Celestial ~ JJ Maybank

016.

The next day, the Pogues had gathered together at the Chateau to plan out how they were going to get the rest of the gold out of the well from underneath the Crain House. The girls sat in the van, discussing the blueprints and the finer details of the plan.

Celeste stepped into the van, with the diagram John B had drawn for them of the well, passing it over to Kie, "your boyfriend is one hell of an artist, I'll tell you that for free Sarah"

"He said it looked something like this" Kiara said.

"So..."

"That's 50 feet down, and they're using 100 feet rope, so I guess this little wagon will go..." they all laughed at the picture, "straight to the gold room"

Celeste laughed at the crooked lines and labels on the picture, shaking her head, "that boy is such a child"

"Who drew this?" Sarah asked, still giggling.

"Who'd you think?" Kie replied as they all looked out the front screen to see John B and Pope, the latter already looking over at them. Celeste thought that it was weird that Pope was already staring and looked to Sarah and Kiara for back up when she saw Kie giving him the same distant look back.

What the hell was going on?

Do we have another relationship on our hands?

She nudged Sarah, who glanced back at her with a bright smile. Celeste motioned between the two of them discreetly and Sarah looked back for a second before nodding madly at Celeste, confirming to Celeste that both her and Sarah could see something happening. They made a weird face at each other before bursting out in laughter when Kiara turned her head and caught them. Even though Kiara didn't understand why they were laughing, she couldn't help but laugh along – finding their laughter ever so contagious.

"Kie, this better work!" JJ called as he walked over to the van, dropping the now clean gold bars at her feet, "We can't pawn this if there's a giant wheat symbol on it"

"Have a little faith J," Celeste smiled.

With that, Kiara reached beside her, lifting up a large blowtorch, "It's gonna work"

20 minutes later, Kiara was sat holding the blowtorch and wearing protective gear – ready to start melting the gold. Celeste was sat with John B and Sarah against one of the large tree stumps in John B's yard as JJ helped Kiara ready. JJ kept saying really obvious things that were obviously irking Kiara, causing Pope to constantly have to shut him up or give him other small tasks to keep him away.

Finally, Kiara turned on the torch, beginning to melt the gold, turning her head to smile wildly at the others. They matched her smile when they realised it was working.

Celeste looped her arm around Sarah's and rested her head on her shoulder as they watch Kiara continue working the blowtorch.

John B seemed to be in his own little world – understandably. It's not every day that almost a year after your father disappeared, you find the prize he and everyone else was searching for. After everything they went through to get it – they were so close. He'd be living up to his father's last wish that was spoken on that tape. He'd be fulfilling the legacy he left behind.

"I can't believe this is actually happening," Celeste whispered to Sarah.

"Tell me about it. Just a few weeks ago, I was playing Kook princess. Like I–I felt so suffocated in my own skin and I was so scared that I was going to feel that for the rest of my life. But now, I'm actually happy. I have a boyfriend that actually cares about me and not just about our stupid image. And I have friends that, even though it's only been what? A week? You've cared for me more than any other friends I've supposedly had in the past few years" Sarah had a soft smile plastered across her face as she relished in her position in the group, she could've only dreamed of being in before. But it was now her reality. There was no way she'd be giving this up anytime soon.