Coralina Routledge, twin sister of John Booker Routledge, needs a distraction from the chaos of her life. Her father, Big John, known throughout the North Carolina island of Kildaire as a crazy treasure hunter is always running off and leaving his...
Handing a firecracker to JJ, Pope lit his and threw it before giving JJ his lighter so he could do the same to his.
"There's too many of them!" Fenton yelled, "Let's get out of here!" he shrieked as he and the other man jumped in their boat and took off back down river.
"I can't believe that worked," Coral said astonished.
"Think we're getting better at this," JJ laughed.
"Oh, yeah," Pope agreed as they did their little bro handshake.
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"Hey, hey. Ain't no time for celebrating. We didn't do nothing yet," Cleo told them.
"That's fair," Kie said as the two girls walked back towards their boat to grab their bags.
"I thought we did something," JJ muttered.
"We did."
"Well done soldier," JJ laughed, clapping the other boy on the back.
"Alright, troops, move out," Coral said waving her hand towards where Kie and Cleo had gone.
A few hours later Coral was lagging behind with JJ while Pope and Cleo had hiked ahead with Kie somewhere in the middle of them, "First we're running all over hell and creation and now we're hiking," Coral complained.
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"Treasure hunting is a real workout," JJ responded smiling when she simply flipped him off, "Oh, Babygirl, I can feel the love," he mocked as they hiked up to where Kie stood staring up the hill.
Catching sight of Pope and Cleo kissing at the top of the hill Coral awed, "They're adorable."
"Pope!" JJ yelled, "Hey, we couldn't find anything. You guys find something?"
"JJ!" Coral and Kie hissed at the same time, "You ruined their moment," Coral admonished smacking the boy in the stomach.
"Yeah, the path leads this way!" Pope called, pointing ahead of him.
"The amount of times someone has interrupted us I say it's payback," JJ told her as they climbed the hill behind Kie joining them at the top.
Looking off in the distance Coral recognized the three stone structures, "That's Solana," she told them pointing, "I recognize it from the drawing we found at Professor Sowells," she reminded JJ.
