Ocean Eyes-Outer Banks

chapter 22

~ 𝘥𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘩𝘪𝘮 ~

☾❤︎𓆉♡︎⁂☼☂︎︎

"Caroline! where have you been?" her father screamed as she shut the door.
shit. she didn't say anything about where she had been, and she hadn't spoken to her father in a few days. she ignored his texts because she knew that he would make her come home.
"i've been safe, been staying with friends. you know, living the summer dream." she smiled innocently.
"jesus caroline! you can just ignore me, i'm your father."
"i-i wasn't ignoring you, my phone died." she lied.
"ok Caroline. hello boys." he said nodding to jj and pope standing awkwardly behind the blonde girl.

they both said there hellos and then Jason noticed all of the marks on caroline's face. "w-what happened to your face?" he pointed at her bruises and glared at jj.
"oh, this, i uhm fell, hit the side of the boat." she said. 
"well shit, you guys need to not drive so recklessly, she could've gotten actually hurt." he said sternly.
"-dad im fine." she smiled.

pope tried to cover his face up as best as possible so the rich man wouldn't see all of the bruises on his own face.

soon the group of teens were walking up the stairs to caroline's room.
"hey, come here." jj said to caroline so he could tend to her face.
"hold on, we need music." she walked over to her record player and put on some music. she walked her long tan legs back over to jj and sat down in front of him.
"ok sunshine, this might sting a little bit, so hold on." jj said as he poured rubbing alcohol onto all of her cuts.

she inhaled deeply as she felt the sting hit her skin.
"shit." she groaned.
"here let me blow on it." jj said as he blew cold air onto the stinging sensation.
"better?"
"so much." she smiled back at the boy.

pope and caroline cleaned up their wounds and caroline applied makeup to all of her bruises.
"this should be better, but it won't cover up all of the br-" she was interrupted by the door bell ringing.

she heard the door open and some talking went on but she couldn't make out what they were saying.
"caroline!" jennifer called out to her.
"i'll be right back." she told the boys and ran down the stairs. she got to the bottom and saw topper standing right there.

shit. she thought. she had to play it cool. she didn't know anything. deny. deny. deny.
"h-hey, hi Top." she said. jennifer walked away leaving the two to talk.
"hey caroline, can we go for a little walk on the beach?" he asked.
caroline hesitated and looked back up the stairs and back at topper.
"uh yea yea." she said following him out the door.

"look caroline, i'm sorry about earlier, i really am. i didn't want you to get hurt. but you've gotta understand, rafe is obsessed with you and well he can't have you, so um hes kinda going crazy right now. so yea sorry about that."
"oh, i see." she nodded.
"but um that's not what i came here to talk about, have you seem jj or pope recently?" he asked

she felt like she had just been stabbed in the heart. he knew. he knew everything. son of a bitch.

"um...no. last time i saw them was when they dropped me off back here after delivery's." she lied.
"oh, oh. ok. alright."
"um, uh why? why exactly do you want to know where they are?" she asked nervously.
"ya see, my boat. my new boat actually. was um destroyed. someone pulled the plug and uh it sunk to the ocean floor." he said anger in his voice.