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{Chapter Three} Finder's Fee

The HMS Pogue slowly pulled up to the dock outside of The Wreck, the restaurant owned by Kiara's parents. The four pogues were scoffed at by passing Kooks as they helped clean up the area. 

The shift between passing the Cut and Figure 8 was unbelievable. Everyone from the Cut were wishing them well and making sure they were okay after the storm. Whereas despite the Kooks not saying anything with their mouths, the looks they gave clearly showed they hoped the Pogues had been whisked away by Agatha. 

Kie waved to her friends as she made her way down the wooden steps and picked up the large cooler box that waited for her at the edge of the dock. 

Indi held her hand out to help Kiara down into the boat, which Kie accepted. "Thank you, madame," she said in a posh voice. 

"Whatcha got in the box?" Pope asked as they drove away from The Wreck. 

"Oh, you know, some juice boxes, carrot sticks. Yogurts." 

"My kind of juice boxes?" JJ stupidly asked, as if there was anything else in the box. 

"Of course."

The bottles, which most certainly did not contain juice, were passed around the group. They all cheered with each other as John B changed course and drove out into the marsh.  

The cool liquid was so refreshing after being under the intense summer heat all day. 

Kiara and Indi were laid beside each other at the back of the boat, both of them intensely focused on make even more bracelets, despite the three million they had already made this summer. 

"I saw Sarah Cameron today, and Topper," Kie said with a huff. 

Indi scoffed in response. 

If there were two Kooks she hated the most in the world it was Sarah and Topper. 

Topper genuinely believes that Pogues were bred in captivity and Sarah was the worst of them all. She saw herself as so far above everyone and everything and that she they didn't deserve to breathe the same air as her. She didn't even try to hide her disgust when Indi and her friends passed them in the street. 

It was also apart of the friend code that if your bestie hates someone then you also hate them. Kie and Sarah used to be best friends in the ninth grade- Kiara's first year at the Kook Academy. Out of nowhere Sarah found herself to be too good for Kie and dropped her like it was nothing.

Indi pulled down her sunglasses from her head to cover her eyes from the blinding sun rays and attached her newly made bracelet around her ankle. She leaned forward to grab another beer from the cooler box and a small container of blueberries. 

"Hey, Pope. Can you go a little faster?" JJ back called to him as he stood up on the front of the boat. 

"Oh, here we go. I'm moving," John B muttered before shuffling to take shelter behind Pope. 

Indi and Kie exchanged annoyed looks knowing that JJ had tried this 'party trick' thousands of times and it had only ever ended in the boat getting covered in beer. 

JJ raised the bottle in the air and tipped back towards his mouth. As predicted beer flew through the air and landed over Kiara- who was definitely sat in the wrong place. 

"Oh my God. You're getting beer in my hair!" Kiara complained before bring her arm out in front of her to try and block her face and hair from it. 

Indi suddenly sprang up onto her feet with a mischievous look on her face. She had her arms fully extended in front of her pretending to push JJ off the front of the boat.