An Extraordinary Girl

Thirty

Hiccups POV

"Hey can we talk tomorrow?" -Astrid

I felt my heart drop. Did I do something wrong? Are we not okay? Is she mad at me? Did she lose feelings? Is she getting tired of me taking so long to ask her out? I just want to do it right. I care about her so much and I just want to make it special.

"Yeah I'm free all day tomorrow, what time?"

"Does noon work?"

"Yeah, I can come over? If that works?"

"Sounds like a plan."

I turned my phone off and stared at my ceiling.

I should have just asked her out when I had the chance. Now she's lost feelings of has gotten tired of waiting.

I grabbed my hair and sat up," how could I have been so fucking stupid!" I shouted through my teeth.

I got up from my bed and started pacing around the room. I've gotta figure something out. I can't just let her go, I've gotta come up with something.

In the morning(hehe it's a surprise for you and Astrid)

I wake up and look at the time, 10am. I groaned and put my head back down. I was up all night trying to figure out what to do but I gotta shower and go meet Astrid. No time for sleep, I crawled out of bed and made my way to the bathroom.

I looked in the mirror, the bags under my eyes were swollen, I need to wash my face and shower. I rubbed my scruff, I could use a shave too.

I got in the shower and got cleaned up. Afterwards I put on some jeans and a dark green flannel with a black t-shirt under it.

I looked at the time, 11am. Guess I could get myself something to eat and take a quick snooze. I went downstairs and made myself a bowl of cereal. I went back upstairs and finished eating and then laid down to take a small nap. I looked at the time, 11:20.  Hm a quick nap wouldn't hurt.

I let myself doze off as much as I could considering I was a little stressed to see what Astrid wanted to talk about. I kept checking the time, 11:30,11:37, 11:53.

Is it weird if I show up at noon? Would I get there a little early, a little late?
I put my pillow over my face and screamed into it. I threw the pillow across the room and looked at the window.

"Hm."

I got up and walked over to my window and looked down into Astrid's room. She's not there, maybe she's busy? She said noon worked.

11:58

I should probably head over now. I made my way down the stairs and was hit with the sent of bacon and eggs. I noticed my dad making eggs on the stove and waved as I put my shoes on.

"Where ya off to?" He said flipping his egg.

"Oh uh, Astrid's house. She said she wanted to talk to me about something," I said.

"For what?" He said taking the egg off the stove.

He turned to look at me and had a serious look on his face. It wasn't a pleasant face.

"Is something wrong dad?" I asked.

"Come sit down," I need to ask you about some things. He sat down at the table and started eating his breakfast.

"Okay?" I walked over to the table and sat down across from him.

We sat in silence for a moment as he chewed his food," so Astrid," he said with food in his mouth," what's that about?"

I raised a brow," sorry? Not sure what you're asking me."

"Are you two dating? Or are you just friends that spend 90% of their time together?" He asked.

"Uh no we're not dating yet," I replied somewhat quite.

"Yet?" He quoted.

"I planned on asking her out today, when I went over to her house," I said twiddling my thumbs.

"Oh, why today?" He asked.

"She said she needed to talk to me today and so I figured it would be the right timing, I don't wanna let her go," I said looking down.

"Are you gonna do it like that?" He asked gesturing to my horrible posture.

"Well..no.. I-I'm just not that comfortable with this conversation," I said attempting to fix my posture.

"Alright," he said taking his last bite of bacon," I guess I should tell ya to treat her right and not fuck this up cause she is our neighbor and a human being after all,"he said standing from his chair.

"What makes you think I won't?" I said turning in my chair to face him.

"I don't know, nothing really, I just wanna tell ya not to be a bad guy I guess."

I thought about it for a second, does my dad think I'm a piece of shit or something?? He raised me to the person I am today, I think he did a good job.

"Uh okay?" I said as more of a question than a response," can I go now?"

He put his plate in the sink and took a deep breath," yeah you can go."

"Okay I'll be back this evening," I said getting up and walking towards the door.

"Good luck with that girl, she's one of a kind, like your mum," he said with a smile.

My eyes widened and my heart warmed, I smiled a big smile and nodded at him before walking out the door.

He thinks she's like mom? He doesn't even really know her, I've just talked about her from time to time at dinner.

My thoughts were interrupted when I realized I was at Astrid's front door step. My heart sank, no, it was more like it was on fire, and not in a good way.

I cleared my throat and knocked on Astrid's front door.

The door opened moments later and Astrid's beaming smile welcomed me," hi."

"Hi."

PTK