Hey Guys! I'm back! For good this time lol. I'm out for the summer and I have so much to write about!
First off I Have to say that_ I missed you guys! I missed writing for you and making you smile with this story so this update and many of the updates to come mean a lot to me. I certainly hope you haven't forgotten and if you have I WILL make you remember. And for all my new readers: Welcome! Pull up a chair and join the journey.
Now this chapter is very social to me. Ya get see everybody interacting together and I got little surprise at the end. I hope you guys enjoy and I'm happy to be back.
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Chapter 16: Welcoming Party
The sound of birds singing filled a multi colored room of soft pinks, vivid gold's and a walls covered with beautiful paintings of flowers, swirling suns, and girls with flowing locks that swirl around the room. Pascal hopped up from his sleep, out of the sleeping blonde's hair and hopped on the purple and pink alarm clock. "Thanks Pascal," Rapunzel yawned smiling tiredly at the chameleon. Pascal returned her smile which was an equally tired one, as she sat up on her canopy bed. Rapunzel stretched, while Pascal reclaimed his sleeping spot on her pillow.
She chuckled at the sleeping chameleon and shook her head at how lazy he can be. Ruffling her blonde hair she gave a quick glance at her calendar thinking, "Ah it's Saturday." Looking away to rub the sleep from her eyes, her head shot up at the thought, "It's Saturday!" She exclaimed, a smile quickly forming on her face. She jumped out of bed scaring Pascal awake again. She hurried to her closet to find something to wear. Pascal decided to stay awake seeing as he knew this day was really important to the girl. This event was a normal thing in Berk and Rapunzel loved going to it every year since she moved here. "Alright Pascal. You've gotta me help out. What about this one?" She asked throwing a pink shirt and white jeans on the bed. Pascal looked and even blended in with the two colors, but shook his head "no". The blonde gave the outfit a good look and agreed with her pet, "Hmm you're right to summer style. How about this one? "
This went on for about 20 minutes till she found an outfit they were both satisfied with. She took the outfit to the bathroom and went through her daily wake up routine. After her shower she brushed her teeth, got dressed and did her hair. Pascal was close to falling back asleep when he saw Rapunzel walk out the bathroom. "Well? What do ya think Pascal?" She smiled showing off her outfit.
Sporting a white slouchy, over-sized, sweat shirt with a pink kiss mark in the center. Under it she wore a soft pink sleeveless turtle neck, and shorts with three black elephants on the lower right leg. Under her shorts were light purple leggings and she finished the outfit with a pair of vans sneakers that faded from purple to blue. Pascal gave two thumbs up for the outfit and messy bun hair style the blonde had.
Rapunzel immediately agreed with her green friend as she looked at her outfit in the mirror. The doorbell rang and interrupted her admiring; she picked up Pascal and headed downstairs to answer it. "Coming!" She laughed as the bell went off again. Looking through the peep hole she saw a bush of curly red hair contained in a loos pony tail and opened the door. "Morn'in Punzie," Merida smiled seeing her friend open the door.
"Good morning Merida. Ready for today? I'm so excited!" The blonde smiled and bounced slightly. The redhead giggled at the teen's excitement as she walked into the apartment. "I can see that pretty clearly. You're outfit screams for a day of fun!" Merida smiled looking her friend up and down. "Thank you. You look amazing too! Hiccup's goanna have to pay less attention to the music and more to who's looking at you." Rapunzel winked pointing at Merida's outfit. The slightly taller girl wore a green and black stripped shirt under a red and white plaid collar shirt. Sporting faded, green ripped jeans from the lower thighs to the ankles, a pair of black, green, and pair of silver, polka doted, high top sneakers. And to finish the outfit a black head scarf wrapped around her forehead, attempting to push her thick curls back; some of them still hung in front of her face, while the rest of the frizzy hair was pulled up into a large ponytail.
"You really think he likes it?" The redhead blushed lightly rubbing the back of her head embarrassed. Rapunzel scoffed, "Of course he likes it! Pascal don't you agree?" She asked looking at the chameleon on her shoulder. Pascal gave a reassuring smile, making the two girls laugh.
Their laughter was interrupted by a knock at the door, Rapunzel opened it grinning as the brunet that walked. "Morning Hiccup!" She smiled, "Good Morning Rapunzel, you're looking lovely today." He bowed making her giggling, "And you as well Sir Hiccup." She said doing a small curtsy. The burnet wore, a brown turtle neck, with a green hooded jacket and fade gray jeans with a pair of black timberlines. He chuckled looking around the apartment, with his back turned to the blonde, "Did I beat Merida up here? That's first," He asked her and said the last part to himself. "I know right!" Merida shouted jumping on the tall males back. Hiccup jumped slightly in surprise and turned left and right attempting to see the girl. He sighed as two girls giggled at their little prank.
"Well I'm official wake for the morning," he said rolling his eyes. "Good, than you'll be in tip top shape to drive us to the festival." Merida smiled kissing him on the cheek and hopping off his back. "Well then let's get a move on, traffic gets ugly in few hours." Hiccup smirked opening the door, Merida agreed and walked out the door her boyfriend held open. Rapunzel grabbed her mini messenger bag and Pascal jumped in it as they walked out and locked the door. Going down to elevator Hiccup asked, "Hey what floor does Jack stay on? We gotta pick him up right?" He looked at Rapunzel. The blonde smiled, "There's no need he'll meet us there." Merida arched an eyebrow, "Are you sure the lad can navigate downtown in all the chaos?" Rapunzel smirked, "I wasn't talking about meeting at the festival."
When elevator stopped on the floor below Rapunzel's it opened to show Jack standing there, staff and all. He wore a black shirt under a blue and white plaid collar shirt, black skinny jeans, a gray and blue skull beanie and pair of gray high top sneakers. Merida looked with wide eyes, pointing at him, "How did he?" Rapunzel couldn't hold her laughter at her friends shocked faces. "Did you call him or something?" Hiccup asked looking at the girl. She shook her head with her hand behind her back. Jack got on chuckling himself saying, "No I'm just lucky like that. Punzie always flips out when I do it." He said motioning to her. "I still don't know how he does it. It's one of the many mysteries, powers of Sherlock," Rapunzel giggled.
The four teens made their way down the complex parking lot to Hiccup's car. "And here I thought I'd spend most of my time in Berk walking," Jack said feeling the smooth texture of the car. "You don't ride in cars often?" Rapunzel asked. "Well yes and no. I'd usually walk or take the train wherever I had to go back home, but in my younger years, one of my uncles would drive me around in their cars. By the way who usually sits in the front on these trips?" Jack asked turning to face the two girls beside him, Hiccup was on the other side opening the doors. "Rapunzel and I usually switch up. Why?" Merida asked. Jack smirked, "Hmmm, Well I call shot gun so_" He said getting in the front seat. He chuckled at the sound of Merida shouting, "Hey!" outside the car. Hiccup got in sitting down and looked a bit surprised to see him, next to him. He just smiled and shook his head, "Oh great now we're not goanna here the end of Merida's rant all the way down there." Jack shrugged keeping his smirk, "Hey man last time I checked, calling shot gun was free game." Hiccup started the car, "Ok man just remember you started it." Jack laughed as well while the girls got in the car.
Hiccup wasn't kidding, Merida nagged him throughout the whole ride. But Jack just found it funny instead of annoying. The red head finally stopped thanks to Rapunzel settling her down. "So, Jack can you drive? I know sounds like s stupid question, but Punzie says you can do all this stuff, and wouldn't be surprised if you told me you could." Hiccup smirked looking at the white haired teen. Jack gave a light chuckle looking from the window to him, "I can do many of things Hiccup, but driving is not one of them. But I do know how to driving a car works, I've just never done it. But think if I could, how awesome would that be. Right?" Jack smirked and Hiccup laughed, "I'd just stop driving cause you'd win." The two guys broke into laughter at the thought.
"How long have you been driving Hiccup?" Jack asked, the brunet. "Just started really, my dad bought me this car for my 17th birthday," Hiccup stated stopping at red light. "Sweet, happy belated birthday man. You're like a few months younger than me." Jack noted this giving him a small physical sense of Hiccup.
"Than that means you're older than all of us Jack," Rapunzel stated from the back. "I turn 18 in May," the blonde explained. "Ai, and I turned 17 two weeks ago," Merida chimed in. "Cool. Happy belated Birthday to you too. What'd do for your birthday?" Jack asked. "Me parents had some big stupid part'y for me. They always go over the top with'em, and it's totally embarrassing." She groaned slouching in the back seat. Rapunzel lightly laughed patting her friends shoulder, "I had a blast Mer." "Yeah, we all had a good time and you know it," Hiccup reassured the red head making her smile and lightly blush. The rest of the drive was filled with music from the radio and talks about each other's past birthday parties.
Driving deeper into the cities the traffic began to get thicker and slower. But they somehow found a parking spot no too far from the park. Getting out the walking across the street they sounds and smells hit Jack instantly, but he was ready for it and quickly adjusted to the environment. "Whoa… You guys brought me to a music festival?" Jack asked listening to everything around him. "Yeah, Rapunzel said you had a thing for music, well she really said you play the piano." Hiccup stated.
"So we thought as a welcome to Berk treat, we'd bring ya here." Merida smiled at Hiccup than Jack. "Hell of a welcoming party. Thanks guys ya didn't have to do this." Jack stated listening to the crowd. "We know Frost, but hey you let us into your world and we thought it'd only be fair to do the same." Merida said nudging him, Jack laughed and lightly shoved her back. The group stayed together as they walked around to all the booths that sold different trinkets, food, clothing and accessories. "So is this a year round thing in Berk?" Jack asked the three.. "Yep. Happened every year, to bring the community together for the winter season." Hiccup explained looking at Jack. Merida took the brunet's hand as they began to walk through the crowd. Rapunzel stayed by their side and Jack stayed next to her. "All the music isn't too loud for you is it Jack?" she asked a bit wary thinking the question would offend him. "No way, this isn't my first music festival. Try walking around a park full of Russian metal rock bands shouting in your ears all day." He smiled taking in all the sounds. At some point the group came to a stop at stage that was just setting up and Hiccup's name was shouted. Jack motioned his head toward the sound and heard footsteps coming closer to them.
"You guys made it," A female voice shouted, one that Jack had heard before. "Of course no way we were goanna miss your bands debut performance." Hiccup smiled, the blonde gave a weak smile at the statement. "I'm so excited, Astrid your goanna do great!" Rapunzel exclaimed bouncing a little. She gave a weak smile, but frowned rolling her eyes," Yeah I don't know about that…" She wore a black, leather jacket with spikes on each shoulder blade, a gray ripped up tank top with the words, "StormFly" in blue and gold written on it. Her red skirt was covered in studs and laid over a pair black skinny jeans with a pair of combat boots to finish the outfit. Hiccup noticed the girl's unsettled behavior and ached an eyebrow asking, "What's up Astrid?" She groaned, "It's one of our band members! He flaked out on us on the last second! We go on in two hours and the rest of the band is freakin out!" she confessed. Rapunzel covered her mouth in shock, "Oh no!" "What are you guys goanna do?" Merida asked equally worried. "I don't know, the stage manager said we're goanna have to cancel our show if we don't get in contact with him or find a new one in the next hour." Astrid growling trying to hold in her anger. "What did he play?" Hiccup asked. "He was on Keyboard and, I'd say we could do it without him if he wasn't an important part of our four new songs!" She said as her frustrated grew.
Jack listened to the dilemma and walked up to the girl, "If you've got a recording of the songs that I could hear, I'd be able to play it. If you'll let me that is." He said facing down at her. "Who are you?" Astrid asked arching an eyebrow. He held out his hand and smiled, "Jack Frost." She registered the name quickly, "oh I know you! You're the guy from school that kick Dagger's ass in 2 minutes!" she said smiling. "I hope I'm not know for just that." Jack said arching an eyebrow as well. Astrid laughed, "Yeah well that and_" She got quiet and looked into the male's eye seeing the fades blue. Her eyes went a bit wide as she spoke without thinking, "Oh man it's you are_" She stopped herself, but Jack kept his smirk. "Yeah. I am. But I can still help you out." "How can you help, when you can't read the notes_ Sorry," She said instantly regretting her words. Jack just smiled shaking his head, "No its fine, I get it all the time. If I listen to the songs I can memories the tune." He explained, and she crossed her arm giving him a crazy look. "And how long will that take? We've only got an hour." She said having little faith in his plan.
"I only need to hear the songs twice." He stated, but she kept her wary expression and glanced at Hiccup for some sort of conformation. The brunet shrugged, his face expressed a "Give it try," look and she rolled her eyes. The two were silent for a while and just stood there, making their friends nervous as hell. After what felt like an eternity Astrid sighed thinking, "I'm insane." She spoke and took Jack's hand, "Alright you got yourself a deal Frost." Jack gave his signature grin shaking the blonde's hand.
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