extra long chapter.
AT THE DOCKS
we decided to crash at the docks because we knew the police would've been swarming out poguelandia by now
i helped jj patch up his wound
"you know what's the funniest part?" jj scoffs
"i thought he was coming back for me. no, he just wanted to get rid of me" he sighs
"and now popes a fugitive, welcome to the club." jj scoffs again
"and we have nothing.. and we lost everything.. and it's.. its all my fault." jj nods and groans as he walks off
"it's not your fault." i follow him
"yeah. it is." he sarcastically spits back
i look away and over to the water
i felt his eyes on me but chose to ignore it
LATER
we were around the fire, the fire was cracking and it was silent with just sighs from everyone
"growing up, luke would always tell me when he was drunk off his ass, "if there's one thing i know, hell is other people." when i was a kid, i didn't get it. it didn't make any sense to me. but the one day, i just decided to ask him. i said, "what do you mean, hell is other people?" and he looked at me for a while, the. he just said, "just keep on living.. and you'll find out." luke's been wrong about a lot of things, but man was he right about that one. went from a fake dad... to a real dad who just tried to kill me." we all listened to jj explain as the anger in him boiled up
i place a hand on his knee and his muscles relaxed slightly
"hell.. certainly is other people." jj mutters
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"i just didn't think it got worse than luke. but groff? i'm sorry, i should've noticed-" i was then cut off
"vie, vie." jj opens a bottle of whiskey "your sympathy, thank you, but it doesn't do anything. this does." he takes a swig of the alcohol
"only trying to help, j. like i always do." i nod before laying back
"uh oh. shit! guys!" jj runs over
"who's coming out here this early?" pope asks as we see a boat driving over
we all pack our stuff as jj mentioned it's the cops
"follow me, cmon." john b begins running as do we all
we all get in the water and we slowly move under the dock
"JJ MAYBANK! WE DONT WANNA HURT YOU, CMON OUT! I HAVE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR JJ! IN CONNECTION TO THE MURDER OF HOLLIS ROBINSON!" the cops shouted everywhere
i think my heart dropped to my stomach
murder?
we run to the cops boat and jj gets it started
and off we go into the sunrise
"so, i guess im the new murderer in town then." jj scoffs
"yeah, it doesn't help that they have you on video saying you'll kill them all." pope nods
i smack popes leg gently
"we need out of here."
"i'm down for a morocco vacay"
"we're gonna need a bigger boat. a ship, maybe."
"this will be fun." i sigh
we pull up to the kildare marina, ready to steal another kook boat.
