“No,” I said firmly. “All of you stop it! Sophie take that jacket off before you hurl. RJ turn the volume on your phone off and fix the hole. And you,” I pointed to my brother. “Did you steal a key to this woman’s apartment? What were you thinking? Breaking and entering is a crime even if you don’t have to break anything.” I knew as soon as I heard Hunter Hunter mess around that I was going to wind up in jail.

“What? No. I met her on the elevator like a year ago. She asked me to house sit. And she’s never been back.”

“She’s been out of town for a year?”

“Yeah.” He shrugged.

That didn’t make any sense. “And you just come in here and…what?”

He smiled. “I do things.”

“Probably like what Uncle James is doing to Aunt Penny right now,” RJ said as he turned the volume on his phone off.

Sophie dry heaved.

“Okay, enough!” I yelled. “What are we going to do?!”

Sophie took off the ushanka and shrugged out of the fur coat. “We’re going to the party.”

“Did you not hear anything I just said?”

“Scar, I took off the jacket.”

“But the hole!” I pointed to the ceiling.

“No one can see it,” Sophie said.

“Are you kidding me right now?” I pointed to it to emphasize the fact that you could in fact see the hole.

“I mean, yeah, we can see it. But no one can see it from upstairs. The carpet is back in place. And even if someone does stumble upon that room, which they won’t, they’ll land gently on the bean bag chair.”

“I did not land gently.” My butt still hurt.

“Wait, did RJ not warn you about the hole?”

RJ laughed.

“I’m going to kill you,” I said.

“You would never.” He laughed again. “You’d miss me too much. Now come on, let’s get going, baby doll.”

I glared at him.

“Really, Scar, it’s fine,” Liam said. “I was talking to Briggs and Porter while you were escaping. They didn’t see a thing. And no one except the four of us knows about the hole.”

“And it looks like you’re sleeping peacefully in your bed.” RJ showed me his phone where there was a live feed to my room instead of my parents’ now.

It did look like I was there sleeping. “Wait, how long have you been hacked into the cameras?”

“A while.”

“Did you watch me change, you little pervert?”

RJ laughed. “No, because I’m not a pervert.”

“Yes you are.” I tried to grab his phone but he held it out of my reach.

Seriously, when did Liam and RJ get so tall?

“I’ll ex out of it,” RJ said. “Look.” He did something with his hands in the air and then showed me the blank screen. “See. Done.”

“Pervert.”