🌊Pick A Side || Outer Banks🌊

🍀The Real First Time🍀

"No JJ, I'm not okay. Scooter's dead. My whole family hates you guys. I've got an injury on my face that I'm going to have to attempt to explain to Topper without mentioning that I was with you guys because he specifically told me not to hang out with all of you!" Prissy said.

She was cut off my JJ just pulling her into a hug. There was a stream of salty tears running down her cheeks. "Why Scooter?" JJ asked, pulling away from the hug.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"Why does it bother you that Scooter's dead?" JJ asked. She didn't want to tell him, it was one of her biggest secrets. However, she also felt as though she owed it to Scooter to tell him.

"He saved my life, remember in the marsh when John B joked about me drowning and Pope said it happened five times?" Prissy asked.

JJ nodded. "Right after that, I corrected him. It was six, but I didn't even mean to say it out loud. I don't know why, but I never told anybody about the real first time. At this point I'm just scared that people would hate me for not telling them!" She said, still crying.

"I would never hate you, you don't have to tell me if you're not ready!" JJ said.

"I was out swimming, it must have been about two years ago now. I got quite close to somebody's dock and my leg got trapped in an old crab pot. But it was stuck on something and I couldn't get out of it. My head was under the water for a good couple of minutes. Scooter was on his old boat and saw me. He helped me get out of there. If he hadn't have come, I would have drowned!" She said. JJ looked a little shocked. He pulled the crying girl back into a hug.

"It's okay, you're okay!" JJ said.

"There's something else!" She said, more or less into his chest.

"Is it your dad?" JJ asked. She nodded her head. JJ pulled away from the hug. "Did he hurt you?" He asked.

"Not this time..." Prissy said. JJ looked angry, like not just a bit angry. Very angry.

"Not this time? What's that supposed to mean?" JJ asked. Prissy just looked at the ground. "So he's hurt you before?" JJ asked.

"Well yeah, but that's not the point!" Prissy said.

"What do you mean that's not the point? You're literally admitting that your dad has hurt you before and you're acting like it's not a big deal!" JJ yelled.

"Can you maybe not say it so loudly?" Prissy asked.

"Sorry, so what happened anyway?" JJ asked.

"Well I mean he always expects me to be perfect. To him I've always been too fat, too short, too blonde, too single, too annoying. Topper's like perfect, he's dating the kook princess, he's got tons of perfect kook friends and he's popular with all the other kooks. He only wanted one kid, but of course he ended up with twins!" Prissy said.

"And you just keep trying to please him?" JJ asked. Prissy hadn't really thought about that. She did do that, but she didn't even realise it.

He called her too fat, so she hardly ate anything. He called her too blonde, so she kept dying her hair. "I guess. I didn't even know I was doing it! He keeps trying to set me up with boys and now he wants me to date Rafe Cameron, but he's nineteen!" Prissy said. Prissy was only sixteen.

"Your dad might not think you're perfect, but I think you are!" JJ said. Prissy smiled.

"Thanks JJ!" She said. He pulled her back in for another hug. He pulled away from the hug and wiped the tears from her face.

"Come on, let's go back to the others!" JJ said, leading her back to the rest of the group. The group of teens hopped back on the HMS Pogue and went back to the chateau.

"Ok so, we didn't see anything, we don't know anything. We need to have total and complete amnesia!" Pope said rushing onto the porch.

"Actually, Pope's right for once. See I agree with you sometimes. Deny, deny, deny!" JJ said.

"Guys we can't keep that money." Kie said.

"Ok, not all of us can afford unlimited data plans Kiara!" JJ said. Prissy felt awkward at this moment.

"We have to pass that of to Lana Grubbs otherwise it's bad karma!" Kiara said.

"Bad karma to be implicated in a felony too!" Pope said. "We gotta go dark!" He added.

"If that means we get to keep the money, then I agree!" JJ said.

"I don't agree!" John B said, walking away from JJ. JJ questioned him. "Just think about it, this is Scooter Grubbs we're talking about. Same dude that's buying individual cigarettes at the Porthole. Shit, one time I saw this dude begging for change in the save a lot parking lot, because he needed gas. We're talking about a dirt bag marina rat, who's never had more than forty bucks in his pocket and all of a sudden he's got a Grady White!" John B said.

Prissy walked off to the bathroom in John B's house. She didn't tell them what she was doing. She'd gotten tired of hearing John B talk smack about the guy who saved her life.

Fortunately she'd stayed over at John B's before and happened to have left a pack of makeup wipes in his bathroom. She grabbed a wipe and began wiping her leg, to reveal a huge scar.

She'd acquired the scar when almost drowning. It was where the part of the crab pot had cut deep into her leg. It was nowhere near as bad as it had been. She felt that now was the best time to come clean to the rest of the group about what she had been hiding.

Only parts of it though, she still wasn't ready to tell everybody else about her dad. She walked out of the bathroom to find all of the teens in John B's room. "Kegger?" Kie asked, right as Prissy walked in.

Prissy sat down next to JJ and begun to explain how Scooter had saved her life. "That's from the crab pot!" She said, pointing to the scar on her leg.

"Why didn't you just tell us?" John B asked.

"Well at first I was scared my parents would find out and then they wouldn't let me out of the house alone. Then I was just scared that people would hate me for not telling them sooner!" Prissy said.

"Does Topper know?" Pope asked.

"No and I'd like to keep it that way!" Prissy said.