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WHEN Spencer woke up she found herself on John B's couch with her head lying on Kie's leg. She propped herself up on her elbows and looked around. She squinted and looked around her surroundings. "Morning, Kie, Spence." John B said as he walked passed them. Kie replied and Spencer groaned in reply before lying back down. "Where's JJ?" She asked, tiredly with eyes closed, still not fully awake.
"In the bedroom with a girl." John B told her and Spencer frowned. "A girl." She repeated and Kie gave her a small kick in the back. "Why'd you care, Spence?" She teased, looking up from her phone. "I don't." Spencer replied quietly. "What even happened last night?" She asked her friend. "Did I get shit-faced again?"
"Yes, you did. And when we tried to get you to stop, you drank more. You wouldn't go home. You started crying at one stage too." Kie said and Spencer groaned at herself, then muttered a swear word, cursing herself.
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"Come on, Pope." Spencer said, she was biting her lip, trying not to laugh at JJ calling Pope's dad a pussy. "Oh, I heard that, you little bastard." Mr Heyward said as he approached the teens on the boat and his son.
"We need your son." John B told him.
"Yeah, and island rules. Day after a hurricanes a free day." JJ held out his arms.
"Who made that up?" Mr Heyward asked.
Spencer looked at Pope and gestured for him to get onto the boat, despite his father's words. "I'll do it tomorrow. I promise. Tomorrow." Pope said to his father. When his dad him he was doing it right now, his three friends encouraged him to get onto the boat anyways.
Pope hopped onto the boat and told his dad he'd do it tomorrow. Spencer grinned, it was good to see Pope like this. She threw an arm around his shoulder and waved back at his dad, who continued to shout at his son.
Next they went to pick up Kie. She was carrying a box when they arrived and Pope questioned if they were juice boxes. "You know just yogurt and carrot sticks." She said as she got onto the boat.
"What about my kind of juice box?" JJ said as he helped her get on.
Kie handed out a beer to everyone. Spencer sat with her legs crossed as she opened hers and took a swig. She looked around at her friends. She realized she hadn't been in her own home in three days or so. Her smile had faded and she looked down, biting her lip.
"Hey, Spence." JJ nudged her arm. She looked up at him. "Yeah?"
"You good?" He asked her. She gave small nod and a quick smile before looking away.
JJ stood up. "Bet you can't do this." He walked towards the front of the boat with his beer in his hand. "A party trick. Hey, Pope, can you go a little faster?"
John B and Pope started to say it wouldn't work and JJ said, "I got this! It's gonna work!"
Spencer began to smile again as she watched the boy. He attempted to drink his beer with the can away from his mouth with the wind and speed of the boat blowing it back at the others. Spencer yelped and moved away. "You dick, are you stupid?"
Suddenly the boat came to a halt and JJ was flung into the water. Spencer called his name and was lurched backward, hitting her back. She groaned quietly. "What the fuck?" She straightened up, rubbing her back. "You okay, J?" She called out to the boy in the water.
"I think my heels touched the back of my head." He replied. Spencer stood up and turned around. "Pope, what happened? What did you do?"
"Sandbar. The channel changed." Pope told them. Spencer didn't know what that meant. "No shit." JJ said as he swam towards the boat.
"Ugh, this is probably gonna mess this whole place up." John B said.
"Hey, I saved the beer, though." Spencer shook her head at him, calling him a dumbass under her breath.
"Guys... I think there's a boat down there." Pope said. No one believed him at first, not until they all followed his gaze and saw indeed there was a boat. "Holy shit." Spencer murmured.
John B, Kie, Spencer and Pope all jumped into the water. They swam down the boat and looked around it. JJ grabbed her shoulders in an attempt to scare her. She let out a scream but quickly covered her mouth when she realized she was underwater and began swimming up to the surface for her.
Spencer gasped for air and ran her fingers through her hair. When JJ resurfaced she splashed water at him and cursed him while he laughed at her. She whacked him on top of head and rolled her eyes at him. They turned back to the others. "You guys saw that?" JJ asked excitedly. Everyone nodded and laughed. "That's a Grady White. A new one of those is like 500 Gs, easy."
They all swam back to the boat and climbed on as JJ continued to talk about it. "That's a primo rig!"
"Yeah, yeah. That's the boat I saw when I surfed on the surge." John B said. "Maybe it hit the jetty or something."
"You surfed the surge?" Kie asked.
"Wait-wait, guys!" Spencer exclaimed, waving her arms at them. "We can't tell anyone we found it. We'll come back. But we can't tell anyone."
"Do we know whose boat it is?" Pope asked and John B replied saying they were about to find out. He started to take an anchor out. "What're you doing, John?" Spencer questioned.
"Diver down, fool." Pope said, John B repeated the same thing back and saluted him. "Yeah, he is." JJ said and shoved John B into the water.
The four other teenagers waited on the boat until their friend came back up. When he did he showed them a motel key he retrieved from the sunken boat. "A key." Pope repeated, disappointedly.
"Yes, a key, Pope."
"Great! We salvaged a motel key."
"Guys, we should report this wreck to the coast guard. ." Kie suggested and Spencer shook her head. "Did you not here what I said? We shouldn't tell anyone."
"Maybe we'll get a finder's fee." Kie said and Spencer hesitated and thought about that. She did need money. Her family were broke. Not that they were a proper family. "Yeah and not work all summer." JJ agreed. "Thanks, Agatha, ya batch."
