𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲

two: Hurricane Agatha

     

     THE story begins when a hurricane came towards Outerbanks, they called it Hurricane Agatha, it meant that the island would be in emergency, preparing for the storm. But John B, Pope and Kai were not.

They headed out to the beach during the surge, "it's a double overhead out there, bro." Pope called out to John B who he and Kai were following. "Double overhead?" John B says, stopping. There was a sign up saying the beach was closed due to the hurricane, but that didn't stop them.

"Those aren't surfable waves, bro." Pope tells John B who laughs. "Says who?" Before he runs off towards the water with Kai. It wasn't the first time they've done this, surfing in a storm. But even then, everytime they tried to surf a wave, they'd fall off their surfboards but they kept trying anyways until Kai noticed John B.

Staring out into the sea, he paddles over to him, "hey, what's wrong?" He says and looked around, not really seeing anything. "Nothing..." John B says when he turns towards Kai.

The storm went on, at some point Kai, John B and Pope went back to the Château and went to bed during the storm. Kai woke up the next morning and turned onto his side, rubbing his eyes. He got up and grabbed his pack of smokes, lighting it up as he goes outside to see the aftermath.

Trees torn down, everything was a mess. "Agatha did some work, huh?" JJ says to his two friends, walking up to stand beside Kai who nods, taking a long drag from his cigarette. "Yeah, she did." John B says, taking out the branches from the Pogue. JJ and Kai walk over to the boat, standing nearby. "What you thinkin'?" JJ asked him.

"I'm thinkin' that the storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze. All those drums are gonna chase the crab." John B says and Kai furrows his brows together. "What about the DCS? Wasn't that today?" He asked as he took another drag from his smoke. "Nah, they're not getting on a ferry. Come on, think about it. It's God telling us to fish." John B says, tossing the branch.

So they did go out onto the Pogue, John B driving, JJ and Kai standing and pointing out the many large boats they were passing by. "It's kind of a smuggler's boat..." JJ says quietly to them as he does a peace towards the people they saw, "good mornin'!" John B called out and Kai sighs.

"Sure hope Guffy's boat didn't sink. He doesn't have insurance." JJ says as John B says, "yeah," in agreement. "Hi, Miss Amy! You guys get through it?" John B calls out, the three boys waving. "Still here." Amy called back and JJ looks at Kai, "she totally looked at me." He says.

Kai rolls his eyes as John B smiled. "I saw it." He says and they kept looking around at the hurricane's mess. "Dude, look at this place." Kai shakes his head and looked over at JJ who whistles, glancing at him. "Agatha, what did you do?" He says, a hand on his hip and John B glances around. "She is a crazy lady." He says and Kai chuckles.

"Hard-core, dude. Hurricane surge." JJ says and John B nods. "We'll be cleaning this all summer." He added and Kai sighed. "That is my nightmare." John B says and Kai smiles when he sees Pope. "Well, look who we have here." He says.

JJ whoops. "We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." John B pretends to speak on a radio, his hand cupping his shoulder and mimics static. "I can't. My pop's got me on lockdown." Pope says and Kai frowns. "Come on, man." JJ does the same with the cupped hand over his shoulder. "Your dad's a pussy. Over." He says.

"Oh, I heard that, you little bastard." Heyward says and Kai giggled softly into his closed fist. "We need your son." John B calls out. "Yeah, and island rules." JJ says as he held out his arms, "day after a hurricane's a free day."

"Who in the hell made that up?"

"Uh... Pentagon, I think. We have security clearance. I have a card." JJ pretends to dig into his pocket as Kai kept nudging him as a way to say shut up. "You think I'm stupid?" Heyward says who Pope looks over at. "I'll do it tomorrow. I promise. Tomorrow." He tells his father who shakes his head. "No, no, no. Hell no. You doing it right now." He says and Pope looks over at them.