The good and the bad of Evangeline's relationship with JJ Maybank.
They would never leave each other alone until that one day JJ showed up at Evangeline's door with bloodshot eyes and tear-stained cheeks.
The great love story of a destined for gre...
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present time
"Why are you bitching at me?" JJ raised his voice at the girl. Evangeline furrowed her eyebrows and carried a confused expression.
"JJ, I'm not even bitching at you?" she snapped back. "I'm telling you you're gonna get yourself killed! Or sent to jail. This little gold game you have with John B is gonna get you seriously hurt. I know it is. And sinking Topper's boat, JJ? Really? If the Thornton's find out, they're gonna press charges, JJ! You know that right?"
"Would you rather me pull a gun on him, huh?" JJ asked her.
"No, JJ. Get over the whole Kooks vs. Pogue's thing. I'm so tired of it." She shook her head, sitting down on her bed. "You're making it worse."
"They beat Pope! They literally jumped him. I figured that even you would understand, because Pope is your best friend. But I guess not. Guess you're just as much of a shitty friend as you are girlfriend." JJ stayed silent for a few moments after speaking up. "Y'know, Evangeline... you may not know what it's like to have a thing like that with your best friend because you don't have a best friend, but I'm doing it for Jo—"
"You didn't just say that to me, JJ." The girl chuckled bitterly at his words and ran her fingers through her long brown hair.
"C'mon, you know I'm right. Your best friend left you for her boyfriend!" he shook his head, turning around towards the window. Evangeline nodded. "It seems like all you do is defend those Kooks."
"If that's how you really feel.." she looked down at the carpet of her room as she processed JJ's words. It seems as if everything she tells him and opens up to him about—he uses it against her when he's angry at her. She had told JJ many times that she felt like Topper was taking her place as Sarah's best friend. It upset her and JJ knew that. "Go home, JJ."
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"All right, JJ. Pin it here." John B instructed JJ.
JJ nodded in response. "Roger that! X marks the spot." He worked on stopping the boat.
"To going full Kook." John B lowered the drone into the water. It sunk down slowly into the water. Kie leaned over the edge of the boat and watched it sink. Pope watched the screen while he waited for something interesting. "All right, JJ, we're right over it. Ten seconds northwest."
"Got it! Ten seconds northwest." JJ worked on getting the boat where it needed to be, his jay and sunglasses on him. Evangeline's gaze switched from Pope to JJ repeatedly as she waited.
Kie helped lower the wire, "One hundred feet."
Pope got closer to the screen and gasped.
"What? What, what, what, what?" John B ran up towards Pope and looked at the screen.
"It's nothing," Pope shook it off. John B groaned. "Sorry, I thought—"
