Dylan From We Bought A Zoo Novels & Stories

' After the bay, we visited the Honolulu Zoo, where Danny insisted on taking ridiculous photos of me next to every animal enclosure. "Kelly, stand next to the giraffe!" "Kelly, pretend to roar at the lion!" "Kelly, make a monkey face with the chimps!" "I'm not doing that," I told him firmly when he suggested the monkey faces. "Come on, it'll be funny." "I said no, Danny." But then the spider monkeys started swinging around their enclosure, showing off, and I couldn't help but laugh. Danny caught it on camera—my genuine smile, my head thrown back in delight.

Dylan had been in the hospital for two days, and despite the doctor’s assurances that everything was clinically fine, he still hadn’t woken up. Cassidy peeled fruit for each child and handed it to them. Noel asked why Mr. Dylan Edward wasn’t awake yet, expressing concern. Cassidy reassured him, saying he was just Edward and would wake up soon. Noel mentioned how Dylan had saved their lives and wondered how they could repay him. Cassidy jokingly said she could repay him with anything except herself.

Dylan screamed as he came running towards me. Today was Saturday, and we were playing a game of free bees while Nora, Mia, Hercules, and Zen were sitting on a mat for a picnic. Zen was on the phone, talking to his human girlfriend. Hercules and Mia went to buy some ice cream, and they have not been back. That was one heck of an ice cream. "Dylan, be careful!” Nora screamed as he dove to catch the one I heard thrown. I smiled guiltily as Nora narrowed her yes at me.

Zayne trailed off again, taking a deep breath before continuing , while I just quietly listened. "Dylan also had a crush on Ida. But his was different. It was obsessive. He would follow her everywhere. Show up at her house, in the mall anytime she went shopping, at any fucking place she went. Ida kept it a secret for sometime until we found out ourselves. We tried telling him off but he wasn't bulging. Dylan was a fucking bully. That went on until ..... "