Adore You ☼ JJ Maybank

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[ OH SHIT ]

"i mean, it's obvious, right?" john b said from the drivers seat, "a family heirloom. i mean, what better place to hide a message? he had to know it was gonna get back to me, right?"

"yeah, it's possible." kei said.

"it could also be possible that you're concocting wild theories to help, you know... deal with your sad feels."

"bro, you know how i deal with my sad feels? i—"

"i'm not concocting, okay?" john b said before jj probably got into the fantasy of him and maya's sex life. "my dad's trying to give me a message."

"if it helps you believe, john b..."

"look, i-i don't need a therapy session, okay?" john b says, "look, i'm not trippin' out."

"it's okay to trip, bro, but—"

"my dad—my dad is missing, okay? missing." john b says, "you don't know what it's like to have the person closest to you vanish and then have no idea what happened. just wake up every morning wondering..."

"it's been almost a year." kei says slowly.

"hey, he could have been kidnapped. that's definitely a possibility." jj says.

"yeah, he could be in the soviet sub getting interrogated by the kgb somewhere." pope says.

"absolutely. o-or atlantis."

"look, what do you think the message is?" maya asked, trying to stop jj and pope's stupid ideas.

"redfield." john b says. "redfield lighthouse. that's my dad's favorite place."

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"right. here's what's gonna happen, you guys are gonna post up and look for bogeys, okay?"

"wait, why me?" jj says.

"because you're not coming." pope says.

"there are independent and dependent variables, and you're an independent variable."

"shut up—"

"we don't know what you're gonna do."

"shut up!"

"listen to me for a second!" john b shouted. "pope, you stay lookout with jj. maya, you stay, too, and make sure jj doesn't kill pope. you can make him stay in line." jj glanced over at the girl who had a snarky smile on her face because she knew it was true. "if we get split up, we meet back at jj's house."

"great." kei says.

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"i'm gonna work on my merit scholarship essay, and i'm trying to keep felonies down to a minimum." pope says.

"alright, would you just shut up already?" jj said.

"would you both just shut up?" maya said.

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"oh, shit!" pope says as they heard the police sirens, the three of them running to the van