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“So, Hiccup. How did your final go?” Merida waved her fork in his face as he sat down.
“Oi. Keep that fork out of my face!” Hiccup swatted the fork out of the way. Merida leaned over to shove it further into his face, her long red hair trailing in her Mac N Cheese.
“Merida! Your hair!” Hiccup quickly pushed the girl back into her seat and handed her a napkin for her hair.
“It's YOUR fault you know! You should have just answered my question!” said, the hotheaded girl, trying to clean the cheese from her curls. Hiccup rolled his eyes. He was going to answer her question until he noticed their friend Jack creeping up behind Merida. Hiccup's eyes grew wide as he realized what the other boy was going to do. But before he could warn Merida of the oncoming onslaught, Jack had already thrown a huge handful of confetti over her head. The tiny pieces of paper fluttered to a landing in her mac n cheese encrusted hair and promptly began to melt. Hiccup winced as Merida shrieked in anger and grabbed a handful of Mac N Cheese to throw at Jack's head. Unfortunately for the both of them, that was when the cafeteria supervisor walked by. Hiccup sighed in defeat, then jumped when heard someone do the same behind him. He turned to look at Rapunzel, who was watching Jack and Merida argue with the cafeteria supervisor. As usual, she had paint all over her hands and face.
“Is that Mac N Cheese in Meri's hair?” was all she said.
“All I did was throw some confetti! Why am I stuck in detention with you?”
“Ah, wee lamb!” Merida gave Jack a pitying look. Jack looked up at her,
“wait. Are you mocking me?” A slow mischievous smile spread across his face as he turned to face her entirely. Merida suddenly didn't look so sure anymore, and she slowly began to back away from the boy. But before Jack could do anything to the stubborn redhead, he was yanked backwards by a hair lasso, wielded by a very perturbed Rapunzel. Hiccup appeared behind her.
“Wait, you guys don't have detention, what are you doing here?” asked Jack, untangling himself from Rapunzel's braid. Rapunzel rolled up her hair and re-pinned it to her head, so only three feet of it hung down her back, while Hiccup shrugged.
“What? You think you're the only one who can get into trouble?” Rapunzel questioned, raising her eyebrows. Jack had enough wits to look sheepish.
“Yes because we all wanted to be in detention two days before we're free of school forever.” Said Hiccup sarcastically.
“Well you didn't have to come along!” Rapunzel glared at him hotly.
“Of course I did.” Hiccup replied with a sigh, then a look of understanding came across his face “Crap. My dad is going to kill me. I'm dead! Well, dead-er.” Jack laid down on one of the desks.
“Hard to believe we're finally going to be rid of this place for good, isn't it?” Merida sat down too.
“Yeah, just a bit.” They all let out a collective sigh. Jack suddenly sat up.
“Say, what do you guys say about going out with a bang?”
“What do you mean?” Rapunzel eyed him cautiously. He bounced to his feet.
“You know, leave our mark, give them something to remember us by!” Rapunzel looked thoughtful as Merida lept to her feet.
“I'm in!” Hiccup sighed, seeing that, as usual, he was outnumbered.
“I suppose, since they can't really expel us.”
“Yes!” Jack and Merida gave each other a high five.
“I take it you have a plan?” Rapunzel looked at Jack, who grinned.
“You bet.” That was the moment Hiccup began to regret everything.