Heated Lies (Jiara)

Boiling

"Uh... my name is Kiara. I'm sixteen." She swallowed hard, trying to forget the pairs of eyes staring her down. "My parents sent me here because... I'm friends with this group of boys and they get into trouble a lot. I guess they don't want me in that trouble."

She was about ready to be done, but Nora urged her on. "What kind of trouble?"

"We were looking for lost gold, and a lot of people didn't-" She didn't finish the sentence without an eruption of laughter. Even Ms. Jenkins was snickering. Kie pressed on anyway.

"People didn't like it. The leader of our group went to jail because of someone else who wanted the gold. And then the son of that person shot his sister and then the Sheriff. Then I found out my boyfriend's dad is abusive, but my parents don't even know that because they'd still think he was the crazy one." Her eyes were watering at this point. "So, actually, my parents are the crazy ones because I'm doing everything in my goddamn power to keep my
friends safe. Apparently that's insane."

Ms. Jenkins lost her smile, eyes blurring into her skull.

"He's in fucking danger." Kiara sniffed, drying her eyes. "He's got no where to go and I'm here because... just because he's a POGUE. It's fucking ridiculous and I don't deserve it."

By then, Nora was trying to tell her to shut up. "I probably love him and I can't show him that from California. I miss him."

"Dude, I have no clue what a Pogue is but you need to chill out!" Norah practically shoved her.

"NO!" Kiara yelled, and now the women around her were whistling and rooting for her. She still didn't understand. "Y'all are crazy."

"Girl boss!" Someone yelled, and Ms.
Jenkins stood up, mouth twitching.

***

When she awoke she felt something soft. Her arms and legs were restricted, shoved into a thick blanket-like jacket. That would've been nice, but she was beginning to sweat.

The room was padded in a white pillowed texture. She stood wobbly, rushing to the door to look outside. It was pitch black in the hallways, and she found herself breathing heavily as a result.

"Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. I fucked up."

She looked up at the dim bulb lighting the room, and then to the camera beside it.

"I'm sorry!" She yelled. "I wasn't going to do anything crazy! Please let me out!"

She didn't know Nora was biting her tongue alone in her room. She was silent, hurting for Kiara despite their short time together, but she had been warned.

Now it was up to the Warden.

***

The next morning, JJ was still tipsy. He hid it well, besides the smell of beer. Pope took one look at him, and shook his head. Still, he wasn't going to confront his friend.

Sarah and John B made it back to his house around nine in the morning. JJ hadn't even finished his coffee yet, not that it was sobering him up like he hoped it would.

"Alright, California!" JB clapped, making JJ wince.

"Yes. Sarah do you still have a private jet?"

"Uh, my dad has one, but I told y'all he's off limits." She inched closer to John B. "Besides, can't we just take the Twinkie?"

The room went silent while JJ pulled out his phone. He pressed the home button for Siri, and asked the question everyone thought of.

"How many days would it take to get to California by car?"

Sarah rolled her eyes when Siri explained something less than ideal.

"What if we took a bus?" Pope suggested, taking JJ's now empty cup. "Might take a while but it's better than nothing."

"I can't believe we still have no plan!" Sarah groaned, then she pointed at JJ. "You're the reckless one, why haven't you said something insane that would low key work?"

"Cause I'm hella hungover and I can't feel my face." He replied, chuckling. "Oh,
also Kiara's my girlfriend so I have to make sure whatever I do doesn't land her in more trouble."

"As opposed to one of us getting more trouble?!"

"She's your girlfriend?!"

And now the blonde boy was beet red, staring at his shoes.

"I literally told you guys." The Cameron sighed. "Don't get me wrong that's cute, but-"

A knock caused everyone in the room to flinch. JJ sunk below the table, hating the way his body felt like crumbling in on itself.

"You good, J?" Pope asked him, and his voice was too soft.

"Yeah." The blonde boy grunted, but he made no move to get up.

JB finally walked toward the door to see who it was. Upon recognition, he ducked immediately. Then he whisper shouted to everyone else.

"Guys!" He beckoned to them urgently.

JJ hung back when they followed, still trying to catch his breath. He wasn't sure why the knock had startled him so. It almost angered him, but he didn't quite have the energy for that.

When Pope saw Luke at the door, his jaw dropped. Sarah had never see the man, but by the look on JB's face, it was easy to tell who he was.

"Shit, what do we do?"

this is unedited guys! had to rant below-

Author- obx three was pretty shitty ngl. SPOILER ALERT 🚨 sarah is now my least fav character. CHEATER!! big john can suck an erect dick. pope needs to touch some grass. jj had absolutely no recognition when it came to his trauma with luke. i gotta say the kiss with kie was giving tho. and then pope and cleo had a cute story line ngl. like damn i might change my otp a lil. john b was never really my fav. but i'm mad cuz they really jumped ahead eight months like tf ima do with eight months?! and yk rafe actually did like kie which we all saw coming. poor topper tbh. the way they actually sent kie to the camp (which is nothing like how i interpreted it wow) and she escaped so now she has no home jus like jj. bro imagine 💀 and then sarah really has no home either. and ofc neither does john b cuz it was literally burned down. so pretty much everyone but pope is homeless and they're all outta high school now anyways so they're adults. idfk how they're gonna continue this without ward. but now there's a whole new treasure and quest and it just isn't going to feel the same. season one will never be topped.