𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑，𝗃𝗃 𝗆𝖺𝗒𝖻𝖺𝗇𝗄

𝖿𝗈𝗎𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖾𝗇

𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 the back of the Maybank boys house to find him practising shooting his gun, "Hey, J." I greeted.

"Hey, pretty girl." He brought me into his strong arms, kissing the top of my head. He made me feel safe. "Where have you been?"

I shrugged, "Just with Riles. I heard the gold wasn't there." I spoke sadly. I had seen Kiara a few hours before.

He nodded sadly, "Knew it was too good to be true."

I sighed in response speaking, "Did John B tell you that Sarah Cameron showed up at his house to talk to him about their little argument?"

"What?" He frowned in disbelief.

I nodded in response when I noticed Pope approaching. "JJ! They know." His eyes were wide and he spoke in a panicked tone.

"Chill bro, all right." He tried to calm his friend. "They don't know shit."

The Heyward boy must have seen my lost face. "Topper knows I sunk his boat."

I couldn't help the smile that came across my face. "You sunk Topper's boat? Who are you?" I asked in disbelief.

"Badass, apparently." JJ matched my face, holding onto the boy's shoulders. "How do you know they know?"

The dark-skinned boy started pacing, "Rafe and Topper posted outside of Heyward's and mad dogged me."

"Will you calm down and get a grip, man? They don't know shit." JJ tried to soothe him.

I shook my head, "There's no way they could know it's you."

"They have cameras. They could have seen me." He panicked.

Me and JJ both frowned, there was no electricity after the hurricane. "There was no power, Pope. How could they have seen you?"

The boy started to pace even more. "It's Figure Eight. They have generators. They don't give scholarships to kids who vengefully sink boats. It's not a good look on my transcript."

The blonde boy stood up from his seat. "Enough of the regret, bro! They caved your face in."

"What?" I yelled, this was the first I had heard of it. However, I was ignored.

"They hit us, we hit them. It's the law of the jungle." JJ carried on. "Now, if any Kooks come up to you and ask if you had anything to do with it, you walk up to them, look them right in the eye and-"

"Deny the living shit out of it." Pope finished. Deny, deny, deny. Another thing that worked for getting out of jail.

"But just for safety, we don't go anywhere without protection." The boy spoke as he pointed to his gun. I nodded in response, smirking to the Heyward.

𝐊𝐈𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐃 JJ, Pope and I to the OBX Outdoor Movie Theatre. None of us knew where John B was as he wasn't at the Chateau and not answering his phone.

"I'm so glad they're still doing this." Kiara smiled. "Keep calm. Carry on. Back to OBX life. Aren't you glad I made you come?"

"Ecstatic," Pope said sarcastically, sitting down in the chair he had set up.

JJ sat down also and I splayed my legs over his. "My couch was pretty comfy." The blonde spoke.

"I agree," I said, holding one arm up. At this point, the curly-haired girl had already walked off to get us some more drinks.

"We're out of the green zone." Pope panicked to me and JJ. "We're in the middle of Kooklandia. This is the last place I wanted to be."

"Shut up." I put my finger to his lips. "Relax."

"Just saw Rafe," Kie announced as she came back, handing the boys their drinks. "He said and I quote, tell your boy that we know what he did. What is that?"

At the statement, I could practically see Pope shaking. "Where is he?" JJ asked.

Kie looked behind her and nodded. "Right there."

"Great, the whole death squad." The Heyward boy muttered sarcastically.

"Don't stare at them." I seethed at the two idiotic boys. How could they be so stupid?

"Just warning you. If they corner me, I'm coming out swinging, okay? Slice and dicing. I'm on edge right now." Pope nodded along to JJ's words. "If that doesn't work, I got this right here." He motioned to the gun he kept in his backpack.

"Yeah. So we just got to stay in the group." He muttered. "They can't come get us in the group. Like a school of fish. Stay in the school. Can't leave the school."

"JJ, please tell me that you did not bring a gun here." Kiara scolded. "There are kids."

"I didn't bring the gun." He lied.

"That's really convincing, JJ." Kiara scoffed in disbelief, "Founding principle. No secrets amongst Pogues. What is Rafe talking about?" She continued.

Eventually, Pope put his hand on her shoulder, "Kie, it might go down tonight."

"What does that mean?" However, she was ignored.

The whole time, everyone was tense and the sun was starting to set. I kept sneaking glances behind us to look on the boys but they were focused on the movie.

"Where are you going?" I asked as JJ and Pope rose from their spot.

"We gotta wring it out." The blonde replied.

Kie grimaced, "You gonna hold it for each other?" I laughed loudly at her comment. I started to get rising anxiety. What if Rafe and Topper had seen them leave?

I quickly looked behind me to see the group of boys had left their seats. I rolled my eyes in annoyance, standing up myself and grabbing JJ's bag.

"Where are you going, Hayley?" My friend asked me, as I made my way in the direction I saw Pope and JJ go. I motioned for the girl to follow me, which she did.

"What the fuck?" I yelled, seeing Kelce have JJ in a chokehold and Rafe punching him repeatedly. As much as I shouted and tried to pull the boy away, it was no use. He was much stronger than me.

I glanced over to see that Kiara had set fire to the movie screen. The Kooks immediately let go of the two boys at the sight and left the scene. All I cared about in that moment, was JJ.

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄
hey babies
i didn't put hayley in on the boat scene only because i absolutely dread writing it because i find it boring and then it ends up being an awful chapter so i just made a bit of a time jump
xoxo