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𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.

"Don't fall" Skyla called out to John B as he was balancing himself on the edge of the roof. "That's what, a three- story fall to the deck?" Pope held a drill continuing "I give you about a one-in-three chance of survival."

"Should i do it?" "Yeah, jump. I'll shoot you on the way down." "John B please get down before you hurt yourself" skyla said worryingly. As the boys continued their little chat Skyla took JJ's beer from his hand taking a sip.

"You know that's mine right?" "Well now it's mine" Skyla took another sip and JJ just smiled looking back at what John B was doing. "They're gonna have Japanese toilets with towel warmers." "Of course they are." Skyla mumbled taking another sip.

"This used to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles, I guess?" Skyla looked down swinging her legs over the edge "i care" she whispered, "and that's what i love about you." Skyla looked at JJ giving him a weird look, he ignored it and continued to talk to Kie about the towels.

"I can't have cold towels." "Can you please not kill yourself?" Skyla looked over at Kie "i've been telling him to get down but he doesn't listen" "like you" Skyla turned to JJ. "When have I ever not listened?" "Ugh that one time" JJ tried to think of a time but his attention went back on John B. "Don't spill that beer. I'm not giving you another one" two seconds later John B ended up dropping the beer can.

"Of course you did right as i told you not to." Skyla started freaking out "guy guys security is here" if Skyla ever got arrested or in trouble her father would kill her. "Oh shit" Pope yelled "Gary is that you" Skyla slapped JJ on the arm "can we not rile them up please I can't get in trouble." "Im just having fun Skyla and you're not gonna get in trouble."

JJ grabbed Skyla's hand as they all ran down the stairs of the house "get em there coming your way" one of the security guards yelled at the other. "Not much of a hugger man!" Skyla laughed at JJ and continued running. Pope hopped over the fence "go, Pope! Go! Go,go,go,go,go!" once Skyla got to the fence JJ helped her up then climbing over it as well. "Get up, Pope, fatso's coming." Skyla helped pope up and continued running to the van.

"Come on boys and Sky! Whoo!" Kie yelled opening the door. Skyla hopped in trying to catch her breath "check out Gary, gunnin' for a raise." Skyla looked out the window laughing. "come on, gary! wait slow down slow down."

"you're gonna give him a heart attack." "Yeah come on JJ that's not very nice." "you're so close! you can do it. There you go." JJ threw the beer at Gary and Skyla pulled him in the van "that wasn't very nice" "come on skyla. That sort of initiative is just begging to be punished."

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠, 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ, 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑗𝑜𝑏𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑤𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠. 𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑.

skyla looked over at JJ laughing at something he said, JJ looked at Skyla and smiled before Skyla turned away looking out the window.

𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑. 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠. 𝑆𝑜, 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛't 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡. 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑡𝑠, 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓... 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙, 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒... 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑢𝑠. 𝑃𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠, 𝑝𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ. 𝐿𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦. 𝑆𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒? 𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡.