MERCEDES, jj maybank

49.

P4L

After two weeks Tyler had started to become worried for Trinity, she would stay in bed and only occasionally come out. Nothing seemed to make her happy anymore and Tyler knew it was because she missed everyone, and was still in the dark about everything that's happening back at the Outer Banks.

When Pope, JJ and Kiara all had their first day back as juniors at Kildare County High School, Trinity would have been going into her senior year. It made it quite depressing when Pope, Kie and JJ turned up alone.

It doesn't seem like Trinity to be attending the high school because Charlotte had always planned for her to go to the Kook Academy, just as she did. But she had Tyler to thank for messing that one up.

While Trinity was still in middle school, Tyler set up a bad reputation for himself and ended up getting expelled right before Trinity would have been joining, so the two siblings got sent to the high school together and he still set up a bad reputation for himself but it was his last option, they wouldn't have kicked him out and he knew that so he used it to his advantage.

There had been a memorial spread out at the front of the school, one for John B and the other for Trinity which made it especially difficult for JJ on his first day back. The memorials seemed to be the only thing done since Matthew had refused a funeral since there was no body found, in some way it did give him a little hope.

Ward was still adamant about making sure Rafe never got caught and stuck to the original story of John B being the killer so he hired a lawyer to help him out and it seemed to have been going well. With no witnesses anymore the Camerons were back at the top of the food chain.

Speaking of the Camerons, Rafe was doing more drugs in a day than you could count. It even started to scare Barry and he couldn't tell if it was from the grief or from the stress about being the one that killed Peterkin, especially since Kiara would spray paint the word murderer on the side of his house.

While all this was happening the only thing Trinity knew; was that she was alive and that her brother is going to force her to go back to the OBX any day now. He was kind enough to spend a butt load of money to buy her a new phone and all the rest that she would need like clothes and shampoos and shower gels and just everything else.

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A few days had passed and back at the Chateau, John B and Sarah were back on the Island and no one knew, and that meant the Pogues could have one night of having fun. After drinking beer and smoking weed and chilling in the hot tub it was long before Pope and Kiara had jacked the Pogue and went off somewhere alone.

When John B headed to get another beer from the cooler he noticed his little memorial carved into the tree, and a few inches below it was one for Trinity.

JJ joined John B leaving Sarah in the hot tub, "It's a cute art project," John B sniffles. "Killed the tree though,"

The two laugh, "Yeah probably," JJ Turns to face his best friend still unable to believe he's actually back, "I fucking missed you, man," He hugged John B tightly.

"I'm so sorry about Trinity," John B whispered while they were hugging.

JJ wasn't trying to get emotional right now so he quickly stepped back from the hug and inhaled sharply, blinking frequently, "Yeah, me too," He looked down at his beer can.

John B held his beer up, "To Trin Von Thorne,"

JJ smiles and puts his can to John B's, "To Trinity Von Thorne," After they both took a few sips and then poured some on the ground they went back over to Sarah.

But John B wasn't able to focus on anything after hearing some car door slams nearby, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" He hushed Sarah and JJ.

"What?" JJ turned to him alarmed.

"What was that?" He asks, seeing if the other two heard it.

"Your chicken?" JJ suggest, imitating a chicken.

John B shook his head, irritated with JJ, "I heard a car door!"

JJ keeps on clucking so John B clasps his hand around his mouth and three hold their breaths waiting to hear anything else. "Hide." Is all that John B says before taking the water cooler and throwing it over the fire pit and then following Sarah and JJ into the tree.

The three of them watched from above as Rafe wandered through what was left of what seemed like a party. "Where the fuck are you?" Rafe mumbled and scanned his eyes across the porch.

He heard footsteps coming from the Chateau, "Anything?" Rafe asks Barry.

Barry shakes his head and runs his tongue across his lower lip getting more and more agitated by the second, "No, ain't shit in there bro."

"No? Nothing?"

"No! Nothing! Rafe!"

Rafe extends his arm out and points to the died out fire, "They were obviously just here based off the smoke, man!"

Barry sarcastically nods with a wide grin, "Yeah yeah yeah, great observation, boy scout!"

"Then they're not far! You know!"

"Smokey the Bear! Look at you go, bro!" Barry shouts, wandering off trying to find anything.

Rafe turns away and looks around too, "They gotta be around here somewhere..." He trails off, finding the memorial carved into the tree that the Pogues were hidden in.

Barry noticed Rafe going quiet and went over to see what was so interesting, "Hm, what you find, bro?" Barry followed Rafe's eye line to the bottom heart carved into the tree with the writing;

TRINITY V THORNE

2003 - 2020

"Oh shit man," Barry did genuinely feel bad for Rafe. Especially seeing the grief that it caused him but Barry found it funny how 'P4L' was also carved in. He let out a small laugh, "Your girl was a Pogue for life, huh?"

Rafe glared at Barry and he stopped laughing, "I'm sorry man, it's not funny, I take it back." Bary holds his hands out in defence and apologised.

Rafe bit the inside of his cheeks and stared at Trinity's name in the wood before screaming, "Shit!" At the top of his lungs.

Barry was genuinely a little bit frightened of this, "Yo, Rafe, chill man!"

Rafe looked over his shoulder at Barry, "Why is it John B that got to come back and not her? Huh?" Rafe turned his head back at the tree and fired his gun right and John B's name over and over again.

Barry rushed over and tried to snap him back into reality, "Hey! Woah! Chill bro! Rafe, come on man! Chill your shit! You're gonna get out asses busted, you miss her I get it! Let's bounce, come on let's go!"

After the had gone JJ looked at the tree trunk he was sat in and saw the bullet mark directly in line with his head and let out a shaky breath, "Shit,"