"Welcome...to our first Starlight Dance. As you can see, we have with us today the gentlemen of Prince Charming Academy."

Astrid thought her ears might burst.

"If we could keep the shrieking to a minimum, that would be much appreciated, ladies."

She took a good look at the boy in front of her. He had basically snowy white hair and blue eyes. He seemed friendly enough, but she noticed his eyes kept flitting to the golden-haired princess at the end of the line. A crush on her highness? That might not go so well. Of course, she wasn't jealous or anything. The boy seemed nice, not all that attractive, though.

"Rapunzel!" Anna said in a very loud voice, "That's the red line, silly!"

"I wanna dance with Prince Jack," was what Astrid heard as a response, "But he's dancing with her. She got here first."

Oh, so luckily for Prince Jack, Rapunzel seemed to like him back.

Not so lucky for her, though.

"No daughter of mine sits in the sidelines during a dance!" Gothel grabbed a fumbling Rapunzel and led her to where Astrid was standing. "Looks like you'll have to sit this one out, dear. Pity."

Astrid thought she heard a faint "sorry" from Rapunzel but she wasn't sure, so she merely stepped back with a sigh. It was just a dance, but she'd been hoping to explore actually dancing with someone because everyone here thought she still stepped on toes and avoided dancing with her,

It would be a nice change. But she obeyed, and stepped out, about to leave the rom, when someone rammed into her, with a, "Sorry I'm late!" followed by an, "Oh no," when he saw he'd tripped someone.

Astrid looked up to see another prince, holding his hand out for her to take. "I am so sorry about that."

She hoped she didn't look like a fish out of water, because this boy was good-looking. He had smooth brown hair that fell into his crystal green eyes. Freckles dusted his face, and he was wearing a suit and tie like all the other boys, but...on him, it looked exceedingly good. Not to mention that heartwarming smile. Remembering herself, she took his outstretched hand with a small smile of her own. "No, no, it's totally okay."

"No, it's not," he said sincerely, hauling her up. Now standing, Astrid noted he was also quite tall.

She turned to see the whole of the room staring at them, a few girls clicking their heels impatiently. Tooth - Toothiana in front of other students - was smiling all-knowingly, unlike a scowling Gothel, and she said, "That's fine. The two of you can partner up and join the dance."

They stood at the end of the line, near Anna and her partner. "Now, gentleman, lightly kiss the top of your partner's hand" - did Astrid just get tingles? - "and...dance!"

It was simple enough. After all this ballroom dancing, she wondered whether her and Gustav could ever do their weekly concerts anymore, where they just pumped up the music on her phone and made up their own dance moves.

"Milady, I am Henry Horrendous Haddock the Third, young swain learning to take on the world and become a prince." After two seconds, he added, "Think that was polite enough?"

"Definitely." A swerve.

"Think you can top it?"

"Kind swain," she began, exaggerating the dreaminess in her voice, "I am Astrid Hofferson, young lady royal learning at Princess Charm School, delighted to be in your presence."

He laughed. "Well done."

"I try. So, Henry -"

"Hiccup," he interrupted.

"Huh?"

"Er, my name's Henry, but my friends call me Hiccup."

As she spun under his arm, she asked, "Is that a story I want to hear?"

"Probably not."

"Alright, Hiccup," she said, stifling her giggles, "what do you like to do?"

"I'm pretty good with mechanics," he said, twirling her, "And animals seem to have a tendency to like me. You?"

"Playing sports, but there's not a lot of that here, so unless my roommate and I are playing in our dorm, you won't see. Do you play?" she asked, genuinely curious. He didn't look the type to play football or anything.

"Oh, me? Nah." he tried to wave his hand, which was kind of hard during a ballroom dance, "Not really a sports person. More of a nature person. But hey, opposites attract, right?"

Astrid's eyes widened at the same time his eyes did. "Ah, I didn't mean to - you're very pretty, is all - no, dangit, that's not - er, would you be willing to just ignore that?"

"Sure, I'll - yeah, it never happened. Don't worry," she reassured, although she would never forget that.

They talked on as the dance progressed. At one point, when they got close to Rapunzel, Astrid feared she might do something to mess their dance up, but she was too enamored in her own conversation with Prince Jack to really do anything.

As they talked, Hiccup mentioned that she looked like Queen Valka. When she asked how he knew what the queen had looked like, he simply responded that he did his research, and that both Astrid and Rapunzel looked like her. She waved it off.

When the dance finished, he murmured, "So, I'll see you at the coronation, right?"

"Yeah. Definitely." She smiled brightly at him. "In fact, can I get your number?"

Hiccup's surprised face was cute.

After the two fumbling teenagers exchanged numbers and bid their farewells, a voice said next to her, "Well, that was fun, right?"

She turned, expecting to see Heather or Ruff, but instead saw Rapunzel, who was grinning excitedly. "Looks like we both got dates!" she exclaimed, holding up her phone.

Astrid stared at her. When Rapunzel noticed, she asked, "What?"

"Nothing, it's just…you're being nice to me," she explained.

"Astrid, I'm not just an all-out mean person, y'know." The princess rolled her eyes. "Besides, you haven't bumped into me for a while."

She walked off with an air of victory, which was strange, because they hadn't even been arguing. Astrid shook her head. She didn't think she would ever get the princess. For now, she was fine with just hanging out with her two friends and not texting Hiccup too soon lest he think she was that into him.

She might just be. He had been nice.

I'm not very happy with this chapter. I feel like I made both of them too OOC.
Anyway, I sorta skipped the whole Rapunzel tripping Astrid and then everyone breakdancing, because it's not very important to the plot. Also, I ship Jackunzel, so...
Rapunzel if finally nice to Astrid, will that last? (That part never happened in the original movie, in case someone who's seen it is confused)