The Jurassic Family

Chapter 2: Meet Peyton's Pets

Valentina was walking through the busy airport alongside Josh and Abigail. With them was Child Service agent Adalyn Walker, an Afro-American woman in her 40s. She will be the one accompanying Valentina to Jurassic World to check for any faults in Owen and Peyton's house and to see if it's a place for a toddler to grow up. Valentina was wearing a blue t-shirt with a cartoon anthropomorphic T-Rex, dark brown shorts, baby grey sneakers, a blue backpack, her mother's red scarf which Abigail adjusted for her. The little girl's hair were tied in pigtails which bounced each time she walked or hopped.

They made their way to a queue of persons being checked by the ICE agents and US Air National guardsmen. Valentina was however nervous, as she barely saw her uncle and cousin whom she feared would mess up, even if Josh and Abigail told her everything would be just fine. Before Adalyn and Valentina left, Josh and Abigail bid farewell to Valentina.

"Bye, Sweet Pea. I'm gonna miss you so much." Abigail told Valentina hugging her.

"Me too. By the way, your parents wanted to give you this for Christmas." Josh added before letting out a box with a pink ribbon on it.

Valentina gently took away the box from him and opened it. Inside was a fossilized Utahraptor claw hanging from a necklace. The little girl happily put it around her neck, as she loved Utahraptors after reading Alan Grant's book about the Utahraptor behavior.

"YAY!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOW YOUW GIFT, JOSH!!!!!!! YOU AND ABIGAIL AWE THE BEST BABYSITTEWS EVEW!!!!!!!!!!!!" Abigail yelled hugging Josh, attracting the attention of two patroling Air National guardsmembers, who just shook their head.

"Did she learn not to yell in public?" a national guardsmember, a woman in her late 20s, asked.

"Apparently not. But I heard the Captain had some friends of his who could teach that motherfucking brat to be polite." the other one, a man in his early 30s, replied.

"Yeah. Civie kids are fucking undisciplined nowadays." the guardswoman kept on.

"True. But it's not gonna last long, my friend. It's not gonna last long. At the very least for that little fucker." the guardsman replied as both walked away.

Valentina and Adalyn, however, heard these two servicemembers talking. Valentina silently cried, feeling offended and hated, as Adalyn shook her head, scandalized someone could speak in such a crude manner in front of a child.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, next flight to Costa Rica will leave in twenty-five minutes." the announcer said on the loudspeaker.

"Time to go" Adalyn said before turning to the little girl. "I know it's tough, but we gotta go now, Valentina."

Valentina nodded in understanding, still sad the two US Air National guardsmembers told bad things about her. She followed Adalyn as Josh and his sister waved them goodbye.

When Adalyn and Valentina went aboard the plane, they took their seat at the middle row, and waited patiently while their plane took off to Costa Rica. Adalyn was reading a book peacefully while Valentina, who wasn't the normal type of kids, wondered whether people would accept her for who she was or not.

Owen was in his house, finally finished making Valentina's bedroom and turning the guest room into his daughter's new bedroom. Peyton's former bedroom had a blue ceiling, pink walls, stuffed toy dinosaurs, a princess-like chest, a pink mini-desk with a book shelf filled with kid books and coloring books, pink curtains, a wooden chair and a pink closet.

Peyton's room on the other hand contained a green closet filled with military surplus clothes, green walls and ceiling, a military storage box acting like a chest full of military-themed video games, a military footlocker full of military-related movies, a green desk with a book shelf filled with military-related books and school books, a camouflage netting acting as a curtain and a computer.