Beyond the 'Banks

12.

JJ stayed with me that night. I hadn't told Lucy that he was now living with us full time so she just thought this was a one time thing. The next morning we woke up at the literal ass crack of dawn to meet Pope and John B at the dock so we could all go back to the boat and see them both hopefully alive.

"Uh oh! You forget your keys or something?" Pope yelled out.

"You need a tow?" John B asked as our small boat slowly moved towards the big boat which the girls had stayed on.

"You gotta admit this was kind of funny" John B said.

"John B" Kie said to which he responded with a "huh?"

"Mastermind huh?" She asked.

"I'm always planning"

"Some patriarchal bullshit"

"Yeah that sucked" Sarah added on

"You still love us though right?" I asked

"Yeah, whatever. We're both gonna get you all back when you least expect it"

"What? Even me?" I asked again.

"Molly, I love you but you're just as apart of this as they are." Sarah responded. I scoffed and rolled my eyes while laughing.

"So... did you guys?..."

"Reconcile our differences? Not one bit." I saw Sarah look to Kie and slightly wink, I felt relieved that they actually did. I knew they would never actually give the boys the satisfaction.

"But, we're willing to work together."

"All we need. You guys ready to jack some loot?"

"You guys got rope?"

"Got it."

"Grappling hook?"

"We don't have a grappling hook. We're not Batman."

"Pulley?"

"Check."

"Dark clothes?"

"Got it."

"Flashlights?"

"Yep."

"Alright good. We're ready."

"Let's go get rich guys."

"Hell yeah."

John B got out the drivers side of the van and just as we were about to get out, he stopped us, "I wanna say thank you guys. Seriously. It means a lot to me that you're here tonight."

We all gave him warm smiles, "always" Kie replied.

"Of course man." Pope said. John B looked at Sarah and nodded his head.

"Alright we done with the circle jerk? Can we do this?" JJ asked, breaking the sweet moment.

"Let's get that wheat in the water"

JJ misheard Pope, "weed? I'm up for weed."

"Wheat JJ, not weed" I told him.

"Damn..."

"I would just like to say if I get taken by Crain, my smoke stash in the third drawer of my desk on the left." I called out while we all started hopping the fence.

JJ responded quite quickly, "noted!"

We all paused in front of the house, looking at it as it stood before us under the moon. That was until a light came on, probably one of those ones that turn on due to motion. Nonetheless we all still quietly cursed and ducked.