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Even though the friend group had almost been killed over the old compass, they continued to follow John B's voyage. The boy considered that Redfield was a message. No matter what happned to his father, John B couldn't shake the feeling that the note was left specifically for him.
Bondi always presumed the older John had died at sea, but she wasn't going to stop her bestfriend from thinking otherwise. If he still had hope, she would never come in the middle of that. Even admiring John B for it. Knowing if the roles were reverse, she wouldn't even realize her mother was missing.
"I mean it's obvious right? A family heirloom guys," John B ranted. Trying to get his friends on board for his theory.
"What better place to hide a message? He had to know it was gonna get back to me right?"
Kiara who was in the front seat nodded, still skeptical. Rather than bringing him down she uttered, "yeah. It's possible."
Nodding along, Bondi chimed in giving him her full support. "Yeah, it's very possible."
Pope scoffed at the ridiculous assumption, "it could also be possible that your concocting wild theories to help. You know..." He voiced, saying what everyone was thinking, but was to scared to actually admit.
"Deal with your sad feels."
Kiara threw him a scolding look. All while JJ smiled, "bro you know how I process my sad feels? Dank nugs and the stickiest of ickies. That's how I do it."
Bondi laughs, "nothing a pint of ice cream can't fix. That's how I deal." JJ high-fived his friend, knowing that the two had indeed shared an ice cream party every now and then to deal with their shitty life.
Not paying attention to the two John B ushered, "I'm not concocting okay?" Not understanding why his friends didn't take him seriously. "My dads trying to give me a message."
Kiara frowned biting her lip, "if it helps you believe, John B."
"Look, I don't need a therapy session, okay? Look, I'm not trippin out," John B exclaimed.
JJ chipped in, "it's okay to trip bro, but," he attempted to say. Yet, was cut off by his frustrated friend.
"Look, my dad is missing, okay?" John B stated again. "Missing. You don't know what it's like to have the person closest to you vanish and then have no idea what happned. Just wake up every morning wondering."
Bondi frowned. She may not know what John B was feeling, but she did know how much an absent parent hurt.
Kiara gave him a sympathetic glance whispering, "it's been almost a year."
Trying to lighten the mood JJ voiced, "hey. He could've been kidnapped. That's definitely a possibility."
Pope nodded, going along with the playful take on words. "Yeah, he could be in a Soviet sub getting interrogated by the KGB somewhere."
