Sophie waved him over.
He snuck out of the huddle and ran over to us. “You guys, I’m kinda busy right now.”
“Just kiss Scarlett real quick,” Sophie said.
“I don’t have any cash on me,” he said.
“We’ll pay you $5 to plop one on her.”
Okay...this was mortifying.
“Wait,you’repaying for the kisses?” Billy laughed. “I’m not sure that’s how a kissing booth is supposed to work.”
“Well, the money is going to the football team,” Sophie said. “And you’re on the football team.”
“Right, but...”
“Just kiss her!”
“Yeah, sure. Whatever.” He turned to me.
I leaned forward. I really didn’t want my kiss thief to be Billy. He’d taken so many cheap shots on Jacob during that boxing match. But maybe he’d taken cheap shots because he...liked me?
He pressed his lips against mine.
Nope.It was all wrong. I quickly pulled back and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Billy!” Uncle Matt blew his whistle. “What the heck are you doing over there?”
“Gotta run,” Billy said and ran back over to the huddle.
“Can you send over Eli Jones?!” Sophie shouted, but Billy didn’t respond.
And then all the guys were running onto the field.
“Billy is definitely not the kiss thief,” I said. “And this isn’t going to work.”
“What are you talking about? You already narrowed it down to 11 guys.”
“But all 11 of the guys left are on the field. Maybe we can try to lure them over here during halftime? And shut it down in the meantime?”
“But we have a line,” Sophie whispered.
Yeah. We did. And I didn’t want to mouth kiss any of these random guys. “If you hadn’t chucked that chalk, we could have written that it was closed until halftime.”
“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,mostdidn’t meanall. 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...”