Chapter 3: Old friends
15 MINUTES LATER. We arrived at the community center in the afternoon! I guess that’s when I realized that I had a whole day of survival ahead of me. Another important detail that I remembered…was..I was hungry. Luckily they had food when we got to the buffet! (Yes my community center had a buffet because of what was going on, and plus our city is quite wealthy and the people aren’t too greedy I guess)
In the buffet there was meat and vegetarian food lying on the long table. I looked at the meat and whispered to my family: “Who would want to have meat during a dino-poclypse, I mean lots of flesh eating you know.’ Mom looked at me: “Well Amy, it’s their life, not yours, don’t judge people!” I nodded, Mum was right, plus I was too hungry to pay attention to people.
In the evening, we got kid activities to do. Around 10 minutes later, Claire Dearing and Owen Grady came and they said they had everything under control. My Mom went to go talk to Claire. Me and Kylie followed. We hid behind Mom and when Claire saw us she asked if we were in the Dinosaur Protection Group (DPG) . We nodded. Claire smiled. Before anyone said anything Kylie told her about Goldie. While they were talking, I saw Maisie. I waved. She waved back. Maisie tugged Claire’s shirt, and then whispered in her ear. Then all Claire said was: “sure.” Maisie said to me: I-I r-released-the dinosaurs. I said: “I know, it’s alright, but why?’ She replied: “Because, I could just tell they wanted to be free, I thought they deserve a life as much as I did” I agreed with Maisie and understood what she was feeling at that moment.
(Maisie is actually a human clone of Benjamin Lockwood’s daughter in the movie: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, so you could tell how she felt for the dinosaurs) I said: “Well, Wanna stay for dinner?” Claire overheard us, And gently said: “Great idea! and Maisie, I want you to make new friends and play with Kylie and Amethyst, they’re nice ok?” Maisie nodded silently and smiled with her head down in a shy way. There wasn’t much time for anything before dinner, after chatting a bit we all went to get washed up for dinner.
At dinner everyone was silent. I felt like that dinner was really awkward. But inside of me, I could barely eat. And I’m really hungry. It felt like all the eyes were glued on me, even though all the eyes were flickering between different people. I was tired of waiting. I hesitantly said: “Can Maisie stay until after dinner?” Everyone looked at me. Then Claire thankfully saved me and just smiled and looked at Maisie and said: Yes, Maise will play with you, after dinner, she has been looking for some friends and we won’t be going home anytime soon sadly .” Owen replied: “Yea, We’ll all stay here for a while, our shelter got destroyed too, and it is not safe to stay there.” Finally after the conversation, it sparked an eruption of chatting and laughter. I happily sighed and peacefully ate my dinner. It was DELICIOUS!
After the wonderful dinner, Me, Kylie and Maisie gathered in a corner and just played chopsticks. A wave of relaxation crossed my mind, Because my luck can NEVER get worse than this, It’s impossible! Can it? Kylie broke the silence and asked Maisie: So…Where did you live? Maisie did not look up and just kept playing but said: “A camper, but Owen was building a cabin for us before the dinosaur outbreak.” Kylie replied: “Right..right..” Maisie stopped playing and looked up to Kylie and said: Sorry if I was a little rude, So…where did you live? If I may ask?” I mumbled: “At our house which was destroyed.” Maisie said: Sorry, could you repeat that?” I smiled and took a deep breath and said: At our house, but it broke, because of a dinosaur . After playing for a few minutes, our back and shoulder got sore, and we finally agreed to go to bed.
Near midnight, I woke up from a scary dream about that carnotaurus again. The dream replayed everything that had happened that morning, and It felt horrible. Like a nasty punch of sadness right in the stomach. After I woke, I strained my neck up and looked side to side and then finally dropped my head back onto my pillow. After breathing a few times I got up and slowly approached the window. I squished my face as close as I could to the window and quietly watched, only trying to listen to bellowing bash’s wind. The wind roared like a lion taking the claim of his jungle back. As I focused I suddenly saw something in the distance, I looked closer. “No, no, no It can’t be-” I thought quietly.
TAP! Suddenly someone or something touched my shoulder! I turned around and thankfully it was just Maisie. She asked: “What are you doing up so late?” I said: “I woke up from a nightmare, you?” She replied: “I heard footsteps which were thankfully just yours.” We sighed and quietly chuckled. Maisie said: “What were you looking at?” I squished the tip of my finger on the window over the dark shadow and said: “That” The ground suddenly moved a little and woke everyone up. People started to groan and wonder what that shake was. “No it can’t be- ‘ We looked back at the window, and BOOM! A GINORMAROUST-REX CRASHED THROUGH THE WINDOW. It hit me and Maisie with her large mouth and we landed on the mattresses. Phew. That was a close one. We followed all the terrified people to what seemed to be a metal safety room with everyone else. We squished in the middle with my family and Claire and Owen. “Well I guess if this place is not safe then no place is” I muttered under my breath.
