Possibly an hour passed by when I finally decided to move my head and stretch, I tilted my head back and sighed as my neck cracked.
"Finally awake I see" I turned my head to my right to find Astrid sitting not too far from me, the fact that I never heard her coming or even sit next to me bothered me greatly.
"When did you get here?" she shrugged
"Lost track of time, you were out for awhile, I thought you were just thinking...if that's even normal for you...but you didn't move when I came."
"Whatever..why? Why are you here?" turning my gaze to the field before me I tried my hardest to completely ignored her attempts to look me in the eye
"Mom told me you were upset...so I just came to check on you"
She moved closer to me until our legs touched but my eyes locked onto a clearing to the north of me, I refused to give in to her.
"How'd you know I'd be here?" the question was stupid even in my mind and I deserved to be hit upside the head with a shield.
"Stupid question but by the look on your face you know that"
Astrid leaned against me and sighed "want to talk about it?" she laid her head on my shoulder and wrapped her hands around my arm.
"There's nothing to talk about OK? I was just thinking about stuff, important stuff, I'm not as dumb as you and Hiccup think" I gritted my teeth in anger.
"Ruff...we never said-"
I snarled "Yeah you never said it but I know you two think that! Same with stupid Fishlegs, you three are just the smartest people in all of Middle Earth aren't ya?"
My muscles got ready for a fight as my throat tightened and my eyes stung "if you two are so damn smart then you should know what is going on, you should already know so don't ask me if I want to talk about it, there's noting to talk about!"
Astrid pulled her body closer to mine as if she wanted us to become one, she wrapped one leg around mine, her arms wrapped around my chest and her face buried in my neck.
She pulled herself up so she sat on my right leg and pulled me to her.
"I know I'll never be able to understand what you two feel, but I'm your friend and I want to understand OK? You know I'm here for you Ruff...and I don't think your stupid, I know very well that you are a bright and intelligent person, just in your own way."
I grunted and wrapped my arms around her waist and tried to pull her lower body closer to mine.
"I don't think friends hug like this...people might start to think otherwise if we do this outside of our field you know" I could feel her smile.
She shifted a bit but never got off "we can save that conversation for some other time"
We stayed like that until afternoon started to come on "everyone must be wondering where we are, we should probably head back, feel like it?" she moved her head from my shoulder and instantly I missed the warmth her body brought to me.
"No but what choice do I have? Unless I'm allowed to stay out here forever, also I thought I'm supposed to stay away from Tuff, so who would even be worried about us?"
She shrugged while getting up and held out a hand, I stared at it gloomily before letting her help me up.
"You'll be sleeping in my room with me so I hope you don't mind sharing a bed" walking ahead of me I took in every detail of Astrid from the back, she always worse a sort of spiked skirt with skulls attached.
She always had these small little pouches that she never seemed to do anything with though too.
Her figure was thin and curvy and until she started dating Hiccup, or you think she's dating Hiccup, she was the girl every guy went after.
You've tried everything you could to be just like her, you work out every day, you ordered Fishlegs to teach you about dragons and how to read and etc.
You even try to walk up straight like her and copy her movements, you even bathed more so she wouldn't complain about you smelling like the guys!
But of course if she ever notices or noticed that was unsure, but what you did know was that you were in a way completely jealous of her.
I stopped at the bridge and stared at the sky "I wonder how Barf and Belch are doing" Astrid stops and shrugs "how do they normally act without one or both of you?"
"Confused, scared, stuff like that" she walks to you and joins you at sight seeing
"Like you right now? Like Tuff?"
I glanced at her "yea..like us" carefully I 'stole' Astrid's knife I picked at my nails.