An Extraordinary Girl

Twenty-eight

Hiccups POV

We laid on the small cot as I read to Astrid and she twirled her fingers around mine.

As I continued to read to her she rolled over to make eye contact." I think Jonny was in love with Ponyboy."

I raised a brow," I don't think so."

"Well I ship it," she says resting her head on my chest.

I let out a small laugh that soon turned into an uncontrollable laugh.

She sat up," what's so funny?"

"You, you really think that they are in love with each other? Their just friends Astrid. Sometimes I think you're just a sucker for love," I said smiling.

She puffed her cheeks," well maybe I am," she whispered in a soft tone.

"Hey it's ok to be a sucker for love, it's how I got you in the first place," I said kissing her temple.

"No." She said crossing her arms.

I frowned," What do you mean?"

"You don't have me. Remember. You won't date me," she said sticking her tongue out.

I rolled my eyes and hugged her," yeah but that doesn't mean you can go around with anyone else ok?"

She giggled," Yeah I know. I didn't plan on doing that in the first place."

I peppered her face in kisses causing her to erupt in laughter.

"H-Hiccup s-stop! It tickles!" She cried.

I stopped and giggled. I looked into her beautiful blue eyes and smiled." I think I'm falling for you Astrid Hofferson."

Her eyes grew with curiosity and a slight tint of red spread across her cheeks. She tucked some hair behind her ear and smiled. "I think I'm falling for you too."

My smile grew large, I grabbed her waist and pulled her on top of me and kissed her softly. Her fingers glided through my hair and lightly pulled it. I grabbed her hips and lightly squeezed. She shifted slightly but I kept ahold of her.

She started to pull away leaving a loud smack when our lips parted. "Something wrong?"

She looked down and to the side," no I just don't feel very good all of a sudden."

I felt her forehead," you don't feel warm?"

"I don't know Hiccup, my head just kinda hurts  along with my stomach," she said rubbing her arms.

I felt like something else was wrong," do you wanna go home?"

She looked at me for a moment," yeah."

I nodded and got up and we made our way back to the truck not speaking the whole time.

The ride back home was also quiet except for me playing music with the aux. Once we pulled in the drive it was past midnight.

She turned the truck off and got out and started making her way up to her door.

I jumped out and caught up with her. I grabbed her wrist and turned her towards me. Something was off, very off. She looked up at me with sad eyes.

Is she mad at me? What did I do wrong?

"Yes?" She asked.

"Um...," I scrambled for words, now I knew something was wrong," goodnight, and um.... if something's wrong don't hesitate to talk to me?"

She looked at me with a blank expression,"goodnight Hiccup," she said with a small smile.

She turned and walked in her house.

I should have made her stay and tell me what's wrong, what I did wrong. I seem to fuck up everything. I sighed and walked over to my house and went straight to my room.

I went to my window to see Astrid had her light turned off. Maybe she just hasn't gone in yet?

I should probably just go to bed. But I don't want to go to bed knowing something could be wrong.

I could text her, is that to much? I gotta know though, I grabbed my phone and went to her contact. My thumbs didn't seem to want to move, I don't know what to say. I could ask if I did something wrong? Was it me or something else on her mind? Is she actually sick and I'm just being dramatic? Why am I overthinking everything?

"Are we okay?"

That sounds the best, I typed it out and sent it to her. I put my phone under my pillow and paced back and forth waiting for a response.

My phone dinged and I dove for it. I opened the message and sighed in relief.

"Yeah"

Never in a million years did I think that the word 'yeah' would bring me suck comfort.

I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and laid down in bed.

I tried thinking of a response for 'yeah' but realized it was sort of a dry text.

I just said," okay, I wanna be sure," and sent it.

I turned my phone off and went to sleep.

PTK