Chapter 2:

Jack Frost

"Jackson Overland Frost!"

I laughed, hearing my little sister Madison's voice sound so stern. "Calm down, Maddie! It was just one little snowball!" I shouted to her over my shoulder as I ran away.

"You're going to get it, big brother!" she screamed. She looked pretty mad . . . well, as mad as an 8-year-old can get, anyways.

We were having a snowball fight as we waited for the movers to finish putting all our stuff into the new house. We were moving from our apartment in the city of Burgess to the quiet suburbs of Berk. I had to admit, though, that this place had some awesome snow.

"I got ya!" she yelled, tackling me to the ground. My snow-white hair fell into my eyes as Madison tried to attack me.

I laughed, turning my little sister over and tickling her, making her shriek with laughter. It was hard to believe that I would just be starting school here in Berk tomorrow. Back in Burgess I hadn't had that many friends, so I didn't know what I was going to do here for socializing.

Here I go, I thought, walking into my new school: Disney-Dreamworks High. According to the pamphlet my mom had gotten, it was named after its two founders: Walt Disney and George Dreamworks. They both had weird names, in my opinion. But, back to the present. I shook my head and shoved open the doors. Inside, all the kids were either standing around and talking or they were still fiddling with their new locker combinations. I hefted my white-and-dark-blue backpack over my shoulder and looked at my new schedule. Room 5A, Murphy. I trudged on.

When I reached my homeroom, a tall woman in a black-and-orange jumpsuit was sorting papers at her desk. And when I said tall, I meant tall. She looked taller than 7 feet! She looked up, catching my eye. She had chin-length white-blonde hair that fell into her deep blue eyes. She brushed her hair away and smiled at me. "You must be Jackson Frost," she said, coming around the desk to shake my hand. She had a good handshake, firm and hard.

"I go by Jack," I replied.

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Jack," she laughed. "I'm Miss Susan Murphy, but most just call me Miss Susan. Here is your locker number and combination. I hope you will be ready for my class! I teach Science."

I nodded, then turned on my heel and headed out to the hall. I managed to find my locker pretty quickly, and on my left was a beefy boy with scraggly brown hair poking out from underneath a football helmet. He grunted something under his breath before slamming his locker shut.

I rolled my eyes and opened up my own locker. After unceremoniously jamming my stuff into my locker, I got my stuff for Science and headed down the hall. When I turned the corner, I heard laughing and whimpering at the end of the hallway and rushed down. There I saw a bunch of these big guys circling a pale, skinny kid with brown hair and a mess of freckles on his face. Tears poured down his face as the other boys taunted him.

"So I heard your GIRLFRIEND broke up with you. How sad," one of them leered.

"My girl said that Astrid never liked you anyways, her parents forced her to date you!" another of them jabbed.

I felt anger welling up inside of me. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" I shouted.

They turned around and stared at me in shock. I glared back.

"What makes you think you've got the right to pick on some innocent guy?!" I yelled at them.

They seemed to snap out of their daze.

"You must be new here," snapped a blonde boy in the group. "We're the tough guys, and-"

The tallest boy with red hair just snarled. "Forget it, Tuffnut, let's not waste our time with these two losers. Meg's waiting."

The boy named Tuffnut rolled his eyes. "Whatever, Herc. Let's ditch, then."

They moved away, grumbling. I looked at the boy.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked him gently.

He sniffled. "Yeah, I think so." He smiled. "Thanks for standing up for me."

I grinned back. "It's fine. I'm Jack, by the way," I added.

"Hiccup. Hiccup Haddock," he told me. " Are you new? I don't remember seeing your face freshman year."

I nodded. "Yeah, I'm new. Just moved here from Burgess."

Hiccup nodded, looking serious. Then his face broke into a huge grin. "Hey, can we compare schedules? This kinda sounds crazy, but . . . I've never had friends before. Besides the Mathletes, of course," he added.

"Oh, well, um, I have Science first period with Ms. Murphy, Language with Ms. Lola, then Alebra II with Mr. Crood."

"Looks like we have Science together, then!" Hiccup said cheerfully. He began whistling as we walked to class. It seriously got on my nerves.

In Science, Ms. Susan told us that our first unit would be chemistry, her favorite unit. Suddenly, her phone rang and she ran to pick it up.

"Hello? Oh, Derek, is that you? Aww, you're coming all the way from Modesto to come see me?" she giggled. "But, honey, I have a class now. I'll have to call you later. Bye!" When she hung up, she was bright red as we all snickered, and looked relieved that the bell rang for second period.

As I walked down the hall alone to Spanish, I realized that it was only 8:45 in the morning and I had already made a new friend.

A/N(Author's Note): Hey, guys! Sorry to those of you who wanted some Jackunzel action, but I promise that I'll put it in my next chapter! School's been keeping me busy lately and I'm going out with my BF for Valentine's Day ;D. I'll keep you all posted, loyal readers!