Junie - JJ Maybank

20

"Oh shit."

I sit up from my spot at the nose of the HMS Pogue.

"What happened?" Sarah asks John B who is at the wheel.

He has a confused look on his face, "I don't know... we ran out of gas." He tells her.

I stand up and walk over to John B. JJ is standing next to him and he sighs, "I'll call Pope." He tells us.

I groan, "what about the back up tanks of gas?"

John B shrugs, "they're empty. I used them a couple weeks ago and never filled them back up."

"Oh my god," I groan again and sit down next to Sarah.

She leans her head on my shoulder, "it's okay, Pope will be here at some point."

A few minutes later, John B calls me and Sarah over to him.

"What?" I ask when we get to him.

I feel a hand on my back and look back to see JJ standing behind me.

"Hey," I tell him.

"Hey, Junie," he says back.

"Could you guys grab us the empty gas tanks so I don't forget to fill them up?" John B asks us.

Sarah scoffs and I speak, "why can't you do it?"

John B groans and sprawls himself out on his seat, "I can not move."

"Oh my god," I roll my eyes and he still has the same serious look on his face, "where are they?"

He nods to the ground, "under the deck."

I look at Sarah and she shrugs then the two of us go under the deck.

"Your boyfriend is lazy," I tell her.

She scoffs and laughs, "you're telling me-"

She stops talking when the cover slams down on us.

"What the fuck!" I shout as I bang on the cover.

"John B! JJ! Let us out!" Sarah shouts.

We don't hear anything above the deck for a few minutes until someone steps on the cover.

I immediately start banging on it, "let us out!"

The cover opens and I see none other than Kiara standing above us.

You have got to be kidding me.

I haven't talked to Kiara since that day at the chateau... and that was a week ago.

I just couldn't bring myself to talk to her. She brought up the absolute worst time of my life and I can't just forgive and forget about that.

When Sarah and I get out from under the deck, I see John B and JJ swimming in the water towards Hayward's boat.

"What the fuck..." I cuss under my breath as Sarah runs and jumps into the water.

Kiara looks at me, "are you gonna jump too?" She asks me.

I shake my head, "I may be dumb by I am definitely not that dumb."

I hear a shriek come from the water and I run over to the edge of the boat to see Sarah swimming back to us.

"What happened?" I ask her as she climbs up the ladder.

"I got stung... by a jellyfish."

"Oh fuck," I say to myself as Sarah gets on the boat. I see a bloody mark from a jellyfish.