𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐲

I. Hurricane Agatha.

     

     JAKE WAS usually never one to mess up. Ever, even though he's a Pogue, growing up on the Cut. He'd party, yeah, smoke weed? Definitely. But he at least kept his grades perfect, he had good friends and was good to his mom. But it all happened so suddenly.

Liv walking up to him, "I'm pregnant." He wasn't even sixteen yet. And she was having his baby. And what sucked most was he was there for her, stayed by her side when she had the baby and the moment he left to go see their daughter in the nursery room, she left.

She didn't even leave a note.

She just left.

But Jake didn't care, yeah, he was hurt, because he loved her, but he only cared about the precious baby in his arms. He just kissed her forehead, and whispered, "hi Evie." After that, it was him, his mom and Evie. And since he had to start earning his own money to support him and his daughter, he ended up getting a part-time job. And then another two right after that one when it wasn't enough.

He at least had someone who can take care of Evie, and that was his grandma who lives down the street from them. He tried his best to still spend time with his friends. Even though he is a Pogue, he didn't spend all the time with them despite the fact he wanted to.

His friends. John Booker Routledge, JJ Maybank, who he's known since elementary school and then Pope Heyward and Kiara Carerra came along the way while growing up, now they're all sixteen year olds.

John B and JJ were his best friends and pretty much the only ones who knew that he was a teen father. He sometimes doesn't really get along with Kiara though, she's cool but she's kind of rich, who's just slumming it with them. Her parents own the Wreck and Jake isn't sure if they even like them hanging with their daughter so he keeps his distance from her.

And then there's Pope, the only one who makes sense in their whole friend group. "Dadda?" Evie looks up at him while he was getting ready to leave. "You're going to great-granny's." Jake says, lifting her up and kissing her cheek before he gets ready to leave his house.

But when he grabs her bags, he groans when he saw the television screen. "Hurricane Agatha is making her way, Jake. I don't think you wanna spend this time without your daughter." His mother says and she does had a point, so he sighed and set her down.

"I was gonna--" "Hang out with your friends? Yeah, do that when the hurricane passes. Let's get ready." She tells the young boy who sets down Evie's stuff and his stuff. While sitting and holding Evie on his lap, he brushed her hair out of her face and kissed her cheek. Sometimes he regrets doing what he did that brought him to this point, having a daughter, but he would never go back to change things.

The next morning, he finally took Evie's to his grandma's and then headed over to John B's place. When he gets there, John B is tossing branches out of the boat. "Agatha, right?" He says and John B looks over, chuckling. "Yeah. Hey, how's Evie?" He glanced up and Jake shrugs. "She's fine... for, you know, a baby." He chuckles and John B nods, looking away.

"I'm thinking that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze. All those drum are gonna chase the crab." The other says now, glancing up at Jake who tilts his head to the side. "I thought you had a thing with the DCS today?" He says and John B looks over.

"Nah, they're not getting on a ferry."

"Yeah, sure, I guess..."

And so, he, John B and JJ were on their way to pick up Pope and Kiara. "Morning!" John B waves. "Sure hope Guffy's boat didn't sink." JJ says, standing right in front of John B who's steering the HMS Pogue. "Yeah, he doesn't have insurance." Jake says, sipping his water. "Hi, Miss Amy! You guys get through it?" John B waved at the pair on the dock.

"Still here!"

"She totally looked at me." JJ tells John B and Jake. "I saw it." John B says as Jake rolls his eyes at the blond boy. "Dude, look at this place." Jake says, glancing around. "Agatha, what did you do?" JJ says with a whistle.

"She is a crazy lady."

"Hardcore. Hurricane surge." JJ says and John B nods. "Yeah," he glanced back to keep looking ahead. "We're gonna be cleaning this all summer." JJ looks back at the two. "That's my nightmare. Spend less time with Evie and she forgets I'm her dad." He says and JJ chuckles. "She'd never forget." He says and Jake just smiles, glancing all around.

"Well, look who we have here," JJ says as they spot Pope. "We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." John B says into a fake radio on his shoulder. "I can't. My pop's got me on lockdown." The hard-working boy tells them. "Come on, man," JJ says then does the same thing as John B, "your dad's a pussy. Over." He says and Jake chuckles.

"Oh, I heard that, you little bastard." Heyward says to him, stepping closer. "We need your son." John B tells the man. "Yeah, and island rules. Day after a hurricane's a free day." JJ says as Heyward looks at him. "Who the hell made that up?" He asked, confused.

"Pentagon, I think. We have security clearance. I have a card." JJ begins to pretend to dig in his pockets as Jake rolls his eyes. "Think I'm stupid?" Heyward looks at Pope. "I'll do it tomorrow. I promise. Tomorrow."

"You think-- No, no. Hell no. You doing it right now." The man tells his son who looks at John B. "Get in the boat." The boy whispers back and JJ continues to encourage Pope as well, "make a run for it, bro." Pope drops the hose, running slowly. "Boy, if you get in that boat--" Pope jumps in. "Go, go, go." He tells John B.

"Bring your ass back up here."

"I promise I'll do it tomorrow, dad."

Jake laughs, shaking his head as he looks at Pope with a smile. They went to pick up Kie next, arriving to the dock outside by her house. "Oh, top of the morning to ya." John B greets her as she walks over, smiling. "Good morning boys." She says and Jake glanced over. "Morning." JJ is the only one to say it back.

"Whatcha got? You got some juice boxes?" John B now asked Kie. "You know, just some yogurt and carrot sticks." And because Jake was the only one closest to her, he got up and held out his hand for her. She smiled softly and grabbed his hand, getting into the boat.

"How about my kind of juice box?" JJ asked when she got into the boat. "Yeah." She says, sitting down with Jake and opening the cooler she brought to reveal she got beer. "Here," she said and hands Jake a Coca-Cola can with a grin on her face. He smiles back, "thank you." He says and then she moved to the front of the boat where JJ and Pope were.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

   

A.N.
kie getting jake a coca-cola... <3
anyway here's the first chapter after publishing this fic a week ago 😭