⍟ Broken Strings {A Chaos Theory x Male Reader Story - Yasmina}

𝟷. 𝙱𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜

"I've got it." Kenji slips out of the crate and disappears onto the deck.

Y/N sighs, running a hand through his hair before retreating back to the container with the others.

"Where's Kenji?" Sammy perks up.

"He, uh, went to go get more lettuce." Y/N sighs.

"Did you talk to him?" Yaz criticizes.

"Yeah, I talked to him." Y/N scoffs, "It's fine. He'll come to us when he's ready." He plops down on the floor between Ben and Darius.

"What happened to saving the phone for something important?" Ben glances over at Darius as the latter taps away on Brooklyn's phone.

"It'll take two seconds, gotta know what dino made that roar earlier." Darius zeroes in on the screen.

"I thought you were the undefeated king at that game." Y/N chuckles.

"Well, he couldn't figure one out and now he's been yammering on about it for five minutes." Sammy rolls her eyes.

The door creaks open and Kenji pokes his head in, "Check it! What's better than eating lettuce every meal for a week straight?"

"Literally anything else?" Darius guesses, his eyes never leaving the phone.

Kenji comes inside and drops a box of chips in the middle of the floor, everyone's faces light up as they grab for a bag.

"Oh, yeah!" Darius beams as he shoves some into his mouth.

"Annnd..." Kenji fishes in his pocket, "A charger for the phone!"

Ben snatches it from him with a large grin, "And it's solar powered!"

"Which will come in handy when the sun's actually out..." He frowns, glancing out the barred window to see the dark, rainy landscape outside.

"I thought you were just getting more lettuce from the deck?" Y/N mentions, a handful of chips in his mouth.

"Well, I had a little side quest." Kenji shrugs, "Besides, I'm delivering more than just high sodium snackage, okay? I've got good news!"

He sits down on a crate, pattering himself a drum roll before her drops the announcement, "Mateo did it! He got the DPW's whole dino trade totally shut down."

Everyone cheers at the amazing news, celebrating a win that they didn't even have to participate in.

"Also," Kenji grabs a chip, "I heard from the captain that we're heading up-river. Whatever that means."

"Up-river..." Ben echoes as the boat begins to tilt and the rain to pour heavier as the wind whips against the side of the ship.

Everything slides around as they crash against the waves. Everyone falls over, crashing to the ground along with the crates of food and other things they had set up in their makeshift abode.

When the boat finally comes to a slow, only bumping around ever so slightly, the group lets out a sigh of relief. Everyone sitting up and adjusting themselves from where they lay sprawled out on the floor.

"I heard it from in there!"

They all freeze as a voice calls out through the rain. Nobody has time to react as the door to their shipping container is swung open, multiple ship workers standing outside.

Everyone scrambles to their feet as one of the men pulls out a shock prod.

"Of course it's you." The captain approaches, looking over them skeptically.