Chapter 14: The dance.

Hiccup's POV

I have never been to a dance before. Even with the knowledge so far from numerous bad high school movies like High School Musical, I had no idea what to expect when I walked through the gym doors.

The first thing that I noticed was how loud it was. I swear it can burst my eardrums if it hasn't already. The whole place was decked out in our school colors. Gold and Green. Plus it was crowded on the dance floor. Really Crowded.

I don't know how I am suppose to approach this, but I swallow my fears down as I follow Astrid into the space.

" Hey Astrid!" I heard Ruffnut called. It wasn't more than thirty seconds before I saw her rush towards us in red and blue pinstriped suit. The kind of suit you would see someone with a loud personality in. Totally Ruffnut.

" Hey. Nice suit." Astrid smirked.

" Right back at you!" She shouts before she sees me and her mouth drops.

" Hi." I nervously waved. I suddenly remembered that I cut my hair.

" Dude is that Hiccup?!" She shouts in shock.

" Yeah… it's me." I admitted.

" Oh Gods! You look like a guy! An attractive guy!" She exaggerates. Does she really find me attractive like this? Either it's some kind of joke or she's really serious about this.

" Thanks." Was all I can say.

" Unlike my brother who is now an ugly girl." She smirks as she points to her brother just standing on the dance floor with a scowl on his face. He was wearing a shocking pink dress that was oddly weird on his frame. He looks like a girl that is in need of a long bath and major maintenance.

" How did you get him to wear the dress?" Was all I can ask.

" I told him that unless he wants his clothes stolen the next school day, he better complied." She explains. " He knows when I am not bluffing."

All three of sudden laugh at the idea of a naked Tuffnut.

" Well let's not just stand here. Let's dance!" Astrid says before she drags me towards the dance floor without warning.

" Astrid. I'm good with just being on the sidelines." I tried talking her out of this as I tried to pull from her strong grip to no avail.

" You'll never live without dancing like an idiot." She smirks at me as we are swallowed by the crowd.

The D.J switches to a music that I remembered for a long time as one of my mom's favorites. I would see her and dad sing and dance to it when I was a kid. It was the song "Come on Eileen" By Dexter's Midnight Runners.

" No way." I told myself as I turn my attention back to Astrid. I see her dancing. But it wasn't professionally. But even so, she looked like she was having fun.

" Come on!" She encourages.

" I can't believe that I'm doing this." I tell myself as I just move my body. I don't know what I'm doing. I hope I'm not messing this up.

" That's it!" She screams.

I laugh as I realize that dancing is actually kind of fun. I can't believe that I am here with Astrid. In a suit. In the middle of a crowded dance floor dancing to " Come on Eileen." It was like I felt like a new person.

The song then ends with people cheering for whatever reason. I don't care. I was just glad that I was able to have this much fun.

Then the doors behind us open to show Dagny arrive with her posse. She looks great as usual in a couture green dress. But man does she look piss. Someone must have have messed with her big time and I hope that it doesn't have to do with me.

" Who spit in her soup?" Ruffnut asked.

An unfamiliar guy turns to us and says, " You haven't heard. She got turned down by Chaz Rodriguez."

" The quarterback on our football team?" I raised an eyebrow.

" Yeah. Told her that he doesn't date girls who are insane and rely on her rich daddy." He said before going back to his group of friends.

" That must have stung." Ruffnut mutters before I look closer in on what's going on with Dagny's group. I can a dispute happening among her and one of her girls.

" Come on Dagny. He's not even worth it." One of her girls said.

Dagny turns her glares towards the girl and slaps her hard. People go silent as they saw this happen to the girl, but no one did anything to stop it.

" Did I tell you to tell me that?!" She shouts at her. The girl whimpers as Dagny grabs her hair and makes her look at her in fear.

" No." The girls whimpers.

" That's right. You're stupid and you know it. Say it back to me." She demands.

" I'm stupid and I know it." She cries.

I don't know what has given me the confidence I have never had before, but suddenly here I am stomping over to her royal bitchiness.

" Hey!" I shout.

" Hiccup?" She turns her attention before snorting at me. " What's with the suit. Figured out you looked awful in dress?"

" Let go of the girl." I demanded.

" Fine." She says as releases the crying girl. " She's useless to me anyway."

The girl starts sobbing as she runs away from the space.

" You don't own this school. Yet you think you do because of the fact daddy lets you get away with it." I tell her off.

She scoff. " You suddenly have gain some confidence Hiccup. Too bad that you're too ugly to even get anyone with the way you look anyway."

People suddenly in the background go, "ooooooo"

" Looks might be part of the way to getting a date." I give her the benefit. " But at least I'm not the one that got turned down by the quarterback for my nasty attitude." I responded without even think about the consequences.

" OHHHHHHH…" The people said even louder.

Dagny turns a fiery red on her face as much as her hair in response. No one has ever talked to her like that.

" Why you…" She starts but shuts up.

" You should just go." I advised her. Her staying here doesn't help with the fact that I embarrassed her in front of the entire school

In the meantime, her posse just back away as she turns around and slowly walks out of the gym. People just stay silent in response to what just happened. I told off the richest girl in the school. I told off Dagny Osvin.

I couldn't believe what I just did myself. I would never had done it in any other case. Then I realised that I did it because I was in control of myself. I didn't feel like the person who was always ashamed and uncomfortable with herself.

" Whoa." Ruffnut breathes out.

" Damn." Astrid said before she turns to me. " Since when did you have this much confidence?"

" I have no idea." I said. " I need to use the bathroom."

She nods as I leave the gym space and I walk up to where they are. That's when I saw the depictions on the doors.

I never thought about this until now, but want to use the men's room. instead of the women's room. I usually would try and ignore this feeling like I shouldn't have these thoughts. Tonight is different. I feel different.

I look around to make sure no one I know sees me before I enter the men's room to do my business.

It wasn't like it was special or anything while I was in there. I just felt more comfortable being more closer to my ideal gender identity.

I was about to come out of the stall when I heard boys that I do know come in. It was Snotlout and Tuffnut.

" I can't believe what my cousin did." Snotlout says. " Now I know not to mess with her."

" Dagny needed a telling off." Tuffnut admitted.

" Dude. You look weird peeing in that pink dress." Snotlout commented. I did not need know to that.

" Well. I don't have that much of a choice. Thanks to my sister. But man your cousin looks like a guy with that short hair and suit. You think that she is. Especially with how skinny she is." He said. I don't like how much he comments about my weight. I am trying to gain some pounds without injuring my ribs even more.

" For some reason, tonight she looks more like a guy than I ever had seen her as a girl. I remembered when she would cry because her mom made her wear a dress on picture day when we were kids. She just never likes anything that has to do with being a girl."

I never thought that my cousin had saw me like that. He may not be the brightest tool in the shed, but he's not dumb. He can pick up some details and eventually piece it together when he feels motivated to.

I remembered the picture days at my former elementary school. How much my mom would beg me to put on a dress just so I would look nice for the pictures. I would cry because it felt like a crime against nature for her to be doing this to me. I never asked to wear a dress and I didn't asked for her to do that to me. I finally was able to get off the hook when I moved on to middle school, but I still remember the times where my family would comment about what I wore.

I finally hear them leave before I came out of the stall and looked at myself in the mirror. I'm a guy. I know it. There's nothing that I can do to change it and maybe I should tell someone the truth about who I am because I can't live this lie anymore.

I walked out of the bathroom and was just about to head back to the gym when something hits me in the back of the head in surprise manner.

" You ruined me. Now I ruin you." I heard a snake voice as I blacked out from the pain in my head.


There is going to be some major stuff going on in the next chapter. That's all I can say. This story is not going to be my longest now that I thought about. But it's not the shortest I have ever done. There's more to come in the upcoming chapters. I promise you guys that.

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