𝐹𝑜𝑜𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝐵𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹'𝓈 || OUTERBANKS

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•Pilot•
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Swimming down to the boat we all looked around, I noticed that it was a Grady-White, furrowing my eyebrows as my lungs now practically shouted out for oxygen, I pushed myself so that my feet touched the boat and pushed myself to the surface, everyone else was still up there, my father does diving as a hobby, you pick up a few things.

Coming up with my face first so that my hair was pinned back I looked around at the crew with a laugh.

"You guys saw that right!" Pope shouted as we treaded water, I nodded looking at him, wiping the salt water that was now burning my eyes.

"That was a Grady-White! A new one of those is like 500 Gs, easy" I told them as we started to swim back to the boat. Once everyone was on board I tried to pull myself on board when half way Johns hands went under my arms and pulled me up the rest of the way.

"Okay!" Pope shouted excitedly grabbing a towel.

"That's a primo rig" JJ spoke up as I sat down out of breath on the deck, grabbing a bottle of water to clear my throat of the salt water I swallowed.

"Yeah. That's the boat I saw when I surfed the surge" John spoke, looking down at the water, I looked up at him impressed.

"You surfed the surge...... successfully?" I asked dumbfounded. He nodded with a smirk, obviously proud of himself. Somehow I think he's lying though, he definitely didn't do it successful.

"Maybe it hit the jetty or something?" Pope asked, looking around at us as I passed a towel to JJ along with a bottle of water my mother packed, "Wait, wait do we know whose boat that is?"

"No, but we're about to find out" John spoke opening a hatch in the middle of the deck, pulling out a small anchor.

"Dude it's too deep" JJ argued, looking down at the boat. I shook my head while grabbing a piece of pineapple from my cooler, biting into it.

"Yeah..... for us" Pope spoke before turning to me, as I swallowed the food and looked up with a confused expression. Looking at the anchor in JB's hand I rolled my eyes.

"Fine" I sighed.

"Well I'm not resuscitating you. I'm just making that clear up front" JJ told me as I slapped his arm slightly, John B there the anchor overboard. I let out loud a sigh.

"Cody" Kie spoke in a worried tone, to which I just gave a thumbs up and covered my nose, taking deep breaths through my mouth in order to slow my heart rate, John B looked away, I'm not sure if it was out of nerves or what but I rolled my eyes and jumped backwards into the water.

Landing in the water, I used the rope to help me down, the water surrounding me made me feel peaceful, it always did.

Once I reached the boat I swam to the wheel, looking around it on the floor of the wreck. I saw something yellow-ish on the floor so I reached out and picked it up. Looking at it it looked like a room key.

So I put my finger through the loop as to not loose it, and checked once more, there was nothing else visible, so I turned around and swam back over to the rope, pulling myself up, slowly as to not get the bends.

Once I reached the top I pushed myself out of the water letting the oxygen fill my lungs, coughing slightly. Swimming over to the boat John and JJ reaches their hands out and pulled me back into the boat.

"Oh my God. That took forever!" Kie spoke worriedly, I don't get why she was so worried, she's seen me do longer, we used to play in my pool when we were 9 and I used to hide underwater.

"Any dead bodies?" Pope asked as I shook my head, tilting it each side to get the water out. John handed me a towel as I used it to dry my eyes.

"Looting potential?" JJ asked, excitedly, as I shook my head again, sitting down.

"No, No. I found this motel key" I told them holding my hand up showing the key wrapped around my pointer finger. Looking up at them squinting due to the sun I shrugged.

"A-A key?" Pope asked sounding disappointed, as he sat down opposite me.

"Yes, a key, Pope" I told him, as JJ sat next to me with a sigh.

"Great! We salvaged a motel key" He cheered sarcastically, as I lay my head on his shoulder tiredly. I felt a little dizzy but I'm guessing that's just the pressure of the water for a long period of time.

"Guys, we should report the wreck to the coast guard. Maybe we'll get a finder's fee" Kie spoke as Pope started the engine and began to get us out of there. I rubbed my wet face, pushing my hair back as it stuck to my head.

"Yeah, and not work all summer. Thanks, Agatha, ya batch" JJ spoke from next to me as his hand rested across my shoulders. I smiled and watched the tiny waves as they hit the boat.

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Getting off of the boat we arrived back at the deck, I threw my top in again not bothering with my bottoms, just staying in my bikini bottoms, we walked passed all the shop owners who were trying to get stock in after last night, and workers who were fixing up the island.

John walked into the coast guards pop up tent with JJ, as the rest of us waited outside the packed area. Looking over to my right, I saw my friends Daniel and Nmio. I muttered a quick 'be right back' to Kie and Pope, before running halfheartedly over to the twins.

"Hey, Thing 1 and Thing 2!" I shouted to which they turned, putting down their crates, and both embraced me in a hug. They were kooks too, but the nicer kind, they didn't like JJ for personal reasons but didn't really have anything against the others.

"Hey Short-Grey" Nmio spoke admiringly he pulled away, I looked down at the crates they were carrying and smiled. I wasn't short but they were just really tall, I was 5ft5.

"Pitching in?" I asked squinting to look up at the pair. They smiled taking off their sunglasses and placing them on the collar of their polo shirts.

"Yeah, moms making us"  They replied to which I smiled and shook my head Mrs Tesder was nobodies favourite, she was bossy and rude at the best of times.

"Well send her my dear love, I should get going" I told them sarcastically, before grabbing Daniel's glasses and putting them on, walking back over to my friends.

Daniel, Nmio and I were like Kie and I, we were raised together. Nmio was the older twin but was somehow shorter than Dan, and more petite.

Returning to the crew, they looked at me confused.

"Where did you get the Ray-Bans?" JJ asked, intrigued as he came walking out of the tent with JB.

"A friend" I replied with a wink, that I only realised after, he couldn't see it. Pushing myself up and onto the railing, dangling my legs, swinging them back and forth.