Camp Cretaceous (Darius X Brooklynn)

Chapter Three

Stay home, stay safe.

Darius sat on the wood bench outside with the other campers. Well, everyone but Yasmina, who was drawing in her notebook. He's trying to keep his cool around Brooklynn, but it's kind of hard to be calm when a girl who is not your sister sees you shirtless. "Alright, well, what was the plan? Where we gonna do something, or just sit in a circle?" Darius says to break the tension.

"Oh!" Sammy exclaims. "Why don't we tell some scary camp stories?"

Everyone starts to nod and murmur in agreement. "Alright. Does anyone know any good stories?" Kenij asks.

After a moment, Darius just decides to roll with it. He puts on the hood of his grey jacket. "This one has been told by everyone." At this, everyone shuts up and pays attention to Darius. "The person I heard this from actually set the record straight. In his own words, he described what had happened on the island when the first park fell." Darius takes a small pause for dramatic effect. " 'We thought it would be fun. We thought we would be safe. But we didn't realize the horror that was waiting for us on the island. Claws... Teeth... Screaming... So much screaming.' " Darius pauses again for effect. He resumes, gesturing with his arms to help with the visuals. The T. Rex stalked closer. Her jaws opened wide.' " Click!

Everyone stops and turns to see that Brooklynn had her phone out and was recording. "For the vlog." She defends herself. "Keep telling the story."

Darius puts back on his hood. "The T. Rex stalk-"

"Oh, dang. Out of space." Everyone sighs again. "Sorry, hold on. I just don't wanna delete my selfie on Everest."

Darius sighs. "Maybe I should start over."

Ben moves closer to Kenji and screams, "No! In fact, you can just stop!"

Kenji rolls his eyes. "Dude, chill, he's not even telling the story. And HOW is your grip this strong?" Kenji was about to lose his arm if Ben held on any tighter.

Darius opens his mouth to continue the story when, "I'm sorry." Sammy interrupts. Darius lays down on the bench. "Shouldn't we call Yazmina over?"

Brooklynn states, "I think she just wants some time to herself."

Sammy just looks at the others with a confused look. "I don't understand."

Kenji, who was getting upset that Ben was close to him, says, "You know how sometimes, people just want to be... Left alone?" The rich teen turns his head towards Ben when saying the last part.

Sammy breaks out into laughter. "Kenji, that's hilarious." Looking back at Yaz, she continues. "I think she's just shy and doesn't know how to make camp friends." Thunder and lightning flash and it starts to rain. "We should go inside!" Sammy states.

Ben, who started going as fast as Roadrunner, yells, "Way ahead of you."

As everyone else follows Ben, Darius hears Brooklynn say, "Well, THAT was a waste of time."

Darius didn't get up to follow the others immediately, but as he gets up, he mutters to himself, "Thanks Brooklynn."

When he gets inside, he sees Yaz and Sammy talking. Poor Yaz. Sammy isn't that bad, she just gives off a vibe of always needing people around her. Darius walks by Brooklynn, Kenji and Ben. He was gonna go to his bunk and lay there for a while, but Brooklynn says, "Hey, Darius. Wanna play a round of Monopoly?"

"Sure." He moves to sit, but the only other spot was next to Brooklynn. He decides to just breath and not freak out after earlier. "Have we rolled to see who goes first?"

By the end of the round, Kenji was mad that he ended up going bankrupt, Ben was happy because it was HIS property that caused him to lose all his money, and Brooklynn and Darius were acting like normal Monopoly players.