𝙚𝙪𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖 - 𝙅𝙅 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙠 1

24

"this entire thing is just so bullshit!" kie exaggerated to bentley as they both stood side by side leaning against the porch rail, looking over the whole midsummers event.

more and more of the kooks rolled in over time and the two both just observed, hating the whole thing

"there's people, literally our friends on the cut struggling right now with no food, power or anything resourceful and these kooks have the extra money to help but they throw it towards this stupid event to celebrate what? summer?" bentley scoffs

"tell me about it. oh! there's pope!" kie cut herself off, the two walking over to him.

"excuse me sir, do we have to shuck these ourselves?" kie said in a british accent.

bentley looked at her, a confused look on her face, pope turning around expecting to deal with some stuck up lady, but facing kie and bentley instead.

"that accent was baaaaad" pope said after the two did their handshake, bentley following.

"it really was. i was just gonna let it go" kie smiled

"you ever seen this many kooks in one place?" bentley scoffed, the three now standing together looking over the event.

"yeah. last year. you're lucky you don't even totally classify as one, benny" pope sighed, looking at her.

"thanks i guess?" bentley shrugged

"hey have you guys heard from JJ?" pope asked, bentley felt her stomach drop.

"no. he'll be alright. he's got the survival instincts of a cockroach" kie reassured him

"it's all my fault. i shouldn't have let him go down for me" pope sighed

"it's not your fault okay. topper almost killed you guys, remember?" kie said

the two looked at eachother and nodded, looking away as the cameron's made their opening appearance through the doors.

"she's definitely gonna poke someone's eye out with that thing" pope said.

"i saw JJ a couple hours ago" bentley blurted out, not knowing when the right timing was to tell them.

"what? where?" kie said

"his dad bailed him out. i was gonna go down and do it but i couldn't because only his parent could. so he came to my house a while after and he really isn't looking good. his dad. he uhhh. yeah" bentley said just pointing to her face, not wanting to finish her sentence or she'd make herself upset thinking about it.

"oh god" was all kie said, pope only sighed, the two both knowing exactly was she meant.

-

a couple hours had past and it was now dark and lit up. kie and bentley split off to be with their families who were together anyway, and pope was doing his job w his dad.

bentley was impatiently waiting to hopefully see JJ's face appear somewhere since she knew he was working as a waiter tonight.