The Outer Banks

Chum For Sharks

"All I'm saying is Lia was with us,you could have warned us sooner." John B says as we start talking about what just took place.

We waited for the cops to leave before we left the side of the motel window JJ helping John B get me in and then we went down and got into the boat and now here we are in the middle of the water heading to John B's house.No crab in the nets.

"We would have if Pope did baseball instead of math club." Kie said, giving me french braids.

"Math club?" I asked Pope who shook his head yes. Of course he was.

"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene.Did you atleast find anything?" Pope asked us.

"Did we find anything?Oh yeah we did." JJ says pulling out a gun and a stack of cash.I pinch the bridge of my nose and close my eyes.

"What the hell." Pope says shooting up from steering the boat and pulls me over so I can take up steering the boat.

"Why take shit from a crime scene." Kie exclaims at JJ. I leave them to argue amongst themselves as John B and I watch.

"See it's better to watch the argument then participate isn't it?" I say over to him.

"Yeah I get it now." John B says and starts steering away from my house as his friends continue to argue and fight over how dumb JJ is,but I don't really think he is I think this is just how he views things.

"At least you have us,right?" JJ says over to Pope who looks like he's going to be sick.

"My worst nightmare." Pope says and sits next to Kie who looks over at John B in disbelief that he let JJ take a gun from a crime scene.

"What are you doing?" I ask John B seeing as we get further away from my house.

"We're heading over to the shops." He says but once we get there we see a woman crying and medics rolling a body on a gurnee.I try to glance over but I'm too short to see anything.

"Hey,what's going on over there?" John B asks a girl walking by.

"A dead body apparently from the storm." She said pulling out her phone to show a dead body being pulled up from the water we rode by in the morning.

Holy shit." John B says and we all look at eachother and sit on the crates watching the woman cry on top of her husband's body.

"What kind of boat did he have?" I ask the girl.

"A brand-new Grady-White,but don't get any ideas, everyone is out looking for it." She says and I look over at JJ and John B.

"Wow, poor lady." I said. "John B how about we head to your place." I said standing from our crates and walking over to the boat with Pope right next to me.

"We have amnesia." Pope says to me and all I can do is shake my head in agreement.

Back at John B's house we all begin to discuss how to handle the boat situation.

"I say we forget it ever happened." Pope says sitting down next to Kie on the couch.

"See.I agree with you.Deny,deny,deny." JJ says from his seat on a porch chair.

"Guys,the money we can't keep." I say looking at JJ but regretting it as soon as I do because here it comes in one..two..

"Not all of us can afford unlimited data plans,Lia." JJ says and I look away pressing myself further into John B's knees as my seat was the floor in front of him.This is what I mean JJ sees me as a Kook even though I've been one.I've never been either if I'm being honest.