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

𝟸. 𝚅𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚘

"Okay," She turns to the others, "I'm headed out to get some breakfast for us."

"Wait, I thought you wanted me and Darius to get breakfast?" Kenji looks between Gia and Darius in confusion.

"Uhhh..." Darius freezes up, making hard eye contact with Gia.

"Oh, of course!" She laughs, "Sorry, I-- I forgot you guys were getting breakfast." She tosses Darius the keys.

"Thank you!" Darius smiles, dragging Kenji out the door.

Y/N and Yaz share a glance before nodding and slipping out of the room. They head for the bedroom where Kenji and Darius had stayed and close the door quietly behind them.

"Hey, what's up, little egg?" Yasmina smiles at the egg resting on Kenji's bed.

She creeps over and runs her hand across it but the shell crumbles beneath her fingers. She and Y/N both gasp as she moves the pillow to reveal half of the egg to be missing.

Y/N drops to the floor, checking under the beds for any signs of the baby dinosaur while Yaz checks around the dresser.

"It had to have--" Y/N pauses when he gets up and notices the shell trail leading out the door, which they've apparently left cracked open.

The two of them hurry out into the living room where Ben and Sammy practice fighting as Gia watches.

"Hey, everyone. Uhm, uh, so..." Yaz laughs nervously, "Good news, bad news."

The three of them look up at Y/N and Yaz expectantly.

"So, the good news is that I found these in the egg nest, which means..." She holds up the pieces of shell, all three of them rushing over to see.

"Bumpy's egg hatched!" Sammy beams.

"Yeah." Y/N nods, "But, ah, the bad news is we can't find the baby dinosaur anywhere."

Everyone freezes at the sound of a machine working away in the kitchen. They all take cautious steps towards the door and peek inside to find Nonna using a meat grinder to make little meatballs, balling them up in her hands.

"There's no way she would..." Yaz glances at Gia.

"Nonna...aw..." Gia approaches the woman, "Come stai?"

"I don't suppose you've seen anything out of the ordinary this morning, have you?" Ben asks the older woman, placing a hand on his girlfriend's shoulder.

"So, what's this?" Gia leans towards the meat, "Are you... are you making polpette?"

"Si." Nonna holds one out.

"Polpette." Ben leans into the platter and Nonna smacks his hand away, "Meatballs... right?"

"What, uh, what kind of polpette we talking here?"

"Manzo...?" Nonna side eyes him.

"Beef!" Ben lets out a sigh of relief.

"Sounds delicious."

"E..." Nonna begins.

"And?" Gia stiffens up, "And what?"

"Maiale." Nonna shrugs and Ben gasps as if she said something heinous.

"And pork!" Gia smiles, "Of course."

"Certo, certo."

"Uhm... is that all?" Ben questions.

"Si." Nonna goes back to forming her meatballs.

The five of them head back out into the living room and close the door, leaving Nonna to cook.