Meant To Be

~Chapter twenty-six~

"Where the hell were you guys?!" Pope yelled as we got out of the car. "Luke was at the Chatêau." JJ explained. "Oh, great! While you were having family time with your pops, John B got bit by a gator." Pope continued. 

"Like for real?" JJ asked. "Does it look like we're joking? " Sarah mocked and rolled her eyes at the blondie who just asked something. "Okay what the hell happened?" I asked worried about John B. "What happened?! I got bit by a fucking gator!" John B yelled. 

"He got bit by a gator!" Kiara shouted too. I was annoyed at all of them for yelling so I yelled back. "I dunno why we're being yelled at. We put our asses on the line!" I didn't believe I could yell that hard in a long time. "You're being yelled at because it was 20 minutes..." Pope yelled back. "We got here as fast as we could!"

"Alright everyone shut up!" JJ now yelled and everyone went quite. "Seriously, guys, I can't take it anymore, all right? Everyone just cut it out for a second." JJ walked over to a tree and leaned against it. "Look, I just helped my dad leave this island for good. Like, he's not ever coming back. He's straight up like the Spanish. Just, "Bon voyage." 

I scrunched my face because that wasn't spanish. "That wasn't the right language JJ.." Pope whispered to John B and Sarah. "All we got... And I know for a fact all I got is you guys, okay? You're it. And I've come too close to losing you, all of you. I mean, shit, like Kiara almost drowned. Pope, you were kidnapped, Sarah, you've been shot, John B, you were almost dinner for a freaking gator, bro. And Azaleà, I've almost lost you because of suicide. I don't want that." 

"So, this blaming each other is some Kook-ass bullshit, all right? We don't do that, we're pogues." JJ continued. "Sorry, that was a lot right now. I didn't mean to..." 

I looked proud of him and looked over to John B, Kiara, Sarah and Pope and we all started clapping. "I gotta be honest," John B started. "That was the best freaking speech you have ever given. Also, you should think about, like, a Rosetta Stone because your Spanish and French are flip-flopped." JJ put both of his middle fingers up to his best friend and laughed. 

"We should bon voyage out of here." Sarah said while she put one arm up in the direction of leaving. "All right, let's get this damn Twinkie out of here." 

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"Keep it coming. Keep her coming. She's almost out." I yelled at JJ who was in my father's car. "Keep it going. Easy! Easy! Easy!" After struggeling for a good ten minutes we finally got the twinkie out. "Whoo! The Twinkie lives!" John B yelled at all of us. 

"Okay so now off to the church." I said while getting in the car with JJ and the rest was all in the Twinkie. "Put on your seabelt love." JJ spoke softly while smiling. "What you did there was really tough. I'm proud of you Jayj." I said happy and I placed my hand on his. "I couldn't have done it without you tho. Kie would be raging mad if I went to help my father. You stayed calm. Thank you." He smiled back and rubbed over my hand. 

We were all on our way to the church and I looked behind us to see Kiara driving the Twinkie, Sarah and John B in the back to make sure everything went well and Kiara was in the passenger seat. 

After not even twenty minutes we arrived at the church and we opened the huge wooden door to go inside. "Okay, you're telling me Denmark Tanny decided to hide the cross here?" Pope questions. 

"Okay, well, if I was a cross and wanted to be hidden in an old church, where would I hide?" John B spoke thinking and looking around. "Are you sure that Denmark hid the cross here, Pope? Like, are we at the right church?" I asked him not knowing where the cross could be. "It's gotta be here somewhere, guys." Pope replied.