06/23/2022 01:38 PM  Do you guys have kids? Do you guys have kids?   "Do you guys have kids?" Asked Maisie. Quickly Alan, Ellie, and Allison all turned to look at her. "What?!" Alan snapped quickly, and Ellie seemed to hesitate. "Uh.. well I do two." She said quickly and motioned toward Allison. Maisie nodded and raised a brow. "But not with him?" She asked flashing her flashlight onto Alan. Again Ellie answered. "Uh.. no... no we're just old friends." It was at that moment Allison couldn't take it any longer. "Mom stop it. You aren't just old friends. They do have one child together." She said in a bold tone looking to her mother and then to Maisie. "Me." Ellie looked shocked, shocked that Allison would claim this, more shocked that she knew the truth. Allison looked to Ellie and frowned pulling a picture from her pocket, a picture of Ellie and Alan. "I carry it everywhere." She said quietly before tucking it away. "I've known for a while." She said. Allison's attention then turned to Alan. He had been a man she wanted to know, to get close to for so long now. The two stared at each other for a moment and Allison gave a weak smile. "I thought it's time you know... since we're probably gonna be eaten by something." Moving forward she hugged Alan, not caring if he might pull away from her. She held him there a moment and then pressed a kiss to his scruffy cheek before letting go, gently grabbing Maisie by the arm. "Come on.. we've got to get out of here."   template credit. 0 Comments

06/22/2022 09:48 PM  Eggs Eggs   The world was a different place now. The idea of living alongside dinosaurs was still a fresh concept to some. But what else was there to do? They were now part of this world, there was no avoiding it. Dinosaurs were becoming just as common as any wild animal like a bear or wolf though far more dangerous. Most tried to avoid them, particularly humans. But not Allison. Allison had always been fascinated by dinosaurs, what child wasn't? But this fascination continued into adulthood and even now studying them from books and fossils wasn't enough for Allison. With these animals being alive and so close she often ventured off from her home to explore. Allison had a small home in the state of Wyoming. Part of the reason she had chosen to settle there was because of the vast wilderness and the fact that many different types of dinosaurs had migrated there. She often left her home to explore, to see what she could come across and find. Yes, this might have been a foolish thing to do but Allison just couldn't help herself. She had gone out many times and anything she did see she never allowed herself to get close enough to be noticed or in any real danger. However, there was a rise of predators in the area. So wandering would eventually prove to be much more dangerous. Today Allison had been walking for a few hours when she stopped along a small river. She planned to sit and rest for a bit before turning back home. As she moved closer to the river though she noticed something nearby, almost hidden just behind some bushes. She stopped when she realized what she had stumbled onto, a nest. Hesitantly Allison moved closer and soon noticed all the eggs were empty and hatched. She checked each one and was able to conclude they were the eggs of a t-rex. Searching through the eggs Allison found one that had not yet hatched. It had most likely been left behind and considered a dud. Holding the large egg Allison suddenly felt the urge to take it home with her, and that was just what she did. Arriving home she gathered some blankets and made a small nest on her sofa and set the egg inside it. Sitting there Allison watched the egg almost as if she were expecting it to hatch, and hatch it would. The egg was that of a tyrannosaurus and it was not a dud. Allison watched as the egg seemed to slightly shake as though something was moving inside it. It was a sure sign something was inside the egg. Letting out a sigh Allison picked up her cell phone dialing her mother's number. "Mom is gonna kill me.." she mumbled quietly as she waited for her mother to answer. Now Allison had brought a live egg home she wasn't exactly sure what to do. Whatever was in there was only a baby. She couldn't very well leave it out in the middle of nowhere. It would surely be eaten by something. Allison glanced back toward the egg and smiled slightly. "Some girls bring home a puppy or a kitten.. I've brought home a dinosaur.." 0 Comments

06/21/2022 04:03 PM  Snooping & Questions       It was a lazy Tuesday afternoon for Allison. She was home from school for a few days though the rest of her family were busy with their own things. Her mother was working and her older brother Charlie was at school. So this left Allison to wander around the house somewhat aimlessly.  After raiding the kitchen for snacks, and snooping around Charlie's bedroom she then found herself in her mother's bedroom. She knew she shouldn't be in there. She knew that neither her mother nor her mother's husband would like it much but how would they know? Plus, it wasn't like they had any great secrets to hide.  So Allison sat on her mother's bed just rummaging through a small box she had found in her closet. She had seen this box a few times before, it was where her mother kept her keepsakes, at least that's what she called them.  Allison wasn't surprised to find her and Charlie's birth certificates, their little hospital bands from when they were born, some other things like movie tickets, old rolls of film from a camera. All normal things Allison expected to find. She was about to tuck the box away when her eyes set on a picture of her mother.         Picking up the picture that was at the bottom of the box Allison just stared at it. The picture was obviously her mother, much younger of course. The stamp on the picture read 1993. With how young her mother was and given the year she assumed this picture had been taken just before her mother had set off for Jurassic Park, a place Allison had often heard about.  Her eyes scanned the picture and moved from her mother to the man she was standing with. Allison knew who that was too, Alan Grant. He was one of her favorite authors but also back then he had been a close friend of her mother's. Though whenever Ellie spoke of him she was vague and always seemed to change the subject.  For some time now Allison had known her mother's husband and brother's father wasn't her own father. Physically there was nothing to link the two together, they looked nothing alike. It had never dawned on her that perhaps Alan Grant was her father?  No. He and her mother had only been friends and hadn't been in contact for years. Surely, if she were his child he'd have kept in contact with Ellie.. wouldn't he have?  A whole new bunch of questions and curiosities had entered Allison's brain now. She wanted to know more, needed to know more about Alan Grant and her mother. Though she didn't have much time to continue considering it. Hearing the sound of tires outside meant most likely that her mother was home. Jumping off the bed she quickly put everything back, all but the picture. She put the box in its place before taking the picture and leaving the room, rushing to her own. There she sat down on the edge of her bed and just studied the picture in her hand. Was this her father? Someone she had been longing to meet for years.       Snooping & Questions       template credit. 0 Comments

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