"Can you just knock off like five pounds?" He whined as he leaned against the till a spotty teen was sitting behind. The man behind the till looked completely bored and was constantly yawning.
"No, pay the price or put it back" the man answered blinking through bleary eyes. I was stood about three feet behind him smirking to myself, I knew this was going to happen. He just groaned in annoyance and started to search his pockets.
"But, I was sure I had enough" he complained as he kept searching. I watched as he pulled out different pieces of paper, the paper looked quite water damaged.
"Yeah, well apparently you don't now, so just pay for what you can and move on" the bored teen told him as he leaned back in his chair. He looked bored with everything and almost on the verge of sleep. I shook my head at him and smirked as he pulled out different packets of fish and dropped them on the checkout in a huff.
"I told you this would happen" I stated from a few feet behind.
"Shut up" he answered bitter, scowling to the till that he was still leaning against slightly.
"Alright, I was going to offer to help, but if you don't want me to talk to you. Fine." I smirked to myself as he glared at me over his shoulder. I was enjoying this, it was rare that I was the one who wasn't embarrassing themselves. I stayed back and had a smirk on my face, I was enjoying this more than I probably should.
"Sarah, please be quiet" he all but begged through gritted teeth. He was getting stressed and it was as evident as his blond hair. I did as he told and kept quiet watching as he finally managed to pay for Toothless' food. Packing everything back into his basket he swung it back over his shoulder. "Well that took a long time to do." He mumbled to himself as he started to leave the shop. Smirking, still, I followed him from the shop and allowed him to mumble, bitter to himself away from the street and head back to the woods.
After a few minutes it became boring to hear him mumble to himself, talking about the world being against him. It was bordering on annoying, so I placed my hand on his shoulder and forced him to face me. Without any warning I slapped him as hard as I could across his face. So hard in fact that his head was whipped to the other side. He stared at me wide eyed with his mouth slightly open.
"What the hell?" He asked his hand going to his cheek which had already turned a slight reddish colour.
"It was necessary, you were getting annoying." I stated simply. As he opened his mouth to retort to me a male voice caught our attention.
"Arden!" Our heads snapped in the direction of the voice and we were met with Tuffnut Thorston. Great.
"Hey Tuff" he greeted, one hand still on his cheek.
"What're you doing here? I didn't see you in first lesson." He asked as he came over, either ignoring me or he simply didn't notice I was there.
"What, we had first together?"
"Yeah Arden, it was PE. You weren't there. I only went so we could talk. I've gotta talk to you about Haddock, my sis says the two of you are together a lot. Sally's getting jealous and is nagging Ruff. I gotta talk to ya 'bout that. Not that I care, but I gotta be a big brother every once in a while, right? Do as the sister says every once in a while." I stared at the twin; I was starting to believe that he didn't know I was there.
"We can talk about it later Tuff. I can't right now. I kind of have to go with 'Haddock' somewhere" I noticed how he answered him, he sounded mildly mad when he repeated my last name. He looked stunned at that and finally turned to face me.
"Get lost Haddock, he's just being nice to you. He's far too nice to tell you to leave. I'll do him a favour, get lost. You're not important" his words hurt and I almost shrank away, despite knowing I had to go to Toothless.
"Shut up Tuff," my mouth dropped open, was that Arden's voice? "Leave us Tuff, we need to get going." He placed a hand on my elbow and started to lead me away towards the woods. I turned to see Tuffnut, he was staring shocked, his mouth was hanging and he looked like he'd just been slapped. I pulled a face and turned to walk on my own. That was interesting.
Tuffnut's POV
I stared stunned, had Arden just sided with Haddock? With Hiccup? That couldn't be right. I shook my head and pulled out my phone, I had to tell Ruff, she had to tell Sally and then I can leave them to sort this out. That Haddock girl had really messed Arden's head, hadn't she?
"What do you want, idiot, you talked to Arden yet?"
"He just left, you know you should be a little nicer to me, I have news."
"What?" She asked, her voice rising.
"You gonna be nice?"
"Sure"
"Arden sided with Hiccup, he's taken her into the woods, get here quick and we'll be able to catch up to them. We can spy on them and then we can see what the girls done to his head. And hopefully fix it. I'm not losing my best friend to Haddock."
"We'll see you in a few minutes, don't move"
"Where would I go?"
"Shut up" without another word the phone was disconnected and I was left to wait for my twin and Sally. Sighing I stuffed my phone into my pocket. For God's sake Arden, what has that girl done to you?
I didn't know the answer to my own question, and that worried me. I knew him better than anyone, he was my closest friend and I knew everything that went on in his life. Or at least I did. I never thought he'd go for Haddock, I wonder what she has over him. I bet he's only with her because she's blackmailing him. Damn it Arden, what am I going to do with you?
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