Okay, guys, so, obviously, this story cannot be 20 chapters long, that would make it unbearable seeing as it would end here, 20 was just an example. But, from what I'm hearing, you guys really like this story so, for now, I am going for somewhere between 30 and 40 chapters. Definitely under 40 chapters.

I do plan on giving you more story after Jack finds out, but would you guys want more drama after that or just add ons for what happens afterwards?

Well, your voice counts to me so thank you, and since I am "In summer!" {Frozen reference intended;P} then I have so much time to write my story, so, occasionally, you might get treated with two chapters a day...

But please know that I do have a life and will be occasionally going places with no wifi so sadness (like later on this week).

The next day, Kate went about classes as usual. She ignored Jasmine's snide comments and focused directly on her work.

At lunch, she sat in the usual place with Hiccup.

"So," he asked awkwardly. "How's it going?"

She looked up at him momentarily pausing her oh-so-hard concentration of pushing her salad around with a fork.

"Okay, not in the talking mood today." He said.

A girl came over then. Hiccup immediately sat up straighter.

Kate would have laughed if she hadn't been thinking too hard.

"Uh, hey Hiccup," Astrid Hofferson (aka, Hiccup's long time crush) said.

He didn't say anything, more gaped at the fact that she was actually talking to him.

Kate figured she better step in before he ruined his one and only chance.

She nudged him-non too gently, might she add- with her foot under the table.

"Oh, uh, hi, Astrid, hi Astrid, hi, Astrid, what are, you, ahem, doing here?" He sputtered.

Smooth, Hiccup.

Even her outer self had to agree with that one.

Astrid casually dug through her backpack, pulling out some papers.

"Here. Thanks for letting me borrow your notes for calculus." She said.

"N-no problem," he stammered.

Kate rolled her eyes.

"Hey, Astrid," she called. Astrid stopped. She looked surprised that Kate was actually talking to her. Not in a mean and snobby way, just Kate never really talked to anyone other than Hiccup and Jack.

"Hiccup over here would like to know if you would like to get together sometime."

"Kate-"

"Oh hush, you'll thank me," she hissed quietly. Then, louder to Astrid, "He asked when you're free?"

Astrid smiled, flicking her bangs out of her eyes. "Sure, how about Friday night?"

Hiccup looked up, blushing. "Yeah, that'll be good."

Astrid smiled again, walking off.

Afterwards, Hiccup turned to Kate, pushing her.

"Excuse me, I just saved your butt!" She said, smiling.

"You're right, and right after this, I'm going to hug you. But first, whatthehellKatewereyoutryingtoruinmylifewhatifshesaidno?" He said almost too quickly for her to understand.

"Oh, she watches you at times, she wouldn't have said no." She waved him off.

"How did you know that for sure?" He asked.

"It was a definitely-maybe situation." She admitted.

"Kate!"

"Well she said yes, didn't she?" She said, in her defense.

He sighed. "Okay, now, thank you so much you are the best friend ever!"

"I know," she smiled.

As they headed out, she said, "But I am picking out your outfit."

"Outfit for what?" Someone asked behind them.

"Oh my gosh! Jack! Guess what?" Hiccup called happily, running to his friend.

"What?" Jack asked amused.

"Kate got me a date with Astrid!"

"Seriously?" He looked questioningly to Kate. She shrugged.

"Okay, first, congrats, second, I am helping too, I know a thing more about dates then Kate," he said, whispering the last part.

"I heard that," Kate said, folding her arms.

"You know we love you!" Jack called back, smiling. Kate shuddered inwardly.

Wait. Where in the world did that come from?

"Whatever," she waved it off. Since yesterday, she had decided to dismiss what had happened. If she didn't acknowledge that she had been that close to telling Jack she wouldn't think of it. Too much.

The three headed to the boys' room. Kate liked how the three could get along so well. This was why she couldn't tell Jack. One, he couldn't know about her, period, and two, things were going so well. If she allowed herself not to get too close she should be good.

Friday came then, and Kate was supposed to meet the boys in their dorm.

"Alright, how about this?" Hiccup said.

"You have got to be kidding me," Jack said.

Kate smiled to herself as she walked in.

She walked in to various shirts discarded on the floor.

"What did you guys do?" She asked.

"Well, Hiccup is coming up with the worst items available." Jack responded. "Please let me take him to my closet."

"Um, how about no? But between the two of us, we should be able to find something suitable."

"I'm right here, guys!" Hiccup said, raising his hands. Kate giggled and Jack laughed.

"Alright, let's get to work."

"Is the date formal or casual?" Kate asked.

"Casual." Hiccup called back, sitting on the bed and munching on an apple.

"Hm," she wondered.

For Hiccup, she picked out one of his favorite long sleeve green shirts that he always wore. She thought it complimented his eyes well.

"What pants?" She asked.

"Here," Jack tossed her some of his brown trousers from his closet.

"Perfect," she said, catching them.

Normally, Hiccup liked his fur vest, but Kate decided on making him wear a tan zip up jacket.

"Since when do you have this?" Kate asked, inspecting it.

"Something from my father, or something." She heard him mutter that last part.

"Time you wear it," she noted, ripping the tag off and setting it down with the rest of the outfit.

"What shoes?" She asked Jack, who was rummaging.

"He has so many boots, what's up with it?" He asks.

"Berk is colder than Arendelle, excuse me!" Hiccup called.

They sighed. "Fair enough."

They took some dark chocolate brown boots.

They shoved the things to him, pushing him to the bathroom.

"Now change," they told him.

"Going, sheesh," he said.

They talked for a second about what he was probably going to do.

"I doubt he'll do anything too fancy, he's Hiccup," Kate said.

"True," Jack commented.

"Okay, how's this?" Hiccup walked out.

He looked nice in his outfit, perfectly casual but nicer than usual. He had combed his hair but to no avail. In fact, he had just made it worse.

"Come here," Kate sighed.

She messed with his hair, shifting it this way and that.

"Boys," she muttered to herself.

When she finished, it looked considerably better.

"Thank you, mom," Hiccup teased.

"Damn right," she laughed.

"Hiccup, your hair is an utter failure." Jack came over, tussling his head with his hand for a few seconds.

Something he did made it look perfect.

"Of course you can just fix it by messing it up," Kate said, crossing her arms.

"It's a guy thing," Jack shrugged his shoulders.

She rolled her eyes.

"Alright, go, be polite," Kate said.

"Have fun!" Jack called.

They smiled as he left.

"He's growing up," Jack got fake teary-eyed.

"At least we got him this far."

They decided to wait around for him.

They talked, watched a movie, got in a popcorn fight, the usual for best friends. Even though they really weren't.

They laid on Jack's bed on their sides, not paying too much attention to the movie they had put in.

"Okay, back to Hiccup's date, do you think he'll kiss her?" Jack asked.

"Honestly? No. Besides, you need to know someone better before you kiss them, I mean, he's liked her for a while but he's never really talked to her." Kate reasoned.

"How long do you need to know a person before you kiss them?" Jack asked playfully.

"For the general population, at least a few months to actually see if you actually like them or not. By your standards, about five seconds."

"Excuse me?" He laughed. "Probably true. Who was your first kiss?"

"I've never had my first kiss," she admitted.

"What?" Jack exclaimed.

"It's not something I'm too interested in. I've got...other things I need to worry about." She shrugged.

"So let me get this straight, you've never been on a date, you've never kissed anyone, have you ever even had a crush?"

Kate blushed. It didn't hurt, he'd never know who. "Well, there was this one guy back at my other school. But he wouldn't see me like that and that was okay, I guess..."

"I know the feeling," he sighed.

I can't believe I can't remember that one girl he had a crush on in middle school! She was nice to him, they would have made a cute couple.

But-

Don't. Even. Start.

"Well, I highly doubt Hiccup would kiss her on the first date." Kate said, changing the subject (sort of).

"She might kiss him, though," he said.

"Well, even though she's pretty bold, I don't think she'd be that kind of girl."

"You never know, Hiccup might decide he likes her enough and kiss her."

"I doubt it," Kate snorted. "He's Hiccup."

"I'm right here. I never left."

They both jumped, suddenly remembering that a movie was still playing on FX.

Their original movie had ended and a new one was playing. A girl was standing out in the pouring rain, talking to a guy who looked lost.

"Do you know this movie?" Kate asked.

"No idea," he responded, looking around for the remote.

Kate popped a piece of popcorn in her mouth, watching while Jack searched for the remote.

"Why can't you see me? Please, I love you."

Kate snorted. How corny could a movie get?

The male character responded, "I can't forgive you."

"I'm sorry," she responded

The girl walked away, crying. Suddenly, the guy ran to her grabbing her and kissing her.

"Of course. Jack! Find the remote!" She whined.

He came up empty handed. "Sorry. We could just turn it off."

"But then we'd be in silence and that'd be weird." She sighed. "Just turn it down and we can ignore it."

"Okay."

They laid back down on the bed, surprisingly watching the movie.

As the two characters kissed in the rain, Kate sat thinking.

He's so close.

Gah! What am I thinking? Pull yourself together, Kate!

But I'm remembering why-

Don't even. You can't afford this!

She sighed, looking away.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked.

Yeah, I'm fine. Just trying to push away thoughts that I just might be falling for you again.

Don't admit it!

"No more than the usual," she said truthfully.

"What happened that made you so uptight?" He asked.

"Well gee, thanks for the subtly there," she teased.

She could have sworn his face got the smallest tint of pink. "Well, you are."

"But, it's something I'd rather not talk about." She sighed.

"Things get complicated?"

She nodded, staring intently at the television.

"Kate, you know you can tell me anything."

Anything that isn't everything.

"I know. I'm sorry, I guess I just have trust issues..." Sure. That's what she was going with.

She felt him staring. She turned over to look at him.

And he was still looking at her.

"The movie's on the screen, you know," she whispered.

"I know," he whispered back.

Slowly, they both leaned in.

Kate was just about to close her eyes.

But then she pulled back quickly, snapping them open.

"I need to go, tell me how it went, say hi to Hiccup, later," she dashed across the room, grabbing her things and running out.

Jack sat there, bewildered, and didn't stop her.

He was still trying to fully grasp what had just happened

Holy crap. He had almost kissed Kate. What was that about?

He didn't like like her.

Did he?

Kate had never been that way to him. He'd never seen her in that way. Had she? But now, did he?

His head was hurting.

What was going on?

Okay, calm yourself Jack. Think. Just clear your mind and think.

Okay, so, we almost...kissed.

But, we don't like each other like that, do we?

He had almost kissed Kate.

And, the more he thought about it, the more he found himself realizing that he was okay with that.

Well, since I'm on summer break and extremely bored, I figured I could just ignore the crap out of you guys with this chapter!

It worked, did it not? *devilish grin*

L.M.H. Shimmer Shine: sorry... Although I don't think I made the anticipation any better with this chapter, did I?

crystallizedwinter: ^-^ you know me so well *smirks*

ATA: 45?! Hahahano. Sorry, thirty five MAYBE but probably somewhere between thirty-five and thirty, despite what I said in the first A/N. But lol you're still in school? And wait. You're allowed to use your phone/iPhone/computer/whatever you use to read Fanfiction during school?!

Snowman: Yeah. And by the way, I didn't make this very clear, I guess, but Jack had already been there at BPAA the whole time. It was Kate/Elsa who was new. And, again, I think I made you go want to bang your head against a wall now with this chapter. Honestly, it frustrated myself, too. And I was the one who came up with it! And haha, all in good time, all in good time... Really, you're review made me laugh so hard. Of course, that might have been due to the fact that I hadn't slept yet and it was 3 am in the morning and I may or may not have been just the slightest bit out of it but who's counting, right? And actually, you pointed out almost all the things I had put in there for those controversial reasons exactly (except for the song lyrics, that just happened).

spinoff: idk how that would work too...

adrianazaba: well, if that chapter made you sad I think this one might just kill you...

CupcakeMonkey567: exactly, and I hope you thoroughly enjoyed this update!

Livia Toric: haha thank you. I feel like you're going to explode any moment now...don't know why

shobbs10: haha, I enjoy your smiley faces ;) unfortunately, he did not hear it. I normally put if Jack was secretly listening to her, so there's always that

Rose: yes. Yes I can. And no offense taken, but I am super excited for my sequel to The Guardians, The Shifters! And what *_* No. Dlipping. Way. OMG YOU HAVE TO TELL ME ABOUT IT HOW WAS IT?! And really? 49.9? -_^ 'cause that's sooooo possible *eye roll and face palm*

for-some-unknown-reason-my-computer-won't-keep-your-username: it might be longer...and I'm free now- er, I mean, on summer vacation...so I'll have lots of time to update. This story might actually be finished a lot sooner than I anticipated.

Fiji Anonymous: thank you!

Okay, just a question, do you like all the songs that I put in here? At the end, I'll credit all the songs I used (hint hint, whenever there is a song that's the chapter title except for the few that don't i.e. this chapter). Plus, I put in the lyrics scattered through with thoughts. Sometimes I think it's so boring to just read lyrics straight through, this way I can explain my thinking for why I used that song to describe what's happening. If you would just like straight lyrics, though, that's fine, although it's harder to tell why I chose the song, but...

Anywho, later! (probably tomorrow;P)