MERCEDES, jj maybank

43.

PINKY SWEAR

Hours had passed and night had fallen and the girls weren't even speaking to each other anymore. They both had totally different thoughts crossing their minds and a hundred miles per hour.

Trinity was sat at Sarah's window seat, curled up with her eyes shut listening to the sound of Sarah drumming her fingers to the rhythm of the music through her headphones while scribbling her name on some old newspaper.

Sarah was sitting thinking about John B and replaying the incident on the tarmac and when would she next see John B, and if SBI agents would soon roam the Island since John B and the Pogues would be doing anything in their power to keep John B away from the cops.

Trinity was also worried about John B but recently she had been in two states of mind between JJ and Rafe. Rafe had been in her life way before they were dating; since she was three due to Ward and Matt when they used to be friends since they were teenagers but JJ had bought Trinity a life of adventure and excitement.

Of course, she hated Rafe for what he did and was disgusted but there will never be a part of her that doesn't love him. Even if it's just a tiny bit. But with JJ Trinity felt so much more and preferred being around the Pogues, so how would she ever be able to choose between them.

Coincidentally, one of the Pogues had snuck up onto Sarah's balcony, Kiara.

"Kie," Trinity breathed with a smile and threw a cushion at Sarah to get her attention.

Sarah whipped around and ran over to the window. "Hey, Kie." Sarah smiled, pushing the window up but it wouldn't budge.

"It's locked," Trinity says after trying to help.

Kiara held up the wanted picture of John B so Sarah could see. Her heart sank. "Are you in on it?" Kiara asks her.

Sarah shakes her head no, "Do you think I was?"

Kiara first hesitates and then shakes her head too, "No,"

"How are the boys?" Trinity asks.

Kie shrugs, "They're fine."

Sarah sighs and puts her head down, sighing so Trinity tells Kiara what had happened "We're locked in,"

"What?! Why?!"

"Girls?!"

Sarah and Trinity both jump and swat their hands at the window telling Kiara to move and stay hidden then they both get on the bed and act completely natural until the door unlocks. "Girls you in there?!"

The two look at Ward as if he had just interrupted some sort of secret meeting. "Yeah," Sarah answers him.

Ward wandered around the bedroom and appeared disappointed to not catch them out on anything, so he leaves and locks the door behind him again. Trinity rocked back and laid flat on her back exhaling, "What are we gonna do?" She asks.

"I'm gonna go to the toilet," Sarah says.

Trinity nods and curls up onto her side. She feels the weight off the bed as Sarah heads off into her en suite. Oddly enough the only sound coming from the bathroom was the tap on full blast as if Sarah had been thoroughly washing her hands the entire time.

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Sarah finally decided to use her brain and get Wheezie to sneak upstairs and join the girls for a few minutes. Once she had come in Sarah took Wheezie by the hands and spoke very clearly for her younger sister to understand, "I need you to listen to me. John B is not a killer. He did not shoot anyone. We were there." She points between herself and Trinity.

"Yeah, Wheeze, but because everyone thinks it's John B we need to help him clear his name since we were the only other witnesses," Trinity continues.

"Well, then who did it?" She asks them, but the two girls decide not to say it was Rafe since Wheezie really did love Rafe and looked up to him as her big brother.

"It doesn't matter, right now, we need a big favour from you,"

Wheezie nods at Trinity's request.

"Good, I need you to stay quiet about Trin and I for as long as you can, so we can help John B."

"Okay," Wheezie agrees.

"Can I count on you?" Sarah asks, needing a hundred percent confirmation that Wheezie won't sell them out on purpose or accidentally.

"I pinky swear," Wheezie holds out a pinky each to Sarah and Trinity. The three lock fingers and quickly embrace in a hug before getting down to their plan.

With a lot of Wheezie's help, the two girls managed to make it out of the house and unspotted and out to the street where Trinity had previously parked her car. They drove off quickly and headed through the maze of neighbourhoods trying to get away from Sarah's house.

"Wait wait, Trin, something's happening there!" Sarah points out as they passed a road.

"What?"

"Like cops!" She blurts out, panicking, "Like tons of cops!"

Trinity immediately pulls her car around and heads down the road. Loads of residents were out watching which meant that the cops had already gone inside.

"It's Kelce's house," She said quietly, scanning the herd of people out watching. "Oh shit! Rafe's right there,"

"Would he recognize your car?" Sarah asks.

Trinity turns and looks at her like she has two heads, "Of course he would recognize my car!?"

Sarah looks through behind them and sees no cars, "Back up a little bit," They both unroll their windows to hear if the cops say anything.

The brunette listens to her and sits in a corner of the road waiting to see if anything will happen. And then finally something does happen. The cops come running out.

"He went out the back!" Shoupe shouts.

"He was just there, alright, he can't be far!" Topper tells Shoupe, as he follows him like a little puppy.

"I want three deputies to the backyard now! Come on! Let's go! The suspect is unarmed, alright...if you ain't sheriff's department go home,"

Trinity reverses out of the road since so many different search parties were forming, and the girls didn't want to be seen so they were headed out.

"Let's look for him," Sarah suggests.

Obviously, Trinity had no objections and gladly wanted to find him but it was literally the saying, trying to find a needle in a haystack because John B would be trying his best to stay absolutely hidden from everyone.

"Where would he be?" Trinity asks, driving with no destination.

And then something in Sarah's head clicks, "Just go to Shem Creek."

Trinity doesn't question it and presses down on the accelerator to get down as fast as she could.