Orlissa

So... the police just left.

We have a family friend, she lives in the same town as my dad, but on the other side of the town, while my dad's place is like a hundred yards away from the bus stop. She works in a different town. So she'd come to my dad's place before a shift, let herself in - we have an electric gate, she has her own remote - store her bike in our garage, go to work, come back, pick up her bike, go home.

Just after 11pm, my dad I were already in PJs when we heeard the gate open - yeah, okay, she's here. A moment later she knocks on the window "ha-ha, very funny, where's my bike?"

So... my dad got home from work around 4pm. She left the gate open. My train got in at 5:15, another family friend came to pick me up, so I got home at around... 5:20-25.

Between these two times someone must have sneaked in, walked past the front door - the garage is behind the house -, opened the garage (the key is always in the lock, but it's not silent) and left with the bike.

So the police was notified at like 11:30, two officers came to check the place, and now everyone's a nervouse wreck.

I'm visiting a friend abroad soon. Will the plane ticket cost a pretty penny? Yeah. Will it put a significant dent into my savings? No. Will I ever be able to buy a home, no matter how diligently I save? (Sad laughter.) No. Will I still feel bad about spending that money on myself? Yeah.

There's that drabble of mine where the woman who does Stoick and Hiccup's laundry finds Astrid's shirt in their washing. Now, all the commenters (well, the whole two or three of them, but, I mean, that's normal for a drabble) went delightfully crazy that hey, the kids got caught red handed.

But to be fair?

A whole ass shirt is not that easy to misplace. You'd definitely notice it missing. Especially if you're losing that shirt while you're doing something you shouldn't be doing. So as I see it, there must have been some entirely innocent explanation for why the shirt ended up there--so innocent in fact that Hiccup and Astrid didn't even think about how it would look.

HOWEVER

There is Snowed In, a one-shot of mine, where Astrid spends the night at the Haddock house due to a snow storm. It's from Stoick's POV, and by the time he gets home, Hiccup and Astrid 1, got there after getting caught in the rain 2, changed clothes (with Astrid wearing Hiccup's) 3, were there, unsupervised, for an unknown lenght of time. If any mischief happened, well, it's happened then :P