INDIANA II JJ Maybank (Outerbanks)

chapter thirty seven

After John B had stood there for a while with Indi, waiting for her to stop crying they had gone to the Wreck. Kiara had promised to give them some food, but as much as Indi was hungry, she wasn't able to eat.

The Pogues had been too afraid to talk to Indi since Barry's house, because they were afraid that they might say something wrong to her. 

"Look, he'll come around, all right? It's..." John B said looking at his sister to see if he would get a reaction at the mention of his name, "He's doing a JJ thing." He knew she wasn't really listening by the look on her face. She was starring at the clock on the wall, wondering where JJ could be at this moment. 

"You think he'll go home?" Kie asked him. 

"There's about a zero percent chance that JJ goes home." Pope replied looking out of the window.

"You okay?" John B asked Sarah as she nodded softly in response. 

"Yeah. Are you?" She asked him back.

"I mean, I'm in one piece, so..." John B replied and Indi scoffed as she just started listening at their conversation again. JJ was out here wandering around and they were asking each other if they are okay. 

"Okay." Pope sighs, "It's too dangerous to pawn this thing off piecemeal. So our best bet is to go down there and get the rest of it. Bring it all up at once. Put it in- in a safe or a vault or something. I- I don't know. Just until we can find someone who won't rip us off. I can figure it out tonight, get it done, and we can be out there tomorrow morning."

"All right, let's do it." John B said, agreeing on Pope's idea. 

"Easy."  

"Let's go." John B said waiting on them to move.

"What about that thing with my dad?" Sarah asked him.

"Shit." He muttered as he remembered what he had promised Ward. 

"What thing?" Pope asked him. Indi looked over to him unsure what he had to do with Ward. 

"Me and Indi have to go fishing with Ward." John B replied. Indi furrowed her eyebrows. 

"What?" She asked him. She had never agreed to step on a boat with Ward for several hours. 

"You can't get 400 mil 'cause you're gonna go kill fish?" Kiara asked him.

"Look, we have to go." John B argued. 

"Blow it off." Pope said. "It's 400 million in gold!"

"Make something up!" Kie tells him. Indi nodded in agreement. 

"Look, We- we have to, okay?" John B started. "He... He saved us, all right? If it weren't for Ward, we'd be in foster care. So...We have to go. Plus, it'll be better to do at night. Right?"

"Nah, fuck you. You can go fishing without me." Indi muttered standing up from her chair abruptly and walking out of the Wreck. She didn't mean to tell her brother to fuck up but her emotions were just all over the place at the moment and she wasn't happy how he had agreed to do something in her name. None of them stopped her as she made her way out of the Wreck. 

She was walking down the roads of the cut. She had no plans on where she should go but she thought if she wanted to pass time she could just walk around on the island. With a small glimpse of hope she might even find JJ somewhere. 

"Princess." She was too deep in her thoughts, to notice the dirt bike that had stopped beside her. "Hey, Princess." The voice tried to get her attention. 

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" The voice raised and Indi looked beside her to see Rafe. Another bike approached to Rafe's and she noticed that Topper was with him.