𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑，𝗃𝗃 𝗆𝖺𝗒𝖻𝖺𝗇𝗄

𝖿𝗂𝖿𝗍𝗒

𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐖 my dad. He left when my mom got pregnant with me. Saying he didn't want any more kids. He didn't even want Riley. For the whole time growing up, it was just me, Riley and my mom. My mom, Phoebe, was the best mom you could imagine. She taught me how to work, and what to do after work. She taught me to protect myself.

She was more of a friend than a mom. She wasn't overprotective at all. Like any family, we had our moments. She struggled with drugs and drinking when I was growing up which caused our relationship to strain.

But no matter what happened, we knew.

"Riles? What if they get to John B?" I looked over at her with tears threatening to fall.

"He'll be okay, Hayley." She said, trying to ease my worries but nothing seemed to be working.

JJ scoffed, "So this is what we're doing, huh? We're just sailing out. We're just gonna forget about John B?"

I held my head in my hands, "We shouldn't have left him."

The blonde boy shrugged, "Let's just turn back."

"No. We're all gonna get caught. What type of plan is that." Cleo yelled.

JJ rolled his eyes, "It's a plan to stick together, Cleo."

"Then we are dead together." She shot back.

"She's right." Milo spoke up, "We had to leave or we'd all be zip-tied in the back of a pickup. We did the right thing."

I rolled my eyes at my friend when a phone started to ring, "Who's that?" I asked, standing up.

The curly-haired girl frowned, "It's Portis."

"That's John B." JJ smiled, grabbing the phone from the girl to talk to his best friend, "Yo, dude? Is this you?"

"Put him on speaker," Liv told him.

The boy did as instructed as he started talking again, "Do you need us to turn around?"

"No, don't worry about me, okay?" He replied. The connection was bad and we could barely hear him, "Look, it's way too hot here. You have to get out of here. Go back to OBX."

"John B? No," JJ yelled into the phone.

The Cameron girl scoffed as she grabbed the phone, "Just let me talk to him. John B? Are you okay?" She listened to what her husband said before turning back to the group, "He's fine. What happened?" The boy was breaking up, "Kildare? John B."

"Kildare?" I frowned, "What the fuck?"

"Do you guys think he found his dad?" Pope questioned.

"Big John's alive?" Riley yelled, "What about our mom?"

"Yes. No." I stammered, "We don't know."

"He's been missing for almost a year. It's a stretch." The Heyward boy spoke up.

Kie spoke up, "Sarah? What do you think?"

The blonde girl hadn't said much, "Sarah?" I yelled, "We need to make a decision. Sarah."

She stayed quiet for a moment before replying, "He said go. So we go."

"Oh, fuck."

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄
hello lovelies
sorry for the short chapter but the next one will be an interesting one
xoxo