Thank you to all of those who followed favourited and reviewed chapter 1, you are amazing people.
I forgot to say a few things in the last chapter so this will help with all that:
Right, first off to address some things, Berk is in a country where the drinking age is 18, they start college[Uni] around 18 and Astrid is 18 and moved too late to start college when the others did so its October. There is more explanations after the chapter as they will make more sense after, thanks for reading! Enjoy!
College.
Shit.
After this thought Astrid rolled out of bed and looked in her full length mirror, she grimaced as she saw that she was still in last night's clothes and makeup.
"Wow..." She thought verbally as she took in the image in front of her, mascara all down the left side of her face, her left hand grey from smudging her eyes, her normally perfect hair looking confused and all over the place and her lipstick smeared.
She finally got into the shower after spending ten minutes gazing sleepily at her reflection. The feeling of hot water running down her back was a welcome sensation but watching grey water run off of her from her eye makeup came to her as a slight surprise in her dazed state.
She was glad her mother had got her up so early... She knew her daughter well enough to know she would come home drunk, leading to a hangover, ending in a slow Astrid and a late start to her first day of college.
College..Ugh..Berk Tech and Speciality College was one of two in Berk but this one offered the same courses she had applied for where she used to live. There was a reason she could dance, she had been a dancer all of her life. She had applied for a course specifically for those that are gifted when it came to gymnastics and dancing but she was also surprisingly intelligent so had also applied for a physics course.
Another thing that sucked was that she was starting late as it was October and the year began in September...people had already formed friend groups and she had missed the start. Damn.
"I am going to have no free time..." She muttered to herself as she pulled on a tight pair of acid washed jeans and a loose vest top with low sides revealing a lot, if she wasn't careful maybe even some 'side boobage'.
She was lost in thought again when she considered how expensive her journey is to college and began to wander into the thought of having a job—
"ASTRID!" Her mum shouted up the stairs, "We will be late!"
Her mum was driving her today so she couldn't skip her first day, because Astrid was like that...she knew that all too well.
After finishing a fishtail braid in her hair Astrid grabbed her bag and flung herself down the stairs into her slip on shoes.
"Let's go mum, let's get this over with." She groans lacking any emotion in her voice.
After a dragging car journey and a dragging introduction meeting, Astrid was finally on lunch break and had found Ruff.
"Snot took an interest in you last night." She said with a suggestive wiggle of her eyebrows, as they sat down on a picnic bench outside.
"Oh god, don't even go there. So creepy." Astrid shivers shaking off the comment.
"Seen anyone you like the look of? I know almost everyone here." Ruff replies winking.
"Not really." She shrugs.
"Hiccup also seemed to show interest in you." Ruff replies searching Astrids face for a reaction.
"Really?" Astrid asks, she didn't recall the boy looking at her once.
"He gets a lot of female attention though so I guess maybe he was surprised he didn't get any from you?"
"Pfft. I don't give anyone my attention." Astrid scoffs back.
"Except from when you dance..."
"What do you mean?" Astrid asks puzzled.
"Every guy stared like they were getting a private show..." Ruff says cautiously but with a very devious look creeping up on her face.
"Hey I can't help it; I just dance how I feel like dancing." Astrid snaps back, putting her arms round herself subconsciously.
She wasn't a self conscious person but that comment made her worried for some reason. Also why did she seem bothered that Hiccup had a lot of female attention—
"Hiccupppp!" Ruff shouts suddenly as they are approached by the creator of the almost deadly 'black dragon shot'.
"Hi," He answers with a lopsided smile on his face, "how's the hangover?" He asks looking at Astrid with slightly sympathetic eyes.
"I'm okay, I think." She answered shrugging a little.
"Had an alright first day?"
"Yeah but half a day of meetings sucked. I only have one lesson today though, which is good." She says a little happier than before. She couldn't help but like his curiosity.
"What do you have?" Ruff asks joining the conversation.
"Physics." She answers with zero effort in her voice. She could not deal with any new people.
"With?" Hiccup asks a little too intently.
"The thing said A. Moore, who is that?" Astrid asked, interested in Hiccups tone.
"Amy, she's actually my teacher too so at least you won't be alone on your first day." Hiccup says rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
"Cool, also when does lunch end?" Scoreeee...Wait why am I happy about this...?
"We have about 5 minutes." Ruff answered sounding instantly bored.
"Should we head over?" Astrid asked, she thought she might as well not be late for her first lesson of that class. With her new buddy...
"Yeah, o-okay." Hiccup answered quickly, tripping over his feet and his words.
Astrid hadn't realised he stuttered, it was quite cute actually, she had to punish herself though, she had no time for boys... But she could still look at boys... She hadn't really looked at him properly; he's actually got quite a nice body, from what she could see of it... He was tall but not lanky and skinny. He was slim but not bony. And if rumours about big feet were true...well—STOP! No! Bad Astrid! She thought, mentally telling herself off.
The pair had walked to physics in silence until Hiccup had been the first to speak.
"If we have to anything in pairs would you like to be together—I mean with me—I mean partners." He stutters. He then realised Astrid had laughed a little at his screw up so his face blushed bright red making her laugh even more.
"Are you nervous?" She asked giggling slightly.
"Me? N-no, no. Nervous at what? You should be, it's your first day not mine." He responded keeping some sort of guard up.
"Okay then. But I don't believe you." She giggled, very unconvinced.
The two entered the physics lab and Astrid approached the teacher, Amy, to point out who she was and luckily Hiccup had stayed with her so she was put next to him.
"Did you hear who my choices were to sit next to?" She asks quietly to the boy on her left.
"No, but please do tell."
"It was either him," she says pointing to a guy that looked as if he took up both his seat and the spare one next to him, "or you...guess who I chose?" She asks again playfully.
"Him?" He answers, playing dumb.
"You, you silly goose." She responds lightly punching his arm.
"Ohhh meeee?" He says, a little too loudly.
"Question Hic?" The teacher asks looking pissed that he interrupted her lecture on something Astrid hadn't bothered to pay attention to.
"No, Amy carry on." He says apologetically blushing another shade of red.
"She calls you Hiccup too?" Astrid whispers into Hiccups ear, which he noticeably shivers at.
"I get them an awful lot..." He says with an embarrassed tone to his hushed voice.
"Aw, that's cute," Astrid coos mockingly, "Also we're in college why the hell is there a seating arangment?"
"Shh she's coming over." He whispers hushing her.
"So, Astrid today we are cutting this lesson short so just take your friend here and get him to give you a tour." Their teacher announced, eyeing the two with a funny 'whats going on here' look.
"Well...okay then we'll just be, erm, leaving now..." Hiccup says sliding out of his chair nudging Astrid to do the same. "Quick before she changes her mind, she does that..."
Astrid slides away just a quickly walking briskly away from her new physics teacher, feeling really confused at why she let them go early. The two half run out of the class and Astrid looked to Hiccup for answers because one thing she hated was feeling confused.
It was good she was leaving physics as is felt as if there had been more chemistry happening than anything else... oh my, that's cheesy.
"Why did she let us go...?" She asks looking up at her new tour guide.
"She does that sometimes, she is a great teacher and stuff but she just doesn't like teaching some days, she just passes it off as us doing our own research." He explains guiding Astrid to another block of the college.
"Oh... right okay, where are we going?" She asks realising the two have moved.
"I have a little sort of hiding place that no one really knows about...if that's okay with you-I mean if you don't want to we can actually go on a tour?" He says stumbling over his words a little. He is actually so cute...wait what... Astrid found herself thinking things she never normally would. She also found she actually felt a little nervous to be alone with him...
"It's fine."
I hope this is alright, review if you'd like. It will be very helpful at this stage, thank you verrr much,
More explaining: Hiccup knows so much because he is a year older and did a year on a course last year with their teacher but changed for this year. Just thought I'd summarise this. I hope this helps to start to make the 2 chapters come together a little.
There will also be more characterisation on Hiccup and Astrid as things become slightly more intimate...Just sayingg :D
Next chapter will be Sunday night, Thanks!