First Date Again

It was time for math class. Troy groaned as he stumbled in, 5 minutes late. Mr. Ball didn't even bother to yell at him again.

"Hello again, Gabriella. Thanks for doing my project for me." He mumbled, sitting down by Gabriella and placing his bag on the table.

"No problem. But, I binned our project. I... I felt bad for not letting you do any. You... you're a nice guy and I was bad. I'm sorry."

"Come on. It's alright. You know, I'm probably not gonna do any work, still." He teased, turning away from her playfully and crossing his arms.

"No, you're doing what I'm saying, okay? And then, maybe you can come round for dinner tonight." She said quietly, smiling gently and placing a hand on Troy's arm, making him turn back around and face her.

"Oh, you want me to come to tea at yours tonight? Yeah, cool. I'll come at 7." He said, smiling and jumping in his seat with delight.

"Why not just come after school?" she asked innocently, opening her math book.

"Umm, I have basketball... nothing. I'll be coming right over." He smiled, looking at the door slowly before smiling again. He had just made up with Gabriella and was about to go to hers for tea!

"Great, can't wait." She said, before picking up her folder and trading seats with Chad, who came and sat next to Troy.

"Hmm, something is up with you!" he cried, patting Troy on the back and letting his head lean on his hand. "It's about Gabriella, isn't it?"

"She invited me round for dinner tonight. I'm so nervous, something will happen and she'll hate me again." He worried, placing a hand on his cheek and drawing circles with his index finger. "Maybe I'll fall out of love with her. Maybe she's not as great as I remembered. Maybe she's a slob, maybe her mom is a bit weird, maybe the food is terrible..."

"Just don't worry. Please. It's unhealthy, dude!" Chad said, twirling his fingers around in a bored fashion. He looked over at Taylor, where Gabriella and she were chatting and drawing doodles on the front of their notebooks.

"It's not. It's normal. Everyone has problems like these when the girl of their DREAMS has just asked them to their house!" Troy screamed, going slightly red in the face.

"Pfft, no they don't." Chad rumbled, turning to look at Taylor again. "Man, you know, Taylor and I have been dating for a while now, and... well... we haven't done anything. We're so wrapped up in this math business and it's all she talks about. Can you help me?" he turned in his seat to face Troy, who had his head in his hands. He lifted his head slowly, his forehead creased.

"Do I LOOK like I can help you?" he mumbled, getting up and walking towards another basketball player's table.

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"Hey, Chad..." Taylor said after a while, walking up to the boy and ruffling his giant afro. "I have to ask you something real important, okay? So you have to listen." She spoke as if he was 5.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm listening; I'm not a 5 year old." He grumbled, but he turned in his seat and allowed Taylor to sit on his lap.

"Well, I wanted to ask if you wanted to go out tonight. They're opening that new theater tonight and there's that new performance on 'Beauty and the Beast' as well. Shall we go?" she asked, wrapping an arm around hi shoulder and kissing his forehead as he sat with his mouth hanging open.

"Umm, well, uh, yeah. I guess." He stuttered, smiling as she nodded and walked away. "Man, Troy was right. This is freaky... I need help." He walked off slowly, biting his knuckles nervously.

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"Hmm... gotta... and she'll... gotta talk... hmm... no, no... Hmm, I mean, I think... umm, true... gotta... false... umm... none of the above!" Troy mumbled in his sleep, face stuck to his desk.

"Oi, Troy!" Chad whispered, poking Troy's forehead roughly. Troy woke up, startled by the touch, and screamed.

"Chad! Why did you wake me up?"

"Well, first, you're in lessons, and second, I'm scared too. Taylor asked me on a date tonight as well. We're going to the theater."

"Well, if you don't wanna go to the theater just tell her." He answered impatiently, laying his head back on the desk.

"No, it's not that... I'm nervous that she'll fall out of love with me. I mean, I've forgotten what it's like to hang out with Taylor. I've forgotten her favorite candy and her favorite flower. How can I turn up with the wrong candy and flower? She'll hate me. But what if I fall out of love with her? What if she picks her teeth with her toenails or burps so loud the people on stage can hear it?"

"Well, if she could burp that loud, I would be proud to call her my girlfriend." Troy laughed, opening a packet of peanuts and shoveling them into his mouth. He glanced up at the clock, which told him he had 20 more minutes until break.

"No, that's not the point."

"Okay, okay. You want my help. Just... ask Gabriella what she's like and her favorite stuff again. She'll know because they're best mates."

"Oh, thanks man." Chad cried, hugging his best friend and then charging off to talk to Gabriella.

"But, what about my problem?!" he cried after him, but Chad didn't hear.

He smacked his forehead, finally realizing. He'd ask Taylor!

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He casually walked over to the table Taylor was working on, hearing her chatting away to a number of different people, all from different cliques.

"Hi, Taylor." He called over to her, running up to her table and placing a hand behind his head, stretching. "I wanted to ask you something."

"Not now, Troy, I'm obviously busy." She laughed, trying to shoo him away.

He shook his head, placing a hand on the open book in front of her that everyone was gathered around. "No. I'll give you back your wondrous book with all the answers when you help me. Ooh, and when I get to copy them too." He quickly started scribbling some numbers on his arm before looking up at the groaning crowd of people.

"Come on, Troy, we need the book. Taylor was teaching us about calculus and stuff and we don't get it. The book is our master. We worship this book. We NEED THIS BOOK!" Lowry screamed; making Troy and Taylor exchange scared glances.

"Oh, what the heck." He said and threw the book at them, pulling Taylor into a corner of a room. "I need to know everything about Gabriella, okay? I'm gonna record you, so speak clearly. Okay and go."

"What? Troy!" she yelled, but saw he had a recorder in his hands, so she rolled her eyes and told him what she knew. "Okay, fine. Well, her favorite color is blue, she likes classical music, and she likes math and science, her hero is Einstein, when she leaves school she wants to become a doctor or a scientist, she wants to marry you, she wants 4 kids, she goes to church, her favorite cousin is the 14 year old boy called Bert, she loves Shakespeare and especially Romeo and Juliet, she loves burgers and her favorite sports are baseball and roller skating. Enough?"

"No. Keep going... Okay, in a minute. I need a break." He ordered, stopping recording and wiping his forehead. "Phew! Intense moments there, eh? And, she wants to marry me. And she wants 4 kids as well. What else does she want from me?"

"Well, she wants a big house and a big wedding; she wants to have grandkids, she wants the kids to believe in the tooth fairy and she doesn't want to tell the kids that Santa Claus isn't real until the last one is at least 10. She thinks you guys should have 2 girls and 2 boys, Lucille, Rachael, Benedict and Donny. She wants Lucille to look like you, Benedict and Rachael to be twins and look like her, and Donny to look like a mix.

"She wants Donny to have long, brown hair, your smile, her nose, her skin color, and your eye color. She wants Lucille to have green eyes and Benedict to have brown eyes. Rachael should have blue eyes. Rachael's hair would be shoulder length and she would love to wear pink bows in her hair. Lucille would have straight hair all the way down her back. On special occasions she would curl it and it would be inches shorter.

"When Lucille becomes 15 she'll get a boyfriend who will look like you and she'll then cut her hair into a bob. She'll get accidentally pregnant at the age of 16 and you will have 1 grandkid already. She'll get married to her boyfriend, who'll be called Darren Smith, when she's 24 because he was too nervous to propose all those years before. Her dress would be stretched over her bump, because she was having triplets during her wedding, and she didn't want to postpone the wedding just because of her little rascals. She calls them her piglets. Lucille will go on to have eight kids, two boys and six girls. The triplets are all grils, and two boys are twins. Their names are Gretchen, Ellie, Chloe, Rich, Eddie, Nancy, Loren and the oldest is Missy. She lost two children, one was premature and the other got cot death. She had named them Alexis and Mae. She had 3 miscarriages after her eight children and then gave up. She never lived out her dream of having 15 kids. It broke her heart and she had to send Eddie to military school when he was 12 because he made fun of her. He finally lost the plot and hit her, which gave her no choice but to send him. He came back three years after; he was scared of his mother and moved out when he was 16, joining the army. The oldest kid, Missy, got into a row with Darren and she committed suicide, jumping off a bridge. Darren thought it was his fault, and left Lucille on her own, and once the kids moved out, she was 54 when the last one, Gretchen left. She'll move into an old person's home and die when she's 66 from a heart attack.

"Rachael will have trouble with relationships and will have 3 kids with all different dads, and she'll have a boy and 2 girls, when she's 24, 27, and 28. She'll meet Graham when she's off traveling. She travels because of her job as an assistant to a model, but she quits when she meets him because he was on his way to Albuquerque, and she wanted to go back to Albuquerque as well because she missed all her family. They had met when they were 35, and she and her kids came back home then. You, Gabriella, Graham and Rachael all met up and had coffee in a little café and, even though Graham and Rachael had only known each other for a few days, you allowed her to move in with him because you liked him so much. She'll finally settle with Graham in Albuquerque but they won't get married, because he dies of a brain tumor just a few days after he proposes. He was only 37 when he dies. It left Rachael very depressed and she moves back in with you and Gabriella. You don't know how to handle it, so you just leave her be. She develops some illness in her liver and she dies when she's 39. Lucille gets custody of the girls, Eleanor and Hattie, who were 11 and 12. But you and Gabriella loved her son, Jeremy, so much, you kept him. He was 14 when you took him in, and he loved it so much, he didn't leave until he was 26 and he met his future wife. He proposed to her just days after meeting her, and they moved to Australia. She dies after being bitten by a snake.

"Benedict is a real mommy's boy, and he never leaves her side. That made you so angry, you bought him a house and everything, but he decided to stay at home. Breaking Gabriella's heart, you moved out, but Benedict still didn't leave. You and Gabriella kept contact, but soon you and she lose interest in each other and stop phoning and texting. But soon Benedict meets Jessica, and you were so shocked. You had always thought he was gay, whenever the game was on; he was upstairs, talking to his friends, who were all girls, on the phone and sorting out his closet. She was very rich, and you liked her immediately, and when he and Jessica moved down to South America, you moved back in with Gabriella and Jeremy. You also said you were moving in sooner or later because of the neighbors. And you missed the way the couch was so lumpy, whenever you moved, it felt as if someone was poking your bum. Benedict and Jessica buy a house in South America like I said and he proposes, and when she says yes confetti falls from the ceiling and balloons fly in from the doors. She says it was really magical because it was snowing outside and they were holding hands on the couch, watching Friends. It was the episode where Chandler proposed to Monica, and it was so sweet Jessica started to cry and they had to move house because the room just set her off in tears of happiness. They sell that house and buy a little cottage in the middle of a forest and quit their jobs, and live off berries in the woods and then they get the money they need by building a farm and breeding sheep and cows. Then they move to Europe and teach foreign kids to speak English. They have no kids, because Benedict says what's the point in having kids when you get to play with them your whole life at work? And they both want to work and they were so close to the kids at the school they thought if they had to leave they wouldn't get over it. They die when the school shuts down and they get jobs in factories, catch a disease and it finally kills them.

"Donny will have singing lessons and join a band as the lead singer. He becomes famous and marries a supermodel, moving to Florida. She'll become anorexic, die, and he's crushed so he moves back home. The band splits because he doesn't join in anymore and complains that they couldn't sing for toffee, and he goes solo. He learns how to play the guitar and gets to no.1 on the Hottest Guy of The Year list. He finally gets married again to another model called Marian that's curvy and not about to die and they have twins. The twins are called Alice and Nick and when it's his 40th birthday, the kids put on a show for him at one of his concerts and they get a record deal when they're 7. Donny stops singing and decides he's too old when he's 45, and the kids who are 12 make all the money for the old couple. When Alice gets ill at 16 and dies, he gets so guilty thinking that his family was going to have no money he hanged himself in his room when he was 49.

"You and Gabriella will hold Thanksgiving each year and the table that you had in your dining room was too small because each year the family was growing so you had to buy another one. But when it started getting smaller and smaller, Gabriella went crazy and went into a mental home. You get left alone, and you're 64, and there's no one to look after you, and you have a stroke. You get sent to hospital and Gabriella comes and saves you. When you're 67 she gets upset again and shoots herself. You shoot yourself as well because she's dying and you want to die together. You die holding onto each other and you get buried in the same grave. 13 of your kids and grandkids were there to mourn but over 600 people came and 3 of your best friends even committed suicide they were so upset. Well, that's what she wants. Or wanted... she told me this when you two broke up the first time, she was so upset and she called and then I had to come round with popcorn and a movie to calm her down. You know, usually, it only takes muffins, but no, I had to pay an extra two dollars because this year popcorn is just so damn expensive!" she rambled on, and Troy recorded it all.

"She meant all that? Why did we break up?!" he said between sniffs. Realizing his sniffing, he stopped himself from crying and glanced over at Gabriella who was sitting by herself, smiling at her pencil which she twirled in between her finger and thumb.

"Uh, yes she said all that, I guess she meant it too. Now can I get back to those guys? They look annoyed and we only have 23 seconds left of this class." She said and Troy stepped out of her way, letting her curry towards Lowry and talk to him and the others enthusiastically.

23 seconds later, the bell went and everyone packed up and left.

Chad walked up to Troy, who was still standing by the door, his recorder in his hand, the light on top flashing. "Whoa, what have you recorded?" he asked, pulling it from Troy and pressing play. Troy watched Chad's eyes light up as he heard it was Taylor.

"Dude, you got your information, I see." He said after a while, but Troy hadn't realized he had listened to it all. He had been packing his bag up, smiling at the wall and thinking of Gabriella.

"Uh, yeah, I did."

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More Troyella woo! All those really long paragraphs is Taylor telling the story that Gabriella told Taylor when Gabriella was crying over Troy when they broke up the first time. It's talking about what Gabriella wanted for her family. A lot of dying so you can tell she was upset when she made it up. Donny, Benedict, Lucille and Rachael are her kids, the rest are her grandkids, and she had basically made it up on the spot so it's kinda weird. It took me like, 2 hours to figure out just that bit. Phew.

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