MERCEDES, jj maybank

67.

LUKE'S BACK

The six of them were all pissed off from standing in the swamp, but they didn't really have much of an option. They couldn't leave the Twinkie because the tide was gonna come in but they had to leave, so they were at an impasse.

"I can take a car from my, Mom's," Trinity offers. It wasn't far from where they were now.

"Are you sure?" John B asks.

She nods, "She's got loads of cars, including a truck and it's not like she's even here." Her face slightly falls at the end of her sentence which doesn't go unnoticed by her friends.

"We're gonna need something to pull her out with. There's a winch at the Chateau." JJ says. "That's like two miles."

"That's a good idea," Sarah tells them.

"If you're gonna do it, then go, alright. Tides coming in, the Twinkies drowning." John B says as Trinity and JJ walk off together.

Trinity and JJ reached Charlotte's empty house, but Trinity didn't have a key on her so she had to use the pin on the side of the door.

She stood in the foyer and ran through the house to get to the garage. JJ was waiting outside.

Finally, the garage door opened revealing a lineup of cars. "Woah." He gasped.

The truck on the car left started up and started backing out. "Can you shut all the doors?" She asks him.

"Yeah, yeah," JJ runs around to the front door and shuts it, and then pulls the garage door down before quickly getting into the truck.

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JJ was in the surf shack looking for the winch and then someone came from behind,

"JJ, it's me, JJ, it's your father stop fighting me!" Luke whispered, letting go of JJ. "I don't wanna anybody to know I'm here, alright?"

"How'd you get out?" JJ asks him, panting.

"Work release. Good behaviour, can you believe that?" Luke awkwardly chuckles, noticing JJ's eyes looking at his bloody knuckles, "Yeah, busted a window at the pharmacy, busted that pharmacist too, but look I gotta get out of here, that pharmacist, he can ID me—"

Luke stops talking as he hears a horn honk, "JJ?" Trinity shouts.

"I gotta get off this Island, you gotta help me and I'm done with Kildare and I'm taking Malcolm's boat and I need to get to the other side of the Island!"

Trinity honks the horn again, multiple times. JJ picks up the duffle bag ready to go over to his girlfriend.

"JJ!" Luke grabs him.

"Dad, get off me!"

"Listen to me! I should've had the Phantom but I don't because of you! I got your restitution hanging over me. This is your fault! Look at me, you telling me you're not gonna help your own blood?"

JJ stood there contemplating everything and he knew Trinity wouldn't like this, and Luke was his father at the end of the day. JJ nudged Luke to follow him out to Trinity who was growing very impatient.

Trinity noticed the two running over to her and she shook her head. "What the fuck?" She stepped out of the truck, "No, JJ no - what's going on—"

"Get in the truck." He says plainly.

Trinity looked over her shoulder, Luke was making himself comfortable in the back seat, "I'm sorry? The Twinkie is drowning right now, JJ."