Jiara: My Mistakes Were Made For You

Part 9: New Plans

It was a rainy morning, Pogues were gathered at the château, chilling in the porch drinking morning beers. JJ was lying on the couch with his feet on John B's lap, Cleo was lying down at the couch right in front of them, Sarah was on the armchair, Kie was leaning against the frame of the porch. They were all watching Pope walking back and forth in stress. 

"So what are we gonna do? What the hell are we gonna do?" Pope asked scratching his head.

"Calm down, dude..." JJ said playing with the zippo in his hands.

"Seriously, Pope." Kie took a step and stopped him by grabbing his arm. "Pull it together."

"So what happened exactly? What did she tell you?" Cleo asked sitting up. 

"Basically that we're delusional." Sarah sighed. "She doesn't believe the gold is gonna be coming here." 

"But she did tell you that she'll help you, doesn't she have a plan?" Kie asked turning to John B. 

"She thinks we should wait until the gold's at Guadeloupe, then hire lads to get them, and the cross."

"Hell no!" JJ shouted. "God she's such a kook! Sitting on her mansion and sending other people to take care of her shit. That's not how we do it, okay? We go out there and get what's ours!"

"Is it such a bad idea not risking our lives?" Kie said.

"You are the one saying we shouldn't trust her, Kiara." said JJ getting up and raising his voice. "She'll send her men and keep everything for herself, how can't you see it!"

"Yeah of course you chose the most dangerous stupid way, JJ!" Kie yelled back at him.

"Actually." said Pope getting in between them. Then he faced Kie. "I'm with JJ on this." Kie sighed and rolled her eyes while JJ smiled and grabbed Pope's shoulders.

"That's my man!" JJ shouted. "We are going out there, and we're destroying those motherfuckers!"

"We still need a plan, JJ." John B calmed him down. "Plus, I'm not sure if we'll have Limbrey on our side if we do it our way."

"Oh she'll help us." Pope said. "She's coming out of nowhere, deciding to help us suddenly, smiling at our faces. She should have something big on the line."

"Yeah seriously, what is it?" Sarah asked. "Didn't she say anything?"

"No." John B said thinking. She suddenly gave up on the cross, she had no problem giving all the gold to the pogues, it was almost too good to be real. 

"Maybe just out of spite?" Cleo suggested.

"Should be something more." John B answered. "But we already got our hands full. We need to come up with a plan Limbrey will be on board with." he said.

"You know what we should do?" JJ said raising his finger. "We should talk to Mr. Diaz."

"Not that family again." Kie said. 

"No, but really. He knows everything about smuggling boats, right? He'll know if anyone will be coming here from Bahamas."

"Sounds like good a start to me." John B said.

"At least we'll know if should wait or go directly to Guadeloupe." Pope backed him up. JJ smiled, proud of making a helpful contribution and jumped.

"Let's roll!" he said slapping the roof of the porch and he went out.

Mr. Diaz was suspicious of the smiling faces in front of him. He felt responsible for keeping an eye on JJ, he also had no intention of risking himself for the stupid plans of a bunch of teenagers.