Where is the love?// JJ Maybank

Chapter 19

The next day Pope went to his scholarship interview and the rest of the Pogues were sitting on John B's dock.

"You sure he got everything?" JJ asked.

"Every bar, the whole enchilada." John B said.

"Look, it's not like I expected a happy ending or some shit." He said taking off his cast and throwing it.

"John B..." Kie said.

"What, Kie? It's a hairline fracture. Who cares?"

"You should care. Your arm's gonna be messed up for life."

"As a graduite of Grey's anatomy, I don't think it's a good idea." Emilie told him.

"It's fine. See?" John B said wiggling his fingers.

Suddenly they heard footsteps approaching them on the dock.

"Guys!" Pope yelled. "Guys! Oh! Oh! Oh, God. I ran all the way here."

"You all right?" Emilie asked him.

"How was the interview, Pope?"JJ questioned.

"Don't ask." He said.

"JB... Look, I'm sorry, dude about everything." Pope said out of breath.

"It's fine."

"But... but I don't have a lot of time, and... and I have information that is tactically relevant. So, before I had my interview, my dad said he was going down to the private airstrip to cut palms for Cameron's big plane. Because it was too heavy, it needed a longer landing strip to take off. So, I'm there sitting in my interview, thinking to myself, "Hm. Why would Cameron need a longer airstrip to take off? What could be so heavy to weigh it down?""

"Gold." JJ answers.

"Exactly." Pope says pointing at him. "Guys, this is our chance, but it leaves tonight, and we have to go."

"Guys, we can't give up now." Emilie said.

"What's the plan, big man?" JJ asked John B

"We're gonna steal that shit back."

"Let's do this!"

"Come on, guys!" Kie said.

They gathered in the Twinkie and drove to the private airstrip.

"We go in there, guns a-blazin', make Ward Cameron beg for mercy, abscond with as much gold as possible and vámonos, get the hell out of there." JJ says loading his gun.

" Send that shit straight down the Intracoastal." John B says.

"Wait for weather." Kie said.

"Exit to Cuba." Pope agrees.

"Cuba? No, man, Xcalak, Jewel of the Yucatan. Lobsters so thick, mangoes, and no word for money." JJ says.

"Let's do this shit."

They watch the airstrip from a fence.

"What's the plan?" Kie asks "Broad strokes."

"I don't think we got that far." John B told her.

"They're loading up the gold." Pope said.

"There's Ward." John B said.

John B was looking through a pair of binoculars when he lowered them slowly.

"What?" Emilie asks.

"It's Sarah." John B said.

"She's with him?" Pope asks.