MR Day 3 - Choose a one-piece

You choose a blue, one-piece suit for yourself with a matching wrap. It's simple, but it will look good on you without making you look like you are trying to get attention.

You continue to browse the suits, and try not to look at which ones the other girls are taking off the racks and carrying to the changing rooms... it is too easy to fantasize about them. The pool is going to be the best and also the worst. You can't wait.

You look at a bikini in a lighter blue than your suit. You want to buy it for Michelle, but you don't know her sizes exactly. She is a little chubby, but that only makes her cuter. You make a guess and get that suit too.

In a few minutes you are back on the bus with the other girls, returning to camp. They are all complaining about this overnight camping trip that you have to do next. They all wish they could put on these seats and go relax by a pool right now, but instead you will all have to carry your stuff up the steep hill into the forest... You are not looking forward to it.

In the seat in front of you, that new girl, Lara, sits beside Duni.

"What about the hot spring one?" Duni asks her.

"I've heard of it," Lara replies as she fixes her ponytail.

"What about a hot spring?" you interupt.

"Ingrid's coach said there was a rumor about one being in the forest," Duni tells you.

"Might be true," Lara says, smiling.

You make a face. "Who wants a hot spring in this heat?" you ask.

"That's what I said," Duni laughs.

The bus arrives at camp and you all dejectedly walk back to your cabins to get your things. Inside, you see several of the girls look sadly at their new suits... they won't use them tonight. You don't even get to eat dinner at the dining hall. You will have to eat camp food. You don't know how to cook over a campfire.

Michelle is waiting for you outside the cabin when you come out with a soda in her hand.

"Riley, can we talk?"

"OK." You join her as the other girls walk toward the trail.

"I didn't know it was four to a tent up there."

"What?"

"You have to share a tent with three other girls up there." She looks at the forest.

"Oh."

"You won't have any privacy. If you're really scared about your secret, I can get you out of it," she says.

You understand now, but Michelle does not look very worried.

"I don't know if it matters. Everyone is OK. I think if they found out you would be OK. It might be fun." She takes a drink. "You decide, Riley."

Getting out of hiking and camping in this heat is tempting... but the other girls might be jealous, or think you are a wimp because of it. If you go and have to sleep in a tent with three other girls, they could possibly find out about you. This is hard.

Should you go camping? Or stay?