"Gary, is that you?" JJ questioned.

"You know it's me." The security man replied as I ran into the house behind Kiara.

We ran around laughing and shouting as we dodged both the security men and when we got outside, I jumped the fence before followed John B and Kiara into the van. John B soon began driving and he honked the horn as we waited for Pope and JJ to catch up. "Bus is leaving!" John B shouted.

"Come on, boys!" Kiara added before they both jumped in.

We drove off with the back door open and I panted as I caught my breath. "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Gary shouted as he started to run after us.

"Check out Gary, gunnin' for a raise." Pope told us.

"Come on, Gary!" JJ shouted as he stuck his head out of the door. "Slow down, slow down." John B did as he said and I couldn't help but smile.

"You're gonna give him a heart attack." Kie said.

"You're so close! You can do it. There you go." JJ shouted before throwing a beer over to man who soon stopped running. "They don't pay you enough, bro."

"JJ, stop. Stop."

"Oh, come on." He sighed. "That sort of initiative is just begging to be punished."

"Just shut the door." I told him as I bit my lip.

"You're you no fun." The boy told me, sarcastically as he pulled the door shut.

"Alissa?" John B asked from the front seat. "Here's your shirt."

John B threw my top into the back and as I reached for it, JJ grabbed it. "I don't know, I kind of like the whole topless thing." He said with a huge smile on his face. I scoffed and snatched my shirt from him before pulling it over my head.

"You're such a pig." I told him.

"But you love me really?" He grinned. I shook my head and smiled.

"No, I don't think I do." I said.

"Yeah, you do." The blonde told me before wrapping his arms around and pulling me down to the floor of the van. I couldn't help but laugh and when I asked pope and Kiara for help, they joined in. This was my family and I didn't want to spend this summer with anybody else.

***

"You're crazy." I told John B as I followed him and Pope to the beach with my surfboard under my arm . We had just received the warning for hurricane Agatha and it had already started to rain and grow windy. "You actually have a death wish."

"It's a double overhead out there, bro." Pope said.

"No surfing due to hurricane." I read off a sign that had been pinned to the gate.

"Yeah, those aren't surfable waves."

"Who says?" John B asked as he started to run down the beach with a smile on his face. I watched as he ran into the water before jumping onto his board and pushing himself further out as I heard thunder.

"Screw it." I smiled as started to follow him.

"If you do this you're just as stupid as he is!" Pope shouted but I was already in the water.

I caught a few waves before I finally plummeted into the ocean and I climbed back on my board with my legs straddled over it before using my arms to get to John B who was staring out into open water. "What is it?" I asked him.

"Nothing, I thought I saw a boat." He told me.

"Who would be stupid enough to go out in a boat when a hurricane's about to hit?"

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