AN: I would like to thank you all for leaving me some wonderful reviews. While I am happy that I am getting so many reviews, I am a bit unhappy that in the space of only 24 hours, I got over 10 reviews. I can understand the reasoning behind all of these but you have also forced me to increase the required reviews to a higher number. I have recently started classes and I will likely be posting less often due to this. All reviews are greatly appreciated and I am amazed that I now have over 100 reviews despite only posting 8 chapters. This story has become even more popular than I expected in my highest calculations. The required number of reviews has been increased to 15. All reviews that need comments will be answered at the bottom.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters, locations, or names. I only own the plot line, my laptop and my imagination.
Snow Balls and Fun Times
After the bell rang, Hiccup excused himself from his class and proceeded towards the principal's office. As he was walking down the hallway, there were many different ideas flowing through his head. 'Why am I going to his office? Ooh, this better not have anything to do with that trickster frost. I swear if he has implicated me in one of his pranks, he is so gonna get it. The last thing I need is for that cute screw up to ruin my perfect record.' As soon as he registered that thought, he was about to berate himself. That is until he heard a voice behind him. "Hello Fag." He then slowly turned around, all the while praying that there was just something wrong with his hearing. Unfortunately for him, he came face to face with Snotlout Jorgenson, "Time for us to resume that beating from earlier." As he said this, a sadistic smile crept onto his face. He then pulled back a fist as he got ready to pummel the nerd into the floor. Hiccup now realized that he had been so preoccupied with his thoughts that he had failed to notice the bully's presence. He began walking backwards and was stuttering out anything he could think of to stop Snotlout from beating him. "Snnnotlout, come o..on wwwhy would you want ttto waste yyour en..nergggy on mmmme? IIIIII'm sssure tthat you can do better things with ttthat energy." It was at this unfortunate time that hiccup felt his back meeting a wall. As he braced for the hit he heard a voice that was music to his ears.
"Oi, Jorgenson. What do you think you are doing?" At the sound of this voice, Snotlout also visibly paled. It was none other than the wrestling coach, Mr. Gobber. He slowly turned around to face the man. "I wasn't doing anything coach." Snotlout knew that he was so screwed. Gobber had warned him in the past about picking on others. He had now been caught red handed picking on none other than Gobber's favorite student. "Get to class now, before I decided to kick you off the team for being a bully." This was more than enough encouragement for the student. He instantly gathered himself together and ran out of sight towards he supposed class. As soon as he was out of sight, Gobber reached towards Hiccup. His hand was immediately taken and soon after hiccup was back on his feet. "Com'on boy, I know where you were headed. I will take you there myself." The two then began the walk towards the prinicipal's office. Hiccup finally had the courage to ask Gobber a question. "Gobber, do you know why I am being sent to see Mr. Manny? I don't remember doing anything that would make him do this." Gobber internally smirked at the obvious worry and fear in the student's voice. "Hiccup, you need not worry. This is in regards to the excellent shape of your grades." For Hiccup this was even more confusing. He wondered why the principal wanted to see him when he was at the top of all of his classes. When the two of them finally reached the office, they were met with a closed door. Hiccup decided that it would be best if he just knocked.
"Ah, yes both of you please come right in. Now, Dash seeing as this is your third offense, I am going to have to call your mother and we will meet with Mr. Kropp after school to talk about your latest incident." Hiccup saw a freshman by the name of Dash Parr exiting the room with a scowl on his face. Dash was a small freshman who was on the track team. He was famous for his speed and his jokes on one teacher in particular. Mr. Bernie Kropp was the English teacher for that grade and Dash was notorious for being the main source of that teacher's anxiety. He was a smaller man, who whore framed glasses and was balding. He had become obsessed with getting Dash into trouble. He was convinced that the young man had an ability that allowed for him to discretely place tacks on his stool.
As Hiccup entered the office, he saw a small smile on the face of the principal. It was one of friendship. This alone helped to vanquish some of his fears in regards to his visit. "Hiccup, before you ask you are not here because you have done something wrong. On the contrary, you are here because you are the best student for the job. You have some of the best grades in the entire school. I'm sure you are familiar with young Mr. Frost." Hiccup stiffened at this comment. "Yes sir, I know him." "Well as you may know, he is currently struggling academically. I fear that if he continues on his current route, he will simply drop out of high school. He has great potential, and the last thing that I want is for that to go to waste." As the principal was saying this one question remained in Hiccup's head, 'what does this have to do with me?' "You are to be his personal tutor. Before you say anything, there are many advantages for you. You will be compensated for your time by receiving college credits. For every two classes that Mr. Frost passes this semester, you will receive credit equivalent to one college class. You will also be allowed to skip all of your final exams. Mr. Frost is required to meet with you in this room every Tuesday-Thursday for a minimum of 4 hours. He will also meet with you on Saturday or Sunday at the location of your choice. You will need to submit weekly reports to me regarding his progress and behavior. If there are any problems shown in the report regarding his behavior, I will deal with him accordingly. He is required to report to each session unless he produces a validated excuse to me and you." Manny then handed Hiccup a room card and an ID card. "The room number is printed on the card; your ID card is the equivalent to a room key. As Today is Monday, you two won't start meeting until tomorrow after school at 4:00pm. This should give you plenty of time to find the room and prepare yourself for your pupil. I hope that you will help us. We have also rearranged your schedule to match with his. This way you will have time to show Jack how to finish class work." Hiccup thought about it for a minute, 'Skipping finals and getting college credits does seem great. Jack also seems to be nicer now.' After debating those thoughts in his head, he finally decided to answer the principal. "Yes sir, I will do it." "Excellent, now if you will please sign here to validate that you have agreed to do this willingly. Also please do not tell anyone else of this arrangement. The only person who can know is Mr. Toothless. He has also agreed to keep this a secret and to provide an excuse for your apparent absence." Manny produced a contract of sorts that spelled out the terms of the tutoring and explained that Hiccup had consented to this. After he signed the paper Manny picked it up and produced a signed excuse to explain why Hiccup was so late for his next class.
As Hiccup exited the room he had a small smirk on his face. For once he was able to hold power over Jack. He had the power to pass or fail the bully. For a few seconds he relished in this power. He then began to feel pity for the other. He knew what it was like to fear that you wouldn't graduate. Granted his reasons were different than Jack's. He was happy with the arrangement and was overjoyed at the prospect of not only earning college credits, but also not having to attend his final exams. As he glanced down at his new schedule he noticed that it now read Engineering, Health/PE, Lunch, Math, History, Literature, and Physics. He was very happy that his two favorite classes (besides Health) were at the beginning and ending of his day. He now headed towards Math with Tarzan Porter. He was a tall man who had just recently come to the country. For the majority of his life, he had been living in the wilds of Africa among gorillas and elephants. He was fairly good at math and liked to use examples that involved bananas or other things in the jungle. Hiccup found his class to be enjoyable and he tended to laugh a lot in there. When he finally reached class he timidly knocked on the door and waited for the teacher to let him in.
When Mr. Porter finally let him in, he handed over the excuse. At first Mr. Porter seemed confused, then he directed him to take a seat towards the back of the class. He then noticed that the seat next to it was occupied by his pupil. He figured that he would keep up the facade. As he approached a wide smirk spread across Jack's face. Hiccup decided to have some fun. "Frost, please tell me you aren't getting high back here." Jack's smirk then transformed into a frown, followed by a glare. As hiccup took his seat, his schedule was promptly snatched from his hands. It took him only seconds to find the culprit. Soon after he retrieved the paper, but not before he saw jack smile. "Well, Hic it looks like I'll be seeing you a lot more from now on." Jack was so happy that he felt as though he could float away. Now that his crush was in all of his classes, the fun times could begin. The only thing left for him to worry about was who his future tutor was.
AN: Okay, so that took a while. I changed the math teacher in chapter 9 from Phil to Tarzan Porter. To me this is a great job for him. I tried to incorporate more characters into that as much as I could. All of the teachers have been planned out thus far. Also I have decided to increase the required reviews to 15, simply due to the fact that last time I received 10 within 8 hours of posting a new chapter. I do love to hear from you guys (and gals), but you need to understand that I am a college student that has limited time and resources. In response to all of the reviews that I received:
Tyler: I wish I could upload more often, but due to school and the fact that I tend to think of most of the details as I go, I am unable to update any quicker than I currently am. Also please have patience young Padawan.
Alex: what do you mean by 'That suck's', I sincerely hope that you are not referring to my writing.
Ryan: The reason why I needed 10 reviews is so that I can gauge how quickly I have to write these updates. It is also to ensure that I don't work continuously when people don't like my work. If you look at my other work "You Can Fly" you will notice that I haven't updated that at all. The main reason is because not enough people like it for me to continue.
It's Andrew: So sorry for making you constantly wait, but this is just how long it takes me to write.
Animelovernewbie: thank you for the encouragement, and I will not be answering any of those questions. As you may have noticed by all of the cliffhangers in chapters, I like to keep my audience guessing.
Topcat2001: Thank you for those words of encouragement and I have every intention of continuing to write this.
Honeybeez: The energy drinks idea was just something funny that I thought of. It seemed like a good idea for my readers to get a laugh. I am trying to have a friendship between Jack and Hiccup before I move on to more romantic moments.
Paoshirou Hozomi: Thank you for the review, and I always trying to be realistic with the characters.
Jayandnya4evr: Yes school sucks.
Guest (August 14): Most of the people in the story will be in character
Datasoralove: Thank you for admitting to constantly rereading my work. This shows me that people seem to enjoy my work.
LilyFrost123: I will update after 15 reviews
Alice, Angie, and Valentine: Thank you all for your words of encouragement.
Remember just 15 more reviews before I update. Until next time.
