A/N: Thank you for the reviews everyone! I'm glad you think this is true to character and adorable LonelyGiant! James Bond *wink wink* I'm glad you liked this chapter and thought it was funny to! I'm gonna have so much fun introducing new characters regularly! And I love answering your questions! And getting to your requests! This is the first of many Eugene vs Hiccup battles. The current score is Hiccup: 2 Eugene: 1. Friendship is magic!...Although it won't stay that way for long! Hehe anyways I'd also like to thank Electric for her review! Get used to all that adorable cause it's not gonna stop and neither is Hiccup's awkwardness.
Hiccup was in no way, shape, form and probably not even in an alternate reality, popular. He just wasn't, if anything he was more of a fish-bone blessed with the abilities of speech and bipedalism. Rapunzel was more like a butterfly. A social butterfly that spent her days fluttering around being social, like social butterflies were known to do.
She thrived on the company of others while Hiccup tended to shy away from the crowd, preferring the company of a few close friends and not the entire population of Berk. His completely anti-social behavior (in Rapunzel's opinion) was what he liked to call preƫmptive strike since nothing good ever came from venturing outside of his social circle anyways.
So it was no wonder he didn't go to the wild parties the teens of their town were known to throw. Not that he was ever invited to them, but he didn't mind that really. He was perfectly happy sitting around at home and working on his inventions with the scrap metal he'd get from Gobber's workshop.
But this Saturday was different. She'd let him stay inside Friday night because she stayed over and fine-that-was-good-enough-you-stubborn-anti-social-sugar-hating-stick-in-the-mud. But this time there was no excuse. Their homework was done, his Father had all but thrown him out the house when Rapunzel had 'sneakily' brought up the subject and Mavis already had her Dad's mini-van parked outside by the time he hit the gravel.
Now he could have turned back at that point, but as he was banging on the locked door of his house with his Dad telling him he could come back at nine-thirty and not a second sooner, Guy and Jack had gotten out of the car and told him who was throwing the party Rapunzel really, really, really wanted to go to. It was Flynn Rider, which Hiccup should have seen coming because, hey the guy was always trying to ruin his life.
Neither of them had to drag him into the car after that. He practically ran for it because yes while he trusted the rest of their friends to keep heinous characters away from Rapunzel she was stubborn, polite and completely love-struck. The first thing she'd do was seek out Flynn and thank him for inviting her to his party like she wasn't the first person on his list since she was little miss pretty, popular and available, unlike a lot of the girls in their school.
Unfortunately none of their friends had the drive to keep her away from him the whole night. If anything her girlfriends would only encourage her because they were hopeless romantics and the boys would get distracted! Rapunzel's best hopes at knights in shining armor if he didn't go were Merida, Tink and Esmeralda and he still had to go, it was his duty as a best friend. So they all piled into the car in a way that was most certainly illegal and headed off.
When they arrived the first thing he did was wince, loud music, rowdy teens the lawn was already littered in...litter. The only saving grace was that the punch was not spiked but there was beer everywhere so he hardly could count them as out of the woods. He could only stick to Rapunzel like glue, steering her far away from all things alcoholic.
Merida and Jim just stood around watching him follow Rapunzel like a Mother hen and laughing their heads off as they told him to live a little, because killing your liver, clearly that was living.
"Flynn!" Rapunzel suddenly cried out and pried her arm away from Hiccup to run over to the seventeen year old who thought a goatee was cool. His less than happy thoughtswere stopped short when he realized Flynn had been hugging Rapunzel for more than thirty seconds which was half of an unacceptable minute and he went to break their little love fest up.
"Hey, hey guys!" He shouted, a grimace where a grin should be as he moved Rapunzel away from Flynn and slightly behind himself.
"Hiccup...hey." Flynn shot him an easy smirk, "Didn't expect to see you here?"
"I got him to come, isn't that great Flynn?!" She giggled, latching onto Flynn's arm with a grin. Hiccup frowned in disapproval.
"Yeah, liking the party?"
"Sure." They stood there staring each other down like two dogs who weren't sure if they were about to fight or not until Rapunzel squealed and grabbed Hiccup's hands excitedly. "Aaah Hiccup I love this song let's dance!" She began to drag him to the middle of the room and this time he smirked at Flynn because yeah the fish-bone was the one she picked to dance with her and not Mister. 'Sauve', and that was to be celebrated.
Nevermind that he had two left feet. As long as Rapunzel and Flynn were far, far, far away from each other at all times, he was happy. And surprisingly dancing the night away with Rapunzel in public wasn't as painful an experience as he thought it would be.
Rapunzel and her poor stepped on feet had a different opinion.
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