"Aki, is it just me, or is Kyoya quite peeved right now?" Petra asked, leaving her usual host to talk to her friend.
"Petra-chan!" She turned and gave a bow to Aki's friends.
"Oh, hello, Haninozuka-Senpai, and Morinozuka-Senpai!" She said warmly, Mori giving a small nod back.
"Now, I think he's angry because I pretty much told him he was inadequate when we were in that dark closet." She explained, Hunny and Mori both giving her concerned looks. "We got stuck. Not just us, though, that'd be weird. Petra and Tamaki were there too!" She said, waving her hands to reassure them.
"Hm." Mori replied, and Hunny giving an excited nod.
"Why were you in the closet, Aki-chan?" The bubbling blond asked.
"Tamaki insisted that we go and steal the extra generator to power up the host club during that black out yesterday."
At this, Haruhi walked casually by, but stopped at hearing what she heard. "Senpai tried to steal a generator?"
Tamaki was immediately, up, a hand on Haruhi's head. "No, it sounds awful when you put it like that!" He shouted. "I'd say it's more like... doing good for the hottest club in Ouran!"
Haruhi gave a small sigh to this. "You are one of the biggest idiots I've ever met." She said, shrugging him off.
"Yes, Tamaki go quite a yelling down in the headmaster's office." Kyoya interjected, joining the others.
The club had finally ended, and Petra was sticking back with Aki as per ushe.
"Which I thought was COMPLETELY uncalled for!" Tamaki countered, placing an arm around Petra. "Now, Petra, don't you agree that it was all in good intentions?" He looked down at her, and she fumbled with her fingers.
"Well, I mean, maybe we should have asked..." She said. "But luckily, Ouran isn't big on punishment. Or else we would've had to deal with detention." She explained.
"Of course you'd be so scared of detention, Petra. You cry whenever you have to deal with consequences like detention." Aki interrupted.
"I-I DON'T CRY!" She shot back, balling her hands into fists.
"Remember when we were at the bookstore, and you ran into the encyclopedia section?"
"Stop!" She pleaded, but Aki shook her head.
"So, we were at this bookstore, and I don't know how she does it, but she knocks the WHOLE shelf over." She was chuckling at the thought. "The manager started to walk over to help us clean it, but Petra started bawling, thinking he was going to arrest us for vandalism." Aki was now hysterically laughing, and a few other laughs were given by the others. "She's a wimp, that's all."
"I'M NOT A WIMP!" She said, stamping her foot. "I can be just as evil as you, Boss!" She said.
Aki stood to her feet. "I want you all to hear this. This is going to be a serious bet, you hear me?" The rest of the host club nodded, and Aki gave Petra a smirk. "You have to do something worth consequence."
"Sounds easy enough." Petra said, giving a small smirk. "And what do you get if I lose?"
"When you lose, you..." She thought for a moment, and then, stepped forward, grabbing Tamaki on the shoulder. "You have to kiss Tamaki when you lose." She flushed a bright red, and Tamaki looked very shocked for a moment.
"I don't see how I'm the losing prize!" He whined.
"You're the losing consolation. How does that sound?" Tamaki only sighed, and Petra snapped out of her daze.
"T-Than if I win, you have to kiss one of hosts too!" She shouted, Aki giving a big scowl.
"Which one?" Tamaki asked her. She thought for a second, and looked through the seven of the boys. Well, the six boys and Haruhi.
"Morinozuka-Senpai." She pointed to him, and his eyebrows only slightly raised.
Aki turned bright red. "YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE ME KISS SOMEONE IF I LOSE A BET!" She yelled.
"Excuse me..." Tamaki added, Aki putting a hand in his face.
"THIS DOESN'T CONCERN YOU!"
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"I can't do this." Petra squealed, standing quite shakily, her knees like jello.
"Yeah, Aki-Senpai, this is something that's extremely worth consequences." The twins piped up.
"Come on! Do you really think Kyoya's going to be that angry that Petra deletes a file on his laptop?"
"YES." Tamaki said, obviously knowing from experience. "What you never want to do is make Kyoya angry." It was Tamaki, so of course this was said from experience.
"I'm doing it." The club members, excluding Kyoya, looked at Petra, shocked from the outburst.
"Petra, you know, the consequences might be greater than you think..." Haruhi tried, attempting to herd everyone back, but Petra was defiant.
"No, I have to do this." She sat in the chair that the shadow king usually inhabited, taking in a sharp breath, moving the cursor around the screen, double clicking on 'documents'.
"Petra, you don't have to do this." Tamaki pleaded. "I mean, kissing the host club king could boost your popularity! It would skyrocket!" He tried, but nothing worked. the red-faced Petra clicked through files.
"Investments... customer profiles... preferences..." Her eyes widened as she clicked on 'Personal Documents'. "Okay... let's do this." She mentally prepped herself, clicking on the first file, 'English Paper, June 11th'. "Oh thank goodness... He has past files."
"Petra, you can do this!" Aki cheered on her assistant as Petra's cursor glided around the 'delete' button, taking deep breaths.
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"Miss Hayley, may I ask what you're doing with my laptop?" Petra froze, and sent pleading looks to those around her, quickly opening the nearest tab. The hosts had gone to cower across the room, and Petra stood, stumbling over every word he spoke.
"I-I was, uh... I w-was..." She looked at the new tab she'd opened, and grew more confident, yet nervous at the same time. "I saw that you were playing... Minesweeper!" He looked down at his computer, than back to the blonde girl, who was scratching the back of her neck in fright.
He gave a small smile. "Yes, doing all of the background work for the host club can be quite tiring." He said, taking his rightful place in front of his computer. Petra sighed.
"Yes, well, I suggest you click the one on the... far right." She giggled nervously. "Well, I should be going now-" She was interrupted by the sound of a computer clicking closed.
"Yes. And next time, Petra, please refrain from deleting the files from my computer. Be lucky I caught you this time, because if you did delete those files, I would have had to go to all the trouble to hire private investigators only to discover that you did it. And who would want to waste money like that?" His smile was sickening to Petra, and she shook in fright.
"O-Okay, um... Yes. I guess you." She answered, causing him to nod.
"Exactly, and of course, you have yet to see me in my real 'angry' state. And I suggest we not bring that into the game. Now, run along." He shooed Petra away, who gave a brief bow before sprinting back to the others, crying tremendously.
"H-HE'S G-GOING TO KILL M-ME." She hissed, Aki giving the girl a brief hug, before pulling away.
"Yes, yes, little duckling, I understand how scary it must be to deal with the devil in disguise, but to let you know, you didn't succeed in your quest." Aki said, giving a sharp smile.
Petra's tears were gone, and her face was in utter horror. "No way! I didn't just get threatened for NOTHING." She countered, Aki giving her a small 'tsk tsk tsk'.
"But you did. You failed to delete the file."
Haruhi stepped in, pushing the two girls apart. "Actually, she did get consequences for getting into Kyoya-Senpai's computer."
"God dammit." Aki mumbled, holding her hand out to Petra. "Then I guess this is a tie."
"I guess it is." Petra grinned, giving Aki the handshake. Tamaki hugged the two around the necks.
"Now that these two have settled things, I have a question!" He gushed, causing Aki to roll her eyes. "Aki, do you have anything planned tomorrow?"
"Um, not really, no." Aki admitted, giving a shrug of her shoulders. "Why?"
"Well, Petra, doesn't Mikasa Klein have a performance at my father's banquet tomorrow?" Petra shot a look to the forgetful Aki.
"Yes, she does..." Aki's eyes grew wide. Oh no.
"Well then, since Aki isn't busy, we'd like to invite him to come to the banquet, you know, considering he hasn't seen her play yet!"
Petra and Aki looked at each other, fear stricken.
Oh no.