JJ and a Routledge

Stealing and Jumping

rewritten: jume 28 2023 

"You know what your problem is?" JJ says to Pope, as Kiara and I are getting out of the Twinkie. 

"You?" I snort at Pope's response and make him do the handshake with me. Yeah, JJ didn't like that, that only made it better. 

"No it's that you need to relax, man. You're always so tense." JJ throws his hands up in the air and Pope rolls his eyes.

"I'm not too tense." Pope groans, putting his head in his hands. JJ can be very exhausting, but we love him. (Sometimes)

Kiara and I walk around to John B's window. "Don't worry. You guys got this." I hope we do. He gives us both a bright smile and I try to muster one as well, yeah, that didn't really work out so well. 

"As long as it doesn't get messed up." Kiara grits her teeth, completely side-eying me. Okay, I'm not shit at everything. 

"It won't," I snap back, before spinning around and heading toward the small office house, not waiting for her to follow. 

Kiara quickly catches up to me and I fix up my hair and pull down the front of my shirt, just enough. Time to play the helpless woman, so fun. 

"Hi!" I yell to get the guy's attention. "Excuse me," I say as we make eye contact. He quickly gets up to meet us at the gate. He looks pretty strong, that's not good. 

"Can I help you guys?" He asks, I could see him scanning both of our figures. Ugh, I fucking hate this shit. 

"Hi. We actually have a flat tire." I say airily. "Could you maybe, help us out?" I smile, and then twirl my hair on my finger, tilting my head. 

He looks around for a minute, thinking about it, and finally, he answers. "Yeah." He walks back into the little hut and Kiara and I exchange a look, we've done it so far. Now we've just got to bring it home. 

"It's too easy." She smirks. He comes back out, opening the gate, with a pump. We lead him to her car's back tire. "It's this one back here. I mean, it must've been a slow leak or something." Kie explains, the man nods along and I lean against the truck, next to him. 

"Probably just been sitting in the yard too long?" He looks back up at us, specifically me. His crooked grin made me want to gag. 

"Yeah." I giggle, gently dragging my feet along the ground. 

"Yeah- I-I got this." He smirks back down at the tire and I almost sigh in relief. The less I have to play along, the better. 

"Thank you," Kiara says brightly. As she does I catch the boys running past the gate behind us. Kiara and I wait patiently, hoping the guard takes his time. Suddenly we hear barking in the distance. 

"Do you girls hear that?" The guard nods toward the sound, suddenly very alert. 

"H-Hear what?" Kiara smiles, but the guard doesn't buy it. Shit. We've got to think of something, quick. 

"Oh, Tebow's got something." He mutters standing up. 

"Oh, it's probably just a raccoon or something," I say, praying he'll just finish the fucking tire. "Nothing to worry about." I smile.  I place my hand on his shoulder, gently pressing down. 

"Yeah." He kneels back down to the tire. As he does this, Kiara sneaks around to the other side of the car, probably bursting another tire. I turn around to look off into the distance, and a second later I turn back around and the guard is gone. "What are you doing?" I hear him saying to Kiara. I quickly go to the other side of the car. 

"This one looks... a little low, too." She tries to play it off. He suddenly runs off back to the gate. 

"Wait! Wait!" I yell. "Shit." Kiara runs into the driver's side and I get into passengers. She starts the engine and we drive away. If we got separated, the plan was for us to meet back up at the Chateau, so Kiara and I were stuck together until the boys got back.