MERCEDES, jj maybank

31.

BARRY

It looked like John B was driving them through a deserted part of the island and Trinity knew that her gut was right. They were headed straight to the outskirts of the South Side searching for a Ressurection Drive.

"They keep money out here?" Pope asks sceptically,

"That's what she said - that's what she--"

"Stop." Pope stops him and JJ stops laughing. 

"I've never even heard of Ressurection Drive," 

"Yeah, neither, Sarah," Trinity adds.

JJ fiddles with his hat and makes a snide comment, "That's 'cause you're both rich," 

"You've never heard of it either," Kie shuts him down.

"Thank you," Sarah looks to Kie, and gives JJ a glare before turning back around to look at the road.

Kiara points her finger to the glass of the window, "But there's nothing but weeds back here,"

"Alright, just because it's just weeds doesn't mean it's like--"

The sound of sirens stops JJ and everyone turns to look behind the van, "Cops?" 

"Out here?"

"What did we do?"

Trinity puts her head in her hands, "She called the cops,"

"Why would she call the cops?" JJ asks her like she said something stupid.

"Because six kids walk in her store and try to sell seven pounds of gold!" 

Pope takes a breath, "I agree with, Trin."

JJ scoffs and shakes his head, "Cops are probably stopping us cos we're in the middle of nowhere and that's the only suspicious thing about us right now,"

"Whatever, John B, pull over," Sarah taps John B's arm.

"JJ! Stash that!" John B hisses as soon as he pulls the van to a stop.

"Guys, we need to be chill," Kiara tells them but Trinity is the opposite of chill.

Trinity turns to JJ, "How much weed do you have on you?!"

"How much do you have on you?" He asks, patting himself down.

"None?"

"Did you bring the gun?!" John B also asks JJ.

"No! Can everyone stop questioning me!? Please!" JJ wraps the gold in a cloth and puts it in the seat compartment. "I got told to leave the gun at the place,"

"Thank God," Kiara smiles for a millisecond, relieved.

Pope notices that the officer is on his way.

"Sir--"

John B stops freezes as a gun is held up to his face. No one on the van moves a muscle and watches the man's finger hover over the trigger. He was wearing work clothes and a mask with a skull design on it.

"Why don't I go ahead and see them hands up in the air right now?" He says, "All of y'all's hands up in the air now!"

Obviously, they weren't gonna disobey so each of them slowly raised their arms and held their hands above their heads. Every single one of their hearts was racing and that's when they finally believed the woman from the pawnshop did them in.

"You! Out of the car let's go!" The man orders John B. He listens and gingerly opens the door to stand outside. "Out of the car! Let's go! Hurry! Now let them out! What you waitin' on?! Huh? Let them out!"

John B steps around to the side door and slides it open, letting the passengers come out one by one.

"There you go, come on out pretty girl! Here we go! Get out the car! Let's go!

"Bro we're broke--"

"Shut the hell up!" He roars at JJ, which because it's JJ makes him retaliate and shout back.

"Alright! Alright, relax!"

"Shut the fuck up! Shut up!"

"Chill!"

"I'll blow your damn head off! Lay down in the ditch! Lay down in the ditch! On your goddamn hands and knees! Down! Faces on the ground!"

The six of them all obey and lay down on the side of the road while the man with the gun continues to scream.

"Stay here just like that! Heads down! Don't let me see you look up! Alright, that's all y'all gotta do!"

While the man is searching the Twinkie Trinity was able to pinpoint where she could recognize his voice from. The man with the gun was a friend of Rafe's and a well-known drug dealer named Barry. He and Trinity had only crossed paths a couple of times, each while in the presence of Rafe so she never had properly exchanged words with Barry at all since the boys would never talk about their habits in front of Trinity so Barry wouldn't be around her long.

While Barry was kept busy John B had a plan for himself. He silently got up despite his friend's efforts to make sure he didn't and he hid in the back of the fake cop car.

And soon after, Barry was done and ready to leave which meant he had found what he had been looking for. "Alright, y'all just stay like that, unless you want your brain blown out all over this road! Don't move your goddamn heads, okay?" 

Barry jogged over back to his car, where John B was hidden and the Pogues were waiting for something to happen. And then in an instant, John B hits Barry and takes the gun from him, "Guys! I got the gun!"

JJ didn't hesitate at all to sprint over and help out his best friend. Barry stepped out of the car giving JJ the perfect opportunity to hit him in the back of the head. It soon became five on one against Barr while Trinity ran around to get the gold. 

She opened the glove compartment and it was just sitting there so it was exactly well hidden but nonetheless, she went back around to the Pogues to see Barry wheezing on the floor.

"You son of a bitch!" Sarah shouts.

JJ crouches down and tugs down the mask, "I know this piece of shit! He's a basehead!" He announces.

"Probably knows my brother," Sarah looks to Trinity, who nods, confirming her statement.

"He sells coke to my Dad,"

Barry finally catches enough breath to continue shouting at them, "Listen, I couldn't hurt any single one of y'all--"

But JJ pounds the back of the gun into his head making him shut up.

"JJ!" Everyone shouts

"Dude?!"

"JJ chill! Let's go!" Trinity says, sick of this place.

"Yeah, come on," John B tells JJ but JJ is still in his own state of mind.

While Barry is physically unable to get up and wheezing on the floor JJ searches his pocket before pulling out an ID, "We got one last stop." JJ mutters, going into the driver's seat of the Twinkie and driving the opposite way from the Chateau.