Born To Survive | JJ Maybank

BORN TO SURVIVE

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Born To Survive, JJ Maybank

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The Outer Banks, Paradise on Earth. Its the sort of place where you either have two jobs or two houses.
Two tribes, one island.

All right. This is Figure Eight, the rich side of the Island.
Home of the Kooks. So, guess where we don't live.

And then this is the Cut or the South Side.
Home of the working class who make a living busing tables, washing yachts, running charters.
The natural habitat of... drumroll, please...

THE POGUES!
That's us.

Pogues or Pogies, the throwaway fish. Lowest member of the food chain.

Okay.
So the downside of Pogue life is we're ignored and neglected. But the upside of Pogue life? We're ignored and neglected which means we do whatever we want, whenever we want.

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𝕁𝕁

That's JJ (Maybank), my best friend since the third grade.
He's about as local as they come.
Latest in a long line of fishing, drinking, smuggling, vendetta-holding salt-lifers who made their living off the water.
Best surfer I know. Just don't tell him I said that.
Mild kleptomaniac and a future tax cheat.

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𝕂𝕀𝔼ℝ𝔸

And that's Kiara (Carrera), or Kie, as we call her.
When not saving turtles or listening to Marley, or getting a dolphin tattoo, she hangs out with us.
I'm not really sure why, though. So, she's a rich kid kid, actually.
- Foot in both worlds.
Her family owns The Wreck, this Outer Banks institution.
Total cash cow with the tourists.
You know, I'm not really sure how her parents feel about us. We all have a thing for her, except for JJ strangely.

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ℙ𝕆ℙ𝔼

And that's Pope (Heyward), the brains of the operation... finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderhorst Merit Scholarship.
- And the smartest person I know.
Little bit of a weirdo.
His father's this legendary character, Heyward.
Anything you wanted on the island, Heyward could get for you.
Now, I'm not sure Heyward knew what to make of his oddball son, but it didn't matter. He was a pogue, just like the rest of us.

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𝕃𝕀𝔸𝕄

Next up is Liam (Crawford), although he prefers Heyward since they sort of took him in and all when his parents had fucked off to god knows where.
It's a complicated situation.
Dude's the most chaotic person I know, and that's saying something since I know JJ.
None of us would be where we are without him though, he's like a protector almost.
He's full Pogue through and through.
Although he definitely has some issues but don't tell him I said that.

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𝕁𝕆ℍℕ 𝔹

And that's me, John Booker Routledge.

And this is where I live.
An old fish shack on the marsh. The Château, as my dad used to call it.

There's my Dad.
He disappeared at sea nine months ago, looking for a shipwreck.
Who disappears at sea these days?
I miss him.

And then there's Mom. She split when I was three.
Last I heard, she was in Colorado. I think it was Colorado.

That's Uncle T.
Since Dad vanished, he's supposedly our legal guardian.
At the moment, he's in Mississipi, building houses...
Which means it's just me right now. On my own.

Fucking off, having fun.
My father would have wanted it that way.

Three months after my dad was missing, he was officially presumed dead.
I refused to sign the papers.

Until I see a body, I am not giving up.

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We're the Pogues, and our mission this summer is to have a good time all the time.

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