Chaos and Discomfort

Chapter Sixteen

"Hey, get up. Time for school." Pope says shaking my arm
"Five more minutes." I say
"No, we're late Iz. Get up." He says tugging on my non broken arm
"Ouch, bad arm." I say eyes pinched
"Your other arm is broken. Get up." He says
"Fine." I say sitting up
"Get up Kie. The school fairy has arrived." I say
"Huh?"
"Popes making us get up for school."
"Ohhhh." She says laying back down
I get off the pull out and go tk the bathroom to put on different shorts and a pair of socks. I come out to pope poking John b with beer cans to try and get him up.
"Hey. We gotta go to school man, we have a geometry test in 30 minutes." Pope says tapping him
"Get up jj." Pope says slapping his face from side to side
"Is he alive?" I ask
"I don't know." John b yawns
"JJ, get your shoes." Pope tells him
"Hey, Kie." Pope says
"We're going this way." He groans pulling JJ away
"Um... I will meet up with you guys later." She says
"I'm starving. I need some pizza." JJ says getting out of popes grip
"No, you missed breakfast." Pope tells him
"I'm driving." I say going out to the van
"Oh good, looks like I didn't have to study for the geometry test cause I'm never gonna have to take it." John b says
"One more word and your precious van goes into the ocean." I say pulling out of the driveway
"That's good, really nice iz." He says
They were quiet the rest of the way, pope and I quizzed eachother on math facts while John b and jj were asleep or something in the back, soon we got to school and I parked, sorta.
"Come on!" I say getting out of the van
"Let's go. Up and at em boys." Pope says opening John bs door
"You look nervous." Pope says
"I'm in forbidden territory. I feel like someone's gonna pounce on me." I say looking behind me
"You'll be fine." He says coming to a turn which I assume is out geometry class
"Ahh Mr heyward nice to see you. And you must be miss Cameron. Wonderful to meet you, I'm so sorry about your loss." She says the ending quietly
"Oh don't be, it's okay. Nice to meet you too." I say following behind Pope, I sit across from pope and infront of jj so in inevitably could cheat off my paper cause I know him well. The teacher goes around putting the quizzes on everyone's desks.
"Glad you could join us, Mr routledge." She says getting to John b
"It's good to be back." He says
"Just in time for your quiz." She says handing him the paper
JJ looks to John b who points to pope, and then looks to me.
"Hey it's not my fault." I say
"I literally told you guys there was a test." He says
"No you didn't." Jj argues
"The first thing I said to you—"
"Psst. John b." A girl whispers and slips him a note
"What the hell?" I whisper in JJs ear
"Aren't they broken up?" He whispers back
"I don't know." I say and the teacher clears her throat telling us to stop talking I turn around listen to her lecture on how to not cheat off others and if we're caught we get a zero and a detention. We take the tests and the rest of the day goes about the same. Me and pope have all our classes together since I got put into the advanced placement classes. It's now last period and we meet back up with John b and JJ to go to history.
"Well, I think she meant to give it to me, so we're all good there. Were going." JJ says
"Did you just opening admit to you wanting another girl?" I ask sarcastically
"No no nah, all I'm saying is we're not out in the public yet you know, the people don't know about us."
"Oh yes they do babe, yes they do." I smile and walk next to pope
"Oh! Mr heyward, Mr routledge, Mr May and, and Miss Cameron! Just the group I wanted to see." He says
"Wish I could say the same." JJ says following us in
"I have a question of an historical nature for you gentlemen. I digitize documents for the Maritime Museum, and in return I have been given access to the archives and I found... this." He says leading us to a closet and pulling out a box
"A box." John b says
"It's more than a box." Mr sunn says
"That's a good start." Pope says
"Go ahead Mr heyward." He tells him showing him the opened box
"Uh careful with that." I tell him when he rips open the plastic covering the book.
"It's a diary. The authors unknown." Mr sunn says, pope opens the diary's first page revealing the wheat symbol. We all see and come to the quick realization,
"Whoah." John b says
"And this is a sample of a Denmark tanny letter, compare the handwriting." He says handing me the papers which I hand to pope
"No way." I say
"It's nearly identical." He says
"This is Denmark Tammy's diary. Guys this is captain limber. August 6th, 1829." Pope says
"That's the year the royal merchant went down
"I thought you might find it interesting." He tells us
"Thank you o much for this." Pope says
"It's important to know your own history." Mr sunn says
"Oh my god." Pope says opening the diary further
"It's the cross of Santo Domingo." I say looking to the page
"It was on the royal merchant." Pope says
"This day is getting freakier by the minute." I say
"I say let's dip." JJ says
"Yup let's go." John b says following jj out the door
"Hold on, before you leave in a rush. Here are some prints of the diary. In case you need them." Mr sunn says handing Pope a stack of paper
"Thank you!" I say walking out of the class and the boys follow
"What the fuck!" JJ says
"That's violently ironic." Pope says walking to the van, I get in the drivers seat and start it up.
"JJ grab my phone and text Kie tell her to meet at the chateau." I say pulling out of our parking spot
I blasted the radio and we sped to the chateau ready to read what the diary would hold.  I pulling into the driveway and shut the van off we all file inside, to Kie who's out sitting on the porch.
"Did you even go to school?" JJ asks
"Not important." She says
"What that's not fair pope, why did she get to skip!" I say
"Mr Dunn showed us something, look. Its entries from denmarks diary." Pope says handing her the pack
"Why does he have it?" She asks
"He works for the museum and in return he has access to the archives." I say
"Guys this is from denmarks diary. August 15th, set sail from port-au-Prince on calm seas. Came upon the Spanish ship San Hose on fire. The entire deck was aflame, and we could hear the screams of men trapped below. The Spanish captain cared about only one thing, his valuable cargo the cross of Santo Domingo and countless bars of gold. Once the cargo was on board we went to help the crew, but captain limber ordered us to pull bayonets and not to let any of the Spanish crew on board. He robbed them and left them to die." Pope says reciting the page
"So it didn't go down off Bermuda." JJ says
"And it was a limbrey stealing shit."
"Again." I say finishing her sentence
"This diary proves that both the gold and the cross of Santo Domingo were on the royal merchant." Pope says
"Why didn't we find it in the well then?" JJ asks
"I mean, if Denmark was able to get this, like, bedazzled cross off of the merchant to shore, why didn't he just hide it with the gold?" He asks
"Because it was to big." John b says
"You're right. He had to hide it someplace else." Pope says
"Before he was hung he said he buried the treasure at the foot of the Angel. Right?" I ask
"I thought this was about the key." JJ says
"Right. So what's the connection." Kie asks
"The path to the tomb begins in the island room." Pope says
"But what is the island room?" Kie asks
"You know what helps me figure shit out?" JJ says getting off the couch
"Smoking beers and drinking weed. The ideas just pour out of me." He says
"You don't drink wee-" I start but John b tells me to shh
"If we just sit here and try to figure this out, we're gonna get nowhere. But if we get creative, and go to this bonfire tonight we might get somewhere." Jj says
"Well, I just got disowned by my parents, and I'm an official member of the I have nothing to lose club." Kie says
"And Izzy what about you?" He asks
"Dads dead, Sarah's mad at me, Rafe kicked me out. I'm free." I shrug
"Great. Pope?" He asks
"Were so close." He says
"Look, look, think about how much you could think if you just gave your brain a rest." JJ says
"Ooooo." John b says
"Okay, fine." He agrees and the boys shoot off their seats
"Okay, wait. We gotta shotgun before we go." JJ says grabbing a few beers handing one to me and John b
"Go!" John b says and we drink
"Let's go!" I say finishing my beer and throwing it on the couch.
"Wait hold, I have to change." Kie says
"Oh shit me too."
"Come onnnn." JJ says
"It takes one second chill!" I say going inside
"2 minutes or we're leaving your asses here!" John b yells
"No you won't!" Kie yells back
"Ok what are you wearing?" I ask her
"Shorts, t shirt, jacket." She says
"Okay so I will wear shorts, tank top, jacket." I say digging through my bag to find a sweatshirt. I don't find one so I go to John bs room and grab a dirt stained white zip up from his closet and put it on over a red tank top, and the Jean shorts I wore earlier.
"I swear you can pull off anything, even John bs nasty ass clothes." Kie says meeting me on the porch
"Thank you kie kie." I say and grab my converse off the porch and walk to the car
"Look who decided to join us." Pope says
"Tie please!" I say putting my legs on JJs lap and handing him my shoes
"What would you do without me." He laughs
"Probably have pope tie them." I smile knowing that's not what he meant
"That's not what I- you know what your just lucky I love you." She says tying my other shoe
"I know!" I say
"Let's get the show on the road Pope!" Kie yells and pope pulls out of the driveway