Baby Blue // Outer Banks

Motel Key

Blue wakes her head resting on JJ's chest that rises and falls with every breath. For a moment she feels as if nothing else matters in the world except being in her bed peacefully with JJ. The sun shines perfectly on JJ through the ratted blinds. She feels a feeling she's never felt before looking at this blonde boy. Blue pokes JJ's cheek and lightly blows air on his face. The boys blue eyes flutter open tiredly, he groans.

"Get up pretty boy, the fish won't wait around for us." Blue teases him. She grabs a bikini and short overhauls. Blue goes to the bathroom to change, leaving a tired blonde boy in her bed alone. The bathroom has no lock, none of the doors in her home have locks. She quickly changed into her swimsuit and just as she's tying up her top JJ walks in. "Let me help you with that." He smirks. His warm hands glide across her back and neck as he ties the strings together. He spins her around and crashes his lips against hers. Cupping her cheek with one hand and the other on her waist the two don't want to stop. Blue pulls away teasing him. "No pogue-on-pogue macking." She winks at the boy who's left in awe.

John B rakes up leaves and picks up fallen branching putting them in a pile in the yard. Shauna cleans up the front porch of leaves and branches. The two listen to reggae as they clean up what the storm destroyed while waiting for Blue and JJ to wake up. Blue skips out of the house kisses her mother good morning. "Lets go catch some dinner boys!" She grins running off to the HMS POGUE John B's small boat. Following behind her John B and JJ hop in the boat.

Ocean breeze blows through each of their hair, small droplets of sea water sprinkle Blue as glide across the garbage filled marina, "Man Agatha did us dirty." John B remarks looking out at all the wreckage. "We'll be cleaning this all summer." JJ continues. they approach Pope's dock. Pope sprays his dock with a hose trying to clear the fallen leaves when he catche's sight of his friends boat. "We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." Blue shouts, "I can't my pops got me on lockdown." Pope says back. His father shouts at him and his friends, Pope looks between his friends and his father and ultimately decides to go with his friends. "I'll help out tomorrow dad, I promise!" Pope shouts as John B drives the boat away from the dock and towards where they pick up kiara each morning.

"Ki, whatcha got there babe?" JJ asks kiara as she boards the HMS POGUE, Blue feels a sudden burst of jealousy, she's never felt this way before. They all flirt and banter with each other, it's not like anyone's together. John B notices Blue's sudden change in mood and puts and arm around her as they set off into the sea. "Pope get on here." John B says and switches places with Pope. "What's wrong, Blue?" He asks whispering to his upset friend. Blue shrugs, but says nothing. "Come on, i'm your best friend, I mean besides JJ." He smiles as he moves a lock of hair out of her face. "I'm good John B. Don't need to worry about me." Blue forces a smile.

At the bow of the boat JJ attempts his trick for the millionth time. He pours a beer and hopes that the wind will blow it into his mouth. Blue giggles at her dumb friend. All five of them laugh and drink beer living their happy lives. The boat is jolted forward and JJ is launched into the water. Blue is launched forward and hits the seat in front of her. "Jesus, Pope!" Kiara shouts from the ground of the boat where she was jolted. "You okay, JJ?" John B asks looking over the boat and into the water where his friend floats. JJ groans, "I think my heels touched the back of my head." Everyone groans as they stand up, "Everyone okay?" John B asks, they all say yeah.

"Pope what did you do?" Blue groans getting up from the ground. "Sandbar, the channel changed." Pope says, he locks over the edge of the boat and into the water. "Guys i think there's a boat down there." He says, no one believes him until they look for themselves. "Shit, we should report it to the coast guards." Blue says. "Nah, let's take a look first." And they all dive in to see what they can find. Diving deeper and deeper Blue's lungs crave air, but she pushes through, she's the first one to come back up for air. treading water she waits for her friends. "That's a grady white. A new one of those is like 500 G's, easy." JJ says excitedly. The five all climb back into the boat, JJ helps Blue up.

"That's the boat i saw when i surfed the surge." John B admits. Blue snaps her attention to him, John B was supposed to be asleep in her house safe, not surfing the surge. "You surfed the surge?" Both Kiara and Blue ask concerned.   JJ and Pope congratulate John B for surfing the surge 'Pogue style', whereas Kiara and Blue shake their heads at the three boys. "Do we know who's boat that is?" Pope asks, John B is already getting the anchor out. "No, but we're about to find out." He says. "Dude it's too deep." JJ says looking down. "Yeah JJ's right for once." Blue says looking at John B. He stands on the edge of the boat holding the anchor, "diver down, fool." Pope salutes him. "Yeah diver down." JJ pushes him into the water. Blue rolls her eyes and crosses her arms looking at JJ. "He could drown!" Blue says angrily at him. "Your sweet John B will be fine he's a pogue." JJ starts mockingly but finishes harshly.

Blue starts to worry as John B has been under for a long time. Just as Blue gets ready to dive in after him, John B's head breaks through the water and he gasps for air. "Oh my god, that took forever." Kiara gasps. "Any dead bodies?" Pope asks, John B hold up a motel key, "No, I found this motel key." He says getting into the boat. "Okay now can we report this to the coast guard?" Blue asks. "Yeah maybe we'll get a finders fee." Kiara agrees. Deciding on reporting it they race off to the coast guards.