MERCEDES, jj maybank

69.

FINDING THE CROSS

"Hey, yo!" JJ shouts watching Pope climb up the wall. They all get alarmed watching him.

"Now, Popes climbing the wall," John B shakes his head in disapproval.

Trinity walked away from the alter and down with the rest of the Pogues, "Pope, I don't think that's a good idea,"

"Pope this church is old!" Kiara adds. "Like really old, this isn't safe!"

JJ watches as parts of the wall crumble beneath Pope's feet, "Yo! This church gots to be at least two hundred years old!" He adds after Kiara's point.

Popes friends kept shouting for him to come down but he was already at the top sitting on the wooden panels.

"Pope he's right it's too dangerous!" John B shouts.

"Let me just be real, your not the most coordinated person on planet Earth," JJ walks directly under Pope. "What are you doing?"

Pope uses his fit to hit against the crosses. But the first one was just wood.

"Try the next one," Trinity says, earning a nudge from John B, "Ow," She winces holding her upper arm.

"Don't encourage him!" John B scolds her.

Pope nods at Trinity, "Yeah, I'm gonna try the other beam, this one's solid wood." He stretches out and climbs through the wood.

JJ puts his hands by his temples, frustrated, "Pope, that's rotten as shit right there, okay?" He watches as Pope hits the middle one. "I hate to break it to you but that's just wood,"

"Pope come down," Sarah pleads.

Trinity points up at the last beam, "It's that one, Pope—"

"No, it's not!" John B cuts her off, "Pope, come down!"

JJ notices the wasp nest, "Just look out for that giant wasp's nest right above your head," Trinity wraps her sweater around her earning a look from JJ, "You cold?"

Sarah quickly looks at Trinity, alarmed but for a different reason to JJ, "Yeah, Trin, you should leave!"

She shakes her head at JJ's question, "I'm allergic to wasps."

"What?!" They all look at her. "Why didn't you say anything before?" John B hisses.

She shrugs, "It's autumn so I didn't think I'd run into a nest of them." Trinity retorts with a slight smile.

Sarah walks over to Trinity, "She's allergic to bees too."

JJ sighs, "Pope! Hurry it up, man,"

"Just move slowly, alright, nice and easy." John B quickly adds so Pope doesn't anger the wasps.

"Do you have your thing with you?" Sarah asks making a clicking motion with her thumb.

Trinity shakes her head no. Making Sarah sigh loudly. Sarah knew she never carried her epipen with her but it got on Sarah's nerves because what if something were to happen? Then they'd be fucked.

Pope kicks a piece of the last beam and the wood flings off, making everyone duck for cover.

"God!" Sarah whined.