"Ugh, I'm so bored!" Ruffnut exclaimed as she threw her head backwards and balanced her chair on its two back legs.

"You've said the same thing for two weeks straight" I reminded her as I leaned back in my chair as I fiddled with a pencil.

This was our second week in detention out of three weeks. Personally, I thought three weeks was a little too much for what we did. Three days? Alright. Two weeks? That's the maximum. Three weeks? No way.

I glanced up at the clock that hung over the door. 5 minutes left.

I was so tired of this whole ordeal. Sitting quietly in a chair for an hour each day whilst some elderly bat watches you? No thanks. I'm pretty certain that I spoke for the entire room when I thought that. Luckily for us, our 'warden' had gone on a short trip to the toilet, so we were free to communicate.

"That's all thanks to our main man, Tuffnut!" Snoutlout snapped as he gestured towards Tuffnut, who was sitting two rows away from him.

"I thought we went over this 13 days ago, Snotlout. Had we all followed the plan correctly, and not left our posts, we wouldn't be sitting here right now" Hiccup said, in an attempt to reason with Snotlout, something he had been trying to do for our whole time here.

Hiccup sat on the other side of the room, therefore he couldn't see the smile that had appeared on my face as he spoke. I would never grow tired of that voice.

It was at that moment that I internally slapped myself. Odin, I was beginning to sound like I had been pulled straight out of some Nicholas Sparks novel. Ugh, I couldn't wait for us to finish the presentation so that my life could finally go back to normal and I would never have to speak to Hiccup again.

The ever so annoying sound of Snotlout's yelling snapped me out of my thoughts as his loud voice filled the classroom. "If TUFFNUT hadn't brought his STUPID SNAKE, NONE of this would've happened!"

"Calm down there, buddy, that's my brother and our shared snake you're insulting" Ruffnut threatened Snotlout as she stood up from her chair and narrowed her eyes menacingly at him.

Miraculously enough, that helped. Snotlout swallowed what must've been a big lump in his throat and remained silent until the end of detention.

The teacher in charge of us eventually returned from their bathroom break and dismissed us. We all walked together as a group down the halls of the school, chatting as we made our way towards the exit.

As I pushed open the doors to freedom, Hiccup ran up beside me.

We stopped at the top of the steps that lead to the bright green door we had just walked through. The others continued on without us, clearly not noticing that the two of us were missing, as they made their way towards the parking lot.

"Hey" Hiccup sent me that dorky smile of his, (which I have to admit that I had grown quite fond of) causing blood to rush to my cheeks and making my heart beat a little faster as my legs felt a little wobbly. What was happening to me?

"Hey" I said through my breath as I subconsciously smiled back at him. I quickly pulled myself together and put on my usual face. "What do you want?"

He scratched the back of his neck, in that dorky and awkward manner of his as a nervous smile appeared on his face. Oh gods, he wasn't finally going to talk to me about what happened at his house two weeks ago?

"Our presentation" He began. I let out a sigh of relief. "I was wondering if maybe we could, I don't know—"

"Hey babe!" My heart jumped at the sound of that familiar voice as I smiled from cheek to cheek.

I turned around and saw Eret standing outside of his car, one arm on the roof and a huge grin on his face.

I glanced over at Hiccup, as if to ask him if it was okay if I went with Eret, but his eyes were not on me. He was staring intensely at Eret, or rather glaring at him.

I knitted my eyebrows together. Why would he glare at Eret? Did they have some complicated past I did not know about or was he still mad at Eret for running him over?

I gave Hiccup a soft punch in the shoulder, turning his attention to me.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Hiccup complained as he rubbed his shoulder.

"I was in desperate need of your attention!" I mocked him as I let a chuckle escape me. "About the presentation, I'll text you, alright?"

He nodded in response, still rubbing his shoulder as the look on his face softened.

I shot him a quick smile as I ran over to Eret, throwing my arms around him as we met in an embrace. "I missed you"

Eret chuckled as he kissed my temple. "We saw each other this morning"

"Still missed you" I smiled as I gazed into his gold flecked, hazel eyes.

I pulled away from the embrace and slammed my hand against the roof of Eret's car. "Shall we get going, kind sir?"

He laughed at my horrible attempt at sounding prim and proper. "Indeed we shall, milady"

Milady. Coming from Eret's mouth, it sounded so unnatural and strange. A lump was beginning to gather in my stomach at the thought of him calling me that, it just didn't feel right.

My mind was urging me to glance at the boy that still stood at the top of the stairs, watching the two of us. As our eyes met, my heart began racing as butterflies filled my stomach and my legs turned wobbly once again.

I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and turned back to Eret. "Ew, don't call me that again, it makes me feel like some grandmother"

Eret took the bait I had put out for him as he laughed. As soon as he had gotten over what I had said, we got into the car and began to drive away. As we drove away, the urge to turn around and look at Hiccup returned, and I couldn't do anything but to cooperate with it.

I set my sight on where he had been standing earlier, but he wasn't there anymore. My heart sunk at the thought of him leaving, whilst my mind cursed at me for even thinking that in the first place.

I turned over to the parking lot, where I found him standing by his car, texting someone. The same feelings from before returned as my mind once again screamed at me for thinking about him that way.

I shook my head slowly as I turned back to Eret, who was driving, one hand on the wheel, the other one tapping his leg. He whistled a cheery tune and seemed genuinely happy.

He was happy, therefore I was happy. We were happy together and nothing could change that.

***

"That's when you say what I highlighted here," Eret explained as he pointed at one of the bullet points I had written. "Then you should be all set!"

I peeked up from behind Eret's shoulder and onto the computer screen in wonder. I exchanged confused, but amazed looks between him and the computer screen. "How...?"

His grin slowly morphed into a sly smirk. "I had the same theme on my presentation when I was in High School"

"Get out of here!" I scolded him as I slapped the side of his arm, nearly sending him face first to the floor. "You know how much I've been struggling with this and you haven't done anything until now?!"

"In my defense, you never asked for any help" He chuckled as he put his hands up in mock defense.

I narrowed my eyes at him as I placed my hands on my hips. "It's not like you ever offered me any help either"

"You got me there" Eret admitted. "But this is the only thing I'll do for you, I'm afraid you'll have to do the rest yourself"

"But Eret..." I complained as I fell backwards into the pile of pillows that leaned against the headboard of my bed.

He shook his head as another chuckle escaped him and he closed my computer. "No 'but's', your presentation can't be identical to mine, Mr. Grimborn will definitely fail you if it is"

I turned around and groaned loudly into one of the many pillows on my bed, just to make sure that Eret heard me and possibly felt guilty.

The sound of a drawer closing could be heard right before something heavy sank down into the mattress beside me.

I strong fingers ran through my hair as Eret was trying to gain my attention. Seeing as he didn't want to help me more with my project, I made the decision to ignore him.

"I have to leave now, babe. See you on Friday. Don't forget!" Eret reminded me as a pair of lips met the back of my head. "Love you"

A couple of seconds later, the door to my room shut.

I laid there, face down in the pillows for a good minute, seeing as I had no interest in rolling over on my side in a little while.

Just as I could feel myself drifting off towards the land of dreams, a familiar buzzing sent me back to reality. I groaned as I rolled over to my side and picked up my phone to see who had texted me.

New Message From : Hiccup Haddock

"Hey"

The butterflies fluttered in my stomach as I read that one word.

Why in the name of Thor was I acting like this? I must've sounded like some lovesick kid!

That's when realization hit me. Could I actually be a lovesick kid? No, there was no way I had a crush on Hiccup Haddock. No way I had a crush on that little twig.

I liked Eret. Eret treats me right, loves me and respects me. What's there not to like? I couldn't like Hiccup, we pretty much just met! Or re-met. No, I liked Eret and nothing more.

"What?"

Alright, good start. Not revealing anything, whilst also seeming like you don't care, good work.

"Woah, no need to be so harsh!"
"But the presentation is next Friday, so we better finish it up soon"

"Okay, wanna study on Thursday?"

"Can't, I have work, what about Friday night?"

"Wait, you work?"

It took some time, but after an eternity (5 minutes), Hiccup finally texted back.

"Sorry that took some time, had to feed Toothless. But yeah, I work"

"Cool"
"Friday sounds good"

"Great"

Alright, I had three days to figure out what was going on in my head and a total of three days to avoid Hiccup at school. Shouldn't be that hard, right?