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, Office Space, Mighty Aphrodite, Scent of a Woman, Shakespeare in Love, The Fabulous Baker Boys, or any of The Godfather movies.

Warnings: In this chapter there is some language, references to underaged drinking, and references to sexual content. It is also during their senior year, but HSM 3 doesn't apply. There are also some errors that I most likely missed. They might also be out of character.

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.

Gabriella walked through the lunchroom seeing Troy at a table with Chad, Jason, and Zeke hearing Troy's laugh almost across the cafeteria. She saw as all of them were drinking cans of soda, eating nachos having a good time. She walked closer the table Troy's eyes meeting with hers. As she walked toward the table she remembered last night while she was trying to watch The Big Lebowski. She had always wanted Troy's friends to accept her, now was her chance to try.

"There you are," Troy smiled as she sat next to him. "I've been looking for you since before lunch."

She closed her eyes as she felt his lips on hers, her body freezing as she could feel his friends' eyes on her as his arm moved to wrap around her. Every time she would come over to sit with Troy, she could see the looks of disproval in their eyes. Jason and Zeke seemed overall supportive of Gabriella sitting with them, but as she looked at Chad she saw the same amount of annoyance with her as she had seen last year. As Chad looked at her, she knew he thought she was taking Troy away from him, slowly pulling him into a world where he didn't belong. She was never going to see joy in his eyes as he looked at her.

"What are you guys laughing about?" Gabriella asked as she looked around the table.

"Nothing much," Jason smiled. "Just our amazing Saturday night."

She smiled as she looked at Troy. "I had an amazing Saturday night with the girls as well."

"No doubt watching Annie Hall," Chad scoffed shaking his head. "You girls have no taste in movies. What's so funny about Woody Allen anyway? I think he's overrated."

"And Jeff Bridges isn't?" Taylor asked as she appeared out of almost nowhere, Kelsi and Martha in tow. "I watched the Fabulous Baker Boys with you, it was a stupid movie."

"But Michelle Pfeiffer sure was hot," Jason laughed looking up at Taylor's face, her stare possessing the ability to stop his laughter almost in an instant. "Sorry…"

"Well I watched Mighty Aphrodite with you and that was also a stupid movie," Chad almost stood up out of his seat as he looked into Taylor's eyes, Troy sighing as he tried to focus on the nachos, trying to block them out.

"Mira Sorvino won an Oscar for that!" Taylor yelled.

"A lot of stuff won Oscars that don't deserve it," Zeke entered the conversation not knowing the risk. "Al Pacino won an Oscar for Scent of a Woman. All he did was open his eyes really wide and say hooah as many times a possible. That's not acting. I didn't even believe he was blind."

Troy continued to shove nachos in his mouth as he watched all of them start having a conversation about movies. He didn't want to get involved. He knew the second that he said something; Taylor was going to destroy him. So he only looked on as Gabriella, Martha, and Kelsi joined the fight.

"Al Pacino is a genius," Martha scoffed.

"Please!" Zeke scoffed. "There were a lot of other actors that year that could have represented that award better."

"Didn't you like The Godfather movies?" Martha asked.

"I fell asleep," Jason admitted.

"Fell asleep? During all three?" Martha asked. "How do you fall asleep to classic movies, Jason?"

"Maybe it's when they don't speak English!" Jason continued.

Troy felt like he was going to burst if he ate anymore nachos, the urge to vomit already rolling through his body as ran out of food to stuff in his mouth. He looked at all of the people sitting at the table; it was just like last night. Everyone would come together and all they would do was fight until the last minute. Chad had engaged Taylor in battle as Martha engaged Zeke and Jason, Kelsi and Gabriella were trying to stay out of it (smart girls.)

"You boys wouldn't know a good movie if it sat down and shared a beer with you," Taylor scoffed, staring directly into Chad's eyes.

"Why would a movie drink a beer?" Jason asked. "Movies don't have mouths…"

"Jason…" Troy breathed as if trying to keep him out of the fight.

"Well what do you think Troy?" Taylor asked as she looked at him. "Do you agree with them?"

"Think about what?" Troy asked as he saw all of the eyes on him. "Movies? Guys, we're fighting about movies we all have different taste in movies. If Jason can't stay awake during The Godfather, that's his own business. If Zeke hates Scent of a Woman, he's just expressing his opinion. And if Chad thinks Mighty Aphrodite is a stupid, who are we to judge him?"

"So you agree?" Chad asked.

"I refuse to get into this fight," Troy scoffed as he felt the urge to vomit continue to go through his body.

"You don't have any more food to stuff in your mouth," Chad noticed. "Tell Taylor that you think Annie Hall and Mighty Aphrodite are stupid movies."

Gabriella sat up to save Troy's life in this bloody war. "Why put movies down when we can talk about movies that we like? I mean come on guys, why can't we all just be friends and talk about friend things like how our weekends were, tests, gossip, and interests?"

"Because lunch is only fun if Taylor gets to make Danforth look like a dick!" Jason laughed as he took a sip of his soda.

Taylor sat down next to Chad and looked away from him. "Did you ever think that we want to go to one of your movies nights?"

"Why would you want to go?" Chad asked. "You don't want to watch The Big Lebowski."

"The Big Lebowski," Taylor scoffed. "I'm sorry, but why exactly do you guys like that movie so much?"

Jason laughed as he looked at the look on Troy's face seeing him finally want to get into the conversation. "Story time!"

Troy sat up as he looked at Taylor. "One day after a game, a huge victory for the Wildcats, the four of us decide to go over to Chad's house to celebrate. It was a big night full of beer and pizza…" he looked over at Chad seeing him smile. "But that wasn't enough, after an hour of eating pizza we realized we were in the mood for a movie. A funny movie, so we go through Chad's DVD collection and we see Office Space and a lot of other comedies, but that's when we found it…"

"The Big Lebowski," Jason smiled as he finished Troy's sentence.

"Chad and I used to watch The Big Lebowski all the time in middle school so we knew it was entertaining. It was the most fun we had all had together in our lives. So now every Saturday we get together and we watch the same movie," Troy smiled as he looked at the smile on Chad's face light up as he gazed at Taylor. "It's become a tradition

"Why don't you change it up?" Kelsi asked.

"We do," Chad answered abruptly as he looked at Kelsi. "We have a rotation where we go to all of our houses. We start at mine, then Jason's, then Troy's, then Zeke's. That's switching it up."

Taylor shook her head. "That sounds really stupid."

"Tell that to the basketball team. It's become a rite of passage, you can't put on the Wildcat basketball uniform without watching it and liking it," Chad smiled as he looked into Taylor's eyes, Troy freezing in place. "You could never be on the team with that attitude."

That moment, Troy wished that he had left the lunchroom, he wished that he had given into Sharpay and gone over and sat with her. As he looked at the looks that Taylor and Chad were exchanging he knew nothing good was going to come of this conversation. He took a sip of his soda as he debated whether to leave or not, the rest of the lunchroom fading into the darkness as the bloodlust between Chad and Taylor only grew thicker. He slowly started to move away from the table, only to feel Jason grasp his arm tightly keeping him in place, shaking his head as if trying to say "you don't want to do that, man." Troy looked at the two of them, their staring contest not ending, a feeling of unease surrounding the table.

"I wouldn't want to be on your team, watching the same movie over and over again doesn't really appeal to me," Taylor scoffed as she looked into Chad's eyes, Troy fighting from Jason's inescapable grasp on his wrist. "I mean I guess if you put all of you together you get an average intelligence, so I shouldn't blame you for being this stupid."

Troy pulled harsher away from Jason's hand trying to leave. "I just remembered I have to see coach about something."

"He's your dad, you can tell the coach later," Jason whispered through clenched teeth. "You don't want to walk away from this. We can't leave Danforth alone. She'll eat him alive."

Chad had a malicious grin on his face. "You wouldn't even be able to sit through that movie without hating it."

"How about we make a little wager on that," Taylor's grin matched Chad's. "If you watch a movie of my choice and I'll watch your movie."

"Alright, but if you don't like it you'll have to do whatever I want," he smiled wickedly.

"Oooooh," Zeke and Jason said simultaneously as they looked at Taylor, Troy shaking his head, he knew what Chad was talking about.

"Not cool, man," Troy scoffed.

Taylor smiled back as she watched the boys' reactions. "And if you don't like my movie you have to do what I want."

"Oooooh," Martha and Kelsi mocked Jason and Zeke, as Gabriella just giggled.

"Not cool," Troy repeated.

"And I want you to watch Shakespeare in Love," Taylor smiled. "Your ass is mine, Danforth."

Chad chuckled. "No, your ass is mine, McKessie."

Troy shook his head as he looked at the two of them. "Guys…"

"Stay out of this, Bolton! This is between Taylor and me," Chad interrupted, not taking his eyes off of Taylor. "I guess I have Sunday to look forward to. After all I did manage to get through Annie Hall. I can pretend that this movie is actually good."

Troy closed his eyes as he thought about the situation, looking at Gabriella, the two of them exchanging worried looks. He could see the fear in her eyes as clear as she could see his. Both of them knew that this was going to end poorly for their friends, but Chad and Taylor were too headstrong to listen to them. Troy groaned as he looked at Chad who had a broad smile on his face, this was going to be hell. He looked at the clock and saw that lunch was almost over; there was still time to talk him out of it.

As the bell rang all of them stood up, Jason and Zeke taking the trash away as the girls started to walk to the door, Martha and Kelsi gossiping with Taylor as Gabriella looked back at Troy with a sorrowful look, it was up to them to save their friends. It was always like this. Knowing that, Troy moved to Chad's side asking him a question he wanted to ask him all period.

"Are you nuts? You just propositioned your girlfriend!" Troy yelled as people filtered out of the room. "She's going to castrate you if you ask her for that!"

Chad shook his head. "Relax, you know that we're both going to like the movies we watch," he looked into Troy's eyes. "You're into theater, right? Is Shakespeare that bad?"

"For the love of God, we read him freshman year, Chad!" Troy explained.

"You read it, I didn't read shit!" Chad shook his head. "I was so concerned on things that actually matter, I forgot about shit that doesn't. Shakespeare is in this movie, right?"

"It's called Shakespeare in Love," that answer wasn't good enough for Chad as he kept eye contact with Troy. "That means yes. Alright, we'll just have to look up a summary of the movie online and then see if it seems interesting, if not, I guess you're going to have to be Taylor's slave."

They kept walking as they moved through the door on the way to Troy's locker. But Chad kept talking. Troy knew the idea was going to burst in his face, he knew that he was going to lose this bet. Chad was screwed over, and Troy was the only one who was going to save him. As he stood in front of his locker, he looked over at Chad.

"You can come over to my house tonight and we can discuss our plan of action," he moved to open his locker shuffling through books to find the ones that he needed. "You know you can't do this alone."

"I always said you were the brains of this outfit," Chad smiled.

"I thought I was the good looks," Troy smiled as he closed his locker. "You're just the one who can't keep his mouth shut. Now if you want to do whatever disgusting thing you're trying to do…"

"Sex isn't disgusting. It's beautiful."

"Not when you decide to do it because your girlfriend can't stand Jeff Bridges. If Gabriella made me have sex with her just because of some twisted game I wouldn't know what to do," Troy shook his head as he kept his eyes forward. "I'm going to help you not get publicly humiliated; I'm not helping you get laid. I don't intend on ever helping in that department."

"Not directly anyway," Chad breathed as leaned up against the lockers, looking at Troy seeing him shake his head as he looked at him. "I really appreciate everything that you do for me, Troy. You know that right?"

"Not really," Troy answered as he started to walk away, not looking at Chad.

"Come on! You know I care for you."

"I would hate to see how you treat people you don't care about," Troy scoffed as he walked down the hall. "I better like this movie or I'm going to kill you. The last thing I want to do is spend the weekend watching a crappy movie just because you want to get laid."

Chad walked by his side, Troy looking at his shoes. No matter how many times he tried to talk Chad out of these situations he never could. Ever since childhood, Troy was the one who never took risks, thinking of how his father would destroy him if he found out about any wrong choices he made. Chad didn't have that fear; his father could destroy him all he wanted, that didn't stop Chad. Chad Danforth wanted to remember his youth the way it should be remembered with all of the beer, girls, and fun he could partake in. He was always a step ahead of Troy, but Troy was always there to pull him back when he was going to fast. Right now Chad was running too far and Troy was out of breath, panting on the sideline.

He took a deep breath as he thought about the weekend; it was something that he was going to dread, every time he looked at a clock he would think of the weekend that he had ahead of him. His life was starting to really suck.

"You'll love the movie, after all you're into all that homosexual theater shit," Chad smiled.

"Don't call it that, you've never tried it. And if I'm so unbelievably gay then how come I'm having better luck with my girlfriend?" Troy laughed.

"Because you have the better face," Chad laughed as he looked at his feet. "Tonight's going to be fun right?"

"I guess," Troy shrugged. This wasn't going to be fun.

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"Gabriella!" Jason called out as he ran after Gabriella who was on her way to class. "Gabriella, wait!"

She turned with a look of surprise on her face. "Jason? What are you doing here?"

He took a deep breath as he looked into her eyes, a smile rolling across her face as he tried to speak to her. "I have no idea what Shakespeare in Love is about. I was hoping you could help me cheat so that I don't look like a complete idiot in front of the guys."

Gabriella smiled as she started walking down the hall, Jason walking beside her. Eyes fell upon them as they walked down the hall, all of the whispering to each other as they thought of the worst. Gabriella Montez, the girlfriend of the most popular boy in school was walking down the hall with one of his closest friends. They were all whispering wondering if she was flirting with him. She ignored them and kept walking.

"You guys are actually taking this seriously?" Gabriella asked.

"Zeke and I are," Jason smiled. "Chad and Taylor are nothing but dangers to themselves; they're going to hurt each other. And Troy is too busy trying to talk Chad out of it," he shook his head. "If we enjoy it, Chad will follow suit, he'll like it too. We can control this bet in our favor, Gabriella."

"You can't guarantee he'll like it."

"Chad Danforth likes whatever his friends like. If Troy, Zeke, and I enjoy it, he will too. He hates being the odd man out," Jason explained. "You have to help me Gabriella; you're the only one who will. Kelsi and Martha no doubt want to watch us crash and burn and I don't know any other girls who are as understanding as you. I thought that if you help me enjoy Shakespeare in Love, I can help you guys enjoy The Big Lebowski. I don't even want to know what sick shit Danforth is going to try on Taylor."

"Why are you being so nice to us?" Gabriella asked. "Taylor says that all you are the same and if Chad is thinking that, then you…"

"I'm not like Chad. Not to mention, she's Chad's girl and you're Troy's girl, I could never hurt my friends like that," Jason explained as he kept walking by her side. "So do we have deal?"

Gabriella closed her eyes as she looked away from Jason. Jason Cross never seemed like the type who would come up to talk to her, it was highly suspect. Yet as he remembered the tone in his voice, she knew that he wasn't trying to hurt her, he was trying to save Taylor from whatever Chad had planned. She looked into her eyes as she suddenly felt that the scales were going to tip in their favor.

"Alright, but don't screw me over," Gabriella smiled.

"As long as you don't screw me over," Jason smiled back. "I'll meet up with you later this week, alright. Is Wednesday after school okay?"

"Yeah," she smiled as she made the deal with Jason, watching him walk away. She couldn't tell Troy.

AN: The ending is going to bring up a lot of concern for the next couple of chapters as Jason and Gabriella go out together (which is featured in the next chapter.) The next chapter will also feature Troy and Chad trying to find a way to win at the game that Taylor set them up for. Something shocking is going to happen next chapter.

Tell me what you think in a review.

Also, I'm sorry if some of my views on these movies offend people, they are not all my opinion, some of them are opinions of people close to me (I was inspired a lot by my family for some of the views on movies such as Scent of a Woman) but I have ot admit: I can't stay awake during The Godfather!