Hello to my followers or anyone who reads this. So I suppose this will be the end of Astrid's problem; want to know, read. So anyway I want to make a problem for Toothless, Stoic and maybe Gobber as well, but I need ideas so if you got 'em, you tell 'em. I do not own How to Train Your Dragon. Enjoy!
Chapter 10
Ah wash day, that one day of the week on the island of Berk that ends up with the smell of soap so strong, a tradesman once passed out from it. True story; and if Astrid was honest with herself, she loved it. She loved the sense of being clean and looking nice, like any girl does from time to time. But this is Astrid; the mean, tough, hard as nails girl that's too busy beating everyone who challenges her to be girly. So it was nice to be able to enjoy that at least once.
Astrid walked into the small room in her house that occupied the smallish basin that was the wash tub, filled with still hot water. That was an upside to having dragons around; it was a lot easier to keep things hot. She slipped in and scrubbed away all the dirt from herself; arms, legs, hair, until she was perfectly clean. She looked in the piece of shiny metal that acted as their mirror; she looked red from scrubbing so hard. She shrugged it off and slipped on her clothes, there was one thing she didn't like about wash day, her mother made her clean the blood stained clothes, too.
Around this same time at the Haddock house hold, the now somewhat infamous brunette girl had the same idea to get clean.
'Sky my girl, where are you going?' The giant of a man that was Stoick asked. Sky gave him a bit of a confused look.
'Uh, down to a creek I found a while ago,' she replied with tone that sounded as confused as she looked.
'Yes, but why do you have that bag with you?'
'Well, ah, it's wash day, so I thought I would need some stuff to go, and well, wash.' This earned a laugh from the man.
'You can use the basin up stairs if want,' he informed. Sky almost dropped her bag.
'Really?' She asked in a hushed voice. Stoic nodded with a smile on his face. Without hesitation, she sprinted up the stairs, ran into the room and slammed the door shut. Stoic was laughing at her reaction as his son came to greet him.
'Morn'in son isn't it great to know that you're making a difference to someone else's life.'
'Yeah, morning and what was just happened, here I was, walking to the stairs, and I'm half knocked to the ground and waked in the face by hair.' This made the man laugh even more.
'I told Sky she could use the wash basin,' he simply said. Hiccup just gave a flummoxed nod.
'I'm going to feed Toothless.' He left the room. Stoic had tears coming out of his eyes from laughing so hard.
Astrid was trudging her way through the village with her basket full of clothes that needed to be washed. She walked her way down to a small creek near the village and began to wash.
'Huh, this seems to be the only thing I'm needed for now, washing people's gross, dirty clothes,' she began to grumble, 'hel, I'll probably be replaced from doing this soon enough.' She continued her ranting and raving under her breath. She didn't notice the brunette walk up to the creek, with a brush in hand and long dark hair damp and out. As Astrid sat in her silent bad mood, she heard the quiet winces of the other and turned to see her.
'What are you doing?'
'Um, trying to brush my hair,' she said a little embarrassed, 'I can never brush it properly.' Astrid sighed and walked over to her, took the brush and began to run it through Sky's hair.
'I like wash days, I like how it clears your mind.' Astrid scoffed a bit, not only was she able to speak to dragons, she was insightful as well. She had no chance at keeping Hiccup now. The two sat in silence for a moment, until Astrid got curious about a handful of ribbons the other was holding.
'What are those for?'
'My hair, silly, to put in.'
'Why would anyone need that many? And can I ask, 'why does your hair seem like you've never cut it before?'
'OK, one, is because I've never cut it before, and it would be even longer if some of it hadn't been burnt off when I was ten, and that also links in to why I have that many ribbons.'
'So tell me then, I enjoy stories,' Astrid cooed.
'Well, the amount of ribbons has to do with something my mother used to do. When I was young, she used to put a ribbon in for everything she needed to remember to do, and when she died, and when I had to leave, I tied a ribbon for everything that had happened in my life. Good and bad.' Astrid nodded in response. It was official in her eyes; she had no chance against this girl.
'So, why don't you like me?' this yanked Astrid right out of her thoughts, she knew? 'I mean I already know that it's because I've been hanging out with Hiccup and stuff but specifically, I have no idea.' Astrid was shocked that she had known at all.
'How did you find out about this?'
'Well, just being observant really, you act differently when I'm around that to the way you act when I'm not, and I know that by observing as well.'
'It's not that I don't like you,' Astrid told her flatly.
'Then what?' Astrid sighed.
'I just feel like that Hiccup doesn't like me anymore, that he likes you.' Without warning, Sky erupted into laughter.
'This is not funny!' she snapped.
'Ah, it's just that I didn't think you'd be one to be jealous of someone. It's making your sense of vision blind; he doesn't like me and never will, he's only got eyes for you.'
'But when you first came, he smiled at you the way he only used to smile at me.'
'So; listen, I know when someone thinks of me like that and he does not. Besides, I don't like him that way either.' Astrid just sat there.
'Look, ask him yourself if you don't believe me,' she said as she stood, 'Thanks' for helping out with my hair. And he's at the forge so you know.' Astrid got up and gathered the clothes; she then proceeded to the forge.
She met him at the forge and asked him about her inquires. He told her exactly what sky had told her as well. She liked Sky a lot more from then on.
Yay! They're friends now, so if you've got ideas for Toothless, Stoic or Gobber please tell. Bye!