"Right," Liam said. He was looking at me like I was the most interesting thing at the party, like everything else could wait. "I heard that you and Kael were now friends, and I thought it was a rumour because, like, you two hated each other at the beginning of the year. Everyone saw it. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife." He was the kind of person who talked fast and used his hands when he spoke. Everything about him was animated and present and completely comfortable in his own skin. "We figured out we had more in common than we thought," I said carefully. "That is code for something happened," Liam said. He was grinning. "Because Kael does not just become friends with people. He is like, the most selective person I have ever met. So either something major happen

