Auch sorry this is so late! I had written myself into a corner and that gave me block, then i had like fifty million other story ideas (Which i promise I'll leave on hold until I finish this one... it'll be hard, though...)

Astrid and Stormfly were getting along better than before, likely thanks to Hiccup's teaching. The bird often perched on her shoulder as she went about her daily routine. The blonde did as their instructor had told her and distracted the bird with breakfast so she could sneak out the door.

Once downstairs, she waited for a pretty pale blue car to pick her up. Instead, an old red pick up rolled into its place.

Scott leaned on the passenger seat and grinned smugly. "Hey, pretty lady, you free?" Astrid rolled her eyes, smiling as she stepped up to the window. "Taylor has the sniffles, so I'm getting you guys." He motioned to the back seats, where Fisher and Ray barely waved before returning to talk to whatever topic they were engrossed in.

"Nerds," Scott mouthed as Astrid jumped into the passenger seat and buckled her seat belt. Scott started the truck, and the noise of the engine was quickly followed by Fisher making a whirring sound (Vworp, Vworp) that startled the blonde in the front seat.

She turned, surprised, to look at the laughing duo falling on top of one another. Fisher adjusted an imaginary bow tie, and Astrid decided it was some odd inside joke.

Scott coughed a bit to call the attention of the girl next to him as she settled back into her seat. He flashed a quick teasing grin at her fright. "You must be glad we're gonna do the fundraising thing, huh?" she gave him a curious look and he continued. "Don't have to babysit the nerd."

She assumed he was referring to her tutoring Hiccup. "No, I was looking forward to what, honestly. He seemed to have," She paused, then shrugged, "Sincere intentions, and it might have been fun!" She smiled.

Scott snorted, but remained silent. So was the rest of the car ride, except for the radio, which blasted, to Astrid's surprise, Carrie Underwood. Not that she was going to judge.

They arrived at the college campus and headed for their respective classes.

"I thought you and Scott lived in the dorms?" Astrid suddenly remembered, calling Fisher's attention away from Ray's parting figure.

"Um, yeah, but... Ray called and asked me to pick her up, and Scott offered to drive since, you know, he has a car." the blond grinned.

Astrid hummed softly at that. The hefty boy continued to smile until something else caught his eye and he suddenly waved and shouted, "Hiccup!"

A boy sporting a Game of Thrones themed backpack whirled around and grinned brightly, rushing back to meet them in the middle.

"Nice backpack," Astrid snickered. "But the middle school is across town."

Green eyes rolled. "Thanks, that's nice to hear from the girl wearing a Hello Kitty headband. It happens to be practical."

"Practically lame." she retorted. "Hello Kitty is ironically fashionable these days, excuse you."

"Guys, as much as I'd love to stick around and watch you flirt, we have a class."

Hiccup lit up red, the coloring hiding some of his freckles (shame...) and followed Fisher to the building. Astrid ran after them quickly.

They weren't flirting...

XxX

The five of them met up in the cafeteria at lunch, not for any particular reason. Hiccup told about the cat things Toothless got up to; things you're likely to find if you search 'cats' on youtube.

Ray said that Barf and Belch hunted a rabbit and brought the dead animal to Taylor, which, being allergic to rabbits, they assumed was what made him sick.

Scott was proud that Hookfang chased off some nuisance cat who always managed to find its way into the dorm halls (behavior Hiccup said wasn't to be praised) and Fisher informed his friends that Meatlaug figured out how to get into the cabinet to her food.

Astrid excitedly revealed that her and Stormfly were getting along well, and that sometimes when she was humming around the house, the bird would join in the song.

After they finished both their stories and food, they waved each other off and headed three separate ways.

Astrid was a bit relieved her next class was with Hiccup, if it couldn't be with Ray. He was her favorite company, aside from her best friend.

The two joked the lecture away, comparing notes in the library after class to make sure the other didn't miss anything.

Hiccup jokingly copied her doodle of the professor, too, only his drawing must have been five times better.

Thus they began discussing art.

By the time she had to leave for her next class they had filled two pages of Astrid's notebook with a million doodles.

Ray took notice of the page and, upon hearing the explanation, cooed. "Why Astrid! Have you been flirting?"

The blonde rolled her eyes and shook her head.

They weren't flirting!

XxX

Ray and Fisher made a sort of bet on who could get more lawns done in one day. The person who lost had to contribute ten dollars towards the Academy.

Scott and Astrid were assigned to work on the street above theirs, one on each side of the road.

Hiccup worked a block above them, and when Taylor got better, he would work on the street opposite Hiccup. With this system they set out to work.

Some houses had riding mowers, some had push mowers, and others seemed to have not yet stumbled upon the wonders of electricity yet and handed them hand clippers and the kind of push mower that seemed to run on will power alone.

Fortunately for most of the kids, only Scott seemed to find the last kind of house, and only got the one done before Hiccup drove around the blocks, picking each one up in turn.

"I am so bushed!" Ray groaned, falling against Astrid in the back seat. "This totally calls for an after party!"

"Eew, Ray you's all sweaty!" The other girl laughed, pushing her friend away. "Besides, for there to be an 'after party', there needs to be a, uh, before party."

Ray ignored her out of spite. "You guys should come to my house and get cleaned up, then we can go drink away our youth. Fisher keeps clothes at our house, since he used to practically live there, and you guys can borrow Tay's junk." She motioned to the boys in the front seats."

Everyone agreed that it was the best idea they had heard all day, but decided against bars and for the diner in town. After an hour they were fresh and ready to go. Ray had insisted on dressing Astrid, so her clothed were much more showy than she was used to, but admittedly more fashionable.

The boys had damp hair (okay, well, excluding Scott) and all three wore nerdy t-shirts.

"I think I gave this one to Taylor!" Hiccup motioned to the design, a chair made up of swords. Astrid didn't understand what the picture was referencing and was surprised to learn that he and the twins were childhood friends.

"He was sooo pissed you got taller than him. 'Specially cause you used to be so itty bitty." Ray snorted.

"I'm taller than you, too, you know."

Scott had on a shirt that said 'Totally' and underneath the radical sign - ah, math humor - Fisher's shirt just had a big blue telephone box on it.

"Seriously," Ray rolled her eyes when Astrid expressed her confusion toward the sword throne and blue box marked 'police'. "You's so not nerdy that's it's uncool."

XxX

The night was relaxing, and if the college students gathered comfortably around the table in the diner hadn't just worked their asses off, it would be boring. Everyone went home sleepy and safely.

Yup okay maybe that was an awkward ending?
You have no idea how awkward it is to refer to college students as kids! I'm only 16 it makes me feel old!
Please express your face in the box down there

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