Adore You ☼ JJ Maybank

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[ DON'T SPILL THAT BEER! ]

"that's, what, about a three story fall to the deck? i give you about a one-in-three chance of survival."

"hmm." john b said, "should i do it?"

maya watched as the boy stood on top of the roof, silently hoping he wasn't drunk enough to actually do it.

"yeah, you should jump!" pope says, pointing a nail gun that the dark-skinned boy had in his hand toward john b. "i'll shoot you on the way down."

"you're gonna shoot me?"

"yep!"

"pew.." john b imitated a gun with his fingers.

"they're gonna have japanese toilets with towel warmers." kei said, coming out of the house.

"of course they are, why wouldn't they?" jj asked from his seat beside maya, dangling his feet over the edge of the construction equipment they sat upon.

"this used to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles, i guess." kei said.

"i can't have cold towels." jj mocked.

"can you please not kill yourself?" kei said after looking up to see where jj was talking from, but seeing john b on top of the roof.

"don't spill that beer!" jj said, "i'm not giving you another one."

"whoa!" john b said, as if on cue, and dropped his beer. "oh, shit."

"of course you did, like right when i told you not to." jj scoffed in a jokingly way as he looked over at maya, not beliving that had just happened.

maya just looked up to meet jj's eyes and laughed slightly, taking a swig of her beer.

"ugh.." john b groaned, looking down at the can.

"dumbass." kei said.

"hey!" a loud man's voice was heard.

"hey, uh, security's here." pope calls out, looking around toward the front of the house, "let's wrap it up!"

"boys are early today." jj says, standing up.

"let's go, guys." maya says before they swung down off the construction platform.

"gary, is that you?" jj shouts.

"jj!"

"gary! good to see you, man!" jj says.

"you're just asking for it, come on." maya said, grabbing jj's hand.

the crew ran through the house shouting and giggling as they escaped security, jj almost being caught in the process.

"go, go, go, go, go, go!" jj said as pope jumped the fence, him then maya right behind them.

"come on, guys!" kei said, john b slowing the van as the three of them jumped into the volkswagen.

john b drove off as jj teased the old security man through the open door before maya laughed loudly and grabbed his shoulder to bring him back in the van.