Chapter 2

• Louisa's POV
• I was shocked.
• That was like a straight blow to my face.
• "This dress belongs to my sister's mother. She asked me to wear it for tonight. And Justin did ask me to come here. I just can't find him right now." I said in a calm voice.
• I wasn't afraid of bitches like her.
• Jessica rolled her eyes at me and said, "No kidding! It seems that you've got a saying for everything."
• Then, she took out her mobile and showed me a picture of the dress.
• "Bitch! Take a look! This is not an average dress. This is fucking haute couture! Do you even know what it means?! This fucking dress is unique because I asked them to add embroidery of my family's emblem on it! It cost 200 thousand dollars and I bought it in Paris at Atelier Flou last year! I asked the maids to take it to the dry cleaning store the other day. How come you're wearing it now?!"
• One of her minions said, "Her stepfather has a dry cleaning store! She must have stolen from it!"
• Jessica shook her head and said with a vicious look on her face, "You're such a shameless liar!"
• My face turned red.
• Laura was lying to me! She took the dress from the dry cleaning store! This dress didn't belong to her mother!
• Jessica continued, "And about Justin..."
• "Who's calling me?"
• I looked up and saw Justin walking down the stairs with a cruel smirk on his face.
• "Jus, this bullshit telling dress-stealing young lady here claimed that you invited her instead of me to this party. I need to verify it." Jessica said.
• Justin held Jessica in his arms and said, "Babe! Me? Asking a nerd to the party?! Seriously?"
• He took a pause and asked, "Babe, why is she wearing your dress?"
• Everyone in the Grand Ballroom looked at me with despise.
• Nothing was more embarrassing than being put under the spotlight like this.
• I was embarrassed and furious at the same time.
• Justin must have collaborated with Jessica in this scheme. Justin pretended to ask me to this party, so Jessica would humiliate me in front of everyone.
• Jessica had always hated me because I had better grades than her. She would do everything to defame me. Apparently, that included sleeping with Justin.
• I knew that no matter how hard I explained, people still wouldn't believe me.
• Feeling annoyed, I threw Jessica's hand away, trying to walk away.
• To my surprise, she deliberately leaned forward and poured the whole glass of cranberry juice all over me!
• I took a few steps back and couldn't believe what was going on.
• "Oh, mine! My dress!" Jessica exclaimed. "It's my fucking haute coutour dress! It's fucking ruined because you've pushed me! You have to pay for it!"
• "Yeah! I've recorded everything!" One of her minions waved the mobile in her hand like it was a weapon or something.
• "Pay for it! You fucking loser!"
• "Pretentious bitch!"
• "Thief and liar!"
• In the humming voice, I clenched my fists.
• "Everyone shut up!" I raised my voice.
• The whole ballroom was silenced.
• Even the band stopped playing.
• "I will pay for your dress," I said to Jessica in a calm voice, even though the only thing I wanted to do was to bash her fucking stupid blonde head against the wall.
• "It's fucking 200 thousand! How are you going to pay for it?! By selling yourself in a nightclub or something?!" Jessica rolled her eyes so hard that she could see the back of her head.
• "I've said I'm going to pay for it. This is the only thing that matters." I said while walking out of the door.
• "Wait a minute." A deep, husky voice appeared out of nowhere.
• I looked around and saw a tall, muscular guy with dark hair walking out of the shadow.
• I recognized him.
• He was the captain of the school football team, a blazing sports star that was famous across the country, playboy number one, and practically a male whore.
• Lucas Sigler.
• He was wearing a tailored suit, which fit him perfectly everywhere except the part of his upper arms.
• It took me a while to figure out that Lucas Sigler was actually talking to me because he walked straight at me in front of everyone.
• "You..." He lowered his head and stared at me, looking intense.
• His flawless, chiseled face was like a masterpiece of some famous Greek sculptor.
• His piercing blue eyes were filled with a mix of confusion and passion.
• The way he stared at me was like there was no one else in the world.
• I had never been stared at by another man like this ever in my life, so I lowered my head immediately as I got burnt.
• "Leave her alone, Justin." He said in a deep, assertive voice.
• What does he mean? I thought to myself.
• Was Lucas Sigler, the most notorious guy on campus, going to... stand up for me?
• Lucas Sigler leaned forward, getting even closer to me.
• I could feel his warm breath next to my ear.
• And then I realized that he was actually...
• Sniffing me!
• Lucas Sigler was sniffing me in public at the homecoming party!
• What the heck?
• Is he a pervert or something?
• "Take off your dress." He said in a plain, commanding voice.
• What?!
• I raised my head to look at him.
• His face seemed to be serious. He wasn't joking at all. He really wanted me to take off my dress in front of everyone!
• The most awkward thing was, I felt a sudden flush of warmth in my body.
• It must have been adrenaline or hormone or something. I couldn't figure it out.
• It was so humiliating and rude for him to say things like this with everyone staring.
• But at the same time, the way he looked at me and the way he asked me to strip for him turned me on.
• The idea of me following his command, getting stripped naked in this party full of people...
• It was so wrong that it almost felt right.
• Am I losing my mind?! Is he casting some dark magic on me?
• What's going on with me?!
• I grabbed the last straw of consciousness in my mind and asked him, "Excuse me?"
• "You've heard me, loud and clear. Take off your dress now." He looked very determined.
• Jessica added from the side, gloating, "Yeah! What Luke said was right. That dress belongs to me! You need to take it off right now!"
• "Yeah! Take it off!" Justin followed.
• "Do it right now!" Jessica's minions joined in.
• They expect to see me trembling and begging.
• But they wouldn't get what they wanted.
• I took a cold glance at Lucas Sigler and took the dress off.
• Everyone was petrified.
• I was wearing nothing but my underwear at the homecoming party.
• Lucas Sigler was the first one who made a move.
• He stepped forward and took the dress from my hands.
• Before I could react, he had already torn it into two halves.
• It seemed that he was very good at ripping girl's dress.
• "Oh mine! What the fuck are you doing, Luke?!" Jessica exclaimed.
• Lucas replied with a naughty smirk on his face and said, "I'm tearing your dress into pieces."
• Then, with everyone watching, he took out his phone and fiddled for a while.
• One moment later, Jessica's mobile beeped.
• "200 thousand has been wired to your account, Jess." Lucas put his mobile into his pocket and said.
• "What the...?!" Jessica looked at the screen of her mobile with eyes and mouth wide open.
• Before I realized what happened, Lucas Sigler wrapped his arms around my waist, pulled me towards him abruptly, and lowered his head to stare at me with a mysterious smirk on his face.
• "Now, Miss Falco. You owe me 200 grand." He said in a deep, husky voice.