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“It all makes sense now though,” Liam said. “I knew you had better taste in women, Jacob. And I knew you had a thing for Olivia.”
I ignored him. But seriously...who was this Olivia girl? I tried to shake the thought away. “Sophie, you said you’d done some research on the remaining guys?”
“I thought you’d never ask.” She grabbed a folder off the desk and walked over to a bulletin board. “I printed these out lastnight, so excuse the first one.” She pinned a headshot of Jacob to the bulletin board with a shiny golden push pin. And then she grabbed a marker and put a big X over his face. “Jacob is no longer a contender. I mean...right?” She turned to him. “It’s definitely not you? This isn’t some elaborate trick where you plop a fake bad kiss on Scarlett to mess with her head?”
“No, it’s not me,” he said firmly.
“Okay. And then there’s Mr. Halifax.” She pinned a picture of Mr. Halifax next to Jacob’s. Mr. Halifax was standing behind his desk with his arms folded across his chest.
It was pretty clear that she’d taken a picture of him during class. And I wondered how many times she’d done that without me noticing.
“He’s the school mascot,” she said. “So definitely a contender. Although I will literally die if it’s him.”
“I can’t believe it might be our teacher,” Liam said. “That’s so weird. Can’t he date someone his own age?”
Liam was one to talk. And also...my dad had been my mom’s teacher. Gah. I hated everything.
“Hooking up with a teacher isn’t that weird,” Sophie said. “Just ask your mom.”
Liam groaned.
Sophie pulled another picture out of her folder. “Next up there’s Axel.” She put up his picture. “Scarlett has had a crush on himher whole life. And he’s put her in the friend zone hard ever since sixth grade after a spin the bottle situation gone awry.”
I couldn’t believe she’d just said that out loud.
“How did it go awry?” RJ asked.
“When Axel spun the bottle it landed on Ava Williams,” Sophie said.
“Sophie, stop,” I said.
“Scarlett, we’re looping them into all of this. They need to know the details.”
I sighed.Yeah, maybe.I nodded my head to give her the go-ahead.
“Now where was I? Right. Axel tried to talk to Scarlett, but Scarlett told him it was fine. So he gave his first kiss to Ava and changed the course of history. Ever since then Axel has been a bit of a whore. And Scarlett has practically been a nun. Until the kiss thief.”
Everyone was quiet. This was highly mortifying.
“It’s probably just Axel,” Liam said. “He’s single right now.”
“He doesn’t like me,” I said. “If he didn’t want to kiss Ava, he didn’t have to kiss Ava. No one was forcing him.”
“I don’t know,” RJ said. “That was years ago, Scar. And Axel has been acting really weird since you and Jacob started hangingout. It would certainly explain why he keeps refusing to hand the ball off to Jacob. Maybe he’s jealous.”
Jacob shook his head. “I told Axel I was going to ask Scarlett out. If he liked her, he would have told me.”
“I’m with RJ on this,” Sophie said. “He’s been crazy jealous. Or...brotherly. It’s a really strangely blurred line.”
I groaned. “Enough about Axel. He’s on the list. Whatever. Can we please focus on the other six guys? I thought you said you did research?”
“Cool your loins, Scar. I’m on it. Time for our suspect list.”
Scarlett and the Fake Boyfriend - Chapter 6 – The Suspect List
Tuesday
“Suspect number one is Henley the Jealous Lock Picker.” Sophie pinned Henley Turner’s picture on the bulletin board.
