“Stop kidding me, angel!”

“Ryan stood over me. “What are you doing?”“Dying.”

“I can feel youstaring at me,” he said in the softest wake-up voice I’d ever heard. “I onlyhope you’re a girl and not one of the drunken guys.”

“He can’t playwhen someone is watching him,” Justin almost sang into my ear. “Totally screwsup then.”“But you allare watching him,” I pointed out.At the back ofthe room, someone laughed. “Yeah, but we’re not girls.”

“In panic, I heldhis hand in place. “Move another inch, Hunter, and you’re a dead man.”

“For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.”

“For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.”