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After everything with Mrs.Lana we all got in the twinkie a bit shaken up , i never liked fights for specific reasons but this one shook me up. The ride home was uncomfortably quiet if I say. Once we get home Pope and Kie are sitting down on our porch waiting for us.
"And we were right outside like this" jj says as he goes against the wall. " And all we hear is just "Bam! bam! bam! , knocking paint off the wall, G! From the inside and I'm just looking at Ryry like- wait first off look at this sh!t. " jj says as he gets closer to me and start shaking his hair, kie and pope while we're sitting on the couch.
"That's dandruff disguting" kie says with a disgusted look at her face. " it's paint kie " I say. "Look at all that all right ?! that's paint " Jj says exaggerating on what happened and popping the t. " at that point , I was just like I'm waiting for death " jj says as I roll my eyes, he is so dramatic.
" oh please !" I say to him , "oh okay so you saw the guys who shot us , right ?" Pope says with his hands on his head sitting. "Yeah" the blondie says , " hmm did you get a good description of them ? " pope asks again , what did they looked like ? " , " anything , anything ! " kie says on top of him , " anything we can bring to a police report ? " I say , " yeah " kie says while looking at John b who was standing up despite the rest of us.
" burly . " jj says quickly, " burly ? " pope says confused. " that's not very helpful" kie says, " okay well no, like the type of guy at my dads garage. " I mean you guys know he made cargo hides for drug smugglers" he says, "yeah, yes , no we know " kie answers him.
" I can't tell you with full confidence guys , these boys , these killers.. " jj says as he stands up against the wall and starts lighting up a cigarette, "they're square groupers" he says while the smoke comes out of his mouth, making me stand up to take a hit of what his smoking.
" they're square groupers like narco square groupers ? Like Pablo Escobar square groupers" he says taking another hint of whatever drug he's smoking and passing it to me. " you guys not everything is a kingpin movie kie says making everyone quiet and paying attention to her. " okay but what do they look like , specifically ? " pope says frustrated.
" you weren't there bro ! " jj says screaming almost, stepping away from the wall and me. " you don't know what to look for ! " pope says yelling, " dude I wasn't taking little mental Polaroids the entire time , man I was under duress.. okay ? " jj says yelling and backing up from pope, but I can tell you that by the way that Mrs. Lana was screaming , that these guys they're serious hombres , man , it's a heavy vibe right now okay ? " jj says taking a deep breath.
" j calm down " I say to him almost lauging and pushing his shoulder towards me , I'm not liking this very much, " okay but why did they want the compass ? " kie says , " it's a piece of shit you could pawn it off for five bucks if u wanted too.. no offense guys I know it's like in your family and shit" pope says to me and John b making me drop my smile.
" The office. " me and John b say at the same time, " what ? " pope says with a confused look on his face just like kie and jj. " my dad , my dads office" John b says walking inside the house being followed by me. " Dad always kept the office closed because he was afraid of his competitors stealing his Royal Merchant research. " John b says walking towards the office door being followed by the rest of us.
" we used to laugh at him all the time like he was actually gonna find it , but now that's he's gone we have just kinda left it as he kept it. " John b says grabbing the key and opening the office as we all wait for him to open the door. " yeah for when he gets back " kie says softly, " yeah. " I say giving her a small smile.
My brother opens the door , making me closely have an anxiety attack just by seeing all of my dads stuff. After our dad passed we just kinda left his room as it is for when he gets back, you know ? and seeing the bed me and john b used to jump on or hide underneath while playing hide and seek or seeing the papers dad would spent hours looking at, hurt. Hurt like hell.
" ahh I've slept over here like 600 times, and I've never seen this door opened" Pope says as we all walk in. Kiara noods in agreement with Pope. The brunette grabs a map while standing next to Pope. " Here look. This is the original owner, right there." he says while everyone pays attention to my brother.
"Okay. Robert Q. Routlege, 1880 tp 1920. There's the lucky compass, right there." kie says.
"Actually um.. he was shot after he brought it." I say, with furrowed eyebrows, while our rooster sings in the background. "Then the compass was shipped back to Henry. He was kill in a crop dusting accident when he had the compass. After he died, the compass was given to Stephen, Stephen had the compass with him when he died in Vietnam" John b says leaving all of our friends with worried, weirded out looks in their faces.
"Let me guess, he died in action right ?" The blonde haired cute guy next to me said. " Sort of.. Uh a-actually he was killed by a banana truck, in country.." I say looking at him, both of us trying to brush off our urges to laugh.
" anyways after that, Stephen passed the compass down to him, our dad." my brothers says pointing to a picture of our father. "hm.. sounds like there's a reoccurring theme here." jj says " Yeah hmm.. you guys have a death compass" pope says " no we do not " John b says " yes you do , you have a death compass" pope says " seriously dude it's cursed, and it's made it was way back to you guys, look my dad used to talk about this compartment in here " John b says
" soldiers used to hide secret notes" I say as my brothers opens the compass and shakes it off. " what's that ? " kie says " that wasn't there before" I say as I rush to stand in my brothers side. " that's dad's handwriting." I say with furrowed eyebrows " how can you know that ? " pope says
"because he does this weird r's when he writes, see it ?" my brothers says
what the hell is going on right now ?..
" can I see it ? " jj says "red-rout, no I think that's an A" jj says focusing on what's written on it, " it says redfield" I say "Right." Jj says " okay what's that redfield ? " kie says as my brother puts his hand on his head " besides the most common name in the country" pope says " maybe it's a clue , maybe it's a clue to where he's hiding" jonh bsays " a clue come on ? that's- " pope says as I see kie going behind my brother giving him a death look for him to shut up.
I smile kie takes our situation with our missing father very carefully, she always watches her words whenever this kind stuff is mentioned in the group so these little things she does are very important. And both me and my brother are very thankful for it.
"But if it is a clue maybe it's an anagram ? " pope says attempting to redeemed himself "Yes. Perfect. Anagram. You need paper. " John b says getting pope a piece of paper "How can you concentrate with that thing crowing at you ?" Pope says " jj and Avery love the rooster" John b says " I love the rooster " kie says " let me think " pope says focusing on what's he's doing
As everyone gathers around saying random words to try and guess what Redfield means as I get distracted and open a drawer in one of my dads cabinets there it was our last picture. Looking at it making my eyes sting. I miss my father like hell. I hear car sounds as someone parking in our frontyard. Who is that ?
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trynna be more active on here !! jj and Avery love the rooster ..
