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I've decided Astrid will have a short monologue at the start of some chapters I think... tell me what you think. I can't decideee. Halp me.
Have you ever listened to your favourite song and felt a feeling of euphoria over come you when it's gets to your favourite part? ... Ever experienced a similar feeling when a guy is with you...?
Astrid could feel her palms sweating as she gripped the bottom of her jacket, she didn't get nervous and girly around guys, what the hell was this? She was a Hofferson! Known for their lack of emotions and inability to feel.
Yet here she was, sweating into the passenger seat of hiccups car, ruining the nice dark leather.
"Any ideas where you want to go yet?" He asked flicking his eyes in her direction.
All of this sweating, thinking and monologuing had occurred in seconds... Why can't time move faster?
"I'm a little hungry, know any good places to eat?" She responds, levelling her voice to avoid letting the euphoric nerves escape in her words.
"Yeah, you're not bothered what you eat are you?" He enquired shrugging his shoulders.
"Not really, if it has at least a salad as a starter I can tell my coach I'm still eating healthy." She jokes relaxing a little in her seat.
"Coach?" He enquires raising an eyebrow.
"Dance, it's my other subject I took." She explains briefly.
She catches the expression on his face and giggles to herself, surprised that it is more high pitched than her usual giggle.
"So this is the place." He announces as they pull into the parking lot of a small restaurant.
When they had entered and had been seated Astrid began scrutinising the menu.
"Anything your coach would agree with?" He asked peering over his menu.
"A few things, but the ribs spun good... I could have that and a salad and not tell her about the ribs..." She replies with a sneaky tone in her voice.
"Ah well, the ribs here are good here. I can't decide on what I want though, suggest something?"
"How? I don't know what's good here?" She asks quizzically. Me she had so badly wanted to reply.
Just then the waiter appeared and looked at Hiccup eagerly, obviously waiting for his food choice.
"The ribs?" Hiccup mouths to Astrid, who replies with a nod.
"2 ribs, and a salad." She announces, surprising both Hiccup and the waiter, he nods and leaves scribbling on his note pad.
"Do I not get to talk?" Hiccup asks smiling goofily.
"No, no talking for you, or people might think this is a date." Astrid commands, hoping for a very specific response.
"Oh shit, I should leave... Is this not a date?" He jokes, flapping his hands in mock confusion.
"Do you want it to be a date?" Astrid asks, surprised by her confidence in her voice.
"Do you?" He replies, raising an eyebrow and keeping his composure. He had certainly never been in this situation before.
"I asked first, you can't escape this." She says stubbornly with an edge of humour.
Just as he looks as if he will answer the waiter appears with her salad.
"Ahh saved by the salad." He laughs, with a slight pink colour to his freckled cheeks.
"I hate you and your magical way of using time against me." She responds flashing him an almost evil smile before tucking in to her salad.
The pair had consumed their whole dinner before Astrid could get the answer out of him, then it was put off again because of the 'whos paying' disagreement. In the end they had paid for what they had got separately and Astrid had felt all independent in doing so.
Besides being worried about eating ribs in front of him she had thought this had gone fairly well, they had talked like friends would. Not like friends who may have tried to kiss each other? They had literally talk about everything though... as if it was a real planned date... they knew so much about each other now.
"We should probably go soon, I mean we are in at 5 and its half 4 now." Hiccup mentions, standing up and grabbing his jacket.
Luckily Astrid had remembered her spare work clothes so they didn't have to go home first, they could just go straight there.
"Hey, I have my stuff so we have a bit of time. It's not far from here so we could hang for a bit outside?" She asks as they walk out of the door.
"Yeah, erm sure... there is a bench there?" Hiccup points, gesturing to a bench that faced a small pond.
The pair sat on the bench and both stared blankly at the water. Astrid had spent a few long seconds pondering whether to ask about the date thing again, but as she finished thinking her mouth opened.
"So, was this a date?" She asks in the most timid voice she had ever spoken in.
"Am I aloud to say yes?" He responds glancing over at her.
"If you want to."
"Yes. But... you paid some so I wouldn't count it as a proper date." He teases making a goofy grin that had been in place for most of the afternoon, ever since he had helped her throw the ball.
"Can I tell Ruff it was a date?" Astrid asks nudging him with her elbow lightly.
"Oh gods, I will never hear the end of it." He groans, laughing slightly after.
"Neither will I... hmm."
Having sat for 10 minutes discussing their physics assignments they decided it would be a good idea to go to work.
Hiccup unlocked his car and climbed inside leaving Astrid to open her own door as she had stated she was capable of doing.
"I need a Camaro." She declares caressing the dark dashboard in front of her.
"Maybe one day I'll let you drive." Hiccup says in an oddly confident way.
-My kind of humour, check
-Hidden confidence that could knock my pants off, check
The pair had silently discovered thinking was a dangerous thing, Hiccup was trying so damn hard not to act like a complete tit, which he was very capable of doing, and he also had to control his thoughts. He wasn't a ..ehem...sexual person... never been with more than one girl... but Astrid was totally different. It pissed him off he was thinking that way because he was in doubt of his chances, until she joked about the date thing.
"Hey, as this was a date we have to end it correctly." She leant over and kissed his cheek lightly. She hoped he would get the hint from this. Which he did.
He stopped her as she pulled away and pulled her back to him kissing her soft lips gently then letting her sit back down again.
Yessssssssss! She thought.
"Sorry..." He mutters realising he may have fucked this up. He was bad at female signals and now she hated him.
Yeah 'sorry for not kissing you right Astrid', ah I guess I will have to show him. She considered.
Before he could continue this trail of thought she came back over, using his neck as support; to plant a deep kiss on him, leaving him absolutely shell shocked at how wrong he was.
"Apology accepted. That was the kiss I wanted." She says with a cheeky grin but before anything else could happen she pointed to the clock on the dash board that read 4:52.
"Ah, yeah... we should go." Hiccup replies to the gesture, attempting to sound normal and failing.
When they arrived at work the others were there and waiting for them to show up as there had been traffic and had arrived at ten past.
"Right, now the team is all here i can say what we'll be up to. Inventory and cleaning today. Sorry it had to be on a Saturday but I needed ye all in." Gobber explains pulling out cleaning equipment and check lists.
"Me and Tuff have Inventory. We chose a week ago." Ruff announces chuckling to her twin at everyone else who had to clean.
"Right, so get started ye slackers." Gobber shouted, he then went on to give out jobs to various people Astrid hadn't yet met and some she had. It then it came to Hiccups job assignment. "Right Hic, you and Astrid are organising the freezer, as you are the only people with jackets.
Astrid shot a sly glance in Hiccups direction which he caught and returned.
"Okay Gobber, we shall get going, just mopping and throwing old stuff out yeah?" He asked, keeping his cool -haha I made a funny- about his work buddy.
The pair set off to the freezer that had been dubbed 'Edmund' long ago for reasons that even Hiccup did not understand.
"Did you plan today? Helping me with bowling... taking me out... kissing me... being left to work in the most secluded part of our work place. It all seems carefully engineered Hiccup. Well done." Astrid mocks pushing him lightly into the wall.
"You kissed me, the 1st time and 3rd time so that was your doing. The rest is just fate." He replies laughing at her hypothesis.
"I could make it the 1st, 3rd and 4th if you'd like?" She asks mischievously. Being like this was actually fun.
"Maybe. But maybe not out here in the open where Ruff could mock us."
"Very true. Oh how convenient, a freezer to hide in. After you sir." She jokes opening the door for him bowing slightly.
As a light comes on and the door closes Astrid realises the potential this could have and her mischievous grin appeared once more.
"What is that look for?" Hiccup asks curiously, raising an eyebrow.
Next update will most likely be Sunday or Monday night, I wont make you wait too long to find out why she has that look.
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