Camped Out by Daphne Greer

Author:Daphne Greer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459815438
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2017-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Later that night Ian appears at our campsite with Heather, Jen and a bag full of marshmallows. “Do you want to come over for a campfire?” he asks, popping a marshmallow in his mouth.

“Give me those,” Heather says. “You’re going to eat them all before we get back!” She snatches them out of his hands and holds them behind her back. Ian fake cries, then clasps his hands together, begging for the bag back. Heather rolls her eyes and gives him another marshmallow but holds on to the bag.

He’s such a dork.

“I want some marshmallows,” says Duncan.

Heather glares at Ian. She turns toward Duncan. “Yeah, um, sure. You can have one.” She reluctantly holds the bag out for him.

“They look good,” Sam says. “Is it good, Duncan?”

“Okay, gang,” Cole says. “We’ve got our own marshmallows.”

Embarrassed that Duncan has started all this, I root through the food bag, looking for the marshmallows, but Ainslie beats me to it. Our fingers brush, and an electrical volt shoots up my arm.

“I got it,” she says, smiling.

“Are you coming with us or what?” Ian says.

“Um…I guess,” I say.

Ainslie looks disappointed, but maybe I’m imagining things. I turn toward Cole. “You sure it’s okay for me to go?”

“Beat it. Scram. Go have fun. Come back in an hour or so.”

I dart out of there before Duncan decides he wants to come too.

The fire at Ian’s campsite is roaring and crackling away when we reach it.

“So you guys have the marshmallows!” says Rick, their counselor. “We’ve been looking for those. I should have known.”

“Yeah, Heather took them,” Ian says.

Heather slaps the bag across his arm. “Yeah, right!”

“What?” Ian says, laughing.

We are soon sitting on logs with our long sticks, roasting marshmallows, laughing at jokes, telling ghost stories and everything in between. Jen keeps inching closer to me as the night goes on, laughing at everything I say. Even when I’m not being funny. It’s weird, but Ian keeps winking at me and making stupid faces. He thinks we’ve hit the girlfriend jackpot.

Then I hear Duncan’s voice. I look up from the fire. What’s he doing here?

Ainslie is right behind him. I feel weird sitting on the log crammed next to Jen.

“What are they doing here?” Jen says. She sounds annoyed.

“I think Duncan’s got something stuck in his ear,” Ainslie says. “Like a bug or something. Max, he wanted you.”

Duncan has a bad habit of picking at his ear when he gets worried. I glance at my watch. I’ve been gone for two hours. I didn’t mean to stay that long. “You’ve probably just scratched it, Duncan. Let me have a look.”

“No. I have a bug in my ear,” Duncan whines.

Right away one of the guys from Ian’s cabin starts telling us about a time when his dad worked at camp. How this one guy got a beetle stuck in his ear. How they had to airlift him to the hospital. “He almost died,” the guy says.

Duncan is now convinced he has a beetle in his ear. He covers both of his ears with his hands and starts rocking back and forth.

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