CONTINUANCE - John B Routledge

008.

"𝐀𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐉𝐉. 𝐏𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞." John B said. Today was the day. The day they finished what their parents started. "Roger that! X marks the spot."

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen. To going full kook." John B said as he dropped the drone. Emerson felt a bunch of emotions. Scared, excited, overwhelmed, nervous, and a ton more emotions, all at once.

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"Okay, 900!" Kie shouted at the Pogues, while she and Emerson were lowering the drone down. There was a storm approaching quickly, and everyone started to worry.

"JJ, we'll turtle in this storm!" John B shouted to JJ, who was driving the boat.

"920!" Emerson yelled.

"Crank it north by northwest! Ten seconds!" John B shouted. Emerson was growing more and more anxious by the second. First of all being the storm, but also because she really hoped the gold was down there, so that she could make her parents proud. 

"John B, there's too much current!" Kie yelled to John B, as she and Emerson tried to keep it from going towards the propeller and losing it. "We're gonna lose it!"

"South, southwest, JJ! Hard!" John B called out. "Half speed. Steady at this bearing, JJ!"

"What do you got, Pope? Come on, man. What do you see?" John B said anxiously.

"Nothing. A whole lot of nothing." Pope responded. "Come on, you should be right above it." John B said. 

"960! 970! 980!" the girls yelled.

"I'm at the bottom! I'm at the bottom!" Pope said excitedly. "Okay, steady here, JJ! Steady speed. Quarter speed, alright?" John B commanded JJ.

Everyone went to see the screen of the drone to see if they could see anything. "See anything?" JJ asked, still driving the boat.

Emerson and John B looked at each other and gave each other the biggest hug. "It's the Royal Merchant."

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"It's not there. Look, just, just pull the drone up." John B whispered, disappointed. Emerson didn't know to feel except, disappointment. They may have found the Royal Merchant, but 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥?

"Look, we can do another pass. Recharge the battery. We can go back down." Pope suggests. He felt really bad for Emerson and John B, considering they really wanted to find it to make their parents proud. "We've done it three times. There's nothing there." JJ yells. "Shut up!" Kie shouts at JJ.

Emerson felt so defeated. Her heart ached knowing that this was all for nothing. Absolutely nothing. 

"The gold could be buried. We don't know!" Kie said, trying to make him shut up since he wasn't helping the situation. 

"If it was there, it would've been found on the metal detector, okay? Somebody beat us to it." Emerson voice breaks. She had tears rolling down her cheeks, and everyone looked at her and John B with sympathy. "Or it was never there." JJ mumbled under his breath so that no one could hear him.

John B sat next to Emerson, who was heartbroken with the fact that everything was for nothing. She couldn't complete what her parents started, and that made her cry harder. She didn't want anyone to hear her cry, but John B could hear, so he put his arm around her shoulders to comfort her. While the two teenagers felt defeated, the three other teenagers didn't say a word. They were disappointed, but they all knew how important this was for the two Pogues. 

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As Emerson and John B walked to the Chateau, John B noticed how puffy and red Emerson's eyes were. She calmed down a couple minutes ago, but he was too afraid to say a word. He was afraid she would break down again if he said anything. Emerson was exhausted, and she was ready to take a nap and sleep away the disappointment.