Here's the last and final chapter of 'Losing a bet can be fun'! This chapter may be a bit too long… But we've reached the end of this little journey through Tala's torture! Thank you to all you lovely people who reviewed and/or faved my story! I love you! (blows kisses and throws confetti)
Disclaimer- I do not own Beyblade. Any characters that you don't recognize belong to me though. I also don't own any songs I have used in this fic.
Warning- some language, Kai bashing, shounen-ai (Male x Male)... And Tala's getting auctioned!
Losing a bet can be fun
Chapter-4
Tala stood there on the bar, totally frozen, totally numb to the loud whistles and hoots in the air. He looked more disbelieving than shocked, seemingly suffering a total loss of control over his facial muscles. His brain was desperately trying to scramble together some thoughts to make sense of what was happening, and when he tried to talk, his voice came out a quiet squeak.
He was supposed to get kissed by a guy (he had plans to seek out the nicest guy he could find) and go home and murder Kai, so why was he standing on the bar, getting auctioned?
Oh yeah, that was because he was a complete idiot who couldn't keep his freaking mouth shut and had the worst luck on the planet which was why he was getting auct- Hey!
A thought smashed into his head like a blow from a sledge hammer. He could find Bryan and borrow some money from him! He would have to endure his verbal torture but that was a minor consequence when compared to this. It would work!
Feeling very pleased with himself, he recovered the use of his expressions and voice and turned to the still grinning female beside him who was waving to the crowd. "Hey? I can get you the money right now. I saw a friend of mine here. Let me go talk to him. Please?"
"Too late!" She laughed, a beautiful tinkling sound that was saturated with insane mirth and evil satisfaction, like the mad witch who had just hatched the most heinous plan.
"Huh?" Tala looked at her through narrowed eyes, to (try to) intimidate her and also to check if she was frothing at the mouth (like a rabid creature).
"You should have done that when you had the chance. All you can do now is hope that this friend of yours has enough money to buy you out tonight." She grinned, looking really hyper.
Danielle was so right. Azaria was a total bitch. No, actually she was a sadistic psychopath. "But-"
He was cut off when a middle aged guy shouted "15 dollars!"
Azaria almost exploded in glee. "YES! We have 15 dollars here! 15 do-"
"TWENTY FIVE BUCKS! Over here!"
"35 DOLLARS!"
"FIFTY!"
"Fifty dollars!" Azaria repeated.
"SHOW US WHAT WE'RE BUYING!" Came a very drunk sounding voice from somewhere in the back, making the crowd go crazy.
"YEAH!"
"WE WANT A DEMO!"
"Are you KIDDING ME!" Tala screeched uncharacteristically, feeling harassed and sick to his stomach.
"TAKE IT OFF!"
"DON'T BE SHY!"
"Now, now, gentlemen, this is a bar, not a strip club! We'll have to make do with imagination now. If you want to see that badly, why don't you buy her?"
"SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS!"
That was when a guy tried to reach over and yank his skirt. Tala flipped. "WATCH IT OR I'LL SHOVE A LAMP POST UP YOUR ASS, YOU SICKO!"
"THAT'S OUR CHERRY!" Azaria supplemented, slinging her arm around Tala's neck, pulling him closer. "AIN'T SHE FIESTY? Who's gonna have the pleasure of taking this sexy vixen home tonight?!"
"Hey SEXY, you want any more of our money? WORK FOR IT!"
This was followed by a collective roar of "YEEEEAAAHH!"
"It would be awesome if we could see a little naughtiness…" One of the bartenders piped up behind him, the one who had winked at Aurora a while ago. "Just pose a little, show off your assets, if you don't they'll lose interest and the bidding will stop."
Azaria nodded her agreement, chewing her lip as she contemplated the dying enthusiasm.
"Huh?" Tala looked totally lost.
She tried to help him out. "You know, wave or pout or blow kisses or bend over or something. Pose sexy."
"Huh?"
"Good god!" She spat, exasperated. "Don't you even know how to do that? Are you even a woman?" She facepalmed and turned to the mob, surveying the people's expressions.
"You have no idea…" Tala muttered to himself.
"What did you say?" she glared.
"Ah, nothing!"
She turned back. "Have you seen a fashion show at least? The beachwear collection showcase?"
"Yeah?"
She silently thanked someone. "You know how they pose and preen and basically make guys go hard?"
Tala swallowed. Uh-oh… "Um… yeah?"
"Do something like that." She ordered. "And make it snappy. They're waiting."
It wasn't that Tala didn't know how to be sexy. God knows he was gorgeous and naturally sexy and charming and could seduce anyone he wanted to. It was the fact that he had to do it in a skirt. And the fact that these people looked ready to riot at the slightest provocation.
"You can start by trying to smile wider." The bartender felt sorry for Tala and decided to help out.
Tala silently thanked him and turned to the restless crowd. He gathered his guts around him like a fortress, his cannon was going to be his sex appeal and his cannon balls were his looks and charm. He smiled timidly at the crowd.
"EIGHTY DOLLARS!"
He was in the game.
Feeling bolder, he smirked and pulled the neck of his vest lower, winking at a random blond guy who looked a lot like Spencer.
The blond guy's jaw dropped as his eyes widened as people around him shot him envious glares. "Ninety dollars!"
Azaria grinned in approval.
Smirking wider, Tala turned around, hands on his hips, and looked over his shoulder, one eyebrow slightly raised in a challenge. Giving them a thousand dollar view of his gorgeous derriere.
"ONE HUNDRED!"
"ONE TWENTY!"
Azaria was grinning so hard that Tala was sure her cheeks ached. "We have one hundred and twenty dollars! Do I hear a one thirty dollar bid?"
"One hundred and thirty!" The Spencer look alike offered.
Tala ran a hand though his hair and blew the mob a kiss with the other, still holding the pose. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the bartender look impressed.
"One hundred and forty!"
"ONE SEVENTY!"
"TWO HUNDRED!"
Azaria turned to look at him, clearly proud. "only 500 dollars to go." She smiled at him nicely for the first time.
"Huh? But I thought I have to give you 1100 bucks!" Tala looked confused.
"I've decided I like you. And besides, you're gonna be sleeping with the guy who buys you, God knows who that's gonna be. So I guess it totals up to two thousand." She shrugged.
Tala didn't know if he had to be happy or scared. Why did she have to remind him about that fact right now when he was just beginning to have fun?
"Two hundred and ten!"
Tala snapped back to the present.
Azaria supplied "We have 210 dollars! Do I hear more?"
You spin my head right round, right round,
When you go down, when you go down, down!
"Heyyy… that's one of my favourite songs!"
"Whoooooo! Let's dance! Marko!" Azaria signaled to one of the bouncers.
A pole rose out of the bar, sleek and shiny and silvery.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Tala looked between Azaria and his 'prop' disbelievingly.
The bitch just wiggled her eyebrows.
Oh well. Tala sighed in surrender and started tapping his feet, letting the rhythm wash over him. The slumbering (party) animal was awakening… Skirt and Guccis be damned.
I know the storm is coming
My pockets keep telling me it's gonna shower
Bobbing his head in time to the beat, he began swaying, raising his arms above his head, looking goddamned sexy.
Everyone screamed and cat called and whistled.
"Don't forget the prop!" Azaria laughed, she was dancing too.
"Of course", he smirked "wouldn't dare to!"
He had never touched a pole before. But he'd seen a lot, and he was a fast and efficient learner.
From the top of the pole I watch her go down
She's got me throwing my money around
Ain't nothing more beautiful to be found
Is going down down
People stopped dancing or drinking or whatever they were doing and stared. Slack jawed and all. Women with growing envy, men with growing… ahem.
Yeah, I'm spending my money,
I'm outta control,
Some body help me, she's takin' my bank whole
Tala slid to the bottom on his haunches, opening and closing his legs, he winked and slid back up again.
"TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY!"
"Two seventy over here!"
Hey baby girl, watcha doin tonight
I wanna see what you've got in store
Hey, hey Baby
Hooking a leg around the pole, he ground against it, placing a hand on his ass and grinning rakishly at the audience.
"THREE HUNDRED!"
Ooh Baby bay-beh…
The crowd started dancing again.
He ran a hand through his hair and fell backwards, handing onto the pole using the other. Gliding like a pro, he moved to stand next to Azaria again, who was looking at him with shock etched on her face.
"What?" He asked her, waving to the crowd.
"Oh? Nothing…" she looked away, hiding a blush. Turing, he saw the bartender staring like his eyes were gonna pop out.
"What? This is what you wanted right? Why're you looking like that?" he continued, still posing and preening and smiling to the star struck audience.
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On the dance floor, Aurora was dancing and staring with an unbelieving expression on her face, Danielle was on the verge of having a nose bleed, and Kanezia was appalled.
"What the hell does he think he's doing?" She screeched but was almost drowned out thanks to Pitbull.
"Winning money to save himself from Queen Bitch! Why?" Danielle yelled back in order to be heard.
"Doesn't he realize? He's being AUCTIONED! For the NIGHT! What do you think is going to happen when some guy actually BUYS him!"
Aurora stopped in the middle of raking a hand through her hair. "Oh. Ohhhh. That's bad…"
"That's not bad Rorie, that's disastrous!"
"True, but what are we supposed to do?" Danielle pinched the bridge of her nose in irritation.
"Hey, why don't we find Tala's friend, that hot guy with the smirk?" Danielle supplemented.
"Who, you mean Bryan? I don't think that's-"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT IDIOT DOING?" came a horrified exclamation from behind Danielle.
"Bryan?" Kanezia and Danielle turned to find Bryan gaping open mouthed-ly at the red head with a look of shock, disbelief and outright horror.
"Who's this?" the blonde asked, not having seen Bryan before.
"Uh, this is Bryan, Tala's friend." Kanezia informed her.
"Can someone please tell me why Tala is standing on the bar, getting auctioned?" Bryan asked, still gaping. AND WHY THE HELL IS HE POLE DANCING?!
"Uh…" And the whole story came out.
"No way… I knew he was a total idiot but I didn't think he'd be this stupid!" Bryan ran a hand through his hair in exasperation, trying to digest the unbelievably awkward situation his ex-captain had trapped himself in. And the idiot looked like he was actually having fun, while others worried. Really, how stupid could a person get? If he weren't around to watch out for him, Tala would've gotten into serious messes multiple times. Did the brainless nutcase even remember he was actually being auctioned? Bryan was sure the answer was no.
Tala could be pea-brained like that sometimes. Stupid sexy bastard.
"So what are we going to do?" Daniele voiced the question that was on all their minds.
"How much money do you have?" Kanezia looked at him. Him. He was half broke most of the time.
"Hm… I don't know, let me see…" he replied absently while rummaging in his pockets. He pulled out his wallet which had… two hundred dollars.
"That's not enough!"
"Oh hey wait… wait a sec…" he turned and vanished.
"Huh?"
"Where'd he go?"
"YES!" Bryan returned just as quickly as he'd vanished, holding up a classy looking leather wallet above his head triumphantly.
"Don't tell me you picked some guy's pocket, Bryan…" Danielle didn't look upset at all, despite her words.
"Nah, this is Kai's wallet, I flicked it from him in case of an emergency! It's sure to be loaded all the time." He winked.
Somewhere, unbeknownst to Bryan, Kai was screaming profanities at him, promising him a painful and gory death and a lot of other unsavoury things until he finally ran out of breath and threw a bottle of beer at the wall, still fuming.
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Suddenly Tala was hit with the realization that while he was dancing on the bar, enjoying the feel of everyone's eyes on him, that he was being auctioned. AUCTIONED. For the NIGHT. To be bought by a MAN thinking HE was a GIRL.
GIRL, meaning FEMALE. Which he was not. A 100% not.
He was so screwed.
His movements became tense and fidgety after that, and Azaria noticed.
"What's wrong?"
"Uhh… nothing…"
In the background, the bidding was still on. "four hundred!"
No one else called out after that. Everyone became still.
"I guess that's it, then…" Azaria muttered, then sucked in a big breath. "Ok, folks! Four hundred, going once!
Silence.
Tala felt his sweat freeze. The beefy guy with the crew cut who had called four hundred was smirking smugly.
"Four hundred, going twice!"
You could've heard a pin drop.
"Four-"
"TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!"
"Aaand SOLD to the gentleman with the lilac hair who's bidding two thousand dollars! Congratulations!"
There was pandemonium in the club as people began to discuss among themselves. Two thousand? For one night? No way!
Tala didn't find the time to watch the expression on the beefy guy's face fall. He got off the bar, crumpled to the floor, buried his head between his knees, and promptly had a panic attack.
"Hey, hey, Tal, you OK?" he heard Bryan's worried voice from above him, and Tala nearly screamed. Not now! Oh god, please not now!
"Here, have some water…" the bartender supplied from beside Bryan, also looking worried.
"-"
"Shhh Tala, it's ok, we're the ones that bought you." Aurora's voice crooned softly, petting his head softly as if he was a skittish animal.
"OhmigodOhmygodohmy- huh?" Tala finally looked up, and blinked. "You mean…"
"Yes, you're not gonna go home with some random prick because you were too dumb to take care of yourself and yes, you're lucky that you have friends like us." Bryan smirked.
"Bastard." Tala smiled.
"Yaay! Everyone's all happy now so can you please get the hell out from behind my bar? Thank you!" Azazia rolled her eyes and walked off to the office area of the club.
"Geez, what crawled up her ass and died?" Bryan shot a quizzical look at the retreating girl.
"Don't know, don't care." Danielle shrugged.
"We're better off not knowing, I guess." The bartender smiled slightly.
They all laughed.
"So I guess you can take care of yourself now Tala? You won't get yourself auctioned again? At least not to men while you're in girls clothes?" Kanezia teased him, poking him lightly on his shoulder.
"Ah haha, I'll try not to." He grinned sheepishly.
The girls grinned back at him.
"Thanks, we had a great time!"
"Yeah! Haven't had this much fun in ages!"
"And you're a great pole dancer! I'm sure you'd be pretty popular if you decided to join a strip club!" Danielle grinned.
"Bye guys! Wait, what did you say?" Tala sputtered as the girls waved goodbye and left. Bryan on the other hand was standing beside him as he not so subtly laughed into his hand. "What?!" He demanded.
"Nothing." Bryan tried to stifle his laughter and failed fantastically, only serving to aggravate the chuckles into brazen guffaws.
"What?" Tala blew a raspberry.
"You're extremely funny, you know that Tala?"
"Piss off." The red head pouted, looking away with a flustered smattering of pink on his cheeks.
"Aww, you're so adowwable!" Bryan laughed and tried to pinch Tala's cheeks as the redhead batted his hands away.
"Ew! Go away Bryan!... Oh shit!" Tala smacked his forehead.
"Now what?"
"The bet! I totally forgot about the bet! I need to finish it! My pride depends on it!"
"Uh Tala, wasn't your pride already shot down and ripped apart when you got auctioned a little while ago?" Bryan raised a lilac eyebrow at him.
"Grr… What Kai doesn't know won't hurt him. Actually, I hope it does. Hurt him, I mean. That sadistic bastard! He deserves to be shot and stabbed and poisoned and strangled and disemboweled and hanged and decapitated and guillotined and maimed and shot and-"
"Tala, you're ranting, and isn't decapitating and guillotining basically the same thing, death by cutting off the head? Oh, and you repeated the shooting thing."
"Oh will you shut up!"
"No." Bryan laughed.
"Aaaaaargh!" the red head fumed and balled his fists in the air, pretending that it was Bryan's collar.
"Kiss me."
"WHAT?" Tala exclaimed, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
"What? It's just a kiss. And you'll be able to finish the bet."
"And what do you get out of this?" Tala raised a single eyebrow and squinted at him suspiciously.
"What, you think I'm a selfish opportunist? Even I can be kind, you know. Sometimes."
"You, kind? Ha ha ha ha HA! That has to be the biggest joke in the history of forever!"
"History of forever? Seriously, Tala? What are you, a ten year old?"
"Why? What's wrong with using 'the history of forever'? And besides, it's true! You are the most arrogant, most selfish, most aggravating person I have ever met! Why should I believe you when you tell me that you want to help me out without any ulterior motives? You've never given me reason to believe otherwise!"
"Ouch, Tal. That hurt." Bryan placed a hand over his heart and sighed. "Ah shit. You've broken my itty bitty heart. It was the only one I had, too…" he said softly, looking wounded.
"You annoying bastard!" Tala yelled, a blush burning furiously on his face. "What do you want me to do?"
"Nothing. Just forget whatever I said. What's that they say, once a thief always a thief? Some shit like that right? Well, whatever it is, I guess that's the truth. People don't believe you anymore even if you're telling the truth." Bryan sniffed, albeit a bit theatrically.
"Ch! What the hell do you want me to do? You want me to accept your help? Fine!" And Tala grabbed Bryan's collar and kissed him.
It was exactly what Bryan had been waiting for. He seized Tala and crushed him to his body and kissed him with everything he had, God knows how many years of yearning and unrequited feelings. It blew Tala's mind as he felt like he was being burned alive from within.
"Wh- what on earth?" a very dazed Tala stuttered as he leaned heavily into Bryan's arms, clutching his collar like it was his lifeline. He thought the whole 'going weak kneed' thing was myth. Turns out it was not.
"Heh. Let's just say it was something I've been wanting to do for a long time." He smirked.
"What? But you said you had no hidden motives behind this!" Tala snapped incredulously.
"I lied." Bryan murmured into his ear. And then he kissed him again.
And this time Tala kissed him back just as hard.
"Oh wow." The red head panted as they broke apart for air.
"We need to learn how to breathe while we kiss." Bryan frowned.
"Well, as they say, practice makes perfect!"
"Indeed they do, captain!"
Do I need to tell you what they did? Yes. You guessed correct. They kissed. Again.
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"Geesh, don't they know anything about the rules of PDA?" Ian scrunched his nose as he looked at his ex-team mates necking on the security monitor.
"I'm never ever going to forgive Bryan for taking my wallet. The nerve! Buying Tala with my money! AAAARGH!" Kai curled his fingers into a fist before taking a deep breath. "Hm… at least Tala lived up to the bet."
"Does kissing Bryan count as satisfying the bet?"
"Why? Bryan is a guy isn't he?"
"I hope so… I really don't want to find out."
"Ch. So hand over the money."
"What money?"
"Don't mess with me. I bet that Bryan would finally admit his feelings to Tala today. We set up the whole thing, the lost bet, the bar, the broken vase, the auction. I won. You lost. Now hand over the money you owe me." Kai smirked as he held out his hand.
Ian grumbled and cursed his damned luck as he dug out ten dollars from his pocket and placed them in Kai's waiting hand.
"Can't believe I went through the trouble of setting this shit up for a measly ten bucks." Kai sighed.
"Just goes to show obsessive you can be with winning, I guess." Ian shrugged.
"True, true…hey, I'm going to get some ice cream. You wanna come?"
Ian nodded and followed Kai out of the office, and they both turned to sneak one last look at the security monitors.
Yup, those two idiots were still kissing, and they didn't look like they were going to stop any time soon.
They sighed in exasperation and brightened up at the prospect of delicious vanilla and coffee ice cream topped with caramel and chocolate syrup and sprinkled with almonds, pistachios, cashew nuts and raisins.
Ah, sweet joy…
!*!*!*!*! Fini !*!*!*!*!
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