(a/n hi! I know it's been too long. I'm so sorry. As I said, I started work and I've just been exhausted when I get home, but I'm gonna try and get a double update out today)
The group had pulled up to the hawk's nest, reading themselves to spill out of the van, when John B stopped them
"So... uh.... I think I'm gonna do this one by myself tonight"
"Really?" Kie asked
"I don't wanna spook Sarah with the peanut gallery" John B reasoned
"I just don't understand why we're involving her at all" Lydia mumbled, playing with JJ's rings from her seat in his lap
"Exactly" Kie said, thankful that Lydia had her back
"We're not involving her, okay? It's just, uh, like a business meeting thing. Look, once we get what we need, we cut her loose, all right? Plus we need the map" John B replied
"Promise me nothing's happening between you" Kie said. Lydia frowned upon hearing her friend. Despite what Kie would like Lydia to believe, she knew that Kie couldn't help but have slight feelings for John B, even after she told him their kiss meant nothing
"Nothing is happening Kie" John B assured
"I'm serious JB. This isn't about you, and this isn't about us. This is about her. Dude she's gonna get inside your head. Just promise me nothing's happening between you guys" Kie responded
"I promise" John B said very unconvincingly
"That was really believable" JJ said
"Anyways, um, I'm going to take care of business" John B said, before stepping out of the van
"He'll take care of it and we'll just sit here, in this hot-ass car, while it's lightning" Pope mused aloud
"You know, we never talked about what we were gonna do with all that gold" Lydia said to JJ, the two in their own little world
"Well, you always talked about leaving the Outer Banks. I figured our first stop could be Yucatan. You know, live off of lobsters we can catch with our hands, and mangos. You'd probably be teaching at the local school, I'd run a surf shop" JJ responded, imagining the rest of their lives
"So you've thought about it a lot, huh?" Lydia asked
"Yeah, I guess so. It's something I think about when I need a distraction. What were you thinking?" JJ asked Lydia
"I don't know. I guess, I just assumed we'd stay here, get a normal sized house in the cut because I refuse to raise snobby brats" Lydia laughed lightly before continuing, "But teaching and a surf shop sounds good. Honestly J, I don't care as long as it's with you"
"Do you guys hear that?" Pope asked, interrupting their conversation
"Hear what?" Lydia asked, before they all listened and sure enough they could hear faint calls for help
"Oh, wait no, I definitely hear that" JJ said as the group scrambled out of the van and towards the direction of the noise
They were met with a sight that they couldn't have imagined even if they tried. John B was laying on the ground, clearly he had fallen from the nest, and Sarah Cameron crying over him
"What the fuck happened?" Lydia asked, before kneeling on the other side of Sarah to check on her friend
"I don't know what to do. He needs help. Topper shoved him" Sarah said, letting out a sob
"Where the hell is he?" JJ said looking around
"Oh, please, please, get help. I don't care who. Just call someone" Sarah said
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Romance"You and I both know you haven't been okay in months" "So what? It doesn't matter. Not with all the other things we have to worry about." "See that's the problem Lydia. You don't give a shit about yourself and it's going to end up killing you. You...
