in which violet forbes loses her best friend and ex-boyfriend
&& as summer fades into fall, jj maybank drags her back from the luxury of her life when their friends turn out to be alive
JJ MAYBANK
season two ── season four
cover by -voidlegends
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champagne problems; ❛ MIDNIGHT SUN ❜ ❝ I am suddenly convenient to you again ❞
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Violet, JJ, Kiara, and Pope waited for the police to arrive for all of thirty minutes. It was ridiculous, really. They tell them someone has been shot and they take their sweet ass time getting there. After they arrived, they led them to the scene of the crime which was completely empty, unlike before.
"Look, it was right here, and this is where that maniac claimed his next victim. Right there." Kiara told Officer Shoupe, her voice unstable and shaky as she pointed at the floor.
Shoupe narrowed his eyes. "Uh-huh. His next victim?"
Kiara nodded. "Yeah."
"Right." He hummed. "How long ago did you say it happened?"
Violet checked the watch on her hand and looked up to give him a sarcastic smile. "Like, forty-five minutes ago, Shoupe. You sure took your time."
Shoupe rolled his eyes. "And so, Ward Cameron just popped one off and shot him."
"Yeah." Violet nodded.
"Execution style?" He asked. "And then cleaned it all up in forty-five minutes?"
Violet swore that her eye was visibly twitching. She fucking hated cops. "Is this a fucking joke to you? Do we look like we would make this up? Kie is practically shaking this entire time. Look at her! Maybe if you did your fucking job, you would have arrested that asshole a long time ago."
The policeman lowered his head, clenched his jaw, and looked at the floor. JJ softly grabbed Violet's hand to make her back away but she quickly slipped from his grasp and crossed her hands over her chest.
"We filmed the entire thing." Kiara said in an attempt to be more convincing.
Shoupe's head shot up. "You filmed it?"
"Yes, but we can't show it to you because I stepped on JJ's hand, and then he kicked Pope, and then Pope dropped the camera, and because it's a piece of shit it broke." Kiara rambled while pacing in front of her friends.
"Officer, this is a telephoto, and we needed to get a long-distance image, and─and─ and I fell, and it broke, so the video is basically unusable. But── but we were there, and we're wit──"
"So the dog ate your homework?" Shoupe cut him off. Just like Violet guessed, he did not believe them one bit.
"No, Shoupe. I know it sounds──" Kie started, only for him to cut her off too.
"Look, I don't know what you kids expect me to do with this." He shook his head. "You drag me out here in the middle of the night for a whole lot of nothing──"
"It's not for nothing!"
"──except for some crazy stories about how Ward Cameron's out on a random killing spree."
