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fifteen|Impatient

Jazlyn

"JJ! JJ!" A voice frantically ran toward us, snapping our eyes apart. "They know!"

"Pope?" I tilt my head toward the boy.

"H-hey Jaz."

"Wait what?" JJ steps toward him.

"They know."

"All right, chill, bro. They don't know shit."

"Topper knows I sunk his boat." Pope puts his hands on his head.

"Wait, Pope. How do you know they know?" I added.

"Because Rafe and Topper posted outside of Heyward's and mad dogged me." He breathes out.

"Will you calm down and get a grip, man? They don't know shit." JJ denies.

"JJ" I sigh, giving him a disapproving look.

"They have cameras. They could've seen me." Pope snaps.

"There was no power. How could they have seen you?"

"It's figure eight! They got generators. They don't give scholarships to kids who vengefully sink boats."

"Pope- Pope." I grasp his shoulders, steadying him. "It's fine. Everything's fine. They might know but we got this, okay? We have it handled."

"B-but it's not-"

"Enough with the regret bro!" JJ stomps up. "They caved your face in. And yours." He points between us, looking at our bruises. "They hit us, we hit them. It's the law of the jungle. Now, if any Kooks come up to you and ask if you had anything to do with it, you walk up to 'em, look 'em right in the eye, and..."

"Deny the living shit out of it."

"That's right. Deny, deny, deny. But just for safety, we don't go anywhere without protection." JJ nods toward his gun sitting on a tree stump. "Right."

"Okay. Let's just go." I say, my uncomfortable growing for some reason. "I want to go home now, I need ice." I breathe out.

"What happened?" JJ and Pope asked.

"Okay, well..." I take a breath, "I got home from something and this DSC girl was all like, 'We're taking you let's go.' and John B tried to run or something and then Deputy Thomas like held him. Then, we got in their car and we escaped and hopped on this guys bike and got yeeted off of it, flying in the air."

"Wow, that was-um- very educational." Pope's eyes go wide.

"Yeah, let's just go."

~~~

jj

"I'm so glad they're still doing this." Kie smiled as we walked down the lawn, toward the big projected screen. "Keep calm, carry on. Back to OBX life, ya' know? Aren't you guys glad that I made you come?"

"Ecstatic."  Pope said sarcastically.

"My couch was pretty comfy, I'll be honest. And you made us come but didn't make Jaz come?" I mumbled.

"She was sleeping, she said she'll come later." Kie answered as we unfolded our chairs.

Pope worried about being in the middle of kooklandia and I calmed his nerves. We both sat and waited for Kie to get our drinks.

"Just saw Rafe," Kie walked back, rolling her eyes, "and he said, and I quote, 'Tell your boy that we know what he did. What is that?"

"Uhh"

"I- Where is he?" I stuttered.

"Right there." She said, turning around to see the three boys, Topper, Rafe and Kelce, standing like little shits.

"Great the whole death squad." Pope cried.

"Stop staring bro." I snapped us back to face forward. "I'm just warning you bro. If they corner me, I'm coming out swinging, okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah."

"Slice and dicin'. I'm- I'm already on edge right now."

"R-right. Yeah."

"If that doesn't work, I got this right here." I held my backpack up that of course, held my gun.

~~~

Jaz

When I woke up, I crawled out of my warm cozy bed, threw on a dark green crew neck, some shorts, and headed out the door on my bike to catch the movie with the rest of the gang.

When I got there, Kie was alone.

Then it all came together when I noticed Rafe's motorcycle in the parking lot, Toppers ugly ass truck and the fact that they weren't there watching.

I hopped quickly off my bike, scanning around to see where the boys could've been. I ran behind the screen and there they were.

Kelce was holding JJ while Rafe beat him and Topper and Pope were going at it.

"Get the hell off of him!" I scream at Kelce, kicking his ass, literally.

"What is this bitch doing?" Rafe tilts his head as Kelce stumbled, dropping JJ. "Y'know. I got the blondie, you get the girl."

"D-Don't you fucking touch her. I swear to-" JJ started before getting punched in the gut.

"Let go bitch!" I screamed at Kelce who picked me up from behind. I finally got a little strength to kick him in the hay from behind myself making him throw me to the ground as he fell.

"Shit. What's wrong with you?!"

"You just strangled a girl! The fuck-"

Then, out of nowhere, Rafe came from behind and picked me up just for him to throw me to the ground, next to the blonde wincing next to me.

He kicked us both then dragged me up. Slamming me against a tree, holding my wrists up, so tight if felt like my blood stopped circulating.

"I know you, Routledge. You're not as tough as you make everyone think. Especially since daddy went missing." He whispered.

I spit in his face.

"You shit." He said as he crossed my face with his hand, hard. When he let go of me, pushing me back to the ground. Kie was digging in someone's bag, JJ was still getting beat and Pope was being choked.

I tried my best to get to my feet to help my best friend who was suffocating. I tried to get behind topper when his elbow came straight at my face.

Darkness.

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