Hey peoples! So here's that new story!

I've got some scattered ideas for this one, so I'm gonna try and update this every other week, opposite Hofferson Sisters.

So that's all for now... ON WITH THE STORY!

"Have you thought about what you're going to do with your life, son?" Dad asked me. It's my last day of high school, and I'd just come downstairs for breakfast. "I haven't heard you say anything about it since your freshman year."

"Oh, yeah," I started. "Yeah, uh, still thinking about doing the same thing as I wanted back then, ya know…" I was lying, just thought you should know.

"Oh, okay."

At that moment mom walked in. Oh thank Thor. I don't know how much longer I would have been able to keep up talking about that lie.

"Ready for your last day of high school, son?" Mom asked, as I picked up my bag and instrument. I really only needed my instrument, but with my bag I had my drawing stuff… I wasn't going to be able to get through the day without that.

I left the house, deciding to walk to school, it was only a few blocks away.

When I got to school, the first thing I did was find my friends. We were the strangest group of people that could ever be friends. There was Snotlout Jorgenson, the jock, captain of the football team; Fishlegs Ingerman, the nerd; the Thorston twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, the biggest pranksters the school had ever seen; Astrid Hofferson, the athlete, and my girlfriend, might I add. And, of course, there was me, the biggest music geek in the school. Together the six of us made up 'The Gang.'

My life at school had been a nightmare until the end of freshman year. The people who are now my friends, picked on me, Snot actually beat me up once or twice. I was the nobody, the one no one wanted to be friends with. After my accident that year, everybody saw me different, and my life was turned upside down. People who didn't want to even try and see me different, started referring to me as 'the one-legged weird guy, who thinks playing the violin in marching band is cool.' Yep, that's right, I play the violin... in a band.

"Hey H, looks like you made it home in one piece after last night!" Tuff shouted as I got closer.

"Yep, how much trouble did you two get in?" I asked him and Ruff, remembering last night. Thinking about it made me wonder why Dad hadn't said anything at breakfast this morning.

We'd gone to "visit" the main factory on Berk last night, which just so happened to be a chocolate factory. Unfortunately we'd been seen, and had to make a break for it. Snot, Fish, Astrid, and I had been able to jump the chain-link fence surrounding the factory, while the twins had not. The four of us had left them behind, as usual, and they'd had to face the consequences. I usually heard about our adventures from Dad the next morning, as he was usually one of the ones that caught the twins.

"Eh, surprisingly we got away with only 4 hours of community service… like usual," Ruff replied.

"Yeah, your dad didn't look to happy with us last night. He say anything this morning?" Tuff asked.

"No, I didn't realize it till I got here, but I'm surprised he didn't."

At that moment, the bell rang, telling us seniors to get to what would usually be our last class of the day, as it was finals. For me, that was band. See why I only needed my violin. We all went our separate ways, ready to fall asleep during our hour and a half eighth hour final.

***an hour and a half later***

So I made it through my band final in one piece… we didn't do anything in class except run through the songs that they're playing for the parades this summer. My director looked like she was about to cry when she told us to put our instruments away. I knew she loved the sound of the violin, so real quickly, I walked over to a couple of my friends, Heather and Dagur. Heather was a percussionist, Dagur was the bass guitarist of the band. All three of us were seniors.

"Hey guys, you wanna make Ms. Ack smile?"

The two siblings looked at me. "What do you have it mind, brother?" Dagur asked. I was what he called his honorary brother… whatever that meant.

"What's her favorite song?"

"Easy. Roundtable Rival by Lindsey Stirling." Heather replied.

"Exactly. And it only needs the three of us." I said, holding up my violin. It was in its case, but it didn't take long to take it out.

"What are we waiting for?!" Dagur exclaimed, just as the bell rang. "Well…"

"Hang on… we can still play it for her." I said.

"I would've thought you three seniors would have been the first out the door. You're done with high school," Mrs. Ack said, turning to us.

"Oh… we just, uh wanted to play something for you. Since you won't have us in class anymore." Dagur replied, taking out his bass guitar.

*10 minutes later*

I was packing up my violin. The three of us playing that song had our teacher in tears.

"I'm gonna miss you guys," she said, throwing her arms around us.

The gang had shown up while we were playing. They were standing in the doorway, waiting for me. I said bye to Heather, Dagur, and Mrs. Ack, and joined my friends.

We could all go home, school was done for the day. But we were all gonna hang out, so that we could talk about what we were gonna do. The 6 of us ended up at the park on the city's borders.

"So what are we all planning on doing now that we've graduated?" Snot asked.

"Well, we technically haven't graduated yet, Snotlout. Graduation is tomorrow." Fish corrected.

"Okay, but I still want to know what everybody's doing with their lives. I'm going into the military. I'm really only hoping that I don't get stuck with my dad as my commanding officer… that would suck." Snotlout seemed pretty confident with saying that.

"Okay, so, I don't really get a say in what I'm doing, my dad wants me to do this, and I'm not happy about it." Astrid looked at me.

"What do you mean?" I wasn't liking where she was going with this.

"My dad wants me to go out to the base on Outcast Isle with him. He says he can make sure I'm safe there, but…" Astrid paused. I could that she didn't want to keep going.

"Hey, it's okay. We'll see that you have the best time with us before you leave, okay?" I said wrapping my arm around her shoulders.

She nodded, and laid her head on my shoulder.

"Okay, uh…" Fish seemed like he should go next, but wasn't sure how to speak after what Astrid had just said.

"It's okay, Fish, what are you doing after we graduate?" I asked.

"Well, I'm, um, going to Berk University, starting in the fall." That figures. He always seemed like he would keep going with school, but so did I, and I'm not.

"So what are you two doing?" I asked the twins, wanting to stall as much as possible.

"We're splitting up. Tuff is going to join the military, and I don't know what I'm going to do." Ruff replied.

"Tuff's gonna join the military? He can't even jump a short chain link fence!" Snot exclaimed.

"So, Hiccup are you still planning on going into a career in music?" Fish asked.

"Uhhh…" I was in luck, my phone rang just as I was trying to figure out what to tell them. I'd decided that I wanted to join the military at the end of sophomore year. However, nobody knew.

My phone had been my mom telling me that I needed to come home. I left my friends, hoping they wouldn't press the subject anymore.

*the next Monday*

So today was rough. I didn't know what to do, so I pretty much just helped mom out around the house while Dad was at work. I got a text around noon saying Ruff had decided that she wanted to become a professional singer. Interesting choice, not what I was expecting.

Astrid came over just after diner tonight, looking very unhappy. She said we needed to talk, and my first thought was, uh-oh what did I do?

"Hiccup, I'm leaving tomorrow morning. Sooner than I thought."

"What are you saying, Ast?"

"I'm saying we have to break up, but I don't want to!" She threw her arms around me, crying. I hugged her tight, not wanting to let her go. I understood what she meant, and felt that I needed to tell her what I was planning on doing.

She pulled away too quickly for my liking, and ran off. I ran after her trying to keep up, even though I knew it was never gonna happen. Ever since my accident, she'd become faster than me.

I headed back in the house, ignoring my parents questions as to what had happened. I'd made my decision: I was running away to join the military, and no one could stop me.

So how was that? For a first chapter, I mean? I'll have another one out in a couple weeks, or I'll try at least.

Until next week...

Daystrid out!
*wanders away to go write some more random stuff*