Sea Breeze ⚓ JJ Maybanks

CHAPTER SIX

They were all down at the Boneyard, drinking, flirting, and just having fun. Gina was starting to get bored of the guy she was talking with and looked around the mass of people for JJ. She smirked and then winked at him when she noticed his eyes were already on her. She watched as he went back to flirting with some Touron girl (A.N. while writing this I realized Tourons is just a mashup up of tourists and morons and my mind was blown). Gina couldn't help but feel slightly jealous as he played with the other girl's fingers the way he usually played with hers. Her and JJ weren't dating, but sometimes she couldn't help but feel jealous when he flirted with other girls. The night continued and by the time the sun had gone down, she was decently drunk.

"Hey," someone whispered in her ear as they wrapped their arms around her waist from behind.

"Go flirt with some Touron," Gina muttered, still a bit upset from earlier.

"Somebody's jealous," JJ smirked. "And besides, you were flirting with a Touron too, so you can't be mad at me."

She rolled her eyes because she knew he was right.

"I promise, you're the prettiest girl here," JJ pushed a stray piece of hair behind her ear. "You have me wrapped around your little finger, baby."

She smiled and then said, "You must be really drunk if you don't think you're the prettiest girl here."

He flipped his hair out of his face, going along with the joke. "I am pretty fabulous," he said in a terrible british accent, making her laugh even more.

"Well, I'm going to go talk to Kie. You have fun, Mr. fabulous," Gina winked as she went to go find Kie and have a little girl time.

"So, what's going on with you and JJ?" Kie asked once Gina had found her. She had a stupid knowing smirk on her face that made me roll Gina eyes. "I noticed you two are being extra flirty tonight."

"He's just drunk," Gina told her.

"Yeah, sure," she teased.

"Dirty pogues!" Gina heard Topper yell, causing both girls to turn and see Topper and John B fighting.

"Oh my god," Gina breathed as the friends rushed to tell the boys to stop.

She couldn't hear what they were yelling at each other over the jeers of the crowd and the crashing waves, but Gina could tell it wasn't good. Topper was holding John B under water so that he couldn't breath.

"Stop!" Kie shouted. "You're drowning him!"

Gina looked through the crowd trying to find JJ and make sure he didn't do anything stupid. He was drunk, and probably angry at Topper and that was a good combination for JJ to do something reckless.

"He's got a gun!" a Touron yelled.

Gina's head snapped back to the fight to see JJ with the gun pressed against Topper's temple. She tried to run to JJ, but Pope and Kie both grabbed her and pulled her back.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Pope asked frantically.

"I can calm him down," Gina told him and he let go of her arm reluctantly. She walked into the water.

"JJ!" Sarah Cameron, Topper's girlfriend, yelled. "Put the gun down!"

"JJ," Gina said, a lot calmer than Sarah Cameron. "It's okay, just give me the gun." She lightly placed her hand on his bicep. "It's okay."

He turned around and looked at the girl he liked. His blue eyes were full of fear, but he didn't lower the gun from Toppers head.

"Just give me the gun, J," Gina said, still trying to stay calm. She knew that if she got worked up and sounded scared it would just make JJ worse. She slowly walked in front of JJ and placed her hands on his face so that he was looking at her again. "How about you come over to my house after this, okay? We can have a movie night or something." She took one of her hands off his face and slowly ran the other hand down his arm until it reached the hand with the gun in it. She wrapped her hand around his wrist and slowly lowered the gun so that it was pointed at the ground and not at Topper's head.

JJ let Topper get up, but that didn't mean everything was still in the clear. He turned to the starring crowd and Gina saw his eyes flash with anger again. He pointed the gun to the sky and yelled, "Okay, everybody, listen up! Get the hell off our side of the island!" He shot the gun two times into the air as a warning.

"Are you crazy?" Pope pushed JJ. "You idiot! Why would you do that?"

"Pope, now is not the time," Gina whispered to the boy. She agreed with him, but they had to calm JJ down, not get him more mad.

"I was saving his life!" JJ yelled back at his friend.

"You jeopardized everything!" Pope yelled at him, pointing a finger at his chest.

Gina stepped in between the two boys, trying to prevent another fight from breaking out. She faced JJ and took his shaking hands. He had dropped the gun, so she kicked it away from him, letting Pope grab it. "J, you need to calm down," she whispered in his ear, standing on tiptoe and rubbing little patterns on his hand. "Just take a deep breath, okay. Let's go back to my place and you can spend the night. Everything's going to be okay."

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They were back in Gina's room, JJ holding her close to him as they lay on her bed. "I'm sorry," JJ whispered while playing with her wavy brown hair. "That was the dumbest thing I could have done. I put everyone in danger, including you. I'm so sorry, Gigi."

"You were just trying to do the right thing," she told him. "You were trying to save your best friend."

"But that's the thing," JJ sighed. "I always think I'm doing the right thing, but it never ends up working out. I just want to do something good for once!"

"Hey," Gina said, making him look her in the eyes. "You've done lots of good things. Like helping my mom and I with stuff around the apartment or being there for John B when his dad died. You're so loyal, JJ. You would do anything to protect you friends."

"Thank you, Gina," JJ pulled her even closer to him and hid his face in her hair. "Becoming friends with you and the other Pogues is the one thing about my life that I don't regret for a minute."