Forgotten ~ Ben Pincus x OC

5: Happy Birthday, Eddie!

Flies buzz around us as we trek through the jungle. I got bored pretty quickly, it's not like a dinosaur escapes every day or something.

I don't count compys, but a carnivore like the Indominus Rex. Not fun at all. I look around me as Kenji has a pretty tight grip on my shoulders. I'm not sure why he still does but i get the feeling that he finds the need to.

It wouldn't be the first time that i run off in some direction to actually have a close look at this dinosaur. I had seen her long ago, when she was still a hatchling.

But also, he knows how close i am to my dad. He knows that when something is wrong. I will try to find him and that sort of stuff. He also knows that i lack quite a bit of fear, if they're not pterosaurs. So i don't feel in danger with many dinosaurs around.

I feel anxious, everything in me screams to go back to the raptor paddock and find my father, to get to safety with hik and not get separated from him ever again.

Darius leads us through the high grass in the jungle and my mind wanders to the fact that this is perfect ambush ground for raptors. But i know there are only eight raptors on this island. I mean velociraptors. I also know that they are in high security enclosures so they won't ambush us.

Brooklynn follows Darius and then me and Kenji. I don't know who follows us in what order but i did take a check a while ago and Ben was the last of us. I don't blame him, he's scared of everything.

I hear a twig snap behind us and Ben screams at the sudden sound. I don't even flinch, i guess that being constant around Raptors makes you lose sense of danger. Because you're always on high alert but you let nothing scare you.

Same can't be said about the rest. Which i feel bad for, they all scream and turn around to Ben. I get dragged along as i see Brooklynn crouched down and so is Sammy slightly.

Ben sighs, holding his hands up to clam everyone down. "Sorry, I stepped on a twig." He apologises sheepishly.

"Ugh, come on, man." Yasmina says annoyed, as everyone calms down again.

"You done gave me a heart attack!" Sammy says as she holds her hand over her chest.

Kenji rolls his eyes. "I should step on you."

"It's okay, Ben." Darius says as he tries to calm down Ben, who is the most jumpy of us all. Maybe i should for self preservation also have some of that. But unfortunately i don't. "We're all on edge."

"And lost." Yasmina says frustrated.

"The only person not on edge, would be Daphne." Kenji says, pointing to me. I just roll my eyes.

I shrug my shoulders. "That might be because i'm only on alert. Besides, living with raptors will do that, Ken." I tell him as i let him hold onto me.

I partly think it's also for his own comfort. I mean, why wouldn't he seek that? I'm probably the only one that has some dinosaur survival experience among us. But also not enough to consider it self preservation.

"Yeah, we've been out here for a while now. Darius, we sure we're still headed towards the park?" Sammy asks Darius, i think we got lost a while back.

I don't have an inbuilt compass or gps so i wouldn't know if we are going the correct way. I think i lost all sense of direction after the fall from the zip-line. I could have sworn i had seen the same trees over a billion times. What a fall can do to your head. God.

"Well, we'd be sure if I still had my phone, because it has a GPS, a compass app, and is also a phone!" Brooklynn snaps in the face of Sammy, who backs away from her.