Jurassic Park by Scott Ciencin

Author:Scott Ciencin [Ciencin, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375890017
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2001-06-11T14:00:00+00:00

Eric and Alan walked in silence after that. Dinosaurs might be anywhere, so it was imporant to move quietly.

When they came to a clearing, they discovered a ridge that looked over a distant river far below. The river was half shrouded in fog. Alan used the binoculars.

“There’s a derelict barge resting against the riverbank. It looks to be in good shape,” Alan said.

He handed the binoculars to Eric, who tried to spot the barge.

“A rescue boat?” Eric asked.

“No, something left behind. But it floats.” Alan searched the canyon. “All we need to do is find a way down. Then we could follow the river out to the ocean.”

Eric opened his mouth to speak.

Alan cut him off with a gesture. “We’ll keep looking for your parents along the way. With any luck, the Costa Rican Coast Guard will pick us all up.”

“Then we go home?” Eric asked.

Alan nodded. “Then we go home.”

Suddenly, a familiar ringing sounded nearby. Eric instantly recognized the distinct and annoying melody.

“That sounds like my dad’s phone!” Eric said. He rushed off to follow the sound. Alan tried to slow him down, but Eric was too fast for him.

“Wait!” Alan called. “How do you know?”

Eric sang to the electronic jingle. “Kirby Paint and Tile Plus—in Westgate!” The ringing grew louder. “Dad? DAD?”

In an instant, Eric was no longer a wild boy, focused every waking moment on survival. Suddenly, he was the kid from Enid, Oklahoma, again—and he was desperate for his parents to take him home and keep him safe. Reaching them was all that mattered.

Eric raced ahead. The phone stopped ringing, but he heard other sounds now. Human voices. People calling his name.

“Mom! Dad!” Eric yelled.

He burst into a meadow and saw them shouting, “Eric!”

As he ran to meet them, he read their features—disbelief, joy, terror, relief, love. Every emotion seemed to be there in his parents’ faces. It had been so long since he’d seen human emotions, it felt wonderful!

The only thing standing between Eric and his parents now was one of InGen’s giant dinosaur fences. Eric ran up to it, his fingers curling around the metal bars. He looked up and saw that it could not be climbed over. There was a line of rusty spikes on the top.

Paul and Amanda hugged their son through the fence.

Amanda managed a kiss, too.

“Sweetheart,” she said, almost out of breath. “You’re okay. You’re okay!”

Eric’s dad squared his shoulders proudly. “Never had a doubt. Never did. Us Kirby men, we stick around, huh?”

“We do,” Eric said.

Eric’s mom licked her shirttail and tried to rub his face clean through the fence. Eric used to hate it when she did that. Now he didn’t even think of pulling away. He just smiled and let her scrub.

“Honey,” Paul said, touching Amanda’s shoulder, “there’s not enough spit in the world for that.”

Amanda laughed. It sounded to Eric as if it had been the first time she’d laughed in months.

Billy caught up with the Kirbys at the same time Alan reached Eric.

Alan looked unhappily at the fence standing between them.

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