Chapter 3

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Pope is driving the boat, Kie and Lily are sunbathing, John B tries a fishing fly, JJ is drinking a beer.

"Bet you can't do this." John B challenges JJ.

"Tell the world a party trick. Terrifying."JJ reacts to his challenge. "Hey Pope. Can you go a little faster?"

"Here we go. I'm moving." Pope replies, making the boat go faster.

"It's not gonna work. We've tried this like 6000 times."John B says.

"I got this. It's gonna work." JJ says disagreeing with John B.

JJ stands with one foot at the edge of the boat and starts pouring the beer in his mouth, because of the wind the beer is going everywhere.

"You're getting beer in my hair."Lily says, taking off her sunglasses.

"Alright, alright. I'll stop." JJ says.

The boat lurches to a violent stop. JJ cartwheels over the edge. Kiara, Lily, John B and Pope slam onto the deck.

"Jesus, Pope." Kie says, helping Lily to stand up.

"JJ, you okay?" Pope asks into the water.

"I think my heels touched the back of my head." JJ replies with a groan.

"Kie, you okay?" Lily asks, holding her elbow.

"I'm alright." Kie answers.

"Pope, what the hell did you do?" John B asks confused.

"Sandbar. The channel changed."

"This is probably going to mess this whole place up." Lily says, Kie turns to her.

"I saved the beer, though."

"Congrats, JJ."Kie and Pope laugh.

"Guys....I think there's a boat down there." John B adds.

A large white boat becomes more visible, sunken in deep water.

"Shut up. What?"

"No way."Kie says, both her and Lily being confused.

"No, no guys. I'm serious. There's a boat down there." John B says again.

"Holy shit, he's right. Let's go." Kie says, while everyone is taking off their clothes.

"You think there's a dead body down there?"Pope says taking his last piece of clothing off.

Lily, Kie and John B dive off, Pope and JJ following behind.

John B gets to the boat first, gliding past three outboard engines, the props silent and still.

John B swings along the length of it, then runs out of air and turns up. The others turn up as well.

All of them surface. They catch their breaths.

"You guys saw that?" JJ says gasping.

"Yeah.. We did" Lily responds.

"That's a Grady-White. A new one of those is like 500 Gs, easy." JJ adds, him and John B getting out of the water.

"That's the boat I saw when we surfed the surge." John B says, while helping Kie get out of the water.

"Maybe it hit the jetty or something." Pope adds helping Lily out of the water.

"You surfed the surge?" Kie asks.

"Yeah. That's that, pogue style." JJ high fives John B.

"What the heck?" Kie says confusingly.

"Wait, wait. Do we know whose boat that is?" Pope asks breaking the awkwardness.

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