(A/N) I'm trying to update fast because when school starts back in 5 days I won't be able to update as much.
"Finally days over." Hiccup said to himself wile grabbing his school supplies. Spanish class seemed to take forever with a random quiz the teacher also known as Coach Gobber of the football team, and part time veteran of the war liked to give. He always insisted that if you rapid fired your students with questions suddenly, then they'd be working so quickly to answer fast enough that they'd be able to answer normal questions with practiced ease. The tactic actually worked for the students who listened in class.
As Hiccup started walking out the door, Astrid stopped him wile grabbing his shoulder. Hiccup spun around surprised, but went silent when he realized who had grabbed him. "H-Hey Astrid. What are you..." Astrid smiled as Hiccup grinned goofily wile trailing off.
"I saw you in Physical education wile playing basketball with the disabled kids wile practicing on the other side of the gym. Two questions about that..." Astrid held up one finger waiting for Hiccup to let her know he was listening. Hiccup nodded, encouraging Astrid to go on.
"One, how did you volunteer for the special PE when your not a senior?" Hiccup smiled sheepishly wile looking down. Believe it or not, despite how long he'd been going to Berks schools, hardly anyone knew about Hiccup's prosthetic thanks to his pant leg and a shoe covering the end of it. Sure he raced with a more visible one not containing a place for a shoe, but on the race track no one could hardly see the riders with how fast their dragons went.
"Well uh...actually Astrid I qualify as part of the class." Hiccup smiled nervously, rubbing the back of his neck. Astrid raised an eyebrow wile crossing her arms, her body language indicating she was wanting an answer. Hiccup sighed, looking down at his legs.
"Promise you won't gossip?" Hiccup asked and Astrid groaned as if offended. Hiccup chuckled to himself sitting down in the chair at the desk. Astrid looked down at him, confusion written all over her face. When Hiccup grabbed the bottom of his left pant leg, Astrid had an idea of what was going on having seen this before in a past of her own.
Astrid kneeled down in front of Hiccup, at a loss for words. Hiccup looked at her wide eyed and confused when Astrid grabbed his hands from going further. One look at Astrid's face and Hiccup was beyond lost. Astrid had never looked that...worried before. She was confident and never feared anything. After seeing her look so...lost if that was the right word for it, Hiccup stopped, letting go of his pant leg.
"You okay?" Hiccup asked and Astrid nodded. "I'll be fine." Astrid stood back up, her confident posture returning. "And as for the second question." She continued as if nothing had happened. Hiccup stood up to, awaiting an answer. "Like I said before, you seemed to be having quit a bit of fun playing basketball today and I was wondering if you'd come over to help me practice. You seem like a worthy opponent."
Hiccup was at a loss for words, but after coach Gobber cleared his throat having been watching their conversation Hiccup managed a stutter. "U-Uh sure but I uh-I don't know if I'd be a-any good." Hiccup cursed himself for the serious stutter he got when nervous, but couldn't help but smile as Astrid chuckled.
"Great. Maybe tonight?" Hiccup hated to, but he had to pass. "Sorry, got a race tomorrow and have to prepare. Wanna come? To the race I mean?" Astrid went wide eyed, looking confused. "Wait...I can't offered tickets and-" "Astrid I'm one of the racers so I'm sure the security guards wouldn't mind me bringing one guest." Hiccup cut her off with a chuckle.
Astrid agreed, hugging Hiccup goodbye. They agreed on practicing Saturday, and Astrid gave Hiccup her number. She claimed he'd need it if any one of them had a change of plans, but Hiccup was happy to have a friend he could actually talk to outside of school for once.
As he walked to the line for car riders who lived further away and needed a ride from their parent, Hiccup met up with Fishlegs and twins. "Hey guys, good day at school?" Hiccup asked, standing beside Fishlegs and across from Ruff and Tuff.
"Tuff here got Detention again. He'll be going for the rest of the week!" Ruffnut exaggerated, Tuffnut elbowing her in the side. You see, despite protecting her from other people, Tuffnut still hurt his sister. He said it wasn't bad, and rather than thinking Tuffnut didn't know his own strength, Hiccup and Fishlegs knew it was because his version of 'bad' hurt was what they'd call abusive. In their old home, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were lucky to get through the week without a purple and blue bruise or two. 'Bad' violence was something that caused a bloody nose or broken bone. Maybe even worse.
"Uh...you do know we've only got tomorrow for the rest of the week, then we have the weekend free." Fishlegs tried to reason. Tuffnut nodded, smirking mischievously. "That's what I said. Trust me, we've been through worse. When you've been to jail twice and the occasional acute institution with a false diagnosis, you tend not to be afraid of a little extra work." Tuffnut explained, causing Hiccup and Fishlegs to frown.
"You do know we're going to have to tell mom and Jacob right?" Ruffnut asked her brother. She'd become close enough to Magnus the past few months to consider her actual family. Jacob on the other hand was a male, and with her past it was reasonable to see why the twins despised grown men who could pose any kind of intimidation or threat.
"And what?! Let them send me to another house because this is the fourth time I've gotten into to many fights. It'll be better on them so no authorities get involved." Tuffnut sounded slightly angry at first, but the rest of his sentences were like this was a neutral conversation. Hiccup pitied the twins, wondering how many times they'd been from house to house after only a year in foster care. Hiccup had been in the same house the past year with the exception of few months at Gobber's.
Before anything else could be said in this 'sort of' argument, Magnus drove up in their tan colored van. "Shotgun!" Tuffnut called, jumping through the open passengers door. Hiccup and Fishlegs chuckled, Ruffnut going off about how it was her turn.
Eventually Ruffnut settled for the very back end because it had a cup holder and they were heading to a local sonic for drinks. Hiccup and Fishlegs got middle. "So...why are we going to sonic again?" Hiccup asked, confused about why Jacob wasn't here.
"Jacob had to take a late call and I figured we could go get something as a treat. After all you've got your winning streak going and you have a race tomorrow after school right?" Hiccup nodded, a smile gracing his lips. They continued driving before finally reaching their destination.
"Welcome to sonic. How can I help you?" A woman's voice sounded as Magnus pulled up. "Hang on just a minute." Magnus said, turning to the teens in the back. "Blue coconut root beer with vanilla!" Tuffnut called his drink. You see during happy hour the sonic here had many flavor add ins for drinks. Tuffnut always got some odd combination which sounded gross but tasted delicious.
"Vanilla chocolate DP!" Ruffnut called from the back, being just as odd at ordering her drinks as the other twin. "Uh...mind if I can get a vanilla coke?" Fishlegs added in. Magnus smiled at them, taking a mental note of the drinks. She looked at Hiccup who seemed lost in thought.
"Hiccup?" Hiccup was suddenly pulled from his thoughts, and Magnus knew he was probably thinking about his upcoming race. "Would you like a drink?" Hiccup shrugged and nodded. "Uh...sprite please." Magnus nodded and pressed the button on one of the machines, ordering the kids' drinks along with a Coke for herself.
After getting the drinks, the teens and foster mom headed home. The second they reached the drive way, Ruffnut and Tuffnut ran towards the front door wile calling dibs on the gaming system. Fishlegs told Magnus he was going to take Meatlug to the public library and let her stay outside wile he turned in some books. Hiccup didn't say a thing, but imediatly ran towards Toothless' stall.
The stalls had no locks, and Toothless imediatly ran through his stall and into Hiccup the second he saw his rider. Hiccup laughed, petting his dragons head. "Hey bud! Miss me?!" Hiccup laughed as his dragon tickled him with his snout. Once Hiccup called surrender, Toothless backed away, turning his back to his rider.
Hiccup smiled, getting on the back of his dragon and leaving his back pack and binder in the stalls. He pulled on his leather riding uniform, replacing his school prosthetic with his riding one which controlled Toothless' prosthetic tailfin Hiccup made after the dragons tail got infected. It started with a wound caused by a monstrous nightmare, but the wound just couldn't heal properly and had to be removed.
Hiccup pulled out his journal, and up until late evening Hiccup and Toothless practiced new moves Hiccup had written down which could help with racing. It wasn't until they were both exhausted and hungry-Toothless being a giant dragon and Hiccup having not eaten at all today-that Dragon and rider decided to head home. They ate their dinner, and when nine o'clock came around Hiccup decided to get some early shut eye.
(A/N) Hey fellow readers! Your amazing for reading this far and if you'd like, please review with rather these chapters are to short or just fine. Your amazing!