family. | outer banks x oc

motel.

As we come up to the motel, I can already tell this is a bad idea. This motel is straight out of an episode of criminal minds.

"I thought the chaeteu looked bad." Jj says.

"This place is a shitshow."

"Motel or a meth lab?" Kie asks.

"You be the judge." Pope says.

"It doesn't look like the type of place somebody with a Grady-White stays." I tell them.

I'm unconvinced this is a good idea.

"It looks like a place someone with a
Grady-White would get killed." Pope jokes.

"What is with you and your obsession with death and dead bodies?" I ask him.

Jj puts his hand on his shoulder and talks into it like a walkie-talkie, again. He was actually much better at it than I would expect.

"This is your captain speaking. HMS Pogue comin' in for landing."

I laugh as the boy does this.

Jj is the biggest idiot I have ever met. I guess, it could be his way of coping from the pain his father inflicts on him.

"We good?" John B asks as Jj ties the boat to the ground.

"Yeah, we good."

"All right. Here goes nothin'."

"Hey." Pope says, directing his voice to John B.

"Yeah?"

"Don't let him do anything stupid." Pope says as he points to Jj.

"Oh, we will." Jj jokes.

"I'm not making any promises." John B tells Pope.

"Yeah, I know." Pope groans.

I hadn't said much the whole time we were here and, apparently, Pope picked up on that.

"You okay?" Pope asks as he walks towards me.

"Mhm?"

"You okay?" He repeats.

To be honest, no. I hated it here. It smelt like oil and dead fish.

"Yeah. I'm fine." I lied to him.

Pope nods. I knew he didn't believe me but he wasn't going to say anything. He sat next to me and placed his head in my lap.

I look over to the conversation John B and Kiara were having.

"Uh, be careful." She tells him before handing off the keys. "I mean it."

"Yeah. Yeah." John B says nervously.

Oh, God. Kiara never stops talking about the whole "No pouge on pouge macking." but now she's buttering herself up to John B? Seriously?

Jj and I look at eachother. I lift one of my eyebrows and he shrugs back at me.

"Let's go." John B says as he jumps off the boat.

As they walk towards the motel, their voices start fading away.

I look down at Pope and start brushing my fingers through his very short hair.

Pope, Kiara, and I started asking eachother random questions.
"Biggest pet peave?" Kiara repeats.

"Yeah." Pope confirms.

"Giving one percent to the environment."

"Whats wrong with that?" I ask.

"We only have one Earth, Leia. We should be giving it 100 percent, bare minimum."

At this point, Pope sits up from my lap.

"Right. Thats fiscally sound." Pope agrees.

I know Pope likes Kiara. I'm pretty sure all the guys do.

I wouldn't be surprised if I walked in on Kiara having sex with all three, at once.

I sound out Kie and Pope's conversation about the environment when I notice a truck pull up with the words "Kildare County Sheriff." Written on the side.

"Hey, hey, cops." I tell them.

"Shit."

"Call them." Pope demands.

"I can't." I say.

"The towers are down." Kie and I say at the same time.

Kie, Pope, and I jump put of the boat while Pope whispers, "If I loose my Merritt Scholarship because of this, I'm gonna kill somebody."

"You won't loose your scholarship, Pope. I won't let that happen." I tell him.

We all hide behind a broken sign. "Maybe they're not going up there." Pope says.

"He's pointing." I whisper.

"They're definitely going up there." Kiara adds.

We watch Shoupe and some other officer start to walk up the stairs towards the room.

"Shit." I groan.

Pope, Kiara, and I sprint over to the side where the window for where John B and Jj are.

Kie and Pope start throwing rocks towards the window, failing, of course.
"Didn't y'all play baseball?" I ask them.

"I was on the math team." Pope says as he throws another rock.

I check my surroundings. I know there has to be another way to tell our friends they are about to be busted.

I notice there's a ledge under the window. My eyes fall towards the ground when I notice a huge trash can. An idea popped in my head.

"Mother fucker." I mumble.

I used to be an athlete. I have more upper body strength than the rest of the pogues combined.

"Go back to the boat!" I whisper to Kie and Pope.
"Hell no!" Kiara whisper-yells.

"Go!"

I jump onto the trash can than put my hands on the small ledge under the window.

When I get up, I knock on the window.

John B opens the curtains and looks at me confused.

I know he can't hear me so I point towards the door mouthing "Cops."

"Shit." He says.

The police start knocking on the door. Making the three of us panic.

They decide to escape out the window.
Jj pulls me to the right side of the window.

There wasn't much room so I was standing infront of him. He had his whole body wrapped around me and his chin on my head.

It felt kind of awkward, to be honest.

I mean, Jj and I are best friends and he was the second person I met on the island but still, this situation felt forced.

We peek through the window and see Shoupe and another officer walk in to the room. They make sure to check it was empty first.

I was praying Jj and John B did the same.

They walk over to a small safe that was already halfway open.

"You-" I start.

Jj puts his hand over my mouth before I can finish.

That was lowkey kinda hot.

Holy shit.

There is no way I'm thinking about Jj like that right now.

The cops start mumbling to eachother. I couldn't hear what they were saying but John B seemed pretty freaked out.

Just as I thought we were clear, a large object drops from Jj's pocket. The object hit the small roof with a loud "bang!"

"Shit." I mumble.

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