Baby Blue // Outer Banks

the royal merchant

The sun shines bright and early waking the five teens from their slumber. "Turn the lights off." JJ mumbles half awake. "JJ, we're outside. That's the sun." Pope grumbles. Blue still sound asleep in JJ's arms, not fazed by the bright sun. "God, she can literally sleep through anything." John B chuckles whilst lightly tossing rocks at her each hitting her body. "Kie and I'll go get my dads boat." Pope says standing up as does Kiara, John B tosses his keys to Pope and the two walk off to the van. "Go grab some food from Blue's. It's gonna be a long day. I'll deal with waking her up." He says tossing his keys to John B. "It's the pink key, Blue painted it." He sighs explaining why the key is pink. Blue was bored one day and painted all his keys with nail polish, she wanted to put sparkles, but compromised with just colour. He looks at the girl sleeping and contemplated how to wake her. "Blue wake up. Wake up. It's time to get up." He says shaking her, she swats at him slapping him on the jaw. "Ouch. Wake up." He groans vigorously shaking her now. She opens her eyes and glares at the blonde boy standing above her. "Oh, don't look at me like that." JJ pouts and kisses her on the lips, Blue smiles. Blue and JJ race each other to her house where John B tosses food into an empty cooler. "Oh my god, let me do it." Blue shakes her head at John B who just tosses random food items in. She puts in a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, some bananas, apples and two boxes of crackers as well as plenty of water bottles. "Pope and Kie should be here soon." John B says walking out the door with the cooler. "Hopefully she brought some adult juice." Blue giggles following him out the door, JJ trails behind locking the house up.

Kiara and Blue sit back, snack and drink as the boys navigate. JJ driving, Pope reading the map and John B is helping because it was his idea. The girls decided to sit back as Pope needs to concentrate. Kiara throws grapes into Blue's mouth, each shot successful. "Alright, JJ. Pin it here." John B's voice distracts the girls form their game, the two rush over. "Roger that! X marks the spot." JJ nods. As JJ holds the boat steady and Blue watches the screen, the other three rush over to drop the drone into the water. "Alright ladies and gents, to going full kook." John B says dropping it down. "Cameras are working." Blue shouts, Pope replaces her at the screen and control, Kiara's on line duty, John B is on boat navigation, Blue watching the tide and weather and JJ on steering. Kiara shouts out every hundred feet they go down, four hundred feet so far. Blue looks down over the edge of the boat and notices the waves changing direction. "The tides turning!" She shouts. John B looks down at the monitor, "Hey, JJ. Ten seconds easy. South-southeast." He instructs. "Copy that." JJ shouts back. Blue looks up at the sky as thunder rumbles. "Shit guys, weathers not looking too great." She says.

Waves crash against the boat causing everyone to stumble. Thunder rumbles and lighting strikes in the dark gloomy clouds. Kiara keeps shouting every ten feet now. "Pope we should be right over top of it!" John B shouts over the thunder and the waves. "Hold it steady JJ!" John B exclaims. "Oh good god." Pope is breathless. Blue looks over at the screen and sees a shipwreck, the four of them smile and look shocked. "See anything?" JJ shouts from the cockpit. "It's the royal merchant." John B chuckles. They watch as the drone glides through the water showing the bits and pieces of the Royal Merchant. "it's not there." John B sighs. "Look, just. Just pull the drone up." He shakes his head. "Shit." He says walking a way from the screen his hands running through his hair. "Look we can recharge the battery and do another run through." Pope shouts. "We've done it three times. There's nothing there." JJ says angrily. "Shut up!" Kiara screams at him, Blue grabs his hand to try and calm him. "What? It's true!" He yells at back at her. "The gold could be buried. We don't know." Kiara says. No one answers her. "If it was there it would have been found on the metal detector, okay?" John B shouts. "Someone must've beat us to it." Blue adds in. They were all so hopeful, now their dreams are being crushed. "Or it was never there." JJ mutters, Blue looks at him and shakes her head no.

Returning back home no one speaks a word to each other, all dealing with the fact that their hope for this gold that never existed is being crushed. They put everything into that search, breaking into a junkyard, almost being killed, sneaking into a cemetery and stealing scuba gear, all of that was for nothing. Each go their separate ways, Kiara back home, Pope helping his father out, John B back to his house, Blue and JJ of course together, but at JJ's because he wanted to practice shooting. Blue lays in a hammock sleeping as JJ shoots a teddy bear he found on the ground. "JJ! JJ! They know." Pope shouts walking up to his friend shooting a gun. "Shh, keep it down. Blue's over there napping." JJ shushes his friend. "They don't know shit." He scoffs. JJ leans didn't o put his ear-mufflers and gun down. "Topper knows I sunk his boat." Pope paces rubbing his face. "How do you know they know?" JJ questions. The two bicker before Pope finally gives in to JJ's advice. "Besides if anyone questions you. Deny, deny, deny." JJ says patting Popes cheek each time he says deny. Blue wakes up and walks over to the two boys. "Hey Pope, what are you doing here?" She asks, not many people stop by JJ's besides her and John B. "Uh, Kie invited us all to the movie tonight with the kooks." He explains nervously scratching his head. "Anyone heard from JB?" Blue questions. They both shake their heads no. "He's probably off trying to find more buried treasure for us to hunt down." JJ rolls his blue eyes.

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This ones a shorter chapter, but if i added another scene it would have been too long. Hope you guys enjoy.

Q&A :
If you could live anywhere (real of imaginary) where would you live?
Personally I would live anywhere with a beach and thats tropical. Like hawaii or the Philippines (I'm half-filipino/half-canadian) I would love to live somewhere like outer banks too, that would be fun!