35 reviews for the last chapter! Woah! And 47 alert lists! And all of your questions as to where I came up with the crazy ideas of these dares… That'll come at the end of the chapter.
But guys. Those reviews made my day! And also, the girls might not be near as funny as the guys, since the guys, being guys, made up this really… Well, I can't tell you what the list is or I'd be giving away too much!
But anyway, let's see what Gabriella, Sharpay, Kelsi and Taylor have been up to while their boyfriends skipped down a mall hand-in-hand...
"Man! I so wish we could watch the guys! Especially number twelve!" Taylor giggled. Number twelve had been her idea from the start. The girls were currently walking in the opposite direction of the boys, trying to keep themselves from spying on the boys. It would waste time, but be horrendously funny.
"Nah, this'll be more fun than that," Sharpay added with another giggle. "Gabriella, list. Although those lunkheads won't be done with our instructions for awhile, we might as well pull ahead."
"Got it!" Gabriella pulled the crumpled piece of paper from her purse. "Notebook paper?"
"We go out of our way to make a wonderful list, and they return it with a scrap from Ryan's notebook?" Kelsi put her hands on her hips, disgusted.
"Eew… It smell's like Chad's notebook…" Gabriella pulled the paper away from her face, making a face that had 'nasty' written all over it.
"Lemme…" Sharpay was about to take the paper, until she got a smell of it. "Oh! GROSS!" She jumped back.
"Smells like… the gym." Taylor concluded with a sigh.
"Chad." They all repeated.
"Okay, anyway, what's it say?" Kelsi curiously looked over Gabriella's shoulder. The huddled into a group, not caring if they blocked people in the walkway of the second floor.
"Look at that," Taylor chuckled. "Deflate all the display basketballs in any sports store."
"That shouldn't be too hard." Gabriella shrugged. After all, all they had to do was deflate some basketballs. She folded the list and the girls set off for the sports store nearest to them, which was conveniently only a few shops down.
Once they reached it, they turned on the camera. Taylor focused in on the basketball section, where the girls were annoyed to find that this store had a lot of display basketballs. An entire wall spanned the area of some of them.
"Let's go to the other store here." Kelsi suggested.
"But it's all the way across the mall. We might as well start here." Sharpay sighed and began her strut to the basketball section. Kelsi and Gabriella were on her heels; Taylor followed at a distance with the camera.
Sharpay came to the first one, acting as casual as possible. She found the air socket and squeezed the sides. Somehow, Sharpay had found a way to make the air silently hiss out of the basketball.
The girls quickly got to work, imitating Sharpay's technique. About a quarter of the way through the selection, a teenage boy, looking to be a year or two older than the gang is, came up behind Sharpay.
"Excuse me, do you think you could get me- What are you doing?" He asked, puzzled.
"Oh… uhm… None of your business! Now what do you want?" She snapped, wanting to get the guy to go away. It was wasting her time.
"All I need is to look at the basketball that you're holding." He said, trying to take it from Sharpay. It was only half deflated, so Sharpay quickly released the rest of the air and handed it to the teenager.
"It's deflated!" He screeched, waving the basketball in Sharpay's face.
"So? You just wanted to see it. You didn't say it had to be aired up." Sharpay replied dryly, releasing the air from another basketball. Gabriella and Kelsi now were three quarters of the way through, and Sharpay wasn't in the mood to argue.
The guy, stunned, huffed and walked out of the store.
Sharpay finally finished her section as Taylor came up behind her from the football section where she had been taping the task.
"I got that weird guy on tape." Taylor said as the two approached Gabriella, finishing up her last basketball.
"He was annoying! I didn't think he'd ever go away." Sharpay rolled her eyes.
"You're talking about that guy that approached you?" Gabriella asked.
"Uh-huh." Sharpay and Taylor chorused. Kelsi ran over to the group, finished.
"I think the guy at the counter just spotted us." She whispered and the girls diverted their attention over to the assistant manager that was curiously coming over to the basketball section.
"Go!" Sharpay hissed as the girls made a beeline for the exit to the store.
The outside of the store was the same as it had been when they had left it, besides the echoes of male voices singing…
Gasping, the girls ran to the railing, looking down at the first floor. Sure enough, there were the boys, hand-in-hand, skipping down the mall and singing their song. Some West High Cheerleaders were giggling at the group, while the girlfriends were nearly on the floor laughing at the four on the bottom floor.
Suddenly, Sharpay jerked up.
"What's wrong Sharpay?" Gabriella asked, seeing the look of concern on her friend's face.
"They're on the second task! We just finished our first!" Sharpay said with wide eyes.
"Gabriella! List!" Taylor snapped, realizing that the guys were ahead of them. Gabriella quickly took the list out of her purse. The girls gathered around her, reading the next task.
2) Trail lemonade into the girl's bathroom
"Shouldn't be too hard," Sharpay shrugged. "There's a lemonade store in the food court."
"We could just buy a big cup of lemonade, and just dump that somewhere in the girls bathroom." Gabriella put her hand over her mouth, holding back giggles.
"How immature, I mean, trailing lemonade? Immature idiots," Taylor rolled her eyes. "Well, we won't get anywhere just standing here, so let's go ahead and go."
The girls agreed and set off for the food court, which wasn't very far away. Sharpay, being the leader she is, approached the food court stand, themed an appropriate yellow and lemon color.
"A large sweetened lemonade, no lemon," Sharpay said, quickly glancing at the menu of different variations of lemonade.
"No." The cashier simply said.
"Excuse me?" Sharpay raised her eyebrows, taken aback. Then, she realized that this was the person that had given her the hassle about the basketball at the sports store.
"No," He repeated, shrugging.
"Last time I checked, and excuse me if I'm wrong, employees should actually serve the customers." Taylor gave her irritator an icy glare, much like Sharpay was doing now.
"Well, last time I checked, I don't have to serve snobs who are so into causing so much trouble that they couldn't help me finish an errand."
"At least I'm not in the atrocious lemon suit." Sharpay retorted, referring to the lemon yellow striped apron and the hat shaped like a lemon their antagonizer was wearing.
"At least I'm not the one not getting lemonade today." He shrugged and began cleaning the counter.
"Can we speak to the manager… Kevin?" Gabriella came forward with an impatient glare, reading the nametag on the work uniform.
"You're looking at him." Kevin smirked.
"Ugh. Let's go." Sharpay rolled her eyes and stormed off, the three others right behind her. Sharpay sat down at a nearby booth, folded her arms across her chest and bore a scowl that seemed could burn a hole through a wall.
"Sharpay! Are you just giving up that easy?" Kelsi screeched, tossing down her purse and scooting into the booth beside Sharpay.
"There are other places that sell lemonade." Taylor inquired, taking the seat opposite of Kelsi and Sharpay.
"Only one. And that place has the fountain drinks out of order today." Gabriella slid in next to Taylor.
"Does it have to be lemonade?" Kelsi thought aloud.
"Well-" Sharpay stopped herself, seeing a new logic into the situation. "Kelsi, you are the smartest person on the face of this earth!"
"Hey!" The two brainiacs across the table defended.
"You know what I mean!" Sharpay shrugged. "They never said it had to be lemonade."
"But to get the effect-" Taylor began, interrupted by Sharpay.
"Yes, but you know those lemon flavor packets that you get at buffets for your tea?"
"Yes…" The other three said, not understanding Sharpay's plan just yet.
"Wouldn't that give us the same effect as lemonade would?" Sharpay snickered.
"But wouldn't that take forever? Trailing those little flavor packets into the bathroom is a lot of work. Also, wouldn't people pass by wonder what's going on? And how would we manage to get all of the flavor packets?" Gabriella asked, puzzled. The three were now understanding Sharpay's idea, but they all knew time was their enemy.
"The boys never stated how far we had to trail it. As long as it starts at the door and ends at the stall in the bathroom, we should be fine. Gabriella, you'll guard the bathrooms and tell people a toilet is backed up and there's gunk everywhere. Taylor, you'll tape me trailing it into the bathroom. Finally, Kelsi, you'll try and get as many lemon packets from random food stores before they get suspicious. Go." Sharpay walked off with a strut.
Taylor, who had the video camera on and under her arm the entire time, followed Sharpay. Gabriella, trying to look as casual as possible, followed a little further behind. Kelsi, however, went to get the lemon packets for their task.
Ten minutes, and about seventy lemon flavor packets later, Kelsi went to get her last bunch after seeing Sharpay nearly finished. Gabriella had done an excellent job on keeping the shoppers out of the picture.
Nearing the place she had gotten the first few bunches of the little packets, she noticed a young man at the counter of the food shop, about her age, staring at her with a smirk on his face. Despite her better judgement, she ignored it and grabbed a handful of the flavor packets.
As she was turning around to go, the teenager finally spoke.
"Hey," He smiled flirtatiously as she turned to face him.
"Um, hi." Kelsi eyed him curiously.
"I couldn't help but notice that you continue to come over here. Any particular reason? A guy, for example?" He grinned, being completely obvious with his flirting and Kelsi trying to keep her calm and not act totally disgusted.
"Look, I've got to be somewhere," Kelsi said, trying her best to get out of the situation. "Bathroom!" And after that, she made a beeline to the hall where the bathrooms were located.
Once there, Sharpay was getting antsy to finish up.
"Where were you? What took so long?" Sharpay snatched the packets, tore them open, and led a final trail into the stall. Before Kelsi could answer, Gabriella came running in, breathless.
"Security guard! Coming, NOW!" She screeched, heading into the stall far away from where the trail led. Kelsi and Taylor, beginning to fret, followed her into the stall.
Sharpay, panicking, ran over to the trashcan, stuffed paper towels over the lemon packet trash, and ran over to the mirror to act like she was applying make-up.
The security guard, a man in his late forties to early fifties, stepped in, noticing the trail to the bathroom. Eyeing Sharpay, as if suspecting her, he inspected the trail.
"Do you know anything about this, miss?" He asked in an accusing tone.
"Ugh, no. It's nasty, though. And you're a guy in the girl's bathroom. I'd be grossed out, but my boyfriend is waiting." Sharpay said in disgust, like a cheerleader would. The guard ignored her comment afterwards and Sharpay continued applying make-up as he continued to inspect the trial.
Inside the locked stall, Gabriella was sitting down on the closed lid, Taylor was standing in the left side of the seat, trying to get the security guard on camera, and Kelsi was standing on the right side of the seat, squished against the wall.
"Oomph!" Taylor nearly slipped, causing her arm to bang against the metal toilet paper holder. She let out a small moan of pain before silencing herself. The noise hadn't gone unnoticed.
"Are you okay in there, miss?" The guard asked, lifting his head up from his work.
"F-Fine," Gabriella said between held back giggles. Finally, the security guard left to find a janitor. The three piled out of the stall to meet Sharpay, who was already out of the bathroom.
Once outside, the girls had a huge laugh about what had just happened. Kelsi then began explaining her run-in with the flirting boy.
"First time a guy asked me out, and I can't stick around long enough to enjoy it before I say no!" Kelsi giggled.
"What about my brother? He's your boyfriend!" Sharpay asked with a gasp.
"But you were the one that asked me out for him. Sorry Ryan." Kelsi explained to the camera Taylor was holding. Another round of laughter followed as the girls realized how wrong that had sounded.
"Next task?" Sharpay finally asked. Gabriella quickly got the list back out, glancing down at number three.
"Go into a store and try to buy an item in pennies," Gabriella paused. "Doesn't sound too hard. There's a change machine not too far from here. We can get two dollars worth in pennies and buy a candy bar or something like that."
The girls found the change machine easily, but there became another problem. The only cash the girls had were in fives. Sighing, Kelsi put a five-dollar bill into the machine, giving them five hundred pennies in return.
They slid the change into Kelsi's small backpack, now heavy from five hundred coins. Kelsi led the way to a store that she knew was having a sale on earrings. Her theory on it was that she might as well get a nice pair of earrings from the deal.
Taylor quickly went into the store, to find a good place for the camera to be. Sharpay and Gabriella went in next, acting like friends just shopping around. Kelsi, going in last, spotted a pair of earrings she liked. She picked them up and went to the register.
"Four eighty-seven." The clerk rang up the earrings and Kelsi began to dig through her backpack.
"You do take pennies, right?" She asked innocently.
"Sure." The clerk, who seemed to be about college age, responded, not aware that Kelsi meant paying in all pennies. Well, she soon found out when Kelsi found the bag the pennies were in and dumped them on the counter.
The clerk's eyes widened at the sight, but she didn't say anything. Kelsi proceeded to count out five hundred pennies, to the still amazed clerk.
"Four hundred ninety-nine, five hundred," Kelsi finished after a couple of minutes. "You can just keep the thirteen cents extra."
Without saying a word, the clerk bagged the earrings and handed them to Kelsi.
"Thank you, come again." She said with much less enthusiasm the first time. She was going to have to sort it all out into rolls so she could fit them in the register.
Although Kelsi felt sorry for her, they were on a time schedule. She'd come and say sorry later. Right now, she had to get onto the next store. Quickly, Kelsi walked out. Taylor was next, followed by Sharpay and Gabriella.
"I feel so bad now!" Kelsi giggled. "I'd hate to have to sort all of those out."
"Well, we can always apologize later." Sharpay shrugged. The girls were now nearing the food court, wanting to take a break. Spotting their boyfriends at one of the counters, they stopped dead.
"They're taking a full fledged break!" Taylor scoffed as the girls rounded the corner away from the food court.
"So? They're stupid if they think they can beat us like that," Gabriella reasoned.
"Right. We can get ahead of them now!" Kelsi clapped excitedly.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Sharpay finished and the girls ran off. They wanted to get as far away from the boys as possible before they start their next task. The hilarity of their list would definitely sidetrack them.
That was one long chapter. I would have added more detail, but I decided against it. The chapter was long enough, and I wanted to add an element of surprise for later chapters. If I added too many details about the lists, then it would ruin all of the future chapters (especially number twelve!)
But, here are a few hints… 1) Ms. Darbus will make a guest appearance (in the worst way possible for Chad), 2) Number twelve might get it's own chapter. 3) The insanity level is definitely going to rise.
As for how I came up with these… Some are from e-mails I've kept over the years, and some my friends and I did ourselves (i.e.: skipping down the mall)
Hope you enjoyed! Make me happy and reviewwwwww!