issues ☆ Outer Banks // JJ

XI - Deny, Deny, Deny

'I wrote some words and then I stared at my feet
Became a coward when I needed to speak
I guess love took on a different kind of meaning for me
So when I go, just know it kills me to leave'

Outnumbered - Dermot Kennedy

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Secrets. they were easy to keep and easy to find out with the right people. a founding principal amongst pogues being no secrets amongst pogues. most of the bullshit rules we made when we were 14, were broken but it was still the backbone of the group. 

we'd all spilt up after the failure of the misson to search the sunken royal merchant for the 400 million dollars of gold, we all so desperately wanted. the wreck being my home for the day. After, my shift, I drove to Heywards, hoping Pope would be there and have something for me to do, to waste some time before we were all meant to meet to go to some movie kie was dragging us to. 

'Hey Pope' I spoke as he walked out of the shop, looking intently at the suv parked on the road 

'Pope' I said louder, his face focusing more on the car. glancing over to car to see tTopper, glaring at the helpless boy next to me. I turned my head back to pope, whipping around confusingly to go back into the shop. 

'Pope' I shouted after him, practically chasing him into his dads shop 'what's wrong?' 

he stopped in his tracks only saying, taking his hat off his head and brushing his fingers through his hair before whipping around to face me, worry covering his face.

'Pope, what's wrong?' 

'how did you get here?' he spoke shakily

'my mom's car' I replied even more confused

'I need to go to JJ's' 

the drive over to the blonde's was quiet, the subtle glances over to the painck boy, made me even more susipiscous, fiddling with his fingers. 

almost breaking the door off my car, when I  stopped. hearing the gunshots filling the air. what the fuck have they done?

'pope, wait' I shouted following him around the side of the house to reveal jj shotting a teddy bear

'JJ!' pope screamed 

'what was that?' JJ muttered, continuing to fire the gun 

'JJ!' he shouted louder

'that's what I thought, man' the blonde muttered, basically destroying the teddy bear with every shot

'JJ!' finally interrupting the boy, quicking turning his head as Pope said 'they know' 

'what?' JJ questioned, headphones still covering his ears 

'they know' pope repeated 

'know what?' I asked, only being ignored as JJ said 'they don't know shit' 

'Topper knows I sunk his boat' Pope confessed 

'You did what?' I almost screamed, how the fuck could pope let himself get so corrupted. 

'nice going bro, now she knows' JJ smirked, looking weirdly calm 'how do you know they know?' 

'rafe and topper posted outside of Heyward's and mad dogged me' pope word-vomitted, pacing back and forward.

'you two are idiots' I spoke, what the fuck were they thinking sinking a $25K boat when both of them have barely $5 to their names 

'will you calm down' JJ glared at me, focusing back on Pope 'get a grip, man? they don't know shit'