Lost

sixteen | Olivia Redfield

We got seperated.
I didn't know when but at some point we got seperated.
Kie and John B stayed together. I thought they did at least. I could've been wrong.
Somehow I ended out wondering my way to JJs house. His dad's car was parked at the house so I went to his window and knocked on it.
Soon after he showed up at the window. He mouthed, "What happened?" but I just simply shook my head.

JJ opened the window and I realized that I had no way of getting up into his house with the sling that I had on. So I ripped it off and through it into the window.
"Hales, what are you doing? You need to wear that."
I stretched my arm out and cringed for a moment before blowing out a huff of air. "It's fine, my arm is rapped."
"No, Haley, it's not fine. Your arm is going to be permanently damaged. It won't heal right." JJ explained to me.
"Just...shut up and help me in there."

Not long after I was sitting on JJs bed and he was sitting down on a random chair that he had in his room. I was explaining everything that happened to me, John B, and Kie. I was also saying how pissed off I was that him and Pope left.
And just like that Pope walked into the room with a beer in his hand.
"I cannot believe you made me go get you this. Man, what if your dad was awake-" Pope made eye contact with me and his eyes widened. "Haley?!"

"Yeah." I replied, very, very annoyed with both him and JJ.
"You're okay?!" Pope exclaimed.
"No thanks to you." I spat at him.
Pope threw the beer at JJ and sat next to me. "You're okay!"
"Yeah." I nodded.

John Bs POV

"I feel for you, kid. I really do." Peterkin told me. "I know since they never found your dad, a part of you thinks he might walk through that door someday. I don't blame you." She shrugged.
"You know i'm a minor, right?" I heard Kie ask the police officer outside of the office I was in.
"But goin on fandangos ain't gonna bring him back." Peterkin pointed out. "He's been missin at sea for nine months. Your father's dead." She said as she looked down.

I slowly shook my head, refusing to look up at her. "You don't know that."
"Yeah, I do." She nodded. "And as hard as it is, it'd be best for you to accept it and move on."
I shook my head again.
Who did she think she was telling me to just accept it and move on? It made me want to laugh.

"You've been runnin around gettin caught up in things that do not involve you. And now you in a heap of trouble." Peterkin explained to me. "It's not just foster care we're talking about. It's assault, battery, JD time."
I still didn't look up at her. I wouldn't look up at her. Couldn't make me.
She sighed and started to walk around a little bit. "I can still help you out, but we gotta do a little tit for tat. And this time, you gotta tat a whole lot better."

Peterkin made her way over to me and sat down in the chair to the right of me. "I know you've gotten hold of a compass."
I took in a deep breath but stayed quiet for a moment. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"I know you took it off the wreck." She told me.
I moved my eyes a little closer to her but I still didn't look at her. I could only see her in my peripheral vision.

"There ain't much that happens in the OBX that I don't hear about eventually." She said.
I looked up at her and laughed a little bit, trying to cover up my nervousness. "Okay, what do you want with this...compass?"
"It's evidence in an investigation." Peterkin replied.
I shook my head and looked away from her.
"I'm gonna need it, son. Otherwise, i'm charging you."
"I don't know what you're talking about." I stated.
Peterkin didn't say anything, she just stared at me.
"I don't have a compass." I repeated to her.

Haley's POV

It had been a couple of hours. I was watching the sun set and JJ was smoking a blunt. Pope was working on some machine. I hadn't seen or heard from John B all day. Kiara did text me though. She said that her and J.B got caught. Peterkin talked to John B but eventually let them go because Kiara's dad bailed them out. She told me not to worry.