"Hello Hiccup. How are you doing?" Gobber tossed Hiccup his apron." I was just talking to Astrid." Gobber chuckled."So how did it go?" "Oh you know. Awful. I guess now the wedding has been moved up sooner to "get it over with". She's acting like she's so out of my league." "Isn't she?" Hiccup glared at the older mad."I guess no." "I get a days notice about this stuff. A day." Hiccup complained to Gobber." You just need to give eachother a chance. You two aren't that different really." Hiccup rolled his eyes. "How is that?" "Neither of you are exactly social, both of you a pretty smart, neither of you are super muscular. Astrid just has more fighting talent." Hiccup's eyes narrowed. "I still don't want to marry her." "Will you stop complaining? I thought you had a crush on her." " I'm not going to stop. At least not until I get out of this wedding thing." Gobber tossed a maze into Hiccup's arms. " I know. I know." Gobber felt bad for the poor kid. Hiccup sighed.


"Here we go." Hiccup threw his bag over his shoulder. "You wanna come Stix." Stix was Hiccup's cat. It was a skinny little thing but Hiccup didn't mind. The cat's eyes dilated as he climbed onto his friends shoulder. Hiccup snuck down stares. Stoick was a heavy sleeper but just in case. Hiccup slowly opened the door and crept out into the woods. "Hiccup?" The boys glanced around but kept walking. It was Astrid. what was she doing out so late? "Hiccup!? Wait up!" She quickly caught up to him. "What are you doing out so late?" Hiccup laughed nervously."Uh, camping! yeah camping." Astrid crossed her arms. "Camping?" "Yup." "Alight then." Hiccup let out a breath of relief."Look, about earlier. I didn't mean to offend you. I'm not going to say sorry, but I can see where what I said might have hurt your feelings." Hiccup grinned slightly." I don't really hate you. I don't really love you either but I should probably be glad I'm not engaged to Snotlout." Astrid rubbed her arm. It was obvious she was just trying to be nice. It was like a little kid being forced to apologize. Then at the same time she felt kind of guilty for using him.

Hiccup took a step back. "I'll see you later then." He dashed back on the trial. Astrid balled her fists. Did he not want he not want her to be nice. Hiccup hid behind a tree. He glanced back but Astrid was gone. He was so close to the docks. He looked between the village and the ocean a few times and ran his fingers through his hair. Hiccup sighed and slid down the hill.


I just want to point out that Astrid isn't a mean person. She is using him which is mean but she's not a bad person. She does feel guilty about it. I also wanted to point out that Astrid never seemed to hate Hiccup, she just never saw him as worth the trouble. They both have their faults like Hiccup running away from his problems. I'm a Hiccstrid fan so I'm not going to have them hate each others guts, it's out of character for eachother of them because they are both forgiving and sort of awkward. Neither one of them is the bad guy just like neither is being a good guy. They are just being people in this situation. And very young in experienced people at that. Thanks for reading and please review.