Hey Guys, Sorry the last chapter was so short. i did not mean for it to be but it's only up to Chapter 2.5 or Chapter 3 which I'm renaming this chapter.

so without further ado, and i know you're probably hinking "GET ON WITH IT" so, let's go :3

oh and one more thing, i'm gonna TRY to make my chapters longer, but you gotta remember, this is my first story. this chapter is out fast because 3 you guys =)

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previously in, the grove...

Harry tried to muster up some courage to fight him

"Seriously Astrid? I can barely stand up to my own cousin, I'm called a nerd at school and I'm too scared to admit I have a crush on y-,"

Meanwhile, Harry was running fast as he could back toward one place nobody had known...

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Meanwhile, Harry was running fast as he could back toward one place nobody had known. An old grove about half a mile from the farm and full of tamed wild animals.

"Hey Toothless." The boy said patting the wolf on the head as it ran up to him gleefully wagging its tail.

"WOOF!" the dog barked, gathering the other animals toward the boy and his companion.

As Harry drew out a large stick from behind his back, the wolf and the stray greyhound he befriended immediately started to bark with glee, jumping and hoping for the boy to throw the stick as he teased them trying to predict his movements.

"Harry?" "Harry?" Alice shouted hoping to find Harry somewhere. "WHERE ARE YOU?" she shouted once again but with more voice.

"Stay here boys." Harry said to the dog and the wolf as he exited the had seen her and closed, locked and hidden the door to the grove behind its distinctive age-old vine just as she saw him.

"Oh harry, I was worried. Why did you run away?"

"You know what?" He said seriously, "I finally have the courage to tell you where I've been is a place I've been going to for about 7 years now. I'll show you what's behind this locked door but only if you swear you'll tell nobody." He meekly said, hoping she'd not run.

"Okay Fine, I won't tell anyone, but wait what is this place?, where are we?" his vixen-like friend queried as he fiddled with the lock, he'd so desperately enhanced to keep people out.

The door opened and she stepped in with him. "This. Is the Grove." Harry said waving his arm in a wide arc.

The grove was filled with animals, wild, stray, tame abandoned. All in harmony, deer and wolves, Snakes and rabbits, even cats and birds.

"Wow…" "Wait a second. This is what you found when you ran away for a week?" she asked, "AAH!" she suddenly Shrieked as Toothless jumped on her and started to growl.

"No Toothless! She's a friend." He said calmly immediately eliminating the frustrated wolf's threat, switching from his anger to intently starting to lick her stating his new-found friendship, as Astrid Squealed.

"All the animals here are strays or wild. I tamed them all and they are my friends, tell my father and there'll be venison before you can say the words; Barbecued Deer." He whispered hoping the deer would not hear him as he said it.

"Look harry we should get back. Your father wants you to help him deliver the milk." She said, changing the subject, trying to get to the bright side of things

"And one more thing," she said "I like you too Harry." She admitted as she kissed his cheek. When she pulled away he saw her cheeks were blushing furiously, as were his.

"Harry?" "You look like a sea bass." she giggled, oh so beautifully for him to hear, while she held his hand..

He stared with his mouth agape in shock, as they walked back home…

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so, what do you think? tell me in a review if you so choose, follow and favourite, if there's anything you think I should change I will consider, and thanks for reading guys and girls. :3

p.s. i hate rushing, but as blunt as i have to be, this was how i wrote the chapter. I'm sowwy

Yours

~JC