An Extraordinary Girl

Twenty-five

Astrid's POV

I walk into class as the bell rings to see someone in the seat next to mine. I sit down and fix my green plaid skirt, the school uniform is a bit much for me but I worked my ass off to get into this school so I won't be complaining. I get my notebook out and get ready to start writing down what my professor is telling me.

As I write I can feel the person sitting next to me graze their fingers along my wrist and fingers. I look over to see a mop of auburn hair covering their eyes.  They appeared to be a young man. He seemed to just be concentrated on my hand.

"Excuse me?" I ask quietly.

He doesn't move.

"Could you please stop, I'm trying to pay attention to the lecture." I say softly again.

He doesn't stop.

I pull my hand away from him. He then looks up to me and our eyes meet, his... deep green eyes.. to my ocean blue ones.

Hiccup?

I just stare at him  and my heart begins to race. What is he doing here. He told me he didn't love me years ago... what is he doing here? Now of all times? In the middle of my lecture?!

He stares at me calmly and leans his head towards mine while looking from my lips to my eyes. I just freeze as my heart continues to beat fast.

His lips brush against my cheek as he whispers into my ear, "Hello Astrid..."

My heart stops, hearing his voice after all these years, is literal music to my ears. I melt as I just sit there with my head resting against his. I've missed him so much as much as I hate to admit it. I just want to drag him out of this horrible classroom and take him into the janitors closet like a cliche romance movie. But I can't. He hurt me and I can never forgive him for that.

After a long moment the bell rings. I sit up and look to see everyone in my class just leave as if nothing had happened. Like these two kids weren't having a romantic moment right in front of them for the past 20 minutes.

I look at hiccup and for the first time in a very long time, I see him smile.

A tear slides from my cheek, I grab my stuff quickly and run out of the room not looking back.
Time skip

I ran all the way to my dorm building. I take a deep breathe and look up to my dorm building. I head into the building and make my way to the elevator to see caution tape cover it and an out of order sign on it. I'm on the 3rd floor, I sigh and  open the stair door next to the elevator and climb the steep stairs.
After I get back to my dorm I decide I should go for a walk to clear my mind.

As I walk I remember how Hiccup and I used to go on walks together around the quarry and swim in the lake. I remember going to the park and eating ice cream, going to our secret spot and watching the stars.

I let a tear slid down my cheek, I can't believe after all these years I'm still in love with him, when he couldn't give a damn about me.

I look up from my feet to cross the road to the large park on the middle of town. I decide to make my way to the pond with a little island in the middle with a willow tree and bench on it. I go there when I need to think sometimes. If I'm stressed about a test or class or student debt.

As I make my way there and cross. The small bridge I stop and look at the turtles on the log slotting in the water and the small perch swimming around the moss. I look at my reflection to see the look on my face. I look the same way I did when I saw him last time. Broken into 10 trillion pieces.

I still wonder from time to time why he could do that, after everything we had been through, he still managed to lie.

I watch the ripples form as one of the turtles slide into the pond and disappear. I wish I could do that. Just disappear from this world.

Warm slid hands graze my waist and calmly wrap around my body then press the rest of their warm body against my back side. They rest their chin on my shoulder and softly kiss my neck.

The feeling is all to familiar, nobody could mimic the feeling he gave me. I should be seating this person away and throwing them in the pond at this moment but I can't. I stare at the water and as the ripples calm I can make the face out to be Hiccups.

The tears start to flow faster than ever. My vision blurs.........

I stir as the light creeps through my small window above my bed.  I blink a few times before thinking of the dream. That was one of the weirdest dreams I've been had, but also one of the scariest. I rub it off as nothing and roll over to face away from the window. I pull my body pillow close to me as it almost falls off the bed.I burry my face into my body pillow  I can smell the faint sent of Hiccup. I smile into the pillow and snuggle the rest of my body into it and slowly dose back off into a sleep.