When The Stars Align | A Ben Pincus x Reader Fanfiction

11. The Watering Hole

E750

[Brooklyn POV]

Rest... Ahhh. So peaceful up here in our treehouse camp. So worth making, so worth living in. Kind of.

Kenji goes into our makeshift bathroom.

"Agghh! Does the water always have to be this cold?!" He yelps.

I try to wake Sammy up.

"Five more minutes." She groans

Yaz bangs at the canned fruit. "Come on! Just open!!"

I go to a board and use a piece of chalk to tick off another day. "And another one."

Kenji waves at us from the bathroom
"No mas agua, a little help!"

"I got you Kenj" Darius stands up from the couch and goes to Kenji

"If you keep doing that for him, he'll never learn" I state

Darius just shrugs and slides down the slide we made. He uses a container of plastic to scoop up water from the stream.

"Uh, guys!" Darius calls

We run to him and see the stream bone-dry.

"Where'd all the water go?"

"Why don't we ask Mr. 45 Minutes Shower?" Yaz says as Kenji wipes his wet head with a towel.

"Hey looking good is part of my brand
And no way I drained a whole river." He says defensively.

"Guys. We better figure out what's up.
We're gonna run out of water. Let's-"

"Shh!"

They all look at me.

"I hear that hum again" I say.

(all groan)

"The river must've been drowning it out. If I can find it again I can find -"

"'That frozen patch of flowers'" they all cut in at the same time.

"Oh. I've mentioned it, huh?"

"The frozen flowers that you saw once but never found again? Yeah. A few hundred times"

"Uh, I'm sorry for wanting to get to the bottom of this weirdness." I say defensively. "I came here to -"

"'Unbox Jurassic World and that's what I'm gonna do'" they all echo back at me

"If you're gonna go to look for the noise, I'm coming too" Sammy says excitedly. "It'd be nice to have an adventure for a fun reason and not a 'fleeing dinosaurs or imminent death' reason"

"I'll go with them" Yaz runs to us

"Ooh! It's a Camp Cretaceous Girl Adventure!"

"Great! You do that, and Kenji and I will find out the reason why the river stopped flowing." Darius says

"Kenji do what now?"