DOWN AT the dock, the four boys and the girl all sat together now, all quiet except for the soft strumming of Kie's ukelele. Thunder rumbles in the distance as Jake's eyes are on the girl, standing opposite of John B, JJ and Pope. "How much was it again?" JJ asked.
"Four hundred mil."
Kie stopped and Jake glanced away as JJ sighs. "Alright, let's talk the split." He says before looking at the others. "Now, before we say evenly, may I remind you that I am the only one that can properly defend us from those groupers who were after us." He says, raising his gun and Jake sighs loudly. "Protection? Not cheap, okay?" He says and Pope looks at him. "You haven't trained. You've done zero training." He tells the boy right away.
"YouTube, bro! That's at least a five percent bump right there." He says as Jake looked over at John B who took a sip from his beer. "You haven't--" "any objections? Didn't think so." JJ cut off Pope and Jake rolls his eyes. "Yeah." Pope and Jake say at the same time as Kie just raised her hand. "I don't hear any, so..."
"What are you gonna do with your 80 mil, Pope?" Kie asked the boy looks away, nodding his head softly. "Pay for college in advance. And also, textbooks. Those are expensive." He said and Jake smiles at him. "What about you, Kie?" He asked as he looked at the girl who looks back at him. "Yeah, what does a socialist so when she's rich?" Pope asked and Kie chuckles, glancing away from Jake.
"Just wanna make a double album." She said and Jake smiled wider. "About OBX, the Pogues." She says and Jake stared at the the girl who showed genuine interested in it, looking down. "You know, the way Catch a Fire is about Kingston. Record it at Marley Studio, Peter Tosh producing." She says to them.
"But isn't Peter Tosh--" "dead. I know." Kie looked at Jake who just tilted his head a bit, slightly confused. "Spirit of Peter Tosh will never die." She said and he smiles softly, glancing away. "So, what about you?" She asked him curiously and he just shrugs softly. "It would be for me, my mom and my girl. Actually, all for them." He said and then rolled his eyes.
"Well, guilty as charged, I'd also treat myself... I've been working so hard for so long. You know? Kook life wouldn't be so bad." He's grinning and JJ raised his hand, "hell yeah." He said and Kie looked at Jake, furrowing her brows as the words my girl set in for her. "For me, I'm gonna get a big ass house on Figure Eight and go full Kook." JJ says and Jake chuckles. "I totally see that." He tells him.
"You're gonna go full Kook?" Pope looked at him. "Yup. Gonna get a marble statue of myself, and then I'm gonna get a koi pond." He says and they all chuckle at him. "Put a bunch of those fish--" "I'm never visiting." Kie tells him and Jake laughs. "What are you gonna do, John B?" He asked, looking at the boy they all look up at now, waiting for his answer.
"To going full Kook."
"To going full Kook!"
The next day, Jake was at work where he was cleaning up and once his shift was over, he sighed when he saw JJ, Pope, Kie and John B in sight before walking over to them. "What are you guys doing here?" He whispers and JJ pats his arm. "We have some research to do. Aren't you done work for the day anyway?" He asked and Jake sighs. "Fine." He says.
JJ leads the way the whole time to the computers room with Jake, Kie, Pope and John B behind him. In the room, Pope runs in, "Sweet Lord, the internet!" He says and Jake chuckles, walking to stand behind him. "I've missed you." The boy got comfortable in his seat as JJ closed the door behind Kie and John B. "Let me get in there. Gotta check out my Insta models." JJ said and Jake rolls his eyes.
"We don't have time for that." Kie said to him as she sat down beside Pope and John B digs into his backpack. "Hey, hey, hey!" John B brings over the map. "I got the map!" He said as he set it down. "Coordinates, please?"
"34 57' 30" north. 75 55' 42" west."
Pope enters it as John B spoke before pressing the enter key. "Okay, boom, continental shelf right there." John B says to him. "Well, if it's off the deep end, it's not gonna be much of a treasure hunt, is it?" Pope looks at him and John B sighs as the boy then begins zooming in. "Shit, it's the high side. It's only 900 feet." John B says making Jake look at him.
"Only 900 feet?" He whispers and John B glanced at him. "That's not too deep." JJ says and Jake looks at him next. "Not too deep?" He says and Kie looks at them. "Is that doable or something?" She asked as JJ nods and Jake shook his head quickly. "Yeah, totally doable." JJ says as he looks at Jake and John B. "Okay, will we be taking your personal submarine?" Pope asked as he looks up at him.
"How do you know this, Mr. Dive Master?"
"The salvage yard." JJ said, glancing between all of them. "They got a drone that can drop 1,000. It has a 360 camera and everything. It's for, like, deep dives and stuff. It's exactly what we need." He says and Jake sighs. "And can your dad get his grimly little hands on that?" John B asked as he looks over at the blond.
"Well, my dad's grimy little hands got his ass fired. I guess the salvage captain frowns on showing up shitfaced, turns out." He said and it got all quiet as Jake stared at him with empathy. "But the drone's there. It's in the impound yard out back." He said and Jake's empathy quickly vanished as he looks at the others. "How much did you say was on the Royal Merchant again?" Kie asked, looking at the computer and Jake covered his face, shaking his head. "400 mil."
Jake walked over to the door and stood, leaning completely against it with his hand over the doorknob. "400 million dollars?" Kie quickly stood up and rushed to the door. "No. Absolutely not." Pope agreed with Jake as he stood up. "Jake! Move." The girl walks up to the boy who shook his head. "No. Nope. No. I am not stealing--" "it's just once!" Kie said, grabbing his arm so that she can make him move out of the way. "Guys." Jake looks at the others.
"Sorry, dude."
AUTHORS NOTE
i feel bad for sarah in this ep, when topper had a problem with her changing her mind, like bro, chill tf out 🤨 it's not that serious
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