In Between // OBX (K.C)

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"Speak of the freakin devil!" Pope cheered as Kiara and JJ finally pulled up in Kiara's dad's truck.

"Finally!" Brenna sighed, ready to get out of there and because without a jacket now she was pretty cold.

The horn of the car went off a few times as the truck backed up towards them.

"Look who it is, the tortoise and the tortoise," a very annoyed Pope kept going, "Just a couple hours late"

"Where the hell were you guys?" Pope shouted. Brenna ran her fingers through her hair, sitting up on her knees behind the other three teens.

"Can we just pull this thing out of here and get going?" she asked wanting to just move on, but of course she got ignored.

"Paternal complications," Kiara said getting out of the truck, gesturing to JJ.

"Luke was at the chateau," JJ sighed, pulling the tow line form the bed of the truck.

"Oh great! While you were having family time with your pops," Pope sassed, starting to piss off Brenna, "John B got bit by a gater!"

"Like, for real?" JJ asked, eyes wide.

"Does it look like we're joking?" Sarah gestured to the blood all over the top of the van.

"Okay, what the hell happened?" Kiara looked at the scene, her girlfriend now hoodie-less, John B bleeding, a blood stained hoodie and blood smears on the hood of the car.

Pope and John B started to rambled over each other about the gater, Kiara shouting over them about 'putting her ass on the line'. Brenna looked at JJ who looked stressed by all the yelling.

"Oh my god! Can we just pull this fucking car out!" Brenna shouted, everyone stopped talking and looked back her, shocked by the loud noise coming from her.

"Woah," John B said looking at Brenna.

"I'm sorry for yelling," Brenna sighed, her voice softer now, "You guys are killing me! Can we just chill for a second! There's a lot happening right now"

Brenna looked around at the group who all seemed to be thinking about their actions.

"Look," JJ spoke up, moving to lean against a tree, "I just helped my dad leave this island for good. Like he's not ever coming back," JJ shook his head.

"He's straight up like the Spanish, just 'bon voyage'," JJ sighed. Kiara crunched up her face at the words, Brenna shaking her head.

"That's not the right language," Sarah whispered.

"All we got," JJ paused, "And I know for a fact all I got is you guys, okay? You're it!" He looked around at all of his friends.

"And I've come too close to losing you, all of you," he gestured with his arm, to the group.

"Like shit, you almost drowned," he pointed at Brenna, pushing himself off the tree, "Pope, you were kidnapped," he turned to looked at the boy sitting at the edge of the van.

"Sarah, you've been shot!" he looked at the blonde, "Kie might get shipped away to a boarding school!" he looked at the girl standing near him, "And John B, you were almost dinner for a freakin gater, bro"