SHOOTING STARS ✰ jj maybank

007. COMPASS

John B successfully stole the tanks from Ward Cameron's boat. The five teenagers were now on the HMS Pogue in the middle of the marsh near the boat.

"This is empty. You took empty tanks?" Kie stared at the tanks then at John B. "Okay, this one is a quarter full. It's enough for one of us."

"Love it when a plan comes together." Pope sarcastically spoke.

"Does anybody know how to dive?" Everyone looked around at each other, staying completely silent. "Anybody?" She spoke louder this time.

"It's kind of a Kook sport." JJ shrugged.

"I read about it." The dark-skinned boy spoke and Kie just groaned.

"Great, Pope read about it, so someone's gonna die." She squinted her eyes as the bright sun was blinding all the teenagers.

"Look, y-you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. How hard could it be?" The blonde boy tried to make sense of the situation.

"If you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends." Pope corrected JJ.

"Bends like, bend over and-" JJ began to bend over before Pope cut the boy off.

"The bends kill you."

"Right."

"I can- I can dive." John B spoke up, almost as if he was unsure of what he just said.

"You can dive. I'm cool with that." JJ nodded his head along.

"Since when can you dive?" Kie scrunched her face up, staring at the boy.

Scarlett just scrunched her face up as well, knowing that John B has absolutely no diving experience and doesn't know how it works.

"I'll do it. It's fine." He rolled his eyes at the two concerned girls.

"Let me do some calculations real quick." Pope stood up, clearly stressed out about this. When is he not stressed out? "Okay. That boats about thirty feet down. So it'll take twenty-five minutes at that depth. This means you need to make your safety spot at about... ten feet. All right? For two minutes." He explained to John B.

"Yeah, yeah. Ten feet, two minutes. Got it." The brunette boy nodded his head along with what Pope was saying.

Scarlett and Kie both stood up, and the same idea flashed in their minds. They both undressed down to their bikinis and jumped into the water while holding their shirts.

"Hey! We tied our shirts to the anchor chain about ten feet down." Kie announced when the two girls popped up from underwater. "It's where you need to do your safety stop."

"Cool."John B thanked the girls.

"Keep an eye on this. You need to make sure you have enough air to decompress." Pope handed John B some sort of contraption thingy to see your air pressure or whatever.

"Okay. How much do I need?"

"Unclear. Breathe as little as possible." Pope pursed his lips.

"Zen. Think Zen, you know?" JJ told the brunette as he began making weird breathing sounds.

"Yeah. Got it." John B stood on the front of the boat.

"Hey, if we get caught out here in the marsh, we're basically screwed, so... better get a move on." The dark-skinned boy spoke and Kie and Scarlett climbed back onto the boat.

"Copy that." Just as John B said that Kie walked up to him and unexpectedly placed a kiss on his cheek.  JJ, Scarlett, and Pope all shared a look as they all tried to hold in their laughs. "Diver down?" John B questioned awkwardly.