Your Love Changed Me

Chapter 23: Surprise Visit

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I sat up in bed and listened while Hiccup read me our history textbook homework. We had exams coming up, and than graduation and than we were done with high school. I still feel awful that Hiccup gave up going to college for me and the twins. I know how much he wanted to go. But he told me that me and the babies are more important. 

"What's the answer?" Hiccup asked me. I snapped from my thoughts. 

"what?" I asked. He smirked at me. 

"what's the answer to the question I just asked." he said. 

"oh, um..." I said. 

"You weren't listening to me were you?" He asked. I smirked and shook my head. "I asked what the name of the first president of the United States was." 

"Oh, George Washington." I said. 

"Good." he said. He flipped the page to find a new question. I lost myself in my thoughts again. 

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A nurse came in later to change my bandages and told me I need to have a bath later. I hated it when I had to bathe. It was painful. They would do an ultrasound for the babies every day. They wanted to keep an eye on them since I wasn't active. Hiccup stayed with me everyday. I kept telling him he should be at school but he didn't want to leave my side. He was so sweet that way. I knew that he truly loved me. 

The afternoon came around and there was a knock on my bedroom door. Hiccup got up and went and answered  it. He just stood there for a moment in shock. He looked at me and I had a confused look on my face. 

"Who is it?" I asked. Hiccup moved a bit and it was my parents. Both of them. There was an officer with them. Hiccup looked at me as if to ask if I wanted them to come in and I nodded. Hiccup let them in and they came over to the bedside. My parents and I all just stared at each other. My father looked horrible. You could tell he use to do drugs and was an alcoholic because he looked like he was 15 years older than he really was. My mom looked pretty decent. After a few minutes I finally said something. 

"Why are you guys here?" I asked them. 

"We want to apologize for everything that we did to you ever since you were little. We want you to know that we are truly sorry and would like to ask for your forgiveness." My mother said. 

I just looked at her, analyzing her face for any hint that she was lying to me. I couldn't find one. Apparently her and my father had made up and forgiven each other. Which seemed crazy to me. I looked at Hiccup as if to ask for help making a decision. After a while I looked at them. 

"Can you let me think about it for a while?" I asked. They both nodded understanding why. They left and I sat there. Hiccup looked at me. "What do I do?" I asked him. He sighed. 

"It's really up to you Astrid. I don't know what you want to do. I mean for all we know they could be faking it and end up hurting you again. Or when you have the twins they could possibly hurt them too." He said. I sighed. "Just think about it for a few days." He told me. I nodded. 

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It was later in the night and Hiccup was braiding my hair. He was actually pretty good at it. 

"If one of these twins is a girl, you'll be able to do her hair too." I told him. He smirked and kissed my cheek. I sat back on the bed and he sat next to me on it. I cuddled up to him and he wrapped his arm around me. I had a bit of a bump now and Hiccup put his hand on it. I smiled at him. 

"Can you feel anything yet?" He asked me.

"A little bit. It feels kind of like little bubbles floating around and popping." I said with a smile and laughing a little. Hiccup laughed a bit. 

"I can't wait until I can feel them too." He said. I smiled.

I put my hand on top of his and he kissed me. 

"I love you." He told me. 

"I love you too." I said.

After a little while we both fell asleep together.

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