"Suck your dick Maybank" I said pushing him again, as far away from me as i could (which was only about 4 inches)
"Ooh tempting, but then again what are you here for" he said. I rolled my eyes as well as my tongue on the inside of my cheek, trying t...
The outer banks, paradise on earth. its sort of the place where you either have two jobs or houses. two tribes, one island.
Theres figure eight the rich side of the island. home of the kooks. so guess where we don't live. then there's the south side, or the cut. home of the working class who make a living busing tables, washing yachts, running charters. the natural habitat of drumroll please.... The Pogues, that's us. Pogues, poguies, throwaway fish, the lowest member of the food chain. ok so the downside of the Pogue life, were ignored and neglected, the upside,... were ignored and neglected which means we do whatever we want whenever we want. let me give you a little tour.
There's JJ my best friend since third grade. he's about as local as they come, latest in a long line of fishing, drinking, smuggling, vendetta-holding salt-lifers who make their living off the water. best surfer i know, just don't tell him i said that. mild kleptomaniac and a future tax cheat.
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Then there's Kiara, or Kie as we call her. when she's not saving turtles, or listening to Marley or getting a dolphin tattoo, she hangs out with us. i'm not really sure why though. so she's a rich kid, actually. foot in both worlds. her family owns the wreck which is this outer banks institution. total cash cow with the tourists. i'm not really sure how her parents feel about us.
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Then there's Alexandra Barclay, or just lex as she goes by. She's a full born kook, wrapped in bubble and all but i guess she's always been a Pogue by heart. Smokes weed as we all do, check. Surfs like the rest of us, Check. and hates all kooks, check again. her and JJ always have something going on we all placed bets on wether or not their secretly mackin' but if they are i will tear JJ apart, she's my sister, we both adopted each other. Her family's a bunch of 'shit heads' as she always likes to call them, So she hangs out with us, on the cool side of the island, i guess we all sort of have a thing for her.
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And last but certainly not least Pope, the brains of the operation. finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderholst merit scholarship. and the smartest person i know. Little bit of a weirdo. His fathers's this legendary character Heyward. Anything you wanted on the island. Heyward could get to you. Now i'm not sure Heyward knew what to make of his oddball son, but it didn't matter. he was a Pogue, just like the rest of us.
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So that's my crew. And there's me. John Booker Routledge. and I live on an old fish shack on the marsh, the chateau as my dad used to call it. My dad disappeared at sea nine months ago looking for a shipwreck. who disappears at sea these days? I miss him. There's mom but she split when i was three. last i heard she was in Colorado, at least i think it was Colorado. Then there's uncle T, since dad 's vanished he's supposedly my legal guardian. at the moment, he's in Mississippi building houses. which means it's just me right now. on my own. hanging out with my friends. and this is where the story starts, My dad missing, my uncle MIA, and the bride of Frankenstein threatening foster care.
