First time staining a deck today and we have some lap lines. We now know the mistakes we made and how to do it right next time, but is there anything we can do to get rid of the lap lines? We have one “square” in particular that looks bad. Would restaining the areas that don’t look bad make it better?

I really don’t want to sand and restain. So if that’s the only option, I’ll be strategically placing our patio furniture, lol!
We used a semi-transparent, oil-based ceder color stain.