Only The Beginning...

[KBRG]

"At least she hasn't beat up on you yet. Like there was the time I said she was more man than woman except for the bra size-"

He suddenly stopped, realized what he said. She probably didn't want him disclosing that kind of information to a near-stranger... but he couldn't help it! It just slipped out! His body instantly went into defensive mode, knowing that beatings following stupid statements. He quickly turned so he was facing Layla, and backed up a couple steps. His skateboard came flying up to cover his stomach the best he could, holding it out like a shield or weapon. A nervous grin crossed his face, muscles tense and waiting for her reaction. Maybe jumping on the skateboard and going would have been a better idea...

[Kir]

Brent tried not to smile, he really did. But Brent forgot one thing. He was a guy. While choked laughs slipped out a breaking smirk, Layla's somewhat tanned hand swipped out at the fleeing Dex to cuff him in the back of the head. They shared a loving friendship.

She began to take a few steps towards him to seak vengeance when Death-Glare-Danny, king of all that was costodial, finally stepped forward.

"Excuse me, can you please act like adults and keep down the horseplay." He said firmly, at which point Brent continued his struggle to hide his bemusement. Layla lifted an eyebrow.

"Adults?" She looked between the boys, "Sir, do you realize they're college students?" Layla's face was a portrait of unbroken seriousness, while Brent had to turn around to hide silent explosions of laughter.

"Thus, my point." She smiled.

[Joseph Flint]

Joseph recovered his helmet from the desk and gave a nod, turning his eyes down as he polished up the black designs on the back of the object by using the sleeve of one arm. "Sure thing Lex. I'll have the mechanics help out with the chopper blades. I've already got a flight plan in mind for the tours." he seemed to have everything thought out ahead of time, but then it seemed his curiosity got the better of him.

"Hey, I have a question about the Original park. I figure since you own this place you might know a bit about it. Is it true that Petradons got free? I've really had nothing to worry about so far, but I wondered...if they were free, what would stop them from flying about? I don't want to sound scared, but right now flight is one advantage we have over these guys."

He knew little about the incidents surrounding the original park. Most of what he knew was from stories told by the navy officers who had been onboard the ships escourting the t-rex back to its island. The stories might have been exadurated, but he had heard of the flying lizards, and if they were going to be a problem here he wanted to know about it. Sure, different island, but there wasn't anything at all stopping them from flying across.

[Kat]

At the mention of the original park, she stiffened up slightly. His questions caused all the worries she had tried so hard to push to the back of her mind came forward again. What if the dinosaurs DID get out? What if there was a repeat of before...?

"They can't get free. We've done everything possible to ensure it. Since we aren't the original park, we can look back on the mistakes they made, and learn from them." She paused for a moment, then took a step away, looking off distantly. "And besides, unlike the original onwer, I will not hesitiate to activate the lysine factor if needed." She was silent for another moment, then turned around to look at him again. "Well, I'd better prepare for the first tour. The kids should be arriving back here any minute."

[KBRG]

Dexter had to supress a laugh at Layla, she was right. Though in his opinion, she was worse than both of them combined. Daring to come a little closer to her after his comment, he pulled out a small crumpled piece of paper out of his pocket.

"Hey Layla, we should find our room. It's uh...."

He tilted the paper, squinting as he tried to make sense of the map. In the end he held it out, with the expectantcy for her to take it from him.

"It's this one."

[Kir]

"Gimme that," Layla took the map, rolling it up almost immediately and whapping him over the head with it, "Now be a good little boy and depend on me to get the directions. Oh Monsieur Glare-Mop, could you help us?" The janitor grumbled to himself and pretended to walk away without hearing. Naturally, Layla scampered off after him. Brent chuckled to himself, one eyebrow discomfortedly higher than the other.

"She's definitely...interesting. Must never be boring when she's around." He forced a chuckle. The girl was fun to watch from a distance, but this was the first time he'd been near her to interact with her. She was...unique. Dexter must have been getting something out of her to go with it.

"Oh boyyyyyyyyys," Layla called from the distance, "Hotel is this way. Follow!"

[KBRG]

"Coming!"

At that he laid the skateboard on the ground, pushing off and rolling after her with a grin and wink at Brent. It certainly was never boring, but life was better that way. Layla put the spark in life for him, and was like an anti-bully magnet. He caught up to her and hopped off the skateboard before the janitor killed him, stomping the board up and catching up, following.

Some time later found them back in the main room, without their luggage and without his skateboard. It probably wouldn't be useful or allowed anyways. The room was nice enough, and Brent was lucky enough to be across the hall and one down from his and Layla's room. Hand shoved into his pockets, he stood near the back of the slowly gathering crowd and waited patiently for the show to start.

[Nova]

Following the ends of the crowd to the hotel, Krisandra kept to herself, but let her eyes roam, taking in every detail she could. With ease, she swiftly found her room and dropped off her bare-minimum luggage, only taking stuff in a less-than feminine bag that'd she'd need - basically her wallet, camera, pencil and notebook. She put her room key in her pocket for safekeeping, then left the room, anxious to start the tour. Again, she tried to avoid being in the major part of the crowd, and mostly shyed off towards the edges as she made her way back to the main room, where they would begin.

[Kir]

Brent and Layla followed Dex, too. An unlikely order, the group following Dex, brought Layla to a small giggle as she took her place standing next to him, draping her arms over his far shoulder and resting her head upon his closer one. Brent stood near them but slightly distanced, not being horribly intertwined in their group. He carried a notebook and a pencil with him, awaiting the next event to begin, smirking at his two friends.

He never would understand how a guy like Lex could be so lucky, and at the same time deal with her personality. She seemed quite a handful from the short time he'd already spent with her. Between her obliviously blunt ways of talking to people like the janitor in the museum as well as the lady at the front desk where they stayed, and her very loud, bouncy, flamboyance, she definitely seemed to match her noticible physique with a noticible persona.

Still, the two waited, wondering what was going to happen first, and when it would ever begin.

[Kat]

"Do you have a movie theater here? Oh, I bet you don't, poor thing! You've not seen the latest and greatest film to hit Hollywood! Oh, so amazing. You've not lived until you've seen-"

Cerise was getting tired of the endless rambling on 'what she had missed in the real world', for quite frankly, she hadn't missed anything. She hadn't been able to get a word in edgewise to explain to Anna that Jurassic Park had a mall, movie theater, and OMG, a tv/radio station! >>; "Anna, I-"

"And OH my gosh, just wait until you see the new store at the mall, it's absolutely FAB. I mean, see this outfit I'm wearing now? Totally designer, and totally steal prices! I'll have to take you there, you could use a wardrobe update." she noted, lifting an eyebrow at the khaki Jurassic Park intern uniform. "Khaki is so...hike-ish."

"I do a lot of hiking in my field." >>;

"...of course."

Lex watched as the students slowly but surely flocked in and gathered about the room, talking about all the things teenagers talk about - fashion, stars, sports, clubs...it was all the same stuff she remembered from college, except slightly updated. No matter, though...the basic concept was still there - gossip. A quick glance at her watch told her that there was a moment or two to spare before the tour began, so she waited, running over the itnerary in her head. Talk, musuem tour, lunch, jeep tour... In the back of her mind, the results of the first jeep tour were roaring to life, but she tried to silence them. That would NOT happen again. Precautions that her grandfather had never opted to take had been taken...all was safe...she had made sure of it!

[KBRG]

Dexter barely even noticed that Layla was hanging on him, she did it often enough that now he was immune to getting worked up. Hell, he enjoyed it but he wasn't going to get his hopes up. Layla not only never noticed his mild romantic interest, she also stole anyone else he liked from him. That there was called embarrassing.

He was bouncing around a little, though not so out of control that he shook off the girl on him. When he had signed up to see this, it was been a spur of the moment, whatever kind of thing. Now that he was standing here... the little dorky boy inside of him was rising up. There was really dinosuars here! Real, live, kickass animals that could eat you alive!

"This is gonna be so cool if there's really dinosuars, I mean, think about it! If you can get dinosaurs back, it could be wooly mammoths or summat next."