always been you- outer banks jiara fanfic // EDITED

poguelandia. 6

jj pov:

"ki!" i wake up from someone trying to wake ki up, "kiara!". i roll over to see sarah above kiara. "what's wrong?" i whisper, "nightmare, but she won't wake up" sarah whispers. i get up and walk over to them. when i get to them, kiara is trembling, badly. whatever this dream is it's bad. "kiara!" sarah says, shaking ki. nothing happens. "kiara!" i say. i move closer and sarah moves along. "ki, ki it's okay" i say. "kiara!" sarah says, raising her voice a little. she still doesn't wake up. cleo wakes up and sits up. "what's up?" cleo says, but we don't answer. "ki!" i say, shaking her. she jumps up in a sweat. "hey hey hey" sarah says. "it's okay, we're here. you're safe" i say. she looks at me and looks like she's about to cry. i hug her. "you're okay". sarah puts her hands on ki's. "are you okay?" she says. kiara nods. "sorry i just had a moment"- "don't apologise" sarah says. "yeah, you know we've got you" i say. she forces a slight smile and sarah hugs her. "do you feel okay to go back to sleep?" sarah asks her. she nods. "thanks guys" kiara says. "of course" i nod. "yeah" sarah says. sarah goes back to her bed. i stay sitting next to kiara. "are you sure you're okay?" i say. she nods, but she doesn't look up, she's looking down at her fingers, playing with her thumbs. she does that when she's nervous, or scared. i place my hands over hers. she looks up. "what was it?" i say. "my parents" she says, not breaking the eye contact. "someone took me, while i was sleeping. and it was because of my parents. they just... watched as this person took me, and hurt me while he was trying to drag me away..." she says, her voice breaking. her eyes start to fill up with tears and she looks down. i hug her again and i feel her crying on my shoulder. my eyes start to fill up from the thought of her being sad like this and not being able to change it. but i can comfort her. i keep my arms wrapped tightly around her. she pulls back and looks at me. "it wasn't real. you're okay, i promise i won't let anything happen to you" i say, wiping her tears off her cheeks with my thumb. she swallows a lump of air and nods. she takes a slow breathe out and i stand up. i go back over to my bed and she lies back down. i don't sleep much more after that, i just watch kiara incase she needs me again.

kiara pov:

i wake up the next morning before everyone else, and i decide to go for a walk. just to clear my head. i walk along the other beach and through the trees. i'd say i'd been walking for about 20 minutes when i decided to turn around and go back. when i was almost back i heard calling of my name. "kiara!! "ki!!" "ki where are you!?" "kiara!!" i start jogging until i get to the beds. "guys?" i say. "oh my god!" sarah says. she runs over and hugs me. "what?" i say, hugging her back. "we woke up and you were gone!" jj says, walking over to me. "i went for a walk"- i say, as he hugs me. "i'm sorry... i didn't mean to scare you guys" i say, pulling back. he steps to the side and cleo hugs me. i think this is the first time i've hugged cleo. i hug her back. "don't do that to us man" she says. "sorryyyyy" i say. "right guys, what jobs are we doing today?" pope says. "i don't know, but i don't feel like building today. john b, why don't we find berries or coconuts or something?" sarah says, looking at john b. he nods. "i dib crafting" i say, raising my hand in the air. jj nods. "okay, we'll spearfish" cleo says. we all agree and i have a quick word with sarah about crafting the bed that's she's in the middle of. i sit opposite her on the ground and she shows me how to intertwine the grass. "jj was really scared this morning, when you were gone" she says, not looking up. "really?" i say, watching her hands. "he woke up first, realised you weren't here and like, really panicked. he woke all of us up and started running round like he was mad. and he was nearly crying" she says. "wow, i didn't realise he cared that much..." i say. "we all cared. but he was freaking out the most" she says, finishing with the strand of grass she was using. she stands up and walks off with john b. jj comes over and sits where sarah was. "you good?" i say, intertwining a piece of grass in the bed. "yeah" he says. "can i help?" he says. i nod. "watch, i'll show you" i say. he watches my hands as i grab another piece of grass. i intertwine it and explain what i'm doing. i see him look up at me from the corner of my eye, instead of looking down. i look up. "you're not watching" i smile. "sorry sorry, go on" he says, looking back down. i finish explaining and hand him a piece of grass. he does the first part correctly but intertwines it upwards instead of downwards. i shake my head. "wrong way" i say. i put my hands over his and pull the grass back out, and change the direction. i watch him intertwine it through a few times until i tell him he's doing it right. i start again at the other side as he continues doing the top. sarah already made the structure so we just have to fill in the gaps with the grass.

jj pov:

"okay... out of us six, who's most likely to never have children?" kiara asks me. "hmmmm" i think, intertwining another piece of grass. "cleo" i say, she laughs. "definitely" she says. "i definitely want to have children one day, if we ever get off this island" "me too" i say. "how many?" she asks me. "maybe like, 2 or 3, i don't want one because it'll be alone and on its own, but i don't want too many because that'll be so stressful" i say. she laughs. "i've always wanted like, 2" she says. "what genders, like if you could pick?" i say. "one boy one girl, what about you?" she says. "same. i would name them... evelyn andddd... cameron" i say. she smiles. "cameron, as in sarah's last name?" she says. "yeah... that's not the reason for the name though, i just think it's a cool name" i say, she nods. "evelyn's a cute name" she says. "yeah". "i always imagined myself as like, a great father. the opposite of my dad. like taking them out to the playground, and making them laugh and giggle... and putting them to bed at night" i say. she smiles. "that'll be like, way in the future, if it ever happened. after the surf trip of course" i laugh. she laughs too. "i've never gone into that much detail before... i don't know what i'd name my kids" she says. "maybe like, ocean? as a girl?" she says. "ocean's nice" i say. she nods. "i don't know how sarah does it, honestly. we've been doing this for hours and we're only half way through" i say. "sarah's always loved things like this. even since when i was friends with her at the kook academy. she was always really good at crafting" she says. "i suck at everything at school" i say. "not everything... everyone has a talent, even if it's not in school" she says. i snort. "what am i good for?" i say. "spear fishing, making very stupid plans..." she laughs. "normal fishing, you're very loyal- you'd do anything for any of us, making us laugh, and feel better when we're down, surfing... you're a great surfer... mechanics..." she says, counting on her fingers. "you're good for lots" she says. i stare at her. she finally looks up from counting on her fingers, and meets my eyes. we stay like this, looking into each others eyes, until we're interrupted. "just coming to see how you guys were getting on" sarah says. she smirks at kiara when she looks at her. "you're doing quite good" sarah says, standing over the bed we've been working on all day. "yeah, but i think we need a break" kiara says. i nod, "yeah". well cleo and pope are coming back right now" she says, pointing at the two of them walking towards us. "so why don't we all just have a chill?" sarah says. "yeah" i say standing up. kiara finishes with the piece of grass she's on and then sighs. i stand above her and hold my hand out. she takes it and i pull her up. she wipes she hand across her head. "i'm so hot" she says, walking towards the water. she stands so her feet are in, then she walks a little further, but stops and takes her pants off, revealing her bikini bottoms underneath. sarah follows her and does the same, and her and sarah go in the water, not very deep though... sarah is further than ki. john b comes up behind me and looks at me, i nod and we both take our shirts off and follow them. cleo and pope also follow us in. kiara is still standing in the same place. i stand next to her. "what?" i say. "what if there's crabs?" she says. "crabs? you're still worried about them?" i say. "come on ki" i walk forward but she doesn't move. i sigh, walk behind her, swipe her off her feet, and carry her forward, one arm on her back and one under the crease of the back of her knees. she puts her arms around my neck. "jayj! what are you doing!?" she laughs. "put me down!" she says. i stand on a small ledge infront of some deeper water, and drop her in. i stand as i watch her swims back up. she pushes her hair out of her face and drops her jaw. she grabs my arm and pulls me under. i swim back up and wipe my eyes. she laughs and swims back as i splash her with water. she splashes me back. cleo comes to the part we're in and sees me splash ki. "ay! you can't be splashing my girl like that!" she says, splashing me. "yeah jj!" kiara giggles. i splash cleo back and then pope comes over and starts splashing too, then jb and sarah, and then it's just all of us laughing and splashing each other with water.