Camp Cretaceous (Darius X Brooklynn)

Chapter Twenty-Six

Another one. Lets go! Stay home, stay safe.

A few minutes went by. Darius and Brooklynn sat on the couch. Darius was sitting on the right side of the couch, with Brooklynn couple feet to his right. He figured he would just inch closer to Brooklynn. He started moving, but Ben sat down a few minutes later with a book. Darius sighed at the failed attempt.

"Hey Ben." Yaz said. "How 'bout a game?" She held up a deck of cards in her hand, and shook it.

Ben declined. "No thanks. Not much of a card person."

"Oh. Okay. Then, how about you help me look for some snacks." Yaz got right behind the couch, and moved the lamps that were behind Darius and Brooklynn closer to each other.

Ben looked at her with confusion. Before he could say anything, Darius got up. "I will Yaz. Let's go." When they got far enough into the kitchen, Darius whispered, "Dude. What are you doing?"

Yaz smirked. "Just being a good wingman. You TOTALLY have a crush on Brooklynn."

"I thought we had already established that." Darius said. "And you're being SUPER weird. Brooklynn's gonna figure out something's up. She's smart enough to figure it out."

Yaz just chuckled. "Go make your move stud."

Darius looked around the kitchen. "It's like talking to a wall." He turned back to look at Yaz. "Can you just chill? I'll 'make my move' when we're all home safely. Okay?" Yaz still smiled, but gave him a nod. As they made their way back to the couch, the door opened. The teens saw that there was nothing. But the sound of robot legs clanked down the hall.

"She said the BRADs weren't allowed in here." Ben whispered.

"Hide." Darius used his right arm to pull Brooklynn off the couch behind him. Using his left hand, he pulled out his gun. He quickly made sure it was loaded, and he pushed Brooklynn towards the kitchen. The robot clanked it's way into the living room. It scanned the room, and scanned halfway into the kitchen. Darius made sure Brooklynn was all the way over and hidden.

The green light moved around the other room. It had finished doing the initial scan. A few minutes passed. Darius was too afraid to make a noise. He poked his head out slightly, and saw what he assumed was the BRAD. The mechanical pitbull looked like it was searching for something on Mae's desk. The BRAD got off the desk, and looked like it was about to walk out of the room. But 8t turned its head to scan under the desk that Yaz and Ben were hiding.

Darius grabbed one of the pans that were hanging on the wall. "Unauthorized life form detected." The BRAD opened its mouth, and sounded like it was charging up electricity. Darius swung the pan under the BRAD'S head. The mechanical head went flying across the room.

Darius sighed. He looked down at his two friends. "You guys good?" Yaz and Ben nodded.

Brooklynn smiled. "Ugh, did you SEE that SWING? It was PERFECT. Nice job. You know, if the football thing doesn't work out, I can see you doing baseball."

Darius smiled. Yaz put her hand on Ben's shoulder. The younger teen asked, "Hey, could you guys give me and Yaz a second?"

"Sure." Brooklynn said. The two teens went to the kitchen.

They could hear Ben talking to Yaz. "Look Yaz. You're an AMAZING person. And I would be lying if I said I didn't think of this as well." Yaz gave him a confused look. "I really like you. More than a friend. But right now, I've just started to find out who I want to be as a person. And I really need to focus on that before I focus on someone else."

Darius fought to hold back the laughter that was trying to force it's way out. He thinks Yaz is hitting on him! I mean, I can see it working, but holy SHIT is this funny! Brooklyn looked at him with confusion. The older teen just shook his head and mouthed that it was nothing.