"It's nothing!" Jared squeaked, finally getting a hold of the card and tearing it to pieces. No one should have proof that Jared Kleinman had feelings.

    Especially feelings for Connor Murphy.

    "But, it was a love letter!" Evan's eyes lit up, though he was careful to give Jared space.

    "No, it wasn't. You saw nothing." Jared threw the pieces of the card into the trash can.

    "But, but." Evan began, but Jared pressed a finger to the boy's lips.

    "I swear to god if you tell anyone about this I will tell Zoe about the time in the school library-" Jared hissed before being cut off by Evan.

    "Okay! Okay, I swear, I won't tell anybody." Evan said quietly, turning very red faced. "But, can you tell me about it?"

    "No! I don't want to talk about it!" Jared backed away from Evan before turning on his heel and storming off into the lunch line. He was shaking, not from anger at Evan, but because he had fucked up. Now someone knew, now he could be exposed at any minute and Connor would hate him, now-

    "Hey." Connor was at the end of the lunch line, waiting for Jared.

    "Hey." Jared tried to say nonchalantly. Evan came up behind them to wait in line, he was particularly silent.

    Good. Maybe he really won't tell anyone.

    Jared got an over cooked hamburger for lunch and slunk down in a seat, being careful not to sit near Connor. Conversation continued as usual at the table, no one except Evan noticing Jared's sudden silence.

    After they were finished eating they were forced outside and into their groups again in order to do a scavenger hunt. Jared wasn't very interested, what was the point in picking through the woods to find useless objects? Each group was handed a list of materials they needed to gather.

"Alright, the first group to find all the items on their list and arrive here first wins their very own pizza party!" Greg clapped his hands excitedly. Jared watched as all of the campers seemed to perk up. Hell, it was only the first day and already Jared was sick of the food here. Beside him, he saw Connor glance over at Zoe, they shared a competitive look.

     Hell, this just got a LOT more interesting.

    Jared snatched the list of items out of another one of his group mate's hands.

    Pine cone, heart shaped rock, an acorn, a purple flower, a piece of litter, and a feather.

     That didn't seem too hard to Jared. He glanced up and noticed a lot of the other teams were already running towards the woods. Connor suddenly grabbed Jared and dragged him along towards the woods, hardly paying attention to the rest of the group.

     "We gotta hurry, we're going to win." Connor said firmly as Jared tried to get him to slow down so he could get his bearings.

    "Wait up, guys!" Alana called, the rest of their group at her heels.

    "We don't have time to wait, we have to win!" Connor threw over his shoulder as he continued to pick up his pace. Jared was having trouble keeping up at this point. After all, Connor was tall and had long legs, Jared, however, did not.

    "Please slow down-" Jared began before tripping on a rock, taking Connor down in the process. Jared landed on top of Connor and quickly scrambled to get up, apologizing. Connor paid no attention to the fact that they had just fallen and instead seemed more fascinated in the rock they had just tripped on. He scooped it off the ground.

    "Look, it's heart shaped!" He grinned, holding it out in his palm to show the others. Well damn, it was.

    "Great job, guys!" Alana took the rock and placed it carefully in her bag. "Now get up, we have a lot more to find!" Connor stood up and offered a hand to Jared. Jared accepted it and pulled himself up.

    "Should we split up?" Connor asked, brushing the dirt off his pants.

    "No, then we won't be able to find each other!" Alana argued.

    "But then we'll be able to cover more ground." Jared, looking at the list. "We get into groups of two and each group will only have to find two items on the list."

    "I'll go with Jared." Connor said quickly. "Besides, we already found one of our two items." He grinned smugly and held up the rock. Alana huffed but seemed to agree.

    "Fine, group one finds the acorn and the pine cone, group two finds the feather and the piece of litter, and you two-" Alana pointed at Connor and Jared. "Find the purple flower. When we've found our items we meet back here, okay?"

    "Got it!" Connor gave her a thumbs up and grabbed Jared's sleeve again. "This should be easy." As Jared stumbled away from the group with Connor, an uneasiness settled in his stomach. What if this was they last time they got to hang out before Evan told Connor that he liked him?

"Slow down, Connor." Jared pried his sleeve from Connor's grip. "We only have one item, everyone else has two, we'll just be waiting for them if we find it too early."

"I know, I know." Connor's pace only slowed down slightly. "I just need to win."

"Why?" Jared questioned, scanning the ground as they walked.

"It's-It's nothing." Connor shrugged. Jared thought that was a little vague but dismissed it. After all, Connor was just a little odd sometimes.

Not that Jared himself wasn't.

After a five minute walk Jared spotted a very pretty purple flower which he didn't know the name of because he knows jack shit about plants.

That's more Evan's expertise.

"Alright, easy as that, we can head back." Jared smiled, trying to be very delicate with the flower.

"Yeah," Connor bit at his lip. "I hope everyone else finds all their stuff pretty quick."

"They will." Jared assured him.

They didn't.

Even after every other group was back it was ten more minutes till they arrived. Alana stomped over to them, the rest of their group at her heels. Connor and Alana were both looking very pissed off. Zoe, on the other hand, was looking very smug.

"What the hell took you guys so long!" Connor fumed, clenching his hands into fists.

"Well apparently the sanitation here is on par." Alana tapped her foot angrily. "We couldn't find a single piece of trash."

"It's trash! Make your own!" Connor yelled, catching the attention of other groups.

"That's cheating! I can't do that!" Alana said defensively. Connor let out a strangled noise before storming off, leaving the rest of the group behind. Jared watched Connor go, unsure if he should follow or not. He decided against it.

"Hey, it's okay, it's just a scavenger hunt." Jared tried to say soothingly but it came out sounding a bit sarcastic.

"But it's not just a scavenger hunt!" Alana frowned, getting more upset by the second. "I always excel in everything I do! We got last place, in school that would be called failing!"

With a loud sob, Alana ran off, leaving Jared feeling awkward and alone with people he didn't really care about. He looked over at his other group members.

"Well, bye." He shrugged, leaving to go over to Zoe and Evan. Zoe had lost her smug look in exchange for a worried one.

"Is Alana okay?" She asked, peering around. "She seemed pretty upset."

"She was comparing the scavenger hunt to school." Jared raised his eyebrows. "I think that explains itself."

"Yeah, I'll go find her. She probably headed back to the cabin." Zoe ran off.

Jared was left alone with Evan, who surprisingly was the most emotionally stable at the moment. He seemed to be enjoying this luxury.

"So, about that card I found earlier." Evan said softly. "First off, I won't tell anyone I swear."

"Not a single living soul on this planet, but continue." Jared nodded.

"Second off, who was the card for?" Evan tilted his head to the side. "You seemed very upset about it, the girl you like, does she not like you back?"

Wait, girl? Did he just hear that right? Does Evan not know who he likes?

Oh, he didn't put Connor's name on the card.

Dumbass.

"Oh, yeah. She probably just doesn't like me back." Jared let out a fake laugh.

"Jared," Evan said, suddenly lowering his voice. "Do you like Alana?" Jared hesitated,

"Oh, um, yeah, I do."