Jack was watching cartoons when he heard the knock on the door later that evening. "It's open!" He called across the room. He waited for the door to open then close before he turned off the television. He waited until he heard the footsteps stop before he looked up to see who was there (even though he knew who it would be.) He smiled at the small boy he saw.
"Hey, kiddo. You must be Hiccup."
The boy in question raised his eyebrows. "Kiddo?"
Jack shrugged his shoulder. "Don't take it personally, I call everyone kiddo. Well, at least people smaller than me anyway."
Hiccup stood to his full height. "And how do you know I'm smaller than you?"
The white-haired teen stood to his full height, a foot taller than Hiccup. Hiccup frowned, but let the argument go. "So I'm told there's a place for me to sleep around here?"
"Yes sir."
"Can I see it?" He asked after a few moments of just standing there.
Jack jumped a little then started walking down the hall. "Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that." He said as he opened the second door he came across.
It was painted a deep purple with gold designs all over. It looked like a fabric from India. Jack shrugged with a half-smile. "Tooth lived here before she got the apartment over her office. You can paint it a different color if you move in though." Jack pointed to a medium colored blue door with white frost designs on it across the hall. "That's my room. Harry's is on the other side." He pointed across the apartment to a gold and scarlet stripped door. "And to finish the tour the bathroom is right there." He pointed to a door that was painted with a rainbow going across it that was next to the purple one.
Hiccup stared at it for a minute before he asked, "Who painted that one?"
"I did. Harry walked in when I was half way done with it so he just kind of went with it." Jack looked around for a few moments before he turned back to Hiccup. "I think that's it. You can pretty much see the rest of the place from the front door. From what I understand it's just a few doors down from work and the rent's cheap so you don't need to worry about that. Merida lives right across the hall so that'll be good for the two of you." Jack lowered his voice at this point. "Between you and me, if you don't take this room she'll skin us alive."
"She said that?"
Jack raised his voice back to a normal volume. "Not in so many words. All she said was that she wouldn't make us happy."
Hiccup nodded with understanding on his face. "Yeah that sounds like her."
"So do we have a new roommate or am I leaving my stereo to someone?"
Hiccup let out a light chuckle. "I think I could find a way to stay for a while." He said as he looked around the place. "Anything's better than a dorm anyway. I would much rather room with people a like." He smiled as he turned back to Jack. "So, when can I move in?"
A/N Here's the other story I was telling you guys. So I have to friends in this class and I was helping them think up ideas for the project. I was writing out a steam-punk thing with a seamstress, fruit guy, the works. I was spit-balling that one of them should do fairy-tale characters in modern day. Like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are roommates, that kind of thing. We had a week and a half to do this project. All we had to do was draw the place and write a page and a half (double-spaced, easy stuff) about what it's like.
That's all for this week, loves. (Well, hopefully I'll see you sooner then a week, but you know how life gets sometimes.) Thanks for reading and reviewing! (Please do review or favorite, I love hearing your thoughts and they make me happy to know people are reading my work.)
