AN: Get ready for some fluff! Thanks for all the follows and favorites and everything guys! I really appreciate it, and even if you don't really like the story or want to tell me to fix something, go ahead. I really value your honesty, even if it isn't all praise. I just realized I've never said that before and I wanted to put that in.

Chapter 9

"I'm bi." Jack said, only seconds after Rapunzel left.

"What?" Hiccup asked, putting down his sandwich that he was just about to take a bite of.

"You asked earlier and I never told you. I got a lot of hate when I came out. Not from my parents or my friends, but from other people. They kept telling me to choose a gender, but I couldn't. It wasn't one or the other for me I just liked both. Also, I'm asexual. I thought I might as well tell you everything. You know, since you were so honest with me." Jack rubbed his neck uncomfortably, worried about Hiccup's reaction though he said he was pretty accepting about the whole thing.

"Okay," Hiccup said blinking. "Well that was kinda random." Jack smiled nervously, ducking his head down. "But not unwelcome." Jack jerked his head up in shock; he honestly thought Hiccup would say something else.

"It's kinda romantic, actually, the way that bi people love both genders. I'm actually demi-sexual myself."

Jack grinned, his smile lighting up his whole face and making his blind eyes sparkle a little more.

"How did you come out?" Hiccup asked, honestly curious about Jack's answer.

"Well," Jack said, stretching the l with a grin still on his face, this was obviously one of Jack's favorite stories to tell. "Merida's mother was very uptight and strict when it came to boys-"

"Wait," Hiccup interrupted, "Her mother? Aren't dad's more strict in terms of boys?"

"Yeah, usually, but in that family it was easy to see that Merida's mother controlled her father rather than the other way around. Can I continue now?" Hiccup replied 'yes' and Jack continued. "So for a while to get her mother off her back, Merida and I pretended to go out. She knew I was, am, bi and while liking her as a friend, that was all she was, a friend. I just didn't see her as anything else. She was more a sister than a girlfriend and I found that our 'dates' would turn more into a casual hangout then a date like we told Merida's parents. And obviously I wanted to date, and didn't like being tied down in a false relationship, so after a few months of fake dating I came up with a plan to not only out my sexuality to the school, at this time I had already told my parents, but also ditch the false relationship."

Jack paused, taking a bite of his sandwich and taking a drink of water that made Hiccup wiggle in anticipation.

"C'mon! What was it? What did you do?"

"Easy, easy, give me a sec, okay Hic?"

Hiccup was so interested in Jack's next words that he totally ignored the use of the nickname.

"Okay, fine!" Hiccup said pouting and dissolving into his chair.

Jack smiled, as he could hear the sound of Hiccup moving around in the chair.

"Alright, so Merida and I scripted and rehearsed a big breakup scene that we decided to do in the busiest place we could think of: the school cafeteria. We decided to make it so that both of us looked uncommitted to the relationship in the few weeks leading up to the big breakup and openly showed the student body our disinterest in each other by 'cheating' on each other. We were never in a relationship, so technically we couldn't cheat on each other, but the rest of the students didn't know this. Rumors started to spread and Merida and I acted oblivious to them. Until someone confronted Merida about apparently seeing me kissing another girl and we finally got the chance to stage our big scene. If that person didn't tell Merida like that, we would have done it ourselves, but that person gave us an excuse to do the scene and that helped. We hadn't completely finished rehearsing at that time we had to do some tweaks still, but we improvised some and I thought it was pretty genuine. I have a video on my phone, but I don't have any headphones to show you, but I could play it later when we get back to the room."

Hiccup, totally enraptured by Jack's spellbinding voice, only managed to nod slowly and reply with: "Wow, when I came out it wasn't so elaborate or thought out. I only brought a boy to Prom and pulled some strings so that I could win Prom King with him. His name was Flynn. I had only talked to him once before, but apparently he wanted to be seen as gay. He wasn't though, as straight as a board. He mentioned something about a girl, I don't really know. I guess we were both using each other, it was an interesting Prom to say the least." Hiccup looked up and saw Jack staring at him.

"I was rambling, wasn't I? I get that way sometimes, you just have to tell me to stop. Astrid would always tell me to stop rambling, even when I didn't realize I was doing it. She never took any of my… I'm doing it again. Shutting up."

"You don't have to do that, I was staring at you because you are so… so… so… beautiful." Jack breathed, and although he didn't mean to say that specific adjective, as soon as he said it, it seemed to fit perfectly for the personality of the spunky boy that sat before him.

"No, you can not say anything that will keep me talking… Wait, what? You can't see me, how can you call me beautiful?" Hiccup shook himself out and once again guarded his heart with his dry humor. "And I am the manliest man on the face of the Earth. How dare you call me beautiful! I am a Viking! A direct descendent of Thor himself! If you could see me, you would be shaking in your…" Hiccup just seemed to realize Jack had kicked off his thin sandals sometime during the meal and was now wearing nothing on his feet. "Feet?"

"I might not be able to see, but I can tell that you have a strong, beautiful personality. And I've been told I'm a good reader of character." The few short sentences were said with such sincerity that Hiccup paused for a second to gage how serious Jack about this Jack was. He looked completely serious; there was no joking tone that he used with some of the stories he told earlier.

"Well…I… That was…Umm…" Hiccup stuttered, shocked that Jack had already picked up on, what Hiccup thought to be, such subtle things in his personality.

"Thanks Jack." Hiccup said, trying to match the sincerity of Jack's statement, because he honestly was very thankful he met Jack, even if they met only two days ago.

Wow, had it only been two days? Hiccup thought. I felt like I had known him forever… Maybe in another life… And maybe in that other life he was an immortal winter spirit and I was a Viking. Ha! Imagine that!