=Normal POV=
(Friday, 7/26/19-7:30 pm)
(Berk, Archia Isle)
(Haddock Apartment)

The relaxing and fun night came to a screeching halt when it was revealed that Spencer and Vivian Haddock, along with Marcus and Angela Hofferson barged through the gate after a confession made by Hector and Astrid was heard about them hating one another at the start of their marriage, even going as far as sleeping with others and gradually coming together with actual feelings having blossomed between them. Now, the parents were still standing in the yard while the friends were sitting there, not exactly sure what was going to happen next. Hector and Astrid, though, already decided silently together that they weren't gonna act anymore. If their parents, who showed up unannounced and uninvited, wanted to know so bad; Hector and Astrid would gladly tell them the truth about the last year of their marriage.

"Well, one of you start explaining the things we just heard," Marcus demanded.

"First of-," Hector started.

"We don't have to listen to you," Astrid cut Hector off, leaving him and everyone else a bit surprised. Astrid was never one to talk back or be disrespectful to her parents.

"Excuse me? Who do you think you're talking to, young lady?" Angela said quickly.

"Mother, I am eighteen years old and a young woman. And I am speaking to you. To dad. And to my in-laws," Astrid remarked. "We don't have to listen to you. We don't have to follow instructions, or orders. Hector and I are adults, and this is our property. You barged in, barking orders; that's trespassing. The fact you came in with demanding we explain what you heard proves you were here, eavesdropping; that's invasion of privacy." She informed them. "This was a private gathering between friends, you were not invited and due to your distance away…You've obviously come out of your way to be here. Now, I don't know why and I don't rightly care…But I've had it up to here," She demonstrated with her hand over her head, "With you four deciding you can do whatever you want just because we're you're offspring. Hector and I have our own life, and you do not have the right to tell us what to do, where to be, how to speak, act, or control us any longer. Marriage to one another separated us from you and being eighteen or older separates us from you too. I'm sick and tired of you trying to have a say when you have none."

Astrid paused only a moment to catch her breath. "Before marriage and turning eighteen, I bit my tongue and did whatever I was asked or told. I never talked back, I was never disrespectful…However, while I love you both," She motioned to her parents, "I refuse to continue to keep quiet when you're behaving the way you are. All four of you, in fact, have been behaving as spoiled brats who didn't get their way because of their own decisions. If you want us to respect you, respect us."

"You will not speak to us this way, little-," Marcus began.

"And you will not speak to my wife that way. She's eighteen, married, and can do whatever she wants. We respected you the last eighteen years, and it was an obligation all kids have. They are expected to behave and do as told. The problem here that the four of you can't accept is that Astrid and I are not kids anymore. We're adults and you don't like that we can speak for ourselves and defy you. You don't that you can't control us." Hector stated firmly. "You wanna know so bad? Here, I'll tell you. After you forced Astrid and I to get married, we both held resentment of the situation. We never got along, even worse when Astrid lost her job and I had to work to support us financially. Things between us were so bad that I usually slept on the couch, or eventually, put a futon in my office and turned it into my room. We've been inhabiting separate rooms for nearly a year. The reason you don't have a grandchild is because Astrid and I haven't had sex since the wedding night, again, when we were forced."

"As for us sleeping with other people, that was an arrangement set in place because Hector came home from work one night and found me making out with an ex who I would have slept with if he hadn't come home. Hector had every right to leave me, and planned to, but I begged him not to divorce me and I'd do anything if he didn't. So, after a few days…Hector agreed we'd stay married for the merge not falling through only. We lived together, married…But separated. Different bedrooms, free to sleep with or date other people and we'd continue to act married in public." Astrid stated.

"We kept that up for months and over time, started getting along and feelings developing. So after the graduation party, we talked and admitted to liking one another. The arrangement stopped and we took time to settle into our lives as adults after high school. Just last week, we agreed to start dating. Yes, still married, legally. But dating. We set ourselves at a level where we've been dating for about a year and spending the night at each other's places. Aka, sleepovers in each other's rooms. When we're comfortable with that, we'll change it up to staying in the master bedroom as a couple dating and living together. Eventually work our way up to full married couple," Hector explained.

"The point being, we're still married…But taking it slowly through dating. Making this marriage…Willing. Something we decided to do, not you four making us do. If anything, you should be thrilled Hector and I came together on our own, with time and we're making things work on our terms. WILLINGLY." Astrid emphasized.

"Now that you have your information, I hope you're paying close attention because this is your only warning…" Hector said firmly. "As Astrid said…We've both had it with you guys always starting shit. Hours after the wedding, you were demanding things of us. My birthday, controlling our class choices. Instantly on us about Astrid being pregnant when she was sick. On me about shifts at the office after I turned eighteen. The graduation party, pissed that I did your jobs for you. Angry that I took the jobs you gave up. On us at the party to celebrate the company merge. Every single time we're all together, you start drama like high schoolers! Astrid and I graduated, we're not in school anymore. Grow up, accept your children have become adults and grown up, and for the love of Odin…Get off our fucking backs and let us live our life our way."

"The next time you start anything. Be that a comment, a fight…Whatever. Anything negative or controlling, Hector and I are both prepared to disown you four. That means we write you out of OUR life. We'll move, we'll change our numbers…Everything to get away from you." Astrid informed sternly. "Have we made ourselves clear?"

The four parents, still in shock, nodded to Hector and Astrid. "Good. Then beat it." Hector motioned towards the exit. "And don't show up unannounced or spy again." He added as the parents slowly departed. This time, Hector shut and locked the back gates. "Well, to be honest…I feel a million times better with them knowing the truth."

"I second that," Astrid smiled, moving against Hector and leaning in. Hector wrapped his arm around her waist and giving her a kiss.

"Aw, you two are so cute," Heather giggled.

"Thanks, we think so too," Hector chuckled and Astrid hugged him.

"You think you'll do a willing wedding down the line?" Madison inquired.

"Haven't really thought about it. If anything, it would just be a vow renewal since we're married," Astrid shrugged. "But we'll let you know if we end up doing something like that."

"Sweet!" The friends cheered.

"Now, let's get back to having a good night?" Hector offered. And just like there had been no interruptions, things got right back to where they'd been with everyone having fun.

. . .

(10:00 pm)

"Well, I think it's time we all head out as it's getting later," Drew stated as he noticed it was about 10 pm. "Most of us have work tomorrow morning 8 am or earlier."

"I'm in at 7 am," Madison mumbled.

"Proving my point," Drew chuckled. "This has been fun, though."

"Absolutely. We'll have to do it again soon," Cassandra remarked.

"We will, for sure." Astrid agreed.

Soon after it was agreed by everyone to leave, they said their goodbyes and left Hector and Astrid's apartment. Hector and Astrid worked together to bring in all the food and get it wrapped up, then put away. With everything done, it was nearing 10:30 pm as Hector and Astrid plopped on the couch to relax, both with a drink in hand. Hector had a beer and Astrid had maid herself a little cocktail to enjoy.

"Aside from our parents showing up, I think tonight was great." Hector stated.

"Undeniably. It makes you wonder, though…Why where they here?" Astrid looked at her boyfriend/husband. "They live about fifteen minutes away,"

"I know I told Glenn we were hanging with friends tonight; he must have said something to them. It still doesn't warrant them showing up. I'll ask tomorrow because it was unacceptable." Hector said.

"I do feel better that it's all out. Except the part where Roseanna attacked me." Astrid shrugged.

"Same and they didn't need to know about that, but with it all out…I just hope they'll stop and understand what all their forcing us together started out as," Hector mentioned.

"Was it really so bad? I mean, yes…The forcing wasn't cool…But them making us get married put us through a lot of trials, babe. And…I'd like to think that it brought us together," Astrid admitted. "We avoided one another before the arranged marriage, due to me rejecting you. But our parents making us get married brought us together and through all the stuff we went through, we're here now…Happy to be together." She informed. "I'm not condoning their forcing us to have sex or live together…But you can't deny that this whole thing the past year brought us together."

"No, I suppose not. But I could have done without all the stress," Hector chuckled. "You and I didn't start getting better until Tristan tried to hurt you because you called my name while fucking him,"

"Isn't that part of life? Stress, I mean?" Astrid giggled. "I'd like to think that the Tristan situation is what actually started on us getting closer, but that's not the truth. We would have gotten closer without that happening if I'd worked with you like we agreed in the start,"

"Perhaps, no real to know as that's now how things went." Hector replied. "But we agree that we're never telling our parents that this whole idea of theirs actually brought us together?"

"Of course, we don't need the I told you it would be okay from them," Astrid leaned against him. "What do we do with the rest of our night?"

"Whatever you want," Hector informed. "Movie? Bed?"

"Not quite ready to sleep, especially since I don't work tomorrow. Movie sounds good, I can make some popcorn. Are we going to be out here, or in someone's room?" Astrid wondered.

"Uh, my room works. I'll make popcorn, if you want to get into something comfortable and then pick the movie?" Hector offered.

In agreement, Astrid went to change into her pajamas while Hector did the same, then they shared a kiss in passing as he was going to make the popcorn while she was in his room to pick a movie. About 10 minutes later, Hector strolled into his room with a bowl of popcorn, few snacks, and drinks. "I was gonna get your futon into bed mode, but I don't know how…" Astrid blushed.

"It's okay, it's a bit of a pain sometimes anyway." Hector set the things down and worked a few moments on taking the futon from the couch mode to the bed one. Once it was all set up, Hector grabbed the pillows from his closet and got them set up on the bed. Soon, it was ready for them and Astrid got onto it first and took the snacks and drinks so Hector could join her. The two cuddled up on the bed as Hector grabbed the remote to his TV to play the move that Astrid found for them to watch.

. . .

(11:45 pm)

It was an hour later when the popcorn was gone, so were the snacks. Drinks were finished off and the movie paused so they could use the bathroom afterward. The two were laying down together now, but hardly watching the movie anymore as they'd started making out, it was a repeat of prom night where things were just happening. In the midst of their making out, Hector turned enough so that he was on top of Astrid, and she didn't mind one bit. Their plan to have sex on their anniversary was still on, but neither of them cared if it happened tonight too.

"I want you…" Astrid breathed out.

"Thought we were saving this for next week?" Hector smiled.

"Then we do it twice…Please?" Astrid asked.

"I wasn't saying no, babe," Hector kissed her again. "If you want to have sex now, more than fine with me,"

"I do," Astrid replied. "You have protection, right?"

"No, actually. I was gonna pick it up for next week," Hector remembered now.

"Well then we can't do it now…" Astrid sighed.

"We could…" Hector informed. "Not like you're fertile right now,"

"How would you know?" Astrid retorted.

Hiccup kissed her gently. "You don't have irregular cycles, and I'm fairly certain you had your period on the 5th of July. Which means you're not due for the next until two days after our anniversary. I pay attention to my wife," He told her. "But we don't have to if you're not comfortable with it. You know I'd never push you into anything."

"I don't want to take the risk, so no…Maybe we could do…Foreplay instead?" Astrid suggested.

"We can absolutely do that," Hector nodded.

"Can we do sixty-nine, like, laying side by side?" Astrid wondered.

"Whatever you wanna do," Hector replied lightly.

"Then that's what I wanna do," Astrid nodded. Hector turned off the movie, then the TV before returning to the bed with Astrid. The two immediately got back into kissing one another, which eventually reached making out and feeling each other's body. There was no need to make a first move because they'd be giving one another pleasure at the same time, but they would eventually have to shift from what they were doing at the moment.

. . .

(Saturday, 7/27/19; 12:45 am)

It was an hour later when Hector and Astrid finished their fun with one another. Obviously, Hector ate out and fingered Astrid while she gave him a hand and blowjob. Both reached release and cleaned up before falling back into making out for a bit longer until they decided to go to bed because it was late and they were tired.

"Night, Hector…Rest well," Astrid yawned, snuggling up to him.

"Goodnight, Astrid. You too," Hector made sure the lights were off and soon, he drifted off to sleep.