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| The Possibilites of Amy By: Jaye Frances |
eBook: 92 pages
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
ISBN/ASIN: B007LPVXIA
Source: author for an honest review
Genre: Young Adult (older YA)
Series: no
Stars: 4
Flames: 2
Summary
Amy is the ultimate trophy girl—gorgeous face, killer
body, and a vivacious personality. But there’s something else about her,
something that makes her even more special. Amy is new. A transfer student from
out of state, she’s starting her senior year without knowing a soul. And that
means she’s up for grabs, available.
Infatuated from the moment he sees her, David is determined
to meet Amy, and if the fates are willing, to spend the rest of his life with
her. But his shyness prevents him from approaching her—until his friends devise
a contest to determine who will be the first to prove their manhood by seducing
her.
Exerpt
I had not met her, yet she consumed my every waking
thought. Sometimes, sitting alone in my room, I wondered if she had any inkling
of how much my life revolved around her. Every night I prayed for the chance to
tell her.
The first time I saw Amy, she was
leaning against the green-board, waiting for Senior English to begin. She was a
transfer student—arriving three weeks after the start of the school
year—requiring her to stand on ceremonious display as she waited for the
teacher to provide a seat assignment.
I had never seen anything like her.
Standing about five foot five, she had thick blond
hair that feathered over her shoulders to the middle of her back. Her face
displayed the kind of beauty I had previously seen only in fashion
magazines—shiny, little-girl bangs set over large, vivid blue eyes that flashed
in sync to brilliant white teeth. Her skin was flawless, her legs and arms a
warm shade of chestnut spice, the tan appearing to come from underneath, as if
God Himself had warned the sun to color, but not burn.
And then there was that incredible
seventeen-year-old body. A tiny mole dotted her chest just below the collarbone
and, like a friendly road sign, it directed the eyes lower, to large, rounded
breasts—not hung like coconuts, but each one presented in flawless contour,
each one crying for attention. Even her clothes could not conceal the
spectacular perfection of it all, the seam of her fitted dress revealing the
half-moon valley of her waist and the perfect ripe curve of her ass.
I fell in love with that body. So did every male in the senior class.
And while I could sense many of the
girls were already questioning her right to invade their pre-established
numbers, I was also aware of more than a few who were considering the
possibilities.
The possibilities of Amy.
From that day on—the day of Amy’s
arrival into my life—I looked forward to English class the way a child looks
forward to Christmas and birthdays.
After school, in the solitude of my
own thoughts, I spent hours devising intricate fantasies to bring us
together—euphoric daydreams that invariably plunged my beloved Amy into some
horrible, frenzied conflict. Alone and terrified, she faced the ghastly predicaments of an unwilling captive,
languishing without hope, until my just-in-time arrival predictably
resolved every problem and vanquished every foe. My reveries always ended with
Amy’s confirmation of her undying and eternal devotion, leaving us forever in
love and deliriously happy.
At night, however, my delusions
grew into obsessions. Envisioning her beside me, I would move close to her
conjured form, craving a taste of her. As my hand gently skimmed the surface of
the pillow, I would touch her hair, the lobes of her ears, and the smooth soft
skin of her neck. Too stimulated to sleep, I would lay there for hours, my
rigid penis pressed against the mattress until my hand would eventually take
over, confirming Amy’s surrender as she granted me every carnal pleasure.
I desperately searched for her
phone number. Just to have it, to be able to recite it from memory. Even after
the operator told me it was unlisted, I still repeatedly scanned the phone
book, as if expecting it to magically appear from my sheer need to find it.
I ached to know where she lived. So I could drive
by. And if courage and timing were right, wave at her as I saw her coming or
going.
But I had nothing—nothing but fifty
minutes a day, when she was close enough to see, but too far away to start a
conversation. And so I sat at my desk like a devout parishioner attending
church, worshipping her.
Like a shy and foolish schoolboy, I
had waited for circumstances to bring us together. The last two Thursday nights
I made sure I had a clean shirt and jeans, just in case Friday found us
face-to-face, friendly and talking, getting along in a way that seemed so
natural, so right, that she would want to go out for a pizza and a movie. But
the opportunity for flirtatious banter had never materialized, leaving my hopes
of our exchanging a kiss with the lingering aroma of melted cheese and
pepperoni on our breaths an unfulfilled dream.
As my frustration grew in
proportion to my unrequited desire, I began to pray for divine intervention, a
miraculous reshuffling of the seating chart that would position Amy directly in
front of me.
It would change my world—to be near
enough to reach out and touch her.
But after two weeks of pleading my
case to the Almighty, it was obvious that God was not predisposed to our
meeting. If Amy was going to become part of my life, I was going to have to
take the initiative and somehow find the courage to say hello.
Every morning I practiced for the
possibility. Standing in front of the mirror, I quietly recited the same words,
over and over: “Today is the day. Today I will walk up to her and introduce
myself. Today I will let her know in a most clever and confident way that I
find her attractive. And then I will off-handedly mention that we should go
out, suggesting this weekend would be perfect.”
My rehearsals inevitably left me in
a clammy sweat and my stomach tied in knots. But it didn’t matter. I was
willing to endure it all—whatever it took. Because there was something else
about Amy, something that made her even more special.
Amy was new.
It meant we could start from scratch. There would be
no awkward common history or mutually-shared embarrassing experiences to taint
our beginnings. She wouldn’t be able to remember me losing my swim trunks at
the sixth-grade pool party. She was free of the mental trauma I would have
certainly inflicted by spilling Coke on her pink taffeta dress during her
thirteenth birthday party. As far as Amy was concerned, I was a stranger, with
no phobias or syndromes renamed in my honor.
I knew I had to act soon, as any
advantage to be gained from her newly-arrived status would soon be lost to
those bolder and more aggressive. And from the way she seemed to fit right into
her new surroundings—busily exchanging hello’s, and what I hoped were not phone
numbers—it was apparent that this kind of beauty would not sit quietly, waiting
for the shy or less confident to finally work up the nerve to speak.
And so from the very first moment I saw her, standing in
front of the green board, I had to meet her, touch her, and convince her to
spend the rest of her life with me.
Review
This book is classified as YA however it is definitely an
older YA book. Some would say it would fall in the New Adult category. The
Possibilities of Amy is a fascinating read. I give the story 4 stars.
The thing I found refreshing on the story was the fact that
the story was written from the male POV instead of the female. I liked that
David seems like a few of the guys in my old high school. It wasn’t a boy meets
girl and everything is perfect story.
Even though the story is short I felt I got a good feel for
the characters. David is a social outcast in his school. David and his friends
have resorted to sitting and discussing how each girl rates on their scale of
hotness and coming up with ways that they could get the girls to go out with
them. There is at least one of these groups in every school. Then there is Amy,
she is beautiful and new to the school so she is a target for conversation in
David’s group. During these conversations and after his experiences in this
story you really see David grow as a person. He grows up a lot and becomes a
better man.
All in all I think that the
author really wrote a good story and a good look in to some guy’s heads while
in high school. I look forward to reading the author’s other books as well.
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