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Derek dumped the girls’ discarded meat on top, then began to inhale the lot as if he hadn’t eaten since Cleveland.
The As started to make gagging noises. Thankfully, one glare from Gina was all it took to make them stop. They weren’t as dumb as they pretended.
They just couldn’t be.
“How can he eat so much and still have no gut and no butt?” Amberleigh ran a palm over her own skinny butt.
“He’s fourteen,” Tim said. “He could eat the whole cow and beg for dessert.”
Amberleigh made a face, then turned to Derek. “Do you run?”
Derek glanced up, swallowed, considered taking another bite before answering, and refrained. “Sometimes.”
Amberleigh flipped her palms up. “Well, that explains it.”
“V-Rex chases you,” Derek shrugged, “you run.”
Amberleigh froze with her hands in the air. Her gaze went to the suddenly still night that surrounded them. “T. rex?”
Someone smothered a laugh. Matt thought it was Gina.
“No, V-Rex,” the boy said slowly, emphasis on the V. “Vastatorsaurus rex.”
Amberleigh lowered her arms, wrapping them around herself and hunching over as she tried to get small.
“Descendant of T. rex,” Derek continued. “Just bigger.”
“B-b-bigger?” Amberleigh’s gaze returned to the tree line and when the leaves stirred she scrambled behind Matt, talon-like fingertips pressed into his biceps and breasts pressed into his back.
This suddenly wasn’t funny anymore. Should he tell her now, or never, that a V-Rex was just make-believe?
“What’s wrong with her?” Derek asked. “It’s not like the moonspiders are here.”
“S-s-s-spiders!”
Her shriek scared away whatever had been rustling in the trees. From the sound of it, a really big bird.
“That could have been a Terapusmordax,” Derek muttered. “They look like giant skinned rats with wings and their teeth…” He shuddered. “Gave me nightmares the first couple times I played.”
Silence settled over the campfire. Amberleigh was still shaking, her breasts jiggling against Matt’s back like two large, firm, warm Jell-O molds, even as her fingernails bit into his arms like Terapusmordax teeth.
“Played?” Ashleigh repeated.
“King Kong,” Tim said wearily. “You don’t think the kid was actually chased by a V-Rex do you?”
From Ashleigh’s scowl, she had.
Amberleigh began to stroke Matt’s arm and breathe—make that blow—in his ear. Matt got up so fast she tumbled forward without support and landed on her face. Or she would have, if her balloon-like breasts hadn’t broken her fall.
Matt felt kind of bad, until the crescent-moon holes in his arms began to burn.
She cast him a glare that would have blistered paint off a Camaro, before climbing to her feet and flouncing off.
Gina appeared at his side. “She isn’t going to talk to you for at least a whole day.”
“Promise?” Matt murmured, and she laughed.
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