You'd been watching for the full hour. Not that you'd admit that to anyone. Definitely not Sadie.

The notification pinged.

A DM.

From malachi.barton.

Your thumb hovered over it. Your heart did that stupid little flip it always did when his name showed up on your feed—likes, comments, reposts. But this was different. This was a direct message. And it wasn't opened. Yet.

You stared at the little blue icon. The words "You're invited" blinked back at you from the preview.

You unlocked your phone again. The message was still there. Still real.

Somewhere down the hall, you could hear Sadie laughing at something on her phone, Leo's voice crackling through the speaker.

Malachi Barton. In your DMs. Asking you to come to his house.