𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐲

XXIV. Bad Karma.

    

     JOHN B brushes past JJ and Pope but JJ quickly stops him. "What?" He turns to the blond. "You sure you wanna do this? She's an axe murderer, man. You got a cast on." JJ said and Jake looks over at them with his brows furrowed. "I don't give a shit if she's an axe murderer, okay? I got nothing to lose, right? You coming, or what?" John B then asked.

"Come on." Kie says as she followed after John B and Jake. They're leaning down as to avoid being seen. "Hey, come on. Come here." John B whispered them over so Jake came to his right as Kie scooted in close along with Pope and JJ. "So here's the plan. We need to look for the wheat near the water like it said in Denmark's letter." He whispers to them.

"Okay, like, what kind of water? Like, pond water?" Pope asked as JJ chuckles, looking at him. "Bong water?" He says and they all look at him right away. "No. It--it just said look for water, okay?" John B told them.

"That's the shittiest secret message ever."

She walked away and John B walked after her. "You wanna complain a little more, Kie? Nobody said it was gonna be easy." He said as Pope turned to JJ. "I'll search the northeast quadrant, you search the northwest." He said and JJ pointed. "The decapitation quadrant." He corrected Pope as he and Jake just walked away from the blond boy.

As they all searched the grounds of the house, Jake found himself nearby the side of the house where he found a crawl space. "John B?" He whispered when he heard someone behind him but it was Kie. "Hey, over here," he waved her and she walks over to him as John B appeared along with Pope and JJ.

"It's the only place we haven't looked. Nice job, Jake." John B said as Jake merely opened the door further. "Here we go." He said before walking in with John B, Kie, Pope and JJ behind him. "Down came Mrs. Crain and cut off all our heads. Up came the sun and dried up all the blood." JJ singing is then stopped by Pope who turned back to him. "Can you stop?"

Jake, John B and Kie are all looking around. "See any water?" The girl asked them before smacking a mosquito flying near her as they all searched the basement. "Another dead end?" Kie asked as Jake glanced at her and JJ touched the pipes above their heads.

"There's not even water on the pipes."

"There's no water here." Pope said as he looked at John B and Jake standing together. "Not a dropamino." JJ says, looking around and John B rasied his hand to his face. "You know why we didn't find it?" Kie looked at Pope and JJ. "Bad karma." She answered and turned to John B and Jake. "Oh, God. Here we go." John B says in a quiet tone as Jake sighs.

"You know, we had a good thing going. And then you decide to rope in Barbie, and now the trail's gone dry. Coincidence? Probably not." Kie says as Jake glanced between the two. "This is exactly why I didn't wanna tell you about Sarah." John B stepped closer to her.

"Yeah?" She asked and he nods. "Yeah. What the hell's the deal? What's going on with you two?" He asked her and she glanced away. "Nothing." She says but it's not nothing. "Nothing? Is it because I kissed you? Is that the problem?" He sounded cocky and the slap that comes after is kinda deserved.

"Oh!" Pope exclaimed as Jake's eyes widen. "Oh, shit!" JJ said and looked at Pope. "That echoed, dude!" He says. "Stop treating me like I'm some girl that's obsessed with you instead of your best friend who's actually trying to look out for you." She says as he looks at her. "Did you, uh... hit me?" He merely asked.

"Skeeter." She raised her hand to show the squashed bug. "Skeeter?" He asked. "Yeah, you see it?" She asked sassily. "Yeah." He said then slapped her. "Dude," Jake said right away as JJ and Pope also declare disapproval of him hitting Kie. "Where's your proof?" She merely asked as she looked back the boy.

He raised his hand, "skeeter." He said and she slap his arm. "Yeah? There was probably one right there." They go back and forth again, they're then playful about it as Jake lets out a sigh of relief because of the tension being gone and he looked over at JJ and Pope.

"These things are a freaking swarm!" Pope kept smacking his arms and legs. "Why are there so many mosquitoes?" Jake asked as he looked around. "Dude. I know, seriously. Tiny vampire bastards, just leave me alone." JJ agreed and Jake looked over at Pope who's in thought, looking down at something.

"Oh, my Gosh! Okay, can we leave? Cause I'm already itchin' to leave." JJ said, looking over at Kie and John B then at Jake, chuckling. "Punny." Jake pointed at him and then he looked at Pope who's stomping on something.

"I just found Crain's voodoo doll, guys."

Pope drops a rock between the slants of wood and the water splashes when it drops making Jake look up at him right away. They rush to begin moving the stuff off. "Hey, Pope! Jake!" John B walks over to them. "Shh!" Kie shushed them as Pope looks up.

"Help us move this."

"Okay... just quiet."

They moved all of the pieces off wood and random stuff on top before Jake grabs one slant of the wood and Kie helps him move it off as they tried to stay quiet, Kie mentioning that Mrs. Crain could be right upstairs. Once they got all the pieces of wood off, they look into the well with all of their flashlights pointed down into it. "Well, well, well." Pope says.

"That was a good dad joke."

John B kneeled down afterwards. "They built this part of the house right over it." Kie says and JJ looks up at them. "This is where she hid the bodies." He whispers. "Oh, dude, come on." Pope punched his arm gently. "Stop," Kie sounds annoyed. "No, I'm dead serious." JJ says and Jake looks at him. "Stop it." He says sternly before looking down at the well.

"It was never an outhouse." JJ continued anyway making Jake hit him with his elbow. "She probably doesn't even know it's here." Kie says right away. "So... we found water." Pope said, looking over at John B.

"We're gonna need a really big rope."

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