𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲

twenty-three: Well.

THE group of teens sneak through the garden and then John B whispers to them to huddle together, kneeling down. "So here's the plan. We need to look for the wheat near the water like it said in Denmark's letter." He says.

"Okay, like, what kind of water? Like, pond water?" Pope asked and JJ looks over, chuckling. "Bong water?" He asked and Kai looks at him right away with an annoyed look. "No, it-it just said look for water, okay?" John B explained.

"That's the shittiest secret message ever." Kie says before walking away. "You wanna complain a little more, Kie? Nobody said it was gonna be easy." John B followed after her as Pope turns to Kai and JJ. "I'll search the northeast quadrant, you two search the northwest." Pope walks away.

"The decapitation quandrant." JJ said to Pope, pointing and Kai grabs his hand again. "Relax, I'll protect you." He snickered and JJ followed behind him, shaking his head. "I swear... you're insane. You love this kind of shit too much." He said as they were walking to where Pope sent them.

"Hey, psst! Hey, come on. It's the only place we haven't looked." John B said to the group. Kie and Pope make their way over as Kai watched JJ runnoff because of a bird flapping its wings. "It's just a bird, oh my God." He whispered.

"Here we go." John B entered first, Kie and Pope following after. "Girls first," Kai gestured inside the under of the house. "Oh, I am so not the girl in this relationship." JJ said as he pointed at Kai with a hand on his hip. "Sure..." Kai said and bent over, making his way inside. JJ follows, singing, "down came Mrs. Cain and cut off all our heads. Up xame the sun and dried up all the blood." Pope turns around, flashing the light at them. "Can you stop?" He said and Kai sighed.

"Yeah, JJ, shush," he whispered and they carried on. They look all around, Kai swatting the mosquitoes all around them. "Another dead end?" Kie says and Kai looked over at John B. "There's not even water on the pipes." JJ said to them.

"There's no water here."

"Not a dropamino." JJ said and Kie turns to them. "Know why we didn't find it? Bad karma." She says before turning away. "Oh, God. Here we go." John B said quietly to himself as Kie pointed the flashlight at him. "You know, we had a good thing going. And then you decide to rope in Barbie, and now the trail's gone dry. Coincidence? Probably not." She said as she looked away.

"This is exactly why I didn't wanna tell you about Sarah." John B says as he got closer to Kie. "Yeah?" She said sassily and he nods. "Yeah." He says, looking away. "What the hell's the deal with you two?" He asked her. "Nothing." Kie said as she shrugged her shoulders.

"Nothing? Is it because I kissed you? Is that the problem?" He asked and she slaps him. "Oh!" Pope said with a hand to his mouth. "Oh, shit!" JJ exclaimed as Kai stifled a laugh. "That echoed, dude!" Kai turned to Pope.

"Stop treating me like I'm some girl that's obsessed with you instead of your best friend who's actually trying to look out for you. Kie said and Kai smirked. "Did you, uh... hit me?" John B says when he finally turned his head to look back at her. She simply raised her hand, "skeeter."

"Skeeter?" John B asked. "Yeah, you see it?" She asked, holding up her hand closer. "Yeah." He nods before he slapped her. "Oh, hey!" Kai said, his eyes wide. "Okay... Alright—" "where's your proof?" Kie turned her head back to him and he raised to show the palm of his hand too.

"Skeeter." He says when she flashed her light at him. "Yeah? There's probably one right there." Kie slaps him. "There's one right there." John B slapped her right back. "Yeah? Really?" Kie said and the two began bickering that turned into playful banter between two friends as Kai noticed how many mosquitoes all around.

"Why are there so many mosquitoes in a basement?" Kai asked out loud. "I know, seriously. Tiny vampire bats, just won't leave me alone." JJ complained as Kai looked all around. "Oh, my gosh! Okay, can we leave? Cause I'm already itching to leave." JJ complained some more.

Except Kai has zoned him out and was looking down at the floorboards. "Hah. Punny." JJ says as Pope rolls his eyes and turned to Kai who stepped uponto the platform, stomping. "I just found Mrs. Crain's voodoo doll, guys." JJ says and Kai looked up at Pope who stepped up, dropping a rock between the floorboards. They wait and then it made the splashing noise. Water.

He and Kai work quickly, taking off everything from the tiny platform. The others shush him, "shut up and help us move this." Kai said right away before they cleared all of the wood from it and got down from it. "Guys! Guys!" Kie said quietly. "Yeah, yeah, I know, shh." Kai waves his hand before they began lifting the wood one by one.

They all point their flashlights down the well, "well, well, well." Pope says and Kai rolls his eyes, smiling. "That was a good dad joke." John B says as they stare down the well they had just discovered. "They built this part of the house right over it." Kie spoke. "This is where she hid the bodies." JJ spoke up from beside Kai. "Dude, come on." Pope said as Kai punched his upper arm.

"Stop." Kie said with a displeased look. "No, I'm dead serious." JJ said, looking down. "Stop it." Kai looked at the blond next to him who sighed, looking away. "It was never an outhouse." JJ added shortly after in a hushed whisper.

"She probably doesn't even know it's here." Kie said right away in an annoyed voice. "So... we found water." Pope says, looking at John B. "We're gonna need a really big rope." John B says to them with a small smile on his face.

authors note sorry i forgot to update 😔

also topper slutshaming sarah just for finding another better guy fot herself. yeah, fuck u dude, u were a shitty bf anyways 😐