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Blue wakes up and quietly gets out of bed as to not wake JJ, walking in to the kitchen she sees Pope and John B asleep on the pull out bed. The powers been out for days so there's not much she can make for breakfast, usually her mom gets up early and gets stuff for breakfast. She makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bread that isn't moldy when Kiara walks in. "Good morning." Blue smiles taking a bite of her sandwich. "Morning, oh and my dad said you're welcome to stay over whenever while your moms away." Kiara says.
Blue and Kiara grab pots and pans and start banging them to wake the boys up. Pope and John B groan and throw pillows at the girls. "What's going on?" JJ questions rubbing his eyes. Pope glares at the girls, "Blue and Kie are being assholes is what's going on." He mutters sitting up. "Hey I let you sleep in my home." Blue retorts throwing a pillow back at him. "Come on guys, we got a ship wreck to find!" Kiara shouts trying to pump everyone up. "My dad gave us pizza for lunch, and I brought our special juice boxes." She sing-songs, with that information the boys get up and put their shirts on. "Shit guys, me and JJ promised my dad we'd do deliveries today." Pope groans. Blue makes three sandwiches for the boys and they eat at the table. "Can we at least test out the equipment." Blue pleads pouting. Pope thinks about it for a minute while eating his sandwich. "Yeah, I guess we can test it out quickly." He responds giving in to her pouting.
Pope, John B and Kiara are down at the dock setting up leaving Blue and JJ in the house alone. "We'd better go out there before they get suspicious." Blue gives him a quick kiss and goes to walk out the door, JJ pulls her back and kisses her passionately. "Oh come on, just a couple more minutes alone." JJ begs, she gives in and the two kiss for a bit more and then finally go out. Pope sits in front of a screen that shows John B and Kiara swimming. "Dude that's so cool." Blue says excitedly. "God bless geeks, Pope. Truly, man." JJ says looking at the screen. "What would we do without you to control the drones?" Blue smiles patting his shoulder. He looks up at her, "It's technically not a drone. It's an ROV." He corrects her. "Same difference." She shrugs. John B and Kiara's heads bob on the surface of the water. "Once we get footage of the wreck, we'll take it to a lawyer in town and file a formal claim." John B says a little out of breath from swimming. "It's such bullshit that we have to do that." JJ shakes his head. "Well, there is maritime salvage law. You can't just go to the ocean floor and scoop up a bunch of stuff." Pope explains, Blue groans. Laws and rules are very dumb.
Pope and JJ leave to go run deliveries. Blue, Kiara and John B sit on his front porch and eat the pizza Kiara brought. "i'm gonna go home, cone stop by if you guys do anything." Kiara smiles getting up from her spot and walking off to her car. "JJ seems like he's doing good." John B says leaning back into the chair. "Yeah, he hasn't gone back to his house in a couple weeks. I think summers been really good for him." Blue nods. John B laughs. "Or you've been really good for him. Don't think that i don't know things, dude i'm your guys'd best friend." He says grinning. "What do you mean? JJ and I are just friends." Blue lies very terribly, there's only three people she can never tell a good lie to and those are her mom, JJ and John B. They know her too well, they've picked up on her habits when she lies, not making eye contact and she always fiddles with her fingers. "Yeah, alright." He shakes his head laughing. "I'm going to go nap on the boat." Blue says getting up and walking down to the boat. No one understands how she sleeps so much, in fact she's asleep more than she's awake. The crew always catches her nodding off on car rides and just hanging out. "Sleeping beauty, we're going surfing." A girls voice wakes Blue and she groans. Blue sits up squinting. "Alright, let's go." she sighs standing up. John B already packed the boards on the roof of the van. Blue sits up front while Kiara sits in the back.
Getting into the water, Blue gets the first wave. She glides across the water as if she's part of it, feeling the air against her bare skin and breaths in the familiar ocean breeze. "Show off." John B splashes her. Blue notices John B and Kiara wanting to talk alone, so she paddles out again as she sees another wave coming in. "Hey, save some waves for us!" JJ shouts running into the water with Pope and their boards. The two boys join John B and Kiara, floating on their boards. "Look at her go, fearless." JJ smiles his eyes following Blue as she soars over the waves. JJ, Blue and John B learned to surf together and ever since then JJ has always been mesmerized by her. There's nothing quite more beautiful than Blue's surfing. She may be small and need protection on land, but on the waves she's strong and fearless. She slowly lets the wave die out and paddles over to her friends. "You guys gonna sit here and watch all day or are you gonna join?" She teases sitting up on her board. The thing about Blue is that she'll never go out on the open ocean alone, not after her mom got into a bad accident when she was young, but she still finds a certain security and confidence in the waves.
Back at John B's the crew lay in the hammocks as the sunsets just enjoying each other's company. "You really think it's out there? Like, no bullshit?" Pope asks to no one in particular. "My father thought it was" John B responds looking off at the sky turning different shades of blue to a purple. "But do you?" Pope questions. "After gearing his voice on that tape. I think I do." John B says sincerely. They sit silent for a couple minutes. "We're going to find it you know." Kiara says hopeful. "Yeah, even JJ believes." Blue adds in chuckling and pokes his cheek. "Oh my god, JJ, do you really believe?" John B mocks. "Totally. Wait. Are we talking about four mil?" JJ asks totally zoned out. "Four hundred mil." They all repeat to JJ. He pulls Blue on to his chest and cuddles her, "Im gonna dream about shipwrecks. Goodnight, Bird!" JJ says closing his eyes and resting his head on Blue's. They all slowly fall asleep under the stars dreaming about shipwrecks and what the future holds.
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Q&A of the day: What's a hobby you've picked up during quarantine/self-isolation? I've started knitting, embroidering and baking, so basically i'm turning into and old lady.
