“This wait is killing me,” Sophie said as we filled up our cups again.

It was killing her? I was the one basically having a heart attack every day from the suspense. I took a huge sip of my drink.

It took a few minutes, but then my phone finally buzzed. He’d sent a picture of Sophie and me staring at my phone. Back from before we’d walked over to the keg.

“It must have been taken from over there.” I pointed toward one of the bonfires. It had the perfect angle of where we’d been staring at the phone a few minutes ago.

There were a few guys standing around the bonfire laughing. But none of them were paying us any attention.

“Let’s go talk to them,” Sophie said.

I grabbed her arm before she could walk over there. “But the kiss thief could have snapped the picture a few minutes ago and moved.” I sighed. “None of those guys are even looking at us.”

“That sneaky bastard,” Sophie said. “Wait! Is that Eli Jones over there?”

“Yeah.” It was indeed Eli Jones. He was one of the guys standing at the bonfire laughing. Could it have been him who’d taken the picture?

“He’s probably forcing himself not to look over here,” Sophie said. “So that we don’t suspect him.”

I shrugged. “Maybe.”

“Follow my lead,” Sophie said.

I didn’t love the sound of that. But I quickly followed her.

We walked over to the bonfire, our shoes crunching on the freshly fallen leaves. The guys kept laughing about something.

And I really hoped they weren’t laughing about the mysterious texts I’d been getting from...Eli?

“Great game,” Sophie said.

Eli turned toward her. “I’m just sad I missed your kissing booth.” He gave Sophie a flirtatious smile.

Well...I didn’t think my kiss thief would flirt with Sophie so hard. But you never knew.

“It’s not too late,” Sophie said. “Scarlett is still taking kisses.”

This never got any less mortifying. I finished the rest of my drink. Here goes nothing. I was starting to become a pro at this.

Eli turned to me and smiled.

But before I could even think of what to say to him, I was being lifted off my feet by someone behind me.

I heard Jacob’s laughter in my ear.

“There you are,” he said as he spun me around. “I’ve been looking all over for you.” He set me back down on my feet.

I’d felt so torn up inside and now seeing his familiar face made me feel off-kilter.

“You’re shivering,” he said. “Here.” He shrugged out of his varsity jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders.

Eli saw the jacket on my shoulders and turned away.