Where is the love?// JJ Maybank

Chapter 2.14

A/N:I was going to upload last night but I was lil busy. Anyways stan Shawn Mendes. Hope you enjoy!

Later that night Pope and John B we're laying out on the dock while me, JJ and Kie went and got beer from inside.

"Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato two!" JJ said throwing beers at the two boys. "What are you guys doing down here having a good cry?"

"Cry?" Pope asks.

"Cry? What are you talking, we don't cry."
John B says.

"Men can cry too, John B." I tell him.

"You know it's not your fault, right?" Kie tells him.

"You think she'll come around?"

"Yeah, dude. She's one of us."

"Sarah's a pogue." John B says. "She'll come around. Yep. You know she'll come back to me."

"Yeah." I tell him.

"You know, I was just thinking about it. I'm gonna do a backflip."

"You're lying." Kie says.

"You won't do it." JJ teases.

"Hold my beer that you already dropped." He passes it to JJ.

"I wanna see you do it." I say.

"Yeah!" We all cheer as he backflips into the water.

"That's my boy." JJ says.

"Woogity-Woogity, baby!"

We were all gathered on the dock drinking when I had a thought.

"Have you ever thought about how...like, sharks will never know that camels exist."

"No I don't think I have." Pope says.

"Or do you think that animals know when it's an invasive species. Like do think that lionfish know that they're out here destroying the ecosystem? Or do you think they're just floating around like. La di da di da?"

"I think it's time for you to go to bed." JJ said getting up and grabbing my hand pulling me up."Goodnight guys."

"Goodnight." They all replied.

We got into the house and we flopped down onto the bed. 

"When you loose weight where does it go?"

"Goodnight, Emmy."

The next morning Pope woke us all up telling us we had a geometry test.

"Get up! JJ!" Pope said hitting his face.

"Shut up Pope! I don't even go to school with you guys." I said in to my pillow while Pope poked JJ beside me.

"Is he alive?" Pope ask me.

"Yeah he's fine."

"JJ, get your shoes on." Pope tells him but he stays silent.

"Babe, go put your shoes on." I say.

He groans. "Fine, just let me eat first." He said getting up.

"I'll meet up with you guys later." I say.

"I'm starving. I just need some pizza." I hear JJ say while Pope drags him out the door.

"No, you missed breakfast." Pope tells him.

"Okay, I got it, I got it, I got it."

When I finally got out of bed I decided that I was not doing school. So I decided to go home and see my dad. We I got home I went in the living room where my dad was watching tv.

"Oh would you look who it is, my daughter. I forgot you lived here."

"Oh my god you are so funny." I faked laughed sitting beside him.

"What, did you move in with your boyfriend?"

"No... It's my boyfriend's best friend's house." I say matter of factly.

"Oh, okay." He laughs

"Anyways, I'm gonna go shower and get dressed." I told him while getting up.

"Wait, why aren't you doing school?"

"Because I'm lazy."

I showers and got dressed before making my way to the Chateau where the others were. When I got there Pope was talking about the book that their science teacher had given them.

"Guys this is from Denmark's diary." He tells us. "August 15, he set sail from Port-au-Prince on calm seas. Came upon the Spanish ship San Jose of fire. The entire deck was aflame and we could hear the scream of men trapped below. The Spanish captain cared about only one thing, his valuable cargo, the cross of Santo Domingo and countless bars of gold. Once the cargo was on board, we went to help the crew, but Captain Limbrey ordered us to pull bayonets and not to let any of that Spanish crew on board. He robbed them and left them to die." Pope read.

"So it didn't go down off Bermuda." JJ said while playing with the laces of my shoes.

"And it was Limbrey stealing shit again." Kie states.

"This diary proves that both the gold and the cross of Santo Domingo were on the Royal Merchant." Pope says.

"Why didn't we find it in the well then?" JJ asks. "I mean, if Denmark was able to get this, like, bedazzled cross off of the Merchant to shore, why didn't he just hide it with the gold?"  

"Because it was too big." I tell him.

"You're right. He had to hide it someplace else." Pope says.

"But where?" Kiara asks.

"Right before he was hung, Denmark said he'd buried the treasure at the foot of the angel."

"I thought this was about the key." JJ said.

"Right. So what's the connection?" Kie asked.

"The path to the tomb begins in the island room." Pope said.

"But what is the island room?" I asked.

"You know what helps me figure shit out?" JJ said.

"Oh boy. Here we go." John B said."

"Smoking beers and drinking weed."

"What?" I ask.

"The ideas just pour out of me. If we just sit here and try to figure this out, we're gonna get no where. But if we get creative and go to the bone fire tonight,maybe we get somewhere."

"Well, I just got disowned by my parents, and I'm an official member of the I have nothing to lose club." Kie tells us.

"We're so close." Pope says.

"Look, look." JJ says. "Think about how much you could think if you just give your brain a rest."

"Facts." I say.

"Okay, fine." Pope says.

"Okay, wait. We gotta shotgun before we go."

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