Kie climbed out the tomb with help from her friends and was holding a large envelope in her hands as she held it out for John B to take. He slowly took the envelope from her, staring at the words written on the front in shock
To Bird
"That's not gold" pope sighed, disappointment all over his face.
"Well, at least we got an envelope from this high risk, scary, life threatening adventure. That's something" Riley sighed sarcastically and JJ chucked at the her words.
"Holy shit" John B mumbled, his eyes still piercing the envelope.
"What?" JJ asked him
"This is from dad"
The whole group looked round at each other with shocked faces from his words. Maybe this whole hunt was actually worth something after all.
As the whole group carried on smiling with surprise that this actually led them somewhere, the sound of an engine approaching caught their attention.
" ugh guys..." Riley muttered smacking popes arm to get his attention. He looked annoyed at the girl until he saw what she was staring at.
"Code red. Code red. Square groupers square groupers!!" JJ got their attention as the group hurried round the corner of the tomb and ducked down to the floor, hurriedly trying to turn all their lights and torches off, as JJ struggled to get his head torch off, Riley quickly grabbed his face between her hands and switched it off for him. JJs face burned red but luckily no one saw in the darkness.
Riley could feel her breathing getting heavier, she did not want to relive what happened in the chicken coop, JJ could see the girl panicking and grabbed her hand, giving it a squeeze for reassurance. She turned and looked at him, surprised at the gesture, but held onto his nonetheless.
"Do you think it's them?" Kie asked the group looking at each of them for some sort of confirmation, her voice sounding panicky.
"Homies got a gun!" JJ told the group, his voice slightly panicky too. And with that Riley had had enough of the bullshit.
"Fuck this" she muttered, and with that, she was up and running, releasing JJs hand, allowing the whole group to follow her. She jumped the gate, followed by the rest of the pogues, she turned round to check everyone was there but could only see 3 pogues.
"Where the fucks pope?" She asked the group frantically, still panicked.
"Guys I'm stuck!"
Riley looked up to see pope stuck on the gate by his trousers. Despite the seriousness of the situation she couldn't help but have a giggle at him.
"Lee stop laughing and help me!" He whisper shouted at the girl, JJ raised his gun and aimed it at pope.
"Don't worry bro I got you"
"Don't even fucking think about it" Riley told JJ as John B forced him to lower his hand.
Kie managed to pull pope free, leaving his trousers on the gate, and him in white briefs.
"It's a little tootsie roll!" JJ laughed hysterically as they all climbed into the van, each of them laughing their heads off as they drove away, all apart from pope.
* * *
Riley walked into the kitchen and watched JJ spread jam on mouldy bread.
"Wow that looks nice" she smirked sarcastically, looking down at the sandwich he was making.
"Doesn't it just" he smirked back, looking the girl up and down. She shook her head but couldn't help but smile slightly as she walked back into the room where the rest of the pogues were sat around the envelope.
"That bread had mould on it three days ago" pope shouted through to JJ.
"I'll just pull off the bad parts. Plus mould is good for you it's like a natural... orgasm"
"It's called an organism, JJ. Plus you're a natural organism, that don't mean you're any good for anyone" Riley commented, making JJ hold a hand to heart and act all offended.
"Oh I'm very very good person sweetheart" he winked at her, making Riley stick her finger in her mouth and pretend to gag.
"JJ!" Kie called him, making JJ and Riley break eye contact and remember the situation they were currently in , as the rest of the pogues stared at them, confused by their flirting.
"Yep yep yep" JJ told her as he hopped his way into the kitchen, eating his mouldy sandwich.
Riley watched as he gagged and spat it back out.
"Pull of the bad parts yeah?" She asked him with a smirk on her face, to which he stuck up his middle finger and pulled a sarcastic smile at her and turned to watch John b open the envelope.
The whole group watched in anticipation as John B pulled what looked like a map of the outerbanks out of the envelope.
"Holy shit" he whispered to himself.
The whole map was covered in drawings, maths equations and calculations.
"X marks the spot" pope pointed to an x marked out and circled on the map.
"There's something else in there" John B reached his hand back inside the envelope.
"What's that?" JJ asked.
"It's a tape recorder" kie told him.
"Dumbass" Riley scoffed, making JJ elbow her in the rib. She pulled a sad face at him and rubbed the place he'd elbowed her dramatically.
"Dear bird" the group heard the voice of big John through the tape recorder and all looked around at each other in shock.
"Who's bird?" JJ asked. Riley rolled her eyes at the badly timed question."That's what my dad called me" John B told him.
"I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so" big johns voice continued " and you doubted your old man. I suspect at this moment you're filled with guilt and self loathing over our last fight. Well don't kill yourself just yet kid, I didn't expect to find the merchant either. I wasn't exactly father of the decade. What can I say kid? I could smell the barn. And hopefully we're listening to this in our brand new sugar shack down in Costa Rica living on past investments and pulling out permits. If not, and you find this for less optimal reasons, well, that's what the map is for. There she is, the wreck of the merchant. If something happens to me, finish what I started. Go for the gold kid. I love you bird, even if I didn't always act like it. I'll see you on the other side."
And with that the tape recorder cut dead. Each teen in the room was staring at John b, as he stared down at the tape recorder in front of him, gripping onto it for dear life. A single tear trickled down Riley's cheek as she stared upon the boy before her, who she could see was struggling to hold back his tears. John B quickly stood up and walked over to
The door. Riley watched as he gripped the door frame, clearly struggling to hold himself up."Holy shit, he did it! big John found the merchant-" JJ began excitedly.
"JJ, could you not?" Kie shut him up as Riley sprinted over to John B and held him in a tight hug, his head resting on her shoulder as he broke down to her, the girl couldn't help but cry too, she felt so unbelievably sorry for the boy she was holding, knowing all the pain he had been through, having experienced it herself.
"He'd be so proud of you John, I just know he would be" she told him, as he hung onto her even closer, and sobbed a little bit louder.
Authors note- hey guys this was a bit of a filler chapter but I'm back on track writing 3 a week. Hope you enjoyed xxx
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FanfictionBest friends since 3rd grade, Riley and JJ have always been there for each other, especially after Riley's parents died, but when the pogues go on a treasure hunt to find £400 million, will things stay that way, or will it develop into something mor...