Disclaimer: I do not own High School Muscial or any of its characters, Disney does. I also don't own The Big Lebowski, Annie Hall, The Nutty Professor, or The Da Vinci Code.
Warnings: In this chapter there is strong language, references to underaged drinking, and some references to sexual content. It is also during their senior year, but HSM 3 doesn't apply. There are also some errors, sorry about that.
Summary: The boys had their nights together and the girls has theirs. But one day upon wanting to understand one another, nights combine and their lives are thrown into disarray.
I got the title from the song "Rock n' Roll Gangsta" by Aalon, something that my sis Martel29655 said would be a cool title.
Laughter filled the room, drowning out the quotes of the movie that the boys were watching. Sip upon sip of soda, they only laughed harder. Minute got progressively funnier, almost choking on the sausage pizza they were eating. Every time they watched The Big Lebowski, it only got better. They did this every weekend since the first basketball game the four of them played together, it had become a tradition, but even tradition had its downs.
It was another week at Troy's house, the house that everyone always wanted to skip over. Troy had a set of rules that no one else had. There was no drinking, not drugs, and no extreme messes. Every week that they went to Troy's house they were met with his porcelain good boy smile and a case of refreshing cola. Jason had once told Chad that he was surprised that it wasn't milk, which led into a conversation of how Troy kept his teeth so white when he took in so much sugar.
Every week they went to Troy's house, Jason and Zeke made a pact not to complain about the gummy worms and Coca-Cola instead of beer, but Chad never went in on the pact. They had a ritual at Troy's house. They would start to watch the movie and then Chad would complain to Troy would try to retaliate. Jason and Zeke tried to stay out of their fights unless they got ridiculous. One week Chad gave Troy a broken nose out of annoyance, Troy having to explain to his parents what had happened. This week was no different as the same pattern repeated itself, hopefully with less violence.
"Why can't we drink alcohol in your house?" Chad asked as he looked at Troy, an ounce of annoyance in his voice.
"We shouldn't be drinking anyway, we're not old enough," Troy answered as he took another sip of refreshing cola. "Also, if my parents found out I was drinking they'd destroy me! You don't know you don't have the coach as your father."
Chad rolled his eyes as he looked down at his can of Coca-Cola. "We drink all the time at Jason's house."
"This isn't Jason's house!" Troy argued as he looked back on the screen.
"Stop up!" Jason shouted. "God, how can we enjoy the movie and our refreshing cola if you two keep arguing through the whole night?"
"You know they always do this whenever we go to Troy's house," Zeke laughed as he took another sip from his can. "We come in and Troy brings out the soda and Chad gets upset because we should be drinking beer. Then we always miss all of the jokes in the movie and they just keep fighting."
"That's not how it happens," Chad explained as he paused the DVD.
"Dude, I was watching that!" Jason whined as he threw his left arm in the air at the paused screen.
"This is how it happens," Chad looked at Troy seeing him start to giggle. "What are you laughing about, Bolton?"
Troy put his soda down as he sat upright on the couch, his smile growing broader as he looked into Chad's eyes. "They're trying to say that you don't get upset that there's no alcohol, but here you are getting upset. Come on Chad! Don't you want to remember your youth?"
"Yes, I want to live it up so that when I'm fifty and can't drink anymore I can look back on these times and see how much fun I was," Chad walked closer to Troy. "You're a nothing but killjoy."
"Killjoy?" Troy laughed. "I'm not the one who has to be driving home tonight. I could drink all that I want without that consequence."
"Then why don't you?" Chad asked as he looked into Troy's eyes. "Let loose tonight."
"I don't intend on letting loose," Troy answered quickly. "You make dumb choices when you let loose. I could wind up making out with Jason!"
Jason laughed as he heard those words. "Well you are pretty enough."
More laughter filled the room after the statement, Zeke remaining on the floor, doubling over as he was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe. Troy and Jason almost fell on each other as Troy muttered unintelligible words as if to answer what Jason had said, only to find his head on Jason's shoulder as he almost started coughing, Jason not able to breath, his face turning red. Chad stood in front of all of them, chuckling as he saw all of his friends smiling and laughing. He then moved back to the floor, sitting next to a panting Zeke, Troy coughing, and Jason wheezing breathlessly as the laughter finally stopped.
"This almost as funny as that time when Troy got that black eye!" Jason laughed as he tried to catch his breath.
"That wasn't funny!" Troy shook his head. "Nor was the broken nose. That's what I'm talking about! If that's what you're going to do to me when I'm sober, what are you going to do to me while I'm drunk Chad?"
"Hold your hair and clean up your vomit," Chad answered quickly with a straight face.
"Very funny…" Troy shook his head as he sank back into the couch. "You guys are real fucking assholes, you know that?"
They all started laughing again as they looked at Troy's face. "Dude, you should see your face. It's like an Abercrombie model in a screamo video!" Jason laughed. "You're pouting your lips and everything."
"This is what I'm talking about when I call you assholes," Troy shook his head as he looked at Jason who was still laughing. "It's not funny!" the room went silent for a split second. "It is kinda funny isn't it?"
"Yeah," Zeke laughed.
Chad looked at all of his friends having a good time, watching as Troy started laughing at himself. The happiness that was pulsating through them was contagious even as the comedy was turned off. Chad laughed to himself as he looked at Troy laughing, seeing the joy that was in his blue eyes as his lips curled into a smile. He shook his head as he tried to stay in the moment, Troy looking into his eyes.
"Well now that the movie is paused what do you guys want to talk about?" Chad asked as he looked at his friends. "Girls?"
Jason took a sip from his soda as he sat upright. "We can rate how hot they are?"
"Rating girls?" Troy asked, reverting back to his killjoy self. "Isn't that a little…"
"Killjoy, calm down, it's just all in fun," Chad looked into Troy's eyes. "Act your age in human years not dog years."
Troy scoffed before getting in on the fun. "Sharpay Evans," he looked around the room. "Scale of one to ten what do you give Sharpay Evans?"
Chad shook his head. "Like a four, bitch is crazy!"
"Nine," Jason breathed. "She might be crazy but she's also crazy hot!"
Zeke took a sip of his soda. "Ten, she's perfection."
"Yeah but after you have sex with her she's going to go mantis on your ass and bite off your head," Chad breathed as he looked at Zeke. "In my book perfection doesn't mean you wake up without a head."
"What about you Troy? What do you think of Sharpay?" Jason asked.
"I'd give her a seven," Troy answered, Chad almost spitting out his mouthful of soda. "What? She's kinda cute."
"So's a saber-tooth tiger, but I'm not going to try to get near it," Chad said almost choking as he heard that number. "A seven? What would you give Taylor?"
"I'm not going to rate your girlfriend, it's rude," Troy breathed as he took another drink of his soda, swallowing it quickly. "Six, she's too bossy for me."
"Five," Jason breathed. "She scares the shit out of me, man!"
"Unbelievable, none of you like my girlfriend?" Chad asked as he looked around the room. "She is a little bossy isn't she?"
"Yeah, that's a praying mantis," Zeke laughed.
Troy then started to chuckle at that, Jason laughing looked at Chad who was trying his hardest not to give in, but it was no use. These nights were always filled with laughter no matter what they said. They were nights that they were always going to remember each other by. As the laughter got louder and louder, Jason and Troy practically on top of each other, they turned the movie back on. They laughed so hard that they no longer needed the soda and pizza. It was too dangerous.
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The girls had their nights too, but less laughs were had. It had become a tradition for them to get together ever since they became friends and realized that their dates were to ended early so the boys could have their stupid nights together. The sat on Gabriella's bed eating marshmallows and Hersey bars, saying they didn't do what the boys did, not knowing that they were almost the same.
The girls gather around each other and had their own small giggles at the boys' expense talking about anything from how the boys kept leaving their dates early to how it was annoying how they kept quoting the movie to each other and how they were even thinking about bowling together.
"How would you rate Jason Cross?" Kelsi asked as she looked at the other girls. "A scale of one to ten."
"Four, lunk-head basketball man," Taylor answered.
"Oh and who's dating Chad Danforth?" Martha asked as she looked straight into Taylor's eyes. "Jason is funny and entertaining, not to mention so cute, so he's like an eight. Chad has nothing in his head, he's like a five."
"Come on Taylor, not all basketball players can be that bad," Gabriella smiled.
"Why can't they? All they do is stay up until inappropriate time watching stupid movies while eating pizza and drinking beer. They've been doing that for months," she shook her head. "And they always watch the same movie. I mean how funny can The Big Lebowski honestly be? Is it like actual comedies like Annie Hall or stupid comedies like The Nutty Professor?"
"Troy hates The Nutty Professor," Gabriella answered.
"You're all missing my point, these boys don't have any taste if they have to keep watching the same movie," Taylor looked at Martha and then Kelsi. "All they do is rely on their good looks. Jason Cross, Zeke Baylor, Chad Danforth, and Troy Bolton are the hottest boys in the school, so they rely on that instead of actual brains."
That was the moment where they all got the idea that was to change their views on the boys for the rest of their lives. Everyone was getting sick of how Taylor put the boys down, even her own boyfriend, so Kelsi spoke up and gave them an idea that no one had expected out of her.
"Why don't we try to watch it?" Kelsi asked.
"I don't think Gabriella owns that movie," Taylor rolled her eyes.
"Actually, I do," Gabriella smiled.
"Troy?" Taylor asked.
"We bought each other our favorite movies, he gave me The Big Lebowski and I gave him The Da Vinci Code," she went opened a drawer and pulled the movie out. "We want to get to know each other better. Come on, don't you guys want to know what these boys are watching."
"Come on, Taylor!" Martha begged. "You'll get to make fun of Chad for it."
A smile rolled across Taylor's face. "Let's watch it!"
They scrambled down the stairs as Gabriella held onto the DVD. They were going to go where no girl had gone before, into the mind of the starting line of the East High Wildcat Basketball team. They sat on the couch as all of them looked at the television as Gabriella popped the DVD in. As they started watching the beginning something was happening with them. Thoughts of the movie started coming out.
"This seems like a stupid movie. Look at me, I'm The Dude," Taylor scoffed. "Stupid movie, if Chad were any dumber he'd be a table."
She reached for the remote and turned it off. "You didn't even give it a chance!" Martha gasped.
"I don't want to," Taylor walked toward the stairs. "Chad is an idiot if he thinks this funny."
As Taylor walked toward the stairs, Gabriella stood up to get the DVD. "I think I want to give the movie a chance. If Troy likes it, I want to see it."
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The boys all started leaving the house as Troy stood in the doorway. "Night Jason! Night Zeke! I'll see you on Monday!"
"Next week at my house!" Zeke cheered as he walked in front of Jason toward the car.
"Take care Bolton!" Jason called out as he walked toward the car, both of them getting in and driving away.
Troy turned to walk back into the house to see Chad in the doorway. They stopped for a few seconds as they looked at each other, Chad's smile growing broader as he watched Troy take a few steps back to the house, Chad staying in the doorway as they met face to face.
"It was fun right?" Troy asked as he looked into Chad's eyes, a small smile on his face. "You had fun?"
"Yeah, it was fun," he laughed quietly. "It's going to be more fun next week at Zeke's house. He'll let us drink in his house."
Troy giggled as he looked at his feet. "I'm not going to drink. It's not going to be fun if you have to clean up after me all night."
Chad remembered the nights when Troy did try to drink with them; he never took well to the alcohol. Those nights were filled with sobbing, harsh breathing, and groans of pain as they all had to work together to not only clean the house but to cover up that Troy was drinking. Chad smiled as he remembered those moments. Those were going to be the stories they told each other for years to come.
"Aw come on, Lightweight," Chad smiled.
"I preferred it when you called me Killjoy," Troy smiled back with a nervous laugh. "I'll see you on Monday," he moved forward to give Chad a quick hug, backing away with a smile. "Bye Chad."
Chad moved out of the way. "Bye Lightweight. See you on Monday."
Troy went back into the house with a smile. These nights were the nights when he felt the most alive. These were the nights that he never wanted to let go. He shut the door behind him as he laughed one last time looking at the mess that they had left behind.
"The host always has to clean," Troy sighed to himself.
These were the days that he never wanted to lose, but he knew all good things had to come to an end.
AN: This is to celebrate my four year anniversary which is tomorrow (writer since 3-21-05.) This is also my first High School Musical story so it might be a little rusty. The next chapter should be up soon.
Feel free to comment on anything, any comments you have would be helpful as long as you don't just say "it was bad"
In the next chapter the boys and the girls are going to talk to each other about the nights that they spent together. This is going to turn into a strong M rating later on.