𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎: 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐏𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄
𝙟𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙗 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚With the death of John B, Talia Anderson finds herself
questioning everything she'd ever believed and trying
to finish what she and her friends started𓇼
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❝this ain't for the best
my reputation's never been worse, so
you must like me for me
we can't make
any promises now, can we, babe?
but you can make me a drink❞❝sometimes i wonder, when you sleep
are you ever dreaming of me?
sometimes when i look into your eyes
i pretend you're mine all the damn time❞𓇼
In the wake of John Booker Routledge's death, the island moved on around the pogues. Kildare County left the four teenagers to collect themselves alone, leaving those teenagers to mourn in secret as to not disturb the peace the island attempted to advertise.
JJ Maybank drowned his sorrows in alcohol, never sober, never fully there. Kiara Carrera threw herself into environmental work, working around the clock to keep herself busy. Pope Heyward spent most of his days tucked away in the library, his nose stuck in his books as he studied his life away. His sights were set and his goals were on the horizon despite the tragic loss.
And then there was Talia Anderson, the girl the island could not figure out. For a brief time near the end of summer, the girl crossed enemy lines and allowed herself to be pulled into the dwellings of a pogue, which was no life for a kook girl. Once snapped out of the phase she so clearly fell trapped into, she returned to her home. Figure Eight welcomed her with hesitant arms yet the girl seemed unfazed. During the day, Talia resumed her kook duties but at night, she'd slip away, fleeing for sanctuary at the Heyward's.
None of them knew that on a random Tuesday afternoon, a text would come through to their numbers and change the trajectory of their new found plans.
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HOW TO: BE A POGUE | john b routledge
FanfictionIN WHICH after a friendship blow up, Talia Anderson chooses one friend over the other and realizes she either has to stay an ousted kook or learn to live life like a pogue. Problem one, she's a kook through and through. Problem two, pogue king John...