daddy issues - jj maybank (j.m)

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-WHY DO YOU CARE
meilani was tossing and turning all night. she didn't know why she cared so much about what jj had done, all she knew was that she didn't want to see him or talk to him for a couple of days.

after getting really frustrated meilani got out of bed. she grabbed a blunt and went to sit outside on her porch. the air was cool, leaving goosebumps on her tanned arms. it was late, probably around three am. she loved being outside at this time, it was so quiet. if she had it her way she'd go out every night and surf.
after the blunt was halfways done she decided to grab her board and go over the sand dune in front of her house to the beach. the waves looked calm, but then again you could never really tell unless you got out there.

soon she realised the waves were getting rougher almost as if a storm was about to come in which was odd to the girl as there had been no alerts before.
being the daredevil she is, she ignored the red flags in her mind and kept surfing. suddenly the heavens opened up and it started storming badly. the waves got rougher and she couldn't even stand up on her board. she stayed as calm as she could but eventually a huge wave came. meilani tried to not panic but as the wave got closer she began to shake. suddenly she was covered and didn't seem to resurface.
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meilani woke up to sirens surrounding her. her eyes fluttered open and she found her dad standing over her with the rest of his team plus paramedics behind him. she had washed up on the beach. she shut her eyes again.

"lanis where?!" john panicked. "she's in hospital, she's got into a surfing accident" kiara repeated for the 4th time to a worried john b. "how, when, wh-" "john chill okay, we'll go visit her" the group, pope, kiara and john b made their way to the hospital.

when they arrived meilani was still unconscious. she must've fallen back when she woke up on the beach. the group sat around her, john b on her bed, kiara on a chair beside the head of the bed and pope standing on the end. kiara examined the girls face, she was covered in cuts on her arms and had gashes all on the side of her face. they waited for a few minutes until her eyes began to flutter open.

"pope go get a doctor!" kiara exclaimed. john b grabbed meilanis hand while kiara rubbed the girls forehead. "hey sunshine" john b smiled. meilani was dazed but she knew who she was with. "hey" she smiled back. seconds later a doctor came in to check up on meilani, giving her medication and cleaning her cuts and bruises. "you know what happened, right?" john b asked, in a way that sounded like he was talking to a 4 year old. meilani disregarded the question and looked around to see if jj had made an appearance. "where's jj?" "he..uhm...he had something to take care of." meilani sighed.

meilani was on house rest for a few days until she felt healed again. she lay in bed constantly thinking about jj.
a knock was placed on her bedroom door. "come in" she said as loud as she could. she expected it to be kiara or sarah as they had said they'd be over everyday but to her surprise it was jj maybank. "j?" "hey lani, how you holding up?." meilani was furious with jj, she thought how could he just turn up out of no where after being m.i.a the last few days when she needed him most. "what do you want?" she asked bluntly.

"i want to apologise. don't try to butt in for the few minutes because i have some things i really want to say. i'm sorry lani, i really am. i didn't mean to act like i didn't care about you and go and fuck a kook, i didn't mean to drive you insane and let you get so drunk at the kegger, i should've been with you all night, flirting with you and pretending like we just want to be friends. i should've come to the hospital as soon as you were transferred after the accident and i should've been visiting you everyday!" meilani took in what he was saying and sighed "well you didn't" was all she had to say.

"seriously i pour my heart out and that's what i get?" jj scoffs. "yeah that's exactly what you get. i don't go around fucking other people to make you jealous" "you fucked rafe cameron!!" "that's different!" the pair were both raising their voices at eachother now. the blonde stood up and walked closer to the girl.

"how is that different" he spat. "it's different because you didn't care about me like he did and the way i care about you, god j whenever you have an outburst and want to shoot your gun and everyone and everything and when you shove people around and storm off, i always want to stop you or follow you but i don't because i realise that you wouldn't do me like that and my accident has shown me that" jj stays silent. "yknow what meilani for you to even think for a second i don't care baffles me!" "oh really?! want to explain that for me" "no because if i do you'll go fuck rafe again and pretend like it never happened" "oh fuck you jj!" the pair are in a heated argument now and are both shouting and screaming at one another.

"why do you even care jj?!"
"because i love you!"

the pair stay silent. jj has many thoughts running through his mind and meilani can't comprehend any of it. jj walks out. "jj come back!" meilani pleads, but jj leaves. after a few minutes of the girl crying on her bed, footsteps approach her room again. jj storms back in, doesn't say a word, but instead leans down to meilani in her bed and kisses her. it starts to get heated and the girl pulls him closer. she flips him on his back so he's now lying flat. she straddles him, ignoring the pain of her stitches in her stomach. she lifts his top up and he does the same to her. the pair look at eachother, "you're sure?" jj whispers, "more sure than ever."