Outer Banks Imagines

Pogue

Y/n pov
Kiara, John B, Pope and JJ all swan around while I sat in the bow of the boat. I wasn't getting any closer to the water. I had a huge fear of the ocean ever since I was a kid.
I was 10 years old and my family took me to the mainland for the day. We had gone to the beach and planned to have a nice day, but at 1:30pm a shark had gotten to close to the beach. I was on a surfboard while my dad was on his own next to me. He was teaching me how to surf. You could the yells and screams from the beach but it had been that way all day. Kids screaming from the waves or a crab they say. Little did we know along with all the other surfers a shark was not to far from us.
"Shark!" I heard a man yell who was pointing out wards to the ocean. I looked to my dad and saw him looking confused. We didn't see anything. Then a grey fin appeared out of the water.
"Start paddling! Go go! Paddle as fast as you can to shore!" My dad yelled at me and helped me turn my board.
I finally made it to the shore and got off my bored. The water was at my ankles. I ran up to my mom who had tears running down her face.
"Oh hunny I was so scared!" She said and hugged me tight.
"It's alright we're ok now." I heard my dad day and come up behind me.
I heard a yell and gasp from everyone around me. I turned away from my mom and watched the ocean as a red spot formed a few meters out from shore. Someone had gotten bit by the shark.
Days later we had heard that the man only lost a couple fingers but I still was afraid. Since that day I only swam in pools and lakes.

I looked down at the water. It scared me to see it was dark down there. Anything could be lurking. I closed my eyes to calm down but then felt a tug on my ankle.
"AH!" I screamed and scrambled back to the middle of the boat. I heard laughter from my friends.
I peered over the edge and saw JJ floating there with a smirk on his face. He was the one to grab my ankle. I never told them about my fear. They would just laugh at me. A girl who lives on an island is afraid of the ocean.
"You Asshole!" I yelled at JJ.
"Oh come on! It was a joke! You still love me." He said grinning up at me.
"No she definitely loves me!" I heard John B yell from the water. I grinned.
"Come swim with us!" JJ said and kept floating around the boat.
"Umm no." I said and backed away from the edge. JJ pulled himself up on the boat and stalked towards me.
"JJ stop!" I yelled and backed away. He smirked and lifted me up bridal style. He brought to the edge. I screamed and tried to get out of his grip.
"Stop! JJ I can't swim!" I yelled as I felt him about to let go. He immediately brought me back to his body and set me down.
"What?" I heard Pope ask. I sighed. I hated lying to them but they've never seen me swim anywhere so I could pull off the lie.
"Ya just never learned." I said and looked down at my feet and played with my fingers. I felt the boat move and looked up to see the rest of the group on board.
"Your lying." Kie said with her hands in her hips. I immediately looked at her.
"What? No." I scoffed.
"Uh yes. You won't look at us and are playing with your fingers. You do that when you lie." Pope said. God his smartness taking over. I rolled my eyes.
"Listen I just don't want to swim." I shrugged.
"We won't laugh. Tell us why you don't want to swim." Kie said sitting next to me. I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Fine." I huffed out. So I told them the story. The whole scary and freaky story about the shark.
"Woah." Pope said with wide eyes.
"Ever since I haven't went swimming the ocean." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Let me help you!" JJ said sitting next to me also. John B and pope gave each other glance at JJ soft side coming out. "Please? Come on I promise I won't scare you and let anything happen to you." He said.
And 10 minutes later I was sitting by the edge of the boat again while everyone else was swimming the water waiting for me to get in.
"I-I just don't think I should. A shark could be down there." I said. "You can't see what's under you." I added on.
"Look we're all swimming. There's no sharks. Not even a single fish." John B said. I nodded. I put my feet in and slid down. JJ caught me so I didn't fully submerge under the water. I wrapped my legs around his body and help him tight. To I was terrified was an understatement.
"Y/n let him go. He can't hold you both up." Pope said as I saw JJ holding both of our weights above the water.
"I'm sorry." I said and moved away from him to grab the boat. I went to pull myself up but John B pulled me back down.
"Nope your gonna swim to Kie." He said. This time I was hugging in to John B for my life. He held on hand on the boat to hold us up.
"I-i don't think I can." I shook my head.
"Yes you can! I'll swim right next to you." JJ said swimming up to JB and I.
I let out a grumble and slowly let go of John B. I floated in the water by myself.
"See look! Your holding on top no one!" Kie yelled to me with a smile. I gave her a small but scared smile.
"Come on I'll be right next to you." JJ said. I looked over to wear Kie was at. Pope also next to her. It was a good 9 feet swim. I sighed and started to swim with JJ next to me.
Once I reached Pope and Kie I grabbed on to Kie for dear life.
"I did it!" I said hugging her. She laughed and hugged me back. I let go so we wouldn't drown ourselves.
I heard cheers from the boys and clapping.
"Alright time to go back to the boat." I said and started to turn back around. John B laughed. That was definitely enough swimming today. But it wasn't that bad.