𝗠𝘆 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 ⇉ 𝗝𝗝 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸

𝗡𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘆

"They're fancy people. They've had three governors in the family. They've run Charleston for, like, years." Kie rambles.

"So, you're basically saying that they're rich." Ari rubs her temples, just waking up with a pounding headache.

"These Kooks make our Kooks look like Pogues." JJ looks to Ari and grabs the girl putting her on his lap, he takes over and rubs her temples for her, softly. "You sure this is the place, Pope?"

"Pretty sure." Pope mumbles as they pull up to a mansion, all four Pogues looking out the window.

"All right." JJ opens the door, picking Ari up and setting her down on the ground before he got out after her. Ari instantly by his side. "Fat City, for sure."

Pope holds up a paper that was in the envelope. "Twenty-seven King Street. "

"Talk about home security." JJ walks to the gate. Ari eyeing her weirdly by his side. "Are those spikes to keep people out?"

"No." Ari and Kie say in unison.

"The slave quarters are over there." Pope sighs. "These spikes were to keep people in."

Ari eyes the place, she had a weird feeling about all this and she didn't know why. Maybe it because he wasn't feeling well and everything was getting to it, but who knows? Maybe it wasn't and everything was gonna go to shit like it always did.

"You okay, princess?" JJ looks down at her noticing the slight loss of color in her face.

"I'm-I'm fine." Ari nods mustering up her best smile. "Just, um, my heads killing me."

"You want to stay in the car?" JJ pushes a piece of stray hair behind her ear, before cupping her cheek.

"No, I wanna go." Ari states. "Plus I think being out here in that car in the heat will do more damage than good."

"You sure you're up for it?" Pope joins her side. "You look pale, Ari."

"I'm fine, Pope." Ari says sternly. "I just want to get this over with and see what we could do to save, JB, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, okay." Pope nods scratching the back of his neck.

"We're all tryna save him, baby." JJ speaks softly. "There's no need to snap at him."

Ari sighs. "I know. I'm sorry, Pope. My headache is getting to me."

"It's okay." Pope gives her a small smile. "I know you didn't mean anything by it."

"Now lets do this." Kie pipes in. The three nod and go back to join her.

Ari intertwines her fingers with JJ's. The three Pogues watching as Kie opens the gates. The two gates opening with ease. They all share a look before they slowly walk in.

Chills went down Ari's spine as they walked, even though they were outside. The atmosphere got different. Something changed in the air and it made Ari uncomfortable.

It seemed she wasn't the only one because you could see the hair on JJ's arm lift as goosebumps were now relevant. She looked to Pope seeing the same thing on his arms
and then to Kie who held such a normal expression.

Ari and Kie still haven't actually spoken since Ari's almost death. She simply didn't know what else to say to her. She didn't even tell JJ about why Kie did what she did, but they all had to talk one way or another, but they had to focus on the right now and right now is was all about John B and Sarah.

Pope takes the knocker on the door and pounds it a couple times. The knocks echo throughout the whole house. There was no way anyone inside didn't hear the knocks.