“It’s fine,” Sophie said. “I’ll handle it.” She quickly made out with half a dozen guys.

Luckily most people were interested in the football game that had started.

Unluckily, most didn’t mean all. And guys kept wandering over the whole time.

Sophie was handling it like a champ. I kept glancing at the camera feed of the locker room, waiting for the mascot. But he was nowhere to be found. Wasn’t he usually out here by now?

Every now and then someone wanted a kiss from me. And my lips were tired of kissing scruffy cheeks. My kiss thief hadn’t had any scruff. At least, not that I could tell. But I’d also been kissing his lips.

“So who else is on the list?” Sophie asked.

“Um...let’s see.” I pulled it up on my phone. “August and Billy are out. So that leaves Eli Jones, Luis Rodriguez, Zach Fisher...”

Sophie grabbed my phone. “We gotta sort this alphabetically.” She tapped a few things on the screen. “Let’s see. Okay, Eli, Ezra, Henley, Jack, Leo, Luiz, Noah, Ryan, Sean, William, and Zach. Gah, I think they’re all in right now.”

I sighed. This kissing booth was not going the way I’d hoped. And I’d missed the first touchdown of the game. I loved sitting in the stands and cheering on Axel and Jacob. And now I had Liam and RJ to root for too. Why was I spending my Saturday at a kissing booth where I could only kiss underclassmen or guys not on the team? This was a disaster.

“Sophie, can we please just shut the booth down? It’s not working and my dad already gave us plenty of money to give to the team.”

“But look! Ryan is on the bench right now!”

He was indeed drinking water on the bench. He pushed his shaggy hair off his forehead as he watched the game.

“Go over and kiss him.”

What? “I can’t walk onto the field and make out with someone on the bench...” my voice trailed off as I watched Axel throw a perfect pass to Liam. “Go Axel!” I yelled.

Axel turned toward me. He usually smiled when he saw me in the stands. But he didn’t look very pleased right now. Maybe because they were losing by one touchdown.

I turned my attention to my little brother who’d just caught the pass. “Go Liam!” I yelled at the top of my lungs. I stood up and started clapping as Liam ran down the field. But then I cringed when he got tackled from the side. The whole crowd groaned at the same time. But Liam stood back up to lots of cheers.

I breathed a sigh of relief. But my breath got caught in my throat when Sophie started yelling at Ryan on the bench.

“Ryan!” she yelled at the top of her lungs.