Adore You ☼ JJ Maybank

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[ X MARKS THE SPOT ]

"alright, jj, pin it here." john b says.

"roger that! x marks the spot." jj said, steering the boat to a steady pace.

"alright, ladies and gentlemen." john b says, "to going full kook."

john b dropped the drone in the water, the others getting in their positions to help.

"alright, jj, we're right over it." john b says, "ten seconds northwest."

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they went on for a while, trying to get the position just right while counting how far the drone had gone as a storm rolled in.

"john b, there's too much current!" kei says.

"we're gonna lose it." maya says, it taking both of the girls strength to keep the drone's tether.

"south, southwest, jj! hard!" johnny b said. "half speed! steady at this bearing, jj!" the monitor john b had to get their location beeped, signaling they were over it. "what do you got, pope? come on, man, what do you see?"

"nothin'. a whole lot of nothin'." pope said.

"come on, you should be right above it, brother."

"kiara! maya!"

"960! 970! 980!"

"i'm at bottom!" pope says.

"steady here, jj! steady here, quarter speed!" john b says, "you should be seeing something, man."

"i know, i know! wait, wait." pope says.

"oh, good god." john b says.

"see anything?" jj shouted.

"it's the royal merchant." john b said.

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"it's not there." john b says, "look, just—just pull the drone up."

"shit." maya said under her breath.

"look, we can do another pass. recharge the battery." pope says. "we can—we can go back down."

"guys, we've been through it three times. there's nothing there." jj says.

"shut up!" kei said.

"what? it's true."

"jj." maya said.

"the gold could be buried, we don't know!"

"if it was there it would've been found on the metal detector, okay?" john b says. "somebody beat us to it."

"or it was never there." jj muttered.