Daydreams| Outer Banks ¹

{Chapter Six} Living Like Dogs

Memories from the previous night flooded to the front of Indi's mind when she woke up, as well as the anger she felt at JJ for pulling a fucking gun on Topper. They'd argued the whole way back to the Chateau and were currently not on speaking terms. 

"Hey, is your face okay? Are you okay?" JJ asked Indi whilst they both struggled with a barely conscious John B hung over their shoulders. 

"I'm fine. It's fine," Indi snapped back. After the events of the night she was not in the mood to talk to JJ. 

"You sure?" JJ continued, not missing the girl's curt tone. 

Indi sharply nodded her head in response, focusing on getting John B back to the Chateau as quickly as possible. 

"Yeah. It's not as if you pulled a gun on anyone," she scoffed.

JJ let out an exasperated sigh as he knew it would be brought up sooner or later. "Yeah, I did and I don't regret it."

"Okay, sure. If you want to get thrown in prison before you've graduated high school then be my guest," Indi shrugged. 

"Oh my God!" JJ angrily exclaimed. "I was doing the same thing that you did!" 

"I punched Topper because he was drowning John B. I didn't pull out a fucking gun!" Indi yelled at him. 

Tensions were getting high between the pair and John B had no escape from it. 

She didn't get it. Seeing Indi fall back into the sea after being struck in the face set off an intense anger in JJ that he'd never felt before. Pulling the gun out was his first instinct because nobody hurts Indigo and gets away with it. 

"I was protecting you! Both of you!" JJ shot back. 

Indi scoffed and rolled her eyes at the blonde. "I can look after myself, thanks."

"Whatever you say, Princess." He responded with sarcasm dripping off his tongue. "You can start now."

JJ dropped John B from his shoulder, leaving Indi to struggle with John B the rest of her way home since she can 'look after herself'.

"You don't get it, do you?" Indi called back to him before he could disappear fully. 

JJ turned back around to face the blonde wearing an expression that confirmed what Indi had just said. 

"We can't fuck up. We just can't. You could get thrown in juvie any second. Pope could get his chances of getting a scholarship taken away and given to a Kook. If any cop, or social worker, or anybody gets word of something like this going down then me and John B are gone,  out of the OBX for good. Just please think about that next time."

Hearing the porch door creaking on its hinges was enough cause for Indi to wake her brother up. If their friends were visiting then they would loudly announced themselves as they entered the house and if it were anybody else then they would just yell from the outside of the porch. 

Whoever had entered the Chateau was here for business. 

"JB, wake up!" Indi whispered to her brother, who had passed out on her bed last night, and she didn't have the energy to move him by herself since JJ ditched her. 

Sleeping on the wooden floor with just a hoodie for warmth was not fun but it was a hell of a lot better than waking up and realising her brother had died from a concussion in his sleep. 

John B groaned as he slowly woke up, squinting as the bright sun blinded his already throbbing eyes. 

"Welcome back to the land of the living," Indi taunted with a smirk. "Now get up. I think someone's in the house."