Choose - JJ Maybank

Chapter 11

John B and JJ had built a fire and now we were all sitting around it. I was next to JJ, resting my head on his shoulder as his arm was around me. 

"Hey, guys. So, like, my dad's already gonna kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about? Pope asked. 

"Might as well him, man, before we're gaffed," JJ said. 

"You ready for this?" JB asked. 

"Yeah," Kie answered. 

"So, the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant," JB told us. 

"Oh my god. Here we go again with this." Pope said. 

"NO. All right, wait. Hear him out, all right?" JJ told Pope. 

"It's been here the whole time. It's on the Island." JB told us. 

"are you serious?" I asked looking up at JJ for confirmation. He just smirked at me. 

"oh my god," Kie replied. 

"I'd like to voice my skepticism," Pope told us. 

"I'm sure you would, Pope, but can I please present you with my evidence, sir?" JB asked in a British accent. 

"Proceed," Pope replied in a British accent. 

"All right. So, in my backpack, (He said standing up with a paper in his hand.) I have a letter from Denmark Tanny." JB said. 

"who the hell's that?" I asked confused. 

"Denmark Tanny was a slave that survived the Royal Merchant wreck. Check this out. )He said handing the paper to Kie.) Okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship, but my dad found the complete manifest. That was his big discovery. So Tanny used the gold from the Merchant to buy his freedom. After that, he bought his farm. Drumroll please, (we all drumroll.) that farm is...Tannyhill Plantation." He said smirking.

"Tannyhill?" Kie questioned. 

"Yeah. So, after that, he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit-ton of rice, which pisses off all the white planters, and then they decide to lynch him. So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to his son, as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold." He told us. 

"where?" Kie whispered. 

"Harvest the wheat." Parcel nine. Near the water." JB answered. "Except there's no wheat. You see, wheat is code for gold. Check this out. The gold is in parcel nine, near the water." 

"Holy shit," Pope exclaimed. 

"All we need is an original survey map of the property, and we've found the gold," JB claimed. 

"Okay, so this might have a small chance of being actually true." As Pope said, JJ got up from our spot, walked over to JB, and picked him up. 

"Dude it's like King Tut," Kie said happily. 

"I am a genius. Hey whoa!" JB yelled as JJ held him. "Hello! Fire! You're near the fire, you're gonna burn." JB told JJ as he put him down. 

"I'm so proud of you right now," JJ told him getting close to his face. 

"Thank you. That is really sweet of you." JB said putting his hand on his face. 

"Kiss him," I shouted in a different voice as Kie and Pope laughed. JJ looked over at me and raised his eyebrows making me laugh. 

"Okay, so guys. What's the plan." Pope asked. 

"Good question. So Sarah Cameron's coming tonight. She'll bring an original survey map..." I knew the minute he said Sarah's name Kie would freak.