After John B and JJ leave. Pope, Lily and Kiara are all sitting in the boat.
"Biggest pet peeve?" Kie asks.
"Yeah."
"Easy. Chewing with mouth open, John B always does that at it drives me nuts." Lily responds.
"For me, giving only one procent to the environment." Kie adds.
"And what's wrong with that?"
"We only have one Earth, Pope."
"Yeah, i'm with you on that one." Lily says to Kie. "We should be giving it 100 procent, bare minimum."
"Right. That's fiscally sound." Pope says.
"Neither is destroying the planet we have to live on." Kie adds.
Kie and Lily continue chatting about the Planet while Pope is on lookout.
Sheriff's Deputy cruiser pulls into the lot. Two uniformed deputies get out, male and female. They enter the office.
"Hey, hey, cops." Pope warns everyone.
"What? call them." Kie says.
"I can't... towers are down." Lily responds.
"If i lose my merit scholarship. I'm gonna kill someone." Pope says and jumps out of the boat.
The two girls follow behind.
They stand under the window of the motel room. Pope takes a handful of pebbles and starts to throw them.
The pebbles fall to the pavement. Not even close to the window.
"Didn't you ever played baseball?" Kiara teases Pope.
"I was on the Math's team." Pope answers.
Lily starts throwing rocks and one of them luckily hits the window. John B tilts his head.
Lily, Pope and Kie showed him to the stairs where the cops are coming.
John B goes away from the window and the three of them run to the boat.
"Should we peel?" Kie says.
"You never leave a Pogue behind." Lily answers.
"No, seriously, should we peel?"
"Maybe." Pope says.
"No, guys. That's my brother up there. And you know the rule NO POGUE LEFT BEHIND!"
JJ and John B get out from the window. They stand on a narrow ledge on either side of the window. They're terrified. They totter. John B watches carefully what's going on inside.
"What are you guys doing?" Pope says.
JJ gets excited and loses his balance. The gun falls from his waistband as it falls to the aluminum awning.
The cops leave and JJ and John B get down from the window and run to the boat.
They come in the boat and Lily hugs John B tightly.
"Well that was fun." JJ says. "Could have warned us sooner."
"We would have, except Pope was on the Math's team." Kie says teasingly.
"You were on the Math's team?" JJ asks.
"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene." John B says zoning out.
"Did you guys find anything?" Lily asks.
"Did we find anything? No, I don't think so." JJ says lifting his shirt up revealing the gun. "Oh, yeah, we did."
"Dude, what? Why take that from the crime scene?" Pope asks worryingly.
"Better than cops having it." JJ says.
"You serious? I'm gonna lose my merit scholarship."
"Hey, hey, hey. Sh, sh, sh. At least you have us, right?" JJ says.
"I'm living the nightmare." Pope answers.
The five Pogues sitting in the Twinkie talking.
"So...um. We didn't see anything nor know anything. We need to have total and complete amnesia." Pope says.
"Actually, Pope's right for once." Lily says.
"Thank you." Pope says.
"See, i agree with you sometimes." Lily says back.
"Deny, deny, deny." JJ says.
"Guys, we can't keep that money." Kie says.
"Okay. Not all of us can afford unlimited data plans, Kiara." JJ says back to Kie.
"We have to pass that back to Lana Grubbs. Otherwise is bad karma." Kie says.
"Bad karma to be implicated in a felony too." "We gotta go dark." Pope says.
"If that means we get to keep the money than I agree." JJ says exitedly.
"I don't agree." John B says.
They all turn their looks at him.
"What? Why? Just think about it." JJ says.
"This is Scooter Grubbs we're talking about. Same dude that's buying individual cigarettes at the Porthole." John B says.
"Shit, one time I saw this dude begging for change in the Save-A-Lot parking lot because he needed gas." Lily adds.
"See. We're talking about a dirtbag marina rat who's never had than 40 bucks in his pockets." John B adds. "And all of a sudden he's got a Grady-White? Just saying."
"So think about it Pope. How does a marina rat get a Grady-White?" Lily asks Pope.
"Prostitution." Pope answers.
"Square groupers, bro." Lily says.
"Okay, flying under the radar, no aerial surveillance. They don't do that stuff during a hurricane. What does that mean? JJ?" John B adds.
"They were straight smuggling." JJ answers.
"Smuggling. And i guarantee there's a serious amount of contraband in that wreck." John B finishes his talk.
"For the record, if that is a smuggling ship with illegal contraband on the inside of it, it probably belongs to someone else." Kie says.
"Minor details." Lily adds.
"They could come looking for it. Taking it would be catastrophically stupid." Kie adds to her response.
"Right. Well stupid things have good outcomes all the time." Lily adds smiling at Kie.
"All we need to do is figure out a way to get into that cargo hold of that wreck." JJ adds. "Until then we just lay low. Act normal."
"And how exactly do we do that?" Pope asks.
"Kegger." Lily answers smirking.
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My only one-Rafe Cameron
RomanceOne town, two neighborhoods, Figure Eight and The Cut. Kooks and Pogues. Lily Routledge is John B's sister known as the most pogue family. One day their dad disappeares while trying to find the gold of the sunk history boat The Royal Merchant. John...
