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𝟬𝟲. pink skies
» swing lynn «
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"i promise, we won't get caught" the blonde boy whispered into laylas ear before pulling her across the dock
"it's 5am" layla whispers back in return to the tall, dark blonde boy who was hovering above her,
"aven will wake up soon and notice im gone"
"then we better go quick" he smirks before pulling layla across the dock towards the boat.
they stop running once reaching the dock with the camerons boat in the corner of their eye as he releases laylas hand dropping to sit on the dock, layla looking down at him before sitting next to him, the duo swaying their legs through the cold water, the sunlight reflecting on their tanned legs and they're eyes watching each droplet of water cling to their skin
"did you drag me out of bed to dip my feet or did you want something?" layla asks the boy who doesn't look at her just into the distance
"maybe i just like your company" rafe replies in a quiet voice
"have you gone soft?" layla smiles in his direction, he snaps his head in her direction watching her features lift making a smile appear on his own face
"of course not" he replies leaning closer to her warm face,
"im still the cold hearted monster that i was born to be"
"you're not a monster" layla replies turning away to look at the sunrise,
"your misunderstood" she finishes with a light whisper making his face soften
"misunderstood?" he repeats and she nods
"yes" she says before turning to look at the boy, "aren't we all just misunderstood? just a bunch of kids that were thrown into a certain lifestyle not having the choice in our own upbringing it all just depending on our parents to make the right decision" she whispers before looking back at the sun
rafe reaches over holding laylas hand that was placed behind her and she leaned into the dock, swaying her legs to feel the water splash against her feet, she turns to look at his hand thats placed gently on top of hers before turning to look at the soft sky
"can you tell me why we're here?" layla asks looking at rafe who just offered her a light smile
"you're about to find out" he says turning to watch the water before he points to the horizon making the blonde girl turn her head and watch the orange sun glimpse its way up into the sky
the boy watched the adoration which glittered in the blondes haired girls eyes, her eyelashes twinkled everytime she battered an eyelash, she was beautiful.
"it's beautiful" she whispers not taking her eyes of the sun, the boy turned to the small bag he carried with him and opened it to grab a disposable camera before handing it to the girl who smiled brightly
"to add to you collection" he whispers making her giggle lightly and hold the camera up to her eyes pointing it at the sunlight.
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aven was sat in the back of the twinkie, after finding her sisters bed empty and her window wide open she asked martha to keep an eye out for the blonde girl
"im just saying, i don't understand why you don't at least try with kiara" jj says to johnb, "she clearly likes you, she's like 'oh johnb'" jj moans
"is that what she does?" johnb asks jj
"she's sketching about you diving and then she kisses you" jj says ignoring johnbs comment
"she kissed me on the cheek" johnb explains, "it's not like we were making out"
"low hanging fruit, bro" jj interrupts, "don't pretend you don't notice, i see it in your eyes and you're like 'i kinda like that' and you like start blushing and shit" jj explains
"i blush?" johnb asks
aven leans forward to stick her head through the middle of the two boys and turn to face jj, "like you blush every time a certain twin of mine looks in your direction?" she asks winding the blonde boy up, and wiggling her eyebrows
he glares at the brunette, "i do not blush at layla, your making shit up now aven just protecting your precious johnb" he says waving his hands in the air,
aven looks over at johnb whose smirking before jj turns to look at the boy and girl, "where is layla?" he asks mumbling the question before she and johnb both burst out in laughter
jj pushes avens face making her fall backwards into the backseats of the van, "it was just a question, jeez" he rolls his eyes at their laughter
"okay, lover boy" johnb says patting his shoulder which he nudged his hand off making johnb look at the girl through the mirror laughing silently making her copy his actions
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the trio hop out of the twinkie , johnb opening the door and helping the girl climb out as they hear the seabirds call while they begin walking towards the house
"you know what this house looks like?" johnb asks
"like whoever lives here smokes too much weed"
"like crap?" aven and jj reply at the same time before looking at each other
johnb goes to reply before he's cut off by the sound of smashing glass, and crashing coming from the house, the trio turn to look at each other confused before they hear someone's voice
"bullshit!" it screams
"maybe we should come back" jj says, "it's a little too soon" he explains before johnb is cutting him off telling him to shut up
"scaredy cat" aven said teasing the boy who just replies with his middle finger
"tell me where it is?" a mans voice calls, "or ill fuck you up"
"johnb, maybe jjs right" aven suddenly speaks up, as he turns to look at her before putting a finger to his lips and taking her hand into his
"scaredy cat" jj whispers back making aven turn to look at him
"get you own jokes, maybank" aven whispers before being smacked on the head lightly turning to johnb who is signalling the girl to shut up.
"ill sink you in the fucking-" the mans voice booms before its cut off by crashing and lana screaming
"you're hurting me!" she screams
"where the fuck is it you bitch!"
"i don't know"
the group begin to hear lana sob and the mans screams intensify as they sneak by a palm tree before johnb goes to look through a window jj pulls him down
"you still think we should stay?" jj asks as we all crouch down beneath the window, avens hand still locked with johnbs hearing lana scream and cry, it sent shivers down her spine reminding her when scott would hurt layla and he'd lock her bedroom door so aven couldn't intervene.
she'd bang and yell but every hit on the door would be another blow to her sister, her screams and cries
aven is snapped out of her thoughts by the man shouting something that catches her attention
"the compass wasn't on the boat!" he shouts, "where is it lana?"
"i don't know!" she screams and you can hear the pain in her voice
as more crashing and smashing is filled and white paint begins to fall onto their heads while aven uses her arms to cover it due to having washed her hair this morning and was too lazy to wash it again
the group begin to to walk in but freeze and hide when they see two men walk out of the house and hop in a boat before that looked oddly familiar
"those were the guys that shot at us" jj speaks up making me realise why they looked so familiar
"ill tell you what sherlock holmes, you are unbelievable" aven sighs shaking her head at the blonde boy who turns to look at her
"don't quote niall horan" jj argues back, making the girls face turn into a smile
"ill quote, whoever i want to quote" aven snaps making jj open his mouth to respond before getting cut off
"will you two knock it off" he says making the two sigh
after the "drama" with jj and aven, they watch the men drive off into the open waters when johnb tugs on avens hand pulling her towards the house with jj follow right behind her
she hear lana's cries and sobs which fill her ears making her heart hurt for the woman she'd been close with, as they enter and find her sobbing in the broken bathroom, aven looks at jj who is now stood beside her as johnb crouched beside her checking her if she was okay
"what do you know about those guys?" johnb asks her and aven rolls her eyes at his stubbornness, she understood he wanted to know but she was in pain and still grieving and he was questioning her?
"they were looking for something" she whispers with a heartbroken voice
johnb pulls the compass out of his pocket, "does it have anything to do with this?" he asks showing her the compass
and her face drops
"do you know anything about this?"
when she doesn't respond he speaks up again
"this is my fathers and scooter had it" he said
"scooter didn't have it, okay" lana says, "don't tell anyone you have it" she says
johnb and lana have a moment where they just scream at each other lana telling us to leave and don't let anyone know we have it and johnb repeating the questions about it to her while she's clearly in distress before jj finally pulls johnb up with one arm and grabbing the girls wrist in another pulling them out.
walking towards the front door aven pauses, with something catching her eye which was sat on a table with the picture frame still in tact
the painting little aven had given scooter to give to lana for her birthday
she smiles at the memories and tries to hide the pain behind her face before a hand grips her wrist pulling her out of the house.
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"look, im not lying" sarah says defending herself, the two blondes layla and sarah were sat outside flicking through magazines and listening to music
"she definitely tried hitting on me a few times" sarah explains
"no offence sarah, but you're not exactly avens type" she laughs at her friend who looks up to her with a smirk
"and what is her type?" the cameron girl asks making layla not even look up at her before responding
"kiara" she says naturally, watching the cameron girls face drop slightly, guilt in her eyes before she shakes it off
opening her mouth to add to the conversation before getting cut off by a little girl who had tears in her eyes
"can you help me please?" she asked sweetly, the two blondes look at each other before kneeling the the girls level
"what up, munchkin?" layla asks wiping the tear from under her eyes
"i lost my teddy, in the boat" she frowns making sarah hold her hand and stroke it gently
"can you tell us what she looks like?" layla asks the small girl who nods her head quickly biting her lip
"she has a trunk and blue ears" she explains, the girls look towards the boat seeing the wrecked boat they had been looking at earlier that day
"don't worry we'll get her for you" sarah says before standing up and stepping onto the wood
"be careful of electricity" the girl mumbles
"i be okay" sarah replies while the little girl holds tightly onto laylas hand making her kneel next to her and calming her down while sarah goes to grab the teddy
"hey, there's 14,000 volts in those wires" rose shouts from the house making the girl tilt slightly with a scream
"hey sarah, be careful" topper shouts
"you are so pussy-whipped" rafe whispers to topper while sipping on his drink his sunglasses shading his eyes
sarah turns to see layla stood with the girl before smiling at her brother
"hey, layla? mind giving me a hand?" she throws the girl a wink who just shakes her head with laughter
"wait here, okay?" layla tells the small girl who nods before hopping onto the wood and following gently behind sarah, before grasping at her hand
rafes smug smile drops as soon as the little blonde wyatt, steps onto the wood making his heart speed a little faster
"oh you've got to be kidding me, sarah, layla-rose, get down!" rose calls lifting up her sunglasses
"rose calm down" sarah says
"we're athletes" layla smiles still clutching Sarah's hand as the both balanced their way across the wood dodging each wire
"we've got this" sarah adds
"you're both going to get electrocuted, get down!" rose shouts again fiddling with her sunglasses
sarah and layla beginning trying to push each other off the beam laughing and giggling at the scene they were causing
"sarah, layla-rose that's not funny" topper calls, and the girls turn to face the group of boys
laylas eyes connecting with rafes pleading ones as he removed his sunglasses
"what?" layla mouthed to him with a smile
"layla, come on" rafe calls, going to walk over to the blonde girl, but stopping after taking a step
the girls get to the boat and lean in sarah grabbing the elephant and layla turning around to face the girl
"we see her" the little girls face lights up as she giggles and claps her hands gently
sarah reaches for the elephant before turning to look at layla wriggling her eyebrows making her shake her head with laughter before both girls fall into the boat screaming and lying still inside the boat
"layla!" rafe shouts before running over towards the boat, along with topper who calls sarah's name
they get to the boat before the wyatt girl holds up the broken wire laughing along with the cameron girl sitting up
making the boys faces go pale, rafes jaw clenches before placing his sunglasses back on his face, topper looking at his girlfriend and kelce laughing
"it's disconnected" sarah laughs
"for the love of god" rose says turning around placing her sunglasses back on and walking into the house
"they got you, boys" kelce laughs
"topper, you should have seen your face" sarah laughs making layla pick up the elephant teddy, dusting it off
"yeah, okay, yeah" topper stutters, "im sorry that i care alright, guilty" he holds up his hands in surrender
"congrats pussy, you're officially her bitch" rafe says to topper placing a hand on his shoulder
"oh don't act so innocent rafe" layla calls out walking back across the wires, "im pretty sure your voice broke after you screamed my name" she said with a sad pouty expression before jumping off the wood and high-fiving sarah who laughed
"she got you there man" kelce laughs making rafe sigh rubbing his forehead before watching the blonde girl lean down to hand the elephant to the little girl who smiles and hugs her and sarahs legs tightly before running off
sarah laughs watching topper walk off before kissing layla on the cheek and running after him.
layla picks up her bag and looking at a message from aven on her phone saying to meet her at the château for an emergency
packing her bag and turning around she looks forwards straight into someone's chest, she looks up seeing rafe
"you okay?" layla asks confused with why he was so close to her, he licks his lips before looking around and grabbing her wrist before dragging her around the back of the house
"what are you doing?" she asks him worries before he pushes her into the bricks of the house making her lean against it before he looks into her eyes
"what am i doing?" he asks, "what are you doing? what the fuck was that stunt layla?" he questions the girl who scoffs
"you actually mad about that?" she asks him, his facial features tough
"im not angry at what you did, im angry with you embarrassing me, hell you even embarrassed yourself" he says making her eyes grow wide
"excuse you" she asks gripping onto her bag as he leans closer to her face
"you embarrass me, layla" he scoffs shaking his head
"why?" she asks him, "cause i made you care, i made you feel worried when i fell" she asks him
"well, reality check asshole. you're human, you're going to feel those things" she says walking past him and nudging his shoulder on the way out.
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"and then we were right outside like this" jj says showing layla, kiara, and pope, "and all we hear is just bam! bam! bam!" he goes on, layla looks over at aven who is sighing at jjs actions, "knocking paint of the wall, g!"
"from the inside, all right and im just looking at him like - well first of look at this shit" he says walking over to the table and shaking his hair, making it fall onto layla and aven
"that's dandruff, disgusting" kie says
"okay, thank you" pope tells jj
"look at all that okay, that's paint!" jj explains, "at that point i was just like, im waiting for death" he says dramatising the situation completely
"ok, okay" pope says, "you saw the guys that shot at us right?" pope asks them as layla leans her head on avens lap and aven plays with her hair
"yeah" jj answers
"did you get a good description of them?" pope asks
"what did they look like?" pope asks
"anything, anything's helpful" kiara adds
"anything we can bring to a police report?" pope asks jj who paces around running his fingers through his knotted hair
"burly?" jj says making pope look up at him
"burly?" he repeats
"you know, like-" jj begins to speak but stops
"that's not very helpful" kiara sighs sinking into the chair
"okay, well, no, like the type of guy at my dads garage" jj explained, "i mean you guys know he made cargo hides for drug smugglers"
"yes, yes, no, we know" kiara says
"i can tell you with full confidence" jj said walking back and forth again
"these boys, these killers" he pauses as he takes a hit before blowing it out,
"they're square groupers"
"they're square groupers?" pope asks
"like narco square groupers?" layla asks
"like pablo escobar square groupers?" pope finishes
"yeah" jj nods
"you guys, not everything is a kingpin movie" aven sighs rubbing her forehead
"okay, so what does this square grouper look like?" pope asks looking directly at jj
"you weren't there bro!" jj calls
"you don't know what to look for" pope calls
"dude!" jj says, "i wasn't taking little mental polaroids the entire time, i was under duress, okay?" jj squeals
"but i can tell you, i can tell you by the way that ms.lana was screaming that these guys are serious hombres, man and it's a heavy vibe right now and im not liking this very much"
"okay why would they want the compass?" kaira asks
"it's a piece of shit" pope calls out
"dude" layla whispers kicking him slightly
"it's true, you couldn't pawn it off for five bucks if you wanted to"
"not true, some people would go for antiques like that" layla spoke up
"clearly the square groupers are" aven adds making layla chuckle
"the office" johnb mutters making everyone turn to face him
"what?" pope asks
"my dad, my dads office" johnb explains, "he always kept the office locked because he was worried about his competitors stealing his royal merchant research" he says walking into the chateau causing everyone to follow him, except layla who was still led on the couch outside until jj sighed realising she wasn't following
he walked towards her before picking her up and placing her over his shoulder and carrying her into the chateau following the rest
"jj, w-what are you doing?" layla asked as she opened her eyes to see his back
"you're lazy" he just responded before placing her down on the floor where johnb was explaining the office
"you're lazy" layla fired back
"oh, not when it comes to the bedroom" jj winks with a slight smirk making layla laugh before tuning into the conversation
"and people ask why im a lesbian" aven sighs looking at jj who turns to the girl offended
johnb pulls on the lock before opening it and taking it off and opening the door leading to a very dim light room
he pulls off a cork board as everyone gathers in the room and placed it i front of them
"here look, this is the original owner right here robert q routledge, 1880 to 1920" johnb read it
"there's the lucky compass right there" kiara points at the picture
"actually, um...he was shot after he bought it" johnb explains making everyone turn and look at him, as a loud rooster makes himself present by screaming, "then the compass was shipped back to henry who was skilled in a crop-dusting accident when he had the compass"
"after he died the compass was given to stephen, stephen had the compass with him when he died in vietnam"
"let me guess he died in action, right?" jj asks johnb who looks at him
"sort of" he mutters, "uh, a-actually he was killed by an banana truck, in-in the country" he finished awkwardly l
"anyways, after that, stephen passed the compass down to him, my dad"
"hm, sounds like there's a reoccurring theme here" jj says
"yeah you have a death compass" pope finishes making the twins look up at him
"i do not" johnb sighs
"you have a death compass" pope taps johnb on the shoulder
"get rid of it" jj adds
"it's cursed and it's made it's way back to you" jj answers
"look my dad used to talk about this compartment in here" johnb says fiddling with the compass, "soldiers used to hide secret notes"
he unscrews the top of the compass revealing a message on the top 'Redfield'
"that wasn't there before" johnb speaks up confused
"this is my dad's handwriting" he admits looking around
"how do you know that?" aven asked
"because he does these weird 'Rs' with the-" johnb points to the writing making layla and aven look at each other, "what?" johnb asks the twins who had gone quiet and were looking at the writing
"nothing, it's nothing at all" aven hushes grabbing laylas hand and interlocking their fingers
"can i see it?" jj asks from beside the two twin girls as johnb shows it towards jj
"red...rout...no i think that's an a-"
"-it says redfield" layla interrupts him looking down at the compass,
"but good try though" she says as she pats him on the shoulder
"okay well what's a redfield?" kiara asks
"besides the most common name in the county"
the rooster calls a couple more times making the girls squint at the loudness
"oh-oh maybe it's a clue?" johnb suggests, "maybe it's a clue to where he's hiding?"
"okay..." jj sighs
"a clue, come on that's-" pope never finished that sentence with the glare kiara gave him from across the room before the rooster crows again
"-but it it is a clue, maybe it's an anagram?" pope suggests
"yes, perfect!" johnb says a hopeful smile lighting his face, "anagram, you need paper" before handing it to pope making layla and jj both appear next to him looking at the paper, before the rooster crows once more
"how can you concentrate with that thing crowing at you?" aven asks, "it's so bloody loud"
"jj loves the rooster" johnb replies
"i love the rooster" kiara repeats
as the group starting writing down words, aven, kie, jj throwing words at pope to write down, johnb doing something in the corner, layla began looking around the office playing with certain bracelets and notebooks before seeing a polaroid hanging from out a notebook, she goes to open it but gets cut off by the sound of tyres dragging, she looks up to noticing a dark black car pull outside
"hey, johnb" layla calls turning to the boy who looks up to her, "are you expecting company?"
"no, why?" he asks
"well, you now have extra company" she mutters as johnb joins her by the window looking out at the vehicle
"guys! somebodies here!" johnb calls to the rest of the groups go walk over to the window where two guys walk towards the house
"guys is that them?" kiara asks
"is that them?" layla asks panicking
"this is suboptimal" pope sighs
aven turns to glare at him, "not the time to be using big words, pope!" she whisper shouts in his direction
"less than high standards" layla explains to her sister
"thank you!" she calls out waving her hands in the air
"johnb, i told you" jj says flicking his hands in the air, "why does it always-" jj is cut off when johnb pushes him into a wall and looks down at him
"where the gun?" johnb asks jj
kiara grabs onto aven while pope hugs layla closer to him
"gun?" he questions, "i, uh?" jj tried to think before kiara cuts him off
"now you don't have to gun, the one time we need the gun?!" she questions before she starts freaking out and aven cups her hands into her own trying to control her breathing
"it was on my backpack and then I-" jj thinks, "my backpack"
"on the porch" layla speaks up making them look at her, "it's on the porch it was right next to my foot when i was sat on the chair" she says
"it's on the porch" jj whispers, everyone is standing still so aven released kiaras warm hands from her own and opens the door leaving the office
"aven!" layla whispers trying to get her to stop walking out the door but doesn't listen, layla pushes off pope and runs to the door before someone grabs her waist pushing her into a wall
she looks up to see jj looking at her
"what are you doing?" layla asks the blonde who won't let her move
"youre not going out there, rosie" he whispers
"aven is out there!" layla whimpers,
"i can't lose her!"
"and i can't lose you!" jj fires back making layla stop wiggling around
"john routledge!" a deep voice shouts from outside, making layla and jj jump and face the door where they're met with a deep breathing aven
"there're on the porch" she whispers
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