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𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘗𝘖𝘝

"So this is what we're doing, huh? We're just sailing out" JJ is the first person to speak up after a long and uncomfortable silence "We're just gonna forget about John B?"

No one chooses to answer his questions, none of us really having a great answer to what we're doing or what we do next.

"We should never have left him. We're turning back" JJ decides and Cleo jumps up to stop him from getting to the wheel.

"No! We're all gonna get caught. What type of plan is that?" Cleo snaps at him.

"It's a plan to stick together, Cleo" JJ declares confidently.

"Then we are dead together" Cleo retorts sternly.

"She's right. We had to leave, or we'd all be zip-tied in the back of a pickup" Kiara speaks from experience and I nod in agreement "We did the right thing"

"We did what we had to do" I breathe out.

We fall back into a tension filled silence and it's quickly broken by the sound of a phone ringing. I thank whoever is on the other end for a distraction and we all turn to Kiara who has the phone in her hand.

"Who's that?" JJ questions curiously.

"It's Portis" Kiara frowns in confusion.

"Portis? That's John B. That's definitely John B. Hold on" JJ perks up immediately and Kiara hands him the phone so he can answer "Yo! Dude! Is this you?"

I hear the muffled sound of John B answering but I can't hear what he says due to the phone being at JJ's ear.

"Speaker" Kiara tells JJ but he's too concentrated on the call.

"What... Do you need us to turn around?" JJ asks the Routledge boy.

"Speaker" Sarah presses and JJ listens, putting the phone onto speaker.

"Yo, say it again. Say it again" JJ speaks into the phone.

"I said don't worry about me, okay?" John B repeats himself and static crackles through the line so we only hear parts of his sentences "Way too hot here... You gotta- Go back-"

"We do not copy. Can you-" JJ starts to tell him but Sarah jumps in to grab the phone.

"Let me talk to him" She suggests and JJ lets her take it "John B?"

"Sarah..." John B starts to talk but his voice is distorted.

"Are you okay?" Sarah asks him in worry.

"Yes. I'm fine. Everything's good" John B's fractured voice speaks.

"He's fine. Thank God. What happened?" Sarah questions him.

"I found my dad-" He starts to speak but the rest of his answer is incomprehensible.

"Wait. What'd you say? John B?" Sarah stresses and I share a look of shock with the others.