On Top//Topper Thornton

thirty seven

"I am!" Sarah tells him.

The twinkie emerges from the gator infested water.

"Whoo! The twinkie lives!" JJ shouts.

"Whoo!" Sarah cheers.

"The twinkie lives! Let's go, boy!" JJ shouts.

We head to the Freedman's church to find this damn cross. The church has been abandoned for a long time and it has fallen into disrepair.

"Okay, you're telling me Denmark Tanny decided to hide the cross here?" JJ asks.

Pope nods. "Mm-hmm."

"Everybody, just spread out," Kie tells us.

"Okay, well, if I was a cross and wanted to be hidden in an old church, where would I hide?" John B remarks.

"Are you sure that Denmark hid the cross here, Pope?" JJ asks. "Like, are we at the right church?"

"It's gotta be here somewhere, guys," Pope insists.

"What if we have to push a secret button or, like, play, like, a... a certain chord, and then, all of a sudden, the ground beneath us reveals the catacombs or something on which we stand?" JJ offers.

"How about we try to find obvious clues?" John B offers.

"It's not an escape room," Kie states.

"It's gotta be in here," Pope insists. He keeps looking around the room. "Come on."

"Look I can't see where they'd hide a giant cross in here," John B says.

"No, no. There's no way he would set us up on a freaking goose chase that would lead us to a church that has nothing," Pope argues.

"Yes, I get it. I don't know what to tell you, man," John B says.

"The clues led us here. The cross is in this church," Pope states as he sits on a pew.

"Pope, it'll be all right. We've had setbacks in the past, and we figured it out. We're gonna find it," John B assures.

"He's right," Kie agrees.

"We've just gotta think about this logically, all right? Where else would you hide a seven-foot-tall cross made of gold?" John B questions.

Pope is staring at the cross beam of the ceiling.

"What?" I ask.

I look up and realize the crossbeam has two crosses in it.

"Oh my God! Look at that," Kie says.

"No shit," Topper remarks.

Pope starts to climb up the literal wall.

"Pope," Sarah says.

"Hey, no!" JJ shouts at him.

"Now Pope's climbing the wall," John B remarks.

"Wait. Pope, wait. This is crazy," Sarah says.

"Pope, this church is old," Kie warns.

"I'm just gonna..." JJ starts.

"Like really old. This isn't safe," Kie warns.

"Yo! This church gots to be at least 200 years old," I tell Pope.

"She's right. It's too dangerous," John B states.

"What are you doing, man?" Topper asks.

"Yo, let me just be real. You're not the most coordinated person on planet Earth," JJ states.