An Extraordinary Girl

Six

Astrid's POV
*knock knock*

"Astrid? Dinner is ready."

I stir a bit and groan.

"Astrid?"

"Mmmhhm?" I grumble in a low tone, and in an attempt to roll over to get the covers out from under me, I roll off the bed. "Shit," I curse under my breath.

"Dammit Astrid."
I hear my doorknob turn and look up from rubbing my head to see jack leaning on the door frame.

"Hey dinner is ready. If you care," he said looking at me in my fallen state. He pauses for a moment and opens his mouth to say something but stops and closes it. He turns around with a sigh and walks back up the stairs closing the door behind him.

What the hell was that all about?

I shrug it off and stand up and throw on a pair of shorts. I walk past my mirror giving a glance at myself out of the corner of my eye. I do a double take and fix my hair that's all messed up.

I swing my door open and make my way up the stairs. On my way up I can hear talking.

"Yeah he was here for literally 6 minutes, I forgot his name. You'll have to asks her when she gets up here."

I make my way to the top of the stairs and see my dad and Jack sitting at the island in the middle of the kitchen.

Jack and I make eye contact and then shortly my dad looks in my direction.

"Morning Astrid," my dad says making a plate of spaghetti.

"Not morning dad, it's 19:30(7:30pm) it's been a long day," I said grabbing a plate from the cabinet.

It gets quiet for a second. I turn and close the cabinet door, I look at the two who are making eye contact.

Jack shrugs and goes back to eating his spaghetti.

"Am I missing something?" I ask getting noodles from the pan.

"Well, Jack told me that um.. a boy brought you home.. and that he was in your room?" My dad said not making eye contact. I swear he's way to over protective.

"Yeah," I said putting sauce on my noodles.

"What's this boys name?" He says taking a seat.

"Hiccup," I say.

I hear Jack snicker as my dad questions me.

I shoot him a quick glare when dads not paying attention.

"Who is this Hiccup kid," He asks.

"Hiccup just moved here with his father. He's my friend and I took him to school this morning," I say putting spaghetti in my mouth.

"You and this boy? Are just friends?" He asks looking me in the eyes for the first time in this whole conversation.

I lean really close to him and look him dead in the eyes," yes we are just friends."

We stare at each other for a minute. Then he blinks and looks away.

I smile as I win the staring contest he didn't know we were having.

*ding*

"I'll get it," I say getting up to get the door.

I make my way out of the kitchen and into the mud room. I open the door," hello-"

I pause and see Hiccup standing at my door.

"Huh, you're ears burning?" I say leaning on the door frame.

"Huh?" He asks raising a brow.

"Never mind, what brings you round these parts?" I ask.

"Oh you know I live right next door and wanted to give this back to you," he puts his hand out," I uh figured you would want a car for tomorrow."

I outstretched my hand," oh hey I would like that," I say as he drops my car key into my hand.

"Who's at the door Astrid?!" My dad shouts.

I turn back towards the house and yell back,"it's just Hiccup!"

I run back to Hiccup and go to say goodbye.

"Invite him in should ya!" I hear my dad yell from the other room.

I feel the color drain from my face. He's going to question Hiccup. I don't want to put him through my dads interrogation.

"Oh I can come in for a minute, my dads not home right now," Hiccup says hearing my dad.

"Are you sure? You don't have to," I say sparing the poor child.

"No I don't mind... do you?" He said raising a brow.

I widen my eyes," oh no, no I just didn't think you wanted to meet my father," I say moving out of the doorway so he can enter.

He smiles and walks in the doorway and just past me. I shut the door and turn back around to see Hiccup standing directly behind me just staring at me.

"What?" I say slightly confused.

He looks down and around for a second," do you have a shoe policy?"

"Uh yeah, no shoes on the carpet, but there's no carpet from here to the kitchen," I say moving past him.

I make my way back to the kitchen with hiccup following behind me. I drop my keys on the counter next to my food and start eating again.

My dad glares at me for a second. Jack just looks at my dad and then to me.

My dads glare was getting intense, I knew what he wanted to pry out of me. He wants me to introduce him to Hiccup. If he's gonna invite him into the house he can introduce himself.

I glare back and he squints his eyes.

Through the awkward silence Hiccup clears his throat.

"Hi I'm Hiccup, nice to meet you Mr. Hofferson," Hiccup extends his hand for my dad to shake.

My dad starts to smile and shakes his hand squeezing it," nice to meet you too, call me John."

"Jack tells me you brought my daughter home from school today?" My dad says starting his interrogation."

"Yes, she was tired so I drove, she fell asleep and I didn't want to wake her so I just brought her inside," Hiccup said tapping his finger on the table.

He was getting nervous and the interrogating has just began.

Great

PTK