Day 1: First Date (AU)
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The first time they meet it's not really the first time. At least not for Hiccup that had taken stalking to a whole new level and had been secretly following Jack, the coolest and hottest kid in the neighborhood, every day after school.
Of course he would never admit to be this entranced by some popular boy that had never even looked his way. Actually if anyone asked his opinion on him was always the same: Jack was popular but boring, he was probably the type that bullied the weak and dorky looking kids like Hiccup, or maybe he was the silent time when no one was looking, preferring to seclude himself in his room at night and go all emo.
Who cares if Hiccup didn't actually think any of this was true? To his other nerd, dorky friends this made sense and it helped that they believe him and left him alone with his weird obsession with Jack Frost.
And well he had to make up something when Merida had found the box. His box. The box containing thousand photos of Jack that he secretly took when the other was doing boring things that kind of fascinated Hiccup. Like ice skating. Or babysitting his sister. These days even just seeing Jack sleeping underneath a cherry blossom tree deserved a picture. And if anyone asked he was just casually snapping a photo of the beautiful tree, because cheery trees were amazing and pretty and his father love them.
He planned to take that box to his grave. He had even wrote some sort of testament where he added that important line "you can keep everything in my room, but please don't take my box!". Even though it's been a week since that unfortunately incident, Astrid still looked at him strangely and sometimes asked him what was in the box. Thank god he managed to keep Merida quiet about that.
So yeah, it's not really the first time they meet, but it's their beginning. And Hiccup is unexpectedly mute when face to face with his crush that is not really a crush, because why would he have a crush on this hot guy that has such beautiful blue eyes. It's unthinkable.
Instead he thinks it must be how carefree Jack appears to be that makes him so interesting. Something about Jack Frost seems cold, like his icy blue eyes, and at the same time it's also so bright it burns like a star in the midnight sky.
So of course Hiccup only blinks at him a few times, mind completely blank, before he is turning around and looking around suspiciously, expecting to find Merida's red blood hair behind a tree or a bush or something. Because there's no Jack Frost would ever notice him enough to say hi to him and ask him if he liked ice skating and if he wanted to come along next time instead of just watching him creepily from far. No way.