Storm Of Chaos| Pope Heyward| JJ Maybank

iii. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬

"Pope, can you tie this for me?" Rio held her bikini top as she looked out of the chateau bathroom. After getting back to Outer Banks, JJ was set on everyone getting into the hot tub.

"Um...sure." he stopped messing with his bandana to walk over.

Rio turned around as he grabbed tbe strings. "Just as tight as you can get it."

"Okay." he said back, tying it on her, taking a double look at the dragon tattoo on her right shoulder blade. "Is that real?"

"I got it for my seventeenth birthday a few weeks ago." she said back, keeping her hair to the side.

"Like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." he confirmed after tying it completely for her.

Rio turned around with a grin. "Have you read that book?"

"Yeah." Pope smiled. "It's fantastic."

"So, true." she agreed. "I hated the movie though."

"Yeah, me too." Pope agreed.

Rio nodded to his bandana in hand. "Do you need help too?"

"Oh, no, it just keeps rolling." Pope shook his head.

"Let me try." Rio encouraged as he passed it to her. JJ leaned on the doorway, going to walk in before stopping to see what they were doing. Pope leaned down some, Rio tying it around his head. "No roll?"

"If you can do it." he hummed, staying still a moment before she let him go. "You did it?"

"All about tucking over, then under." Rio confirmed with a grin, showing how he did it with her hands.

"Hey, you two." JJ spoke up to make his presence known. "What's the hold up?"

"Waiting for you to give us a special entrance." Rio said back with a shrug.

"Oh, of course. My bad." JJ held a hand to his chest, holding both hand out for the pair to take. He cleared his throat loudly and prepared his best accent. "Excuse me, ladies and gentleman. Presenting, Pope and Rio, God and Goddess of The Cats Ass."

"Oh, shit. I'm the presence of royalty?" John B gapped, bowing.

"You better bow." Rio joked, getting into the hot tub as the boys followed. "Can I get a hit of that?"

"All yours." Kie passed her the joint.

Rio had been in a hot tub plenty of times, usually each her person of the night to keep her company. But, with the pogues, she'd lost track of time. She was always good at making herself fit in, but it was as if she hadn't had to try this time. They did all the work, involving her when they didn't have to. Pope backed off JJ and Rio after a second. "Ready for this?"

"Give us whatever you got, Pope." Rio clapped her hands together

Pope nodded. "I never made good grades in school. When I get out, I act like a fool. Come to the party and cause a commotion. I'm smooth, they call me lotion."

Laughter spread through the hot tub for quite sometime before JJ and Pope insisted on a wrestling match. Rio cheered them on before feeling like she needed to join in, running their way. "Wait, I wanna join!"

"Two against one?" JJ gapped in disbelief as she tackled him.

"Get him, Pope!" Rio encouraged as Pope fell to the ground with the pair, giving JJ a gentle hit to the chest. "We won!"

"We won!" Pope lifted their hands up together as JJ laughed from the ground, holding his chest. "All right. I'm out. I'm done."

"Oh, no." Rio fell to the ground next. "You're leaving us?"

"I'm tired." he announced, giving them a salute. "Thanks for helping me win."

"Gimme some." Rio held her fist up, Pope hitting his against hers as he walked off. She turned her head to look at JJ. "I'll be on your team next time."

He held his fist up, letting her bump his then. They saw Kie following after Pope. "Way to be discreet!"

"Really!" Sarah gapped in disbelief as she followed him off.

"You really let this happen?" John B asked JJ in disbelief.

"Are you blaming me?" he gapped, sitting up and pulling Rio with him. "If anything, it's her fault."

"It's true. I'm entirely to blame." Rio hummed as she chunked her beer can at John B. "I'm actually suppose to be staying at Kie's and it seems like she isn't gonna go home so..."

"Extra room. Knock yourself out." John B laughed as he tossed the can back to her.

"How kind." Rio threw it back to him, heading in as JJ followed her. "Can't believe Pope ran out on us."

"I know." JJ lead het to the room. "This is where I usually stay at, but you can have it."

"We could share." she gave him a grin, JJ looked taken back. "Never hooked up with a pogue before."

He gapped at her. "Did you just objectify me?"

"Are you offended?" she gave him a sweet smile, holding her hand out for him to grab, pulling him in closer.

"Not even a little." JJ said in return as she cupped his face and kissed his lips, both hands planted on either side of his cheeks with a grin into his lips. JJ had to giggle when they fell backwards, crawling ontop of Rio as his knees planted on either side of her hips.

A gun shot rung.

"Holy shit." they pulled away on sync to say it, gapping at the door. JJ looked down and her. "Be right back."

Rio crawled off the bed, standing in the doorway in worry to wait for JJ. Her heart thumped, gapping as JJ came back quickly. "Hurry."

"Someone's here?" she whispered in worry. JJ grabbed her arms and hit the light, pulling Rio into the closet as he wrapped his arms around her. Rio wasn't use to this like they had, she'd never even been around a gun, non the less having someone looking for them with one. She put a hand over her mouth, looking through the cracks of the closet. When a figure appeared, slamming the door open, JJ's arms tightened around her.

They both held their breath, almost waiting for him to bust down the door. The room was pulled apart, looking around, but the closet was left alone. They stayed still and silent for some time after he left, frozen together with gentle breaths. Three more gun shots rung in the air. Neither moved until John B ran into the room. "JJ!"

"JB!" JJ called, pulling the closet door open. "You okay, brother?"

"It's Rafe." John B checked on Rio as Sarah gave her a hug. "And Berry."

"Who's Rafe and Berry?" the new girl gapped, blinking.

"I knew we shouldn't have involved her." JJ grabbed Rios wrist. "We gotta go."

"Who's Rafe and Berry?" Rio repeated as JJ hurried outside with her latched onto his hand.

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kylie speaks

smh pope, you see what
you could have been
involved with?