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CHAPTER FIVE pretty fish can get you killed ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃
SITTING ON THE CHAIR NEXT TO KIARA, dakota was tuning her dads old guitar while kie was playing the bongos.
"look, i'm calling it off. all right?" john b announced as he made his way towards his friends. "peterkin said, if i stay out of the marsh, she'll help me with dcs."
"and you believed her?" questioned jj, turning everyone's attention toward him. john b nodded his head, "yes, i believe her, jj"
"an actual cop, john b" jj exasperated. "you believed a cop."
getting angry john b responded, "all i gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out." throwing the stick he was holding to the ground, he continued. "it doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting a gun."
dakota slouched down in her seat sensing that an argument is going to happen between the two best friends.
"you know what i should have done?" jj questioned, "i should've just let topper drown your ass."
"topper was gonna drown me?" john b rhetorically questioned not believing that he was going to drown.
"sure looked like it." jj deadpanned moving from his spot the table approaching the four others. "i mean, have you looked in a mirror recently?"
"funny," john b said, "tell me some more. come on." he advised.
"they always win, don't they, man." jj sighed. "kooks versus pogues. they always, always win! goddamn!"
"look it's okay!" kiara interjected from her spot next to dakota.
"no it's not okay!" jj yelled in denial. "it is not! they don't want us to go down into the marsh. that means there's something valuable down there, and you know it, man." he yelled pointing at john b.
"i know you do. and i understand why you don't wanna go." he pointed at pope. "you're the golden boy. you got way too much to risk."
"and you," he turned his attention toward kiara. "i mean you're already rich as fuck anyway. why would you bother?"
dakota looked up as jj's attention was now focused on her. "you definitely shouldn't go, because knowing you, you'll get hurt and i don't like seeing you in pain and you mean too much to me." he pointed at her.
"but you and me man," he pointed between him and john b, "we got nothin' to lose! we really don't, all right?"
dakota frowned once he said that.
jj continued, "and i know it didn't use to be that way for you." john b shook his head, "i don't want to talk about this. i don't want to talk about it." he started walking away.
