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seventeen|Impatient

Jaz

"I-u-uhm." JJ cleared his throat, "Oh?"

"Shut up." I rolled my eyes pushing him away as we ran to catch up with everyone else with the biggest smiles on our faces.

There we were, in silence. All of us, around the warm fire. I found a cozy spot next to my brother leaning against his shoulder, facing right in front of the blondie, I lov- liked.

"Hey guys. So, what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope breaks the silence.

There were looks between JJ and John B when we all questioned them.

"Might as well tell 'em, man, before we're gaffed." JJ sighs.

"You ready for this?" John B looks at everyone.

"Yeah."

"So, the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant." He started. I was slightly falling asleep at that point but i perked up when he went on about the gold,

"Oh gosh, here we go again with this."

"No. All right, wait. Hear him, out alright?" JJ insists.

"It's been here the whole time. It's on the island." He lights up.

"Are you serious?" Kie gestures. "Oh my god."

"I'd like to voice my skepticism." Pope claps his hands.

"Pope," I look to him with my head tilted down, "Shh" went on quietly with a finger over my lip.

"Yeah, but can I please present you with my evidence, sir?" John B went on with an accent.

"Proceed." Pope waved off.

"All right. So, in my backpack, I have a letter from Denmark Tanny."

John B stood up making me adjust my seat next to JJ, slowly falling asleep on his shoulder, without realizing it.

"Who's that?" Kie questioned.

They went on explaining Denmark Tanny  and the map and blah, blah. I wasn't really wanting to pay attention, I mean, after what just happened, how can anyone even focus. I figured I'd catch on soon enough or someone'd filling me in.

"Drumroll, please," John B gestured, "because that farm is..."

"Tannyhill Plantation."

"Tanyhill?" Kiara echoed.

"Yeah. So, after that, he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit-Ron of rice, which pisses off all the white planters, and then they decide to lynch him." John B explained whilst everyone shared glances, "So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to his son as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter, he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold." He slowly approached a smiling Kiara.

"Where?"

"Harvest the wheat in parcel nine, near the water. Except, there's no wheat."

"This is getting boring." I whispered over John B toward JJ.

JJ scrunched his nose, "I know, I know,  just pay attention."

"All we need is an Original Survey map of the property, and we've found the gold." John B exclaimed.

"You're shitting me." I mumbled to myself.

"Okay, so this might have a small chance of being actually true." Pope at admitted while JJ smiled, walking over to John B with a big hug.

"Woah, hello. Fire! Fire! You're near the fire. You're gonna burn." John B cautioned as he accepted the hug.

"JJ! Careful." I giggled watching their embrace.