Parker Kate is a 16 year old girl who is down for anything at anytime! From partying with her friends to going surfing in a hurricane to accidentally falling in love with one of her best friends... all while trying to battle her abusive alcoholic Fa...
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Warning this chapter has abuse and violence
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Later that night as the Pogues and I sat around the fire pit in John B's backyard there was tension in the air and no one was really sure what to say. We all just sat there staring at the fire listening to it crackle. But the silence was driving me insane because there was so much that needed to be said, and no one was talking about it. Why wasn't John B saying anything about finding his father's compass? Why wasn't Pope asking a million questions like he always does? Why wasn't Kie asking John B if he was okay? Why wasn't JJ cracking jokes? Why was he still ignoring me? All questions I wanted answers to and I was about to get them.
"So we're just going to sit here in painful silence not saying anything to each other?" I say annoyed as I bounced my leg up and down sitting in a lawn chair. "Like there is so much to be said right now! Why isn't anyone taking? I don't understand! It's driving me crazy." I continued as I stood up pacing back and forth in the yard.
"PK, relax... it's okay. I just think no one really knows what to say right now." Pope says in a calm voice trying to keep me from flipping out.
"How is this okay? We have been sitting here for a whole hour not saying anything!" I say as my breathing starts to slowly pick up and my hands begin to sweat. JJ notices that my breathing has become more uneven and gets up taking me by the hand inside the Chateau away from everyone.
We get inside and he sits me down in front of him on the couch. "Park please calm down, take a breath okay." JJ says while still holding my hand with his other hand resting on my knee. I close my eyes and take a deep breath in and let it out quick and open my eyes. "You good now?" JJ asks and I nod in agreement. "Okay so can we please talk about what happened on the boat earlier?" He asks and I could feel myself getting worked up again.
"Oh now you wanna talk?!" I say standing up bringing my fingers to my mouth and biting my nails as I start to pace back and forth in John B's living room. I stop pacing just long enough to say "Okay Jay let's talk."
"Parker Kate, stop just sit down please." JJ says with sad eyes and worry in his voice practically begging me to sit down. I stopped pacing back and forth, walked over to the couch still biting my nails and I decided to sit down so I could listen to what JJ had to say.
"We have a lot to talk about right now so I need you to calm down so you can listen to me." He says taking my hand away from my mouth and placing his hand on my knee again. I nod in agreement knowing we should have already talked things through the other night.
"Okay but I think we should wait until everyone is asleep to talk about everything because I don't want anyone overhearing. But first JJ, I wanna know why you've been ignoring me since we got shot at earlier?" I say looking at him with sadness in my eyes and determination I'm my voice.
