Strawberry Kiss | OBX

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Rafe

I woke up early and watched as dad took John B out on the Druthers but I thought it was very strange since John B had gotten fired because Topper said he was stealing from us. Sarah probably had spent the whole day with him yesterday.

I went to Lizzy's room to see if she was home, but she wasn't. I have to ask her about Barry because he came to the country club yesterday asking about her and Sarah and their crew and saying they robbed him. I was just going to ask her when she got back but I crashed and she's still not here. I know that she wouldn't mess with Barry because of what they've done in the past or maybe she went off the rails with everything that's going on and stole from him as pay back.

. . .

Lizzy came back around 11 in the morning and she had brought JJ along with her.

"Y'all make up?" I asked as I saw them walking behind the couch.

"Yep." Lizzy said and was about to keep walking but I stopped and called her over.

"Barry came by the country club, telling me that my little sister robbed him." I started and she was about to interrupt me but I kept going, "Now, I know Sarah wouldn't mess with Barry because she doesn't fuck with drugs, and well you and Barry have a past."

"Rafe, it was payback. I have it covered."

"Are you sure I can help you out? All you have to do is ask." Rafe looked at me,

"He held a gun to our heads," JJ said, breaking the silence between the both of us.

"What?" I looked at him,

"Held it right here on her," JJ showed Rafe on me, "and he wanted to steal from us."

"What could y'all possibly have that he'd want to steal."

"Gold." JJ deadpanned.

Lizzy slapped his arm and sent him an annoyed glance, "Whatever you do, you can't tell Ward."

"You guys found the treasure?" I asked shocked.

"Yes, and you can't tell Ward because he's been after it with John B's dad and they were really close before John B's dad died. Which to be honest I'm pretty sure Ward's behind it" Lizzy explained.

"Dad took John B on Druthers this morning."

Her eyes widened as she turned to face JJ, "Fuck. Ward found out."

"Babe, don't say that." JJ chewed on his cheek,

I looked at both of them, "Do you think that's why dad's going on another trip to the Bahamas?"

"He's going again..." Lizzy took a moment to think, "He's been onto us this whole time! The people who shot at us when we were on the boat! Shit! Why'd it take me this fucking long to find out?!" Lizzy paced around the living room and threw a vase at the wall and yelled.

Everyone flinched and the shattering sound.

"Babe. I think you should take a breath." JJ placed his hand on her shoulder

"Fuck off." She snapped and looked at the vase, "When is he going back to the Bahamas?"

"Tomorrow morning, I think." I furrowed my eyebrows "You think he's transporting it all tomorrow?"

"I don't even know," She ran her hand through her hair and looked at JJ before going off to a sprint.

"Where are you guys going?" I asked but they were already off running.

. . .

Lizzy

I ran and kept running. I jumped the fence and threw myself over and went back under the hole towards the basement, and looked at the tunnel which looked like it had been tampered with. JJ trailed behind me.

"I need you to lower me down."

"Babe, how am I going to do that if there's no harness." He looked at me huffing still out of breath.

I looked around frantically and found a gardening hose, "Here use this,"

"I don't think we should be doing this." JJ looked at me, "I thought you didn't care about the gold."

"I thought it was a fun little adventure, but now that Ward is winning it for himself, that selfish bastard always fucking wins and it's not fucking fair anymore." I spoke angrily with tears running down my face, "I need to know if we've lost it all."

JJ hugged me and kissed the top of my head, "Okay, I'll lower you down."

He lowered me down and I crawled back into the tunnel of mud that led me to the gold in the first place and I looked around searching for at least a little something, but Ward had wiped it all clean.

I sighed in defeat and tugged on the hose so JJ could pull me back up, "Nada." I frowned and began crying, "that man steals everything from me." I gritted my teeth as JJ held me.

. . .

JJ

"They took all of it?!" Pope asked

"Yep. Every last bit." Lizzy sighed as she put one of my shirts on.

We stayed around the chateau waiting to see if John B showed up which he did eventually. Except he didn't say hi or anything just straight inside.

"Ayo, John B, Gold treasure hunt is done for man." I said as I walked in with the other pogues following behind me,

 "Where's the gun JJ?" John B gritted,

"What?"

"The gun?! WHERE IS IT?!" He yelled and it took me aback.

Lizzy looked at me and back over at John, "What happened on the boat this morning with Ward?"

John B shot a cold look over at Lizzy, "Killed my dad, tried to kill me, and now I'm going to kill him."

We all stood there in shock for a moment, Lizzy a little less in shock than the rest of us, When John B found the gun he pushed us out of the way and we followed him outside as he took JJ's bike and drove off.

"Well we know where he's off to." Lizzy spoke.

"Are we not going to stop him?" Kiara spoke panicked.

"It's Ward Cameron, he deserves to die, and if John B goes through with it then I'll take care of the body." Lizzy spoke coldly.

Kiara jaw dropped and she looked over at Pope and JJ.

"Hey, Lizzy, why don't we go down to the docks." Pope suggest.

"Why? Ward might just fucking die. We should celebrate if you ask me."

"Babe, we know you hate him, but maybe we should think about how this is gonna affect John B." JJ wrapped an arm around me,

"We could help him get away with it, Ward took everything from me. He took away my mother, he took away our gold, and he took away John B's dad." Lizzy looked at them, "Ward is nothing to me."

They all looked at each other and Lizzy began to walk off.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"To see if John B did it already." She said and kept walking.

I groaned, "Can't we have one day where nothing crazy happens," I mumbled before following her.

I overheard Pope in the distance say he was gonna go home because he has the scholarship interview in the morning.

. . .

I FINISHED MY SENIOR YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL!!!!!!! 

I'm gonna be writing so much more and I already have so many pre-writtten chapters that I have to re-read, but they're soon to be published!!

 much love to y'all <3