This chapter is set two weeks after the party.
Sex hadn't changed anything for Troy and Gabriella. She still thought he was an egotistical bastard and he thought she was a know it all bitch.
"Troy truth or dare?" Chad asked his best friend after basketball practice.
"Dare of course." Troy said smugly.
"I dare you to go on a date the Gabriella." Chad dared.
Troy laughed at the dare, "Yeah right. Ok what's my real dare?" Troy asked.
Chad said, "That was the real dare."
"Go on a date? With Montez?" Troy asked.
"Yeah." Chad answered.
"Why would I ever do that, Chad?"
"Because I dared you to. But don't tell her it was a dare. Do it or I tell the entire school you're a virgin." Chad said.
Troy sighed, "Fine." He walked over to Gabriella's locker, "Hey."
Gabriella turned around and rolled her eyes, "What do you want Bolton?"
"Lets go on a date." Troy said. Gabriella looked at him and started laughing,
"Why would I ever do that?"
Troy tried to think of a good reason, "Because we kinda did things backward. Its goes date, fall in love, then have sex."
Gabriella looked at him, "I kinda don't like you. In case you didn't realize it, the sex was a drunken mistake" She shrugged and walked away. He walked back to his friends and gave them a thumbs down.
"She didn't wanna go out with me. I tried." Troy said.
Chad shook his head, "The dare was to go on a date with her, not to just ask her out. You have to keep asking til she says yes." He said smugly.
"I hate you Chad." Troy said. "I don't wanna go on a date with Montez."
Chad shrugged, "You accepted the dare, hoops."
~After School~
Gabriella was irritated and confused. Troy had been asking her out all day and he obviously didn't get the message. She walked into her kitchen and sat down with a sigh.
"Hey sweetie. How was school?" Cristina asked her daughter.
Gabriella grabbed a spoon and the tub of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough her mom was eating and dug in, "Troy asked me out."
"Really?" Cristina asked with a surprised look on her face. "Is the 12 year feud over"
"I don't know. It was just weird." Gabriella replied.
"I wouldn't know about confusing guy stuff. I've been with your father since I was 17." Cristina said.
Gabriella rolled her eyes, "Should I say yes."
"You should wait a few days. If the offer is still up for grabs then you say yes."
Gabriella contemplated this in her mind, "But it's Troy Bolton. He put glue in my hair in kindergarten."
"And you put glue on his lips and they were stuck for a while." Cristina said. "He must be over the fighting. Don't you think its time you get over it too?" Gabriella hated when other people were right. She took the ice cream out of her mom's hand and took it upstairs with her to her sisters room.
"Wassup?" Lola asked her sister.
"Troy asked me out." Gabriella said.
"Are you sure? Was he high?" Lola asked, a confused look on her face.
Gabriella shrugged, "Should I say yes?"
"Totally. Even though you hate each other, there's like some sort of red hot chemistry between you two."
Gabriella laughed at her sister's choice of words, "We have to stop buying you romance novels. I just don't understand the sudden interest in me.".
"Maybe he's always liked you." Lola suggested. Gabriella looked at her and laughed,
"I really doubt that sis." Gabriella said
You never know." Lola said.
"I guess. I mean we irritate each other but we flirt like all the time, but its innocent and simple." Gabriella told Lola.
"You gotta admit that Troy is sexy though." Lola said raising her eyebrows for effect.
Gabriella laughed, "Really? He cockiness, attitude, and over all jackass-ness makes it hard to see his attractiveness."
"So you admit that he is attractive?" Lola asked. Gabriella rolled her eyes and got up,
"See you later." Gabriella got up and walked to her bedroom.
~The Next Morning~
Gabriella was at her locker, when Troy walked up to her.
"Bolton, leave me alone." Gabriella said. She already knew where this was going.
"I'm not leaving until you say yes." Troy said.
"Why are you so hell-bent on me going out with you?" Gabriella asked.
"Because the girls I usually ask out say yes in a heartbeat. You instantly rejected me and I like that. Now you have to go on a date with me." Everyone in the hall was staring at them with confusion in their eyes. Since when did Troy wanna go out with Gabriella? Everybody thought.
"Ok pick me up at seven, tonight." Gabriella said, closing her locker and walking off. She caught up with Taylor.
"Hey girl." Taylor said.
"I said yes to Troy." Gabriella told her friend.
Taylor gasped and hugged her friend, "Finally. You guys need to be together."
Gabriella looked at Taylor with a blank expression, "Ew. I said yes so he would shut up abut it. I just have to get through tonight and I'm done."
"Keep telling yourself that G." Taylor said.
Across the hall, Troy with his friends by the water fountain talking about what just happened.
"She actually said yes?" Chad asked in disbelief.
Troy nodded, "Man I'm in just as much shock as your in. Now I just have to get through tonight."
"But what if you like her?" Jason asked.
Troy chuckled, "If we liked each other, we would have been dating, Jason. I never would have asked Gabriella out before this dare."
Zeke smirked, "Wow you actually know her first name?"
Troy gave Zeke a look of sarcasm, "Yes Zeke, our parents are like best friends and therefore I am forced to hear her name a lot."
"Whatever, just make the date believable or you lose." Chad said.
"Leave me alone Chad. I don't have to go on the date." Troy said.
"But you did, so you must like Gabriella." Jason told his friend
"She's hotter that the sun, but she is just a stuck up bitch who wants the whole world to kiss her feet because she so fucking perfect." Troy replied.
~Later That Night~
"So where are we going?" Gabriella asked, getting into Troy's car.
"Where do you wanna go?" Troy asked.
"How about the movies?" Gabriella suggested.
"What do you wanna go see?"
"Step Up 2 The Streets." Gabriella told him (This story is taking place in 2008)
"The dancing movie?" Troy interrogated.
"Yeah. My husband, Channing Tatum has a small role in it." Gabriella said smiling.
"Of course." Troy replied rolling his eyes.
"Ok what made you wanna ask me out in the first place?" Gabriella asked questioningly.
"Well when you aren't being a pain in my ass, you are a pretty cool girl." Troy said truthfully.
"Oh. You still get on my nerves though, Bolton."
Troy rolled his eyes, "Don't flatter yourself, Montez. You aren't my favorite person either." He pulls into the movie theater parking lot.
"Please. Everybody loves me." Gabriella said smiling sweetly. They got out of the car and walked into the theater.
"Welcome to Edward's Movie Theater. How may I help you?" A lady asked.
"Two tickets for Step Up 2 the Streets." Troy told her.
"Ok that will be $25.27." Troy hands her thirty dollars and gets his change.
"Ok what kind of snacks do you like?" Troy asked.
"Popcorn and fruit punch mixed with Sprite." Troy made a face as Gabriella described her favorite drink. "Oh you gotta try it. Can I get a small popcorn with a lot of butter and two small fruit punch and Sprite combinations?" Gabriella asked the guy behind the concession counter.
"Ok." The guy get them their stuff. "Your total is $11.23." Troy hands them the money and take their stuff.
"What the number of the theater?" Troy asked Gabriella who was looking at their tickets.
"14." Gabriella told him.
"Ok. That is the door on the right." Gabriella holds the door open for him since he was holding all the stuff and gets them two seats in the middle of the theater.
"I love those Fandango commercials." Gabriella told Troy as she sat down.
"Me too. Their funny." Troy answered back. "Too bad we missed them."
"You wanna do something fun?" Gabriella asked.
"Making out in a movie theater is frowned upon Gabriella." Troy told Gabriella, shaking his head.
"No get out your phone and pretend to text." Troy did what he was told. Gabriella grabbed a handful of popcorn and hit the rest behind her purse. She threw it at two people who were making out and pretended to look through her phone as they turned around.
"Did you throw popcorn at us?" The girl asked.
Gabriella shook her head, "No. I'm allergic to popcorn." Troy tried to hold in a laugh because the people actually believed her lie and turned around.
"Nice one." Troy whispered.
"Yeah, my dad and I do that all the time." Gabriella said.
"Oh look there's Channing Tatum." Troy told Gabriella pointing to the screen.
"Ok I gotta get serious now." She turned to the screen.
~After The Movie~
"You're a fun person to go to the movies with, Gabriella." Troy told her pulling up in front of her house.
"Yeah I'm a pretty fun person." Gabriella said, getting out of the car. "I am also pretty fun at restaurants too. The trick is you go crappy ones and complain. Then they give you your…" Gabriella was cut off by Troy kissing her.
"You're cute but you talk too much. See you Monday." He walks back to his car leaving Gabriella alone. That actually didn't kill me. Gabriella thought, smiling