During lunch period, Tobias found Georgie in the library and slid into the seat across the table from her. She looked up from her computer and pulled out one earbud.

“What do you want?” she asked.

“Oh, come on,” Tobias said. “Is that all I get? Whatever happened to ‘Hey Tobias!’?”

“You have that look on your face,” Georgie replied.

“What look?”

“The look that means you’re about to ask me to do something I don’t want to.”

“That’s not true,” Tobias protested.

Georgie raised an eyebrow.

“I’m here to present you an opportunity,” Tobias began.

Georgie cut him off. “And I’m already saying no.” She put her other earbud back in.

Tobias reached across the table and pulled it back out. “Just hear me out, alright?”

She glared at him. He took that as a yes.

“There’s a job I’m applying to this summer, and I think you should also apply.”

Georgie closed her laptop; Tobias now had her full attention. He’d hoped this would work; she had mentioned looking for a summer job to him a few weeks ago.

“It’s at the summer camp I used to go to every summer when I was little,” Tobias began.

Georgie’s eyebrows shot up. “The one where a kid got stabbed?!”

“Yes, well… that was one time,” Tobias conceded, “but other than that it’s a great place! I loved it there, and I would love to go back as a counselor, but…”

“You want someone to do it with you,” Georgie finished. She knew him well. Tobias was not the most outgoing guy on the best of days, and the idea of being surrounded by a couple hundred strangers was something that he wasn’t sure he was up for, even for a place that had defined his childhood.

“Something like that,” he finished.

Georgie sighed. “What’s it called again?”

“It’s Lake Three Leaves,” Tobias said.

Georgie raised an eyebrow. “Like poison oak?”

“There are other plants with leaves that grow in threes,” Tobias protested. “That’s why there are multiple verses to that rhyme.”

Georgie rolled her eyes. “Still, it’s not exactly something I would want to put a reminder of in the name if I ran a camp.”

“You’re at least considering this, though?” Tobias asked.

“Well, I don’t know,” Georgie said. “What’s in it for me?”

“Besides being the greatest friend of all time, you mean?” Tobias asked, grinning at her.

Georgie rolled her eyes again and put her laptop back in her backpack. “Yes,” she replied. “Besides that.”

“They pay two dollars an hour above minimum wage,” he said, and he could tell by the look on her face that he had won.

“I’ll think about it,” she said. “But for now I’m meeting Jules across the street for lunch.”

“That sounds great,” Tobias said, standing up to join her.

“A lunch date,” Georgie clarified.

Tobias pouted. Georgie flicked him in the nose. “Go find yourself a boyfriend and stop third-wheeling us."