~ It's complicated ~

~ Rise And Shine Sweetheart ~

Malia POV

'do you want me to clean you up or can I trust you and JJ to get it done?' John B said as he walked towards his room, 'I got it, night bro' JJ said and I waved to John B. I hoped off JJ's back and sat on the pull out bed as JJ grabbed the first aid kit, 'This might sting a little' he spoke as he dabbed an alcohol wipe on my cut, I hissed in pain 'ow ow ow' I whispered as I tightly shut my eyes. JJ cleaned the cut before carefully wrapping a bandage round it, my entire left calf now covered by the material.

'There we go, all done' he said packing away the first aid kit and putting it back in the kitchen. 'Thank you J' I said as I stood up and lightly placed some weight on my leg, testing it out and feeling extremely relieved when it wasn't too painful to walk on. JJ looked at me and frowned slightly before wiping away some blood from my cheek, a small cut having formed during my wipeout. 'all better' he teased as he lightly slapped my cheek and I laughed shoving him a bit as he held his hands up in defence.

'right, you're sleeping out here tonight because you are banned from my room after your late night adventures yesterday' I said as I pretend to gag,
'whatever' he said with a smirk and I rolled my eyes before walking to my room, 'Night J' I said quietly and he saluted at me 'Night Lia'.

I woke up the next morning, only to find no service and no power. great. I headed out to the living room where JJ was still passed out on the sofa, not surprising considering I don't think he's ever been awake before 10am. I picked up a pillow from the floor and threw it at him, he sat up startled and I smirked 'rise and shine sweetheart' I joked and he groaned before falling back onto the bed. 'Come on sunshine, you've got to help clear this place up considering you practically live here' I said and he groaned again before reluctantly getting out of bed.

I walked outside to see trees blown over and branches covering everything, I quickly headed over to our boat and started clearing it of debris. 'what you thinking?' said JJ as John B helped me clear the boat, 'that storm surge would have pushed all the crabs into the marsh maze, it's god telling us to fish' said John B 'hell yeah it is' i said as the 3 of us continued to clean up the boat.

I threw on a bikini and some shorts before we headed to pick up Pope and Kiara. We came up to pope's dock and John B, putting on a voice, said 'we have a safety meeting mandatory' to which Pope sighed and replied 'I can't my pops has me on lockdown'. I watched as Heyward walked over to us, JJ obviously not caring, spoke up, also in the same stupid voice as John B, 'your dad is a pussy. over.'.

'oh I heard that you little bastard' Heyward said glaring at JJ 'morning Heyward' I said saluting him and smiling, JJ rolled his eyes at me, knowing that Heyward really did not like him. 'Morning Marley' he said returning the smile, before going back to scowling at JJ and my brother. 'we need your son and island rules, the day after a hurricane is a free day' said John B slowing down the boat, I rolled my eyes and watched pope consider his options. He resorted to trying to convince his dad to let him go, ' I'll do it tomorrow, I swear and Marley will help' he said, walking over to the boat. I scoffed slightly but didn't argue because I didn't actually mind helping Pope out every now and then.

'boy hell no, you'll do it now' Heyward said annoyed, stalking over to his son, who was getting closer and closer to our boat. 'get in the boat dude' I said quietly and that was enough for Pope as he jumped in and JJ instantly sped off, ignoring Heyward shouting after us.

We got to ki's stop and she gracefully hoped in the boat, a cooler in her hands 'morning boys and girl' she said putting the cooler down 'morning my love' I said in an exaggerated English accent 'morning gorgeous' she replied, in the same accent, as she kissed my cheek. We laughed at the looks the boys gave us, JJ quickly getting up to grab the cooler 'you got my kind of juice boxes?' JJ said and he smirked happily as Ki nodded.

He passed around the beers, I opened mine on my ring and chuckled slightly as Pope stared at me in amazement, insisting I open his too. 'What happened to your leg' he asked concerned, 'oh yeah, I wiped out yesterday when we surfed the surge. I just got unlucky when I fell, I scraped it on a rock or something' I said casually with a small shrug.

'I told you to be careful' Pope said worriedly and I smiled at him before nudging our shoulders together  'I'm okay, honestly' I said and he smiled as I leaned my head on his shoulder. I looked over to see JJ staring at me but he quickly looked away as I met his gaze, I furrowed my brows slightly but ignored his weird behaviour.

After a while on the water I took of my shorts and layed on the boat trying to top up my tan 'let me show you a party trick, pope can you speed up a little' JJ said as he stood on the front of the boat. I rolled my eyes and moved beside him to avoid beer getting in my hair. 'all right JJ stop it' everyone said as they were just getting splashed with beer, and JJ was failing at whatever it is he was trying to do, I stood up and went to grab the beer from his hand but before I could the boat suddenly stopped and both me and JJ were thrown into the water.

' ow, I think the heels touched the back of my head' JJ said groaning and I laughed at his pouty face, 'yo Marley, you good' Pope shouted, I nodded 'I'm good, just broke my back' I said a bit short of breath. I swam towards JJ, jumping on him and pushing his head under the water, everyone laughed until he grabbed my foot and dragged me down as well. underwater we started pushing each other before he grabbed me and threw me up, I very quickly landed back in the water with a splash.'dick' I muttered as he stuck his tongue out at me.

'guys I think there is a boat down there' pope said rushing over to the edge of the boat, 'shut up' John B groaned whilst rubbing his neck that got slammed into the boat, 'wait no guys I see it too' I said as I dived down. slowly they all followed me, jumping off the boat to observe the sunken wreck. As we looked around the boat, they all went up for air but I stayed down a bit longer and noticed a key but before I could grab it I got pulled up by a strong set of arms. 'you realise you need to breathe right' said ki as I coughed up some water, I shrugged before we all got back on the boat. 'that is a new Grady -white' JJ said as me and ki wrung out our hair, I flicked it over my shoulder making sure the water flicked John B in the face. 

'yeah that's the boat we saw when we surfed the surge' I said as John B nodded in agreement 'you surfed the surge? what the heck' questioned ki, 'yeah where else would have M got that lovely cut on her leg' he said as I mockingly twirled and displayed my bandaged leg.

'do we know who's boat that is?' asked pope, 'nope. but we are going to find out' said John B as he grabbed the anchor, I knew what he was going to do and I also knew I would be able to do it better, I could hold my breath longer and I wanted to get the keys that I saw before. So I quickly ran over to John B and grabbed the anchor  'shotgun doing it', I yelled before jumping off the boat.

3rd person POV

'okay what is it with her and putting herself in dumb situations' asked pope as he watched the girl reach the boat. 'honestly I don't know, definitely didn't get it from me' said John B sarcastically, 'yeah I wonder where she got the idea of diving in from dumbass' ki said as she watched over the edge of the boat.

Malia was searching for the keys she previously saw, she finally grabbed them before heading back up to the surface 'oh my god that took forever' said Ki helping Malia back into the boat, 'did you find anything' John B asked, and she held up the motel key. 'a key, wow' said pope looking at it, obviously disappointed.

They decided to head back home for the day 'maybe we should report the wreck and get a finders fee' said ki. 'thanks Agatha, ya batch' said JJ as Malia laughed at the boy.