Choose - JJ Maybank

Chapter 10

The trips for searching for the shipwreck were total failures. I'm not sure how many times we went but every time we found nothing. At the moment JJ and I were at his place and he was doing target practice on a stuffed bear. I was reading "The Pride and the Prejudice," listening to music and I was so engrossed with what I was reading that I hadn't noticed that JJ was standing in front of me. He was smiling at me as I took one of my headphones off.

"You need something?" I asked smiling.

"Yeah...wanna try?" He said looking at the gun.

"I don't know J..."

"I will help you. I promise we will be careful." He begged.

I sighed and got up causing him to get all excited. I took out my other headphone and placed them along with my book on the chair I was sitting on. JJ grabbed my hand bringing me to the spot he was shooting from.

"okay. Stand with your feet like his." (He said positioning me) "Okay now hold the gun in your hands." (He said handing me the gun and when I grabbed it he put his hands over mine.) "Okay now hold your arms up like this...(he moved our arms up) and now I'm gonna switch the safety off and you are going to pull the trigger when you are ready to shoot. Okay, babe?" He said as he placed the safety goggles on my ears, switched the safety off, and put his arms around me again so he was helping me hold up the gun. I nodded and I took a deep breath before I pulled the trigger. The first shot missed but in the second shot I hit it in the right arm. I shot once more and I hit it in the neck. I switched it on safety, placed it on the stomp, and started jumping up and down screaming.

"I did it! JJ, did you see that!" I screamed jumping into his arms as he caught me holding me so I could wrap my legs around his waist.

"I did babe. You did so well. In fact, you actually looked really hot while doing that." He said smirking at me.

"Oh really?" I asked smirking.

"Yeah." He said nodding before slowly kissing me.

I kissed back, and this kiss was so slow it almost ached in a good way. Before anything further could happen, JJ's name being called pulled us apart.

"JJ!" Pope screamed as he headed over to us. JJ unwrapped his arms off of me and allowed me to unwrap from him and be back on the ground. "They know."

"What?" I asked confused.

"They know," Pope said again.

"All right, chill bro. All right? They don't know shit." JJ told him.

"Topper knows I sunk his boat," Pope said freaking out.

"How do you know they know?" I asked.

"Because Rafe and Topper posted outside of Heyward's and mad dogged me," Pope told us as he paced around.

"Will you calm down and get a grip, man? They don't know shit." JJ told him trying to get him to relax.

"They have cameras. They could've seen me." Pope said.

"There was no power. How could they have seen you?" JJ asked.

"It's Figure Eight. They got generators. They don't give scholarships to kids who vengefully sink boats. It's not a good look on my transcript." He said freaking out even more.

"Enough with the regret bro! They caved your face in. They hit us, we hit them. It's the law of the jungle. Now, if any Kooks come up to you and ask if you had anything to do with it, you walk up to 'em, look 'em right in the eye, and..." JJ said waiting for his answer.

"Deny the living shit out of it," Pope answered.

"That's right. Deny, deny, deny. But just for safety, we don't go anywhere without protection." JJ said referencing the gun.