Hiccup has his fair share of problems for a first-year, an overbearing father pushing the family business on him, smuggling his pet Toothless into his dorm, hiding his secret minor program and a runaway ecologist mother. His life only gets more complicated when he moves into his new dorm, filled with mostly students on sports scholarships, one being a girl named Astrid. Modern AU.

Astrid confides in Ruffnut about how she doesn't think Hiccup loves her because he never initiates a kiss and that he always wears a blank face after it anyway. She didn't know that Hiccup, along with the other guys, were watching. How will Hiccup react? Is Astrid right? Read & Review. Pure fluff on my part, time-frame set around HTTYD 2. NOW A CHAPTERED STORY FROM POPULAR DEMAND!

Astrid is your typical popular girl - captain of the varsity basketball team, student council president, high GPA, and boys drooling at her feet. Hiccup is your average nobody - into art, editor of the school paper, really high GPA, and subject of the football team's torture. How do they end up becoming friends? Read and find out! Modern AU. Hiccstrid. Rated T for minor language.