Outer Banks-My Girl

Chapter 7

                   July 14, 2020

            We all sat outside. Pope was testing the drone thingy. Maggie was playing with her vape, along with me who was leaning on the wood beam.

"What would we do without you to control the drones? '' JJ patted Popes shoulder.

"Technically it's not a drone. It's a ROW" he started.

"Pope, just stop," Maggie added.

"Shut up, it's too early for that right now" JJ added, obviously agreeing with his girlfriend.

"Hey look, once we get footage of the wreck, we'll bring it to a lawyer in town and file a formal claim" John B said as he came out of the water.

"Don't you gotta be rich for that?" I questioned.

"It's bullshit, why do we have to do that?" JJ mumbled.

"Why can't we just continue?" Maggie questioned.

"Well, there is a maritime salvage law" Pope spoke up. "You can't just go to the ocean floor and scoop a bunch of stuff up and" he started before JJ cut him off.

"I know, it's just lawyers aren't cheap bro".

"Well as soon as they see the footage, they'll work for a comp" John B reassured.

"How do you know all of that?" Kiara asked.

"Cause my dad said it, like a million times".

"Ya, that's fair" Maggie added.

"The tether is really long. IN the wrong weather it could get pushed around".

"Then we'll go at dead calm" John B said, right before thunder rumbled the area.

"I dont think it's gonna be today that we do this?" Maggie said as we all agreed.

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"You four get these groceries over to figure 8. Get straight back when you're done. No fishing" Heyward said, collecting some bag as Pope, JJ, Maggie and I stood in the boat.

Pope grabbed the first two groceries his dad handed over, "I promised it would be delivered by this afternoon".

I picked up a bag and handed it to Pope to put down before JJ stood next to Pope with his arms outstretched as Hehyward had his abc turned to him collecting more groceries."Rich folks dont wanna wait for you lazy sons of.." he stopped once seeing HH there with his arms held out waiting for bags. "Oh JJ, thank you".

"Now don't eat all the fruit like last time" Heyward said pointing to Maggie who put her hands up in defensive.

Once we had the boat all loaded we were off to the figure 8.

"Doesn't even look like the storm hit here" Pope commented as we passed by all the houses that had no damage to them whatsoever. Trees were still standing, decks had been put back together, houses had been repainted and fixed up.

"That's because they got generators bro. Get used to it" JJ grumbled.

"And then they say the juice will be out all summer at the cut"Maggie added.

"It's nice to be a kook," Pope mumbled.

Pope told JJ to take the short bag of groceries over to the lady. He asked Maggie and I to stay back and help him. Maggie and I noticed my brother, Rafe and Topper golfing. Rafe noticed us.