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Part One :
Beautiful pastel colours fill the sky as the sun wakes from its slumber. The ocean breeze whistles through the green trees of The Cut. Waves crash against the soft wet sand and birds chirp in the distance creating a magnificent melody. Blue lays in her yard watching the sunrise from a hammock. She closes her eyes and falls soundly to sleep again.
"Blue, darling. It's almost noon." Her mother, Shauna, shakes the hammock to wake her. Blue's eyes flutter open and she sees her aged mother standing above her. noon? Blue overslept, she's meant to meet her friends in a half hour. "Darling, when you go out, grab a bag of flour, will you?" Her mother asks as Blue rushes around getting ready for her day. Jean shorts paired with an oversized shirt and underneath is a bikini. must be prepared for anything, Blue always says.
"Yep, of course mom. I'll get John B to drop it off in the van." Blue kisses her mother on the cheek before rushing out the door with her skateboard. Racing over the bumpy roads of The Cut, Blue enjoys the ride as the warm wind blows through her hair. She takes a left down a road when a shabby old brown van comes in her view. Blue tosses her skateboard inside the van and goes to meet her friends in the house. A blonde haired boy sits against a railing, one holds a drill whilst looking up at the roof and at last one on the edge of the roof holding a beer, Blue notices that one is missing.
"So kind of you to finally join us, babe." the blonde haired boy winks at Blue. The wind tussles his golden locks, Blue gives a small grin. "Hey isn't that my shirt?" JJ questions looking at the large t-shirt on his small framed friend. "maybe, but what are you going to do about it?" Blue taunts sticking her tongue out at him. He pulls her real close and whispers in her ear, "I'm gonna rip it off you later, princess don't you worry." His warm breath creates goosebumps all over Blue's body. Pretending as if JJ's words don't mean a thing she takes a seat next to him.
"What is John doing up there?" Blue asks, looking up but shielding her eyes from the bright sun. The curley brown haired boy stands on the edge of the roof holding a beer in one hand.
"Hey, did you know this used to be a turtle reserve." A girl says walking out of the house. Blue smiles at her environmentalist friend. This is her crew, The pogues. JJ the bonde troublemaker, John B the leader, Pope the brains, Kiara the loyal environmentalist and Blue the baby but the toughest. The five of them are family, no one comes before each other.
"Hey chica! Left me with all this testosterone all morning, how could you." Kiara laughs at her friend. Blue and Kiara do their pogue handshake.
"John B that's a three story fall. I give you a one in three chance of survival." Pope shouts at his friend standing on the very edge of the roof. "Should I do it?" John B asks looking in the direction of Blue and JJ, knowing those two would say yes.
"Whatever you do just don't drop your beer, I ain't giving you another." Just as JJ finishes his sentence a large gust of wind makes John B lose his balance and he drops the can all the way to the deck, splattering all his friends. "Yo, guys! Security alert!" Kiara shouts from in the house. All five of teens run through the house and yard toward the van. Not once have they ever been actually caught by the cops, nearly have, but never actually. The pogues have a reputation, all the cops know their names and where they live, but no one can do anything about them because they're just pesky teenagers having some fun.
each of them jump in the van, but John B starts moving before Blue is fully in. JJ grabs onto her waist and pulls her in, the two fly backwards, Blue on top of JJ. And for a moment Blue didn't want to get off, she always knew some part of her loves JJ as more than friends and as they all get older her instincts gravitate towards the blonde haired boy.
"Shit, John B we need to pick up flour for my mom." Blue says popping her head in between the two front seats. She places forty dollars in the cup holder of the van. "She even gave you gas money John." Blue singsongs. John B chuckles but agrees, saying how no one can fight the urge to help the Taylor family out. Blue gives him a long kiss on the cheek. "Thank you." She smiles giggling.
After dropping off Kiara, stopping for gas and getting a huge bag of flour from Pope's families shop and dropping Pope off, the three remaining go on to drive to the end of the cut where John B and Blue live. John B drives the van up on to the makeshift dirt driveway, grass worn down from cars. The blonde and the brunette carry the large bag of flour into the kitchen.
"What's for dinner mama S?" Both boys ask in sync. Shauna laughs at the two of them, she loves them as if they were her own.
"Go wash up before eating please, boys....and Blue." Shauna scowls at the boys trying to pick at the food with dirty grimy hands. JJ mutters a sorry quietly before the three go wash their hands.
Sitting at the dinning table, the four are like a family. Up until nine months ago it was only Shauna, Blue and JJ, but as John B's dad has been lost at sea, he joins the family dinners almost every night as well. Shauna bakes him bread and sends him home with food every now and then. John B doesn't even have to ask, Mama S, as they like to call her, just knows everything. The Taylor's household is always a safe place for everyone, once you're there you feel like family.
"Thank you for dinner mama, but i'm gonna head home before the storm breaks out." John B sighs, getting up from the table to wash his dishes.
"Nonsense John, you can stay here tonight." Shauna tells the boy as he stands at the sink. John agrees not wanting to be at home alone during a storm. Shauna makes the pull out bed from the couch, where JJ and John will sleep, although she makes his every night no one usually stays asleep in it, JJ always ends up in Blue's bed.
"JJ's got plenty of clothes here, you can borrow some i'm sure." Shauna tell John B as she finishes making the bed. She goes off to her bedroom to get candles and flashlights predicting they'll have no power after the storm. The three go into Blue's room to put on pyjamas.
"Here." JJ tosses a pair of basketball shorts and a muscle shirt to John B. Blue grabs a pair of athletic shorts and one of JJ's shirts and leaves to the bathroom.
"You could've changed in here with us. Not like we haven't seen it all before." JJ winks at her as she reenters her room. It's true the boys have seen her naked before, but that was years ago when they were children, her body has changed drastically since then. She's not a little girl anymore.
"There's flashlights and candles on the table if you need to get up and there's no light, Im off to bed." Shauna walks into her daughters room and kisses each of them goodnight. The two boys go into the living room and lay on the pull out sofa. As everyone drifts into a deep slumber, JJ lay awake listening as the tree branches thump against the windows and walls. Rain hits the glass of the window harshly. Getting out of bed JJ goes and lays next to Blue who's sound asleep, but cuddles in close to him when she feels his weight.
