Love vs. Payne (3 page)

“I dare you to strip down to your bra and panties in class.” he said with a wicked grin and she gasped as her eyes opened wide with surprise.

"Is that a no?" he asked softly, seeing her hesitation, his intense, pale-grey eyes mocking her.

"You wish." she quickly collected her wits, and then marched over to her assigned seat.

Halfway through class she knew what she had to do, but was procrastinating. She looked back at him to see he was smiling in that devilish way, waiting for her to fulfill her part of the dare or quit the game. She really did not want to do it, she had never stripped to her underwear in front of anyone, but there was no way in hell she would willingly lose the game. Sitting in her chair, she popped off her shoes and Maddox smiled as the game began.

He watched her as she carefully undid her jeans then slid them down to her ankles. A few of the kids around them began to notice what she was doing. Maddox grinned as the giggling and whispering started, but his amusement quickly turned into interest as she reached for the top button of her shirt.

Gia tried to ignore the commotion she was causing, instead focusing on what she would do in retaliation. Despite the uncomfortable position she was in, she still managed to smile as she formulated a plan. She took a deep breath and slid off her shirt, sitting in her chair in just her bra and panties, trying to nonchalantly-shield herself with her arms.

"Are you hot Miss Love?" her teacher, Mr. Kruger asked.

Now Mr. Kruger, although he could be somewhat sarcastic and occasionally cracked a few jokes, was still a stickler when it came to the rules. Needless to say, stripping in class was definitely against the rules.

"Extremely so, sir." she smiled casually.

"Well would you mind getting dressed? I'll be more than happy to open a window."

"Sorry sir, but I can't." she shrugged her shoulders carefully, not wanting to wiggle anything inappropriately.

"And why not?" he humored her.

"I cannot say."

"You cannot or you will not."

"Both." she answered. Maddox beamed with pride at how loyal she was, even with her enemy, she played with honor.

"Well then, won't you please join our dear principal in his office?"

"My pleasure sir." she smiled sweetly and stood up.

Maddox watched the half-naked girl walking towards him and felt his heart began to race.

Who was she?

That was not Gia Love, not with those curves and not with that body. There was no way he could be having such an intense reaction to Gia Love.

She was a
Love
!

He had no idea she looked like that under all of those clothes, it was almost as if she had been deceitful and was holding out on a secret weapon to use against him. How could this be? He had seen her almost every day since childhood, but this was the first time that he was really seeing
her. He watched as she drew closer, her large up-thrust breasts looked like they would pop out of her old, white-cotton bra and he swore he could almost see the outline of her nipples. Her perfect round ass and full hips swayed with each step, and he felt his eyes begin to cross as he tried to watch every movement her body made. When she was close enough for him to touch, he felt his dick swell painfully and fought the over whelming urge to sink his fingers into her hips.

When she came to a full stop before his desk, her breasts bounced as she put her hand out and he fought the urge to break the front closure of the outdated bra. Forcing himself under control, he reached into his pocket and grabbed the bow then dropped it into her hand.

"Nothing witty to say?' she said with that damn smile.

"Just go," he said then without thinking, he blurted, "wait." She turned to see him yanking off his football jacket then shoving it in her hand. She raised her brow in bafflement as she took the heavy jacket.

“What is this for?”

“Put it on.” he demanded and she looked at him curiously before putting it over her shoulders

"Miss Love!" Mr. Kruger barked as he walked closer to her.

"I'm going." she said, still looking at Maddox. He was feeling an irrational possessiveness coming over him and he did not understand it. He never had a problem with sharing the girls he had sex with, he encouraged it, so the girls would not bother him when they
were not
having sex. So why was he sitting there now, feeling his temper escalate as he watched his friends and every other guy in class look at her with unrestrained lust in their eyes. He wanted to punch every one of them in their offensive eyes then wrap Gia up in his jacket and carry her out of the class.

His father would hate him for feeling like this.

Paige Chancellor sat to the side, watching the strange exchange between Maddox and Gia, not liking what she saw.

They were supposed to be mortal foes but here he was, giving that fat cow Gia, his jacket. She put up with Maddox's bullshit for three reasons- one was the money, his family had a ridiculous amount of cash and all the power that went along with it. Two- was his looks, he was a perfect specimen and she loved that all the girls were jealous of her. They envied her because he always came back to her, solidifying her claim to him. Then last but by no means least, was reason three- he was Maddox fucking Payne for Goodness sake, enough said.

***

Gia became Miss Popular after the mid-class strip tease, and the description of her body was being spread throughout the school. The high school’s male population must have thought she was some frigid tease that had finally broken out of her shell, because now all of the guys’ wanted to be near her. They asked her out repeatedly, offered to buy her lunch and give her rides home but she refused them all, just as she always had.

Maddox saw what was going on and he did not like it, but he also did not like that he did not like it. He knew he should not care, but he could not control the jealousy invading his brain. He had tried everything not to think of her in that way, he imagined terrible things about her and kept reminding himself repeatedly that she was his sworn foe. He tried to numb himself with constant sex with as many girls as possible, but he still could not stop thinking about her. It had gotten so bad that he had even caught himself fantasizing about Gia while he was having sex with other girls.

***

Paige Chancellor was pissed! She was angry that, Miss Fatty-Love was the center of attention and planned to put an end to the spell that Gia had cast across the male student body. She had decided to use her special saboteur skills to reverse the boys’ infatuation. Paige and her best friend Flossy had started spreading nasty rumors around school about Gia. As luck would have it, Gia’s little strip tease in class gave credential to Paige’s lie.

At Nevermore High School, it was all about the Paige Chancellor show. Everything had always revolved around her and there was no room for a trailer park geek like Gia trying to steal her limelight!

It was a beautiful spring night, the slight breeze carried through the warm air, caressing the skin like a feather. The faint smell of rain was in the air, but it did not stop the graduating class from attending the last big party of the year. Come hell or high water, every senior planned to be there.

“I am not going.” Gia protested, not in the mood for the festivities. It was the end of the school year and she had more important things to worry about then some stupid party.

“It’s at Marko Myers house!” Gwen was suddenly giddy with excitement.

“So.” Gia shrugged.

“So?” Gwen cried.

“She’s in love with Marko now.” Alice grinned and Gwen scoffed as Gia shook her head.

“I am not in love with him.” she objected.

“He likes you too and everyone knows it, I wish you’d just talk to him.” Alice shook her head.

“I‘ll talk to him soon.”

“You‘ve been saying that since the beginning of the year and now we’re getting ready to graduate.” Gia scoffed.

“Fine, I’ll talk to him if you go with me.” Gwen said but Gia shook her head.

“No way.”

“Come on, I need you there for moral support.”

“No.”

“Come on Gia, this is our last high school party ever, please come out and have a good time with us” she pleaded and after a long moment, Gia finally nodded.

“Fine.” Gia relented, she did want to spend some time with her friends before the end of the school year.

“Yes!” Gwen yelled in excitement then hugged Gia.

“Finally,” Alice clapped before joining the group hug, “I can’t believe we’re finally going to get you to party with us.

“But I’m not staying long.”

“That’s fine!” Alice kissed her cheek.

***

Gia took a shower, brushed her teeth and threw on a pair of baggy jeans and a relatively normal sized sweater before heading out into the room where her friends were getting ready. They both stopped what they were doing and gasped the moment they saw her.