Strip or Dare - CHAPTER 34 THE END (UPDATED 11/29/2020)

Chapter 33: Allison's Doubts

Allison

I woke up the next morning in between his arms. In between Adam Payne's arms. It was weird and impossible and surreal to even cuddle after sex because man whores never cuddle after sex. They just grab their clothes and went out of the door.

"Hey, sleeping beauty." he whispered in my ear and his voice had given me snippets of flashbacks about what happened last night. How I went into the soccer team's victory party in a tiny black dress, black pumps and fish nets stockings. How Adam brought me home, shouted at me for screwing his brother and the sex... Oh my God. It was an angry make-up sex. I didn't know I had it in me. Must be the influence of alcohol or the fact that I was in the mood for doing crazy stuffs.

"You have ten minutes to explain." I muttered, going deeper under the sheets. It smelled just like him. Even my sleepy brain knows it.

"I love you." he blurted out. I wanted to jump out of bed and laugh at his face. A man whore was inlove? Really? But I wanted to hear what he has to say. I heard him sigh before pulling me towards him. He wrapped his arms around me, placed a light kiss on my forehead and on my eyelids. "I never noticed you before because I must admit that you were so goddamn plain without your skimpy dress and smoky eyes but I liked you even more when you were simple. Since that first day, I can't get you off my mind and I was like, maybe it has something to do with the fact that you were so innocent, my first ever virgin-"

"Who says I was a virgin?" I asked incredulously, my eyes flew open.

"I knew it the moment I fucked you." he said amused and I shook my head, burying it under the crook of his neck. He smelled so good I could be like this forever. "You were so tight and you left bloodstains on my thighs."

Pause.

"Everyday, I was becoming more selfish of you. Like you were a secret I don't want to share with others. I want to touch you, to feel your warmth underneath me... It was insane and I tried to think of other women just to get you out of my head but everything always ended up in vain." he sighed. "You know, I've never felt anything like this before with anyone. I just want us to become exclusive, so that you could be officially mine... so that the other guys would stop checking you out... so that I can have the permission to punch them straight into their face when they grab your ass or anything."

"Do you know that by going exclusive with me means you're not allowed to touch any women?" I mumbled. God, I wanted to sleep but sleep can wait, I guess. Because its Saturday and I don't have class on Saturdays and even if I have, I would be exhausted or too wasted to even attend.

"I know." he said. "I won't touch any woman but you. I will keep my dick to my pants and you can cut my balls of if ever I screw other woman."

"That sounds like a promise you can't keep." I commented, disentangling myself from his embrace and sitting on the bed with my back against the head board. I pulled the sheet to cover myself. "Besides, I don't know how I really feel against you."

"I knew how to keep a promise." he said, squinting at the window. The sun had fully risen and sunlit spread across the room in stripes because of the blinds. "And I will do anything to make you love me back."

"I have conditions." I said ignoring his last sentence, crossing my arms against my chest.

"Anything."

"Fine." I heaved a sigh and rubbed my eyes. "First, you'll never touch or flirt or fuck with any other woman except me. Second, you have to tell other people off to stop calling your step brother a bastard or illegitimate-" his eyes widen but I ignored him. "-Third, you have to be nicer to him because it wasn't his faut that he's your brother."

"I can do the second but I won't be able to do it to everybody in school and I'm neither nice nor mean to him." he mumbled, avoiding my gaze. "We just didn't grow up together."

"Then try to be nicer when you see him in school."

"Fine!" he exclaimed exasperatedly, getting out of bed and pulling the sheets away from me. I tugged it hard and glared at him. "You have a thing for my brother." he observed.

I rolled my eyes. This guy is unbelievable!

"You are impossible!" I sighed, hurling a pillow at his direction and shaking my head. I went to lie some more and eventually fell asleep.

That afternoon, I went to Nate's place. I don t exactly know why but in two days that I've met him, he seemed like a really nice guy. Adam was obviously pissed at the idea so I asked him to come with me but he just scoffed at said he would just wait for me in my place because that's just a ten minutes' drive from Nate's. I want to think that Adam was jealous of his own brother but it would be rude to point it out to him. After all, he was used to being praised and getting all the girls' attention anywhere he went.

"Ally!" Nate greeted cheerfully but the surprise was evident in his eyes.

"Hey." I muttered shyly. "Are you busy? I can come back some other time."

"No, no!" he laughed, pulling me towards him. "Come on, feel at home roomie and tell me... Have you made up with my brother?"

"How did you know?" I asked, sitting on his couch while he busied himself in the kitchen.

"Cappuccino?" he asked, poking his head through the beaded curtain. I nodded smiling. His head disappeared and I heard faint clinking sound of china. "You looked like you're thoroughly fucked."

I didn't answer but the heat had quickly spread across my cheeks.

He appeared later with two cups of cappuccino. He set the cups on the mahogany table and sat down next to me. He smiled his usual sunshine smile and it made me asked myself if I made the right decision of going exclusive with his brother. I sighed.

"Tell me what's going on inside that strawberry blonde head of yours." he said thoughtfully, sipping on his cappuccino.

"You're right, I made up with him and you're right about the fact that I was thoroughly fucked." I mumbled, sipping my cappuccino. Warmth spread in my toes.

"And?" he pressed on.

"He said he loves me and that he wanted to go exclusive."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?"

"Honestly, I don't know." I said slowly, swirling my cup. "You know how many girls would have killed me to be in this position?" he nodded. "I think I wasn't one of them. I don't know what I feel and I don't know if I should be ecstatic about this. I like him but I don't know if I love him yet. I don't know!"

"Do you like someone that's not him?" he asked.

Yes, I like someone who's not Adam and his name was Nathaniel Payne. What about Simon Prentice? Oh my God, Simon!

"Yes." I breathed and then I turned my head sharply to face him. "But I don't want to complicate things even more because it was already complicated with him!"

"You know Al, I never knew my brother too well but one thing I'm sure of is that he's true to his feelings. Our father used to scold and chastised him for being reckless and bold but he was that kind of person. Maybe you ought to give him a chance. See what he's really like and if you think he's not good enough, then dump him. God know that's something he needs aside from his dick checked."