Gone, gone, gone, Pope Hayward

020. WE JUST NEED THE MAP

Chapter twenty

"We just need the map."

Making it to Rixon's cove, they all were sitting around a fire, Summer was holding the papers she needed in her hands, as Pope and Kiara came and sat down "hey, guys. So, like, my dad's already gonna kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope asked, as John B looked to Summer "your the captain." he told her, as Summer looked at all of them "you guys really wanna know?" she asked 'yeah." Kiara told her, as Summer nodded "okay, well remember that day we were looking at the royal merchant and couldn't find any sign of the gold? That's because the gold didn't go down with the ship." she shared.

"And here we go again with this." Pope said, as Summer turned to him "seriously? You wanna do this now?" she asked "no. All right, wait. Hear her out, all right?" JJ asked him "thank you. Because the gold's been on the island this entire time." Summer shared "are you serious?" Kiara asked her, looking over at her "oh my god." she voiced "I'd like to voice my skepticism." Pope shared, as Summer chuckled "of course you would because you can never believe that I'm right and you're wrong. So before you go off on one of your tangents where I then come in and prove you wrong let me stop you right there and present you with my evidence?" she asked.

"Proceed." Pope told her, as Summer stood up "so this entire day I've spent deciphering a letter from one Denmark Tanny." she shared, holding it in her hands "who the hell is that?" Kiara asked her "he was a slave who survived the royal merchant wreck. Here look at it." Summer told her, walking over to her, and handing her the papers of both the real letter and her annotated version "so slaves weren't mentioned to be crew members on the ship but our father found the complete manifest. That was his big discovery. Which is important because Denmark Tanny then used the gold from the merchant to buy his freedom. But that wasn't all." Summer shared, as JJ whistled for Kiara to hand him the papers.

"Because from then on, he bought his farm and if you all will give me a drumroll or deafening silence?" Summer asked them, as Kiara and JJ all drum rolled as her brother and Pope were looking at the papers "because that farm is none other then Tannyhill plantation." she told them, as Kiara raised her brows "Tanny hill?" she asked "yes, in which then he used more of his money to free more slaves, and then he sold a shit ton of other stuff but most specifically rice because that's what pissed off all the white plantation owners to the point where they lynched him." Summer shared, and as she did, everyone looked up at her.

"But this is when the fun begins because on the day they were coming to get him, he wrote that letter right there to his son bidding him farewell telling him what he was leaving behind and all of it was mostly about stuff they grew. But the last part of it? Is the part that matters cause it tells us where to find the gold." Summer told them "where?" Kiara asked her "harvest the wheat, in parcel nine, near the water. Except it's not wheat that need's to be harvested. It gold." Summer told them, as she motioned to her brother and Pope "if you look at the mark on the gold and the mark on the official letter it's the same thing. So it's in parcel nine, near the water." she told them.

As Kiara laughed "Summer, you are a genius!" John B voiced "yeah, holy shit." Pope said "and right now, all I'm waiting on is the original survey map of the property and we will be back on our way to going full kook." Summer told them, as JJ stood up "okay, this might have a small chance of being actually true." Pope said, as John B shoved him "Summer's a genius." he told him "dude, it's like king tut." Kiara said, as JJ picked up Summer "ah! JJ! JJ, don't burn us alive!" Summer voiced, as JJ put her down, putting his hands on the sider of her face "I'm so proud of you right now." he told her.

In which Summer's eyes went wide "are you gonna kiss me right now cause your still holding ym face?" she asked him, as Pope looked to them, seeing indeed they were close enough to kissing "okay, so, guys." he said, as the two turned to him "what's the plan?" he asked "wait..wait, you said you were waiting for a survey map?" John B asked her, as Summer clapped her hands together "yes, I said I was waiting because I had found Sarah and asked her to bring me one at the hawks nest at midnight." she was saying.