I got woken up by my annoying alarm clock, telling me that it was already 7 am and I should get ready for school. I groaned and slammed my hand onto the alarm clock, turning it off. I got up and slowly made my way to the bathroom, staring at my reflection in the mirror, I noticed that I look like a mess. My blonde hair was everywhere and I had some dark circles under my eyes because I didn't get enough sleep due to exams lately. I slowly got ready and then walked into the kitchen where my mom had already prepared breakfast before she left for work. I sat down at the kitchen table and slowly started eating my breakfast.

After finishing my breakfast, I grabbed my bag and left my house, starting to walk to school. I hated school and exam week was over but there'll be more exams coming in one or two weeks. Every student in my year was totally stressed out and everyone just wanted the exams to be done. The only reason why I'm not completely stressed out yet, are my friends. Those would be, Snotlout Jorgenson, the guy whose ego is as big as his brain, the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston who are still kids inside. Fishlegs Ingerman who is the nerd of our little gang, Heather Oswaldson, the one person I could talk about everything with, and last but not least, Hiccup Haddock, my best friend and crush ever since we were little.

Hiccup and I were best friends since we were kids. We now are fifteen and to be honest, I'd never thought I'd fall in love with him. Since we were friends Hiccup has always been kind to me, he always helped me if I needed help and he was there whenever I felt down. I really developed feelings for him and I was curious if he felt the same. I mean we're just fifteen and I think I'll wait a few years until I confess to him, maybe he doesn't feel the same way and when I ask him I ruin our friendship.

Hiccup is the smallest and skinniest of us, he has auburn hair and amazing, mesmerizing emerald green eyes. His father owns a big company which is known all over the world. That's why his father isn't at home very often. Hiccup doesn't really seem to bother since he and his dad never got along really well. Hiccups mother died when he was just ten years old, in a car accident which Hiccup was involved in too. He barely survived and was in a coma for several weeks, I remember that I visited him every day, holding his hand and telling him what happened that day. When he woke up, he told me that he really heard some of the stories I told him even tho he was unconscious. I don't know how often I thanked Thor for giving him a chance to fight for his life that day, I don't know if I could live without my best friend anymore.

I arrived at school and walked into our classroom, seeing my friends already at their seats, talking about something. Hiccup was there too and he noticed me first, smiling at me. But something was wrong, his smile was different. Normally, when Hiccup smiled his eyes had some sparks in them, not this time, he looked tired and... sad. I frowned and proceeded my walk to my seat next to him. I was greeted by my friends and Heather hugged me before we sat down. We still had a few minutes left before the teacher would enter the classroom to start the lesson. It was Friday and our first class was Viking History which was always boring but with Hiccup next to me, it was alright. Our teacher was a middle aged man with brown hair and a really boring and slow voice, his name was Viggo Grimborn. Yeah, strange name but we're Vikings, strange names are usual for us.
Once Grimborn entered the classroom, we turned our attention to him, and the lesson started.

Something about Hiccups behavior was off, he was quiet and wouldn't respond to me as happily as he usually did. I knew him very well, something was bothering him and he was too afraid to tell me. Hiccup knew that he could tell me everything and he usually did, that's why it freaked me out that he didn't tell me this time.

Once we had our first break, the others went to the cafeteria, "you coming too?" Tuffnut asked me and Hiccup as he got up and followed the others outside. Hiccup didn't look up and just stared at his sheet of paper, shaking his head, so did I and Tuff shrugged, then went after the other guys.

I sighed and turned my head to Hiccup, we were pretty much the only ones left in our classroom so we were able to talk normally, "tell me what's wrong," I said and Hiccup looked at me with wide eyes.

"Wh-what do you mean? Nothing's wrong Astrid," he replied and looked back at his table, fiddling with his pen. I sighed again and placed a hand on his, stopping him from fiddling with the pen.

"Come on," I tried, "I know something is wrong, Hiccup, you are behaving different," I told him and his lips lifted into a very small smile for a couple of seconds. He then turned to me and I could read sadness in his eyes, and I instantly knew that there weren't good news.

Hiccup sighed this time and placed his other hand on mine, "you know," he started and looked down at our hands, "my dad owns this company," he said and I nodded slowly, "yesterday, when I came home, I saw boxes everywhere, I asked dad what was going on and," he looked down again before looking into my eyes, his own filled with nothing than sadness, "h-he said we're moving to Germany," once he said this sentence my world shattered to pieces.

He was going to move away, to freaking GERMANY that's like on the other end of the world, why? Why now? Why can't he just stay here, with me, with the other guys? We can't just separate ways after fifteen years, we're an inseparable team!

"N-no!" I cried out and looked down at out hands, "you can't Hiccup," I felt like crying, but not in front of Hiccup, it would just make him feel bad, he would think he's the reason why I'm crying and I think he feels guilty enough already, I could tell by the look on his face.

Hiccup just looked at me trying to stay strong but his eyes betrayed him and I could see he was fighting his own tears. "Dad said I can't stay here this time," he explained quietly, "Germany is on the other side of the world, not just a few hours away. He said he can't leave me alone while he's on the other side of the world. He also told me that we're not going to be there for ever," once he said that I sighed, this was kind of relieving. "But, we're going to be away from berk for at least two years, if not three or maybe four," he sighed, "I am so sorry Astrid..." His voice was barely above a whisper now and I felt a tear running down my cheek. Hiccup noticed this and he slowly used his thumb to wipe it away.

I never cried in front of someone except Hiccup and maybe my parents. Hiccup was the only one of my friends who actually had seen me cry, but he never was the one that made me cry, he always was the one to tell me that everything is going to be fine, but not this time.

I looked at him and his eyes told me that he felt guilty for making me cry, so I sighed, "when are you going to leave?" I asked him warily and Hiccup sighed again and that didn't mean we had much time to say goodbye to each other left.

"Sunday, dad is talking to the principal right now, telling him that I'll leave this school," he explained. We only had two more days left...

The break was over and the bell rang as I wanted to say something and the other students came back in the classroom, taking their seats and getting the stuff for the next lesson out of their bags. The other guys sat down again and our next teacher entered the classroom. We now had a really, really boring maths lesson. Hiccup and I were now quiet and did not talk at all, I was currently rerunning the whole conversation in my head, and did the same for the rest of the lesson.

The bell rang again and we now had a twenty minute break. We all left the classroom and made our way to one of the benches in the school yard. We all sat down on it and it was awkwardly silent.

"Okay, spill you two, what's going on?" Heather said breaking the silence and every I turned to me and Hiccup. Hiccup sighed and looked at them with sad eyes, I felt my heart break into thousand pieces.

He then told them everything, the same as he did tell me a few minutes ago. The other guys were as shocked as I was and no one said a word. Snotlout then looked at Hiccup, "why didn't you tell us earlier, we could have thrown some kind of 'We'll see you again' party," he said and we all stared at him. Was he serious?!

"I-I didn't know, dad told me yesterday," Hiccup explained and we all sighed.

It's going to happen, my best friend is going to move away.

// Two Days Later //

The next two days went by way too fast. We had spent as much time as possible with Hiccup but he wasn't able to spend much time with us since he had to help his father. It was now Sunday and we all were standing in the airport to say goodbye to our friend one last time. Everyone hugged him and told him to take care, to keep in touch and so on. Then it was my turn to say goodbye and I didn't feel like I was ready for such a thing. It just hurt too much, I don't know why I cried so much the past two days, but I did. I never cried so much in my whole life but now that I know that my best friend and crush is going to move away for two, three or maybe four years, I could not stop crying anymore.

Hiccup and I stood there, the other guys a few meters behind us, they could not hear what we were saying but they saw what we were doing. Hiccup sighed and smiled at me sadly, "I guess we have to do this too," he said and I nodded slowly before hugging him tight. Hiccup hugged me back and buried his head in my shoulder since he was smaller than me.

We stood there hugging each other for at least two minutes until we pulled away. My hands were on his shoulders and I gazed in his emerald green eyes one last time, "I will miss you so much," I said my voice cracking up, "please, take care and promise you will come back, please," I begged and Hiccup looked at the ground, then back into my eyes.

A small smile lifted his lips and he nodded, "I promise you, I'll come back," he said firmly and I smiled a little bit, "I will try to write you an E-Mail as soon as I arrive, okay?" There was so much determination in his voice that I could not help but smile. Hiccup smiled back.

Our little moment was ruined by Stoick, "Hiccup, I know this is hard for you, but we have to leave," he said impatiently.

Hiccup and I looked at each other and I gave him a quick peck on the lips, "please take care," I said and he nodded, "goodbye Hiccup," I slowly said and those words broke my heart.

"You know, don't say goodbye Astrid," he told me and smiled, "say see you again," he said and that cheered me up a little bit.

I smiled back at him, "okay then, see you again," I said now sounding a little bit happier. He just smiled and kissed my cheek before saying 'see you again' and hugging me one last time, before walking off with his dad. Before he vanished he turned around and waved at us one last time and then, he was gone.

The ride back home was quiet and I was just looking at the plain and boring street in front of us, my mom was driving and she noticed that I was still sad, "he'll be back Astrid," she told me and I looked at her worried.

"Are you sure?"

My mom chuckled, "he promised, didn't he?" She asked and I nodded, "has he ever broken a promise?"

"No, no he has not..."

--Four years later--

Four long years have passed since Hiccup moved away and since he left, everything got harder. Exam week was horrible without him and I could not stop thinking about him. I was now eighteen and it was almost Christmas break. That would mean that Hiccup was turning nineteen in a few months. We kind of lost contact during those four years. We still wrote E-Mails from time to time but I never got to see him. I don't know what he looks like by now, I don't know how is voice sounds anymore, I don't know anything about him anymore. It's just so frustrating!

I was currently sitting in my car, driving to school. I was now in my last year of High School and I would graduate next year. I was already planning on leaving Berk for a few months to got to Germany to visit Hiccup because I still love him and I think that I'll never stop to love him.

"You know maybe you should date Lars," Heather said from the passengers seat. Yeah, I was her 'personal driver' until she finally has her own drivers licence. I just rolled my eyes at this comment and continued driving. I had already told Heather that I was still in love with Hiccup one year ago and that I would never stop loving him and I think she can't accept it. Or maybe she's just trying to help me if Hiccup doesn't....
Wait, no, don't start thinking this way, it's been only four years, he'll be back.

Otherwise, he said it would only be four years, maybe something went wrong and he had to stay in Germany for another year? Oh that would be horrible! I want to graduate with him, I want to go to prom with him, I want to everything with him, and only with him. I really am in love, am I?

We arrived at school and I parked my car in the parking lot, Heather and I got out and quickly made our way to our classroom. When Hiccup left, we got a new student in our class, his name was Lars and I could not stand him at all. He is like Snotlout when he was younger and he's even more annoying than our maths teacher Mr. Mildew. It really all went down when Hiccup left, even my grades but I managed to get those up again.

I swear when Hiccup is back I will punch him across the face for leaving me with this idiot Lars! And maybe another punch for not replying to my E-Mails and maybe another one for moving away in the first place!

It was a normal day in school, nothing exciting happened and the first few classes went by very fast. We now had a break and were just walking through the school, talking about random things and the Autumn Ball or prom that was planned from our principal. I have to say that I like our principal, he is a nice guy and respects that we students are well, students and not some thirty year old adults. Even if we should behave like some sometimes.

My friends and I entered the cafeteria and sat down at our usual table, ignoring the people who already sat there. I was looking around the cafeteria and saw an unfamiliar and at the same time familiar boy, wait no, young man with auburn hair talking to someone from another class. I rose a brow in confusion and was about to tell my friends but I was cut off before I could even start speaking.

"Hello, beautiful," once I heard that I groaned and looked up, seeing Lars standing in front of me, a bottle of Ice Tea in his hand.

I rose a brow and laughed, "why are you drinking Ice tea? It's autumn not summer," I scoffed and Lars just looked at me with a grin.

"You know I'm so hot I need to cool myself off," he replied and smirked, I choked and covered my mouth with my hand. Did he really just say that, wow. "You know Astrid, how about we two got to the Autumn Ball together? I'm sure we'd be elected King and Queen," he said and wiggled his eyebrows at me and I groaned.

"There's no way that I'm going there with y-," I stopped talking and my jaw dropped once this auburn haired male I saw a couple of minutes ago was standing right in front of me. He smiled and it all felt so familiar, I could not explain why... Until, no it can't be Hiccup.

Hiccup was smaller than me and this guy's height was at least 6'1 inches. I'm only about 5'9.
And Hiccup used to have thin hair, this guy here in front of me has thick and tousled hair, even if it has the same color as Hiccups hair. Then, this guy here had a surprisingly sharp jaw line that kind of looked like it could cut through steel! Hiccup didn't have all those things. But Hiccup had those freckles and the eyes of this guy pretty much look like Hiccup's eyes too. Gods I am so confused right now!

I snapped out of my trance when Lars turned to the boy, "what do you want?" He said and the boy just looked at him weirdly.

He then shrugged, "I was just walking by and heard you talking about some kind of Ball?" He asked and his voice sounded familiar too! Ugh life can be so confusing.

Lars looked at him and rose a brow, "yeah, it's on Friday next week," he explained and the auburn haired boy nodded and left, leaving me really, really confused. "So, are we going?" Lars asked me again and took a sip of his Ice tea, this guy is so annoying.

"No! I'd never go with a guy like you," I growled and he smirked.

"You will if you don't find someone else, you're the captain of the cheerleaders Astrid, it would be very sad if you'd show up alone, and since your Hiccup is gone, you should make room for a new boy in your life," he said, then he turned away and walked out of the cafeteria.

I turned back to my friends and saw Heather looking at me, "go on," I sighed, "say it.."

"He's right Astrid, Hiccup is gone, he said he'd come back after four years and he still isn't back. Maybe you should just forget about him and go on, find someone new ya know?" Heather said and I have to admit she has a point. If this auburn haired guy really was Hiccup, he would have said something five minutes ago, but nothing! Maybe I should give up and make room for someone new in my life, but it will NOT be Lars, I'm sure about that!

// Time Skip //

School was over and it was time for cheerleading practice. I was trying to focus on what I was doing but I kept thinking of that guy with auburn hair and green eyes. Thinking back, he looked a lot like Hiccup. The freckles, his hair, his eyes. Practice continued and I soon noticed someone sitting on the bleachers, watching me and the other cheerleaders practice. And I remembered something....

// Flashback //

"You know, when you're older you'd make pretty good cheerleader," Hiccup said poking my arm and I laughed.

"Are you sure?" I asked him and he smiled and nodded.

"Of course!" He exclaimed happily, "you're smart, athletic and beautiful! All those football players won't be able to concentrate when you start cheering!" He said and I laughed, we were currently in my room, talking about school. We both were just eleven and were talking about our 'future' in our new school.

"And you, mister," I said and poked Hiccups arm back, "are going to be the star Quarterback of our team!" Hiccup laughed at those words.

"Nope, I'll be watching you from the bleachers."

// End Of Flashback //

And it hit me like a pile of rocks. This guy, was Hiccup! I could not believe it! He was now tall and.. handsome. How could I not notice this before! I slowly walked towards Heather and Ruff who both were cheerleaders too. Well Ruffnut did not take it as serious as me and Heather but she still was a good cheerleader.

"Do you guys see this guy on the bleachers?" I asked pointing at the Hiccup. They both nodded in reply, "it's him," I said, "it's Hiccup."

Their mouths flung open, "how can you tell, this guy does not look like Hiccup at all, more like Hotcup," Ruffnut said and I rolled my eyes, it's true he was hot.

"A long story, when we were about eleven, he told me that I would make a good cheerleader once I'm older," I said and they listened carefully, "I said he could be our star Quarterback and he just said that he will be watching me from the bleachers," I explained and they exchanged a glance.

"That doesn't mean he's Hiccup, Astrid," Heather said. Wow, such a good friend.

"It is him, I can tell by his eyes, they look like Hiccups eyes," I told them and they looked at me then smiled.

"If you think so, ask him after practice!" Ruffnut exclaimed, Heather nodded in agreement.

--After Cheerleading Practice--

Practice was now over and I came out of the girls changing room, it was exhausting and I almost forgot about the fact that I wanted to ask this guy if he really is Hiccup. So I slowly made my way back to the bleachers, thinking about what I should say to him.
Maybe:

"Hey, Hiccup, long time ago since we last kissed how about we make out now?"
No that would be stupid.

Maybe this:

"Hey I wanted to ask you if you are my friend that moved away from here four years ago?"
That sounded better already but it wasn't perfect.

Ugh never mind, I'll just say what comes to my mind when I'm face to face with him. When he's still there, who knows, maybe he left already. I peeked around the corner, nope, he's still here.
My heart started racing and I saw him drawing into some kind of sketch book. He was left handed and Hiccup was left handed too, maybe it really is him!

Okay, breathe in, breathe out, just go up there and ask him, no turning back now Hofferson.

I slowly made my way towards him and sat down next to him, once I sat down next to him, with only about fifteen centimeters space between us, I could see what he was drawing. He was drawing the cheerleader team doing one of those pyramids, with me on top. I smiled and then, I spoke up.

"Hey," I said, oh Thor this is awkward..

He closed his sketch book and put it in his bag, he then looked at me and I was about 120% sure that this was my friend, Hiccup Haddock.
"Hey," he greeted back and his eyes instantly hypnotized me.

I decided to play it cool, "you were watching us practicing the whole time?" I asked and he nodded and smiled.

"I promised, and I never break my promises, Astrid," he said casually and my heart skipped one, two or maybe hundred beats. It really was him.

I smiled widely, "Oh my gods, it really is you," I exclaimed and flung my arms around him, he just laughed and hugged me back, I buried my head in his neck and took a few deep breaths.

We stayed there hugging each other before we pulled away, he gazed right into my eyes, "I promised you I'll come back," he reminded me and I nodded, tears forming in my eyes, he seemed to notice it since he chuckled and placed a hand on my cheek, "I missed you so much, you can't imagine," he said and I nodded leaning into his hand that was rested on my cheek.

"What took you so long?" I asked him and he chuckled.

"Our flight got delayed and we had to take another one, but German airports are kind of weird and it took them almost half a year to get us another flight," he explained to me and I couldn't help but smile.

He was back, Hiccup was back and he hasn't changed at all. Well he only got hotter but which girl would mind that?

Hiccup looked straight into my eyes and took a deep breath, "I know this may be a little bit rushed," he said and I wondered what he was about to do now, "but since this guy in the cafeteria told me about this Autumn ball," oh he is not going to ask me this question, "I wanted to know if you will be my prom date.. kind of thing?" He really asked me that question, wow!

I didn't know what to do or how to answer since it seemed like my mouth stopped working, so the only thing I did was grabbing the collar of his shirt and hauling him into a long and really passionate kiss. We kissed for about two minutes and before it could turn out into a make out session he pulled away and chuckled, "I'll take that as a yes then."

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HOLY MOLY! Do you want a part two of this one? I ENJOYED WRITING IT SO MUCH! Haha okay let me tell you some things:

1. I'm not used to the American School System and I tried to understand it but to be honest, I don't get it. So I just used the German School System instead (Which is pretty crappy to be honest) Let me explain real quick.

In Germany we have the elementary school which goes from first to fourth grade.
After that we go to the primary school, which is actually a primary and high school.
In Germany we're split up in three different typed of High Schools:
1. Gymnasium (Not what you think,) it goes from fifth grade to 12th grade.
2. Realschule (It's for people like me, not really smart but not dumb either, while the Gymnasium is just for the smart people,) it goes from fifth grade to 10th grade.
3. Werkrealschule (idk how to say that, mostly people with a weird behavior are on this kind of school,) it goes from fifth grade to 9th grade.

In Germany (in my school,) we have one class, we don't switch between our classmates, we have one class with about 30 students. We can't choose our subjects, well only two of them but I don't want to explain everything now lmao.

So yeah, we have a twenty minute break and a lunch break, between the lessons we have a five minute break.

Okay enough with explaining (no one is reading this anyway)

This One Shot took quite a while and I don't know why but I started writing this at about 12 pm and now it's 6 am. It's my longest one so far and I really hope you like it :')
I know I write many modern One Shots but I don't like to change what already happened in the Race To The Edge Story. That's why I don't write anything about how Hiccstrid could have happened because I think Dreamworks already did well in Season 4.

And to be honest, I like modern Hiccstird, because I can just put them in some random situations that I may have witnessed myself and BOOM, I have a new one shot for y'all.

That's it :) See y'all in the next one.