𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐲

I. Poguelandia 2.0.

WHEN THEY had first gotten home, Jake went with Kie to the Wreck, where her dad came running out, yelling at them. So, opposed to a warm welcome, Mike and Anna told them off, about her not coming back unless "he's gone", and something about boundaries. Jake followed after the angry Carrera girl.

Unlike the Carrera's reactions, Jake and Kie were welcomed with open arms by his mother and his grandmother at his house, especially with Evie, who was excited to see her dad. After a long shower, he finally got to lay in his own bed after a long adventure. "Dada," his daughter cooed when he slides under the covers next to her and Kie. "Hi baby."

Then the next was the gold, the group now checking the shared bank account where John B inserts the card, "moment of truth. Alright." He clears his throat as they all gather around the ATM. "Pin is 0-0-0-0. Enter." He said and Jake looks at him. "You're kidding." The Lennox says so the Routledge looks up. "What?" He says. "Tell me that's a temporary pin." Kie spoke up next. "I thought nobody could guess." John B glanced at her next.

"You need to change that immediately."

"I'm sorry." John B looks back at the machine where the receipt prints out. "That's me. That's me." JJ snatched paper and John B tries to stop him. "Hey!" Cleo shouted at them as the two boys now fight over the piece of paper. "Let me read it!" JJ said and John B rushed away, holding the paper. "It's not even the money. It's just the receipt." Pope exclaimed at them as John B unfolds the crumpled up paper. "Okay. Okay. Our join account balance... after paying JJ's restitution at 10:04 a.m. on Tuesday..." He paused for a moment.

"Oh, come on, get on with it!"

"Our joint account balance is one point one million, seventy-two thousand, five hundred and forty-nine dollars." John B says. "You said mil?" JJ asked. "Million?" Pope asked next. "Um--" John B turns to them. "With an M?" Jake asked. "That'll do it!" Pope exclaims. "That'll do it!" The group all celebrate together, laughing, cheering and hugging.

"That is the craziest thing I've ever seen on a piece of paper." Pope said as JJ took out a beer from the fridge, so Jake looks over at him as the others spoke behind him. He walked over to the blond boy, "you can smile, you know." He tells the Maybank. "Hey, this doesn't mean we're Kooks." Jake tells him now as JJ just stared at him. "Just means we have a little money now." He says, smiling faintly. JJ just smiled back at him, softly nodding his head, as Kie looked over at the two, watching them before she looks away, smiling slightly.

The group all had many plans, especially JJ, "okay, wait, wait, hear me out. Rally truck with yellow LEDs to replace the Twinkie for right now." He suggested. "No. I'm not getting rid of the Twinkie." John B denied his plan. "But with solar panels, maybe?" Kie tells the Maybank. "If it's in the budget." Jake added on. "And a bigger boat." Cleo suggested next.

"Guys, hold on. Hold on. It's--it's not like we can all go off and buy houses or anything. I mean, split between all of us, that's about $211,000. Minus what we owe Barracuda Mike." Pope says, looking over at JJ. "Let him try and take this. I'll mess him up." The blond replied. "Um, just gonna say it. I don't wanna piss off the drug dealer." John B tells him. "Listen, if we divide thisnup, we're all gonna blow it." Pope now says and Jake just looks at JJ.

"Wow, okay. Why are you looking at me like that?" The Maybank asked him, a little offended. "But maybe if we pool our money together, we can create something with actual economies of scale." The Heyward now tells them. "Like what?" Kie looked up at him. "You remember the island." Pope began. "Duh." Kie says. "Totally." Jake said sarcastically, nodding.

"Well, Jake, what I'm trying to say is, it was our own island, and we built everything from basically nothing, right?" Pope says. "It was perfect." Kie said, looking down. "The best life." Cleo says and Jake just glanced around at them, then his eyes landed on JJ. "The whole island just to ourselves. Most of us together." Sarah softly pats Jake's arm.