Prompt: Because is never easy… even if it's someone you've known all your life.
Hi! If you listen to the song 'Best Friend' By Jason Chen, then this should be familiar to you. I hope you like it! I own nothing
MODERN ALERT!
Hiccup couldn't find what he was looking for. Where was it! Where the hell was it!
Hiccup threw things across his apartment room in search for—
Crash!
"Damn it!" Hiccup jumped back from the fallen box. He noticed something fall out.
Hiccup bent over (since he can't kneel) and picked it up. It was a picture of him and a girl…
Hiccup smiled widely. The two of them were are the park, when they met…
Sixteen years earlier
Ten year old Hanson Hayden Haddock the Third was running around his favorite park when he bumped into a girl with golden hair.
"Who do you think you are!?" The Golden Haired girl asked
"I-I'm sorry…" Hanson, dubbed Hiccup since the first day of preschool, said on the ground "I honestly didn't mean to run into you…"
The Golden Haired girls face soften as she smiled "I like you. I'm Astrid, and you're my new best friend."
Hiccup's eyes widened "I-I'm Hiccup…"
Astrid held out her left hand, and Hiccup put his right in her hand. Astrid helped up Hiccup without trouble "Okay Hiccup, let's play pretend! I'm the Knight in Shining Armor, and you can be the damsel in distress!"
"Why am I the girl?" Asked Hiccup
"Uh… Damsel in distresses don't always have to be girls."
"A damsel is a girl."
"Oh… then you can be a Hiccup in Distress."
"Works for me!"
Hiccup laughed and rolled his eyes. He picked up another picture and saw his high school self, a few weeks after his accident, and him trying to catch up with school. It was of him and Astrid, in the public library way past ten at night.
"Come on Hiccup! You need to catch up with school. Not make paper airplanes!" Astrid threw a pencil at him
Hiccup groaned "Why do I need to catch up with school? When will I need this in the real world? I already caught up with my sleep that I missed."
Astrid looked down "I hate it when you make coma jokes."
Hiccup frowned "I thought you loved all my jokes."
"Not coma jokes… and most of your jokes suck."
"Sure…"
Astrid rolled her eyes.
A few hours later it was well past ten a clock, and Hiccup started to fall asleep. Astrid looked up from her book and saw her best friend falling asleep. Astrid smirked and pushed up her Letterman Jacket sleeves.
She took a piece of paper from his notebook and started to fold it.
After she was done she held it up and threw the paper airplane at him. Hiccup jerked awake, and Astrid started to laugh at him.
"Jeez Astrid. There's no Honey with you is there?"
"Nope!"
Three months later is when Astrid broke up with her first boyfriend. Hiccup knocked on Astrid's bedroom door, holding two pints of ice cream and two spoons.
"Go away!" He heard Astrid yell
"It's me… Hiccup." He said
He heard sniffling, then footsteps. The bedroom door opened and Hiccup saw his best friend, red puffy eyes and a tissue in her hand
"Hi." She said, then walked back to her bed
"Hi…" Hiccup whispered, walking into the bedroom. Hiccup sat on her bed and Astrid curled up next to him.
"Can I have that?" She asked and Hiccup laughed
"I even bought your favorite."
"You are the best friend that has ever happened." They moved to the headboard and Astrid moved away from Hiccup. She grabbed the pint and started to eat it.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Hiccup, throwing his jacket across the room
Astrid shook her head "I just want to forget that I ever dated Eret son of Eret…"
Two hours later, both of them are lying on their stomachs laughing their asses off.
"You really know how to make me feel better…" Said Astrid
"I'm your best friend… it's my job." Chuckled Hiccup
Astrid looked at her empty ice cream container "Sometimes—sometimes I wish we weren't best friends."
"Why?"
"So… so you could've been my first boyfriend," Astrid sighed, and laid her head against his bicep "But it's just a stupid thought. Sorry I said anything."
"It's okay…" Hiccup laid his head on top of hers and closed his eyes.
That's when he knew… he was in love with Astrid Hofferson… his best friend.
About a half an hour later, Astrid was asleep. Hiccup got up and put a blanket over her and smiled at her.
"I'm sorry I wasn't your first boyfriend." Hiccup pushed hair out of her eyes and pressed his lips to her forehead.
It was two weeks before graduation when he got the letter. USC accepted him… Hiccup looked over the ocean in awe.
"Wow…" He whispered
"HICCUP!" He heard, then was tackled by his best friend, shoving a piece of paper in his face "Look! Look!"
"I can't see it when you're shoving it in my face." Hiccup's nasally voice was muffled by the paper and Astrid pulled it away from his eyes
"I got in!" Astrid twisted around Hiccup's midsection without letting go and held on tighter.
"I'm so proud of you Astrid." Hiccup said, but couldn't help but think that they were going to be on opposite sides of the country. They were never going to see each other.
Hiccup held Astrid closer and buried his head in her hair.
"It's not going to be forever." Said Astrid
"It's going to feel like it."
Astrid looked up and cupped his face "Listen to me Hanson Hayden Haddock III, it doesn't matter if we live two minutes away, or 20,000 miles away. You will forever be my best friend. And I love you so much." Astrid pressed her lips against his. They kissed a lot since Hiccup's accident early on senior year. But it was friendly kisses.
"You're my best friend to..." Hiccup held on to Astrid again.
Near the end of freshman year, Astrid sat down in front of her laptop in her favorite NYU shirt. Hiccup looked over from his lap and smiled at the sight of her. Friday night had become their 'Skype Night' ever since they moved away from Berk. Astrid pushed her bangs out of her eyes, blushing.
"Hey." She said
"Hey," Hiccup smiled his lopsided smile that made Astrid's heart flutter.
"I really miss you." She whispered
"Hey, I miss you to."
Astrid was about to say something, but her dorm room door opened and her roommate walked in. Regina 'Ruffnut' Thorston walked in and threw a package at Astrid
"Did you send this to me?" Asked Astrid
"Yeah I needed-" started Hiccup, but was cut off by Ruffnut again
"Astrid! Come on! There's a major party!" Ruff started to pull Astrid away from the computer
"I'll be right back Hiccup! Don't go away!"
Ruff pulled Astrid to the door and Astrid pushed Ruff's hand off of her
"What are you doing?"
"You never got out!"
"You know Friday nights are for Hiccup only!"
Hiccup was sitting in his lonely dorm, his roommate long gone on a night out. Hiccup set his jaw and suddenly knew what he had to do. He shut his computer and ran to his closet.
Astrid walked back to her laptop and saw her Skype was down "Hiccup? That jackass! He hung up on me!" Astrid started to dial his number, but got his voicemail.
"What the hell is going on?"
Then, she remember the package. She slowly walked over to it and opened it. It had everything she loved in it, including her favorite picture of her and Hiccup. It was of their senior prom, Hiccup ended up taking her because they both didn't have dates. She pulled out a bag of Cheetos and laughed. Why did Hiccup do this? Astrid looked up, then outside her door. She bolted out the door...
Hiccup ran into the airport and straight for the departure board, he typed in 'NewYrk' and saw a '9:27' PM time, and smiled. That was only an hour from now. So he bought the ticket and ran.
Hiccup ran up to Astrid's dorm room, and opened it with the key Astrid gave him. He looked around and didn't see Astrid.
"Astrid!" He called "Astrid!" Hiccup walked up to her neat bed and punched it "I'm sorry for being a dipshit all these years..." Hiccup sank to the ground, letting his luggage fall to the floor with a thud. He rubbed his face and sighed. He closed his eyes and leaned his head against her bed.
"Hiccup?"
Hiccup's eyes opened and he saw Astrid slowly walking to him. He swallowed and stood up.
"This is why you hung up on me?"
"I'm sorry... I just- I needed to come here."
"Hiccup, shut up." Astrid pulled him in close and-
Hiccup jumped and saw a paper airplane on his lap. He looked up and saw Astrid, wearing her glasses and sweats and tee shirt, laughing
"Oh really? This is how you get pay back?" Hiccup stood up and walked over to his girlfriend.
"Of course. You have known me since we were ten."
"I know..." Hiccup pulled her in close and kissed her.
"I love you," He heard Astrid whisper
"I love you to..."