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"You are not going to charleston on a school night" monica complained
"mom, i have the chance to clear john b's name!" jo yelled, she was getting seriously upset
monica, josephine and charles were arguing in the front yard as the three other pogues were in heyward's truck waiting for the blonde teen
"john b is dead, jo! he is dead!" monica yelled
"monica!" charles scold her
"you can't deny it!" monica yelled again
"monica! stop it!" charles yelled at her wife
"i know what you're going through is hard but you have to let them go" monica tried to make her daughter reasonable
"i'm going. you're not gonna stop me" jo stated walking to the truck, she made eye contact with jj and that didn't help
"don't walk away from me when i'm talking!" monica yelled
"okay, enough!" charles yelled making mother and daughter look at him "we made i promise, all of us, didn't we?"
monica and josephine nodded "we promise to be reasonable, right? so you can go but i want a text every hour and try to be home before midnight"
"thank you, thank you so much. i promise, i'll text you on the group chat every hour. i love you both" jo said running to her friends, jj got down from the truck and let her go in to sit between him and kiara.
•••
pope, jj and jo watched as kie argued with her parents
"they are taking it really well" jo observed
"how'd you get this rig? i know your old man didn't let you have it" jj asked pope
"i undid the intake valves on the carburetor. made it start pinging" pope answered
"what?" jo asked confused, not understanding even a word of pope said
"and now you're just gonna take it to your cousin jeff's house. just gonna get it fixed" jj said
"crash overnight" the two said in sync
"okay, this was creepy" jo chuckled
"i think i'm rubbing off on you, pope. lying to your old man, stealing his truck. kinda sounds familiar" jj said making pope look at him "all right, that's a sore subject. my bad"
