𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑，𝗃𝗃 𝗆𝖺𝗒𝖻𝖺𝗇𝗄

𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗒

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 I were perched on top of the van as John B and Pope searched for anything that could help us, "How long does it take to go two miles and back in a car?" The Heyward boy spoke frustratedly, "They're taking the piss."

"Should someone go and look for them?" Liv suggested, "Bring them back?"

I sighed, "Just wait a minute. They can't be too long now."

He rolled his eyes, "Every time. Why do we gotta send JJ and Kiara? The two slowest people on Earth." He continued to complain.

"Why don't we try and find something to leverage the van, and you can drive it out." Riley suggested, "Like driftwood."

Pope smiled, "Yeah, that would work."

"Perfect." She grinned. The older girl jumped down from the van and into the water as she helped the boys look.

"Hey, I think I've found something." John B called out, "Riles, come help me out."

The brunette nodded as she made her way over to John B until she suddenly lost sight of him when he was pulled underwater.

Sarah was quick to make her way over there through the water. The news sent me into panic mode. I jumped down and reached into the Twinkie to pull out a knife. I threw it over to the Cameron girl as she was closer to the boy and the gator than I was.

Once I reached the scene, I pulled the boy away and watched the gator swim away. I helped drag John B back to the van so that Sarah could bandage him up.

"That's definitely gonna get infected." Liv panicked who didn't move due to the state of shock she was in.

Sarah nodded, "Yeah, you're lucky it didn't cut into the muscle too much."

He grunted in pain, "Yeah, lucky I got bit by an alligator and my car is underwater."

Suddenly, Kiara's truck appeared. Pope scoffed, "The tortoise and the tortoise. Just a couple hours late."

"Where the hell have you guys been?" Liv asked irritably.

The curly-haired girl spoke, "Paternal complications."

"Luke was at the Chateau," JJ informed us.

My face immediately softened at the mention of his dad whereas Pope continued to shout, "Oh, great. While you were having family time with your pops, John B got bit by a gator."

"Like for real?" He asked.

"Does it look like we're joking?" Sarah scoffed.

Kiara yelled, "I don't know why I'm being yelled at because I put my ass on the line-"

The group all began to bicker. I ran a stressful hand through my hair, trying to drown out the noise.

"Shut up." My boyfriend suddenly yelled causing everyone to be quiet, "Seriously, guys, I can't take it anymore. Can everyone just cut it out for a second? Look, I just helped my dad leave this island for good. He's not ever coming back. All I have is you guys. Your it. And I've come too close to losing you. Shit, Hales, you almost drowned. Pope, you were kidnapped. Sarah, you've been shot. John B you were almost dinner for a gator bro. So, this blaming each other is some Kook-ass bullshit. We don't do that. We're Pogues."

The group all began to clap proudly at his speech.

I chuckled, "Let's get this fucking Twinkie out of here."

𝐖𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃 the church after saving the Twinkie. I walked through the doors hand in hand with JJ as we glanced around the building, "You're telling me Denmark Tanny decided to hide the cross here?" He asked rhetorically, not seeming convinced.

The Routledge boy shrugged, "Well if I was a cross and I wanted to be hidden in an old church, where would I hide?"

I frowned, "Are you sure that the cross would be hidden here, Pope?"

Liv nodded, "Yeah, we at the right church?"

"It's gotta be somewhere, guys." He spoke up.

My boyfriend dragged me over to the piano at the back of the building, "What if we have to press a secret button or play a certain chord and then all of a sudden, the ground beneath us reveals the catacombs or something we stand?"

I rolled my eyes at his words before Riley spoke, "How about we try and find obvious clues?"

I huffed, "It's not an escape room."

"It has to be in here," Pope yelled frustratedly.

I frowned, "I just can't see where they'd hide a giant cross here."

He scoffed, "There's no way that he would set us up on a freaking goose chase to a church that has nothing in it."

John B nodded, "I know. I get it. I don't know what to tell you."

"The clues led us here. The cross is in this church." He sat down out of stress.

Liv sighed, "It will be all right."

John B nodded, "We've had stepbacks in the past and we've figured it out. We're gonna find it."

"He's right." Kie smiled, "We've just gotta think about this logically."

Pope opened up what JJ called a spyglass and looked around the room with it. His eyes suddenly widened as he looked to the top of the building.

"What?" I asked. I followed his eyesight to see a beam in the shape of a cross, "Oh, my God."

Without thinking, the boy began to climb the wall up to the beams. He continued despite our protests and the giant wasp nest that was above his head.

After checking the other beams, he found one that was hollow. He grinned, "Someone get me a crowbar." he called out.

The Cameron girl nodded as she went outside to find something that could help, coming in a minute later and throwing it up to the boy. He cracked the wood with it to reveal a large golden cross.

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄
hi babies
they found the cross!!
xoxo