Astrid's POV

It's been two weeks since I started at the school and this 'Haddock' boy - who I still didn't know the name of, because everyone referred to him by his last name or as 'Fishbone' or some other mean name. Liam and I have been out three times already. He was nice. But if I'm going to be honest. I don't really like him 'that way' as people say. It was a Friday morning and I was at my locker when I heard a bang down the hall a little bit and turned to look. It was the Haddock boy. This Sam guy and his friends pushed him and tripped him causing him to drop all his books. I actually felt bad for him. I shut my locker and walked over to them. Sam and his friends were laughing.

"What's your problem?" I said to Sam.

"He was in the way." Same said pointing to Haddock.

The boy looked up at them and rolled his eyes. I glared at Sam.

"I know that's a lie, because I saw all of you push and trip him. What do you have against him anyway?"

"Umm, he's a loser." Sam said.

"So that gives you an excuse to push him around. You obviously have no life."

Sam scoffed at me and walked away with his friends. I shook my head and rolled my eyes at him. I turned to see Haddock finishing getting up from the floor and I helped him.

"You okay?" I asked.

"I'm fine." He said not looking at me.

"Okay." I said and turned to walk away.

"Hey Astrid." He called. I stopped in my tracks and looked at him.

"You know my name?"

"Of course. So many people talk about you. I also sit next to you in all our classes, and see you write your name on everything you write on." He said.

I just stared at him. "People talk about me?" I asked. He nodded. "W-what do they say?" I asked walking towards him again.

"Just how smart you are, how pretty you are, different you are. I mean no one really knows anything about you yet. You only really been talking to that Liam guy. Who, by the way, is a complete ass. I don't know what you see in him."

"He made an effort to talk to me my first day." I said to him.

"Yeah, because your hot." He said. I looked at him and blushed slightly. Trying to make sure he didn't notice.

The bell rang for class to start and we both walked to History class together.

"What's your name?" I finally asked him.

"Hiccup." He said kind of quietly.

"That's a...interesting name." I said.

He looked at me. "It's a stupid name." He said. "At least yours is considered a real name, even though it's different. Mine is different. But stupid."

I didn't say anything for a minute. We were almost to the classroom when I said one last thing.

"I like different." I smiled at him opening the door and we went to our seats and sat down.

Oh and before I forget. Miss Louis permanently switch Sam's seat to the front and center so I could have his. Let's just say he wasn't too thrilled about that.

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After school was over I was walking down the sidewalk when I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see Hiccup. I smiled a little.

"Hey!" I said as he caught up to me.

"Hey. Where are you going?" He asked.

"Home?" I said looking at him confused. "As much as I don't really want too."

He looked at me curious. I looked at him.

"You don't wanna know. Trust me."

"Where do you live?"

"Valley Apartments. It's about a 20 minute walk from school."

He looked at me. "Really?" He said. "I live like 5 minutes from there. 10 minutes walking. My dad owns the mansion that's down the street a little bit. My dad's the mayor."

"Really? Than why do you get picked on?" I asked.

"Because of my name, and how little I am. I mean before I had a growth spurt, even most girls were taller than me."

We walked in silence for a few minutes when I heard my phone go off. I looked at it. It was a text from Liam.

Liam: Wanna hang out tonight?

I stared at it for bit before locking my phone and putting it back in my pocket. Hiccup looked at me.

"Liam?" He asked. I nodded. "What does he want?"

"Hang out tonight. But I don't know if I want too. Depends on my mom when I get home."

Hiccup looked at me curious. I looked at him and sighed.

"Just depends on her state." I said not explaining anything else. I looked straight ahead and kept walking. I could sense him looking at me. After a few minutes I finally gave in. "I have to make sure she's not hurt." I said.

"Why would she be hurt?" He asked.

"I don't want to talk about this." I said sound upset and bit angry. Hiccup noticed and didn't say anything. We walked in silence the rest of the way and we reached my apartment building.

"Can I have your number?" I asked Hiccup. Hiccup looked at me surprised. "What? We're friends now, right?" I said.

He nodded and gave it to me. "It's just, no one really asks for my number. Especially girls like you." He said. I smiled a little.

"Well, I always ask for my friends numbers. Also, don't forget what I told you today Haddock." I said pulling out my key from my bag. He looked at me curiously. I smiled at him. "I like different." I unlocked my door.

He smiled. "Bye Astrid."

"Bye Hiccup." I said shutting the door.

I had this strange feeling the entire time I was with him walking home. A feeling I've never had with a boy before. I couldn't really put my finger on it. It was strange, but nice. I guess you could say I liked being around this Hiccup guy. He was nice.

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I got into my apartment and saw my mom passed out on the couch. I saw some bottles of wine on the coffee table and went to the kitchen and opened the fridge. I saw a bottle of vodka. It was a small one. I grabbed it and grabbed a package of chocolate chip cookies and went to my room. I did my homework and opened my laptop. I looked at my phone and had a few more texts from Liam. Asking where I was, why I didn't respond. I sighed and texted him back.

A: Sorry babe, I can't tonight. Mom needs me home. I'll ttyl.

L: K.

'K' I thought. All he sends is 'K'. I shook my head. 'Boys' I thought. I saw it was about 7pm and I opened the vodka and cookies I had sitting beside my bed. A couple hours went by and you could say I was a little happy. The vodka was almost gone and I heard the door to the apartment close. I heard yelling and left my room to see what it was. It was Thomas. My mom's boyfriend. Coming home from a bar again. Drunk. He shook my mom to wake her and started yelling at her.

"Why is this apartment a damn mess!" He screamed at her. I was standing around the corner and listening.

"I've been sleeping for hours!" She said. "Besides most of this is your crap. Why don't you clean it up!" My mom yelled back at him. I rolled my eyes at her 'I was sleeping' comment. They kept yelling back and forth.

"You're so lazy Tiffany!!" Thomas yelled. "Clean up this apartment!!" He screamed at her throwing a bottle across the room. It hit the wall right next to me and I gasped. My mom got up to start cleaning and he pushed her and started hitting her. I came into the room and tried to pull him off of her and he turned around and grabbed my wrist tightly. I screamed in pain.

"Let go!" I screamed.

"Shut your mouth, you pathetic, useless human being!" Thomas screamed at me and tossed me to the floor. I went to get up and he punched me across the face before I could. I held wear he punched me. Knowing it was gonna bruise. He went towards my mom again and I was sick of her getting hurt by guys. I got up and grabbed Thomas from the back and he slammed me against a wall and pinned my arms holding them tightly. He let go of one and kept squeezing the other. I screamed in pain as he kept tightening his grip on my wrist. I tried getting his hand off and I eventually screamed what sounded like bloody murder when I didn't only feel my bone, but heard it snap. Thomas dropped me and I looked at it holding it and it was bruising right away already.

"GET OUT!!!" I screamed at him. I had tears coming down my face. "Stay away from my mom and get out of our house!!" I yelled. He looked at me.

"I was gonna leave anyway, and I'm not coming back this time." He said grabbing his bag and slamming the door as he left.

I looked over at my mom and she saw me. I walked towards her and she looked at me. She put a hand on my cheek.

"Are you okay." I asked her. She nodded.

"I'm fine. How about you?"

"Uhhh, well..." I said looking at my wrist. "I think a trip to the hospital is necessary." She frowned at me.

"I'm sorry he hurt you Astrid. I never meant for him to hurt you." She told me.

"Mom." I started. "You need to stop dating this guys. They all turn out the same." I told her.

"Let's get you to the hospital." She said getting up and grabbing the keys to the car.

She completely ignored what I had said and I sighed. "Mom. You can't drive. You're drunk. I'll get a friend of mine to take me." I told her. She nodded and I helped her to bed the best I could.

I got my phone and called Hiccup. He picked up after a couple of rings.

H: Astrid?

A: Hey, I need to ask you a huge favor.

H: What's up?

A: I need a ride to the hospital.

H: Why? What happened? Are you okay?

A: I'm fine. I fell down the stairs in the hall earlier and I think I broke my wrist.

H: I'll be there in like 10 mins. I just gotta change. Do you need help?

A: No, I'll meet you outside okay?

H: Alright.

I waited outside and he pulled up in his car and I got in holding my left wrist. He glanced at it and saw it was swollen and bruised. He looked up at my face and saw a black eye. He started to drive to the hospital with me.

"You said you fell down the stairs?" He asked making a right turn.

"Yeah." I say quietly. "I'm fine. Just a little banged up. But I'll be okay." I told him. I was terrified he wasn't going to believe me. He didn't question it though. Thank goodness.

Once we got there we went to the waiting room and Hiccup wrote my name down on the page for me and sat with me.

We waited almost 4 hours and it was about 1:30am - 2am now. We were both exhausted when they finally called my name. He came back with me. After I told him he could.

"So, what happened?" the nurse asked examining my wrist. I tried not to scream from the pain.

"I fell down the stairs of my apartment building." I told her.

She gave me a puzzled look. "Astrid." She said looking me in the eye. She saw me glance at Hiccup and could tell I was hiding something. She looked at him. "Could you step out for a minute." She asked him. Hiccup nodded and left the room. She sat down on a chair across from me and looked at me. "Astrid. You need to tell me the truth. There's finger marks on your wrist from it being squeezed so hard. Someone broke it." I didn't say anything. "Astrid. Are you being abused at home?" She asked. I looked at her and shook my head.

"No. Well, not what you think. It wasn't really family or friend. It was my mom's boyfriend. He came home drunk tonight and him and my mom started fighting again and he started to hit her, so I tried stopping him, and he started to hurt me too." I confessed to her.

"Is he still there?" she asked. I shook my head.

"No, he left." I told her looking down.

She sighed. "I'm sorry. I'm gonna get you some ice and I'm gonna have you get x-rays done. So we can see what kind of break it is. Okay?" She told me, I nodded. "I'll let your boyfriend back in." she said.

"He's not my boyfriend." I told her.

"Oh. My apologies." She said. She opened the door and Hiccup came back in and sat with me as she left to go get ice.

"So?" He asked.

"x-rays." I told him.

After a couple more hours the x-rays were done and they put a cast on my wrist. Gave me directions on how to take care of it and set up an appointment for 6 weeks from now to check on it. I thanked them and Hiccup brought me back home.

"I'll see you at school?" He asked.

"If I go. Yes. Depends on sleep and how well I can cover this eye." I told him. "Thank you, Hiccup." I said smiling.

He smiled back. "You're welcome." he said.

I got back into my apartment and into my room and changed into my pajamas and got ready for bed. I laid on my bed and sighed.

'Hiccup Haddock.' I thought and than soon fell asleep.

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