Okay, wow. You guys are really awesome, giving me ideas and such for the story! To the guest who suggested an idea for Merida and Hiccup, I might just use that idea, who knows? I love hearing suggestions from you guys so if you'd like me to possibly use an idea you have, please tell me what you've got in mind! That said, thanks to the lovely readers who take the time out of their day to read this story. It means a lot to me. :)

"All of your auditions were wonderful, they were!" Ms. Tara smiled at her students. Her drama class had been bored out of their minds, but now snapped towards attention towards their teacher. "However, I could only use a few of the great talents in this class. The set list is, as follows-"

"Bet you anything Merida isn't Juliet," Guy snickered. Merida, who heard him, gave him a hard shove.

"Lady Capulet is Astrid. Lord Capulet is Felix. Friar Laurence is Rick," Ms. Tara was saying. Hiccup slumped down in his seat, allowing himself to wallow in shame. His own audition had been pretty bad, after all. A delicate tap on the shoulder caused him to turn around and face Rapunzel, who was smiling as usual.

"I hope you get the role you wanted," she said. Hiccup laughed unconvincingly, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"What? No, I only tried out because I forced Merida to..." he said awkwardly.

"The Nurse will be played by Lucille. Paris shall be played by Hiccup..." Ms. Tara continued.

"Oh, Hiccup!" Rapunzel leaped up and grabbed him by the shoulders. "You got an important role!" Hiccup, surprised by her hands on his torso, shot upright, causing him to fall backward sharply. His chair toppled under his weight, and he ended up on the drama class floor. Guy, Nod, and Once-ler all snickered at him. Ms. Tara didn't notice and kept reading off names.

"Juliet shall be played by Rapunzel, and Romeo will be played by Jack," Ms. Tara said. "That's about it, but all of you who signed up for music, sets and costumes get guaranteed spots."

"I got Juliet!" Rapunzel said excitedly. She was about to help Hiccup up, but forgot in her excitement. Mavis tossed her arms around her blond friend in a celebratory hug, both of them squealing.

"How'd yeh fall, ye idiot?" Merida held out a hand for her best friend. Hiccup took it gratefully, blood rushing to his face.

"Hey Juliet," Jack said teasingly to Rapunzel, approaching where the blond was standing. Rapunzel blushed lightly but gave Jack a wide smile.

"You got the part of Romeo! That's huge!" she said, and tossed her arms around Jack. Merida, seeing her do that, let go of Hiccup's hand in surprise, sending Hiccup sprawling back on the floor because he had been using Merida's hand to stand up.

"Merida-!" Hiccup said, hitting his head on the leg of his head.

"Oops!" Merida's hands flew to her mouth, but her eyes looked distressed. Almost sad. Hiccup had known the redheaded girl for far too long. She couldn't hide when she was hurting.

"No problem, I'm fine," he said, praying he wouldn't get a bump or something on his head. He stood up by himself, gripping onto the side of the desk for balance.

"If I called your name for a role, please come get your scripts!" Ms. Tara said. Hiccup followed Jack and Rapunzel towards Ms. Tara, ready to accept their assignments.

"Merida," Mavis said to her friend in a concerned tone. "Are you- okay?" Merida realized she had been staring after her retreating friends.

"Yeah, I just-" Merida began, but shook her head. "Let's go with the set people." Mavis could tell something was bothering Merida, but didn't want to make the fiery redhead mad. So she followed the aforementioned redhead in silence, knowing that Merida was stubborn. She wouldn't say anything if she didn't want to.

"I have a lot of lines to learn," Rapunzel said to Hiccup as the two of them started towards their desks. Jack had gotten caught up talking to Lucille and Rick at the other side of the classroom, so the brunette boy and the blond girl walked on without him.

"That's the bad part of getting a lead role, huh?" Hiccup sighed, flipping through his own line script. He had some sizable lines himself. "This was a bad idea..." he muttered to himself. He had never counted on actually getting a part in the play.

"It's going to be so fun, isn't it?" Rapunzel tossed an arm around Hiccup's shoulders, squeezing his face against hers.

"Umm, sure," Hiccup said uncomfortably. His face heated, feeling Rapunzel's skin against his as a sort of awkward situation.

"I can't wait!" Rapunzel said eagerly, letting go of Hiccup and walking with him towards the sets, music and costumes tables. There, their various friends were examining the list of what needed to be done, which costumes and props needed to be made, things like that.

"Want to help design Juliet's dress, Rapunzel?" Once-ler held out a sketchpad towards the blond girl.

"Sure!" Rapunzel smiled, taking it from him. "Mavis, you've got to help me."

"Yeah, it'll be fun!" Mavis settled next to Rapunzel, ready to help her friend.

"I want to build the giant balcony that Juliet stands on!" Tuffnut looked over the list of props needed.

"If you build it, it's probably going to fall," Raoul said. "Let Felix build it, he's the best builder in the school."

"Because everything Tuffnut touches breaks," Ruffnut sneered. Tuffnut shoved his sister harshly.

"Merida, what are you going to do?" Hiccup sat down next to his best friend, seeing that she was sort of off by herself, looking through the prop list.

"Hmm?" Merida looked up at him, not expecting to see him there. "Oh, whatever I guess."

"Are you alright?" Hiccup asked, his expression softening as he could see Merida's desolate look. Merida leaned against Hiccup, resting her head on her shoulder, but didn't say anything. And Hiccup was fine with that. Being her best friend, he was obliged to be there for her and not pressure her into anything.

"I'm just stressed," Merida spoke up, but it was a lie. The redhead was hurting; but the pain was raw and emotional, not anything the mind inflicted...

"Over what?" Hiccup leaned a bit closer to her.

"Uh... Once-ler's party is um, stressin', and ah need a break," Merida said, lifting her head off of Hiccup's shoulder and hiding her red face in the curls of her hair.

"Well, if you need someone else to take the cake, I'm sure we'd all be glad to help," Hiccup offered.

"No, I'll do it," Merida sighed. "It's just the pressure of havin' the party at mah house."

"If you're not okay with it, we could always change the location," Hiccup said, perplexed. It's like Merida was coming up with reasons on the spot; because she had volunteered her house in the first place.

"No, it's fine to have it there," Merida said quickly.

"Well, make up your mind, is it fine or is it pressuring?" Hiccup teased her slightly, and jabbed her playfully in the ribs. Merida let a laugh escape her lips, glancing down at her hands in her lap.

"Maybe I'm just overeactin' about the whole thing," Merida said. "But it's goin' to work out. Thanks fer askin', Hiccup." Hiccup could only smile at her, feeling the warmth pool in his stomach.

Violet rested her head on her fist, placing her elbow firmly on the top of the wooden desk. Science wasn't her best subject; but then again, it didn't seem that way for many of her peers. Many classmates around her were tuning out their teacher, or just ignoring him entirely. Violet really couldn't blame them.

"For class today, you're going to be pairing up and working on a new experiment!" the science teacher, Mr. Robinson, said as he wrote something down on the chalkboard. "It's a project on human relations and their reactions." Violet let a slight huff escape her lips, wishing he was lying or something, but no, it was true. And it looked hard.

"Mr. Robinson!" a fair-haired girl in the back of the class, someone Violet recognized as Elsa, waved her hand in the air. "Can we choose our partners?"

"I'd glad you asked Elsa," Mr. Robinson said, and turned to face the class. "No, your partners have all been pre-chosen for you. I have the list right here." The class's bored silence changed into mumbles of disdain and annoyance, but Mr. Robinson only smiled brightly and took said list out in his hand.

"This is a bummer," Roxanne whispered to Violet. Violet turned to face the short-haired brunette, agreeing wholeheartedly with what she'd just said.

"Yeah, this really sucks," Violet said. "This seems pretty hard, don't you think?" Before Roxanne could answer, Mr. Robinson spoke.

"Here are my partner pairs," he said. "Elsa and Penny. Anna and Margo. Norman and Vanellope. Flynn and Roxanne. Violet and Wilbur. Susan and M.K..."

"I get Flynn?!" Roxanne turned to face Violet in excitement. "Do you know what this means?!"

"You get an arrogant jerk?" Violet guessed. Judging by the exasperated look on Roxanne's face, it was the wrong answer.

"No, half of the school's gossip revolves around him. You know I'm a reporter for the school paper!" Roxanne said. "Imagine the publicity Flynn could bring to the paper, Vi."

"Then interrogate him to your heart's content, I guess," Violet laughed. Roxanne beamed and went off in search of her partner. Which reminded Violet, she had to go find her own partner. Wilbur Robinson was a friend of her brother's, so he had to be weird. She just knew he would be.

"Violet, right?" Violet turned to face the owner of the voice. "I'm Wilbur." So this was Wilbur. Gelled black hair, dark brown eyes, lanky body. A little cute, but Violet wasn't looking to crush on her brother's best friend.

"Yeah," Violet tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "Um, want to get started on that project now?"

"Sure," Wilbur said, getting out the instructions page Mr. Robinson had given them. Violet looked it over with him, but they didn't make much sense.

"We have to study human reactions to feelings, and make a model or poster about it," Violet said. "Does that even make sene to you?"

"Yeah, yeah, hold on, I'm reading," Wilbur said, flipping the page over. "Looks simple. We can just google most of this stuff anyway."

"Simple?" Violet looked at the boy like he was crazy. "I don't know about you, but doing a project on how a human reacts to fear is pretty hard for me."

"My dad's the science teacher. He'll help me out if I need it," Wilbur said, getting out a notebook to jot down ideas. "Want to start?'

"Your dad-?" Violet looked towards the front of the classroom, where Mr. Robinson was writing more things down on the chalkboard.

"Yeah," Wilbur said, not putting much thought into it. "My dad. Are you just going to sit there, or are you going to help?" Violet frowned at his answer, but began looking through a science book she had on her desk .

"There's some stuff about reflexes, do you think we could use that?" Wilbur asked.

"Yeah, if it's a reaction to pain," Violet said in a bored way, flipping through her book.

"Aren't you just sunshine and rainbows," Wilbur muttered, but kept searching through the book himself. "How about we meet up some time to work on this? It is a partner project, so one of us can't just do it." Violet looked up at him, giving in to what he'd just said.

"Okay. Why not?" Violet said. Wilbur handed her his notebook, pointing out some notes he'd just taken.

"How about at your house?" Wilbur asked. Violet looked up at him, surprised.

"Why my house?" she asked, curious.

"Because I know where you live," Wilbur said, like that was perfectly normal.

"Woah, what?" Violet glared at the boy in distaste. "How do you know where I live?!"

"I've been there with Dash," Wilbur said, the 'duh' evident in his voice.

"Oh. Right," Violet blushed in embarrassment. "That's true."

"Then it's fine if I stop by sometime?" Wilbur said, preoccupied, flipping through his book. Violet, for some reason, looked sharply at him like he was flirting or something, but- he wasn't. He was just doing his assignment, and Violet was taking it to heart. That was all there was to it.

"Yeah," Violet said.

"No, Jack. A little higher- that's it- " Merida guided Jack through his putting up of the happy birthday banner. The party decorating and preparing wasn't going that well for Once-ler's birthday. Nothing was ready yet. The ladder wobbled a bit, and Jack clutched onto it to steady it. When it stopped shaking, he started taping the banner again. "Watch out for Hiccup!" Merida called up, seeing Hiccup and Nod approaching Jack with a piñata in the shape of a donkey. It was big and bulky, and both boys were balancing it in their arms.

"What?" Jack said, looking down at her, one unattached part of the banner was in his hands. "I don't see Hiccup-" Hiccup and Nod carried the piñata under the ladder. Nod's shoulder and the side of the piñata smashed into the side of the ladder, and the ladder started tipping.

"Nod!" Merida scolded. Nod grimaced in pain but laid the now-broken piñata down on the table.

"What?" he asked. The ladder came crashing down, with Jack still on it. Hiccup looked back, surprised to see Jack's falling off of a ladder.

"Ahh!" Jack yelled, falling onto the hard linoleum floor face-first. "Nod!"

"Oops, did I do that?" Nod asked, looking over his shoulder.

"The banner, you idiot!" Merida grabbed the fallen banner off of the floor.

"I got the candy for the piñata..." the door opened and closed and the voice of their friend Guy filled the room. "Does Once-ler like chocolate?" Covering his face with the shopping bags, Guy didn't see Jack on the floor. So naturally, Guy tripped over him.

"Fuck," Jack muttered, crushed under the weight of Guy. "Get off me!"

"Why are you on the floor?" Guy groaned, shifting off. "You smushed the candy, dumbbell!" The friends really made a strange scene at that moment in time.

Jack and Guy were on the floor and on top of each other, Nod and Hiccup were trying to tape together the broken piñata, and Merida was trying to hang up the banner to no avail.

"I got it," Merida tried to jump up a bit because the banner was being put up too high for her to reach. "Jack, get your lazy ass up and fix the ladder!"

"Excuse me if I'm in pain!" Jack snapped, standing up.

"Here, just let me," Nod took a break from piñata taping and hung up the other banner side.

"I totally had it," Merida said defensively. Jack was putting the ladder upright, and leaned it against the wall when he saw Merida no longer needed it.

"Did you guys fix the pinata?" Guy asked. "Because I'm ready to put the candy in." He held up the slightly squashed bag of goodies.

"You broke it?" Jack asked. "How in the world did you guys break the piñata without even a stick?'

"Calm down, we fixed it!" Hiccup said, holding up the piñata. Its leg was covered in tape. Mavis made a disapproving face, but Guy just started looking for the hole to put the candy in.

"There's no hole!" he said in frustration.

"Make a new one," Jack said, opening the knife drawer and taking a butcher knife out. "Move!" Hiccup backed away from Jack, and Jack thrust the knife into the donkey's belly.

"Jack!" Merida hit him on the side of the head. "Dumbass! The hole's right here!" She snatched the tape from Nod's hands and started taping the donkey back together.

"Guy said it, not me!" Jack frowned. "How was I supposed to know, is he said-"

"Boys. Can't get anythin' done," Merida rolled her eyes. She finished taping it and then put the candy in. "This place doesn't look very decorated at all."

"It doesn't have to be, we're inviting like, what, five people?" Jack sneered. Merida glared at him.

"Woah dude, you never tell a girl something doesn't have to be fancy," Guy teased Merida's tomboyish ways. It worked, because Merida was ready to curse him out.

"Yeh little rat! I'm gonna-!" Merida leapt towards Guy, but Hiccup wrapped his skinny arms around her waist to stop her.

"Merida, you're not-" Hiccup began, but Merida tossed her head back and hit him in the jaw. "Argh!"

"Oh!" Merida shoved Hiccup's hands off of her torso and turned sharply around to face him. "What are yeh doin', yeh lunatic? I was just goin' to scratch his eyes out!"

"Exactly why I stopped you," Hiccup sighed. "Maybe it's that stress you mentioned earlier, but..."

"But nothin'," Merida interrupted him. "Just leave me alone, Haddock!"

"Ooh," Guy said ominously yet teasingly. "Trouble in paradise, Hiccup?"

"I can kill yeh right now, and make sure no one misses yeh!" Merida whirled around and pointed a finger at Guy.

"Alright, we could all use a breather," Jack raised his hands to stop them all. "Here, let's take a break. We've got guests in an hour, that's plenty of time to finish. So let's have a bit of fun!"

"Fun?" Nod spoke up. He'd been fairly quiet, just watching Hiccup, Merida and Guy attack one another.

"Merida's house has a pool," Jack smiled. "Let's get in!"

"We can' just get in the pool!" Merida tossed her hands dramatically in the air. She was so done with all of them.

"Yeah we can," Jack scoffed. He tore off his hoodie, and then proceeded with pulling off his pants. Merida looked away from his exposed chest, her cheeks burning.

"So if we're all doing this.." Guy arched his eyebrow but took off his clothes too, leaving them on a heap on the floor. Nod shook his head, laughing at them, but also pulled off his shirt. Hiccup just stood awkwardly away from all of them, next to a madly blushing Merida.

"Well?" Jack turned to look at Hiccup and Merida.

"No thanks," Hiccup said weakly. Merida looked away from Guy, Nod and Jack uncomfortably.

"C'mon Red, I know you want to," Jack said told Merida with a smile.

"Nope," Merida said somewhat shyly, not making eye contact. "There's somethin' gay about the three of you takin' off your clothes around one another."

"It's not gay if there's a girl here to ogle your naked chest," Nod said, like that made perfect sense.

"I'm not oglin' anyone!" Merida snapped furiously at Nod, still not looking at him. "Yeh are all just bein' creepy!"

"Merida can count as a guy then," Guy rolled his eyes. "Are you coming with us in the pool, Hiccup?"

"No," Hiccup said somewhat uncomfortably, looking towards Merida. "Me and Merida could finish up in here, I guess..."

"Race you into the deep end!" Nod yelled, and he and Guy raced outside to Merida's pool.

"Suckers," Jack shook his head, grinning but following them outside too. Merida looked relieved when they left, Hiccup the same. Maybe they were both a bit prude-ish, but they were prudes together.

"Buncha weirdos, they all are," Merida muttered half to herself, but Hiccup still heard her. And noticed her cheeks were still bright with embarrassment.

"Okay..." Hiccup trailed. "Let's just get started on the decorating."

New characters:

Wilbur and Lewis Robinson from Meet the Robinsons

Anna and Elsa from Frozen

Norman from Paranorman

Vanellope from Wreck- it Ralph

Margo from Despicable Me

Susan from Monsters Vs. Aliens

Not my best, but eh. I tried, guys. I was a little stuck. And Mr. Robinson as the science teacher, I thought was perfect! He reminds me of my third grade English teacher Mr. Robinson. He was my first teacher to ever get me interested in writing. :) Here, I'd like to do something that is very bs13- ish and thank reviewers, I mean, I haven't done it before and I want to thank you all for your support. I could just thank you all with a PM, but I'd like everyone to know how important those reviews are to me. :)

bs13: The thanker of reviewers herself! Ruffnut and Tuffnut are so going to be used more and more, I love them!

Bailey24: Thanks for reviewing and actually wanting to read more!

vampirelover466: Amazing? You make me blush. :) Don't worry, Flynn's secret shall be exposed soon!

Guest: Your idea for Hiccup and Merida falling in love is a very interesting idea, I might just use it! Thanks so much for that suggestion.

LoversUnite2302: Well, you've figured out my plot XD sorta. All will be revealed soon; but your idea is very close to mine. ;)

WonderRose: Thanks! I love long reviews. And yours made my day. :) Lucille is totally talented and would get the role of Juliet, but Rapunzel might just get it because it's essential to my plot. And Flynn being a jerk, trust me, I hate writing him like that. He's going to get his happily ever after, because he is not the villain. Guy/Eep and M.K./Nod are fav couples of mine too, and they're going to be interacting a bit more soon! And Willet is a cute pairing. Thanks so much for thinking I've captured characters well!

ROTBTD FANGIRL: Don't worry, the Mericcup is soon to come. ;)

MUversusFT: Those characters you mentioned I was considering putting in there because I love all those movies/characters! In fact, many of them were slightly mentioned in here.

Amethyst Dzarich: Don't worry, Flynn will be exposed soon. And me? An awesome writer? Oh, thank you but not really!

Honestly guys, you spoil me with kindness. Thanks a gazillion for reading!