As the pogues made their way to the motel, already knowing where it was because there was only one motel on the whole island.
"I thought the Chateau looked bad," JJ said looking at the state of the place they were going to break into.
"Damn, JJ's jealous because even this place looks better than him," Aria teased.
"Aw, baby you know you want me," JJ half-heartedly joked with her.
"This place is a shitshow."
"Motel or meth lab?" Kie mocked after John B's comment.
"You be the judge," Pope answered
"Doesn't look like the place a person with a Grady-White would stay," Aria thought out loud.
"No. Looks like a type of place someone with a Grady-White would get killed," Pope spoke.
"All right. Here we go," John B said as they got closer.
"This is your captain speaking. HMS Pogue comin' in for landing. Whoo!" JJ teased jumping off the boat and tying it up.
"We good?" John B asked.
"Yeah, we good," JJ spoke getting ready for what they are about to discover.
"Alright, here goes nothin'," John B said climbing off the boat with Aria following.
"Hey, don't let him do anything stupid, and don't let her steal anything." Pope motioned towards Aria and JJ
"Oh, we will," JJ said throwing his arm around Aria's shoulders.
"Yeah, Pope, what do you think is going to happen," Aria teased.
"I'm not making promises." John B said hesitantly
"Yeah, I know," Pope said already knowing something stupid is going to happen.
"Hey, uh, be careful," Kie said towards John B "I mean it," she said as JJ turned confused to Aria who tilted her head towards the girl and brunette boy before looking at JJ confused.
"Yeah" John B chuckled awkwardly getting off the boat. "Let's go," He said slapping JJ lightly.
"Why are all these mattresses out here?" John B motioned towards all the yellowy-white dirty mattresses on the ground.
"After a hurricane, they have to ditch em' because they get all moldy,"
"Just be so careful, John B," JJ said while massaging John B's back impersonating Kie.
"God, your so weird," John B pushed his friend off. Aria was walking slightly in front of the boys overhearing them and they knew but she still pretended like she didn't hear anything.
"What was that about?" JJ questioned.
"I don't know, maybe she wants us to be careful,"
"Since she heard you being threatened with exile, she's just been, like 'oh, be so careful John B.," JJ said impersonating Kie again, though sounding nothing like her.
"Get off," John B pushed the boy off.
"Oh, just give me that John D, already," JJ faked moaned causing Aria to laugh. "Like, when are you going to swoop on that man,"
That caused Aria to cringe at the way he was talking about her. "JJ she is a person not prey for idiotic boys who just think with the dicks instead of their brains, even though you don't have any Brain cells in general." She said catching him off guard at her sudden outburst.
"Bro, you know the rule. No Pogue-on-Pogue mackin'" John B replied ignoring the girl. "Besides your the one always hittin' on her"
JJ looked over at Aria noticing how John B was motioning towards her but she didn't realize it and she thought he was talking about Kie. Aria couldn't help but become a little bit jealous as she never noticed JJ hitting on Kie. But she knew that she really shouldn't be jealous when she knows that they won't ever actually get together.
"Of course I'm hitting on her," JJ sighed "She's a super-hot, rich, hippie chick slumming it with us, why? I can't figure it out either, bro, but who cares? I know that door's locked because I've tried it. Have you?" JJ spoke to John B about Aria.
JJ tried getting with Kie, Aria didn't know and that just annoyed her more. But John B and JJ were talking about her, JJ noticed as she started walking faster to get away from them.
"You need help. Not like a little help, you need a lot of help," John B spoke to JJ again. "Cause it's like every girl who just has a heartbeat, you're like..." John B faked moaned as Aria turned to look back at the two boys.
"Guys, hurry, you can talk about JJ's man-whoreness later, we have a task at hand." She said pointing towards the door that was the one for the key.
"What? It's not a big deal," JJ tried to convince.
"Is that us?" John B asked the girl.
"Twenty-nine, right? Yeah, this is our door," She answered both ignoring the blonde's presence.
"This is it."
"Okay," JJ said knocking on the door, "Housekeeping," he said raising the pitch of his voice.
"Uh, why did that have to be a woman's voice, men can be maids as well JJ," Aria muttered annoyed with the blonde as he kept knocking and shot her a glare to which she returned a fake smile.
"Should we try it?" John B asked
"Yeah, may as well" Aria murmured
"No power. No security cameras." JJ said after speaking a line in Spanish.
"No one's gonna know..." Aria continued as John B put the key in to unlock the door.
John B walked into the motel room and as Aria was about to JJ had laced his hand around her waist pulling her back and slightly out of the way so John B couldn't see them.
"Hey, are you ok?" JJ asked genuine concern written all over his face.
"Just peachy" Aria replied sassily, "Look, no, ok I am fine, it's just been one of those days," she said knowing she actually had no reason to be mad at him, Kiara was gorgeous of course he would want to get with her.
JJ knew she was a bit upset but he couldn't figure out why he had kind of hoped it had been about the jealousy of some sort but he thought she would never like him that way so he just realized her from his grip. But before she could enter he grabbed her wrist lightly and she turned to look at him.
"You can always talk to me, you know. I may not give the best advice but I will always be here."
Her heart crashed against her chest at his words, they were as true as could be. He was always there for her, and he may not have even known it.
After her father would teach her a lesson she would cover herself in makeup and go to find JJ. Even when they were 8 he could always put a genuine smile on her face, just like he was doing right now.
"Thank you, JJ"
"Oi, you guys coming in or what," John B said sticking his head out the door to look at the two.
"Yeah, yeah, come on," JJ said walking in still holding Aria's wrist and pulling her with him.
"Check the bag. See if there's a name on there somewhere." John B muttered.
"Not it," Aria smiled at the blonde who rolled his eyes.
"Got a jacket," JJ informed them.
"Demin slides" Aria sighed.
"No name on the jacket, it's a nice jacket, though."
"Definitely over 50. He's got New Balances." John B said disregarding the person's style.
Aria made her way towards the closet where she found a bunch of clothes.
"Oh ok, male and I would say pretty tall," Aria said observing the guy's clothes and looking through his pant pockets until she came across a wallet.
"Oh jackpot," She said happily making JJ and John B look towards her. Aria looked through the wallet not finding a single card with a name on it but found a hundred dollar note and some loose change. "There's no name, but the money has been very much appreciated man," JJ smirked at her while John B rolled his eyes.
JJ went back to looking at a piece of paper on the nightstand and John B kept digging around while Aria counted her newfound money happy with the day's events already.
"Yo, guys, come here. Maybe this is where they were fishing." JJ questioned at coordinates on the paper. Aria didn't really know a lot about fishing, she would fish with the boys but was never really interested in what they were catching.
"Nah, that's off the continental shelf. That's big Swell. Nobody fishes there." John B shut down his theory.
"Right, yeah, off the something shelf," Aria spoke softly unclear of what she had heard.
"Okay," JJ said. As John looked at a piece of paper that had some numbers on it that Aria couldn't see. Aria went back to the closet looking through the shoes for anything, while John B looked through cupboards and JJ went into the bathroom.
"Coffee?" JJ questioned in a British accent. "Standard. Tissues for when you get lonely..."
"Which I bet happens to you a lot, huh?" Aria said under her breath.
"Oh, shut up," JJ said putting an arm around her shoulders and pulling her into the bathroom with him.
"Oh," JJ said looking at a bag.
"Find anything?" John B questioned.
"A really awesome Dopp kit that you won't let me steal," JJ said looking through the kit and pulling Aria over to have a look as well.
"Yeah, 'cause we're not stealing shit," John B shut down his idea while JJ put something in his pocket and put his finger to his mouth doing the 'shh' sign to Aria.
She smirked and rolled her eyes at the blonde standing in front of her. "Yo, JB, what did you actually expect to get out of this?" Aria asked the brunette walking out of the bathroom. And she saw him typing numbers into a safe.
"One, one, one, one" he whispered full attention to the safe. She rolled her eyes at his way of opening the safe.
"Ok, yeah, no that's fine just ignore me, it's all good."
"One, one, one, two," John B said ignoring her again as JJ walked out of the bathroom.
"Punching shit at random, that will defiantly work," JJ said sarcastically
"Punching shit at random you should let JJ have a turn, you know how much he loves punching shit," Aria smirked at the boy who just glared at her then rolled his eyes walking back over to the coordinates.
"Wait a second. Here," John B said going over to the little piece of paper he was staring at before and going back to the safe.
"I don't know. I don't know about the second one. These coordinates, they- Wait. My cousin said you could catch swordfish here." JJ muttered
"You're cousin who is always high, right?"
"Oh, yeah you remember him," JJ said slightly shocked knowing she doesn't normally remember anything.
"Well no, I was just thinking if he is always high then he wouldn't be a trustworthy source," Aria muttered
"Oh, Nah, that wouldn't make any sense. Uh, what about a surf spot?" JJ said ignoring the conversation he had with the girl. "That could possibly be it. That's... Or shoals" JJ trailed off.
"Is this a surf spot?" Aria asked
"Have you heard of shoals?" JJ and Aria kept thinking aloud.
"Uh, JJ? Ari?" John B asked making them snap out of their own minds.
"Yeah bro," Aria asked turning to look at John B sitting in front of a safe with a lot of money and a gun sitting there.
"hm" JJ hummed in acknowledgment without turning around.
"Oh, John B, my savior," Aria said going around John B and grabbing two stacks of cash.
"JJ, You're gonna want to see this." John B muttered while holding a stack of cash in the air for JJ to see.
"Dude, dude, dude!" JJ said grabbing the gun.
"You grabbed the gun. You grabbed the- Put the gun back, JJ!" John B said sternly towards JJ.
"This is a SIG Saucer. This is a fucking spendy gatt, man. Just... Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!" JJ said holding the gun in the air pretending to shoot it. Aria wasn't as worried as John B because she knew he would never hurt anyone of them.
"Hey, Think about that. We are not stealing anything." John B said annoyed with the boy's actions.
"Aw, let the little baby have his fun, Johnny B," Aria teased.
"Just take a pic of me. Ok. Right here," JJ said striking a pose and Aria brought out her phone and took a couple of photos.
"You want me to take a picture of you? Aria, seriously?" John B looked down at her and she slowly put her phone back.
"Yeah, dude, like..."
"You want to make your own incrimination evidence? Is that what you're talking about?" John B looked between Aria and JJ as if they were dumb.
"Did you guys hear that?" Aria asked at the same time John B had said.
"Wait, what was that?"
"What?" JJ asked looking at the gun that fit perfectly in his hands. Aria would be lying if she said she didn't find it attractive.
Aria and John B moved over to the window and looked out and saw Pope and Kie saying cops and pointing to the front of the motel.
"Shit" John B muttered under his breath.
"What is it? What is it?" JJ questioned as John B ran to the window near the door.
"Cops," John B and Aria said at the same time.
All three pogues immediately started running away hiding any evidence they were there, JJ went to shut the safe, Aria went to quickly clean the bathroom and cupboard and John B went to pry open the window.
"Kildare Country Sheriff's department!" said a deep man's voice along with knocking on the motel door. As all three pogues squeezed out the small window Aria went to the left as John B went to the right and JJ had followed Aria.
JJ stood next to Aria awkwardly and easily visible.
"JJ what are you doing? Hide better!" Aria whisper yelled at the blonde who stood still. In one swift movement, Aria had JJ's shirt in her hands and pulled him to stand in front of her with her back pressed against the bricks.
"Uh- I, I'm sorry. I can't-" JJ stuttered nervously.
Aria noticed JJ's stiff figure and noticed he was about to fall off, so she pulled him closer to her and wrapped one arm around his neck pulling his face close to hers so his forehead was resting on hers.
"Hey, come on, calm down. You're not getting arrested or anything, it's fine." Aria spoke softly to the boy while his anxiety was rising.
"I didn't realize, Ari, I just wanted to get out of there." He said as he slowly put the gun into view. Aria's breathing hitched knowing this could go bad very quickly if they were caught.
"It's ok, here. Give it to me," Aria tried to stay calm but he shook his head not wanting her to hold the weapon.
Aria turned her head slightly and looked in the window and saw two police officers, one she remembered all too well. Deputy Shoupe, a policeman who is corrupt and unfair.
JJ and John B turned their heads while Aria slowly looked forward to Kie and Pope who were looking at them like idiots, which to be fair, they were.
The three teens looked in the window again, Aria had noticed JJ had calmed down a lot but still seemed tense. As they looked in the window they saw Shoupe give the lady officer a stack of cash while taking one for himself.
JJ and John B seemed shocked while Aria already knew he was corrupt.
"What the f..." JJ tailed off his whisper "Do you believe..." JJ started slipping so Aria grabbed him harder and the gun in his pocket, fell out, and made a sound clang noise against some metal on the ground.
JJ quickly moved closer to Aria and pressed his entire body against hers and the wall caging her in. That feeling she's been having came back and her breathing had stopped completely seeing how close JJ was.
She hadn't even noticed the Police officer pull up the curtain until JJ pressed her into a tighter hold. Aria left something hard poke her in the stomach, at first she thought it was his flashlight but then realized his flashlight was next to her head in his hands.
"Ugh, shit, I-I'm sorry," JJ said in a rough, husky voice, strained due to his tense composer and the dire need for a cold shower.
"It's, uh, it's ok," Aria said back.
It felt like forever when both Aria and JJ turned to look at John B when he put his finger over his mouth signaling for them to be quiet. Eventually, Aria let a small breath of air come out of her mouth since she was nearly suffocating.
"All right. Let's go." Aria heard Shoupe mumble.
All three of them sighed completely knowing that they were safe. They waited until they heard the door close to spread a bit and JJ had to re-adjust his pants. John B climbed down first and held his hand out for Aria to grab, which she did.
JJ saw Aria's petite hand in John B's large grip and grew extremely jealous, JJ knew he had a big thing for Aria. He would just never tell anyone, he would always deny feelings for her. So JJ tried everything to lose feelings for her.
He tried smoking, which didn't work but it did make him relaxed. He tried sleeping with any girl he thought looked good and didn't have a dry personality. He even tried being in relationships, but nothing ever worked.
"Well, that was fun," JJ said as the five friends started up the HMS Pogue and started going back to the chateau.
"Especially for you, huh," Aria teased which caused JJ to chuckle awkwardly.
"Could have warned us a little sooner," JJ said ignoring her.
"We would have, except Pope was on the math team."
"You were on the math team," John B says in disbelief.
"Ugh, I am friends with a person who actually likes math, yuck" Aria muttered. (Sorry if you actually are on the math team or like math, just based on my hatred for the subject:)
"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene. Did you guys find anything?" Pope questioned while ignoring the mathlete comments.
"Did we find anything? No, I don't think so," JJ said while going through his pockets to pull out the gun and a wad of cash and Aria pulled out the two cash stacks she had taken. "Oh, yeah we did."
"What the hell?" Pope said annoyed at his friend for taking the gun.
"Dude, what?" Kie said the same.
"Guys, calm down," Aria said trying to get everyone to chill out.
"Dude, chill. Come on." JJ spoke standing up and walking closer to Pope who was freaking out.
"Why take that from a crime scene?" He asked in disbelief.
"Why wouldn't we take that from a crime scene?" Aria asked sarcastically causing Kie to shoot her a death stare to which she replied with handguns.
"It's better than cops having it." JJ tried to convince Pope.
"You serious?" Kie asked John B who lost his smile almost immediately.
"I'm gonna lose my merit scholarship."
"Hey, hey, hey. Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh. At least you have us, right?" JJ said holding the gun near his head. Aria tensed up but calm down just as quickly as she saw the safety on, surprisingly.
"I'm living the nightmare." Pope sighed.
"We all have bad day's Pope," Aria replied laying down flat on the boat trying to tan.
JJ came to sit down next to Aria and saw her sprawled out on both of their sits. He picked up her legs, she didn't even move as he sat down and placed her legs on top of his lap.