F O U N D

not a dino, i promise.

After walking for a while, the three walking through the forest hadn't found Ben, and neither had Sammy or Yaz. So they all met up in the hotel, and all decided to share one room on the bottom floor.

 "The bottom floor's the safest because we can easily find an exit, and we should all share a room in case any dinos come and try to eat me, Yaz can taze them." Darius explained, letting out a nervous smile at the end of his sentence as if asking Yaz to quite literally taze anything that gets even a step away from him. And without a word, Kenji go up and walked outside. Even though it's dangerous out and alone, he just wanted to sit out on the hotel's patio and get some air. H wanted to be alone.

"I'm worried about Kenji. Don't get me wrong I'm also worried about Ben and I hope he's safe and I hope we find one another but-" Sammy realized she was rambling and tied to calm down.

"It's okay, Sam. We're all worried but we'll find him, and we'll find out why Kenji's so upset." Yaz put a hand on Sammy's shoulder, and they all decided it'd be best if they rest. "I'll go let Kenji know." Yaz offered and made her way to the patio. Kenji heard the sliding door open but didn't care to turn around. "Hey...Kenji? We're all gonna get some shut-eye and maybe it'd be for the better if you try as well?" She sat next to him and noticed how dull his eyes looked, the large dark bags laying under them and she wondered when the last time he got sleep was. Kenji just barely nodded, not that he wanted to go to sleep-he just wanted Yaz to not worry about him. "You're worried about Ben, aren't you?" She saw his eyes quickly gloss over, as he laid his arms on his thighs. "It's okay Kenji we all want to find him to but-" She froze, taking in Kenji's frown and the tear that ran down his cheek. "You like Ben, don't you?" hat was his breaking point, he hugged Yaz while he let out quiet sobs and she played with his hair while he slowly drifted to sleep.

Sure, Ben knew for a fact that the hotel is nowhere near the safest place to stay on the island, but it's good enough. He had patched and cleaned his leg, as well and all of the scratches littering his body around an hour ago, and he decided to take shelter on the second floor of the hotel, close enough to the exits, but far away enough from any non-flying dinosaurs. Bumpy came over to him and let out a light noise. 

"What's up girl, are ya hungry?" He asked in a baby voice, petting her. "I betcha are, let's go find the kitchen. Once they found the kitchen, ben had made both him and Bumpy salads. And they both loved it, and all of a sudden, he heard footsteps and cowered down, slouching down and hiding behind the stainless steel counters. The steps got closer and he heard familiar female voices whispering. Yaz and Sammy. And right when he realized who it was, he had one of the expensive no-slip diamond pans slammed into his face, and everything went black.

Yaz and Sammy had rushed back into the room, Sammy behind Yaz carrying Ben. "Um, good news! We found Ben- Bad news, we knocked him out because I thought he was a dinosaur on accident I'm so sorry-" Yaz's voice got quieter and quieter as everyone stared, eyes wide. Kenji stood up, not saying anything, and pushed past Yaz, gently taking Ben from Sam's arms. he weighed next to nothing so it really wasn't that hard to hold him. Kenji set him down on his bed and noticed all of the scars on his body. 

"guys...do you think these are infected? I mean look at all the mud on him..." Darius said worriedly, as Kenji got Ben's fanny pack and dumped its contents out. finding a sanitizing wipe, and he wiped the mud off of ben, along with cleaning the cuts and scrapes, which woke Ben up. 

"Yaz!" He screamed, sitting up, being met face to face with the whole gang. Bumpy was next to Kenji, and all of a sudden Kenji brought Ben into a huge hug. And the rest of the gang joined in. 

"Are you okay? Are you in pain?" Kenji asked as everyone pulled away. 

Ben mumbled, "No, I-I'm fine don't worry about me, are all of you guys okay?" Kenji noticed the peeking of a bandage on the back of Ben's leg. 

"Please don't lie to me. I mean us! Don't lie to us!" Ben looked at his leg. 

"It was a dilophosaurus, it chased me when I was heading for the south dock and now I'm here and it hurts so bad." Kenji looked through the belongings from Ben's fanny pack that were scattered around the end of the bed and found an orange bottle.

 "What's this will this help?" Ben's eyes went wide, as he gently snatched the bottle before Kenji could read the label. 

"No that's-it won't help with that it's okay I think I found some sort of doctor's office maybe I'll check there-" Sammy interrupted Ben mid-sentence. 

"Not now with the condition you're in. One of us can take you and iI think after we should all head to bed." Everyone else agreed quietly, in a mix of shock and amazement and overtiredness. And to no one's surprise, Kenji offered to take ben. Kenji had picked Ben up carefully, making sure no to push on and bd scratches or the big bandage on his leg. Ben had told him where to go, making several comments about how Kenji didn't need to carry him and how he's fine, which Kenji ignored. 

Ben and Kenji had been in the medical room for more than an hour, and eventually, Kenji had broken the silence. "I'm so happy you're alive. I-I was so scared." He held back tears he shed earlier that day. "I'm so happy we found you." ben, who was on the other side of the room lifted his head, paying very close attention to the other boy's words. His heart fluttered.

 " Kenji...I'm so happy you all found me as well-"Ben let out a genuine smile.

 "Ben..." Kenji mumbled.

 "Yeah what's up?" He asked. 

"I-nevermind."He tried to forget what he was going to confess.

 "No, Kenji what's up?" Ben scooted next to him, looking worried. 

"Ben, I like you and I'm sorry I get it if you don't feel the same I don't want you to think I' weird please don't hate me, Ben I'm sorry-"Ben cut the taller boy's words off by connecting their lips.

.this is so poorly formatted i apologize, im to lazy to edit so i use ✨grammarly✨please please please, if you have any ideas for this story let me know, and possible trigger warning for the next chapter, ben over uses meds to get rid of the pain from his leg so if you're sensitive to that, after next chapter i can do a recap so if you get triggered by that you dont have to read it! also like-am i okay to write them kissin like theyre my age so im not 13 writing abt it so i dont think im being creepy-