Fly Before You Fall

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"JJ!" Pope yelled.

He had hardly got into his friends yard before he started yelling out a storm.

"JJ!"

He flinched when he heard gunshots.

He sighed immediately knowing where his friend was.

He walked around the house and found JJ with headphones on shooting at a brown bear.

"What was that?"

Initially Pope though his friend was talking to him but JJ was muttering to himself dead focused on the bear.

"That's what I thought, man." JJ muttered.

"JJ!" Pope screamed even louder.

This time JJ heard him.

He took off his noise cancelling head phones and turned to look at Pope not having expected him.

"What's up man?"

Pope shook his head at his friend. Even if JJ and his father lived out in the middle of no where, he still didn't think it was a good idea to be firing an unlicensed gun all over the place.

"Is that Amelia's teddy bear? The one you got her for her birthday?" Pope asked as realisation hit him.

Pope looked on in horror at the bear which had stuffing sticking out from where the bullets had hit it.

JJ clenched his jaw.

JJ had saved up for the bear as a birthday gift for Amelia when she turned fourteen. He was dirt broke but he had wanted to do something special for her.

The year before on his birthday, she had saved up all the money she had made and got him these really nice headphones he had been wanting all year.

But that was back when she cared about him and their friendship. Before she threw it all away.

"Maybe." JJ muttered.

Pope didn't even know where to start unpacking this.

He then shook his head out of it and focused on the issue at hand.

"They know." He spoke.

"What?" JJ asked in confusion wondering what he was talking about.

"They know." Pope repeated giving JJ a meaningful look.

Then it hit him.

The boat.

Topper's boat.

"All right, chill, bro. All right? They don't know sh*t." He spoke confidently as he sat on a log and set down the gun.

Pope was always the over thinker of the group. It came with the territory of having such a big brain.

"Topper knows I sunk his boat." Pope insisted clearly worked up and panicking.