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nearly dragged me back down. I felt around my eyes, feeling skin, not glass.
    “My glasses!”
    “Got ’em.” Siobhan held up the brown-and-tan frames as two high wattage flashlights blared on, freezing all of us in their glare. Busted.
    “I’d say Lauren is not okay,” Gollum announced then blew his whistle from shore. Susannah bumped into him when he stopped short and lowered his instrument.
    “And neither are the rest of you.” Bruce, Seth’s counselor, thundered beside Gollum, his broad face as dark as the sky behind him. He definitely looked every inch the nickname we’d given him—Bam-Bam—for his work as an explosives expert in the war.
    “It’s mess hall duty for all of you this week.” Gollum padded out onto the dock and proclaimed our punishment with another long whistle blast. What a diva.
    But stumbling onto the beach, Seth’s arm wrapped around my waist, I knew nothing could make this less than an amazing summer.
    “And you still owe me that dare,” Siobhan whispered as she passed me my lenses. “By the end of the week.”
    I shot her a glare, which she ignored. What a friend. She must have seen how close Seth and I’d come to a kiss. Wasn’t that enough to let me off the hook, allow me to take things with Seth at my own pace? We were off to such a great start and she still expected me to rush it. I ground my teeth.
    Gollum, Bam-Bam, and Susannah weren’t the only ones conspiring to control my life. But at least the kissing dare hadn’t been a total bust. I’d see Seth a whole lot more this week.
    And sooner or later—I’d definitely take this relationship out of the friend zone.

 
    Chapter Three
    “So exactly how close did you come to kissing that night? Were you touching? Did your eyes shut? Did his?” Alex pestered me a week later. We’d gone over it a gazillion times, but she never got tired of going over the details, even while we lay shoulder to shoulder in the tall grass, deep in enemy territory.
    “Shh!” I hissed, unwilling to be discovered by our Capture the Flag opponents. We were so close to a victory. The middler campers—our age group— had divided up according to cabins. It was the Munchies’ Manor and Wander Inn cabins versus the Divas’ Den girls and the Warriors’ Warden boys in a winner-take-all match that had gone half the afternoon. The fact that we’d been paired with our guy friends, and my crush’s cabin, felt like fate. Like the kiss was meant to be tonight. And as Siobhan had pointed out, the time clock on my dare had nearly run out.
    We’d taken a brief break when dinner time came, but only so the counselors could ask us if we wanted to quit. Like that would ever happen. Unanimously, we’d agreed to a cold meal later so we didn’t have to stop. We’d always been competitive. Our first year, we’d lost a close color war to them because of a controversial call. The tension had increased between our cabins every year since.
    “Come on, Laur.” Alex tossed a braided piece of grass at my nose, distracting me from keeping an eye on the enemy flag. “We could be waiting another twenty minutes. Tell me about you and Seth again- and don’t leave out anything.”
    It was very quiet near us. I hadn’t heard the squeals of a skirmish for a while, and that last battle had been closer to our flag on the other side of the athletic field. I peered behind us to make sure no one had spotted our position.
    Or overheard us.
    “And who is going to explain that we were too busy gossiping to do our jobs if Vijay or Julian makes a break for the flag right now?” I poked her between the ribs. “Our mission is to take out anyone who interferes with our big guns when they come to take the flag.”
    “Oh please.” Alex re-routed a line of ants heading back to their hole to walk along her finger. “You know you’re dying to help Seth snag the prize.”
    “I want to win, no matter who shows up.” I repeated that thought so I’d believe it myself. But