I'm here // JJ Maybank

2

"I'm going to the mainland this weekend, so you need to stay at John B okay? And if you want to stay here make sure JJ or someone is here too. Got it?"
Connor says as he scurries around the house to pack his things.
"I know the rules by now. No need you to go all motherly on me." I say sitting at the table.
Connor is my older brother by 4 years. Our parents left right after he turned 18, leaving him to be my legal guardian. They weren't the best anyways, kinda relieved they are gone. Never knew where they went to though.
He's working to be a nurse one day, but has been taking side jobs in order to pay bills. I help out too, I work at kies parents restaurant, The Wreck, I make pretty good tips. Enough to get us by.  Connor tries his hardest to keep me in line, after our parents left I kinda went off the rails. Typical teenager rebelling shit. I like to think I cleaned up my act a little bit.

"And make sure you text me every night about your whereabouts. I don't care where you are, as long as your breathing okay?"

"Yes sir." I say saluting him.
"Pope has my number, I will call him if I don't hear from you." He says eying me. I swear this kid has a stick up his ass always.
"Stop using pope for information. I will text you. Okay. Bye go before the storm gets bad. I don't need you missing at sea too" I say pushing him out the door. 
Once he's gone I clean up the house a bit and throw on a bikini. I grab my surf board and run over to John Bs house, which is conveniently a 2 second walk.
I stop at the front door to see pope and John B chilling in the sunroom.
"You boys in for an adventure?" I say leaning on the door frame. They both look at each other and smile big. Rushing out of their seats they both grab their boards and follow me out.
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"It's a double overhead out there, bro" pope says, obviously nervous (but when isn't he)
"Double overhead?" I shout over the loud wind and rain.
"Those aren't surfable waves, bro" pope says to me and John B. I glance over at John B, who also looks over at me. We both nod and start sprinting into the water. Now anyone with a brain.. like pope.. would not go surfing in these conditions. But me and John B are pros, we can handle the challenge. Pope eventually heads back home while we get our asses handed to us by these waves. I think we both managed to catch .5 of a wave before getting thrown into the water. I paddle back out to where John B is staring into the water.
"What's up?" I shout to him.
"Do you see that?" He points to a white boat in the distance.
"What the hell are they doing out there?" Unless your in a huge ass boat, no boat should be in the water right now, unless you want to sink it.
"Let's head back" he says paddling his way in.
I stay a second longer to try and see what kind of boat it is. With all the rain and waves it's hard to tell. I follow John B to the shore and all the way back to the chateau.

Once we make it back my body is hurting from all the times I got thrown into the water. I rinse my curly hair in the shower and throw on one of John Bs tshirts and some spandex. I plop myself onto the pull out and immediately pass out.
—-
"Yo JJ, Mel, either of you been outside?" John B asks slapping my leg so I wake up. I groan at the rude awakening and roll over hitting someone in the process.
"Ow" JJ groans.
"When the hell did you get here?" I croak, still barely awake.
"Middle of the night. Didn't want to be home and Connor told me I had to make sure you were alive." He chuckles.
"My savior." I push myself into a seated position and stretch. I join John B outside and see all the damage Agatha caused.
"Well shit" I say, knowing that we will have to clean this all up.
"Agatha did some work, huh?" JJ says joining us outside with a beer in hand. I take the bottle from him and steal a sip.
"Yeah she did" John B says removing branches from the boat.
"What you thinking" I ask, holding my hand up to shield the sun from my eyes.
"I'm thinking that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze. All those drum are gonna chase the crab." John B replies
"What about DCS? Wasn't that today?" JJ asks
"Nah, they're not getting on a ferry. Come on, think about it. It's god telling us to fish." John B says waking back to us.
"The lord our savior." I say. I make my way back inside to change. I throw on a bikini and one of JJs button ups, being too lazy to walk over to my house and grab clothes. I skip on pants knowing that once we are out on the march I will be tanning and not fishing.
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"It's kind of a smugglers boat."
John B drivers toward Heywards to pick up Pope first. I sit back with JJ and let the sun do its work.
"Sure hope Guffy's boat didn't sink. He doesn't have insurance" JJ and John B make small talk, shit that I couldn't care less about.
"Hi Miss Amy! You guys get through it?" I shout waving to the nice lady.
"Still here." She replies from her dock.
"She totally looked at me." JJ says all confident.
"I saw it." John B adds
"No she was totally eying me." I say smirking at the blond. He laughs and nods.
"Especially with that bikini" he says with a wink. John B whips his head around and smacks JJ on the head.