HICCUP's P.O.V

"But What if it's not the answer I wanted?" I asked back

"You know Ruff told me girls are the kind that tries to play hard to get, they don't like you even if they really do, but if you do get turned down, then walk away, you can cry if you want cos crying doesn't make you less of a man, then. Man up again! That's how it works." With crossed arms Tuff looked proud at himself

I thought for a minute, and yes I admit I have been weak and afraid and doubtful for most of my existence, so maybe this is the time for me to "man up".

I stood up and notice that Snoutlout is heading back to us together with the retrieved bike

"I gotta go Tuff, Thanks for the advice "I said.

"Hey we may not be that friendly, but sure glad I can share my wisdom once in a while"

I waved and took my leave with toothless now in my arms cause he got tired already.

When we got back right close to our house I noticed some trucks outside the house where Astrid lives, I started to walk up faster going closer to see what was happening. I saw some boxed on the front porch, Lisa was there talking to some men while the load up the boxes in the truck. Astrid walked out from the front door carrying a box and placing it on the front porch, when she saw me she waved and walked towards me

"Hi Toothless, how have you been?" She asked Toothless then he happily barked, so I guess it was also Toothless who she was waving at and not me.

"Hi, Umm… What's all this?" I asked grabbing her attention out of Toothless.

"We're kinda moving out" she said, and all I could think was kinda, what does that mean?

"Uh…" I was lost for words, she's leaving too soon and I haven't even told her yet.

"Don't worry it's just two states from here" She said it as if it was nothing

"But still you are leaving, I-I haven't even-"

"No, no don't worry were not leaving today, besides I got a new project and yeah, We needed to go to the shooting location, plus my role will need some training so I'm kinda on to that too" She explained. I was so loss for words

"I'm sorry for not telling you any sooner, Your Mom said you were walking Toothless and I only found out this morning" She apologized even if she didn't need to, it was her duty after all, she is an actress, and I'm just some side character in her life

"Nah don't apologize, I did hope you enjoyed your stay here, while it was short and all" I tried to shrug off my emotions too. I can only hope she doesn't notice.

"I need to go in, Take care" I said before I waved to her and brought Toothless inside.

The next couple of days was a bore, all I did was stay at home while my school break is counting down to a close, Astrid does text me once in a while, she's been telling me stuff that she needed to go to cause she needed it for her part, and that she's not telling what it was to not spoil it for me.

So yeah, most days their house is empty. I try to per occupy myself with playing some video games or spending some time with Toothless.

One night when I was already on my bed and was just browsing down through social media waiting for sleep to come, I hear knocking on my window, then I saw Astrid. I hurriedly down from my bed and opened my window,

"What's going on?" I asked completely surprised and confused as to why she was coming over, but at the same time I remembered the days that she started to come over

"I wanted to give you this, I'm mostly gone for work and I've only gotten back an hour earlier, of course you know after I washed up I wanted to come here and give you this" She handed me a blue box

"Open it" she urged, in which I did.

It was a blue hoodie and at the bottom of the box there was a Polaroid picture of us when we were in the beach in Cannes.

"You know, were leaving the day after tomorrow, so yeah I wanted to give you something to remember me by" Astrid whispered softly, The only light was my lampshade and the moon giving light on her face.

"I'm really going to miss you" I sincerely said, she only looked at me and gave me a hug. After that, we stayed seated on the floor for a few minutes, she shared what happened to her day, while I did share some of mine but are mostly boring, she laughed when she brought up the time how scared she was when she first started to cross the plank from her room, and that now she felt like a skilled burglar which I laughed to. When the time said that she needed to leave and that I was late, she gave me a tight hug and as I did I thought about that this is going to be the last and I wanted to know when we might see each other again but at the same time I felt like It's not that important for her to come back here considering she only went here for a movie project and now she's leaving for another, so I didn't ask, I wasn't able to confess either, I felt scared. I didn't want to ruin what we have right now.

When she got back in her room and turned the lights off, that's when I walked back to bed and tried to sleep.