Sorry for not updating sooner but I was too ill to look at a screen for half a month then spent the other half of a month doing a big assignment, next chapter will be what you have all waited for [ sort of ] so stay tuned and thanks for reading, if you have reviewed or favourite thanks so much!
Thank you all for being patient and enjoy this new chapter
"What is that look for?" Hiccup asks curiously, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing." She answers walking towards Hiccup, his back now against a shelf, and as she stops to stand in front of him she places her hands on his shoulders to pull herself to his height.
"Hey guys I'm with you!" Snot bellows before opening the door, luckily Astrid had stepped away from Hiccup before he saw.
"Oh, erm... Hi Snot." Hiccup mumbles, giving him a small wave.
"Happy to see me? You sure sound it." He snaps, leaning against an icicle covered shelf.
Are you freaking kidding me? How is this fair? Astrid asks her brain as she sighs.
"How's the babe?" Snot enquires, placing a chunky arm around her shoulders.
"Eat shit Scott." She retorts, shrugging his arm off and wanders to the back of the freezer.
"I asked Gobber to help you guys out as I didn't think it was fair you had all the new meat to yourself." He explains, wiggling his eyebrows and looking in the blonde girls direction.
Hiccup growls a little in response and is immediately shocked at the fact he had growled. Astrid isn't his... She had just kissed him... and attempted to do something, though he still wasn't sure what, if she wanted to be with a snot-ball she could. Sigh.
Astrid had began checking the dozens of ice bags at the back of the freezer for broken bags but as she completed this task she could over hear herself being referred to as 'new meat' Pfft he hasn't got a chance.
She also over heard how Heather, the girl she had replaced was coming back here to work.
She also over heard Snot make a joke about 'history' between her and Hiccup which made things 'bat shit crazy' and 'funny'. She really did hate people. Just. People. Why?
"Snot could you count and check the frozen fruit bags that are here?" Hiccup asked nodding to the shelf Snot leant on.
"Sir, yes sir!" He replied with a salute and began working on the bags.
Hiccup joined Astrid with the ice bags and worked through some she hadn't yet got to.
They worked in silence for about an hour and a half checking all of the ice bags and ice-cream tubs, ignoring Snots endless talking.
"So, history aye?" She asks curiously, flicking her eyes up to his for a brief second.
"Yeah... first girlfriend and all that." He replies awkwardly.
"By the sounds of it she is 'bat shit crazy'?"
"Eh, you could say that." He answers a little warily he wasn't enjoying this talk much.
"Her introduction to me will be fun on a bun then." She responds with an undertone of a joke.
"Don't reference Futurama and mention her in the same sentence. It just isn't right." He jokes back. "W-wait, w-what are you to me? If you think this will be a good introduction..."
"You appear to be oblivious to girls advances: 1. she kissed you, 2. she offered to kiss you again in a secluded place; 3. she was the first one to make a joke about the lunch being a date, and so on..."
"You like me? More importantly why...?" He replies, in a hushed/surprised voice looking as surprised as when she kissed him.
"I've just had an interest in you since I saw you...I'd prove it if Snot wasn't here..." That answer made Hiccup pull a rather comical face that Astrid just couldn't help but laugh at.
"Hey guys I'm just gonna go take a leak." Snot shouts closing the door behind him.
"How convenient." Hiccup whispered, nerves audible in his nasally voice.
Astrid repeats her actions from earlier by backing Hiccup up against the back wall of the freezer and balances on his shoulders again.
"How convenient indeed." She whispers as she leans in to kiss him, his eyes wide in shock. Their lips touch and the kiss intensifies, queuing Hiccup to place his hands on her hips rather than flapping against his thighs hopelessly.
His hands graze the small of her back and rest on her hips again. She too moves her hands, from his astonishingly firm shoulders, up to tangle in his auburn hair. He shocks both himself and Astrid when he flips them round so her back is against the wall.
Hiccups icy fingers edge up her shirt a little just to feel the warmth of her soft skin and she gasps in response, pulling icy air into the kiss.
"I KNEW IT!" A voice screeches excitedly making the pair jump out of their hold, and their skin...
Well shit.
"I so knew this shit would happen." Ruff exclaims pointing a finger in the twos direction.
"Hi to you too Ruff..." Hiccup adds sarcastically.
"Ruff, don't tell anyone. I will tell you everything if you promise to stay shh. Deal?" Astrid bargains, placing her hand on her forehead in annoyance.
"Yeah, sure. But anyhoo I came here to say we have a break for an hour and a half while Gobber has the health inspector in." Ruff mentions, waving and running away like she will break the fresh promise.
"Oh for the love of Thor." Hiccup groans pinching the bridge of his nose with his thumb and finger.
"Come on; let's get out of this damn thing."
The pair had returned to Hiccups car and had decided to drive to Hiccups, for coffee and warmth. Astrid had noticed the temperature had dropped when they exited the car, as it was mid October now and Berk wasn't exactly warm...
Ruff had been texting Astrid ever since they left together and she had eventually started to ignore her as the questions were silly now. DID YOU SEE HIS WILLY omg Ruff shut up. What are we 5? Who even says 'willy' anymore?
'Wow.' Astrid whispers at the sight of Hiccups TV in the front room, she hadn't expected a huge TV, Hiccup didn't come across as a TV kind of guy.
"Yup, not only do I have an inexplicably nice car, I have an inexplicably nice TV too..." He mutters in an almost exasperated tone as he walks through to the kitchen. He flicks on what looks vaguely like a coffee machine and sits down heavily on a kitchen stool.
The kitchen was surprisingly large but Astrid had grown used to the surprises this guy and his belongings were capable of. It was a big square kitchen with an island thing in the middle surrounded by stools, one of which Hiccup had flopped onto. She didn't think Hiccup had seemed like a 'kitchen-y' person really.
"Nice kitchen." She comments taking a seat in a stool opposite on the island to Hiccup.
"Thanks, I have my own little 'bar' part. Wanna see?" He asks, his nasally voice more excited than how he sounds at work.
"Okay?" She answers with a questioning tone and swivels the stool around to follow Hiccups movement to the far right of the kitchen.
With a push of a button a fancy cupboard comes out with bottles of liquors all lined up alphabetically, looking very unused.
"Nice, I didn't know you were so fancy Hiccup." She jokes walking over to join him to gaze at alcoholic drinks she had never even heard of before.
"I'm not exactly a material person, it's my dad's way of relating to me. He has money, he has a son... he puts them together and stuff like this and my car happen. I'm more of an under the radar person myself." He explains walking to the now buzzing hi-tech coffee machine he turned on earlier.
"Yeah, under the radar is exactly what your Camaro is..." She says laughing a little at this irony and being sent into a day dream about that beautiful, beautiful car.
"...Astrid?"
"Oh sorry, daydreaming." She coughs, a little embarrassed at her rudeness.
"I said I like my car and would you like a coffee you look cold." He answers in a monotone voice as if repeating himself is tiresome.
"Okay. Thank you..." She responds, accepting the hot mug of liquid, "I like your car too." She adds after having a sip. She hated coffee but it was warm, so she grimaced at the taste and accepted the warmth.
The pair seemed to go half an hour without mentioning the incident from earlier. It didn't take long for the silence to be unbearable and for Astrid to possibly ruin a friendship with silly conversation.
"So, earlier..." She starts, wondering if Hiccup has the balls to respond.
"Y-yeah, erm, earlier... so... w-was it just a heat of the moment thing or...?" he answers nervously. She hadn't expected him to be quite so nervous about this.
"Well I think the phrase 'heat of the moment' can be taken out, for a start. We were in a damn freezer." She laughs, before sipping down more hot coffee, ew coffee. "But no, I genuinely like you Hiccup."
His facial expressions are all over the place but he managed to compose himself all before 2 seconds had had the chance to pass. This news gathers some new confidence in him and he did something out of character, well this was just a totally out of character day for him.
He moved closer to Astrid and wrapped his arm round her waist drawing her in for a kiss that deepened until the pair was standing as close as they could to each other.
Astrid had been brought back to reality when she felt something...erm... change... and she stepped back a little to look curiously at Hiccup, to find him blushing.
She bit her tongue to prevent a joke but it failed, so she decided to lighten the mood with: "Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Hiccup groans at the terrible joke and replies with "Well my phone is on charge so it must be something else." This makes both him and Astrid giggle a little.
"Do you realise that I class that as being a tease, don't you?" She asks before pecking him on the lips and running her hands down his arms to link them to his hands.
"Oh really?" He responds almost smugly, pulling her closer.
Sorry again for being so late, got another chapter and a half, they should be ready soon and I cant wait to post them... but I have to wait at least 2 days, thanks for reading!