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SPENCER Briggs lay in the backseat with JJ and Pope. Her blonde head and her back propped up against Pope's shoulder and her legs stretched out across JJ's lap. There was a giant lump on her forehead from the incident with her father that was extremely noticeable. When her other friends had asked what happened, she said nothing but they guessed.
"I mean, it's obvious, right?" John B was saying to them. "A family heirloom. What better place to hide a message? He had to know it was gonna get back to me right?"
"Yeah, it's possible." Kie said, doubtfully from beside John B. He looked over at her. "It's also possible that you're convoying wild theories to help, you know," Pope tried to put as delicately as he thought, "deal with your sad feels."
"Bro, you now how I process my sad feels. Dank nugs and the stickiest of ickies, that's how I do it." JJ said and Spencer playfully rolled her eyes at him. "I'm not concocting, okay?" John B was growing impatient. "My dad is trying to send me a message."
"If it helps I believe, John B," Kie assured him.
"Look, I don't need a therapy session, okay?" John B exclaimed. "And I'm not tripping out."
"It's okay to trip, bro-." JJ started but was cut off by John B. "Look, my-my dad is missing, okay? Missing. You don't know what it's like to have the person you're closest with vanish-."
"Really, John B?" Spencer asked, raising a single eyebrow.
"-And then have no idea what happened." He finished. Spencer sighed and pursed her lips, defeated. "Just wake up every morning wondering."
"It's been almost a year." Kie said.
"Hey, he could've been kidnapped. That's definitely a possibility." JJ suggested and Spencer stared at him, incredulously. "Yeah, he could be in a Soviet sub getting interrogated by the KGB somewhere." Pope finished off JJ's theory.
A smile tugged at the corner of Spencer's mouth because of the unlikely theories. JJ continued by saying Atlantis snd Spencer grinned before Kie questioned John B, asking him what he thought the message was. He replied with Redfield. John B parked the van at Redfield Lighthouse, which had been his dad's favorite place. Spencer climbed out behind JJ, the five teens stood and stared at it for a moment."Right. You're gonna post up and look out for bogeys, okay?" John B instructed to JJ.
"Wait, why me?" JJ asked.
"Because you're not coming." Pope stated.
"Why?"
"There are independent and dependent variables. You're independent, we don't know what you'll do." Pope explained and JJ shouted at him to shut up and Spencer intervened, awkwardly saying she'd stay back with JJ. She saw Kie send her a wink. JJ looked at her strangely for a moment and John B told Pope to stay back with them and stand look out.
