The Genius Pogue and the Shy Kook

Running into a "Sandbar"

Everleigh's POV

     JJ smacked John B over the head. That was unexpected. "That hurt" John B whined. "You deserve it," JJ said flatly, "Did you not just hear what Kiara said?" JJ hissed just loud enough for me to hear. As the boys helped Kiara into the boat, I stood on the edge of the dock, feeling immensely out of place. Kiara turned around and said, "Come on Everleigh." She stated like I had no choice; I really didn't have a choice. I stepped on the edge of the boat. It tipped toward me and then I was falling. It felt like slow motion. I closed my eyes, waiting to feel the warm water around my body. After a second, I opened my eyes confused. I didn't fall? I raise my head and meet Pope's gaze. He pulls me into the boat just as John B starts speeding away.
"You okay?" Pope asks concerned. "Yeah" I say breathlessly. I just now realized that he was still holding me. I pulled away, worried about what he thought of me. He gives me a small nod and then heads over to his friends. I can hear them talking in hushed voices. "We should bring her with us," Pope whispers. "Why would we bring her? She's a kook." John B hisses. "She's not just a kook. She's like the queen of kooks," JJ butts in. "Guys!" Kiara says, "She can definitely hear us with how loud your whispering." They all look over at me. I quickly turn my head and look at the ocean, pretending that I'm not paying attention to their conversation.
They quiet down and scoot closer together, conversing. I strain my ears to try and hear, but I can't make anything out. They all stand up and then start walking towards me. I started fiddling with my bracelet, scared out of my mind. "You like fishing?" JJ asks surprisingly nice. "I guess," I reply, still scared. "Cool, then your coming with us," He says matter-of-factly. I stared at him in disbelief. "What?" I question. "Are you deaf, blondie? I said you're coming with us to go fishing." JJ exclaims walking to the bow while exclaiming, "Hey, Pope. Can you go a little faster?"
"Here we go. I'm movin'." How did I miss the fact that John B and Pope switched places? "Doesn't work. We've tried this like 6,000 times." John B says from his seat next to Kiara. "I got this. It's gonna work!" JJ exclaims, bringing a beer bottle 2 inches from his mouth and starting to tip it. The beer goes everywhere. When I say everywhere I mean everywhere. "You're getting beer in my hair!" Kiara exclaims "Oh, my God. Alright, alright!" Pope says annoyed. I want to say something, but I'm too scared, so I just took out my sweatshirt from my backpack and put it over my head. "All right, you're done." John B exclaims. "All right, stop!"
As soon as Pope says that we hit something. I fall out of my seat onto the bottom of the boat. I hear groans from all of the three passengers. Wait, aren't there four of us? Us? When did this become an us? Whatever! I rushed to the front of the boat where the missing pogue was. I lean over the edge and see him floating on top of the marsh water. " Ughh, I think my heels touched the back of my head." JJ says over dramatically while simultaneously looking at me. I burst out laughing. He is just so frickin over dramatic.
All three pogues that are on the boat heard what he said and cracked a smile. "Kie, you okay?" John B asks using Kiara's nickname. "I'm alright." Kie replies, "Pope, what did you do?" JJ asks while still in the water. "Sandbar. The channel changed." Pope says "No shit." JJ says "Ugh this is probably gonna mess this whole place up" John B complained.
"Hey, I saved the beer though," JJ says while holding up his beer out of the water. "Congrats, JJ" John B says, slightly annoyed. "Guys...I think there's a boat down there." Pope says slightly scared. "No way." Kie exclaims. "No, no, guys, I'm serious. There's a boat down there." Pope says looking over the edge. I walk forward slightly, deciding I should check. "It's a boat!" John B exclaimed from right next to me. I jumped, scared out of my mind. How did he get here so fast? "Holy shit! He's right. Let's go." Kie says, moving to take off her clothes. Pope turns to me, "You think there's a dead body down there?" I look at him surprised and open my mouth to speak when JJ shouts, "Pope, Everleigh, get your asses in here!" "Come on!" John B shouts, waving us in.

Authors Note-
This part is so long but I couldn't find a good place to stop. The fact that JJ and John B included Everleigh just makes my heart soar. I know that they aren't very friendly with kooks but they were on the marsh for so long I had to make them get along.
Happy reading,
Jjbbjbki
P. S.
JJ and Everleigh are gonna be really close friends. I'm so excited.