Left Behind •Kenji Kon• Camp Cretaceous

▫️Prison Break▫️

💞Trinity💞

I hide my face in my knees as I listen to Yasmina counting out her sit ups while Ben scrapes at the glass with something he found in the pen. "Forty seven." He left us here. I close my eyes tightly.

"Trinny?" I feel him place his hands on my hips, gently pulling me closer and I smile, feeling shy all of a sudden. "Yes, Kenj?"

"Forty eight."

"Um, I've never met anyone quite like you before. Most of the time I find out girls are only into me because I'm rich, but it's the exact opposite with you. You don't care if I'm rich and even if I was being obnoxious and a pain you were still kind to me so..."

"Forty nine."

"What?" I ask him gently as I patiently wait for him to finish. He takes a deep breath before it all comes tumbling out. "I love you, Trinity Grady."

"Fifty." Pain stabs at my heart as memories of us play through my head. No matter how hard I try to stop thinking about him I can't. I lift my head up sightly, pressing my cheek into my arm as I look around at my friends. Darius is staring at the clock, Brooklynn is beside Ben, and Sammy is sitting next to me.

I stare when I realize she's picking at her teeth. I face forward and look across the pen. It's taking everything in me not to break down right now. I won't spill any tears. Not over him. I refuse to. Besides, crying like a child isn't going to benefit anyone.

"But we're family," Sammy says and he glares at her. "No, we're not. You all went out of your way to prove that today."

I swallow against the lump in my throat as the threat of tears draws closer. "I can't believe he left us here," I whisper without thinking and immediately I feel their eyes on me. "How could he?" Yaz stops what she's doing and Sammy moves closer to me, placing her hand on my shoulder.

"Why would Kenji do this?" Yasmina asks and I lift my head up to look at her as Ben sighs. "You think you know a guy."

"Yeah, what you all said," Sammy says, but it sounds like she doesn't know how to really feel. That makes two of us. "What do you think Dari..."

"Four, three, two, one." We all stare at him and glance over as the door opens to reveal a BRAD-X. It scans us and I glare in its direction. A mix of anger and sadness are building inside me and I don't know which one is worse. "All accounted for," it says before leaving the nursery and the door closes behind it.

"Alright, guys. That BRAD patrols every half hour," Darius begins and walks past us. "Which means we have 30 minutes to find a way outta here." Together we stand up and begin trying to find a way to bust out of here. I assist helping Brooklynn and Sammy trying to brute force the pen door open, but with no luck.

"Oh, uh, a little to the left." I look over and see Yaz holding Ben up as he tries to get on top of the electrical box. "Yeah, okay, maybe if I can get my foot on this I... whoa!" His foot slips and they both hit the floor. We rush over and help them sit up. "You okay," I ask Ben once he's upright and he nods.

"Maybe next time you don't step on my face?" Ben laughs and I allow myself to smile slightly. "Sorry, when I said left, I thought you'd go left. My bad." I look over and spot the boxes of fruit that Darius is sitting beside, tossing blueberries into the food dish across from him.

I walk over dodging his berries and grabbing a handful of my own. I return to the others and sits near them as I eat. I hear metal clanging and look over to see Brooklynn and Darius pulling something from the floor. We go over to them and make noises of disgust when a bad smell enters our noses.