As you can see, I changed my penname (reason on profile!). Thanks for all the feedback! This story is VERY close to 90 (not to mention 100!) alert lists!
I wanted to update this and get to number twelve before I leave for vacation in two weeks. And you guys know how updates for me with this story come… slow XD Hopefully I will be able to finish the story before summer's end (and before HSM2 comes out), so we'll see. I've been on a streak lately!
"Well, at least our cuticles are healthy," Ryan thought aloud, closely inspecting his freshly painted fingernails. The other three raised their eyebrows at their friend, who began to blush when he realized what he'd said aloud.
"No self-respecting dude should ever know what the word 'cuticle' means," Chad shook his head, trying to nonchalantly go behind Zeke to get a sneak peak at the list. Troy doubted that Chad even knew what it meant.
Knowing instantly what his friend was trying to do, Zeke folded the paper up, snapping it out of anyone's vision, smirking in victory at Chad.
"Nice try, but my mad reflexes just outmatch yours," Zeke flexed his arm muscles, a look of pure satisfaction crossing his face.
"Well, whatever, what's next for us?" Troy asked, seeing that they were walking in the mall, with particularly no destination.
"We're supposed to go and look for shower caps." Zeke replied plainly. "There's a bathroom supply store coming up that my mom dragged me in one time. I saw some shower caps in there,"
"But… That's not even funny…" Ryan questioned, wondering what exactly the girls wanted to see. "Each dare so far has been to either embarrass us or to get us to say or do something they want to see."
"They want to see me in a shower cap," Chad's eyes widened as he realized what was going on. "I was joking around with Taylor the other day about how difficult that would be for me unless I had a gallon of hair gel."
"Ooh. This is going to be priceless!" Zeke said to the camera. "Taylor, I salute you for this dare!" He brought his hand to his forehead, making a salute to whoever would be watching the other end. Noticing the store, Zeke pointed it out, leading the way into the bathroom accessory store.
"Right here," he pointed at a rack of brightly decorated shower caps, hanging neatly from the rack extending from the wall.
"This store smells like body lotion!" Ryan complained. His words, though, were drown out in each boy's attempt to find a decent shower cap. Immediately, Troy found one that was a pastel yellow, with orange ducks as the pattern. He slid it over his sandy locks, tucking the medium length strands underneath the cover.
"We have our first victim!" Zeke zoomed in on Troy's face as he made a goofy grin at the camera.
"Since I know you helped in this, Gabriella Montez, just remember, that if this video is ever shown to anyone, that everyone will know that I am your boyfriend!" He took the shower cap off, placing it back on the rack.
Ryan then found one that caught his eye. Towards the back, there was a light blue one, complimented with dark blue music notes arranged in circles around the edge of it. As carefully as he could, the drama king tried to get the one from the very back. Chad took the opportunity to get a scream out of him by sneaking up behind Ryan at his peak of concentration. Quickly, he jabbed his index finger into Ryan's side, sending the blonde yelping into a jump.
Howls of laughter came from the others as Ryan realized that he had not only gone down, but also had brought down one of the racks of shower caps with him. Grumbling at the joke, he picked up the music note one, and before he put it on, reluctantly picked up the shower caps spread across the floor, with Chad's help.
"You have to admit, that was hilarious!" Chad chuckled, receiving nods of agreement from Troy and Zeke. Ryan just rolled his eyes and finished putting up the last one.
"Don't take it personal… Chad does that in the locker room all the time. I swear, Troy yelped so loud, that his dad came in wondering who brought a dog in the locker room," Zeke laughed at the memory.
"Or," Troy began, trying to save himself some dignity, "when Chad did that to Zeke, he nearly cried because he dropped the apple spice cake he'd made for the after party."
"I did not cry!" Zeke defended. "I just got… icing… in my eye. That's all."
"Yeah… and I'm the queen of England…" Troy retorted.
"Really?" Chad asked, with obvious interest in the subject.
"Nevermind," Troy rolled his eyes, realizing that Ryan had already put on his shower cap while he and Zeke had been arguing. Apparently, Zeke noticed it too, because the camera went from Troy, to Ryan, who had easily managed to put all of his hair under the blue rubber.
"Now, do you have anything to say to the camera? Shout outs, comments, gossip?" Zeke asked as if he was interviewing someone on the news. Ryan didn't seem to be miffed anymore about the whole getting poked in the side ordeal.
"I'd like to make a shout out to Kelsi, who picked me out of all of the guys at East High. She must really like the shower cap," Ryan nodded with a satisfied smirk. Zeke chuckled, handing the camera to Troy while he browsed for the perfect shower cap.
"What do you think of this one?" He pulled out a white one that said, in large red letters, 'KISS THE CHEF'. "I think it brings out my good side." Zeke batted his eyelashes at the camera, Troy trying not to crack up from behind the camera.
"Yeah, work the camera." Chad replied, unable to contain his laughter. Although he did have his laugh, he realized everyone was looking at him… Waiting for him to try and get a shower cap over his hair.
"You're turn," Zeke motioned towards the rack. "We're waiting."
Sighing, the basketball co-captain dug for one that looked larger than the rest. He didn't quite realize that, since they stretch, they all came in one size. When he gave up on finding a larger one, he spotted an orange one with basketballs as it\s pattern. He shrugged beginning to work the shower cap over the thick curls that fell over his head.
He finally felt it grasp onto his forehead. However, there were still many strands of hair poking through the edges. Zeke came up behind him, trying to tuck the hair inside the already-bulging cap. Everyone but Troy, who was holding the camera, got involved in helping.
After ten minutes, Chad finally had his cap set on top of his head. It was, needless to say, very lumpy and overly packed, but it fit the requirements of the dare.
"Is there anything you'd like to say to the camera?" Troy asked, once again holding back laughter at the sight of his friend. Chad stroked his chin dramatically, trying to appear deep in thought.
"Well, since this is my embarrassment for the day, I'd like to laugh at myself," he chuckled. "But, Taylor, sweetheart, just remember; I'm you're prom date!" He smirked.
"Chad, this isn't your only embarrassment for today," Zeke pointed out, reading the list.
"Isn't this number twelve?" Chad asked, apparently not keep count of how many items off of the list they had already done.
"No!" the three chorused at a very confused Chad.
"This was number ten!" Zeke broke into hysterics, taking the camera from Troy.
"Can I at least have a peek at the list?" He begged Zeke, but Zeke was not going to let Chad Danforth talk him into giving him a small little peek at the list. He would find out after they did the next dare.
"Nope," Zeke shrugged. "But I will tell you guys our next one."
"Fine." Chad folded his arms across his chest, acting as if Zeke's stubbornness didn't bother him at all.
"Troy, you're going to have to look into a security camera and act like it's a mirror, using it to look up your nose." Zeke looked up, wondering where they would find a security camera that they could reach.
"How is he going to get up there at the cameras?" Ryan asked, as if taking the question right out of Zeke's mouth.
"Stand on each someone's shoulders?" Troy suggested.
"That's…" Zeke paused in thought. "Actually not a bad idea. Who's the strongest?" Most pointed to Zeke, but he didn't believe that it was him. Chad claimed that he was, so to save time, everyone just simply agreed on him. The four set off in search of a security camera that was located to where they could reach it.
The only place that they could find one was near the bathrooms, perched in a corner in the hallway leading the emergency exit. The boys stood there, unsure of their next move.
"Sometimes I wonder if these girls just love to see me humiliate myself." Troy sighed. "As if I didn't make a complete idiot out of myself in front of Gabriella before we started dating."
"You only laughed so hard milk shot out of your nose," Chad replied, squatting down to allow Troy to get on his shoulders. "At least you didn't trip on your untied shoes in front of your crush. Taylor laughed at me for a week over that one." Reluctantly, he got on Chad's shoulders, clinging onto his forehead like a toddler would when their father gave them a piggyback ride. Troy didn't see how Chad could possibly embarrassed over something like that, considering all of the other crazy things he did, but Troy didn't feel like questioning it.
Swallowing his last little bit of pride, Troy looked into the camera, taking the side of his nose. The camera didn't quite work as a mirror, but to satisfy the requirements, he at least had to pretend. After what felt like an eternity, Troy looked away, wanting down,
"Nothing will ever let me forget how truly wrong this is," Troy's eyes widened as Chad nearly lost his balance backing away from the camera.
"Oh, come on, giving the security guards a glimpse up your nose couldn't be that bad!" Chad bent down, letting Troy off of his shoulders.
"I wasn't talking about the nose part," Troy replied. "It was getting on your back that got me. Guys don't typically give other guys piggy back rides!" He stretched. "It was wrong on so many levels!"
"Calm down," Zeke laughed, deciding against telling Troy of how many strange looks him and Chad had gotten from passing by people. "Now you know how it feels to be on the other end."
"Other end of what?" Troy asked, a puzzled look crossing his face.
"Of piggy back rides." Zeke began. "You're always pretending that you've lost your balance when Gabriella jumps on your back."
"But I'm in complete control of that," Troy answered, starting to walk off. "We probably should get out of here… If a guard was watching that camera, they could be down here in a minute. We don't want to lose, do we?"
"Nope." Ryan concluded, following him down the hall. Zeke and Chad took up the back.
"Now can I see the list?" Chad pressed, knowing that Zeke really had no choice. It was time for number twelve, and he would finally find out what it was. Zeke took the list out of his pocket, pointing the camera to Chad, who had cracked a successful smile.
"Finally!" Chad scanned down the list, his smile not lasting long. "Oh, crap…"
Cliffy! Tell me who you think will win in this story! There are around four or five more chapters left. I already know who will win overall… Cause I'm the author!
But I will tell you that there's a twist to who really won… It's going to be hilarious. Oh, and I'd like to mention that I don't have anything against Chad (for those of you who think I just love embarrassing him!). He's just the person that's most vocal about his thoughts, and is the cherry on top of the humor in this story. And number twelve will just briefly include Darbus. She's not part of the dare itself, FYI.
Also, I just got a new laptop, so I'm still working on data transfers. If you're reading my other two stories (Something Beautiful and Just a Click Away), please be patient with me with udpates. Most of the later chapters and ideas are still in my desktop.
Review now! ;)