Chapter Five
Sami watched triumphantly as Brandon was auctioned off to Bonnie Lockhart for a pathetic thirty dollars. The other two men before him had gotten at least fifty dollars but then again, Bonnie had started a rumour that Brandon was an abusive nymphomaniac that only she could handle. Two other women had half-heartedly bid on Brandon, probably more out of pity than anything else. Brandon yanked off the number three sign that had been hanging around his neck and threw it in a trash can. He looked over at Sami in confusion. He had been positive she was going to bid on him. Had he gotten less irresistible since the last time she had seen him?
Sami gripped Nicole's arm excitedly, "After the next two guys, Lucas is going to be up." Sami looked over at Lucas through lowered lashes, noticing that he looked even more gorgeous than usual in the dark suit. She had bought a new dress for the night, a dark red dress with a low-cut neckline. Nicole stood beside her in a strapless hot pink dress, looking past Lucas at the flaxen haired man behind him.
"After Lucas, Brady is up." Nicole added, her eyes shimmering with anticipation.
"I thought you said you weren't allowed to bid on Brady." Sami reminded her friend, who smirked at Victor, who was standing in the back of the large room, near John and Kate.
"I'm not." Nicole sneered at her husband, who was too engrossed in conversation with Kate and John to notice, "But did you really think that was going to stop me?"
"Then how are you going to-" Sami was cut off by a group of girls standing a few feet away from herself and Nicole.
"I can't believe you're going to bid on number six, Christa!" a tall Chinese woman practically shrieked, causing both Nicole and Sami to look over with interest. Lucas was the sixth man that was going to be auctioned off.
"Yeah, are we not good enough for you or something?" another woman added, her light blonde haired died black on the tips.
"You know you are, Kaitlin." a shorter redhead, who was obviously Christa, replied, "But we came here because we've been with each other so long, we wanted to remember what it was like to be with a man again. That was the whole point! Besides, you already bid on that nymphomaniac the old woman bought."
Kaitlin rolled her eyes, "I only bid on number three because I felt sorry for him. No one else was bidding on him. But I didn't really want him, you actually want to go out with number six. I'm with Sunny, I can't believe you would betray us like this."
"You said it was okay!" Christa protested, "We agreed to take a break this Valentine's Day. And I want number six!"
Before Nicole could stop her, Sami stalked over to the redhead, "Excuse me, I hate to tell you this but number six is mine."
"Really?" Christa raised an eyebrow, "Do you even know his name?"
Nicole had made it over to them by this time and said, "It's Lucas." just as Sami said, "It's none of your business."
Christa grinned at Sami, "Lucas? Great, I haven't even bought him and I'm already on a first name basis with him."
"You are not going to buy him." Sami hissed angrily, "He's mine and I'd die before letting you walk away with my man!"
"Don't threaten my girlfriend!" Kaitlin screeched, clenching a pen tightly in her hand and extending her arm backwards, "Want me to jab her eye out with my pen, Christa?"
"It's okay, Kaitlin." Christa sighed and looked over at the two women standing beside her, "I would love to spend the night with my girlfriends but we're very insecure about making public displays of affection, we started having feelings for each other in the ninth grade but didn't admit it until after we had graduated. It's so hard being one-third of a bisexual threesome."
"You freak!" Sami sputtered, "There is no way Lucas would ever want to be with you after you did that with them. Not to mention that I have a son with him, so I'm sure you're not going to win him."
"A son?" Sunny scoffed, "I don't think so. Wow, she's even crazier than you are, Kaitlin."
"I'm not crazy!" Kaitlin exclaimed, then seemed to back down, "Well, maybe a little bit but you guys still love me, right?"
"Of course." Sunny assured her and Kaitlin sighed with relief. Sami watched the exchange with growing disgust.
"I'm leaving but I swear, I am not going to let you buy him." Sami promised, just as the fifth guy was auctioned off. Sami walked away from the three, shaking her head in amazement.
"Those three scared the shit out of me." Nicole grinned at Sami, "Looks like you have some competition now, huh?"
"Shut up." Sami grumbled, deciding she was going to wait until a little while into the auction for Lucas before bidding on him, just so she kept him guessing. Right away five or six women, including Christa, jumped in and began bidding on him. Nicole didn't bid right away but once the price reached forty, she finally got up the courage to yell out, "Forty-five."
Victor, Kate, Brady and Lucas all turned to stare at Nicole in shock. Nicole lowered her head as Christa raised the price to fifty. By the time the price reached seventy, everyone except Christa and Nicole had stopped bidding. Sami decided this was her moment to step in.
"Eighty dollars!" she called. Lucas was now staring at Nicole and Sami with wide eyes and Kate let out an enraged shriek.
"How dare they!" she fumed, "How dare Nicole and Sami bid on my son! I can't let them win him. She fished through her purse, "I know have enough money in here to outbid them."
John stared at Kate in horror, "You can't buy someone you're related to, Kate. I'm sure they're just playing around, Sami surely doesn't really want to buy Lucas and Nicole definitely doesn't either."
"My wife is probably just doing it to get back at me." Victor grumbled, "Maybe I should buy Lucas."
John shook his head emphatically, "What is wrong with you two tonight? Maybe you should leave the building for a while."
The price continued to climb higher and Christa was refusing to back down, much to Sami's dismay. After bidding one hundred and thirty dollars, Sami pinched Nicole on the arm so Nicole quickly bid one hundred and forty.
"Christa, stop this right now!" Kaitlin ordered her girlfriend, "You're getting too carried away."
"I know." Christa admitted sheepishly, "But you know how competitive I am and I can't let the blond bimbo's win. Besides, my daddy gave me all this money and I can't let it go to waste, now can I?"
"Daddy's whore." Sunny coughed behind her hand, just loud enough for Kaitlin to hear. Christa turned back to the front of the building.
"I am so sick of this." she murmured, then yelled, "Two hundred dollars!"
Sami's eyes widened and she looked at Nicole with panic flickering across her face, "I only brought one hundred and fifty dollars."
"That was stupid." Nicole said bluntly.
"Well, I didn't expect it to be like this, how was I supposed to know there was some weirdo here that wasn't going to leave my Lucas alone." Sami shot back.
"He's not your Lucas yet." Nicole commented dryly, "From the looks of things, he's going to be Christa's Lucas."
"Don't even say that." Sami lowered her voice, "Look, we can share him, okay? We'll both pay a little bit of money."
"This is dumb." Nicole whined, looking over at Lucas, who had seemed to have gotten over the shock of having Nicole and Sami bid on him. Now he had this little smirk on his face and he seemed to be enjoying the three women fighting over him.
"Going once, going twice!" Mickey Horton bellowed in a deep voice, looking over at Nicole and Sami questioningly.
"Nicole!" Sami dug her nails into Nicole's arm, who reluctantly handed Sami a fifty dollar bill.
"Two-hundred and ten." Sami called out before Mickey could auction off Lucas to Christa. Christa glared at Sami and yelled out loudly.
"Two-hundred and fifty!"
"I hate her." Sami hissed, snatching some more bills out of Nicole's hand, "Five hundred dollars!"
Shocked gasps and murmurs were heard everywhere but Sami ignored everyone. She was too busy looking at the horrified and defeated look on Christa's face. Christa was silent now and Mickey shouted, "Sold to Samantha Brady and Nicole Kiriakas. Looks like we're going to make even more money than we thought we were."
Nicole and Sami went up to the front to get Lucas as Kate collapsed against John in shock. Christa turned to her girlfriends and shook her head sadly.
"It was worth the try." she mumbled, then brightened, "But I've still got you two and we always have a good time together. Let's go back to Kaitlin's place and get drunk!"
Lucas grinned and wrapped his arms around Sami and Nicole's shoulders, "I don't know what you two are up to but I'm flattered you both wanted me that much. I'm sure you're both disappointed you're going to have to share me."
Nicole moved away from him, "Ew, no. I'm don't want you at all. Jan is going to buy Brady for me, so I'm just going to leave you two alone now." Lucas didn't look very disappointed, in fact he looked happier at the prospect of spending the night alone with Sami.
Jan ended up buying Brady for seventy-five dollars. Shawn and Belle looked at each other in confusion.
"Why is Jan Spears back in Salem?" Belle asked in an alarmed voice, "And why did she just buy my brother?"
"I have no idea." Shawn looked over at Jan thoughtfully, "I wonder how she's doing."
"I'm surprised you even want to know." Belle snapped but her heart wasn't in it. She wasn't thinking about Shawn or the chances of losing him to Jan. Instead, she kept thinking about Brandon. She had always had a huge crush on him but he had thought she was too young for him. She wished she could have been the one to buy him instead of Bonnie but Shawn would have been upset. She looked over at Sami, who was leaving the building with Lucas in tow. Her eyes narrowed dangerously and she wondered what Sami was up to. There was no doubt in Belle's mind that Sami was planning something, something that had to do with Brandon. And Belle refused to let her get away with it.
Lucas and Sami ate dinner at the Blue Note that night. Sami put her charm on full force, although she knew the dinner didn't mean half as much as the event that she would make sure took place at her apartment that night. Still, the time she spent with Lucas at the Blue Note was a lot of fun. She enjoyed the way he seemed to be torn between enjoyment and awkwardness at the same time when she ran her foot along his leg seductively under the table.
After leaving the restaurant, Lucas started driving Sami back to her apartment. He steered the car out of the parking lot and Sami leaned over and began nibbling his ear and trailing wet kisses down his neck. His hands gripped the steering wheel tighter than he needed to and he wished Sami wasn't so God damn overpowering. It was bad enough at the restaurant when she playing a very intense game of footsies with him underneath the table. He was having a harder and harder time resisting her advances.
"Sami, I can't drive when you're..... doing that." he finished, swallowing hard.
"It isn't that hard is it?" she asked coyly, sliding her hand up the inside of his thigh, "Just stay between the yellow lines. You can do that, right?"
"Sami....." Lucas moaned, unable to finish a complete sentence. It took every ounce of control he had in him to keep from steering the car into the wrong lane so he couldn't exactly move her hands off him. Did she really think it was that easy for him to drive in a straight line when she had just given him a boner that could steer the car itself? He pressed down on the accelerator, wanting to make the drive as short as possible. Then there would be less of a chance of him getting himself and Sami into accident all because of Sami's ministrations.
Sami fought back the elated giggle threatening to burst out of her throat. Lucas hadn't pushed her away at all the night and she hoped he wasn't about to start. Because as soon as they back to her apartment, she was going to make sure he realized just how much she loved him.
