(BOOK ONE)
"...𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰.."
"𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥."
willow bradshaw was a pogue, born and raised. she was the type of girl to either be high, drunk off her ass, or simply both. she hung around t...
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On the way to the salvage yard, the group was silent almost the whole way there. John B was driving the Twinkie and Kiara was sitting in the passenger seat while she stared out of the window. Pope was sitting in the seat in the back, JJ on the floor while Willow sat beside Pope with his legs laying across her lap. While Willow was humming the chorus to Island In The Sun by Weezer, JJ was rolling up a joint as he listened closely to her. Every chance he got, he looked up to see her tapping on Pope's foot to the melody as Pope only slightly started to get annoyed. Little did the blonde boy know, Willow was doing it to purposely annoy Pope because she was bored and wanted to stir the pot.
After a few minutes, she stopped humming and began clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth. JJ looked up at her after stuffing the joint even more, raising an eyebrow with a sly grin following after he heard Pope sigh. The boy had finally had enough. "Willow, please stop."
"Stop what?", She tried to mask the smile that was forming, biting her lip gently as Pope leaned his head back with his hands covering his face. "Did I do something?"
"You know Pope hates that kinda stuff.", JJ spoke up, allowing the girl to glance towards him before she chuckled.
"The tapping was only slightly annoying, but you making that noise was extremely annoying.", Pope finally looked at her, watching as she took her gaze off of JJ and looked towards his direction. He noticed the subtle change in her complexion as she took her eyes off of the blonde boy, making him squint.
"What?", She furrowed her eyebrows, confused as to why he was scolding her. When he didn't stop, she glanced at JJ and then at the other two in the front of the van before looking back at Pope. "Seriously, what is it? You're creeping me out, dude."
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing.", He opened his eyes fully, giving her a grin that basically interpreted that he knew something she didn't.
"You're weird.", She looked away from the boy and looked up front towards her brother. "Hey, so if we actually find the royal merchant... what does that mean for all of us, exactly?"
"What do you mean?", He looked at her through the rear view mirror, quickly looking back at the road to focus on driving.
"Well...", She paused, taking in a deep breath before glancing down. She took the ends of Pope's shoelaces into her hands and began fidgeting around with them. "I don't know... I guess I'm just getting nervous about having that much money in my pocket."
"Nervous?", Kiara asked. "What's there to be nervous about?"
"Well, obviously you won't be.", Willow looked up at her to see her rolling her eyes, making her sigh before continuing, "I've never had more than three hundred in my pocket at once. I kinda know what I'd do with it because JJ and I talked about it and what y'all would do with it, but the closer we get to finding it..."
"It feels unreal.", JJ chimed in, staring up at her with a slight smile. "Yeah, I get what you're saying. It's all weird, y'know."
"So, what would you do with it?", John B asked his sister seriously, wanting to know the honest truth.
