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“Jacob,” I said firmly. Was he really agreeing with his little cousins here?

“What?” He shrugged. “I’m single now.”

I groaned. “Absolutely not,” I said. All of us planning this thing together was bound to be a disaster. But at least Sophie was smiling. And I had a few weeks to go over every last detail to make sure we didn’t get caught.

I stared around at my friends. My mom was right. It would still always be the four of us. Well, the six of us. It’s just that now Axel and I didn’t need to hurt.

“Enjoying my sloppy seconds?” Gigi said as her and her minions stopped next to our group.

“Gigi,” Axel said firmly. “We both know we didn’t do anything past kissing. Stop spreading rumors. And if you mess with my fiancée you mess with me. Got it?”

Gigi opened her mouth and closed it again as she stared at my ring. It looked like she wanted to scream. Instead she lasered her eyes on me. “You’ll always know I kissed him first, though.” And with that she stormed off.

She had kissed him on the first day of school. Before Axel had started being my kiss thief.

“You’ll always be my last first kiss,” Axel whispered in my ear.

I’d take that one. But I felt a little guilty that he wasn’t my last first kiss. I’d kissed like...a lot of people since he pulled me into that closet. A whole kissing booth full of guys.

He lowered his eyebrows, realizing what I had at the same time.

“I’m sorry,” I quickly said. “About the kissing booth. And all the things after that. I was just trying to find you.”

“Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs in order to find your person,” he said. “Like in all those movies you made me watch growing up.”

I laughed. “I guess I had to kiss a whole lot of frogs in order to find my Prince Charming.”

Jacob laughed.

I felt my cheeks grow hot. “Jacob excluded. He’s someone’s prince in a different story. A great prince. One of the best ones. Not even a little big froggy.”

Jacob smiled at me.

“Can we please stop talking about you making out with my friend,” Axel said.

I nodded. “Noted.”

Axel laughed and I stood on my tiptoes to kiss him.

My dad cleared his throat. “No kissing in the hallways.”

Gah! Dad! I pulled back. At least my dad hadn’t been here a few minutes ago when we were talking about the party we were going to throw.

“You kids don’t want to be late to class,” he said.

“Uncle James,” Sophie said. “What are you going to do with all your free time once the four of us are off in college?”

My dad looked at me. “Probably spending a lot of my time on campus.”

I laughed.

But my dad looked dead serious. More serious than he had ever looked when bringing up this whole stalker business.

“Class,” he said. “Now.”

“I need to grab my books,” I said.

My dad nodded and then walked off as I opened my locker.