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Estrella had gone back to John B's house seeing as she left her clothes there before they were stranded. She figured he had gone out or hadn't gotten back yet, but after she showered and found her phone and charged it for a few, she got the email that Big John was alive. It was shocking to her and she knew JJ probably hadn't known, so she headed back over there.
She walks up as JJ sits up from his bike and takes a sip from his beer.
"Hey, Jay." She says excitedly, "So get this. I had an email waiting for me on my phone. John B actually found Big John. He's alive."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah." She chuckles, "Apparently, he was at the Chateau. Probably before I got there."
JJ chuckles lightly, "Damn."
"Yeah, he thinks we're close to the same treasure Singh was talking about." She says. JJ simply nods before turning back to his bike. Estrella frowns as she takes a seat on the stool beside his table, "Jay, what's up? Did something happen?"
"No." He mutters bending down beside his bike
"Is it because we're back here?" She asks, "Or what happened on the boat?"
When JJ stays silent, Estrella stands up. As he turns around, he comes face to face with her. She steps closer and JJ can feel his heart jump, "What are we doing? What are we doing? We shouldn't be doing this, nah. We shouldn't do that."
He brushes past her which confuses Estrella, but she nods, "Yeah. If you say so."
"I mean, it would all blow up anyway. You know? Like..." He starts as he walks past her again, "Look at you. You got your new threads on. Look at me. What do I got? This? This piece of shit?"
Estrella jumps slightly as he throws something toward the house. He turns back to her, "Getting kicked out of this place in three weeks anyway. Shit, I don't got parents right now. Why would you care? Why would you care? I'm just some loser that-"
"JJ."
"You don't care. No, you don't!"
"JJ, I do care!" She says walking over to him. As she stands in front of him, JJ's face scrunches up lightly.
"No, you got your whole future ahead of you." He points before walking off, "That's your future. You got that."
"Look, if you need us, we're gonna help you. I'm-" She breathes, "I'll help."
"It's that right there. Okay? Like- It's so easy for you to say that. You know why? Because for some reason you have all this faith in me. Even when I treated you like shit, you forgave me. You forgave everything."
"What do you want me to say?" She exclaims, "That I've completely forgot about it? That I don't think about it all the time? Because I do. Every. Single. Day. I replay it over and over and over again."
