INDIANA II JJ Maybank (Outerbanks)

chapter eighteen

"How much was it again?" JJ asked the group as they were all sat around the dock after John B and Indi had calmed down from their fathers message.

"Four hundred mil." Pope answered.

"Alright, let's talk the split. Now, before we say evenly may I remind you that I am the only one that can protect us from those Square groupers who are after us." JJ said.

"Protection? Not cheap okay?" He tells them.

"You haven't trained." Pope states. "And I bet even Indi could protect us better with her bare hands than you with a gun." 

"Pope's right, you've done zero training." Indi looks at him from her spot next to her brother, were they are still engulfed in a tight hug.

"YouTube bro. That's at least a five percent bump right there. Any objections?" Kie and Indi both lift their hands to object. 

"Didn't think so." JJ says, ignoring them and they both take their hands down again.

"Yeah." Pope says to him.

"I don't hear any, so." JJ shrugged.

"What are you gonna do with your 80 mil Pope?" Kie asks him.

"Pay for college in advance. And also, textbooks. Those are expensive." Pope nodded. Of course he is gonna spend it on college. She admires his dedication to his education.

"What about you Kie?" JJ asked her.

"Yeah what does a socialist do when she's rich?" Pope questioned her and Indi let out a chuckle.

"I just wanna make a double album. About OBX, the Pogues. You know the way catch a fire is about Kingston. Record it at Marley studio, Peter Tosh is producing." 

"Isn't Peter Tosh dead?" Indi asks her.

"I know but the spirit of Peter Tosh will never die." She smiles at Indi.

"I know what I'll do. I'm gonna get a big ass house on Figure Eight and go full Kook." JJ says.

"JJ Maybank going full Kook? That's something I thought would never happen." Indi laughs at the thought of JJ being a Kook.

"Yup. Gonna get a marble statue of myself and then I'm gonna get a koi pond." He continued.

"I'm never visiting." Kiara tells him.

"What about you Ind?" JJ asks her. 

Indi thinks about it for a moment, but she already knows exactly what she would do if she had money.

"Honestly, I just wanna get out of here and see what's out there in the world." She tells them.

"Okey change of plan." JJ says, turning the attention back on him. "If I have 80 mill, I'm going to follow Indi where ever she wants to go." 

"How sweet of you." Kie says sarcastically but Indi loved the thought of exploring the world with JJ.

"What about you JB?" Indi asks her brother.

"To going full Kook." He lifts his beer in the air. 

"To going full Kook!" They all lift their beer in the air.

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After a while Pope and Kie had both gone home and John B went to bed. The only ones who were still awake where JJ and Indi still sitting at the dock. 

"You know what I would like to do?" She asks the blonde.

"What?" 

"To smoke that weed that you promised me." 

"Sure. Anything for you." He smirked at her. "My stash is in the van." 

He stands up and holds out his hand  for Indiana. She takes it and they make their way over to the back of the van, where they close the door behind them. 

JJ takes out his stash and starts to roll a blunt as Indi watches him. Before this whole treasure hunt thing, they used to meet up a lot at night to smoke weed. John B never knew about his best friend and sister sneaking out after midnight to get high together.

"You have a lighter for me?" He asks her as he had finished his blunt and put it in his mouth.

Indi takes out her lighter from her pocket and lights the blunt in his mouth as he takes a long drag from it before handing it over to Indi.

They finish the blunt in silence. And as Indi starts to feel the weed she starts to feel hot and takes off the hoodie she had had on the whole night, so she wouldn't freeze to death.

She throws the hoodie somewhere to the back of the van and as she looks over to JJ she notices him starring at her neck with a clenched jaw.

"What's that on your neck?" He asks her and she could see the anger in his eyes.

Indi wasn't sure what he was talking about so she lifted her hand to her neck and could feel the spot where Rafe had put his hand to strangle her earlier.

"It's not important." She tells him as she tries to avoid his gaze.

"It looks like a hand print." He states as he leaned over to her to have a closer look at her bruise.

"It's Rafe's." She pauses for a second. "He asked me on a date and I told him no and he wouldn't accept that." 

"I'm gonna-" He hits the wall beside him. "Kill that son of a bitch." 

"J-" 

"No, he can't treat you like that." He shouted at her.

"As if you care." She didn't mean to say that, it just slipped out.

"You serious? Of course I care, I care about you more than anybody else that I know. I care about you more than I care about myself. God damn, I couldn't live with myself if anything would happen to you."

Indi just looks at him, shocked about his confession.

"Indi, don't you get it? I like you. More than a friend and I know you don't feel the same and I will probably destroy our friendship but I can't keep lying to myself." He breathes out, looking at her nervously trying to get a reaction.

"J, I like you too. More than a friend." She smiles at him.

The next thing she knows is that his soft lips are pressed against hers.