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“Right?” I pulled out my glasses and then my phone, thinking I’d have a million texts from Sophie, but there were only a couple. I clicked on the first one and it was a picture of her making out with Eli. I scrunched up my nose as I pulled off my glasses. Ah! I could see the picture more clearly now and I wished I hadn’t. “Oh my God, is your boob out? Why did you send me this?!”

“Oh! Great news. I spent the rest of the weekend with Eli. For a younger guy, he’s actually pretty decent.”

“He’s the same age as you.”

“Yeah, I know, not my usual type. But do you think that picture is good?”

I really didn’t need to look at a picture of Soph and Eli making out. But I quickly glanced at it again. “Sure, it’s fine.”

“But do I look hot?”

“What?”

She sighed. “I want a really good picture of me making out with Eli so I can be looking at it when Mr. Halifax passes out our grades from that quiz.”

Oh no. I’d completely forgotten about that quiz that I’d totally failed. The one that mentioned third base. I’d gotten completely stuck on the innuendo.

“So do I look hot? Do you think it’ll make him jealous?”

“Sophie, you can’t show Mr. Halifax a picture where your boob is out.”

“Why? It’s tasteful.”

“No it’s not.”

“Scar, we’ve been over this. A bashful nipple is very tasteful.”

I shook my head. “This whole Mr. Halifax thing has gotten really out of control. You’re going to get him arrested.”

“Psh. No. If he didn’t get arrested after the fight at homecoming, nothing else will put him behind bars. Speaking of which...I’m guessing Uncle James gave the school a huge donation so the two of them could keep working here?”

I nodded.

“I’ll have to thank him for convincing the principal to let Mr. Halifax keep working here too. I owe him one.”

“Please don’t talk to my dad about any of that. Mr. Halifax is a sore subject in my house.”

“Sorry about that,” Sophie said. “I really didn’t think your dad would react like that.”

I sighed. “We probably should have predicted that one.”

“Yeah. Maybe.”

I closed my locker. “And why are you grateful that Mr. Halifax got off the hook? If he was fired, the two of you could finally be together.”

Sophie shrugged. “But I like staring at him every day. Besides, him being my teacher isn’t going to keep us apart. I have him exactly where I want him.”

If that was true, Mr. Halifax wouldn’t still be one of my kiss thief suspects. Speaking of which... “Please tell me that RJ told you who my kiss thief was.”

“Wait, did he find out?”

He seriously hadn’t told Soph? “He claims he did.” I looked around but didn’t see RJ anywhere. “Let me text him.” I looked down at my phone again and realized I did have a message from someone else. Not RJ. But my kiss thief. I tried to force my heart to stop racing. It had no reason to race for him anymore. I clicked on the message.

“Tell me you enjoyed that as much as I did.”

My stupid heart kept racing. “Sophie, I need your help breaking up with my kiss thief. What do I say? I would have done it already, but my dad stole my phone.”

“What are you talking about? Why would you break up with him before you find out who it is?”