𝘔𝘖𝘕𝘖𝘊𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘚𝘐𝘚 ❁ 𝘑𝘑 𝘔𝘈𝘠𝘉𝘈𝘕𝘒 & 𝘒𝘐𝘈𝘙𝘈 𝘊𝘈𝘙𝘙𝘌𝘙𝘈

𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘏𝘜𝘕𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘋 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘙𝘛𝘌𝘌𝘕

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❝ can you feel how deep i am ❞
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{ 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 }

𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘗𝘖𝘝

We drop Sarah off at the chateau to wait for John B and then the rest of us head to the local docks, tying up Rafe's boat for someone to find.

"Welcome to the Outer Banks, Cleo" Pope announces with a grin and I start to get the vibe that he's fond of our newest member.

"You're crazy, Pope. Your parents are not going to appreciate me shacking up" Cleo worries and a hand slips into my own, my eyes glancing back to see a smiling JJ.

"Of course they will. Are you kidding?" Pope scoffs in disagreement and I squeeze JJ's hand as we walk "Heyward might put you to work, but we could always use the help"

"I don't know, man. You sure?" Cleo counters in concern.

"Yeah, look, he might squawk a little bit, but let me talk to him. We'll figure it out" Pope assures the girl as we reach the Carrera household.

"This is me" Kiara murmurs, not sounding all too happy "Home sweet home"

"Damn, Kiara. You live here?" Cleo gawks at the large house as we enter through the back garden "This is like the White House, man"

"How bad you think it's gonna be?" Pope wonders aloud.

"Scale of one to ten?" Kiara replies, stopping at the bottom of the stairs and turning to look at us "Twenty"

"Do you want us to hold up here?" Cleo asks the girl supportively.

"No, I... I gotta take this. Thanks for walking me" Kiara shakes her head.

The Carrera girl smiles at me and turns to head up the stairs but I make a split decision, reaching out to grab onto her arm. She turns back to me in surprise and I press a soft kiss to her lips before stepping back with a reassuring smile.

"Good luck, Kie" I tell her and she grins happily.

"See you later?" She asks hopefully and I nod in response.

I watch her head up the stairs, disappearing from our line of sight, before I turn to JJ and slip my hand back into his larger one. He pecks my temple and we start walking towards the cut, Pope and Cleo following behind us.

"So is anyone going to talk about what just happened?" Cleo breaks the silence.

"Huh?" I hum in confusion, looking back at her.

"You and Kiara. The kiss we just saw" Cleo elaborates and I realise that we haven't quite had the conversation with the other Pogues yet.

"Sylvie's dating JJ and Kiara" Pope explains with a simple shrug and my brows raise in surprise.

"You are freaky observant, dude" JJ jokes and Pope rolls his eyes with a smile.

"Well it's not like you guys are even trying to be sly about it all" Pope retorts teasingly.

JJ and I soon split from Pope and Cleo, the other duo going left towards the Heywards while we go right towards the Maybank house. When we arrive at the property we find the front of the house all taped off and an eviction notice is stuck on the front door.