Reunion (Plus Size Loving): BBW Erotic Romance by Adriana Hunter Page A

see from the look in your eyes and the tension in your posture
that something’s on your mind. Spill.”
    Melissa
sighed and forced her shoulders to relax. Annie knew her too well. She pulled
the invitation from her purse and slid it across the table.
    Annie
removed her sunshades, revealing brilliant green eyes that flicked briefly
across the paper. “Wow. A high school reunion? That’s
awesome!” She looked up. “Or, at least it should be awesome?”
    Melissa
grimaced. “I don’t know if I should go or not.”
    “Why?
Won’t there be old friends for you to see?”
    Melissa
shrugged. “I haven’t spoken to any of the girls I was friends with in high
school since I left. We’ve just drifted apart through the years. You know how
it is.”
    “And
yet there’s something that’s pushing you to go.” Annie set down her drink.
“High school crush?”
    Melissa
grinned. “You are such a mind-reader, Annie.”
    She
chuckled. “It’s not that hard to figure out. You wouldn’t be so anxious about
this whole thing if there wasn’t a guy involved. So,
who is he?”
    “Scott
Parker. He was a football star, the guy voted most likely to succeed, and a
heartthrob in the eyes of nearly every girl in school.” She sighed. “ Ahh , it’s no big deal. I doubt he would even remember me.”
    “How
did you know him?”
    Melissa
laughed. “We were best friends in elementary school. We did EVERYTHING
together.” She sobered. “But once we got to high school we drifted apart. He
became part of the football team and was part of the whole popular clique.”
    “Ugh,
the popular clique,” Annie replied. “Back in my high school days that meant
football players and mean girls.”
    “Oh,
he wasn’t a jerk or anything like that.” Melissa said, as Annie’s eyebrows
lifted in surprise at her sudden defense. “He was rich, smart, and talented, so
how could he not be part of the popular club, you know? My family was on the lower end of the
middle class scale so I stayed exactly where I was—on the fringes.”
    “The
fringes?” Annie replied, her lips curling into a small smile. “Somehow I can’t
imagine you as being a fringe kind of girl. You’re always so outgoing.” She reached over and plucked her drink
from the table, taking a sip. “So,
tell me more about this Scott of yours.”
    “He’s
hardly my Scott,” Melissa replied,
grinning. “Even after all these
years though, I still think about him once in a while. I guess I never really
forgot about him. I want to see him again… but I’m worried that I’ll make a
fool of myself.”
    Annie
touched her hand briefly. “You won’t make a fool of yourself. You’re smart,
funny, and one of the nicest women that I have ever known. Not to mention you’re
really pretty.” Melissa brushed back a lock of curly hair self-consciously at
the compliment.
    “You
should go, Mel. It’s a good opportunity to mingle with some old friends. And
I’m sure he would love to see you again, especially if you were such good
childhood friends.”
    “Maybe.”
Melissa stared down at the dregs in the bottom of her latte glass. “I just feel
like I’ll be torturing myself. I’m sure he still looks like a God, whereas I’m
still the same chubby, plain girl as before. He won’t look twice at me. Besides,
it’s not like a guy like him will be single. I’m sure he has a wife, or at
least a girlfriend. Probably a string of girlfriends.”
    “Seriously?
You’re beautiful! If he doesn’t see
that, then he’s obviously not worth it. But if you don’t take the chance,
you’ll never know if things could be more. Sounds to me like you missed your
chance way back then. For all you
know, if you don’t go you are losing the only chance you have left.”
    Melissa
smiled. “You’re such a ridiculous romantic.”
    “What
can I say? I believe in love.”
    “I’m
just so nervous about it.”
    “I’ll
tell you what. Why don’t you let me come with