"And lastly, that's Madison, or Mads, my little sister who is also trying to climb up the broken lifeguard tower. We're only a year apart. When she's not doing some odd job for extra cash she is on the HMS Pogue with the rest of us. Most loyal perso...
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Madison could barely contain herself as she paced the dock in front of the Pogues. Pope and Kiara were sitting on top of the bench, their feet resting on the seat as JJ leaned against one of the railings, watching as she seemed to be having a whole conversation with herself as she mumbled under her breath. John B and Sarah were alive and all they had to do was clear his name. It seemed simple enough in theory, they just needed to prove that he didn't do it, and he would be able to come home, and they could go back to being regular teenagers. Except it wasn't that simple. He was an orphaned, seventeen year old, Pogue and they were up against one of the wealthiest Kooks on Figure Eight. It wasn't going to be easy but Madison didn't care she was going to do whatever it took to bring her brother back.
"John B's going to get nabbed sooner or later so if we're gonna clear his name we need to have done it like yesterday." Kiara couldn't help but think about all the time they had missed out on or even what evidence there would be left to find after weeks of them being gone but they had to start somewhere. She was about to ask Pope what he thought, knowing he would be the most rational out of all of them, when her gaze landed on Madison. Kiara began to worry that this text had been the last straw to break something inside of her friend as she kept talking to herself, the words coming out of Madison's mouth so quickly they didn't even make sense. "Hey! Maddie, hey! Look at me!"
The youngest Routledge stopped her pacing and shot her a glare that anyone else would have shrunk under. "What, Kiara? Are you going to do a trick or something?"
"John B was right," Kiara spoke to her as gently as she could, not wanting to get her more fired up than she already was, and trying to take her attitude with a grain of salt. "You two," she motioned between Madison and JJ who rolled his eyes when she pointed at him. "Can not go off all Bonnie and Clyde and end up in jail trying to bring them home."
Madison took her hair out of its ponytail, ran her fingers through it a couple of times, and put it back up to give her hands something to do. She had so much energy running through her at the moment if felt like she was on speed. "Can't go to jail if you don't get caught, Kie."
"That's not helpful," Pope mumbled but it was loud enough to earn him the same glare from the brunette that she had just used on Kiara.
JJ pushed off the railing, his fingers brushing along Madison's lower back as he passed her to stand in front of Pope. "I'll tell you how we do it. We kidnap Rafe."
"I'm sorry, what?" Pope questioned him, his mouth hanging slightly open because after all these years he should be used to the insane ideas JJ came up with but yet the blonde still managed to surprise him every single time.
Madison instantly nodded as she started to pace in front of them again, unable to sit still, "I'm in."
Kiara shot her an incredulous look as if she hadn't just told her seconds ago that they couldn't go doing this shit. Her expression was easily ignored or had gone by unnoticed as JJ continued with his plan, seemingly coming up with it on the spot as he took ideas from random movies he had seen. "We kidnap Rafe, tie him up, and stick the gun in his mouth... and just wait till he starts squawking."
