You hate when I get crazy- Rafe Cameron

The Pogues

"Well, look who we have here." It was John B. Looks like he lived through surfing hurricane Agatha. He had another boy on the boat who 'whooped' at Pope. He was really attractive with his sun-kissed skin and light blonde hair. 

Pope, Heyward, and I were all on the deck watching the boys as they approached us in their boat. "We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." John B said acing like he was talking into a walkie-talkie. "I can't. My pop's got us on lockdown." Pope said looking back at Heyward. 

The blonde one that I hadn't met yet, was now pretending to talk into a walkie-talkie, "Come on, man. Your dad's a pussy, over."

"Oh, I head that, you little bastard." Heyward yelled at them walking closer to us. I was kind of shocked, I didn't expect that from Heyward. "We need your son," John B tried convincing Heyward.

"Yeah, and island rules; Day after a hurricane is a free day." The blonde was as cute as he was rude. I owed Heyward a lot since he gave me a job and a place to shelter down during the hurricane. 

"Who made that up?" Heyward was glaring at both kids, and if looks could kill, they would be six feet under. 

"Uh. Pentagon, I think. We have security clearance. I have a card." Pope was looking back and forth between his friends and his dad. 

"You think I'm stupid?" Heyward calls back at them. "I'll do it tomorrow, I promise. Tomorrow." Pope told his dad. "No, no. Hell no. You doin' it right now." 

"Get in the boat." "Make a run for it." His friends were such a great influence on Pope, if you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm. 

"Boy, if you get in that boat," I wasn't planning on going, but my plans were changed when I felt a tug on my hand. Pope pulled me as he ran towards the boat. "Bring your ass back here!" he yelled at Pope. Pope and I jumped onto the boat and I looked back at Heyward giving him a sorry smile.

"You're gonna clean shrimp, clean fish, and you'll clean your dirty ass room." 

"I promise, I'll help him with all of those things tomorrow, Heyward." I called back to him. He shook at his head, but I could tell he wasn't mad at me. 

"We'll bring them back in one piece."

"I don't like your friends!" Heyward yelled this last, and I honestly couldn't tell if I liked them either yet. Kie was nice, John B was crazy, and this blonde seemed rude, but it's not like I had spent much time with any of them. I didn't say much to any of them as they were all talking until we saw Kie. 

"Oh, Top o' the mornin' to ya." The blonde said with a horrible English accent. There was a round of good mornings, while Kie hopped onto the boat with her cooler. "Watcha got? You got some juice boxes?" Pope questioned. 

"You know? Just some yogurt and carrot sticks." "What about my kind of juice boxes?" "Yeah." As soon as she got settled on the boat, Kie handed out beers to everyone but Pope and John B. "Hey, Lyra!" Kie said as we took the tops off of our beers.

"Hey, Kie" I said with a smile. The three of us tapped our beer against each other. "Salud," "Skoal," "Cheers."

"So, this is Lyra? Popes' new friend?" The blonde questioned looking towards John B. John B must have told him that he was with Pope and me at the beach. "Yeah, hi, I'm Lyra." I said kind of annoyed that he could have just asked me. 

"I'm JJ," he said while smirking at me. "Nope, I'm labeling her as a Pogue." Pope said shaking his head and placing an arm around me. "That's not fair, Pope. You can't just call her off limits because you can't have her." Kie was looking at Popes arm around me, but she knew we were just friends. Pope and JJ started arguing back and forth about the 'no pogue on pogue macking' so I scooted over to Kie. 

"I'm guessing JJ is kind of a fuck boy?" I asked her quietly. She whispered back, "I swear, he's with a different girl every party." 

"What are you girlies whispering about?" JJ asked in a suggestive tone. I gave a quick wink to Kie before walking back over to Pope. "I was just telling her about my night with Pope, girl talk, ya know?"  Pope was standing, so I tugged on the bottom of his shirt so he would sit next to me. 

JJ's mouth swung open as his jaw dropped, his mind was probably running around like crazy right now. "Pope, you said no pogue on pogue macking! You macked on her? The Pope Heyward, overly careful, over thinking Heyward; meet a girl and bring her home on the same day?"

"Jealous of something that didn't happen?" I asked while we all, except for JJ, started laughing. JJ realized that we had fabricated the whole thing and now he was trying to play it off. Pope switched out with John B, so now he was driving, and John B was laughing with us. JJ was now trying to show off some 'party trick' he had learned. 

"Pope, speed up!" Pope accelerated and JJ stood on the edge of the boat. He held his beer in front of him so the liquid should pour into his mouth from the wind. Should. John B, Kie, and I were all covered in beer and tried to get him to stop. 

All of a sudden, the boat came to a sudden stop, and we all went flying. JJ and I ended up flying off of the boat, while the rest stayed in the boat. 

"Damn, Pope!"

"Everyone okay? Kie?"

"JJ? Lyra?"

"I think my heels touched the back of my head."

I wasn't paying attention to them anymore because I was looking at the boat that was below me. "Guys, there's a boat!" I heard them all walk over to the side of the boat and look down to find it. I climbed back up onto the boat, while they jumped into the water. I wasn't a very good swimmer, let alone diving underwater. 

They were all under the water exaiming the baot for a while, and when they came out John B asked if they saw that. JJ started laughing about it being a Grady-White, which is apparently an expensive boat. They all climbed back onto the boat with me. 

"That's the boat I saw when I surfed the Surge." John B said. 

"You surfed the surge?"

"That's my boy, pogue style." JJ was just as crazy as John B. If not crazier. 

John B then said he was going to go and find out whose boat it was. No one really agreed with his idea since it was so deep, in fact, JJ said that he refused to resuscitate him. John B grabbed the anchor and Pope told him to 'Diver down'. John B saluted him, said "diver down," back and then JJ pushed him of the boat. 

We all watched anxiously into the water until finally John B reappeared. 

"Any dead bodies?" Pope was definitely weird. 

"Any looting potential." I didn't expect JJ to say anything other than that.

"No, but I found this hotel key," John B said while holding the key above the water. No one was pleased that all he found was a hotel key. "At least it wasn't a dead end. You guys get to continue your adventures." I felt bad for leaving Heyward to clean up all the mess. So I asked them to drop me off before they went any further with their craziness. 

Kie said that they were going to report the wreck to the coast guard and then maybe go to the hotel. "Well, you're welcome to hop back on the HMS Pogue and adventure with us whenever you want." John B said placing his arm around me as we pulled up to Heyward's dock. 

The rest of the pogues all nodded in agreement, and I thanked them for the day out. "I'm sure we'll have many more adventures. Bye guys!" I found Heyward inside and he taught me how to clean fish and everything else. 

I spent the rest of the day working, and I decided that I liked the Outer Banks. 

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