HI EVERYONE! I am so happy that I'm participating in Hijack Week, and the prompts are all awesome! YAY! So... here's my spin on High School AU. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own HTTYD or ROTG.

~Not Knowing~

Same thing, every day, all day. And there was nothing he could do about it.

Hiccup was the oddball in everything he put his mind to. Either he was good at it, too good for his own good, or he sucked at it terribly, but was forced to do it anyway.

School was a mix of all those things put together. Some classes, like Math and English, he was amazing in. Others, like P.E and History, he sucked at. But, that was life; you win some, you lose some. Hiccup knew this.

But Hiccup didn't like going to school. Sure, he was good in most of his classes, and his teachers were okay… it was mostly because of the fact that… well, he was the oddball. No one wanted to be friends with the oddball. People kept their distance, never really glanced his way, never really noticed him until he was shoved right up their nose.

Hiccup didn't mind. He liked being alone anyways. Until, that is, someone noticed him.

It seemed like a normal day to everyone, including Hiccup. He walked into his first period, and saw someone sitting in the seat that was next to his, a seat that was usually left empty. He blinked a couple times, then shook it off and walked over to his desk.

The person was obviously a boy, and he was wearing his hood, so Hiccup couldn't see his face. But Hiccup sat down anyway, pulling out his math notebook and starting on the warm up that was on the board.

The boy next to him looked up, and saw Hiccup sitting next to him. A smile spread across the boy's face as he threw back his hood and pulled out his earphones. He nudged Hiccup's arm.

"Hey," He said. Hiccup looked. "I'm new here. I'm Jack,"

"Hiccup," Said boy replied. "Where you from?"

"California," Jack said with a smirk. Hiccup looked at him.

"Okay, wow, cool." Hiccup said a bit awkwardly. He went to work again on the warm up. Jack nudged his arm again.

"I kind of need some help with the warm up." Jack said with a little smile.

"Ask the teacher," Hiccup dismissed, a little rudely.

"I already did," Jack answered. "He won't explain it to me." Hiccup sighed.

Their teacher was bullshit, everyone knew that. He never really taught, and when he did, he never knew what he was doing in the first place. Hiccup could have taught the class better, and this was Advanced Geometry they were talking about.

"Okay, volume of a prism." Hiccup said, leaning over and pushing his notebook towards Jack a little. "You find the base area, so in this case, the area of a trapezoid."

"And how do you do that?" Jack asked.

"Look, area of a trapezoid is h(b1 plus b2) divided by 2. See? So, you plug in the numbers, and what do you get?" Hiccup explained and asked. Jack stuck out his tongue and scratched away in his notebook, writing down the formula and plugging in the numbers.

"Area of the trapezoid is 28 inches squared." Jack answered.

"Okay, but now, to find the volume of the prism, you could just times 28 inches squared by the height of the prism, which is…?" Hiccup prompted.

"10 inches?" Jack said, unsure.

"Bingo." Hiccup replied. "28 inches squared times 10 inches equals 280 inches cubed. You have to remember the cubed. Very important." Hiccup said.

"Hey, thanks Hiccup." Jack said, smiling.

"No problem," Hiccup said.

The next couple of months were a little weird for Hiccup. Jack would hang out with him, talk to him, laugh with him. It was all sort of confusing for him, mostly because he wasn't used to having friends. At first, Hiccup was as stiff as a board, but he softened up a bit.

No one really thought that someone like Jack would be friends with Hiccup, but all of them could go to hell, because he didn't care what they all thought. Hiccup was kind enough to help him out on his first day, and that was all it took. One act of kindness could go a long way… sometimes, you just never really forget it.

And that was Jack's problem. He couldn't forget Hiccup. Not that he wanted to anyway. But his best friend was always on his mind, like how what they did that day at school would replay in his head before he went to sleep, or just tying seemingly random things back to Hiccup. It was all too weird, because nothing like this has ever happened to Jack before. He didn't know what the heck was going on…

Until he had a wet dream of his best friend.

So, maybe it wasn't one of his proudest moments, and it was definitely embarrassing even to think about, but secretly, Jack was thankful for it. He would have been oblivious to his feelings about his friend without it. Of course, Hiccup didn't know. He couldn't know.

A feeling of dread washed through Jack quickly. What if Hiccup didn't like him back? What if he loses his best friend all because of the fact that he acted on a stupid emotion?

But what was the fun in living in 'what if's? Jack swallowed his fear, and everything else that wanted him to turn back and hide in a corner, and stood a little taller.

He was doing it. Today. Now. He pulled out his phone and typed away. It was lunch, and everyone was scrambling around the huge campus some called a high school. Jack just called it prison with a side-order of Hiccup.

"Meet me in Center Quad?" Jack typed out and pressed send before he could stop himself.

"Sure." Came the immediate reply.

And then all Jack had to do was wait. And he was scared shitless. But… he had to do this. He needed to get his best friend off his mind, and maybe if he knew what it was like to press their lips together, the thought would stop pestering him day and night.

"Hey, sorry. You know how these people are. They're like cows, I swear!" Hiccup complained, dropping his backpack down on the ground and sitting next to Jack on the bench.

"They walk like cows, talk like cows… look like cows!" Jack said, whispering the last words. Hiccup busted up laughing, hitting Jack's shoulder lightly as he did so.

"You're such a dork!" Hiccup said, calming down enough to choke a sentence out. Jack laughed a little with him.

"Hiccup, do me a favor, will you?" Jack asked suddenly, his stomach tying itself into elaborate knots. Hiccup looked at him and smiled.

"Need me to do your math homework again?" Hiccup asked, jutting his bottom lip out in a pouty face. Jack rolled his eyes, and flashed him a smile.

"No," He said. "Just… close your eyes and sit there." Jack said.

"This better not be one of your stupid pranks…" Hiccup muttered, closing his eyes and sitting still.

Jack took a breath. Okay, let's do this. His hand reached up and cupped Hiccup's cheek gently. And then, slowly, Jack pulled Hiccup closer to him. Jack leaned in, and their lips pressed together in a soft kiss.

And Jack figured out he was wrong. He knew that the thought of his best friend would never cease to pester his mind. And, in all honesty, Jack didn't mind it at all.

Jack pulled away before things got too weird, and Hiccup eyes fluttered open. Jack put his hands in his lap, looking anywhere but at his friend.

"Why'd you do that for?" Hiccup asked, no tone of anger in his voice. Jack looked at him, shocked that he wasn't angry.

"Because… because I've been wanting to know how it would be like." Jack replied, telling the truth and looking away again. "Sorry if that just took it way too far."

He was punched in the arm lightly. As soon as Jack turned to give Hiccup a 'what the hell, man?' face, Hiccup kissed him.

And everyone stopped and stared at the two boys who lazily kissed in Center Quad at lunch that day. And the best part was, neither of them cared.

So... yup. Here you go! I hoped you loved it! Leave a review please! I love hearing from you all, but it's okay if you don't.

Thanks for reading! HIJACK FOREVER~

-HB