Nobody had even noticed Connor and Jared's absence, which Jared appreciated but also found, concerning?

They had trekked all the way back to the cafeteria, where everyone else was just beginning lunch.

"Wasn't that hike interesting!" Alana ran up to them. Obviously she hadn't noticed that they had disappeared halfway through. Connor gave Jared a look as if to tell him to keep his damn mouth shut.

"Yeah, it was pretty cool, I guess." Connor shrugged.

"But it's the weirdest thing, now my legs are all itchy?" Alana held her leg out, showing Jared and Connor a large rash forming there. Jared gritted his teeth, making a disgusted face.

"That doesn't look good." Jared tried to shield his eyes.

"It looks like poison ivy?" Connor leaned in, examining it.

"If I stepped in poison ivy, everyone did, we were all following the same trail and I never go off trail." Alana blinked. "Besides, you two don't have it, so that means I couldn't have a poison ivy rash."

Jared glared at Connor, begging him to let him say where they had actually been. Connor shook his head slightly.

"Maybe you should go see the nurse, Zoe could go with you." Connor suggested. "Seriously, that thing needs to be checked out."

"Oh! Speaking of which, Zoe is looking for you, Connor." Alana pushed her glasses up on her face. "Would you mind coming with me, Jared?"

Connor gave a small groan and stalked off to find Zoe, leaving Alana and Jared alone.

"Connor and I snuck off to have a secret date which is why you most likely have poison ivy." Jared blurted out.

Wow, nice save.

"You really need to work on keeping secrets." Alana smirked, starting to head to the nurse's office.

"I know." Jared sighed, hanging his head as he walked beside Alana. "Please don't tell Connor I told you."

"Don't worry, your secret's safe with me, a person who actually knows how to keep a secret." Alana teased him.

    "Thanks, 'Lana." Jared cracked a smile.

    The two arrived at the nurse's cabin and Alana got some sort of medicine for her rash. They then decided to head to the girls' cabin, as they figured that was where Connor and Zoe would be.

     They were half right, Zoe was there, sitting on her bed and seemingly journaling.

    "Hey, girl." Jared smirked, throwing himself on Zoe's bed.

    "Get your greasy self off my bed." Zoe prodded Jared with her foot.

    "Only if you get your greasy boyfriend out of my cabin." Jared snickered.

    "What did you have to talk to Connor about?" Alana asked Zoe, who was ignoring Jared's comment.

    "I just had to ask him something." Zoe shrugged, setting her journal on her dresser. "A better question is, why did you bring this idiot here?"

    "Hey, this idiot happens to be your future brother-in-law, so watch it." Jared winked.

    "I'm telling Connor you said that." Zoe grinned evilly.

    "No!" Jared squeaked, sitting up.

    "Why not, you're so determined that it's going to happen-" Zoe began.

    "Please don't!" Jared begged. "I don't want to scare him off!"

    "Fine, I won't tell him if-" Zoe looked around the room, thinking. "You let Alana and I give you a makeover."

    Jared paused, thinking it over for a second.

    On the one hand, Connor and Evan might laugh at him. On the other hand, that sounded fucking awesome.

    "Sure." Jared said slowly, receiving beaming looks from both Alana and Zoe.

    "I'll grab my makeup bag-" Alana ran over to her dresser.

    "Mine's under here-" Zoe reached under her bed and pulled out a very large bag.

    Jared was already regretting his choice.

    Soon, the two girls had gathered all their makeup items. Jared hadn't even known that this much makeup existed.

    Alana and Zoe then began to talk about the make up, which sounded a bit like this to Jared:

    "I'm going to rub this weird flesh-colored stick on your face and then pat it with my fingers." Zoe said-ish.

    And then Alana was kind of like:

    "Oh! I want to be the one to force Jared to keep his eye open while I almost poke him in the eye, but not quite."

    Jared truly had a talent of tuning out.

    Either way, it took forever for the two to do his makeup. Jared was sincerely beginning to rethink every girl he's ever seen. Did it always take this long to look that way?

    After what felt like ages to Jared, Zoe told him they just had one more thing to do.

    "What color of lipstick do you want?" Zoe asked, showing him a large variety of colors.

    "He'd look good in a natural color." Alana noted.

    "How about that one?" Jared pointed at a lighter pink.

    "Sure, it's cute!" Zoe grabbed the lipstick and made Jared pucker his lips so she could put it on.

   Alana and Zoe applied the finishing touches and backed away from Jared to admire their work.

    "He looks adorable!" Alana squealed, running for her dresser again. "I need to find my disposable camera!"

    "Connor definitely needs to see this!" Zoe beamed, reaching forward to brush the hair out of Jared's face.

    "Smile, Jared!" Alana said as she clicked the button on her camera. Jared stuck his tongue out and flipped her off. "Jared! My parents are going to see these!"

    "Come on, let's go show the boys!" Zoe beamed, grabbing Jared's arm and dragging him out the door. Alana followed on her heels.

    Truth be told, Jared actually didn't mind wearing make up, he thought it would definitely be cute for everyday use if he toned it down a bit.

    Soon Alana and Zoe had dragged him the entire length of the walk from the girls' cabin to the boys'.

    Without bothering to knock, they flung open the door to the cabin to see Connor and Evan sitting on Evan's bottom bunk, seemingly in the middle of a conversation.

    Jared felt his face heat up and immediately wanted to wipe the makeup from his face. He didn't know why he had agreed to this.

    "Hey Zoe-" Evan began before catching sight of Jared. His jaw dropped in awe.

    "Look what we did to Jared!" Alana pushed Jared forward slightly.

    Jared's eyes were focused on Connor, waiting to see his reaction. Connor's eyes went wide for a minute before he burst into laughter, causing everyone else to erupt into laughter as well.

    Jared wanted to curl up into a ball and die. Usually Jared was the one making the joke, he wasn't used to being the joke. He lightly laughed along, waiting for an opportunity to dash out and wipe his face clean.

    He really should've known the makeup would be a joke to everyone, that's why Zoe made the deal with him.

    Jared couldn't hold up his fake laughter anymore. Feeling tears well up in his eyes as everyone continued to laugh at him, Jared turned on his heel and ran out of the cabin.