An Extraordinary Girl

Ninteen

Toms POV

Hiccup passes out from a little water big deal. He was fine and Astrid was making to big of a deal.

I should have jumped in and helped the little runt. Then Astrid would have seen me. She would have seen that I'm the best for her.

I look over to the car where they vanished off to. Astrid's basically babysitting him. He's so pathetic. Why would she even be attracted to a loser like that? He's a twig waiting to be snapped.

I look back to the group to see everyone swimming except Snotlout.

He's just sitting there over on the rocks looking miserable.

Don't tell me he feels bad for what he did to Hiccup?

I roll my eyes in the other direction going back to Hiccup and Astrid.

I can instantly feel this sinking feeling inside of me. But I soon feel anger start to boil over....

Astrid's POV

As me and hiccup make our way back to the group I can't help but think.

Are we gonna tell people about us? Wait we're not even dating yet, we just made out and that was it....

I stop walking and hiccup stops with me.

"What's wrong?" He asks raising a brow.

"Um. Are we gonna tell people about......?" I say trailing off.

"I was wondering the same thing. I mean I don't care if you wanna tell people we can but if not we don't have to and just keep it to ourselves." Hiccup says.

"I mean.... we're not dating.... there's nothing to really tell them," I say twirling my thumbs.

Hiccup raises a brow," you said that as more of a question."

"Well I don't know if you wanna date," I say meeting eye contact

Hiccups face changes," I mean yes I wanna date. I like you a lot so why wouldn't I wanna date you?"

He has a point.... sort of...

You can like someone and not wanna date. You may not be in the position when it's convenient or something.

"I wanna date too," I say feeling my face get red.

Hiccup smiles and pulls me into a hug.

After a warm moment he pulls away and looks me in the eyes with a frown.

"We can't date yet," he says keeping the frown.

I feel my stomach sink," why?"

He sighs," Astrid, you're such an amazing girl, you deserve to be asked out properly."

I feel my heart start to flutter," y-you don't have to-"

He cuts me off," but I do Astrid."

"HEY GUYS!"

Hiccup and I look over to Tom who's calling for everyone.

I look to Hiccup and he rolls his eyes.

"Just ignore him. You won't have to deal with him for the rest of the summer," I say trying to cheer him up.

He sighs and forces a smile.

"Not cute, your real one is better," I say crinkling my nose.

"It's kind of hard to do that at the moment," he says with a frown.

"I know," I say grabbing his hand. We make our way over to everyone else and have a seat by the fire.

Snotlout doesn't make eye contact.

I hope he's not to traumatized by this....

"H-hiccup, we need to talk," Snotlout says standing up and walking away from everyone else.

Hiccup and I make eye contact for a moment. I nod and he slowly stands up and follows Snotlout.

Hiccups POV

Snotlout walks just past the tree line and I follow.

His arms are crossed and he seems to be having a staring contest with the ground.

"Snot-" he cuts me off.

"Listen here Haddock...I'm sorry for what I did..... I don't expect you to forgive me but know I'm not proud of myself." He says crossing his arms making eye contact now.

I stand there taken aback, I didn't expect that.

"Well.... didn't expect that..." I say with a chuckle.

"What? Did you think I was cold and heartless?" He asked.

"A bit yeah, I mean...... you did push me off a cliff." I said with a sincere smile.

"Well at least I'm apologizing," he says relaxin his arms.

"Yeah, I appreciate that," I say resting my hands on my hips.

"So..... are we cool?" He asked.

"You almost killed me Snot," I say with an arched brow.

"So no," he says as his face falls.

"You didn't mean to, and you're still apologizing, you've exceeded my expectations for you Snot." I say with a laugh.

Snotlouts face became red," Well I could have killed you."

I wipe the tear from my eye," yes, you could have," I rest a hand on his shoulder," but you didn't."

Snotlouts face softened, he made a hopeful eye contact," does that mean we're good?"

I sigh and think for a moment.

Yes he almost killed me and I'm pissed off... but he didn't mean to do what he did and he's sorry for it. He apologized to me and seems genuine. I can't forgive him now but I know I'll eventually learn to forgive him.

"Yeah were cool," I say extending my hand.

Snotlout stares at my hand for a moment before taking it and pulling me into a hug.

"I won't forget this Hiccup," he said while he hugged me.

His grip was tight as hell," y-yeah..... great.." I say between breaths.

He lets go of me. I take in a gasp of air," I don't forgive you, but I accept your apology."

"Well I knew that, why would you forgive someone for almost killing you?" He said with a large grin.

"Fair point," I say.

"Let's head back to the group before they think I killed you for real this time," he said waving me to follow.

"Already making jokes I see," I say following him.

"You bet!"I hear him call out.

I shake my head and can't help but grin as I make my way back. Today's probably been the worst and best day of my life.

PTK