🌊Pick A Side || Outer Banks🌊

🚤Bogey, Two O'Clock🚤

John B went to rob the Cameron's. Soon enough the teens had all hopped onto the HMS Pogue and we're headed for the boat wreck. "This is empty, you took empty tanks?" Kie asked John B. Prissy rolled her eyes. "Okay, this one's a quarter full. It's enough for one of us!" Kie said.

"Love it when a plan come together!" Pope said.

"Does anybody know how to dive?" Kie asked. "Anybody?" Kie asked, after nobody replied.

"It's kind of a kook sport!" JJ said, Prissy felt kind of offended by all the recurring kook comments.

"I read about it!" Pope said.

"Great! Pope read about it so somebody's gonna die!" Kie said.

"Look, you put the thing in your mouth and you breathe, how hard can it be?" JJ asked.

"Well if you come up to fast nitrogen gets into your blood and you get the bends!" Pope told him.

"Bends? Like bend over?" JJ asked, posing ridiculously.

"The bends kill you!" Prissy stated. All the teens looked at Prissy with confused expressions on their faces.

"Since when were you a diving expert?" John B asked.

"I've been diving plenty of times!" Prissy told them.

"Why didn't you say something earlier?" Pope asked.

"I was hoping somebody else would know how to dive, it's not exactly my favourite activity!" Prissy told them.

"Yeah, we don't want you to drown!" John B joked.

"That only happened because I was scared. I'm not scared anymore!" Prissy told them, sort of angrily.

"So it's been a day and suddenly you aren't afraid of drowning?" JJ asked.

"Pretty much, because this is the least scary thing I could be doing right now!" Prissy snapped.

"I can dive!" John B blurted out.

"Yeah you can dive! I'm cool with that!" JJ said. Prissy rolled her eyes, she knew that if it had been anybody else in her situation they would have let them go.

"Since when can you dive?" Kie asked him.

"Look I'll do it, it's fine!" John B said. Prissy sniggered.

"Let me do some calculations real quick!" Pope said. Prissy was furious that JJ was stopping her from doing something again, especially seeing as this time she knew what she was doing more than anybody else.

Pope was talking to himself while working it out. Pope told John B about when and where to make his safety stop.

Kie took her T-shirt and shorts off and jumped into the water, still holding her T-shirt. The boys questioned it. JJ said that he liked it, Prissy couldn't believe him.

Prissy tuned out of the conversation they were having. Instead she watched the ripples forming in the water. She counted them. It made her feel safe. It made her feel calm.

She ignored as John B went into the water. Nobody even thought to question her. "Guys, that's the police!" JJ said, Prissy snapped back into reality. Everybody complained.

"Just act frickin' normal!" Kie told them.

"Evening officers!" Pope said.

"Evening!" One of the officers, Shoupe, said. He passed a rope to Pope.

"JJ, tie this off!" He said, passing it to JJ.

"How you kids doing? You know the marsh is closed?" Shoupe asked them. A variety of 'nos' came from the teens mouths.

"Why is it closed?" Pope asked.
"Well we're conducting a search out here. Boat went down!" Shoupe told them. "Seen anything?" He asked. Yet again everybody said a version of no.

"Where's your friend you always hang with? He here?" Shoupe asked. Kie told them that he's working.

The officer hopped onto their boat, looking all around it. He asked them about the life jackets and all sorts. Prissy started to worry about John B.

If they didn't hurry up he'd run out of air. Shoupe went back on this own boat. "Priscilla Thornton?" He asked looking at the girl. "Go home!" He told her.

The police officers left on their boat. Eventually, John B resurfaced. Prissy let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding. Prissy zoned out of their conversation once again.

This time she was imagining what her brother would say to her. Then what her father would say to her. Then what her father would do to her. Her mother was the least of her worries, she wasn't the most supportive in her daughter's choice of friends but she wasn't interesting in hurting her or her feelings.

"Hey guys?" Kie asked. Prissy snapped back into reality. "Guys, bogey two o'clock!" Kie said, sounding concerned.

"Do you recognise that boat?" Pope asked.

"I've never seen it!" Kie said. "What are they doing back here? The marsh is closed!" Kie added.

"I dunno, but let's not stick around and find out!" JJ said. JJ started pulling the bowline in, as instructed by John B. A wide variation of hurry up ended being yelled at JJ. "Guys don't wait for me. Go!" JJ yelled back.

"Go into the marsh!" Pope said.

"Let's go!" Kie yelled.

"I'm going. Act Natural!" John B warned. The boat behind them began to speed up, along with Prissy's heart rate.

As they went into the marsh the teens noticed that the boat was following them. "Dude, you gotta go faster!" JJ told John B.

Suddenly there was a load bang and a bullet shot past the teens heads. Prissy screamed. "Holy Shit!" Kie yelled.

"Prissy, you okay?" JJ asked, after hearing her scream. She took a second to breathe.

"Sorry, yeah I'm fine!" Prissy told him. They all got down, except for John B. Prissy sat up against the edge of the boat. Prissy inhales sharply with each gunshot. Tears pricked her eyes.

When the next gunshot rang out, tears fell. JJ edged closer to her. She looked up at him with a tear stained face. Another gunshot. He reached out his hand for her to take.

She accepted it. "I'm sorry!" She whispered. She wasn't sure what she was apologising for, but she felt as if she'd done something wrong. She didn't want to die without saying sorry to him.

"It's okay Prissy, it's gonna be okay!" JJ whispered back to her. He rested his head on her shoulder. "You're gonna be okay!" He told her. There was another gunshot.

More tears spilled from her eyes. "It's okay, I'm right here!" He told her. She watched at Kie stood up and climbed over Pope. She grabbed a net and threw it into the water. It got caught in the other boat.

They fired a final shot at the teens. Prissy quickly wiped the tears from her face and smiled at JJ. He smiled back.