MERCEDES, jj maybank

79.

POGUELANDIA

Once they had reached land, Kiara, Cleo and Sarah all sat on the green by the beach, watching the boys pull the lifeboat to shore, except for Trinity was standing close by, waiting for JJ. She had come too close to losing him recently and couldn't deal with being apart from him.

"Come on!" They all grunt.

"Yeah, that's good!" John B tells them.

"Good job, guys," Sarah shouts to them.

"Good job," Kie says as well.

The boys turn around and all walk towards the girls to go and sit with them. Trinity holds her arm out to JJ, he smiles and puts his arm over her shoulders, "You okay?" He asks her. She nods and holds onto his waist.

"It's not me I'm worried about,"

"I'm good, I promise." He smiles at her. Each moment they spent together made JJ the happiest and even now after being hit in the head with a machete.

"JJ? you alright there, buddy?" John B asks.

JJ looks over at him, "Yeah. Still a little dizzy."

"What about you, Trin? You're looking a little wobbly."

JJ looks down at her to see what John B was talking about. She nods, "I feel seasick."

JJ takes her hands and points her to a place to sit down, "You good, yeah?" He asks making sure she wasn't going to be sick or anything. She nods and sits hugging her knees.

All Pope could think about was the gold, "This shit is not over."

"No it ain't," John B adds.

"Anybody know where we're at?" JJ calls out, looking at all the land behind Sarah and Kiara.

"Deserted beach. Unknown Island." Pope gives suggestions.

"Alright I'll take that as a no," JJ goes behind Trinity and leans against the tree.

"Great! At least we can add stranded to our list of problems!" Trinity says sarcastically, squinting her eyes at the sun as she squeezed all the water out of her hair which was all twisted together.

JJ's eyes flicked down to look at his girlfriend and he just ignored her snappy remark since he knew she was tense, just as everyone else was. Besides Trinity wasn't wrong, "Plan A, huh Pope? That went well,"

"At least we got two of the things we wanted, JJ," John B says to Pope's defence.

"This is the lowest we can go," Pope shakes his head and looks at the sea. "We literally have nothing else to lose. The cross, gone,"

"The gold, gone." Sarah finishes his sentence.

"Seriously, if we had a nickel for every time we got beat up, I'd say we're at a dollar fifty." JJ pulls out a pocket knife.

"More than I got on me," Kiara says cheerfully.

"Somehow that doesn't make me feel better," Trinity points out, "Why does Ward always win?"