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“You two need to get a room already,” Sophie said.

Jacob ignored her and kissed the tip of my nose.

I laughed.

“Totally adorable,” she said. “But I gotta steal my girl. We’re both on missions.”

Jacob kept his hand on my waist. “You’ll let me know what RJ says?”

“Mhm,” I said.

Sophie hooked her arm through mine and pulled me away. “I was worried you’d drop the whole unmasking the kiss thief thing because of Jacob.”

I shook my head. “No. I need to know. It’s driving me crazy.”

“Me too. And you’re lucky you’re related to RJ.”

“What?”

“If you owed any other guy this many favors you’d be on your knees all the time.” She mimed giving a blowjob.

“Ew.”

“Remember when you thought RJ was your kiss thief?” She laughed.

“Not funny! And you said you’d never mention it again. We had a deal. So now I’m going to mention you saying all those explicit things about my dad...”

“I didn’t know he was the new teacher! Gah! Fine. I’m sorry I mentioned the RJ thing.” She laughed and stopped by Mr. Halifax’s door. “Wish me luck,” she said. “I’m hoping he takes me against the chalkboard. I’ve been having recurrent dreams about that fantasy.”

“Stop trying to get Mr. Halifax arrested.”

“It’s not my fault that he’s obsessed with me,” she said.

I laughed, but then saw her face and stopped. For all we knew, Mr. Halifax was obsessed with her. And I wanted him to be. Because that meant he wasn’t obsessed with me. “Good luck, Soph.” I wanted her to be happy.

“Thanks.” Her smile was back. “See you in a bit.” She went into Mr. Halifax’s classroom.

Yeah, I really hoped that worked out. Because if he was my kiss thief I’d literally die.

It was tempting to listen to that awkward conversation. But just in case what Sophie was picturing actually happened, I kept walking.

RJ was standing by his locker chatting to Liam.

“Okay, spill it,” I said.

“You haven’t heard what I want from you yet,” he said. “And where’s Soph? You’re both owing me for this.”

“She has her rendezvous with Mr. Halifax,” I said.

RJ slammed his locker closed. “Then it’ll have to wait, baby doll.”

What? No. “I can’t wait any longer, RJ. Just tell me. Soph and I will do whatever it is you want us to do.”

“That’s not how this is working. You have to agree to the thing you’re doing first. And Soph needs to be here.”

Gah! I turned to Liam. “Liam just tell me who RJ said it was.”

“Do you really want to know?” Liam asked.