Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade I only take claim to my original characters and the plot.
Chapter 7:
The grocery story was bustling with activity. It was obvious it was payday because of it being so crowded. Tala and Ana were walking around together taking turns pushing the basket to pick up some things for around the house. Bryan was still pretty ticked off about the fight she had gotten into the week before. All the bruises on her face had dulled to a yellow and didn't bother her as much anymore. She had also gotten over the babbling that Issac had begun to do quite often now. Tata was now his favorite word. So between uck and tata she was not winning the battle of getting him to say what she wanted to hear. The tall red-head walked next to her with his hands in his pockets looking at the items on the shelves until he stopped to grab a couple cans of Spaghetti O's. She raised a questionable eyebrow at him as he put the cans into the basket.
"What?" he asked noticing her facial expression.
"Nothing." she replied innocently.
"They're my favorite. Don't judge me."
She shook her head and smirked before walking forward again. They came around the corner and she stopped immediately to avoid bumping into someone else. Her green eyes blazed and narrowed at the young man before them whose eyes grew wide before he looked away to listen to something the woman he was with happened to be saying. There were some scratch marks on his face and he was recovering from a black eye. He also had a cut above his eye with a couple stitches holding it together. Tala looked back and forth between the two of them before grabbing the end of the basket and dragging it behind him in the opposite direction. When they got out of hearing range she watched him grab a random object off the shelf and read it while directly speaking to her.
"So who was that?"
She wasn't sure if he meant it, but his tone was protective sounding to say the least and the question sounded more like a demand than curiosity. His question made her frown.
"Please don't do that."
He looked up at her suddenly.
"You're sounding like Bryan and like I'm nothing but trouble."
"It was an awkward moment that was difficult to notice."
"Well that jerkwad was the one I got into a fight with last week." she all but spat.
His eyes widened in surprise before a small smile crept across his face.
"I thought it was a chick you fought. But after seeing him and his face thats hilarious. However, the fact that he hit a woman makes him a real lowlife. I want to hit him now." he said starting to glare.
"Down boy. I've kept quiet about it exactly for that reason. You boys are a bit more protective than you care to notice or admit." Ana put her hands on her hips.
"Ok so why did you fight him then?" he asked raising his eyebrow back at her while mimicking her hands on the hips motion.
It was a cute gesture she had to admit. She smiled and walked past him carrying on with the shopping.
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He stood there watching her walk away before turning back towards the direction in which they'd come from. His eyes roamed over the store looking for his prey. When he finally saw the worthless bastard he was looking for, Tala popped his neck and casually walked up to the guy.
"Hey man how you doin' its been awhile." he smiled
The girl that the man was with looked up and smiled at him. He put on his charm for the lady while the color drained from her boyfriend's face.
"I heard about you getting messed up and I was concerned. Hey do you mind if I talk to my boy over here real quick? Man she's cuter than what you described."
She giggled and stroked a strand of hair behind her ear.
"I'll see you in line baby." she replied kissing him on the cheek really quick and walking away.
Tala waited till she was out of ear shot before grabbing him by the scruff of his neck. He lifted him up to meet him eye to eye. The other man's tippy toes were barely touching the floor.
"Now, I know that you know why I'm here. So I'm going to make this quick. What did you do to the girl that fucked up that pretty little face of yours.?"
"Nothing….nothing man. She went crazy that's all." he sputtered.
"That's funny. Cuz you know I live with her so I know her man. Now what did you do to my girl."
"I…I…I was drunk and I grabbed her ass. Then when she smacked me away I called her a whore." the frightened man explained.
Tala glared at him angrily his grip tightening on the other guys shirt. The muscles in his neck were taunt. He struggled with his inner demons to not throttle the man in the middle of the store.
"If you ever lay a hand on her or look at her the wrong way again, the way your face is now will look pretty compared to what its gonna look like when I'm done with you. I'm sure your girl wouldn't appreciate hearing about this either."
Slowly he put the other man down, then straightened the man's shirt out while smiling an evil smile. He turned and walked down the aisle looking for Ana. Reaching out he grabbed a random box of cereal before finding her in one of the checkout lines. She looked up at him and smiled making him smile back without thinking. When she noticed the box in his hand she raised that eyebrow at him again. He was growing fond of that expression.
"I gotta have my pops." he explained as he put the cereal in the basket.
"That's what you disappeared for?" she asked
His brow furrowed for moment as the things he had said to the guy hit him. He had called her his girl. She waved a hand in front of his face making him blink. Without thinking he smiled and poked her in the forehead making her forget about the question as she laughed at his randomness and they moved forward in line.