This is my FORTH update today I believe. This was one of the most difficult chapters to write, and why it was, I'm not quite certain. But here it is! Yay! Shout-outs:

xFaerieValkyriex: Haha! Yeah, I love puns. :) And I thought it would be cool to make Hiccup play guitar and Astrid violin. I love both instruments, although I don't play guitar. I love puns so much, especially music puns, because there's so much you can do with them. :) Whenever I play Mario Kart, my friend is always winning, and she is very stoic about it, too. So I'm laughing my head off on the couch because I keep crashing and losing every race I attend and for some odd reason I think it's so hilarious. I am crazy, maybe, I guess. :D

AnimeAngel: AHH HTTYD3 soundtrack AAAAH. I listened to it a few weeks ago and just about died. Even if it's not genuine, it's still beautiful anyways. :) Yes, Aquaria can claim whatever she wants when it comes to the twins and fireworks. :) I'll get Sparkglider to help her. *whistles* *Changewing flies and lands behind me*

silverwolvesarecool: Haha. :) I'm really glad you're liking the story. Some people hate Modern AUs, so I really didn't know how this would work out, but by the looks of it, I have more people who like it then dislike it, so YAY. :D Thanks, Sil! See ya when I see ya.

Astrid waited for him at the pizza parlor. She checked her phone clock; it was twelve o'five. She set her phone down and sighed. Where was he? She was certain she had said twelve o'clock sharp...right?

She took out her phone and decided to text him, just to make sure she hadn't said something else.

Hey, Hiccup, she wrote out, we did say we'd meet at 12, right? At the pizza parlor, right? She tapped "send" and sent it. Then, she sat the phone back down and waited for a response.

Five minutes passed.

No response, no Hiccup. Five more minutes passed; no response, no Hiccup.

Astrid picked up her phone and texted him again. Hiccup? In case you didn't get my earlier message, I asked it we were meeting at the pizza parlor at twelve, didn't I? Did you get it? She waited for a response, but none came.

Twelve thirty came along sooner than expected. Worried, Astrid just decided that, since texting Hiccup obviously wasn't working very well, she should just call him. So, that's exactly what she did.

She held the phone and listened to it ring. Rrrrriiiiiiinnnng... One ring, she counted mentally to herself. Rrrrriiiiiiinnnng... That made two rings. Rrrrriiiiiiinnnng... That was three. Rrrrriiiiiiinnnng... Now it was four. Rrrrriiiiiiinnnng... That made five. Then, the answering machine picked up.

Hey, this is Hadley, and I am unavailable...just, leave a message, and I'll get back to you. Bye.

The ringer went off on a loud BEEEP, and Astrid started recording her message.

"Hey, Hiccup, it's me, Astrid," she said. "Where are you? I'm waiting at the pizza parlor. We did say we'd meet today at twelve at said location, didn't we? If we didn't, well, maybe if you get this message we could meet tomorrow, or later on today, or whichever time works for you. If you could call me back, that'd be great. Um...talk to you later, bye."

She ended the call and sat her phone down. Where was he? What could he have possibly been doing? Yeah, she had only known him for a few weeks, but still, she worried about where he was, and what could have happened.

Then she got an idea. Maybe his phone was dead. It was a possibility...but then that didn't explain why he hadn't shown up yet. Maybe he had overslept again...but really, it was twelve thirty five now. But still, it was possible, after all.

Mind made up, Astrid stood up and headed to Hiccup's house to see if he was there. She stomped right up to the door and knocked on it.

"Hiccup," she called. "Are you in there?"

There was no reply.

Confused, and now getting worried, she knocked again. When she still gained no response whatsoever, she opened the door, wondering why it wasn't locked. She stepped inside and looked around.

Everything was off. The lights were off, the TV was off...as if no one was home. Astrid suddenly thought that maybe, Hiccup could have been on his way to the parlor when she left. So, she turned and was about to head back, but was stopped by a rather loud meow.

"Toothless?" she questioned, turning around. Said cat was moping around in the dark, meowing at Astrid and pawing at her legs.

"What is it, Toothless?" said Astrid, picking up the kitten and holding him at eye level. Toothless meowed pathetically, wiggled out of Astrid's arms, and then scurried off. Astrid followed him out of curiosity, wondering where he was going.

He lead her to a back room, and then looked up on one of the shelves.

"Mwwwwwrooow," he grumbled.

Astrid looked up, and saw he was meowing at the bag of cat food.

"Didn't Hiccup feed you today?" said Astrid. Hiccup had told her once that he always fed Toothless around nine o'clock in the morning. And by now, Astrid figured it was around one in the afternoon. The poor cat was probably starving.

While getting Toothless just a little bit of food, in case Hiccup had fed him, she wondered where Hiccup was. As soon as making sure Toothless was okay, she turned and walked back out the door, back to the pizza parlor.

Hiccup wasn't there still. She picked up her phone and tried calling him again. After listening to the annoying ring five times, his answering machine picked up. She hang up, this time without leaving a message, and then texted him again.

Where are you? she typed. I've been waiting for a while now, and now you're making me worried. Is this some kind of pun, or prank, or whatever you call it? If it is, please stop it. You got me, okay? You really got me. Please meet me at the parlor now, Hiccup, or at least reply and tell me why you can't.

She sent the text and waited, counting the minutes until she reached five. Five minutes without a reply. Five minutes without her annoying ringer going off.

For once in her life, she missed that annoying "Whoo! I've got a text message!" voice that rang out every time someone texted her.

She waited for another hour. And then another hour. And then another hour. And then another hour. It was four o'clock when she decided to head back to her house. Just as she stood to go, her phone ringer went off.

At first, she was overjoyed. Hiccup was finally responding! she thought madly, and then picked up her phone, only to realize it was just her mother calling to check up on her.

Astrid sighed when her mother hang up after a short conversation exchange between the two of them. Where was Hiccup?

Confused and disappointed, Astrid moped back to her own house. Before she did, though, she checked Hiccup's place again. It was still vacant, besides Toothless, and what did Hiccup call his lizard...oh yeah, Sharpshot. His two pets, but no sign of Hiccup himself.

While on her way back to her own house, she heard someone call her from behind.

"Astrid!" the voice shouted.

Astrid turned around and found herself face to face with Ruffnut, who was running, panting from lack of breath. Astrid wasn't in the mood to talk to the Thorston girl. Especially not at that time.

"What is it, Ruff?" said Astrid as Ruffnut stopped in front of her, her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath. "What's so important?" said Astrid.

"It's..." Ruffnut gasped for breath as she tried to regain it. "Hadley...or, Hiccup, as most people call him."

"What?" said Astrid. Hiccup? Now they were getting somewhere. "Where is he, Ruff?"

"He..." Ruffnut gasped to get oxygen back in her lungs from a supposed long distance she had ran. "He was hit by a car."