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𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏

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chapter eleven
[hopeless]
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"What the fuck are you doing?" I yelled out, arriving home from JJ's. It seemed to me that John B had taken everything that had belonged to our dad and lit it on fire. "What are you doing with dad's stuff?" I questioned him again after he had decided to not answer me.

"We have to move on, grace." He replied, looking me in the eyes.
"Oh," I said. "So now that you're ready to move on, It's time to move on?" I asked.

He looked at me, unsure of what to say. "I moved on, John B! and I didn't have to light dad's shit on fire to do that." I started, about to cry. "I moved on, long ago. Do you know what it's like having to see you mention him everyday? I mean, why in the fuck are we going on this god damned goose chase? He's been dead, John b." I sighed, a few tears leaving my eyes.

"Just because you've finally decided to move on, doesn't change anything. Our dad has been dead; gone for nearly a year." I spoke, "I dealt with that alone, while you were still out here fucking around and holding out hope. I had to accept that he was dead, and you galivanting around just made it worse." My words were harsh, and i regretted them instantly.

John B just stared at me in shock, not saying anything. I scoffed, turning around to walk into the house to go and cry alone in my room.

"Wait, grace!" John B exclaimed, getting me to turn back around suddenly.
"What?" I seethed, I was getting angrier by the second and I had no idea why. I guess that's anger issues for you. I seen John B grinning at me as he pulled something out of the fire. "Oh my god."

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"She says she's not coming!" Pope yelled from the doorway of the wreck, the rest of us in the van. We had come to get Kie but evidently, she wasn't coming?

"Why not? What'd you do to her, John B?" JJ turned to John B.
"Bye." He ignored JJ's question, getting out of the van and walking into the restaurant; presumably to get Kie.

"Sooooo...." Pope dragged out the 'o' while getting back in the van.
"Don't even start, pope." I replied, glaring at him. I just had a gut feeling that he was going to bring up the kiss he caught JJ and I sharing, and I just wanted to avoid it for as long as I could.

"You two kissed? so, is that like- like a thing now?" Pope seemed cautious talking.
"Uh, yeah." JJ spoke, I turned to look at him; confused. He just smiled and placed his lips on my forehead, giving me one of those cheesy forehead kisses.
It was cute; until he licked my forehead.

"Ew! What the fuck JJ?" I gagged jokingly, laughing with Pope.
"You two are so gross." Pope spoke.

"Shut up, pope." JJ replied, looking out the window and seeing John B and Kiara walking towards the van.
"Yeah, shut up pope." I mocked JJ. Kie and John B now in the man, John B giving me a questioning look probably wondering why i had just told pope to shut up.

I wasn't going to tell him.

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"You guys mind if i just relax on this one?" JJ asked, sitting beside me with his hand on my lap; as always. "It's been a long day, and a lot of weird stuff's gone down."
"I'm just gonna lay low." JJ continued. "You want a hit of this?" He turns to pope and offers him a hit.

"No, thanks. I keep the signal clear." Pope replied, looking at the blunt in digust.
"Dude, okay. Do you understand that your problem is that you don't get creative? If you got creative then - " JJ stopped talking, pope was ignoring him and there was obviously no point.

"Look, i was wrong about the light house, okay? and wrong about everything else going on- but i was right about one thing." John B spoke while driving.
"My dad is trying to tell me something" He finished. Maybe he was right and maybe our dad was trying to tell him- or us something.

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"Hey, come on." John B whispered to the group as we walked into what seemed to be a graveyard.
"What are we doing?" Kiara asked the questioned that everyone wanted to know the answer to, besides John B of course because his the one that dragged us out here so he already knew.

"You know how you're trying to remember a song but you can't remember who sings it?" John B started, looking around to make sure everyone was paying attention. "So Redfield. This whole time, I thought it was a place, right? But it's no a place. It's a person."

"See, my great grandmother, Olivia Redfield, that was her aiden name." John B continued, shining his light on the big stone. Redfield carved into it.

"Help me with the door." John B suggested, all three boys lined up and tried to get the door open as me and Kie just sat back and watched.

"One, two, three." They pushed.
"The door is like 700 pounds, it's not going to budge." Pope sighed.
"We didn't come this far just to give up, alright?" JJ snapped.

"Well, shit. I think it's about time to give up." I yelped as a snake crawled out of a crack in the door.
"That's a moccasin, all right! Ye old dr Cottonmouth. Death in tall grass." JJ placed his hand on my shoulder but quickly removed it as he started barking at the snake.

"JJ, please shut the fuck up." I tapped the back of his head quietly.
"Shut up!" Kie wasn't as nice as i was. JJ threw his hands up in defense.

"You're gonna wake the fucking dead, man." Pope breathed.
"They're afraid of dogs, everyone knows that, man." JJ tries to defend him self, i shook my head at his dumbass self.

"Maybe I can go through the hole?" I stated, in a questioning voice.
"But, we don't want you to get bitten by a snake." JJ said, trying to look at John B and pope for back up.

"I need to, it's my dad JJ." I said softly, moving towards the stone or whatever it's called and pulling some sticks and leaves out of the way.

"I'm gonna give you a boost, all right. I've seen it in the movies several times." JJ spoke, bending down and getting his hands ready. I'm sure JJ had seen plenty of things in movies, none of which probably helped him in a real life situation.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Yeah." I replied, turning to my brother. "What am i looking for?" I asked him.
"You'll know when you see it, grace." He replied.

I placed my foot into JJ's hand, and with his help i was surprisingly able to fit through the hole.

"Okay, flashlight?" I looked around the dark room, thing. I grabbed the flashlight as someone handed it through.
"You alive? You got like, a - a heartbeat and everything?" My brother asked after a fer moments of silence.
"Yes, John B. I am alive." I spoke, continuing to look around.

Eventully i found some type of envelope. "Find anything, gold maybe?" JJ asked.
I quickly walked back towards the hole, placing the envelope through and pulling myself out.

"This is from our dad." John B sighed, watching as JJ grabbed my arms and helped me down. We stood for a few minutes in silence, just trying to figure out what the meant.
"Code red, code red! square groupers." JJ muttered, causing us all to turn and look.

"GO!" Kie's voice was heard as we ran away.
"Is it the guys that robbed your house?" JJ asked as me continued to move. We all ducked behind a wall, John B whisper yelling and John B to turn off his light.

"Do you think so?" I asked JJ.
"Homies got a gun!" JJ called out.
"Screw this." Kie stated, standing up and running; the rest of us following.
We ran towards the fence, and all climbed over fairly quickly but not Pope.

"Guys! I'm stuck." He called out.
"Pope, c'mon" JJ tried to encourage the now stuck boy.

We all ran back towards him, trying to help him down.
"Wait! You're gonna rip me!" Pope exclaimed.
"You're fine, dude. Let's go." JJ tried to reason with him. Pope eventually fell down, his pants left behind on the fence.

"Nice, It's a little tootsie roll." I laughed alone with JJ and the rest of the group as we all got in the van and drove away.