Head Over Heels ✔︎John B Routledge

Chapter I - After the hurricane

It was 2020, school had just finished for summer the day prior and Natalie had already made plans with her friend Peeler (dead boday girl), or lee as Nat called her.

she rolled out of bed and quickly put a cute two piece bathing suit on, along with denim shorts and a crop top over it.

"Hey auntie." Nat said as she walked out of her room to find Lana looking extremely worried.

"You okay?"

"No yeah im- im fine sweetie. Goodmorning." her breath shaking as she said it.

Natalie knew something was wrong but decided to let it go, she didn't really want to be thinking about anything worrying so early in the morning.

"Wheres Scooter?" she said, grabbing a waffle from the toaster that Lana had made for her earlier.

"Oh he'll be back soon." Lana tried to reassured the girl. Although didn't do a very good job as her facial expression still looked as anxious as before.

"Alright then, i'll be back later. Gotta help heyward with cleaning."

Lana nodded.

Natalie didn't actually have to help him, but she liked heyward and knew he would appreciate some extra hands after the hurricane yesterday. Nat grabbed her keys off of the coffee table and set off.

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"Heyward!" Natalie exclaimed, letting him and his son pope know she was there.

"Heyy Natalie sweetie, good to see you."

she normally hated being called by her full name but heyward was an exception.

"Good to see you too." she exclaimed, grabbing a brush to sweep the deck.

Nat sweeped and turned around to pope as she did, "Hey pope."

"Hey Nat." he gave her a small smile.

As she was helping clean a familiar voice came from the dock pope was standing on.

"We have a safety meeting, attendance mandatory." It was john b.

"I cant my pops got me on lockdown." pope returned.

"Cmon man, your dads a pussy over" another familiar voice, jj.

Nat stood up straight and looked over at the three boys, catching both john b and jjs eyes.

"Hey Natalie." john b shouted from his boat, jj just threw a peace up at her.

"Its Nat." she shouted back playfully.

he ignored her and turned back to heyward, "we need your son"

"yeah and island rules, day after a hurricanes a free day" jj lied, making nat laugh a little. They argued back and forth until pope finally got onto the boat.

"Hey Natalie wanna come with?" jj shouted over to her.

"cant, sorry. I've got work to do." Nat shouted back.

They didn't say anything back and Natalie got back to helping heyward. They had never seemed to want to hang out with her until now, which she was a little confused about but didn't pay much attention to it.

this chapter is so short 😟
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