Big Blue Sky | JJ Maybank x Male OC

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Later the next day we were testing out the equipment to lower them into the well. Kie was sitting on the bucket, dangling from a tree while Pope supervised. JJ and I sat on the edge of the hot tub, watching them.

"How's it feeling?" Pope asked.

"Feels good," Kie said.

"Taking you down," he said.

"John B pullin' a Houdini?" JJ called out.

"Yeah, where is he?" Pope said. "I got my scholarship interview tomorrow morning. We gotta get this done."

I looked over as John B walked into the yard from the driveway.

"Speak of the devil. Hey!" JJ called out to him. "Dude, I set up the entire winch to pull of the gold and everything."

"No, he did not. I did that," Pope said.

He ignored us and stormed into the house.

"Uh, what was that all about?" Pope said to me and JJ.

I shrugged.

"I was gonna ask you the same question," JJ said as we crawled out of the hot tub.

JJ put his arm around me as we followed after Pope and Kiara into the house. Since he was in a tank top, then bare skin of his arm was warm against the back of my neck. We stepped inside the house to see John B scrambling through cabinets and drawers, seemingly looking for something.

"You all right, man? What-what's up?" Pope said.

"What are you looking for?" Kie said.

He didn't respond and continued to search the entire room.

"Bro, what's going on?" JJ said.

"John B?" I said quietly as he picked up the gun from underneath the couch cushions.

"John B what do you need the gun for, man?" JJ said as he stepped towards him. "Talk to us!"

John B still didn't respond and shoved JJ backwards, sending him flying onto the pull-out couch.

"John B, chill!" Kie said. "What are you doing?"

He harshly shoved Pope out of the way as well when Pope got too close. He stumbled into the kitchen table, so Kie went to steady him. I furrowed my eyebrows and walked after John B.

"What the hell, John B?" I said.

We all followed him out the front door as he got onto JJ's bike and revved the engine.

"Ward knows about the gold!" He shouted, then looked over his shoulder at us. "He killed my dad."

We stopped approaching him as he said this, then he sped out of the yard. I sighed as Kie ran after him, calling his name. JJ and I stayed behind as Pope chased after Kie.

"Fuck," I sighed, starting to walk towards them.

"Where are you going?" JJ said from behind me.

"With them," I said.

"Where are they going?" He said again.

"I have no idea," I replied.

Later that night we took the HMS Pogue and went to Tannyhill to check on John B. We stopped the boat at the dock, just across from the Druthers.

"What now?" JJ said as we stopped the boat. "We just go up to the front door and ask, hey have you seen John B?"

"Look, he lives at Tannyhill now. It's plausible," Kie replied.