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A/N: thank you to everyone who's reading this, there's only like two or three of you, but thank you <3
"Could've warned us a little sooner," JJ chuckles.
"We would've, but Pope was on the math team, and Kie must've been in a book club," Lioana says bitterly. Her eyes following JJ's finger, gently tracing circles up and down her forearm and her palm.
"You were on the math team?" JB asks, looking at Pope.
"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene..." Pope ignores John B's question. "Did you guys find anything?"
"Did we find anything? No, I don't think so..." he says sarcastically. "Oh, yeah, we did." JJ holds up the wad of cash and the gun.
"What the hell?!" Pope exclaims.
"Dude, what?" Kie looks at Lio and she shrugs.
"Dude, chill. Come on," JJ says standing up, causing Lio to ease her body down onto the bow of the boat.
"Why would you take that from a crime scene?!" Pope rose to his feet in stress.
"Better than the cops having it, bro!" JJ argues.
"You serious?" Kie rolls her eyes.
"I'm gonna lose my merit scholarship!"
"Hey, hey, hey. Sh, sh, sh. Sh, sh, sh, sh..." JJ hushes Pope by putting the gun against his lips. "At least you have us right?"
"Way to be optimistic JJ," Lio applauds.
"I'm living the nightmare," Pope sighs as he plops down in the seat next to John B.
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The Pogues make their way under the canopy of a small building and look to see paramedics, the cops, and a woman sobbing in front of a stretcher with a dead body on it.
"Who's that?" John B asks.
"It's Scooter Grubbs. He was out during the storm," a girl replied. "Check out this pic I got." The girl pulled up the picture on her phone and showed the Pogues. "Dead bodayyy. Insane."
"Holy shit," John B mumbles while looking at the picture of the dead man.
"What kind of boat did he have?" JJ asks.
"Somehow that dirtbag copped a brand-new Grady White. Everyone's out looking for it." The girl replies.
When Lioana heard "Grady White" a chill was sent down her spine and throughout her whole body. Her body tensed up, her hand anxiously searching for JJ's. The Pogues all looked at each other; except for Lio. She remained completely still, her eyes focused on JJ rubbing his thumb gently across her hand.
