Hola! So, here's the new chapter. Sorry this has been on the slow side, it's going to take a while for me to get into this, and write it without deleting it. But I can't, because I already have it all planned out, and you guys won't demand my head on a silver plate after this story! I hope…

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Astrid couldn't believe it, she-she was gorgeous. Astrid could never compete with that... not that she wanted to... oh who was she kidding! When she saw Henry, every feeling she had for him came rushing back like a broke dam. The wall she had been building for three years broke open with one damn look.

"I have to go... I'm sorry..." She told her date, then ran out of the restaurant.

Henry sighed as he laid on his old bed. Scarlett was in the guest room, of course Henry offered Scarlett his room, but she refused.

Henry closed his eyes, and saw Astrid's pained expression and sat up in his bed. He rubbed his face and picked up his phone. He saw the picture of Astrid and Toothless he took three years ago. Should Henry delete it? His thumb lingered over the delete button before throwing it across the room.

"Henry?" He heard his dad asked, and the muffle of the eleven o'clock news behind his father's voice, "Everything alright?"

"Yeah dad, it's going swell..."

Swell? Did he just say... swell?

"Alright then..." Trailed Stoick

Henry walked out of his room and into the guest room. Scarlett stirred and sat up sleepily.

"Henry? What's wrong?"

"You were right... I'm still in love with her... and I don't know what to do..."

Scarlett smiled and motioned for him to come on to the bed. Henry followed and Scarlett grabbed his hand and Henry laced their fingers together

"Don't worry Henry... it'll be okay."

Henry frowned "When?"

"Soon..."

Astrid winced as her faithful razor glided across her skin. Most of the scars cleared up over the years, but that won't stop Astrid. She still has the Hiccup scar from two years ago, and some over deeper scars, like the one on her foot, and the one on her upper leg, and a few on her stomach. But she doesn't care.

Maybe it was the fact that everyone has someone, expect for Astrid. Maybe it was the heart crushing pain she felt when she saw Henry and that girl holding hands.

Astrid watched the blood drip down her chest and onto her stomach with a satisfied sigh and grin. She leaned against her headboard and let a tear roll down her cheek.

She was alone and that's just how she likes it.

"I haven't wore a tux since that dance I went to senior year."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you don't really need a tux for my job, just a nice sports coat."

"You learn something new every day..."

Henry laughed at his best friend since kindergarten

"So Hiccup-"

"It's Henry now."

"Sorry, Henry. Who's the chick you brought?"

"That, Fishlegs, is Scarlett. She's my best girl friend."

"She's hot."

"I know, we tried to date but it didn't work out."

"That sucks."

"Yeah... partially because we're the same, and partially because I was still hung up on Astrid."

Fish looked down "Astrid was mess after you left."

"Ca-can we not talk about this..."

"Sure. That looks good on you Henry..."

Henry looked Fish and half-smiled "Just call me Hiccup Fishy."

Fishlegs smiled "Okay Hiccup."

Henry smiled. "You're right. I do look good in this."

Henry knocked on the door and waited for Astrid to open the door.

When the door opened Henry's mouth dropped

"What do you want?" Astrid asked coldly

"I- I came to say I'm sorry."

"For what? Breaking my heart? Or having sex with me and then leaving me?"

"I didn't try to." Astrid glared "Astrid I know what I did was wrong, but I tried to tell you..."

"Not hard enough!"

"Please, please, please forgive me..."

"...I don't think I can."

Henry looked down, then back up "Ca-can we try to be friends?"

Astrid looked down "I-I don't think so Hiccup-"

Henry sighed "Astrid, I know I'm asking a lot. But, the wedding is three days away, then after two weeks, you'll never have to see me again. I promise."

"So... just be friends until the wedding."

"Not even friends. But not hating each other."

Astrid looked up at him and took a breath. She pulled her blood stained sleeves down, and crossed her arms.

"Just until the wedding. Then I don't ever want to see you again. Understand."

"I understand-" Henry was cut off by his phone "Sorry," Henry pulled out his phone and saw Scarlett's smiling picture "I have to take this. I'll talk to you later m'kay."

"Okay..."

"Hey you...-" Henry walked away

Astrid closed her eyes and tried not to think of the way his eyes lit up when he saw his 'friend' on the phone.

Astrid closed the door and slid down the door.

And she started cry. Astrid hugged her knees and cried into knees.

Astrid didn't know if she was crying because she knew that Hic-'Henry'- was only being nice because of the wedding, or because Astrid knows she can never have Henry again.

He hurt her without trying...

The next day, Astrid is sitting with Ruff in the new Haddock Café, when Henry and that girl walked in.

"Why is is always around him?" Astrid asked

"Didn't he tell you? That's Scarlett, his best friend/ ex-girlfriend."

"Ex-girlfriend? Wow, if I was best friend with my ex I would be..."

"In jail?"

"I was going to say dead, but that works to..."

"Hey ladies," Henry said, arm around Scarlett's shoulder

"Sup?" Asked Scarlett

"Nothing." Said Ruff, and Astrid glared

"Astrid, play nice…" whispered Ruff

"Hakuna fucking Matata." Glared Astrid

"Where you watching Lion King again?" asked Henry "Remember when we were dating and for every problem you would say 'Hakuna Matata.'"

"I remember…" whispered Astrid "So, Scarlett, how long have you and Hiccup been dating?"

"Dating? Henry and I?" Scarlett started to laugh "That's… that's good Astrid. You were right Henry, she is funny! Henry and I are just friends."

"I told you…" whispered Ruff

Astrid looked down "You two seem awfully-…" Doty? Too touchy-feely for just friends. "Close."

"Yeah well… we've been friends for two years… he's was my first friend when I moved to Miami."

Astrid stared at Henry. This… this wasn't the boy that left her all those years ago. This was a confident, muscular man.

How was this man still single?

"Henry," Astrid said without reasoning with herself first "Can we talk?"

"Sure, let's go outside…"

Henry held out his hand, and she hesitated. Finally she took his hand and felt a spark going up her arm, just like in high school.

The pair of twenty-one year olds walked outside and felt the cold of the Minnesota January air. Astrid crossed her arms and shivered.

"Look, Henry or Hiccup, what have you. I need to tell you this. I thought I hated you. I thought I hated you more than anything, even Sam. And that says a lot. And then you come back after threes of radio silence and every feeling of hate goes away. And I don't know why.

"Look, I've been thinking and…" Astrid looks into his eyes… those green eyes she once hated. Those green eyes that taught her to trust, then broke her heart in a blink. Those green eyes she spent looking into the whole time they made love. "And…"

"And?"

He steps closer to her

"I don't think that…"

Step

"That?"

"That we should be uh…" Astrid knows she brought him out here for a reason, but what the hell was it again?

Another step closer and they're toe to toe. Astrid can't look away from his eyes.

Henry couldn't breathe. He was looking into the most beautiful eyes he's ever seen. The most broken eyes he's ever seen.

"Don't give up on me…" he whispered

"… I-I have to…"

And an eye blink later, she's gone.

Henry was sitting in his room, twisting the necklace in his hand. Henry looks at the note again and shakes his head. He has to give this to Astrid, but when was a good time?

Henry laid back and rubbed his face.

Why did he have to take that stupid job? He doesn't even like it.

Was it to prove himself, make him worthy of Astrid? Maybe make himself look better than Sam (even though, you know, he was already. He has never hit a girl, except Scarlett. But she doesn't count.)

Why did he have to go and break his own heart?

That is an excitant question Henry. Why did you? And Astrid, you're back to cutting! You were doing so well! Sigh...

Anyway, as I was writing this, I noticed this story is like… my life. My crush left last year without telling me, but told me seventh period the day of. He came back this year and wants me back. Hm, sound familiar?

I swear I didn't plan this! I own nothing!