game on | jj maybank [1]

six: diver down

edited april 2025

You make me
Feel like I'm livin' a teenage dream
The way you turn me on, I can't sleep
Let's run away and don't ever look back, don't ever look back.

chapter six: diver down

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"I think I'm almost ready" Sarah told Blake

Blake ended up spending the night with Sarah just laughing and gossiping in the My Druthers, thank god for air conditioning.

"To have sex with Topper? Honestly I'm surprised you haven't already" Blake replied

"Hey! I'm just waiting for the right moment" Sarah threw a pillow to her friends face

"Okay Sarah, if you think it's the right moment then go for it" Blake agreed

"It's just maybe it's what's missing in the relationship" Sarah said

"Don't force yourself Sarah, do it if you want to but not to save the relationship" Blake replied "If it's not for you it will end either way"

Sarah didn't reply, she just stared a the ground, probably thinking about what Blake told her.

"We should sleep" she finally said

"Okay" Blake agreed

It was a blessing sleeping in the My Druthers, air conditioning had stopped working since the hurricane and the boat was the only place they could enjoy it now.

"Are you stalking us? Plotting your revenge?" Sarah's voice woke Blake up and when her eyes adapted to the light she saw that John B was there.

"John B? What are you doing here?" Blake asked him sitting down next to Sarah.

"Everything's good. I was just topping off these tanks" he said taking the oxygen tanks from the boat

Obviously John B was a liar because Blake knew what he was going to do with the tanks the moment she saw him.

"Hey, are you okay? 'Cause that eye of yours looks really gnarly" Sarah teased him

"You know what? You can tell Topper he won the first round. I'll get him the next time" John B glared at Sarah at he got back into the HMS Pogue.

"So there's just gonna be a reign of terror on this island now?" Sarah asked him getting out of the boat

"Okay. Can we drop the Kooks versus Pogues thing? It is really stupid" Sarah commented

"You know, it's easy to say when you are a Kook" John B replied

"Ugh, just leave it" Blake said

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"Waiting for me?" Blake asked when she reached the HMS Pogue with all her friends loading the oxygen tanks inside.

"Always" JJ replied smiling at her

"I told you she wouldn't miss it" Kie ran to hug her friend

"I thought you were having a kook day" John B commented

"JB, just so you know, I can have friends outside of this group" She replied "Now, we should go if we wanna do this"

The five friends made their way into the marsh and stopped right above the boat the had found days before, luckily, it was still there.

"This is empty, you took empty tanks" Kie informed examining the oxygen tanks

"This one is a quarter full, it should be enough for one of us" Blake said also examining the tanks