Chapter seven

My dreams were filled with Micheal; his lips and tongue teasing me, kissing me anywhere and everywhere, his hands touching each and every part of my body, his eyes burning into my own as he watched how his teasing affected me.

Needless to say, I woke up pretty damn happy. That was until I remembered what I had instore for me today. I frowned; not that I wouldn't enjoy it, because I would, but I didn't want Micheal to find out about what Billy's been up to.

I sighed and entered the shower, getting ready for the day. Within an hour, I was clean and dressed in a pair of jeans and a pink tee that said "I'm up here" with an arrow pointing to my face.

"Morning Ria," Tess said and hugged me before buckling up.

"How are you?" I asked as I drove off.

"Good! How was you night after you left?"

"Great! Micheal came over," I smiled, purposefully leaving out the Billy thing; I could handle it on my own.

"Oh, you can stop right there! Don't go into any details because I'm afraid to ask what you guys did!" she joked and I laughed along with her.

"Well, mom was home, so nothing interesting."

"Well, that's too bad," she replied and I laughed, nodding.

I put the car in park and we walked toward the building together. We were passed by a bunch of people holding flyers and murmuring as we walked by.

"What the hell..." I muttered and drug her inside, determined to figure out just what was going on.

I stopped when she gasped. "Ria! Look at this!" I took the flyer from her and saw it was a picture, of me and Billy to be exact, and his arm was around me. Not only that, but he was kissing my cheek! What the hell!

"This was the picture of me and Max!" I exclaimed.

"Well, how would he get it?" she was utterly confused.

Something clicked in my head. "Mom showed him her photo album! Shit!" I started to walk off.

"Wait, Maria! When was he ever in your house?" she yelled after me, but I was on a mission so I didn't turn around.

"Ria, where are you off to?" Max and the gang were walking past me, but I pushed my way through, hoping Tess would tell them what was up. I didn't even stop for Micheal; just kept trudging along on my way, until...

"Wow, Maria! I really didn't think you had it in you, but you proved me wrong... for once! You cheated on Micheal with Billy! What a bad move! Oh, well-"

"LISTEN UP, BITCH!" I turned to face Courtney, getting right into her face before continuing, "I didn't CHEAT on Micheal! These fucking pictures are BOGUS! Now, if Billy would stop STALKING ME and you would get it through your THICK SKULL that Micheal doesn't want you, then I might be happy, but NOOOO! That would be too much to ask of COURTNEY AND BILLY! But I'm gonna do it anyway, LEAVE. US. THE. FUCK. ALONE!" I screamed, daring her to say something back to me.

She shook her head. "I'm not giving-"

"OH MY GOD! What is it gonna take, Courtney? WHAT? You cannot have, nor will you EVER have, my handsome boyfriend, so go find someone else that will go down on you and leave us alone!"

I felt her hand connect with my face and I lost it. I jumped on her, pulling her hair, scratching her face, punching her, anything. I was pulled off by one of her lackies and she was in tears, but she was extremely pissed. "ITS NOT OVER, DELUCA!"

I sighed and blew the hair out of my eyes. "One down," I muttered, "one more to go."

"Maria?" I turned at the voice of Micheal and looked up into his eyes. "Where are you going, baby?"

I smiled at him. I brought his lips to meet my own in a crushing kiss, then pulled back just as quickly, "meet me in the eraser room second period. I'll tell you everything then, okay?" he nodded slowly, and I saw nothing but lust in his eyes, which made me moan. I turned quickly and headed off to kill Billy so I could finally live in peace with Micheal... Well, until Courtney TRIED to get him... AGAIN...

I saw him at his locker and I growled. He turned at the noise and his eyes grew. "Ria! I just-"

"SHUT UP!" I yelled. I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and slammed him into the lockers.

"Maria, I swear it was all Courtney's idea! She's the one you want!" he threw his hands up in surrender.

"Yeah? Is that so? Well, it's a good thing I already kicked HER ass, then, huh? Too bad you were an accomplice, now I have to castrate you," I smirked and he whimpered.

"This is what I get for being in love with you?"

"Hey! I didn't ask you to love me!" I said and put my face close to him. "This is what you wanted, right? For us to be close?" he nodded, closing his eyes. "Well, you should of thought about that when you went to my house and CONVINCED my own MOTHER that you were my boyfriend, STOLE a picture of me and my BEST FRIEND, and then reconstructed it so it was YOU AND ME! OH! And for bringing me RED FUCKING ROSES! I hate you, Billy! I want you to leave me the hell alone!" I screamed and walked away from him, getting to class, but when I entered, Micheal and Courtney were not there.

Micheal's POV

I watched as Maria went off on a prowl to kill Billy and I started to follow her until I felt a hand on my arm. "Micheal, wait!"

Courtney stood there, in all her sluttyness; hair- mangled, face- scratched, make-up running down her face. "What do you want, Courtney?"

"Micheal, that... that GIRL just beat me up because she's jealous of me! Why won't you just see that the only reason she wants you is because she knows I want you! And she's trying to steer you away from me!"

I scoffed and yanked my arm from her grasp. "Get over yourself, Courtney. I never wanted you; not then, not now, not EVER! I want Maria and she just went to go kill a guy that I want to watch BEING killed or help in the killing, so to make this quick... Leave. Me. Alone. I will never want you, only Maria." and with that, I ran down the hallway, hoping I got there in time.

I got there just as she was saying, "Well, you should of thought about that when you went to my house and CONVINCED my own MOTHER that you were my boyfriend," WHAT! I'm gonna kill this guy! "STOLE a picture of me and my BEST FRIEND, and then reconstructed it so it was YOU AND ME!" Why haven't I seen this picture yet?

I turned to look at the crowd around them, as she was still riping him a new one, and saw they were all holding flyers. I snatched one and saw it. What a sick bastard! I looked back up and this time she was on her way down the hallway, Billy was smirking because she didn't beat the shit out of him. Oh, he had it coming...

"Hey, Billy," I said coming up to him, making his smirk turn into a scowl. "Gotta second?"

He turned his back to me and I shook my head. Turning him around myself, I punched him in the face. "That was for stalking Maria!" I punched him again in the stomach. "That was for posing as her boyfriend to her mother!" The last punch I threw was at his nose and I used all my might, making him fall over. "And that, was for humiliating her by making that picture. You better leave my girlfriend alone, Billy, cause theres more where that came from," I threatened and walked off, a few people clapping as I left.

I walked into class, now 15 minutes late, and saw relief in Maria's beautiful eyes. I winked at her and sat down in my seat.

Maria POV

I wrote Micheal a note saying, 'what did you do?' and threw it behind me. A few minutes later he replied with, 'you'll find out in the eraser room'.

I turned around and smirked at him, winking. I blew him a kiss and then turned back around; one of us had to pass this class!