A/N I was inspired by a couple other fanfics so you might see a few similarities. This is a Modern AU (still don't know what a AU is. Lol). I hope you guys enjoy this! Feel free to leave suggestions for the story and leave honest reviews so I can make it how you want it. I own nothing. Enjoy!
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"Young man where does it hurt?" A voice asked. Everything was blurry and bright. I felt a sharp pain halfway down my calf. "My leg." I mumbled. I felt my left jean leg being rolled up. "Oh my gods."
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I walked to the back of my car and grabbed a duffle bag and heat lamp. A hiss came from inside the bag. "Hold on bud. We're almost inside." My best friend since junior year of high school and now roommate, Frank "Fishlegs" Ingerman grabbed my glass terrarium. "Isn't it crazy? For the first time in our life we actually are living on our own." Fish said. "I know, but it's always kinda been like I was living on my own with my dad and his job you know?" I replied. "Yeah…" he said. We walked the rest of the way there. I set down the lamp and reached into my pocket and grabbed a keycard. I swiped it and heard the door unlock. "Our door is on the second floor, third on the left." Fishlegs stated. I used a key to unlock our door. It was a generally small room. It had a bunk bed on the right side of the room and a desk and office chair on the other side, and it had a window on the back wall. "I call top bunk!" I blurted out. "ok, whatever, I was going to take the bottom bunk anyway." I heard Fish mumbled. "We need to go furniture shopping." I told him. "Yeah definitely." He responded.
"Set the terrarium on the ground. I need to get Toothless out of this bag." I said. Once the tank was on the ground, I grabbed the bag of coconut dust and spread it out on the floor of the tank, then put back in the fake logs. He unzipped the duffel bag and waited until Toothless stuck his head out of the bag. Toothless was a six foot long ball python with jet black scales. I grabbed him with both hands and put him in the tank. I carefully put the top on the tank and turned on the heat lamp. "Good snake." I commented, thankful that the snake didn't try anything.
After three hours moving things from the car and putting things up I was exhausted. I finished plugging in the video cables to the monitor and started googling restaurants near the dorms. "I think we deserve to eat out tonight." I stated. Fishlegs thought for a moment, "Just order pizza. I don't want to leave the dorm." I nodded and ordered pizza. "I'm going to pick it up. I feel like driving." I said as I grabbed my jacket and wrapped my hand around the handle of the door. Fish just nodded. I quickly opened the door and shut it behind me. I quickly started to move to the doors, wanting to get there and back before nine o'clock. Shit. I have to get a rat for toothless. I looked at my watch. 8:05PM. Ok, pet shop, then pizza. I start my matte black 1969 Mustang Boss 429 AKA "The Night Fury" and start to drive to the pet store.
"Yes can I have a medium pepperoni pizza?" I asked staring at the menu. "To go?" Asked the clerk. "Yes please." "Name?" "Henry." "That will be $8.36" "Here's a twenty. Keep the change." I say smiling."Thank you very much.", the clerk says. "You're very welcome...", I stare at her name tag for a moment, "Heather." I say to the raven haired girl. She smiled, "You can sit over there while you wait." She pointed to a row of seats. "Ok. Thank you." I say as I start to work towards the chairs. This is a nice little pizzeria. I look at my watch. 8:40PM. Cutting it a little close. "Henry!" I basically launch out of my seat towards the counter. Heather hands me a pizza box, "Have a great night!" I look to the girl, "You too!" I walk to the double door, holding open for another customer, then walking to The Night Fury. I set the pizza into the passenger seat, as I pull out my keys. I stick my keys into the ignition and turn. The car starts beautifully, as I start to drive to the dorms.
I get out of the car and walk to the passenger side and grabbed the pizza. I lock the car as I shut the door, and start to walk to the doors. As I get to the doors I pull out my keycard and unlock the doors. As I walk up the stairs I hear a door open upstairs. I don't think anything of it so I continue up the stairs. As I reach the top I was looking to the bottom of the stairs thinking I dropped something when I went backwards. Something hit me and I started tumbling down the stairwell. I land on my back, and stare at the ceiling for a moment. Somebody else got up. A girl's voice started talking, "I'm so sorry!" I look over to the voice and I swear I'm looking at a angel. Her honey colored hair in a braid on her shoulder, positioned perfectly. Her beautiful blue eyes belong in the ocean. I try to talk but start stuttering, "I-I-It's ok-kay." "Sheesh. Did you really fall that hard?" She responded suprised. "No. I was just surprised." I say trying to get up. A sharp pain stings my ankle, "OW! I think I sprained my ankle." "I'm so sorry let me help." She says as she grabs my arm and wraps it around her neck. She helps me up and slowly get up the stairs. "Which room are you?" She asked looking at the rooms. "Third one on the left" I responded. She walked over, with me still holding on for support. She knocked on the door. I heard Fish get up and move to the door, "Finally! I've been starving-" I see him see that I was walking with help, and he immediately grabbed my other arm and put me on the bottom bunk. "What happened?" He asked as he grabbed a ice pack. The girl started to speak up, "I accidentally ran into him and we both fell down the stairs. He said he thinks his ankle is sprained." "I'm going to go to the CVS to get a elastic bandage. Can you take care of him while I get it?" Fish asks the girl. "Ok." The girl says. Suddenly my stomach churned at being alone with this beautiful girl. I grab my car keys and hesitate in giving them to Fishlegs. "You sprained you're ankle, and your more worried about your car?" Fish asked. I hand him the keys, "Don't crash it." Fishlegs shakes his head as he walks out the door.
"I never caught your name." I said looking at my ankle. "Astrid, Astrid Hofferson." She replied. I look to her. "Henry, Henry Haddock. My friends- or rather per say friend- call me Hiccup." I replied smilling. She held out her hand, smiling, "Nice to meet you Henry." A couple seconds of silence passed. Astrid broke the silence, "Can I ask you a question?" I looked towards her, "Shoot." "How did you get the nickname "Hiccup"?" She asked. Whenever anybody found out about his nickname the tend to ask about it, so he half expected it, "It's kinda because of two reasons. The first reason is because early into high school I got hiccups a lot sooo, that's kind of self explanatory. The second reason is because in high school I was super scrawny and a "Hiccup" of a boy. Those are the only reasons I can really think of." "Ok. That kind of makes sense. Another question. What's beneath the blanket over there." She asked pointing to Toothless' terrarium covered with a blanket. I looked over to the tank, "Promise you can keep a secret?" She nodded her head, "Go find out." She pulled off the blanket revealing the jet black reptile. She stares at it for a moment before moving, "Is that a snake? I mean obviously, but it's huge. Plus pets aren't aloud in these dorms." "I know but I had to take him with me. My dad said he wasn't going to take care of him." A knock came to the door. I jestured for her to put the blanket back over the tank. She quickly did so then walked to the door, before opening it. Fishlegs came in carrying a CVS bag and walked over to me. "Take off your sock." Fish said pulling a elastic bandage out of the bag. I pulled of my sock trying to cause as little pain as possible. He unrolled the bandage and started wrapping it around my foot. I looked to Astrid, "Thanks for the help. I'm sorry for keeping your time." She looked to her watch then to me, "It's fine. I probably better be going. Have a nice night, and, again, sorry for running into you. Bye!" "Bye!" "Bye!" Me and Fish both replied in unison.
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A/N I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter of this story! Keep an eye out for future chapters and please leave honest reviews so I know how to improve the story.