MATILDA , jj maybank

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MATILDA! CHAPTER THIRTY ONE:
STORM DRAIN SCUBA DIVING
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"This is the north drain" JJ told them as they walked to the sewer "it should've gotten washed into the gully. So if it got flushed out from this drain it would've been pushed out to like—"

"Somewhere in this trash?" Pope finished the sentence for JJ. Kie sighed

"Oh my god people who use plastic should be shot" Kie complained

"Okay, personally I love plastic. Use it everyday. Love the stuff."

"Hopefully you recycle it and don't let it flush into the ocean"

"I thought you'd say something like that. So.." Pope pulled out a bag of trash bags "trash bags"

"Did you just proactively protect the environment?" Kie asked with a smile on her face

"Maybe"

"you two want us to leave you alone, or what's going on?" JJ asked before Pope through the trash bags towards JJ

"Just pick up the trash" Pope ordered

"feisty Pope" Liz said with a giggle

After an hour of. picking up all the trash, there was no gun. They had six bags of trash filled up by the end of it. Liz wiped her forehead with her arm.

"Well that was fun"

"If it's not in the trash, it's gotta be somewhere in the storm drain"

"It's in... it's in the storm drain"

"Dammit"

"Of course it is"

"Good thing I brought the crow"

"So are we gonna do like Rock Paper Scissors?"

"No"

"Or Alphabetically?" Liz asked

"Nah, on three Pope, one, two, three" they pulled the drains door off

"It like, the oldest goes?"

"In the sewer, there's a worm that you get when your down there. It gets into your blood and that it has to come out your pecker— so Uh, thag would be a hard pass for me"

"That's gonna be a no for me" Liz and Kie looked at each other for a moment

"No we get it. Totally get it" Kie said

"You guys are scared" Liz laughed

"No, I'm not scared"

"It's kinda cute"

"It's- it's the pecker thing"

"You should've just said that, you should've just lead with that" Kie told them

"I'll do it" Liz volunteered "I'll go storm drain scuba diving"

"I'll go with you" Kie told the girl

"Okay"

"Okay, just, you know. Be careful" Pope said to Kie

"We'll be so careful"

"I deserve that"

Liz got down to go into the pipe, and JJ stopped her for a minute "be safe okay?" JJ told her

"Yeah, totally. I'll be so safe" Liz chucked as she also mocked JJ and Pope from at the Crain house, and he pursed his lips nodding before Liz entered the drain, Kie behind her.