𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖 ➸𝙟𝙟 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙠

𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
GARDEN (SAY IT LIKE DAT)
[SZA]

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"What do you guys think it is?" Nova asked, jumping on JJ's back as they walked on the dock. John B kneeled on the wooden floor, searching through the bag.

"Gotta be money, right?" Her brother replied.

JJ looked to the left, "That or a couple of keys with street value to the low - mid-mills!"

"Can we please just open the bag?" Pope pleaded out, causing Nova to giggle and John B to fake a gasp.

"Wow Pope. That's a rare outburst of emotion." Her brother said.

He looked at us with a begging look, "You guys are literally killing me with anticipation."

"We almost died over this." The smart boy finished.

John B searched through the bag quickly, pulling out a silver canister.

Nova let herself fall from JJ's back, her small body hitting the ground, "John B if you don't open that-" JJ cut her off with a hand over her mouth, and an arm around her waist, pulling her back into his chest, her body leaning against him with a sigh.

John B opened the silver metal, looking in before tipping it, a bronze compass falling out.

Nova felt her breath hitch, taking in the object for all it was.

"Oh wow. Yup. That's about right." Pope commented.

Nova kneeled next to her brother, staring intently at the compass, trying to figure out why, why, why.

"Dude what?" John B asked looking at the twins on the ground, "It's not worth anything."

The brunette grabbed it from his hands softly, holding it to her chest.

"This was dad's."

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"That's kinda weird that it's your dad's compass though," JJ whispered towards the girl. Dusk had come, the sky was painted dark blue and the crickets chirped and filled the silence. The blonde boy and the brunette girl laid in the hammock quietly, the only two outside. The rest of the group had gone home, John B probably crying inside, he was pretty shaken up by the whole thing, Nova was too, she just didn't want to be alone.

She played with the rings on her fingers as they laid stagnant next to his body. They were parallel to each other, both of them wanting to curl into each other, Nova fighting off tears.

"Yeah...." She breathed in heavily, "It is."

He looked over at her, propping himself up on his elbow to take in her features, "Are you okay?"

"I think so." She answered, maybe she wasn't. She didn't know. She just didn't want to talk about it, didn't want to talk about any of it.

"You sure?" He asked again.

"Can we not talk about it." She watched his look of sympathy grow larger as he nodded at her. She gave him a soft smile in response.

"What do you want to talk about?" He questioned instead. She didn't really want to talk at all, but she didn't want to think either. She didn't want to be sober at all, but JJ was trying to keep her away from substances after the molly incident. He didn't want to see her lifeless again.

She understood that, but she was thinking too much, trying to figure out how to get her mind in another place... and then she figured it out.

"I mean we can talk about anything you want, the ocean, zodiac signs, bernie, nicki minaj, all your favs." He spoke again, Nova let herself smile for real this time, rolling on top of his body quickly.

She placed her finger on his lips and shushed him, her legs on either side of his hips, her ass placed right where he wished she wouldn't have.

"JJ, shut up." she stated, as he tried to mumble something against her finger.

Her hands went up to his hair, her forearms against the hammock next to his head, fingers threading into his blonde tresses.

Her knees were on either side of his body, hovering over him, loving the way his mouth was slightly parted with confusion.

His eyes flickered from her soft gaze to her lips, pink and soft.

Nova's eyes snapped up to his, watching him through her eyelashes. She tried to tell him how bad she wanted her lips on his with just her eyes, for him to lean in and press his mouth to hers.

And he noticed.

Her head turned to the side, JJ reaching up quickly to pull her down, and just like that,

Their kiss had begun.

It wasn't slow, it wasn't gentle, it was rough. It was passionate.

It wasn't perfect, but it was real.

And it was exactly what she needed.

She took his bottom lip into her mouth, sucking on it quickly before pulling it back, watching it snap back into place.

Their breaths were heavy and their eyes pleading, pleading for something.

She went back, loving the slow rapture as she teased him, tracing the outside of his mouth with her tongue.

He grunted quietly, desperate for something new, and so she slipped in her tongue, gasping at the way they melted together, JJ's hands trailing up her shirt, warm hands pressed into her lower back.

She started tugging at his shirt as he took control of the kiss, somehow flipping his over in the hammock, the blonde boy on top of her now.

A soft wine left her throat as he pulled away from the kiss, his shirt being yanked over his head. Nova quickly signed out, running her hands down his toned chest, while she leaned up to capture his lips in another kiss. She found herself imagining kissing each individual ab, she shivered at the thought.

JJ knew most girls like neck kisses, so it wasn't a surprise to him that when he moved down to begin placing rough kisses at her neck that she gasped in shock.

But what did surprise him was the way she squirmed and moaned, how she let out a sound at every little kiss, and that's how he found out that Nova loved neck kisses.

He dipped below her collarbone, sucking harshly at the gentle skin, grinding his hips down onto the girl, happy with the way her breath stopped momentarily from shock.

"Jay?... Inside?" She asked the boy.

"Inside."

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i wrote this kinda late at
night and it seemed like a
good idea at the time bc i
just like writing intimacy
between two broken characters
bc there's spice there ya
know. anyway i can't decide
if i wanted them to have
sex here or if they should
just like... make out and
vibe. lemme know ur
thoughts. vote for the next
chapter <3