JONES → JJ MAYBANK [hiatus]

040. pouglandia

notice may 31 2023: my laptop unfortunately is broken and won't turn on. as many times as i've tried to write chapters on my phone my adhd overwhelms me. updates more than likely won't be after july 12th. i'm sorry :(

In the last couple of mounts enough has happened to make in feel like a life time. Mackenzie Jones who had once been described as undeniably captivating to watch, reeling you in with her looks and charisma. Everyone either wanted to be Mackenzie Jones or wanted to have Mackenzie Jones. They loved the idea of the whole persona she flaunted. She had grown up with everything handed to her on a silver platter. The Jones family owned a vast portion of the island, rolling in cash. Private jets, properties all over the world, and anything she'd please given with a silver bow.

She wanted to know what it felt like to be free and escape the toxic reputation she was living underneath. Sure, she was rebellious but it always came back as brownie points with The Kooks. She wanted to be herself. Not Mackenzie Jones. Just Mackenzie. JJ Maybanks and his friends watched as she became her authentic self.

After she watched her whole life become a lie, the only people who truly understood and accepted her where dead. Metaphorically and literally. Sarah and John B had been presumed dead at sea, and her powerful and terrifying Father deiced it was better to send her away to a wilderness school as apposed to taking things into his own hands. Literally.

Enduring severe neglect and trauma, the only thing that held her onto humanity was the idea of JJ Maybanks. Being able to finally accept that he wouldn't hurt her the way she had been hurt in all her years prior to meeting him.  But when Mackenzie came back she saw her childhood best friend flaunting around with the boy.

Mackenzie Jones once again kept her personality and interest hidden underneath a thick layer of cement. Only this time she wasn't loved by everyone, she was feared by everyone. It wasn't that she wanted it to be like this, she just did everything in her power to prevent people from getting close to her again.

In two quick weeks she found that nothing she could possibly do would prevent the hurt. Her half brother, Sutton Jones, returned after years of disappearing. Sarah and John B where alive. Alexander Jones and Ward Cameron where cunning murderers. Her whole family was a lie, greedy for power and money.

She had nothing left.

So when Mackenzie spent three days sitting at the edge of the island, forgotten and lost, she pouges let her. When she returned to them on the forth day and declared that if they ever left this island she would kill Alexander with her own hands.

By the two week mark of being on the island, she told everything to JJ and cried for hours as he comforted her and told her everything she had missed.

They where happy again.

But by the three week mark, a month in, everything sunk in. Alexander and Melanie weren't her real parents. She always knew Melanie had used a 'surrogate' or so she claimed. But after sixteen years of taking the abuse from Alexander, thinking he was her Father, it sunk in that her real father spent sixteen years watching it happen and posing as her Father's business partner and friend - Ward Cameron.

Her half brother, Sutton, spent all the years watching her and waiting for the right moment to step in and finally be able to take Alexander down.

Something that was now made positive in her mind and impossible. Where was Sutton on the boat?

And Magnolia, what part did she have in this whole mess.

"What are you thinking about?" Pope said as she sat beside the girl at the edge of the water. He slung his arm around the girl, the two of them growing closer as the days went by.