All Wrong

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"Thats what a three story fall off the deck?" Pope asked John B who stood on the roof of a house they were building. We liked to hang out here a lot until the workers came, that's when we started running. "I give you about a one in three chance of survival." Pope said while John B ignored what he said and still stood there. John B licked his finger then stuck it up as if he knew what he was doing. "Should I do it?" He joked and JJ who sat not far behind him said "Yeah you should jump." Pope had a drill and made a joke about how he'll shoot JB on the way down. "You'll shoot me?" Kie came out the door and said, "They're gonna have Japanese toilets with towel warmers." One of the boys said "Of course they are why wouldn't they?" Kie then said sadly "This use to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles I guess." Then she looked at JB on the roof and said, "Can you please not kill yourself?" I then agreed with her. JJ then said "Dont spill that beer Im not giving you another one." It's as if JJ cursed John B because in that exact moment he lost balance and dropped the beer. "Smooth JB." I said laughing quietly. Pope looked off the balcony and said "Hey security's here let's wrap it up." I smiled to myself as they ranted about being early and how we needed to go. And I made a face as I took off in front of them making them race after me. I was the first to jump the fence as we all laughed and Pope was next. He fell and as soon as JJ crossed he said "Get up Pope, fatso's coming." Which made me laugh harder and I made it to the twinkie. Gary ran behind us and John B purposely drove slow but fast enough to make him stay running. JJ taunted him swinging a beer right I front of him saying "You're so close." But I said "Oh my god guys you're gonna give him a heart attack!" But I was laughing along with Pope and John B. JJ tossed the beer at him but Kie made him stop.

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Me and John B sat in the DCS office while we got lectured. Me and John B have been raised to be good liars. Ever since our dad went missing we supposedly lived with our uncle but he's out in Mississippi building houses. The DCS worker said, "When was the last time you spoke to your uncle?" JB looked over at me and I said "About 34 minutes ago." John B agreed with me looking at his watch. Then she asked when we last saw him but this time John B didn't need my help with a lie and said "2 hours and... 43 minutes ago?" He looked at me unsure but I nodded. "John, Jada, we're gonna come out there tomorrow and talk to your uncle. If he's not there we're gonna move forward with foster care. I want to assure you both we'll find you a safe and loving home." They acted like that was what me and JB wanted. Im not sure why they didn't just let us be, I worked and brought in money and we had a place with a roof. But no they wanted us to be happy about possibly being split up.

But then, the one and only, hurricane Agatha. That gave us a bit more time to figure something out, maybe. Agatha came in the same day DCS was supposed to do our assessment. The next thing we knew me, Pope and John B had our surf boards and were ready to surf the surge. "Its double overhead out there bro." I heard Pope say faintly because I was behind them quite a ways. Pope liked to believe they weren't surfable waves but I proved him wrong, until I saw something. "Hey guys! I just saw a boat." John B and Pope looked at me like I was crazy but Pope said "We should get outta here." We all agreed and started heading back to the Château. The aftermath of the hurricane was horrible, the power was out everywhere except Figure Eight. Boats, docks, basically everything was destroyed.

I woke up expecting John B to still be asleep, that's when I discovered no service nor power. Then to make it even better I got scared shitless when JJ was on our couch. "You been outside?" I asked. To which he responded with, " I have polio I cant walk." I smiled and pulled him up and we walked outside hand in hand without realizing. Our yard looked like a trash dump. But then I saw JB and he quickly looked at mine and JJ's hands. I jerked my hand back when I realized.

We quickly got on a boat and found Pope, when JJ found out he was on lockdown he said, "Your dads a pussy, over." Which made me smile to myself and I smiled even more when Heyward said, "I heard that you little bastard." I giggled as Heyward scolded us but Pope jumped into the boat and just like that we were off to get Kie. When we found her John B asked if she had juice boxes and she jokingly replied, "You know just some yogurts and carrot sticks." I smiled and helped her in the boat. "Hey babe." She said when she saw me. "Hellooo." After a few beers and joking around JJ decided to show us his party trick that never worked. Pope started to go faster and John B moved to the back of the boat I smile and squinted up at JJ. We all watched as the beer went everywhere but his mouth. I heard Kie say, "Oh my god you're getting beer in my hair!" Suddenly the boat stopped flinging JJ off. "JJ!" I yelled when I saw it, not realizing I hit my shoulder pretty hard. But as soon as I did realize it, it hurt like a bitch. JJ came back up and I asked if he was ok, "I think my heels touched the back of my head." I laughed and tried to help JJ but he pulled me in with him. "You bitch!" I joked. "Yeah I love you too Jada." Suddenly JJ pulled me closer to him and our faces were inches away when Pope said, "Guys I think there's a boat down there." I pulled away from JJ and he helped me back into the boat. Me and JJ have always been super flirty with each other and even shared a few kisses but never confessed our feelings. We all looked over the edge of the boat and sure enough, Pope was right. Everyone pulled off their shirts and I followed being the last one even thought I already had my shirt off. We all came back up and the first thing to come out of anyones mouth was "You guys saw that right?" We all laughed in disbelief and said yeah. JJ then went on a boat rant saying, "Thats a Grady White, a new one of those is like 500 G's easily." We all got back into the boat, I was still in disbelief because that was the boat I saw when I surfed the surge. "Thats the boat I saw when I surfed the surge." I said wringing out my hair. The answers I got to that differed from, "You surfed the surge?" Coming from Kie and "Thats my girl. Pogue style." Coming from JJ. John B took the anchor and Pope said, "Diver down fool." He responded with "Diver down." Before JJ pushed him into the water. We all sat waiting anxiously until he popped up with a motel key. They argued about reporting the wreck and getting a finders fee. But when we went to report the wreck the guard was arguing with some lady and screamed at my brother. So we left.