game on | jj maybank [1]

seven: square groupers

edited april 2025

It was the best of times, the worst of crimes
I struck a match and blew your mind
But I didn't mean it, and you didn't see it

chapter seven: square groupers

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SILENCE REIGNED UNTIL THE FIVE GOT BACK TO THE CHATEAU, none of them wanting to comment on the traumatic situation they had just experienced, but they were all eager to know what was hiding inside the duffel bag John B had found.

"What do you think it is?" Kie asked as they all gathered around the bag.

"Gotta be money, right?" John B stated

"That or a couple of keys with a street value to the low mild-Mils" JJ said excitedly

"Cash, another gun, hopefully not body parts" Blake said

"Can we please just open the bag?" Pope asked his friends frustrated making all of them look at him surprised.

"Wow Pope, that's a rare outburst of emotion" John B said making the rest laugh

"You guys are killing me with anticipation" Pope told them

John B then carefully opened the bag, but instead of finding money they found another bag and opening that one they found a small, round, golden thing, an old compass.

"Yup, that's about right" Pope groaned "Good job everybody, we found a compass" Obviously Pope didn't like the fact that they literally risked their lives for just a compass

"I can't believe it" Blake said, but then noticed how John B was quiet and examining the compass with detail "What's wrong?"

"This is my father's"

Oh shit.

Blake had always thought Big John was dead.

He had been missing for so long without any single clue that could say he is alive, but still John B thought he was alive, right until that moment when they found the compass.

The best thing they could do was to leave John B alone and come back the following day, he needed to rest and be by himself.

JJ and Blake found themselves to be at the beach, at night, just how they liked it. The moon was shinning and very few people were there at that time, it was perfect.

Blake took out a cigarette and took one puff exhaling all the air while JJ stared at her.

"What?" she asked him

Instead of replying he just took the cigarette and put it in his mouth, breathing all the air looking at her.

Hot.

"Gross, you just put that in your mouth" Blake complained when he was giving it back to her

"Really? You've tasted it before" he chuckled taking another puff

"J-

"What? It was a joke" he threw his hands in the air in defence

"Stop it" she took the cigarette from him and put it in her mouth "There's a rule"

"You didn't care" he replied

Blake stayed quiet, she had been trying to ignore that for a while for him to just say that. She was kinda hoping they would both forget.

"But I do now and I have something going on with Rafe" she told him

"You just fuck him when you're drunk, do you really think I don't know?"