Choose - JJ Maybank

Chapter 3

We were back on the boat making our way to the motel.  I was sitting next to Kie  who was ranting about how horrible the water looked with all the trash in it from the storm. I wasn't paying attention though. I was staring at JJ. He was standing in the front talking to Pope. My mind kept flashing back to that night. I wish I never left...I never left him. Who knows where him and I would be right now, maybe together. I was broken out of my thoughts when I heard a whistle. 

"I thought the Chateau looked bad." JJ said as we looked at the run down motel. 

"This place is a shitshow." John B said. 

"motel or meth lab?" I said shaking my head. 

"You be the judge." Pope said making me laugh. 

"Doesn't look like a place somebody with a Grady-White stays." John B said pulling the boat closer. 

"No. Looks like a place someone with a Grady-White would get killed." Pope said making me shake my head. 

"all right here we go." John B said as we slowed down coming up to the grass. 

"This is your captain speaking. HMS Pogue coming' in for landing." JJ said it like he was speaking into a walkie talkie. "Whoo." He yelled jumping off. 

"We good?" He asked turning the boat off. 

"Yeah, we good." JJ replied back. "Ma lady." He said holding a hand out for me. I grabbed it and he helped me off the boat. 

"All right. Here goes nothin'. JB said following us. 

"Hey Katie." Pope said stopping us. 

"Yeah." I replied.

"Don't let them do anything stupid." He said giving me a serious look. 

"She couldn't stop us even if she wanted too." JJ said smiling as he wrapped an arm around my shoulders making me giggle. 

"Oh we will." JB said. 

"I'm not making promises." I said smiling at Pope. 

"Yeah, I know." Pope said looking away. 

"Uh, be careful." Kie said to John B as she handed him the key. "I mean it." She said giving him a look. A longing look. 

"Yeah." He said laughing as he followed after us. "Why are all these mattresses out here." 

"after a hurricane they ditch 'em cause they're moldy." JJ replied as we made our way to the rooms trying to find the one we were looking for. "Just be so careful, John." He said in a girls voice as he massaged JB's shoulders making me laugh. 

"God, you're so weird." JB said pushing JJ off his shoulders making me laugh even more. 

"Dude what the heck was that about?" JJ said 

"I don't know. Maybe she wanted us to be careful." JB said shrugging. 

"Since she heard you're being threatened with exile, she's just been, like, Oh! Be so careful John B." He said the last part in a moaning girls voice. 

"Get off." JB said shrugging JJ's hands off his shoulders. 

"Oh, give me that John D already. (He said in the same moaning girls voice.) When are you gonna swoop on that, man?" 

"JJ, just because all you can think about is getting laid doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same thing." I said crossing my arms over my chest. 

"See, thank you. Katie agrees with me." JB said hugging me. 

"Well actually, I do think it was a little "too friendly" if you ask me." I said shrugging my shoulders.