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at Izzy. ‘I’d say our idea worked.’
    I huffed. ‘Yeah, but it nearly backfired,’ I told them. ‘You told me so many horror stories that I nearly bailed on you.’
    ‘Really?’ asked Mia.
    ‘I’m glad I didn’t, though,’ I said. ‘It’s going to be beyond amazing spending the week here together.’
    ‘So you forgive us?’ Mia asked.
    Before I could answer, yelling started up outside the tent.
    We had been left in charge of the boys while the parents went off to the camping ground office. The boys were supposed to be setting up their tents, but there was no way they were doing that. It sounded like they were having a war out there.
    Izzy poked her nose out of the tent. ‘Stop mucking around, you lot! Before someone has an accident!’
    She had barely got the last word out when there was a squeal, followed by the whack of something hitting the side of our tent. Then there was another scream and a loud thud as several boys landed on our tent. A moment later our tent collapsed on top of us.
    ‘You rodents!’ Izzy screamed as the three of us fought our way out.
    By the time we got out, the boys were long gone. Mia spotted BB climbing a nearby tree. The other boys were scrambling after him.
    Izzy gave chase. ‘You’re all so dead ,’ she yelled from the bottom of the tree.
    BB just laughed. ‘Can’t catch us, ya lazy old Izzy lizard.’ He fired a big seed pod, which just missed her.
    ‘ Dead ! You hear me?’ she screamed and looked up at the seven laughing boys in the branches above us. ‘I hate you boys. All boys! I hate you all!’
    The three of us paced around the tree, shouting threats and curses until Mia stopped in her tracks.
    Mia’s face was pale and her mouth dropped open. ‘That’s awkward,’ she mumbled. ‘I bet they saw the whole thing.’
    At first, I thought she was talking about her parents. But when Izzy and I followed Mia’s gaze, we saw a group of guys leaning on the pool fence, staring at us.
    Izzy ducked behind the tree trunk. ‘You think they heard me shouting?’
    ‘I’m pretty certain people on the other side of the country heard you,’ I said. ‘So, yeah, I’d say they did.’
    Izzy poked her head out. ‘Geez, that’s a shame. How cute are they? Especially that one in the red shorts.’
    Mia gave them a wave. One of them waved back half-heartedly. Then they all wandered off.
    ‘I love camping,’ Mia said dreamily.
    ‘Me too,’ Izzy sighed.
    I was beginning to get why my best friends loved camping so much. It was all about the guys.

‘Izzy, you scared them off with all that “hating boys” stuff,’ Mia said bitterly as we sat on the beach watching the waves roll in.
    ‘Or maybe you freaked them out by waving,’ Izzy replied.
    In the last hour, we’d done at least ten circuits of the camping ground, looking for the cute camping guys. We’d checked around the tents and the campervans. We’d been in and out of the pool three times and walked to the beach, but there was no sign of the guy in the red shorts or his friends. They’d disappeared completely.
    ‘Blame your brothers,’ I suggested.
    ‘I always do,’ Izzy said with a grin.
    ‘Yeah,’ Mia agreed. ‘If they hadn’t destroyed our tent, we wouldn’t have been putting it back up when we could have been talking with the guys. And we’d probably be hanging out with them right now, instead of watching seagulls.’
    Izzy sighed. ‘The guy in the red shorts was definitely the cutest.’
    Mia shook her head. ‘The one in the blue shirt was hotter.’ She sighed. ‘But we’re not going to find any of them here.’
    It was starting to get dark, so we headed back to the camping ground. I dawdled behind to check my phone. I’d heard it beep with a text earlier, but didn’t want to check it in front of the girls. While Izzy and Mia kept debating about which of the missing guys was cuter, I opened a message from Persephone.
    How’s the rural retreat?
    I replied: Pretty good :)
    Lucky you. Is it