burning - topper thornton s1 & s2

three

astrid walked down the dock silently before someone called her name. she stopped in her path, turning around to see a familiar person jogging toward her.

"oh hi pope." she smiled at the boy as he ran over to her.

"sorry, my dad said he had some groceries for you and you know the phones are down. do you want to come get them now?" he asks and she hesitates, knowing her history with the heywards wasn't the best.

their families used to be close, pope and astrid were inseparable as children until her parents got rich and pope no longer wanted to hang out with a "kook" even though she was born a pogue.

"sure, i'll drive." astrid answers, not missing the wide smile that forms on pope's face while they walk to her car.

"how's your parents?" pope asks.

"oh they're fine, busy i guess." she shrugs in response.

"astrid!" someone else yells her name right as they reach her car. the pair turns around to see topper, rafe, and kelce walking up to them.

"hi boys." astrid teases, a smirk on her face. the three eye her before their eyes land on the pogue boy in front of them.

"what are you doing with this pogue?" topper asks and she sighs.

"i'm going on a drive with my friend. something wrong with that?" she asks and rafe whistles.

"someone's got a temper." rafe says and she ignores him.

"maybe there is a problem, astrid." topper says and kelce laughs lowly.

"oh and what is that?" astrid asks, crossing her arms over her chest.

"you shouldn't be hanging around their type, they're dangerous." kelce says and astrid scoffs.

"they held a gun to my head." topper says and astrid stares at him, urging him to argue with her.

"yeah well i was a pogue once, gonna treat me like dirt too?" astrid asks and topper rolls his eyes, not believing she was a pogue for obvious reasons.

"now back up, or i'll hit you with my car. it's that easy." she threatens and rafe holds his hands up in surrender before tugging the other two boys away.

"bye boys!" she calls out, putting her middle finger up in the process.

"watch your back pope!" topper yells.

"get in." astrid mumbles and gets in the driver seat while pope gets in the passenger seat. they drive in silence to heyward's.

"thank you." pope says once they park.

"for what?" she asks and he shrugs.

"not thinking badly of me since i'm a pogue and you're a kook." pope says, making astrid sigh.

"you were my best friend pope, i'll always stick up for you." astrid says and smiles at him before getting out of the car. the two walk over to the building and pope walks ahead of her to get the bags of groceries. he comes back out and hands some of them to her, walking back to her car to put them in.

"thank you pope." astrid thanks him with a small smile.

"yeah, uh just let me know if you need anything else." pope says and the girl nods, her dark hair falling over her shoulders.

"hey pope!" someone yells.

"oh that's jj, i should go." pope says and waves awkwardly before joining his blonde friend who looked at astrid, studying her while she got in her car. astrid drove home and walked inside with the groceries in her hand.

"mom, dad?" she called out through the house. nothing. as usual they weren't home.

"hey rat." atlas greeted her and she rolled her eyes at her older brother.

"hi dick." she taunts and he flicks her forehead, making her gasp and shove him lightly.

"you work today?" he asks her and she shakes her head.

"not for the next few days, mrs. thornton will be home for a couple days." astrid tells him and he nods, grabbing an apple and taking a big bite out of it.

"well can we go over to the cameron's? i have to give something to rafe." atlas says and i look at him confused.

"why do i need to come?" i ask and he shrugs.

"i'm gonna go take a nap." astrid announces and runs upstairs, laying down on her bed and almost instantly falling asleep.