Serial Hottie (45 page)

Ellie released a contented sigh against my chest. “For someone with such hard-looking muscles, the new kid is surprisingly soft.”

I laughed. I was sure Ellie wasn’t fully aware of the words coming out of her mouth. Clearly, the part of her brain that she’d rattled was the part that filtered her thoughts before she spoke them.

“Something funny?” she asked, and I almost had to laugh again.

“You are.”

And she was. I appreciated this rare glimpse into her unguarded mind, almost as much as I was going to enjoy it when she remembered this moment after she felt better.
Oh, Ellie
, I thought as I stared down at her.
You are going to be so much fun
.

I couldn’t help myself. I brushed my fingers along her cheek. She was so soft. So perfect. In that moment it was just me and Ellie. Everything else had faded away. She shuddered beneath my touch in a way that gave me goose bumps, and then looked up at me with a lazy smile. “Such shiny, bright, red hair,” I whispered as I tucked a fallen strand of it behind her ear. “Gorgeous, just like the rest of you.”

COMING NEXT FROM KELLY ORAM:

V Is For Virgin

When Val Jensen gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup gets posted on Youtube. After the video goes viral, Val starts a school-wide campaign to support her cause, never expecting that the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy. When notorious bad boy Kyle Hamilton, lead singer for the hit rock band Tralse, decides to take Val’s abstinence as a personal challenge, things spin wildly out of control. And fast.

Look for it December 2012!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen—a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which her family and friends still tease her. She’s obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and likes to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and four children. Learn more at
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