? Strings {A Camp Cretaceous x Male Reader Story - Ben}

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As they approach their treehouse, and all climb up the ladder to go mope, Ben and Bumpy reunite... although Ben is the only one who really cares right now.

"Circle up, guys! Camp meeting!" Darius calls, gathering everyone around the table.

Once everyone is settled, he begins, "Okay, on the plus side, still no Compys spotted around camp, so that's good."

"On the minus side, raft escape attempt number one was..."

"Wet?"

"Bad?"

"Didn't work?"

"A waste of time?"

"It wasn't a total disaster!" Darius tries to remain positive.

"Uhm, we lost the raft and almost drowned," Sammy begins, "How is that not a disaster?"

"We... didn't get eaten by dinosaurs?" Darius offers awkwardly.

"I'm started to wish we had." Y/N huffs.

"Darius, look, we're out of options." Brooklyn stands up and begins crossing things off the whiteboard with Darius' chalk, "We tried kayaks, gyrospheres, more gyrospheres,"

"Yaz's bad 'Find a helicopter and learn to fly it ourselves' plan,"

"Oh, and what about Brooklyn's worse, 'let's go back into the tunnels and look for a phone' idea?" Yasmina stands up and snatches the chalk from Brooklyn before crossing out the idea on the white board.

She also crosses out the little stickman of Brooklyn before shoving the chalk back into the girl's hand.

"Think! What haven't we tried yet?" Brooklyn huffs in frustration.

"Just gonna pitch it one more time..." Kenji starts.

"We're not building a human catapult!" Y/N groans.

"How do we know it can't be done if we never tried?" Kenji defends his plan, Sammy looking rather intrigued.

"I think your idea sounds fun, at least." She tells Kenji in a hushed tone, earning her a nudge in the side from Y/N.

"Thanks, Sammy." Kenji beams proudly, "And I will always appreciate your optimism."

"Aw, thanks, Kenji!" She playfully punches him, and they laugh.

Ben and Y/N share a 'what's going on with those two' look.

"I hear you, but I still think a boat is the way to go." Darius re-enters the conversation.

"All we need is a better sail."

"Not to be a downer, but it took us weeks to find enough usable fabric for the last one." Yasmina crosses her arms.

"I volunteer all of Kenji's clothes." Y/N offers.

"There's gotta be a fix, every problem always has a fix." Darius argues before turning around to spot Ben who's staring off into the trees, paying the conversation no mind.

"Ben, what do you think?"

"Ben?"

"Ben?"

"Yo, Jungle Boy!" Kenji shouts.

"Huh?" Ben turns around to meet everyone's expectant stares.

"What do you think?" Kenji reiterates.

"Uh, yeah, what... what you said." Ben nods unsurely.

"Really...?" Yasmina sounds disappointed.