Summer Camp (Conman/ Kleinphy fic)

Chapter Five: The Scavenger Hunt

    "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.