⍟ Strings {A Camp Cretaceous x Male Reader Story - Ben}

𝟺. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙵𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙰𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝

In the morning, Y/N wakes up way earlier than usual to use the bathroom.

He leaves his bunk and sneaks out of the room, trying not to wake the others. On his way down the hall, he runs into Yasmina.

They stare at each other in silence until Y/N speaks, "Yasmina..."

"Y/N." She brings up a hand to wave.

"You're up early."

"I always get up this early." She shrugs.

Silence falls once again.

"Uh, how come you're up?" Yasmina asks, although she's not entirely interested.

"Pee."

"What?"

"I mean, I- I have to pee. Bathroom." Y/N tries the best to reword his sentence, but it's already weird.

Silence.

"This... This is awkward." Yasmina sighs.

"I agree." Y/N nods and walks away, returning to his original objective.

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Later in the day, Y/N sits beside Ben on the couch, drinking juice boxes they had found in the fridge.

Sammy and Yasmina sat across from them.

Kenji had just finished the dramatic retelling of what took place with him and Darius while everyone else was at the lab, now he sat in a spinny office chair in which he'd occasionally push himself around the room.

Suddenly, Darius bursts in the room, disrupting the comfortable silence.

"Woohoo! Goodmorning, Camp Cretaceous!" He cheers, sliding across the floor.

"Not in a woohoo mood this morning, Darius. Not after yesterday." Kenji deadpans, spinning his chair to look at the boy.

"Trekking through a rainstorm will do that to you." He crosses his arms.

"We only had to walk because you crashed our gyro sphere." Ben pointed out; Y/N nodded in agreement as he slurped from his juice box.

"But today's a new day! Kayak day!" Darius tried to get everyone as excited as he was.

"Who doesn't wanna paddle alongside dinosaurs! Real dinosaurs! It's gonna be awesome... right?"

Darius looked around but no one seemed too hyped.

"Wait, where are Dave and Roxie?" Darius asked, realizing the elephant in the room.

"They left early." Y/N informed.

"And had the courtesy to leave us this!" Kenji shouted sarcastically, holding up the note for Darius.

Darius plucked the note from Kenji's outstretched hand and read it, "BRB. Gotta go. Boss-talk. BB. Later. Smiley face."

Darius took a closer look at the paper, "Is that a dinosaur emoji with a thumbs up?"

"It's Dave speak." Kenji shrugged.

"Roxie translated it on the back." Y/N approached Darius and flipped the card over in his hand.

"We have to go talk to our boss. Stay inside until we return." Darius' smile dropped as he read, "Draw, bond, whatever."

"Ben picked the former." Y/N points at Ben who is currently doodling on a piece of paper with some crayons.

"The radio's set for channel six in case you need us. Stay inside, stay inside. Do not leave. Kenji, looking at you." Darius chuckles.