Liam laughed. “You really do though. Come on. Just say it.” He leaned forward and I could smell the pot on his breath. “I’m only helping,” he whispered.

Only helping?! “I don’t have a secret crush. I have...a very real one.” I pointed over at Jacob. “And if you’ll excuse me, I need another drink.” I hurried away from the bonfire and over to the keg. Freaking Truth or Dare. Whose idea had it been to play this?

I grabbed a new cup and filled it to the brim. I had narrowed my list down to six. Kind of. It could still easily be Jacob. Or Axel. Or Mr. Halifax. Or a drifter. God.

I took a huge sip of my drink.

“You look upset, baby doll.”

I jumped, accidentally spilling some of the beer over the rim of my cup. Luckily it all fell on the ground. I sighed and turned to see RJ standing next to me with a joint in his mouth.

What the hell was he doing? “Not you too,” I said. I pulled it out and threw it on the ground.

“You probably should have had a hit and then maybe you’d calm down.”

Calm down? CALM DOWN?! “RJ, I’m going to kill you.”

“What did I do?”

“It’s what you’re not doing. You promised to fix the hole in the floor by the end of the week. I’m going to be grounded again.”

“And I told you I had it covered.”

“By covering it with a rug,” I mumbled under my breath.

“Baby doll. Come on. Relax. It’s Saturday night and we just won our first game. I didn’t want to miss the party.”

I sighed. That was actually fair. It was his first win at his new school. This was a big deal for him. “Yeah. I get it.”

He smiled. “How did the blackmail thing turn out? Did you figure out who the mascot was?”

“I...did.”

“So who was it?”

My stomach churned. “I’d rather not say.”

RJ whistled as he pulled another joint out of his pocket. He pulled out a lighter next.

“Where did you even get that?”

He shrugged. “A friend of a friend.”

“Well, you’re hanging out with the wrong people.”

He laughed. “I mostly hang out with you. Now back to the blackmail thing. Does that mean I can remove the cameras in the men’s locker room before someone sees them? Because someone might find out you and Soph put V21s on the kissing booth to blow it up...”

“I had no idea about the V21s. And it wasn’t like we planned to blow it up. It was an accident.”

“Either way. If the principal figures it out, he might search the rest of the school for hidden cameras. So...can I take them down?”

“Yes. Wait. I mean no.”

“Yes or no?”