~Chapter 3~
Today was it. My thirteenth birthday. I hadn't told dad or Hiccup because I didn't wanna add a birthday to the chaos of my return. I'd needed to sleep downstairs with Dreki, since I didn't have any other place to sleep, even though Hiccup had offered to let me sleep in his bed. I assured him I'd be fine then went to sleep. This morning, I hadn't gotten a single 'Happy birthday', but it didn't matter to me. I was just glad to be back. Hiccup and I were currently walking to the arena, where Hiccup told me that he and his friends trained their dragons. It was nice to hear that my brother had friends now. When I'd been kidnapped, Hiccup was always picked on. When we walked in, I saw the same group of teens that I'd asked about Hiccup to yesterday.
"Okay, Kaya." Hiccup said. He pointed to a chubby boy with blond hair.
"That's Fishlegs. He knows almost everything about dragons."
Next was a bulky boy with black hair trying to flirt with a blond girl. "That guy. He's our cousin, Snotlout. The girl he's trying to impress is Astrid."
Finally were two twins sitting on each their own Zippleback head, bickering. "That's Ruffnut and Tuffnut, fighting about… something, I guess." Astrid started walking over to us.
"Hey, Hiccup. Who's this?" She seemed a bit jealous. Maybe she liked Hiccup.
"Hey, Astrid. This is my sister,-" I cut him off.
"Kayanna, but you can call me Kaya." I said, and Dreki started nudging me. "And this is Dreki." I said, petting the Night Fury.
"But, she's a Night Fury. I thought Toothless was the only one." She said. I just shrugged. Suddenly, the others came over, and Snotlout attempted to make a move on me.
"You single?" He asked me.
"I'm your cousin, idiot!" I said.
He eyed my locket. "In that case…" he ripped the locket from around my neck and held it up so I couldn't reach it.
"Give it back! That was my mom's!" I cried, but he just ignored it.
"It's not like she's dead." He shot back. That one hit home. My mother was dead, and he didn't realize it? Around town, everyone told me I looked like Hiccup, so why didn't he see it? Maybe he chose not to.
"Uh, Snotlout…" Hiccup said, and made the motion of 'you're dead', which in this case was meant to tell him to back off of the subject.
"Wait, she's your sister? She's nothing like you!" Snot spat. Snot. Not a bad nickname.
"Snotlout, give her the necklace." Astrid said firmly.
"Fine." He sounded bored and handed me the locket. I clutched it as if it were my only source of life. He'd almost broken the last thing my mother ever gave me... For a few moments, I was almost sucked into the memory of the day I was kidnapped. But I wouldn't think of that. It was over.
"Sorry about Snotlout. He can be a bit of a jerk sometimes." Hiccup said.
"I've noticed." I replied.
"How about we just go ride our dragons?" He asked.
"Sure. Race ya!" I said, and took off running towards where Toothless and Dreki were. It took a minute for Hiccup to react.
"Hey! Wait up!" He said, doing the best he could at running with his prosthetic.
AN: I know, this chapter isn't long. I didn't even run out of time to write it. I had it already written. I was gonna post this chapter last Thursday, but I didn't have school friday, so thursday after school I took a three hour drive to Halifax, where I hung out with my best friend and went shopping all weekend, then took the three hour drive back home sunday with three people over the age of sixty, then my cousin invited me over. Monday I have school, Hip Hop, and Confirmation classes. Tuesday was too close to update day, and so was yesterday. So, I missed last week. Sorry, but I'm already typing up the TWELFT chapter, so I've got quite a bit done. I don't want to give away too much of it,but let's just say Kaya and Hiccup are as close as they always were. Anyway, until next week. Oh, and sorry if I miss next week again, but it's getting close to BATD and my Confirmation, so I'm super busy, not to mention my birthday on Monday, April 22nd. Earth Day. Oh well, I do love the planet, so it's kinda fitting. UGH! I'm just going on. I'll shut up now. Anyway, R&R!
