10 4-Ever After

4-EVER AFTER Camp Flaming Arrow was over. Harlan and Franny had been the last to go. Their dad was coming to pick them up the next day. "I'm going to ask him if we can come next year," Harlan said. "But this isn't a real camp," Franny said. "Is it?" Bean tried to look mysterious. "Time will tell." After they had said good-bye, Bean turned to the tent. "I guess we'd better take this thing down now."

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"Guess so," said Ivy. She pulled on a curtain. Nancy was lying inside. Bean stared. "What the heck are you doing?" "You spied on me, so I spied on you," said Nancy. "I wasn't spying on you," Bean said. "I was just sort of watching." "Did you like our rou-tine?" asked Nancy. "It was great!" lied Bean. "It looked super- fun." Nancy sighed. "Actually, it was kind of boring." "Yeah," agreed Bean. Nancy sighed

again. "I thought it was going to be fun. But then it was just the same thing over and over," she said. "Couldn't you quit?" asked Ivy. "I would have quit." "Nope," said Nancy. "Once you started, you had to finish. That was the rule." "That's a terrible rule," said Bean. "Our camp didn't have rules like that," said Ivy. Nancy smiled. "You guys had a pretend camp?" "It wasn't pretend!" Ivy said. "Whatever," said Nancy. She looked at Ivy's dress. "How'd you get all wet?" "I was Boudicca, Queen of the Britons," said Ivy proudly. "A Great Woman of History." "You had Great Women of History?" said Nancy, surprised. "So did we!"

"We fell in Monkey Fountain," Bean said. "Boudicca's whole army fell in." "We just had a slide show," said Nancy. "Slide shows and rules," said Bean. "Sounds like school."

"It was kind of like school," said Nancy. "Do this, do that." "Yuck," said Ivy. Nancy looked between Ivy and Bean. "Was it just the two of you in your camp?" "No. There were lots of kids here," said Ivy. "We were the counselors." "We sort of followed this," said Bean, taking out the Girl Power 4-Ever brochure. "We were trying to be like Girl Power 4-Ever." Nancy sneered. "I don't think so." "We did all the same stuff!" said Bean. "We did crafts and nature study and first aid!" "What crafts did you do?" asked Nancy. "Friendship bracelets," Bean said. "That's how we started, anyway." "But we ended up learning how to escape from ropes," Ivy went on. "Like Houdini." Nancy burst out laughing. "You goons." "We're not goons!" said Bean. "It was fun!" "You want us to show you?" asked Ivy. "We can show you how to do it."