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Once they had gotten to Midsummers, Kiara practically escaped her parents almost suddenly as she pulled Willow along with her

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Once they had gotten to Midsummers, Kiara practically escaped her parents almost suddenly as she pulled Willow along with her. Willow was about to question her before her eyes landed on Pope, making the blonde girl grin from ear to ear. Once they walked up to them, Kiara put on an English accent. "Excuse me, sir. Do we have to shuck these ourselves?"

Willow smiled, seeing the annoyance in Pope's demeanor before turning around to see the two girls. He quickly smiled, glancing over at Willow when she spoke in an English accent as well. "Cause it might mess up our costumes."

"We wouldn't want that now, would we?", Pope answered in his own English accent before him and Kiara did their famous handshake. Willow quickly gave him a side hug, standing on his left as Kiara made herself comfortable on his right. "My accent was bad."

"It was. I was gonna let it go.", Kiara smiled, glancing around the club. "You ever seen this many Kooks in one place?"

"Yeah.", Pope responded. "Last year."

"Sorry you had to witness it too many times, Pope.", Willow scrunched up her nose, patting his shoulder.

"We're in the lions den.", Kiara spoke.

"Hey, uh...", Pope started, turning to look at Willow. "How'd it go?"

"Oh, right.", Willow shook her head, looking up at him. "Peterkin let me off with a warning. JJ took the entire fall. I tried to make it easier on him, but... well it's JJ."

"Right.", He nodded slowly, furrowing his eyebrows together. "Have you heard from him since?"

"No.", She shook her head, looking away from him. "He went off grid after I left. I mean... I saw his dad walk into the station but that's about it."

"Did your mom find out?", He asked, worried about her safety. Of course, he was worried about JJ's, too. The only difference was that JJ had a higher chance of defending himself than Willow did, but it was also because she was here to talk to about it and JJ wasn't.

"Other than her ratting me out to the cops, nah.", She answered him, frowning slightly at his panicked expression. "Pope, you don't have to worry. I'll be fine and JJ will be, too. It's JJ... he's gonna be just fine."

Except she wasn't sure he was or not. She said it to reassure him, but also try to reassure herself. She just knew the next time she saw JJ, he was gonna look beat up. She wanted to believe that it wouldn't be the case, but reality was an asshole. She was positive JJ would try to brush it off like everything was fine and he'd manage to find a way to get off the topic, but she also knew he'd budge if she kept badgering him. Annoying him to the point he releases his emotions was something she was always good at doing when they were growing up. Her and John B were the main ones he'd open up to.

Pope obviously wouldn't listen to that because he knew JJ was gonna be hurt by Luke over this. But for the majority of the night, he brushed it off because Willow told him to forget about it for right now. The three tried to stay together, but that was until Kiara was pulled to stand with her parents. Willow tried to stay with Pope but his dad needed him focused and asked her to kindly let him work. She obliged because she loved Heyward and hated seeing him stressed, so she didn't wanna cause him more because Pope couldn't focus.

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