Outer Banks ~ JJ Maybank

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"Okay, she has motion sensor lights." "We could just move really slowly." "JJ, how about you don't talk right now." I said, patting his hand. "Can you help me with that?" "No. What are we gonna do?" I said. "I could go find the breaker and turn it off. It's on the porch." Everyone looked at Sarah like she was crazy. "We used to play hide and seek here when we were kids. Sometimes if we were brave enough, we would adventure onto the porch." "I'll come with you." Kie said, following Sarah. John B grabbed Sarah and said, "Be safe." "I'll be safe." She said walking away with Kie. "Be safe." "JJ said looking at me. "I'll be so safe." "I'm gonna kill you guys." "But how would that keep us safe?" I asked, as JJ started to laugh. "Shut up dude. You are get us cough." "sorry." He whispered, still trying to hold in his laughter and failing. "John B, maybe don't look over here." I said before kissing JJ. "I'm so alone." I heard Pope sigh. "Why are you doing that right now?" John B asked. "Sorry, do you want us to get cough because Giggle McGiggleson won't shut the fuck up? I'm helping." I said. "Plus, it's fun for us." JJ said, finally able to stop laughing. We all turned our heads to see the light turn off. "Let's go." John B said leading the way back to the basement.

"John B, please don't die." I said, finishing up tying the rope around him. "I'll try." "Okay, you are all ready to go." "Down you go." JJ said, starting to let the slack out of the rope. I watched as John B disappeared into the hole we had found under the house. "How's it going down there? See any gold yet?" "Not yet. I don't really see anything at all." "Any sign of water?" "Nope. Not yet." "Ah, shit. The rope is slip-" JJ said, before the rope quickly slipped out of his hand and John B began to fall faster. I ran over and grabbed part of it and stopped it. "What the fuck JJ!" "It's slipped." "Are you still okay?" I called, now helping with the rope in case JJ made a mistake. "Yeah." "Good." "Okay John B, you are about 20 feet down. Have you seen anything yet?" "No. Not yet." A minute passed. "Wait, guys, I found the water!" He called up. "I feel something with my foot!" "Holy shit!" JJ said. "We are gonna be rich as fuck!" "Time to go full Kook." "Hey, if I do end up getting a big house on Figure 8 and going completely Kook, would you maybe want to-" "JJ! PULL ME UP. PULL ME UP!" John B called, panic flooding his voice. JJ, Pope, ad I started pulling the rope up faster and faster. "Wait, guys. Wait." John B said.

Pope, JJ, and I began to get bored after John B had been looking around. "What were you saying earlier, before John B starting screaming? It was something about Figure 8 and your big house you are gonna get." "Oh, yeah, I was wondering if, maybe when I get it if maybe you would want to-" He was cut off by the basement door being flung open and Kie and Sarah bolting down the stairs. "What's going on?" I asked. "Mrs. Crain! She's chasing us and she-" A gunshot went off at the top to the stairs. "A gun." They said, running." "John B! We have to pull you up." "Wait!" He called. Another gun shot came and Mrs Crain walked down the stairs. She was the most terrifying old woman I had ever seen. Her eyes were all glassy and she looked like she was possessed. We all started to pull faster and faster. She fired another shot, just barely missing my arm and JJ and Pope booked it to a corner. I pulled the rope over to one of the posts my the corner and tied it up and hid. She fired another shot completely missing everyone. "Holy shit. She's blind as a bat." I said, as she shot a bunch of piled up boxes. "She can't aim for shit." JJ said, loudly. "She's blind as a bat." I said, as she looked around to find out where we were. "Let's go." "But John B." "He can meet us at the van." We all booked it for the stairs. She must have heard us running up the stairs because she turned around and fired one last shot at us as we ran away.

Once we were out of the house, we all started laughing as we ran to the car. "That was fucking crazy." "Holy shit." "I thought we were gonna die." "Start the fucking car!" John B called as I climbed in the car last. JJ hopped in the driver's seat and I got in the passenger's seat and we started to drive off. John B ran and the others pulled him into the van and we speed off. "That was insane!" I said. "God, John B, you smell like shit." "Yeah, dude. You are covered in some kind of something." "That's my boy. Doin' it Pogue style." JJ said high fiving him. Everyone started talking to each other I looked back to see John B pull something out of his pocket and wipe junk off of it. "No fucking way." I said, as everyone turned their attention to John B. We all stared don at the wheat symbol on the bar of gold in his hand. "We found it!" We all shouted. We all began to cheer and I stopped. "Wait guys, I just realized something. We are gonna be filthy rich." John B looked around and we all started to chant. "Full Kook! Full Kook! Full Kook! Full Kook!" I leaned over and kissed JJ on the cheek. "I can't believe it." He said, almost breathlessly. "We are gonna be rich." "We are finally gonna get everything we want." "I already got everything I want." I said, looking in the back of the car and back at him, holding his free hand. "The money is just extra."