Camp Cretaceous (Darius X Brooklynn)

Chapter Thirteen

Hope you guys are having a good day, staying home, and staying safe.

Darius was shaken awake. He groaned, and opened his eyes. It was daylight. He wondered if he only slept for an hour. He looked up, and saw Brooklynn. "What time is it?" he asked her.

"It's eight o'clock in the morning." she told him.

His eyes widened. "What the hell? I left a note." He sat up, but his arm was starting to hurt.

"We all agreed that you've been working too hard. You of all people needed the rest." Sammy told him. Yaz nodded in agreement.

Darius looked over at Ben. "I tried to tell them, but I was outvoted." Ben said.

Darius sighed. He stood up, and stretched his arm. "Gahhuh." Darius put it down quickly, and started clutching it.

"What's wrong?" Kenji asked, concerned.

That's when Brooklynn noticed his sleeve. "How long have you been bleeding?" She rolled up the sleeve, and saw a nasty cut. "When did this happen?" she asked him.

"Mitch. When you ran him over, the bullet grazed off my arm." Darius explained. "I thought I could just sleep it off."

Brooklynn groaned, and went to find the alcohol bottles. "What is it with boys trying to toughen through their injuries?" Yaz asked out loud. Kenji coughed in her direction, and she immediately knew what he was talking about.

Brooklynn sat down on the couch next to him with the alcohol and a cloth. "Take your shirt off." she told him. Darius looked at her with his mouth hanging for a second. "You want me to cut the sleeve off and ruin a perfectly good shirt? Take it off." He sighed and did as he was told. As he took off his shirt, Brooklynn started having flashbacks of when they ran into each other in the hall two months ago. She silently scolded herself, and started to feel around the area that was scratched. "There is no exit hole. Do you feel any pain? Any grinding?" He groaned, and shook his head. Brooklynn knew he was telling her the truth. He would have been screaming his head off if he felt any grinding in his arm. Brooklynn poured some of the Vodka on the cloth. She pressed the cloth on his arm, and he started groaning some more. "Sorry. But if I don't clean it now, the infection is going to get worse later." He nods, and groans softly. Brooklynn was trying very hard to not stare at him. Still, she couldn't help but look at his torso.

Kenji asked, "Dude, how the hell did you get so ripped?"

"Practice and the gym after school." Darius said.

"I need to join the football team." Ben said. Darius laughs a little. "What would you recommend Darius?"

Darius inspects Ben a little bit as Brooklynn started to bandage up his arm. "It's too early to tell, but for you, I would recommend Half-Back. You're small, but I would imagine fast after all that time in the jungle. But if you get taller than 5' 10", I would recommend either Wide Receiver or Cornerback." Brooklynn cut the bandage, and finished up.

"Alright. You're done." Brooklynn told him.

Darius put his shirt on. "Thanks." Then he got a thought. "Where did you learn to do that?"

"Before some of my more dangerous videos, my sponsors made me take like a million first aid courses." Brooklynn explained.

Darius nodded. "Alright. Well, you are now our official doctor."

Sammy got excited. "I can be her assistant! Mama taught me everything I know about taking care of the cattle. I can apply that here."

Darius agreed. After a minute of silence, he said, "Listen. I should have told you guys earlier, but after what happened with Mitch and Tiff yesterday, I think I should tell you." Everyone looks in his direction. Finally, he sighs, and says, "I don't think anyone is coming. I put false hope before you guys because I wanted to be wrong. It's been almost two months, right? The odds of anyone surviving that long on a dinosaur island is amazingly low. We cannot expect any rescue to come." The campers started to deflate, but Darius continued, "It's time for us to make our own escape." This get's everyone's attention back. "We have to be the luckiest kids alive to have either escaped death, or find a way to cheat it." Darius pointed to Ben, making him a symbol for them. "I don't want to just do nothing and wait for no one. I want to get home or go out trying. If any of you feel that way in the slightest, step forward, because if we do this, we have to be all in." Not a second later, everyone moved towards him.