Paradise On Earth

Chapter 3

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"Jhon, Lea, it's come to our attention that you two are two unemancipated minors living on your own" the DCS social worker sighed while my brother and i looked at each other before he chuckled and looked back at the lady, with a look he probably thought would be convincing, i looked at him sarcastically before he spoke to the lady.

"No...no, no. Of course not" he scoffed while making a not really believable face while i just gave the lady a death stare.

"Jhon we need honesty to work together, that's what you both need to do to help me out with your case" the lady kept talking, while Jhon b and i nodded, faking being conviced or even listening to a single word she said.

"We're being more than honest here ma'am." i said in a cocky tone, crossing my arms and earning a stomp on my foot from Jhon b. I bit the inside of my cheek to not yell at my brother and just went back to staring at the lady.

The lady looked at us and started to look through some documents and papers, stopping on one of them and quickly reading something before looking up at me, probably annoyed by my tone and expression.

"When's the last time you spoke your uncle?" She started, i looked at my wrist, faking to look at the hour, i sighed and bit my lip, acting like i was counting the minutes before looking up at her again.

"Uh... 34 minutes ago." I said, keeping up my cocky and sarcastic tone, Jhon b was probably holding in his laughter because he cleared his voice amd put a hand on his mouth.

"When's the last time you saw him?" The lady kept asking, fidgeting with a red pen in her hand, i scoffed and glanced at my brother before rolling my eyes back to the lady.

"two hours and... fourty three minutes ago...?" I sighed, it came put like more of a question tho, Jhon b nudged me and i almost laughed at his face, i coughed a little and went back to my annoyed look and tone.

The lady reached out for Jhon b hand, he slid it away from the desk, his face slightly disgusted while the lady cleared her voice and looked at us.

"We're going to come out to talk to your uncle tomorrow, if he's not there we're going to move on with foster care. I promise we're going to find both of you a safe and loving home" She said in what she thought was a heartwarming and confident tone, well guess who almost made me burst out laughing, but i contained myself and she just earned a snort from me.

She actually thought we were going to be happy to hear that.

And that's where this story begins, my dad missing, my uncle MIA... But then i caught a break, hurricane Agatha, coming on the same day the DCS was supposed to do our assessment.

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"DCS, can i help you?" I heard someone say from my brother's phone while we were out on a dock in the south side, i heard him talk to the DCS worker on the phone.

"Yeah, uh... i think we're probably going to have to reschedule." Jhon B said, i snorted and chuckled while the wind rustled and picked up intensity making my hair fall on my face, and forming high pitched sounds in my ears, i looked at my brother while he kept talking to the DCS worker and paced up and down the dock before hanging up the phone and looking at me. Some people yelled to throw sandbags on the dock, and we were there, thinking the same exact thing while i caught a quick glance at the sea, high and scary waves hitting the shore in the distance as it started to rain slightly, thunder rumbling over our heads while people kept yelling and throwing orders. Jhon b and I kept smirking at eachother before laughing and doing the Pogue handshake and running down the dock,  jumping on the HMS Pogue, our boat while we called out for Pope, who went inside a small cabin to get some things for his dad, he jumped in the boat and we went around the corner to dock her safely before we went running and lughing to the surge.

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"Dude look! It's a double overhead out there bro!" i said-yelled as Jhon b, Pope and i climbed up a sand dune on the beach, tall waves hitting the shore, while the wind rustled and the rain poured over us, we stopped on top of the dune, our surfboards tucked under our arms, already wet from all the rain as we looked at the sea.

"Those aren't surfable waves bro!" Pope exclaimed while i brushed my hair to the back of my shoulders and wiped the rain drops away from my face to see better, Jhon B laughed and patted Pope's shoulder, before taking off and running towards them, i laughed and followed him.

"Says who Pope!? Wohoo!" i yelled over the sound of the wind and rain, i ran behind my brother and threw my hand in the air before we jumped in the water, of course we didn't manage to surf any waves since we would either get thrown off the surfboard or get transported directly to shore.

While we surfed, or at least tried to, i saw Jhon b looking at something in the distance, my gaze followed his and as i sat up on my board, i saw a white boat crashing against the waves no one on board, my expression changed into a shocked one as i looked at the boat, quickly starting to lose sight of it as the waves brought it furter away from us, i frowned as i paddled towards Jhon b, i heard a "What the hell" from him before we both got sucked under a wave. The boat was nowhere to be seen after that.

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The wind had picked up a lot of intensity from when we had surfed the surge, the palms on the beach and the trees on the island were shaking and some even got separated from the ground, boats were getting almost carried away from the  docks, while some of the older or abandoned structures ended up having their roofs torn off. The rain kept pouring like no one had ever seen before, dropping loudly on the windows and roofs of houses around the island. In the evening the power went out too... Great, no lights, no service, no apparent connection to the world, not knowing what damages hurricane Agatha could have cause around the whole island, but mostly the poor side since everyone knew that figure eight was going to get generators installed in everyone's houses by the morning after the hurricane.  These Kooks never miss a beat...

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