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trouble.”
    “And if you’d had your Spidey-senses, you would have avoided that patch of poison oak you just touched.” His teasing tone turned serious as he pulled my hand back from some brambly bushes and squinted in the dim light at it.
    When he let go, I shoved it in my shorts pocket, careful not to touch any other part of my body. As soon as I got back to the cabin I’d give it a good scrub and hope for the best. I’d had it before and looked like some creature dragged from the bottom of Lake Juniper. Or Mars. Definitely not the look I needed to get Seth’s kiss. Plus, Siobhan’s patience with my dare was over. She’d be pissed when she learned I still hadn’t sealed the deal.
    We got back to the picnic tables where both counselors—Bam-Bam and Susannah—were giving us a warning glare. Guess we needed to step up the pace.
    “Hey guys!” Seth called to his friends who were already heading toward the boys’ cabins. “Who has the flag?”
    Vijay held up his arm. “Got it!”
    “Dude, can you bring it here?” Seth jogged toward him and met him halfway. “I want Lauren to have it.”
    I got a lump in my throat. That was about the sweetest thing I could imagine … aside from holding Seth’s hand.
    “Hurry up, ladies,” Susannah called to Alex and Siobhan, who were trying to catch a firefly over near the mess hall. Or, possibly, they were stalling so I could have this last minute with Seth.
    “Here.” He jogged back, holding out the bandana. “It’s pretty impressive that you did it without any gadgets.” He wound the bandana around my wrist a few times and then tied it. “Night, Lauren.”
    He held the knot on the bandana for an extra second and I got weak in the knees.
    “Night, Seth.”
    He smiled before he turned to join his friends. It took me a minute to float back to earth.
    “Geez, Lauren,” Alex grumbled at me when she and Siobhan reached my side. “One of these days, you’re going to have to take advantage of these chances I give you to kiss Seth, okay?”
    “I know.” Because I didn’t want that kiss for the dare anymore. I wanted it for me. “And I’ll do it at the bonfire tomorrow night. It’s the perfect moment.”

 
    Chapter Four
    The next night, I slathered more calamine lotion on my itching legs and wallowed in the disaster that was now my life.
    “Lauren, hurry!” Piper rushed by me to the mirror, hairbrush in hand. “We’re leaving for the bonfire in five minutes.”
    “So what,” I mumbled, my stinging face buried in my hands. “I’m not going.”
    “What?” the group chorused. Siobhan’s pencil snapped.
    My eyes darted to Jackie, who balanced on one heel, stretching her hamstring. Maybe she’d understand? Let me off the hook from facing Seth and going through with this dare? I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein, not a girl on the hunt for her first kiss. But Jackie’s face was set, as were the rest.
    “Guys. I’m hideous.” I scratched at my right ear. How had poison oak reached there? But the infirmary nurse said severe cases even spread inside your body. I shuddered and raked my nails behind my neck. It could be worse. Especially if I had to face Seth. Not like this. Please. Not this way.
    Trinity slid into bejeweled flip-flops, the amethyst-colored stones matching her gauzy tank dress. “Lauren, it’s not that bad. Besides, I already did your chart. Your stars are aligned. Tonight’s the night.”
    I snorted and held out a red-splotched arm. “Does this look like my chakras are working?”
    Siobhan tossed her pencil pieces in the wastebasket and turned, a movement as crisp as her starched yellow polo shirtdress. “Consider this a test of Seth’s feelings. If he’s really into you, then it won’t matter what you look like.”
    “Are you serious?” I pulled at the constricting white-splattered navy tank top I’d managed to both shrink and bleach during an earlier, distracted laundry run. But who could focus with a body that felt like