New Beginnings

Multitudes of confessions

OOH Cleo finally learns about Kie's kook year.

So so sorry for how late this is! I know I said 2-3 weeks for an update but it turned out to be way more... oops! BUT here I am. I'm on tumblr and AO3 under the same user @theaterkidbookie I love talking about my fics and the fandom! Also this totally isn't edited so...

The next morning

"So what's the plan? With the gold and John B and Kie?" Sarah worried for her boyfriend and best friend. Kiara put her head in her hands, obviously stressed about the next conversation and wanting to avoid it altogether. There was little talk of what their plan was to get their gold money and how to excavate the rest of it; however, they did know that going out of the OBX would be their best bet. There was talk of Charleston, Wilmington, or any of those kook towns that could help them, but to go there they would need a ferry or bus which would require money. Which none of them had.

"Gold's gonna be hard to make a plan for until we have some money," Pope paused, "We need a parent or someone to lend us some cash," he said, directing it to Kiara and she shakes her head.

"No way in hell am I going back home right now."

"Maybe you should y'know? May makes things a little easier..." Kie scoffs at that.

"You're asking me to forgive my parents?"

"What? No! No! Oh god, I didn't mean for it to sound that way. I'm just thinking that if you talk to them they may feel bad and give you something. You don't have to forgive them."

"So you think that by just going back home they'll pity me and give me free money? To get the friends they ALREADY hate and their daughter who JUST FUCKING BROKE OUT OF THE CAMP THEY PUT HER IN to a whole different city to exchange the hypothetical gold they don't even fucking believe exists? Oh yeah, sounds like a marvelous plan Pope. Let me just pack up my things to go move back into the house they had me kidnapped from, right?" She fought and Pope looked stunned and afraid to speak.

"Maybe if you just-" Pope was cut off.

"Do you even know my parents, Pope?" She says, raising her voice, and Pope turns away.

"Maybe just go into the Wreck and take some out of the registers. That'd work." JJ suggests, trying to make light of the situation. He looks at Kiara with a mix of stress and sadness on her face.

"Jesus Fucking Christ. Stop with the bad ideas! Ok? This isn't some joke!" Her voice breaks, "I can't just stroll in to chat with my parents OR break into their restaurant. It would make everything 10 times worse than it needs to be and I can't be fucking sent away again!" Tears start running down her face, "So just shut up!" and she got up and walked out the front door to the dock in front of the condos. The other 5 looked out the porch door to see her on the dock, sitting down with her knees tucked up against her chest looking out at the water.

"That went downhill real quick," John B grimaced and Cleo rubbed her face in her hands in despair.

"Can y'all learn when to shut it? It was so clear that she didn't want to talk 'bout it and you kept going. Jesus, poor girl having to deal with you for all those years," she said pointing at the three boys.

Sarah looked outside the window to see her best friend sitting on the dock, "Y'all think someone should go talk to her?" the blonde girl asked, "kinda look likes she might need someone."

"Maybe just let her cool off," John B said, "The only other time we've seen her like this was going into freshman year before she met you," he looks at Sarah, "when her life was kinda shit. No friends, her parents were tryin' to keep her from us, she was just so irritable all the time. Ready to fight the minute you brought one thing up. And every time she was like this, she just needed time to cool off afterward, to calm down. Too much stuff being built up in her head and she's too damn stubborn to talk about it to us. So not only does she listen to our shit, she deals with her own by herself. So," Jb pauses, "Let's just let her come to us ok?"