Outer Banks ~ JJ Maybank

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"So the master plan is to melt this down and then pawn it off?" "Yeah." Kie said, taking the blow torch away from JJ. "You are not doing this." "I took a welding class." "When?" I asked, jokingly punching his arm. "Ha ha." "Ready when you guys are." Kie said, lighting to blow torch and melting to gold. "Why do we even have to melt it?" "No one is gonna want gold with a giant wheat symbol on it." "Weed? I'm up fro weed." "When are you not?" "I didn't know today was everyone attack JJ day." "You should have marked it on your calendar." "I should have. I'l get it next time." He said, with a smile.

"I mean, we could have done a better job than this." I said handing the solid blob of gold to JJ. "I tired my best." Kie said, getting out of the car. "Why do I have to be the one to pawn off this piece of shit?" "Because you are good at lying." Pope said, I could hear him rolling his eyes. "Well, at least you won't be flying solo." "You guys already have a great story that you told that security guy." "Shit. Let's hope this works." I said opening the door to the pawn shop. 

"Excuse me ma'am. Hi. We have some gold we would like to pawn. You guys do take gold right?" "Well, the sign says 'Gold for Cash' so yeah." "Great. Babe, give it to her." JJ handed over the gold. The lady did a bunch of tests on it and looked up at us with a look of shock. "Um okay. I can give you 10,000 for it." "No way. It's worth at least 140,000. At least." "30,000." "100,000." "40,000. Final offer." "I just can't go that low. Come on babe, we can go do this somewhere else." "It's just sad because I melted down all of my mom's jewelry for this and she doesn't think it's worth anything." "Your mom's jewelry?" "Yes ma'am. She passed away a few years ago and left me all of her jewelry. I really hated to doing it but with a baby on the way it was our only option." "A baby?" "Yes ma'am. I'm about 2 months along now. We are trying to scrape up enough money to buy a semi decent house on the mainland to start our family." "Hold on. Let me go talk to my boss." She said, walking away. "Damn. That was good." "The act is not over yet my friends. Shush." The lady came back and sat down behind the counter. "Okay, I can go to 70,000. It's half of what you want and I won't ask any questions about how you really got this much gold." JJ and I looked around at everyone else and John B nodded. "We are gonna need that in large bills please." "The problem is, I don't have that kind of money here right now. We have it at the warehouse though." She took out a slip of paper and wrote and address on it. "This is where it is. I'll let them know you are coming." "Thank you ma'am." We said, walking out of the store. "JJ, I believe you have been dethroned." Kie said, opening the back door and we all climbed in.

15 minutes later, we found ourselves in the middle of no where. "Are you sure this is the right address?" Sarah asked as John B drove around aimlessly. Yeah. That's what she said. Ha, that's what she said." "Shut up. I hear something." I said. "Cops." Pope said. "Man, are you kidding mw with this shit!" "Hide the gold. Hide the fucking gold." John B said, pulling over. JJ lifted up the seat cushion and stuffed the gold in the little space under it. He quickly put the cushion back on and sat down. The back door opened and a guy with a gun and his face covered stood there. "Get out of the fucking car!" He yelled. "Get out or I'll fucking shoot you!" We all started getting out of the car quickly. "Keep your fucking hands where I can see them." We all raised our hands and stood on the side of the road. "Get in the ditch. Lay down in the fucking ditch." We all complied and got in the ditch as the guy got in the van. John B began to sneak away and we all snapped out heads in his direction. "John Booker Routledge, I swear to god." "What?" He whispered. "Why fight it anymore, just know, if you get killed, I'm gonna bring you back to life just to kill you myself." I whisper fussed. "I'll be fine." He said, suddenly running off and getting in the guy's car. We all watched as he walked out of the van with the gold. "Son of a bitch." JJ whispered. "Do you have the gun?" "No. I left it in the car." "Okay, next time, in a situation where someone else is pointing a gun at us, it's a good time to have a gun. Not just out and about. Okay?" "Smart ass." He said. We heard the sound of a car door opening and watched as the guy rolled out on to the ground. We all ganged up on him and beat the shit out of him. JJ grabbed his license. "I know this guy. He sells coke to my dad." We got back to the van and JJ hopped in the driver's seat. "I have one last stop we need to make."

"I can't believe you brought us to his house!" Kie said as we got out of the van. "I just need to do one thing." He said, running inside. He came back out with two fistfuls of cash. "Whoa. What the fuck." "SO we steal from drug dealers now." "As thou stealest from us, we shall stealest from thee." "No. I'm saying no to this." "Look, Kie, none of us are okay with this but maybe tone down on the bitchiness." I snapped. "What are we gonna do when he comes back and comes for us again." "We punch him, in the throat." "Yeah great fucking idea JJ." John B said rolling his eyes. "Come on guys, let's go." JJ said, getting in the car. "No. I'm not going." Kie said, crossing her arms. I walked over and sat down in the back with him. "Gabbie, you really support this?" "I don't support it. But I also don't support you all teaming up on him like you are." "Well I'm not going if he has that money." Everyone else kind of stood around. "Fine. I'll see you later." He said pushing past everyone. I followed behind him but John B stopped me. "I have to make sure he is okay." I said, yanking my arm away and running to catch up with JJ.

We got back to John B and I's house and JJ hand't spoken a word to me the entire walk back .He got on his bike and started it up. "JJ. Are you okay?" "I'm fine." He snapped. "Really? Cause you don't seem okay. You didn't talk the entire walk back and normally your mouth is going 90 miles a minute." "Well, I have a lot on my mind." "Like what? You can tell me anything." "I think John B was right." "What do you mean he was right?" "About me and what I'm gonna end up doing." "What? Going off and finding a new chick." "Yeah. So I might as well save you all the trouble of waiting for the inevitable." "So what? Are you breaking up with me?" "Yeah. I am." He said, kicking off and speeding away.