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Astrid

"How does it feel to have Hiccup as your boyfriend?" Heather asked grinning widely at me. Me, her and Ruff were at the Arena training. It's been a while since we trained all together since I was so engaged with the mission Hiccup's and mine parents gave us. The guys were at the Clubhouse trying to make protection suits for all our dragons so Viggo's arrows would have no affect on our next match in the future.

"It's uh... fine. We're good. I'm good. He's good. We're together. It's - It's okay." Why do I keep stuttering? Does this has to do with the reason that I wanted us to be real? Ugh! This is making my headache a whole lot worse. I don't have the words to describe how I'm feeling. It's like my head is really heavy and I can feel some kind of throbbing pain at my forehead and also at the back of my head. My vision was fine but it did get blurry from time to time. It still does. I don't even know how I could keep up with our little training right now.

The wind brushed passed my skin and it made me feel colder. Yes, I have also been cold the entire morning but I did my best to keep myself from shivering. Because if I did,I'm sure they will all notice so I kept mobing around and not staying still in one place that way their attention wouldn't be too focus on me.

Stormfly, Windshear, Barf and Belch were at the Clubhouse along with the others. We decided to make this training without any help from our dragons but I am kind of starting to regret that decision. I want Stormfly. She'll be able to help me escape from this situation. I can't believe I am thinking like this but I want to skip this training and rest at my hut.

I will surely feel bad for leaving Ruff and Heather if I did but my headache was getting more and more to my nerves. Literally. My axe doubled its weight in my hands and I don't want to admit it but I think I'm ill.

I have the symptoms: headache, tremor, fatigue, feeling all drowsy and weak. I don't like getting sick but unfortunately Thor may think otherwise. Odin help me! I need to get away from my friends as soon as possible. I don't want to know or else they'll get worried and I don't want that to happen. We already have too much on our plate because of the Viggo-fiasco-dragon-hunters-maces-and-talons-dragon-eye-device-thingy and I don't want to add more. It's an advantage that I'm getting good at hiding my health situation because I do this all the time and I'm used to it. Nevertheless, they always failed to notice that I'm sick at least after a few days. All except Hiccup. And Heather too if she observed me closely. Which is why I need to get away from them both the most. Which will be kind of hard because besides Stormfly, they are my closest male and female best friends.

I think I just saw my way out thanks to the sun giving us one of the hottest days of the year. On one hand it was making my head hurt more and my eyes too but on the other hand it gave me the reason to get away from them.

"It's too hot. I need water! Make it rain Loki, the Master of all Pranks!" Ruffnut pleaded looking at the heavens above.

Heather didn't argue nor commented on what she was doing instead she said the most obvious thing the three of us were feeling. "I'm really thirsty."

Trying not to sound too desperate to get away from them. I suggested casually. "I'll get us some water so we can cool down."

"Why don't the three of us just go to the Clubhouse and get our own water? That way we could all cool down." Heather asked. Ruffnut agreed with her.

"I'll do it. Besides, if we cool ourselves down without finishing the training then when we go out here again, we won't be used to the heat and we'll feel morw hotter than now don't you think?" I asked as a matter of fact. They thought about it for a while before agreeing with me.

Now, how could I get them water without coming back. I head back to my house and found a jag of water stored inside. I used my nadder call to summon Stormfly and instructed her to bring the water jag with an attached note saying "I'm off somewhere." to Heather and Ruffnut. She squawked in understanding and I went in my hut ready for sleep. Although I'm not the rest all day kind of Viking I really need to take a break right now. I never imagined myself saying these words in my head. All my life I was a warrior. I am a Warrior. A Hofferson. A Viking. A Dragon Rider. A Sheidmaiden. I was trained by my own to work, to serve, and to protect. I forbid myself to take a rest most of the time except for the time when I was one of the people who convinced Hiccup to let us all rest including himself.

That time was different from this one. Sure I was tired at that time because of the pressure and I for one, knew all to well that we all needed rest. But right now despite being sick, I feel like it's not my body shutting me down. I mean, I did trained succesfully without them noticing my constant tremors and I did get back here at my hut witjout a single scratch on my body. It's like this time, it was me telling my self to rest. Not because I needed to but because I wanted to. Not because I'm ill or I'm tired but for no particular reason except to enjoy myself and relax. As my thoughts drifted, so did I into a peaceful slumber.

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I opened my eyes to hear two familiar voices having a conversation with me in the middle. They didn't notice my presence yet and I took my time observing and getting to know what they are talking about. Okay is an understatement from the recovery I felt. I feel so much more alive and energetic more than the usual. Maybe I should go to rest more often when I wanted.

"She's not sick. She doen't even have a high temperature. Maybe she just wanted to rest." Ruffnut stated.

"But why would she run from us like that?" Heather retorted.

"Maybe she don't want to hang-out with us? I don't know but she's not even cold." Ruffnut argued.

"I know, but still..." She trailed off lost for words. I cleared my throat and it took them a second or two before noticing my presence and started scolding me.

"Why did you left us?" Heather asked.

"I did say that I would get you guys water, right? I'm pretty sure that you permitted me to leave you both to do that." I said with a hint of a duh tone. I was being a bit sassy.

"You know what I mean Astrid." She said.

"I'm tired so I slept and asked Stormfly to deliver you the water. I do understand if you're mad at me for keeping  you waiting for hours. How many hours did I sleep by the way?" I asked which made the two of them surprised.

"Astrid, it has only been ten minutes." Heather informed. "Why do you feel like it's hours?" She asked.

"I guess the rest did more to me than I thought. I kinda feel hyper right now." I admitted but it shocked me too. Ten minutes and it feels like I've been sleeping for more than half a day. It's kind of intriguing but the important thing is I gained my strenghth back. Maybe even more.

"But if you were gone like that for long hours and we found you sleeping, it's not just us here who will be waiting for you. Hiccup would be here worrying about you don't you think?" Ruffnut pointed.

"But why would he do that?" My thoughts slipped right through my mouth.

"Because he's your boyfriend and he's been like that to you I don't know... since forever?" She said. Maybe Hiccup and I have been oblivious with each other's feelings the whole time. And I thought we were the most observant ones. How ironic. We observed how the others around us feel but not our own closest friend's besides from our dragon.

At the mention of his name I remembered what I should be working on right now aside from training and doing the mission. It's about confessing to Hiccup and knowing how he feels towards me. That's just when I noticed that my sight was swirling around and I couldn't see Heather nor Ruffnut anymore. Their face were like smudges before I can't tell who from who anymore and everything turned blurry.

I closed my eyes hoping that once I opened them my vision will go back to normal instead of the spinning images of scenery and colors in my head. But when I did I found myself looking at no other than Hiccup.

Not just one Hiccup Haddock. But two of them.

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