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{annie}

The smaller boy looks up at me first. His shaggy dirty blonde hair is completely soaked and sticking to the sides of his head. He opens his mouth to say something, but then he stops.

The other one looks up. His dark brown hair is sticking up at weird angles and he's caked in mud, but they both are so it's not much of a-

...

Hold on.

"Do we know you?"

The little brother has a look of extreme confusion on his face while Mo Boy ducks his head again, probably to hide his cheeks that are quickly turning bright red.

"Sort of..." I'm trying really hard not to laugh. "Look at your camera. That might jog your memory."

He doesn't have to reach for it, it wouldn't work even if he did. The lightbulb clicks on inside his head and he makes the connection. He grabs his older brother's right shoulder and shakes him hard.

"It's her, Zach! It's the girl!"

Here comes the laughter.

"Excuse me?" I manage through my choked giggles.

"You are her, right?" Mo Boy's-I mean...Zach's little brother looks up at me with big blue eyes. I think I can feel my heart melting.

"You're gonna have to be more specific," I smile. "There are a lot of girls here."

"Her," Zach's little brother gestures, like somehow I'm supposed to get it. I do, but making him think I don't is very entertaining. "The girl from the Mosasaurus show and the Pachy Arena."

The Mosasaurus show? I mean, I know I saw them, but how the hell did they see me too?

"Gray," Zach mutters. "Shut up."

"But it's her!" Gray whines. "The girl!"

"The girl has a name," I laugh lightly. They both look at me. Gray with a look of excitement and Zach with a look of dread, but still curiosity. "I'm Annie," I say with a small wave of my right hand.

Gray hops up and holds his right hand out for me to shake. "I'm Gray," he says happily as I take his hand in mine.

"Nice to meet you," I laugh lightly. Gray lets go of me and we look down at Zach. "And you are?" I say with a sarcastic raise of my eyebrows.

He groans as he stands up, quickly fixes his hair, unaware that he just wiped mud in it, then holds out his right hand. "Zach."

Gray's standing beside me now, between Zach and I, and we're both suppressing our giggles from the sight of his older brother's hair, but I try to keep my composure and take his hand in mine.

"Hello again," I smile.

Zach forces a small smile, but it disappears almost as quickly as it formed. "Hi."

He lets go of my hand and I shake the mud off mine.

"Funny," I scoff. "For having just been told I'm 'the girl,' I sure don't feel very special."

Gray laughs and I just stand there with a challenging smirk on my face while I watch all the blood in Zach's head come to his cheeks.

I roll my eyes. "By the way slick, you've got some mud..." I run my fingers through my bangs.

Zach's eyebrows raise in alarm and all those bright reds and the rest of the color in his face leaves and he's pale as a sheet while he quickly fixes his hair.

I turn to Gray and our laughter starts out as choked snickers, but explodes to sporadic squeaks and hiccups and gasps for air when a large lump of mud slips from Zach's head and hits the ground with a gross PLOP!

"Go ahead," he sighs. " Get it our of your systems."

It takes a few minutes for Gray and I to calm down and Zach, being the good sport I believe he is, stands there and waits.

"Are you two done?"

I nod while I work on breathing normally. Gray nods too while he focuses on getting his hiccups under control.

"How did you even get here?"

I look up to see Zach watching me through narrowed eyes.

"Where did you come from?" he asks, a now serious tone in his voice.

I sigh. "I'll answer those questions, I will, but we gotta walk and talk. I really don't feel like being dinosaur snack food today."

I don't wait for the boys, I just start walking. Gray instantly follows, but it takes a few seconds for Zach to jog and catch up with us.

I smile, satisfied. "Okay. So, here's the story..."

I lay it all out for them: the college program, Jenna, Lowery, running into them, the gallimimus tour, the blown tire, the wounded Oliver, the jeep abandoning us, Jenna not coming back, the roaring, the screaming-

"That was all Gray," Zach says hastily.

I look at his little brother who rolls his eyes and shrugs in one fluid motion, too subtle for Zach to notice.

I keep going with me running into the woods, seeing them and...what we're now assuming is the infamous Indominus Rex I was told about the other day, then falling off the waterfall, and hiding which I then gloat about finding a better hiding spot behind the falls than their waiting underwater.

Really the only thing I leave out is Haskell.

Zach-I mean...they don't need to know about that.

They take turns telling me their story: they're on a week long trip to visit their aunt, Claire Dearing, and see the park, they got left with Claire's assistant Zara, ran away from Zara, saw me at the Mosasaurus show and the Pachy Arena-

"You were looking at us," Gray points out.

I neither confirm nor deny his accusation.

After they left the mosasaurus, that's when Zach says he ran into me.

"He's been staring at girls all day," Gray groans. "But you're the only one who talked to him."

"Only because he ran into me." I laugh and look up at Zach.

He looks back at me, smiling shyly.

I smile too.

Gray says that after the Pachy Arena, they went to the Gyrosphere. Apparently a warning told them to disembark the ride because the all of the rides were now closed, but Gray says Zach wanted to stay out and explore.

"He said it would be okay because of our VIP wristbands!"

Gray holds up his arm to show me the blue rubber bracelet with a white Jurassic World logo on it that both of the brothers are wearing.

"I wish I had one of those," I pout.

Zach laughs lightly. "They're not all they're cracked up to be, believe me."

Gray says that after they went through a busted open gate, they found four ankylosaurs and he said there were actually five dinosaurs, but Zach said he was stupid-

"I didn't say you were stupid!" Zach snaps.

"Did to!" Gray whines

"Didn-"

"Boys!" I shout. "Really? Now?!"

"Sorry," they both mumble.

Zach says he didn't say Gray was stupid, but Gray counted the dinosaurs for him and that's when he saw the reflection in the glass then they turned around and there was the Indominus Rex.

It attacked the ankylosaurs first so they tried to escape, but a spiked and clubbed ankylo tail hit them and spun them into a tree and the gyrosphere broke and turned them upside down and they watched the Indominus snap the neck of the last ankylosaur.

"So that's the crunch I heard?" I ponder aloud.

Zach shrugs. "Guess so."

They're not as animated when they tell me the last part of their story. Zach's phone had fallen out of his pocket and was vibrating on the glass. It got the attention of the Indominus and the next thing they knew, the dinosaur was turning the gyrosphere around then it drove one of it's claws through the glass and turned them right side up. Then it took the gyrosphere in it's mouth and picked them up then slammed them down into the ground, which shattered half the glass, then Zach unbuckled their belts, they fell, took off running, the Indominus chased them, they got to the waterfall, jumped, and Zach held them both under the water until the dinosaur left then they came to the shore and that's when I showed up.

Somewhere during their story, we stopped walking.

A few moments of silence pass and the three of us stand there. We volley between looking at each other and the ground.

"Wow," I finally say quietly. "You two really did have a rough day."

Zach laughs lightly. "Yeah, I guess you can say that." He looks up at me, a small smile on his face.

I look back at him and try to smile, but with the gravity of the situation, it's a little hard to try to be happy.

"Shouldn't you get back to your friends," Gray suggests and I turn to look at him. "Now that you know we're okay?"

"They'll be fine," I say simply. "They're still inside the park's perimeter fence. And anyway, we gotta get you two back. Your aunt's probably worried sick."

"I doubt that," Gray grumbles.

"Ah come on," I sigh and nudge Gray's side. "She can't be that bad."

Before either Gray or Zach can chime in with an unfortunate story to contradict me, a shout cuts them off.

The three of us look around frantically for the owner of the shout, but the sound faded too fast so we couldn't make out what it said or the direction it came from, but we know it had to be a person.

Another shout.

I reach for Gray and take his hand and pull him behind me. Zach steps closer to us so we're huddled together as we back up.

Twigs snap and leaves crunch underneath feet as someone comes running through the jungle, straight for us.

"ANNIE!"

I let go of Gray and run toward the voice.

Toward his voice.

"HASKELL!"

"ANNIE!"

"HASKELL!"

He breaks through a bush up ahead of me and I barrel toward him. I run right into his outstretched arms and knock him to ground.


Guys...I start my third year of college in 5 days...

I don't like growing up. Make it stop! :P

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