Curvaceous by Sara Imes (100 best novels of all time TXT) 📖

politely up at the guy as if they were old pals.

“Hello Sam.” As the guys stared at each other with ice in their stares, my sister kept her cold dark gaze on me. But when Ryder spoke, her eyes lifted to his face, and then traveled slowly down his body, then back up to his face. Emma bit her lip and made a noise of approval. Oh goodie, my sister has claimed her next victim.

During his stare down with Sam who was slightly attractive with an Ivy League hairstyle, classic nose, mischievous emerald eyes and a slight muscular build, however not as muscular as Ryder in my opinion.

However as he scowled at Ryder, that attractiveness was dialed down to an eight to a five very quickly. He was the type of person who was never told no growing up and pushed people around just for the fun of it. And I could tell all this about him when I haven't even been near him for more than five minutes.

My sister stepping forward in Ryder’s direction, held out her hand and batted her thick eyelashes. “Hi my name is Emma Br-”, Emma cut herself off at our last name, flicked a glance at me, and started over. “Im Emma Braxton, and you should be honored to meet me.”

Emma always did this with boys. She thought boys should be honored to be with her, not for her to be with them. Ryder looked down at me and I shrugged, familiar with my sister antics.

Ryder chuckled softly and looked back up to my sisters awaiting hand. Instead of kissing her hand like she expected him to, Ryder gave her the dead-fish handshake. Before I could stop myself, I let out a small chuckle.

Emma snapped her head over at me and shot me an angry glare. I immediately stopped talking and hung my head, away from her dark gaze. She cleared her throat and tossed her strawberry blond locks over her shoulder and using her Seductress voice said, “If you're looking for a real and beautiful woman, you can call me.”

Emma shot me a triumph smirk as Ryder took the piece of paper with her number on it. Emma never ran out of papers with her number on it, they were like business cards to her. Ryder looked down at the piece of paper and balled it up in his fist, making Emma lose her triumph smirk.

“Thanks for the offer but,”Stopping to look at me. “I rather have a girl who looked like the gollum from Lord of the Rings, then have a girlfriend who treated other people like crap.”

Then he quickly added, “Not to compare you to a gollum.” “Whose comparing who to a gollum?”, a voice asked. And that's when he walked up. As the guy rounded the corner, Ryder tensed up beside me. I looked up at Ryder questioningly then over to see a beautiful guy walking up with an equally beautiful girl on his arm. I know it isn't really typical to call a guy beautiful, but that was the best adjective to describe him.

The guy was greeted happily by the group, and while Sam slapped him on the back and pointed his thumb to us, I couldn't take my eyes off him. While Ryder pulled off the dark, bad-boy type of style, this guy was like his complete opposite. While Ryder had dark untamable hair, he had platinum blond neatly styled hair. I didn't really like guys with the comb-overs like the type he had, but he made it look good. And oh his eyes! They were so beautiful. They weren't like Emma’s dark and cold blue eyes. Instead they were a lighter shade and had a playful glint in them. But… was I the only one seeing this?

While there were still playfulness in his blue depths, his eyes also held a little bit of sadness in them… maybe I was just seeing things. Besides this guy was obviously popular in this group and had a stellar girl on his arm, who I just know remembered was there. So… what would he have to be sad about?

As my eyes continued their descent, I noticed that his face was nicely tanned, not like my sister who had her tan airbrushed before school, but naturally tan. He had sharp cheekbones, a strong nose, and soft looking pink kissable lips. Although they weren't as plump as Ryder’s his lips still looked scrumptious.

My eyes traveled farther down to look at his body, I noticed that he had a smaller frame than Ryder did, but still had his fair share of muscles and i'm pretty sure rock hard abs. Is build was similar to a basketball player build would be… hmm...that made wonder if he played sports. As I was gawking at the guy, I hadn't noticed Ryder’s grip on my shoulder starting to tighten and him trying to steer me away from the group. Shaken from my check out of the boy, I looked up to the guys face… to find him staring back at me.

He looked looked like he was having trouble breathing, his chest was moving up and down fast while his lips were parted slightly, and he had this slightly animalistic look in his eye as he stared at me.

I felt my face heat and my cheeks fill with color as his eyes left mine to track down my body.

Wherever he looked at me, I felt my body heat up as if his gaze was burning me alive. Before his eyes could rest on my eyes again, Ryder had successfully pulled me away from the group. Away from the guy. I hope no one saw us mentally undressing each other, I prayed to myself. As Ryder silently dragged me away from the group, I felt a pair of eyes on the back of my head, thinking it was the guy, I spared a glance back behind me. Instead of finding light blue orbs staring at me, I locked eyes with cold and dark blue ones. My sister's eyes.

Alex

“Not to compare who to a gollum?”, Alex asked while rounding the corner to where his group waited for him and his girlfriend for lunch. Everyone whipped around to look at him, Sam, Alex’s childhood best friend, clapped him on the back and shot him a smirk and lifted his thumb, pointing it in front of him. Alex looked to where Sam was pointing to and locked eyes with Ryder, the person who he hated.

Alex knew it was a strong word, but that's the only word he could use to describe his feelings for him. And by the look on Ryder’s face, he felt the exact same way because when they locked eyes, Ryder instantly tensed up. His face, displaying an expression of playfulness, now was stone cold. Showing no emotion to Alex. And as Alex glared back at the boy, he noticed that Ryder’s arm was draped across someone's shoulders.

Shifting his gaze to the person next to Ryder, Alex’s felt his breath leave him. This girl was absolutely beautiful. And why she was hanging out with someone like Ryder, he had no clue. Was she dating him? I've never seen her before… maybe they started going out over the summer? Just the thought of Ryder having someone who looked like that on his shoulder made him want to growl and reach over and grab the beautiful creature from Ryder.

He shoved  the desire away quickly. But wow, this girl was stunning. She had straight chocolate brown hair that looked soft to the touch and would cascade down her shoulders if she wore it down out of her neat ponytail. Alex suddenly had the strong urge to take her hair out of the ponytail and run his hands through her hair. Again, he shoved the desire away.

She had a plump heart shaped face with adorably pinchable chubby cheeks. And-oh god- those lips! Oh those full pink kissable lips. Time seemed to slow as Alex’s heart seemed to beat faster and harder in his chest as he thought about kissing those lips. What am I thinking?, Alex thought. I have a girlfriend, I shouldn't be thinking about kissing another girl. But although though he-unsuccessfully- tried to stop thinking about those lips dancing across his, Alex just couldn't stop himself. She was just too gorgeous for his eyes to wander anywhere else.

As Alex’s eyes continued their trek down her face, he noticed that the girl was staring at him too! Her eyes were slowly taking him in, from head to toe. As if she was sensing  someone looking at her, her eyes locked with Alex’s. Her eyes were absolutely stunning, Alex thought. They were a mesmerizing grey-blue that could engulf you and make you feel like you were tumbling down into and endless storm.

Alex wanted to jump into those depths and get lost into the storm of her eyes forever. As Alex’s eyes started to steadily travel down her body, his heart started to thump painfully harder, threatening to push through his ribcage and his chest. Her body… words couldn't describe how her body made Alex feel. Even though most guys liked their girls nice and skinny like twigs, Alex did not. But she wasn't “fat” either, not like that would be a problem for Alex. She had curves in all the right places. Alex looked back up to her face to find her staring back at him. Oh no, Alex thought. She saw me checking her out and she's embarrassed.

Before Alex could hastily look away, Ryder pulled the girl away down to the cafeteria doors and, thankfully, away from him. Alex drew his gaze away from the girl's retreating back and hoped no one saw, especially his girlfriend,  the silent exchange between the girl and him. But when Alex happened to look over, his eyes locked with a pair of dark blue eyes. Those dark, calculating blue eyes were staring from Alex to the girl with a look of curiosity and suspension. The pair of dark eyes belonged to the new girl who quickly joined their small group. Emma.

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Text: Sara Rose
Images: Google
Editing: Sara Rose
Translation: Google
Publication Date: 04-23-2016

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