me the wrong key or…" She paused her turning when she faced the window.
"No, actually they didn't -"
"Or," her right hand held the key up in front of her face, staring at it intently, "the keys are broken!"
"I don't think tha-"
"Do you think all of the keys are broken?" She finally looked back at him expectantly, but not as though she had realized he had been talking.
"No, no, I don't think that's the case at-"
"Anna!" a female voice called from the hallway drawing the redhead's attention, "Quickly! Where do you want this?!"
Just then two girls walked into the room, holding the different handles to a chest they were pulling in. The slightly taller one had platinum blonde, almost white, hair in another intricate bun; the other had short, chin length, brown hair. Hiccup thought he had seen the brunette on campus before but had definitely not seen the blonde, that kind of hair stuck out. There was only one other person he had seen in real life with hair that light and he was definitely male.
"Oh, um," the redhead, Anna, jumped from foot to foot slightly, looking around her half of the room, "Right at the end of the bed! Although this might not be my room…"
The blonde girl looked up at Anna clearly confused, "What do you mean this might not be your room?"
As they moved into the room, a middle aged man with a strong jawline and thick moustache goatee and side burns, holding a blue plastic bin and carrying a black duffle bag, moved to occupy the space behind them. He immediately saw Hiccup and questioned him, "I didn't think boys were allowed in girls dorms."
"They aren't allowed in the freshmen girls dorms," the brunette responded, clearly straining with the chest.
This caused the blonde girl to look over at him as the two put the chest down where Anna had specified, "Who are you? And why are you in my sister's room?"
Anna rolled her eyes, "That's what I'm saying, this might not be my room. Rapunzel, are you sure this is the girls' dorm?"
"Of course, why wouldn't it be? It's been the same since I started coming here. Did your key work on the door?"
"Well, yeah but it could be broken, or they could have given me the wrong one, right?"
"It's possible," the middle aged man said as he put the bin down beside the bed, "we could check with the people out front…"
Hiccup was thankful he heard a familiar Scottish accent coming to save him from the awkwardness of the entire situation, "OI Hiccup! I shut ye in so you wouldn' scare the folk movin' in do you have a death-" She paused when she made it to the doorway to see she had company, "wish? Can ah help ya?"
Hiccup had to put a fist to his face as he tried to pass off a laugh as a cough, she was still in her bathrobe. Anna, however, wasn't perturbed at all and smiled in realization, "Oh is this, your room?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Oh, ok so this is the girls dorm and I must be in the right place!" She moved through all the other people in the room and offered her hand to Merida, "I'm Anna, your new roommate!"
Merida paused for a second as the realization of what Anna had just said sunk in. Then she burst into a fit of laughter.
"Oh my god! Tha's it, this is too perfect!" she said in between the bouts of laughter as she moved into the room, dragging Anna with her while tossing her phone to Hiccup, "Oh me mum is gonna have a field day wi' this! Here Hiccup, take a picture o' our first encounter would ya? This is grea'!"
Hiccup pulled up the camera app and took the picture chuckling slightly, "Your mom is going to kill you."
"Oi! It's not my fault she kept me on the phone too long. I woulds have been dressed if she had lit me go sooner!" she grabbed her phone back when Hiccup offered it to her and showed it to her roommate, "Oh tha's loverly, mind if I send this to my mum?"
"Hm? Oh, um, wait what?" She clearly wasn't used to the accent and stared at Merida as if she had started speaking another language.
Hiccup chuckled again, Don't worry you'll get used to it, "She wants to know if it's ok to send that to her mother."
"Oh sure, yeah that's fine. So you're, Ire-ish?" She asked carefully, as if Merida would bite her head off for not knowing.
"I'm from Scottland," She said clearly preoccupied with sending the picture.
Anna looked at Hiccup, "She said 'Scotland' right?"
Merida looked up at this, "Of course, don't you speak Englash?"
"Um," the poor girl looked lost.
Hiccup walked over to her, "Don't worry, you get used to it. I'm sure by the end of the year you'll be translating what she says for others." He stuck out his hand, "I'm Hiccup by the way, and your roommate's name is Merida. We're both freshmen."
She chuckled and shook it, "I'm Anna, also a freshman, I mean obviously... And this," she points to the blonde, brunette and the man, "is my sister, Elsa, and my cousin, Rapunzel. They're both Juniors, and my uncle, doesn't go here." Rapunzel gave him a large, sweeping wave and Elsa a small flick of the fingers; the man simply nodded at him. Anna looked back at him with a mixture of excitement and curiosity, "Is Hiccup a… family name?"
"Sort of, my dad is an immigrant from the land of Vikings… Apparently bad names are supposed to bring good luck. I'll let you know if I ever get it." She laughed again which made Hiccup smile, She seems nice.
They stared at each other awkwardly until the middle aged man cleared his throat, "So, Hiccup, what are you doing in a female dorm?"
Merida spoke before he could, "Boys are allowed in the girls' dorms an' vice versa untill 5pm."
Which of course meant Hiccup had to translate, "Yeah, boys are allowed in girls' dorms and girls in boys' until 5pm, and they will make sure you follow that rule… I was just waiting for her to get ready for breakfast."
"Anna, is this one your room? I'm sorry dear I forgot your room number and went the wrong way," a middle aged woman, holding a pink duffle bag and pulling a darker pink, flower covered suitcase, came into the dorm, her eyes immediately going to Merida.
"Right, I need tah get dressed. Which means at least the males in the room have to leave or avert their eyes. You want ta join us fur breakfast?"
The man nodded mumbling something that sound like, "Oh, right, of course," as he made his exit. The middle aged woman also followed him out after dropping the luggage and apologizing profusely but everyone else stared at Merida.
Hiccup, again, alleviated the awkwardness of the situation, "She needs to get dressed so we boys need to leave the room or turn around. And she wants to know if you would like to join us for breakfast?"
After the explanation, Rapunzel also apologized before retreating. Elsa inched a bit towards the door but stopped, looking at her sister clearly waiting for her.
"Um, no thanks, we ate a few hours ago and I have to help those two move in, but maybe for lunch if you guys eat lunch?" Anna said backing towards the door so she could maintain eye contact but started to turn around, "Or maybe I'll see you guys at the orientation? Either way I'm sure I'll see you later." She had almost fully turned towards the door before she whipped back around causing Hiccup to blink in surprise. But she merely tossed the white thing from under her arm onto her bed.
Waving goodbye, she turns toward the door only to find Merida had shut it, "Alright Hiccup, turn around or bury your fAce int' yer sketch book coz I'm changin'."
Anna turned back around, her face turning red as she did so, "Oh, ok I'll just stay in here then as you change… Don't worry I won't look."
"Oh please, you can watch all ya want. If ye see somethin' you haven't seen before just shoot it."
"Wait what was that last part?" Anna looked genuinely confused and a little bit scared.
Hiccup laughed and was about to answer her when Elsa joined the line of people facing the window, "I think she said you should shoot anything you haven't seen before."
"Ha! At least one o' you speaks Englash!"
"How did you even know that?" Anna whispered.
"It's a saying, people say it," Elsa replied turning to Anna with an amused smile on her face.
"Yeah, Merida isn't the most modest around other girls…" Hiccup shrugged, "she's too used to changing for sports."
"Oh, OK," Anna said, relaxing a bit although clearly still tense.
"Hey," Her sister said nudging her a bit, "she's your new roommate, you'll have to get used to changing in front of her."
"Oh please, like you're going to change in front of your roommate."
"I'm sure we'll get used to it… even if it means we have to get a curtain."
"Alright I'm done! You're free ta go," Merida called out just in time for her phone to ring, the lyrics were about freedom and being able to touch the sky. They turned around to find her in a pair of jeans and a green tee-shirt with a darker arrow going across the breasts. She had also removed the shower cap releasing her wild, red mane.
Looking at the phone she winced, "Yeah, ya might wan ta get out while you can. It's my mum. Well it was nice meetin' ya, I don't expect you to fly all the way ta Scotland for my funeral but just... 'member me." She answered the phone and opened the door simultaneously, waving the girls out when her hand was free motion as she said "'llo?"
Hiccup could hear her mother from across the room as Anna sent her an apologetic look and him a wave before the sisters retreated from the room.
Huh, a potential friend before the semester even starts, and she doesn't seem to be too into sports. I think that's a new record. He looked from the door to Merida who was in the middle of a heated argument "If you hadn't kept me so long I would've bin changed when she came in!"
"Heh," This could actually be a good year.