Run (Zach Mitchell)

Chapter 2: Introductions

It wasn't until I reached the docks that I had no idea who Claire's assistant actually was. I didn't even bother asking for her name from Barry before I left. But knowing Claire, her assistant quite honestly shouldn't be that hard to find.

My eyes dart around the pier until my gaze landed on a young woman, very official looking, wearing sunglasses and holding an iPad that had the names Zach and Gray Mitchell. She stuck out like a sore thumb compared to everyone else on the dock, and she seemed like my best bet, so I slowly walked up to her.

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Dearing's assistant?" I asked her.

"Yes. My name is Zara, you must be the girl Claire sent. Skylar, right? The velociraptor trainer?" She asked in her thick British accent, extending her hand.

"That's me," I said shaking her hand. Well she seems nice enough. We fell into an awkward silence as we waited for the boat that was carrying the two boys to the island.

After a while, the boat finally made it to the dock, and wave after wave of passengers disembarked. Through the crowd, two boys walked up to us. One of them looked to be 11 or 12 with dirty blond hair and eyes full of excitement. The other one was older, looked around my age, with dark brown hair and eyes glued to his phone.

I subconsciously ran my fingers through my hair and tried to touch up my appearance before my hand froze over my top. What am I doing? I haven't even met him, and I'm getting paid for this, so technically I'm still working and need to keep professional. I shook my head mentally to try and snap out of it, but maybe babysitting won't be so bad after all.

Plus, with a face like that, he probably already has a girlfriend.

The smaller kid ran up to us, obviously much more excited to be here. I smiled at him, going off from his energy and doing my best to match it. "Let me guess, you must be Gray?" I asked.

The kid eagerly nodded. "Yeah! How'd you know?"

"Lucky guess," I smile, "It's very nice to meet you Gray, and if you're as excited to be here as we are to have you, then we will get along just fine. I'm Skylar, I work here at the park." I said extending my hand, and he gladly shook it.

"It's nice to meet you miss Skylar!" He said politely.

"Just Skylar is fine," I assure him. "So then you must be Zach." I said to the older one as he finally caught up to his brother, extending my hand to him as well.

"Yeah." He answered flatly, not even bothering to look up from his phone. I awkwardly let my arm fall back to my side, my smile faltering. Luckily, the younger of the two was quick to save me.

"What do you do here?" Gray asked curiously.

"Well, I occasionally help out wherever I'm needed, but most of the time I'm a trainer over at the velociraptor habitat." I tell him.

"Yeah right." Zach suddenly spoke up. My eyes darted to him and met his, which had finally left the device in his hand for the first time since they stepped foot on this island.

"Now you decide to acknowledge me." I remark. He just shrugged. He is such a pain already, and I had a feeling he would be difficult to work with. Luckily Gray is a pure ball of sunshine and childish excitement, so to satisfy his impatience, we began to make our way to the monorail that would take us into the park and to their hotel.

After a short wait, we boarded the monorail, Gray and I having a quite entertaining conversation about different dinosaurs at the park while Zach kept to himself and Zara was on the phone. Before long, the entrance to the park was approaching, so Gray leapt out of his seat to head to the front of the monorail, watching as we passed through the doors and entered Jurassic World.

At the hotel lobby, Gray was so eager and full of energy that he got tired of waiting and grabbed my hand, dragging me to their hotel room as soon as he knew where it was. I was taken completely by surprise at his sudden outburst and I saw Zach smirking at me, which I in turn glared back. Guess he was happy his brother had found someone else to drag around.

Reaching the door to their hotel room, Gray had realized neither of us had the room key, so we had to wait for the other two to reach us first. A few moments later, which I'm sure was an eternity for Gray, Zara and Zach came down the hall, room key in hand. Gray quickly snatched it and opened the door, immediately darting in the room.

"Your aunt got you all V.I.P. passes, including you Miss Kenton, so you don't have to wait in line for any of the attractions." Zara said as she held open the door to the hotel room, and I got a good look at the luxurious space. I live in one of the hotel rooms as well, but it's only half the size and extremely minimalist. Even though Owen lives in a shack a ways from here, doesn't mean that I live with him. I mean I already work with him, isn't that enough?

Zach plopped down on the bed while Gray explored the rest of the room, and after they were settled, we headed right back out to the monorail to ride to the park.

A/N: There's chapter 2! Thanks so much for all the reads and I promise the next chapter will be longer. I will be sure to update soon, but in the meantime please leave comments and votes.