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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ' mary '
"Slow!" Hayley shouts at the blond. "If you don't move slow, then you're not challenging your muscles."
"I can't— I can't do it." JJ says before falling.
Hayley laughs as she drops her foot and stands normally. "So ballet isn't as easy as you thought, huh?" She questions, handing JJ a water bottle.
"I might've... underestimated it." He admits, chugging half of the water. "Have you talked to Sarah since everything?"
"No. I think she's pissed at me." Hayley tells him.
"Why do you think that?" He asks.
"Because she texted me and said, "I'm pissed at you", and I just ignored it." She explains.
JJ laughs a bit. "She'll get over it."
"Will she? I mean, she had genuine feelings for John B and then found out that he said he was using her to find this stupid gold. She feels dumb. And it doesn't help that her own cousin didn't tell her about it." Hayley groans as she sits down on the grass. "I'm as bad as John B. Maybe even worse."
"There's no way you could be worse than John B." JJ sits next to her. "You're not this terrible person, y'know? You were trying to protect her feelings. That's one of the things I like about you."
"Oh, yeah? What's some other things?" Hayley smirks.
The two had grown a little bit closer these past few days. Ever since JJ was arrested, Hayley had been a bit clingy towards him. She was entertaining his flirting, flirting back, getting a little touchy, which didn't go unnoticed by the other Pogues. She realized that it was easy to lose people and that it could happen quick, and she didn't want to waste time with JJ.
"Your eyes, your laugh, your dimples." JJ cupped the girl's cheek, rubbing his thumb across the girl's dimples as she smiled. "Your lips." He says, his thumb swiping across the bottom one.
Hayley's breath hitched in her throat as JJ began to slowly lean in. Her eyes fluttered shut as she prepared herself. She was finally ready for this. The feeling she had been waiting to feel was finally about to happen.
"Hey, we have a plan— Whoa." John B's voice caused the two to immediately move away from each other. "What's going on here?"
"Interrupted... again." JJ mutters as he turns to look at John B and Pope. "Nothing. What were you saying about a plan?"
Hayley glared at Pope as he mimicked kissing someone, mocking her and JJ. "Go drown yourself." She mouthed to him, to which he placed his hand over his chest, acting as if he was hurt.
"You want to trap Kie and Sarah on a boat?" JJ questions.
"What!?" Hayley exclaimed, her attention being grabbed. "Kie will kill her."
