Starcrossed Lovers- JJ Maybank

Chapter~5~ The Key

John B woke up, water dripping in his face. He groaned, sitting up. He grabbed his phone and sat on the edge of his bed, he first checked the time, seeing it said 11:00am. He then went to text the Pogues, letting him know that he was gonna be in his way to get them, when his text wouldn't send. He looked up to check his bars to see he had no service.

"No service?" He asked himself aloud.

He got up and went to turn on his light, but when he flipped the switch, the light didn't come on.

"No power. Great." He stated, annoyed.
"Yo, JJ, you been outside?" John B asked as he walked past JJ, who was laying in his stomach in the pull out, patting his back.

"I have polio, bro. I can't walk." JJ groaned.

John B walked out looking at the mess in his backyard.

"Oh man." He said to himself, yawning.

He continued walking around seeing branches and stuff everywhere.

"That's no good." He said as he saw a big tree on the ground.
"That is not good." He said, more seriously, looking at the big tree branches in the HMS Pogue.
"Oh, man." He said again, climbing on the boat.

"Agatha did some work, huh?" He heard from behind him.

He spun around and saw Jj standing at the porch, a beer in his hand.

"Yeah, she did." John B said, continuing to get the branches off the boat.

"What you thinkin'?" JJ asked, burping.

"I'm thinkin' that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze." John B responded.

"What about the DCS? Wasn't that today?" JJ asked.

"Nah, they aren't coming down." John B assured him.

He looked to JJ, who looked confused.

"Come on think about it. They was just a storm dude." John B said in a 'duh' tone.
"This is God tellin' is to fish." He continued.

As the two boys were in their way to pick up Pope, John B driving slowly, seeing the damaged Agatha caused.

"Hi, Miss Amy! Y'all get through it?" John B called out to the woman.
"Still here!" She called back to the boys, smiling.

"She totally looked at me." JJ joked, quietly.
"Yeah, I saw it." John B replied.

"Agatha, what did you do?" JJ asked aloud, looking at the cut all beat up.
"She is a crazy lady." John B said, in a funny accent.

They arrived at the dock that Pope was at, seeing him working on something.

"Well, look who we have here." John B said, once again, in a funny accent.

JJ whooped.

"We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." John B said, stopping in front of Pope's dock.

"Can't, pop's got me on lockdown." Pope said.

"Come on, man." John B try to convince him.

"Your dad's a pussy, over." JJ said mimicking static.

"I heard that, you little bastard." Pope's dad, Heyward, came walking out to the dock.

"We need your son." John B said.
"Yeah island rules." JJ said.
"You get the day after a hurricane off." He continued.

"Who the hell said that?" Heyward asked in disbelief.

"The, uh, Pentagon I think." JJ said, making some shit up.