brothers bestfriend.

the lucky compass

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗪𝗢, 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗡𝗘
' the lucky compass. '

"𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗." JJ Maybank shrugged at his sister, who was sat opposite him, on the floor in John B's volkswagen campervan — the Twinkie.

Pope held his hand up "Actually, it kind of is." He admitted and Charlotte nodded.

"And you're doing this... for gold?" Charlotte shook her head, then John B sucked in a breath before turning around to look in the back at Charlotte "For my dad." He corrected her.

He soon got interrupted by Kiara, who was sat in the front seat next to him, flicking his forehead "eyes on the road, dingus." She scoffed and John B swerved a car that was about to collide head ok with him.

Charlotte head butted the van door ( which she had her back to ) when John B swerved the van. She held onto the back of her head and JJ gave her a nod whilst she nodded back.

It was silent for a while, then everyone began to speak again.

"I mean, it's obvious.. right?" John B asked, waiting for clarification but soon rolling his eyes when nobody replied "A family heirloom? I mean, what better place to hide a message? He had to know it was gonna get back to me, right?" John B looked at Kie, his eyes flicking between her and the road.

Charlotte was as Kiara looked down at her lap with nervous eyes "I mean.. yeah, it's possible." She shrugged at him then Pope spoke up, dangling the compass infront of his eyes "it could also be possible that you're concocting wild theories to help." Charlotte smirked, as it was probably true "Y'know.. to help with your sad feels." Pope added.

JJ tapped Charlotte on the head "Sis, you know how I process with my sad feels." He smiled at her "Dank bugs and the sickiest of ickies." He looked at everyone else "that's how I do it." JJ shrugged and Charlotte nodded, grabbing JJ's hand to help herself sit up next to him on the chair "We know, Jay." She sighed as John B interrupted her "I'm not concocting, okay?"

"My dad's trying to give me a message." He looked back at JJ and Charlotte who both just stared at eachother. Kiara licked her lips anxiously "If it helps you believe, John B."

John B scoffed "Look! I-I don't need a therapy session, okay? I'm not trippin' out." He laughed slightly and Charlotte stared at the boy.

In all honesty, she wasn't sure if this whole gold story was true or not. Who was she to judge? She had learnt about the history of the Royal Merchant briefly in lessons, since it was never that significant in actual history, she didn't really care - and neither did the school. She couldn't judge John B for trying to find his dad. If it was her situation, as much as she hated her dad, she'd try find him too.

Sure, Luke was an absolute dick but Charlotte couldn't help how she still somehow loved him even after everything he'd done to her and JJ he was still her dad and she hated to admit that.

Charlotte got brought back to reality when she heard the pogues all bickering "It's been almost a year." Kiara spoke softly, trying to make sure she didn't sound too horrible. John B looked at her blankly, then focused back on the road.

"Hey- he could have been kidnapped.. that's definitely a possibility." JJ nodded at Pope who continued for JJ "Yeah, could be in a soviet sun getting interrogated by the KGB somewhere." JJ nodded again "Absolutely.. or uh.. Atlantis!" JJ then looked over to Charlotte who was looking out of the window with no emotion "or dead." She whispered to which only JJ could hear, making him nudge her roughly. She grabbed her side and stared at her brother who mouthed something to her which she couldn't quite understand.