THIS IS FOR YOU floraology
We're the pogues, and our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.
A girl standing in a tank top and jean shorts takes a sip from her beer, bracelets on both arms, rings on each hand, and a few necklaces. That's me. "Move JB, my turn." I pull a boy backwards by the back of his shirt. This boy has brown hair, his T-shirt is white and he has black shorts on, he's got a bandana wrapped around his neck and bracelets on both arms. I stand at the very edge of the roof of the building, I balance on one foot.
"That's what, a three-story fall to the deck?" a different boy asks this time, a dark boy with black hair, a dark red shirt and black shorts, bracelets on both arms. "I give you about a one-in-three chance of survival." he tells me from the deck
I lick my finger and put it up at the same time at the brown haired boy "Should I do it?" I look at the brown haired boy then to a different boy. A blonde boy in a grey shirt, red hat, and camo shorts. He's also got bracelets on both arms and rings on each hand.
"Yeah you should jump." The one on the deck says "I'll shoot you on the way down." he holds out his drill like a gun
"You'll shoot me?" I asks in an amused tone before making a finger gun
"Yep."
I make a pew sound as I shoot my finger gun at him. The fun is interrupted by a girl with long brown hair in Jean shorts, a white shirt, and a yellow-brown cover up on, with bracelets and necklaces walks around the corner.
"They're gonna have Japanese toilets with towel warmers." she sounds upset
"Of course they are. Why wouldn't they?" The blonde says as she walks under the scaffolding he's sitting on to stand next to the boy on the deck
"This used to be a turtle habitat but who cares about the turtles, I guess?" she looks up at the blonde
"I can't have cold towels." The blonde and I state at the same time, she looks up at me still balancing on one foot
"Can you please not kill yourself?" she says as the wind blows her hair around
"Don't spill that beer!" The blonde says as he takes a sip of his beer "I'm not giving you another one."
I continue to balance on one foot but my footing slipped a little "Whoa!" I shout as I catch myself with the other foot as my beer falls out of my hand and hits the dock "Oh shit!" I whine
"Of course you did. Like right when I told you not to." The blonde complains. I stare at my spilled beer and groan dramatically
"Good job." The brown haired boy laughs from behind me
"A-plus." The blonde laughs
"Dumbass." The girl whispers from the deck
"Hey, uh, security's here." The boy on the deck calls out "Let's wrap it up."
"Boys are early today." The blonde looks at me and the brunet. He cheers quickly before standing up.
"Gary is that you?" The blonde yells
"Get down!" The boy on the deck rushes the three of us
"It's me! Gary, good to see you, man!" The blonde yells
We all start to run towards the Twinkie laughing and yelling different things. Me and the blonde split from the group for a second.
"Hey, Stop!" a security guard yells
"Turn around, J!" I shout as I turn the other way, I dodge a guard but the blonde runs right into him
"Not much of a hugger man!" he yells to the guard getting a laugh from me as he keeps running
"Oh my god! Go Pope!" I shout as I see him climbing the fence
"Go! Go, go, go, go, go, go!" The blonde yells as Pope falls and I jump the fence quickly. I laugh at Pope as JJ jumps the fence
"Get up, Pope, fatso's coming." JJ says as I help Pope up quickly.
"Bus is leaving!" The brunet honks the horn on the Twinkie
"Pope! It would help if you ran!" I yelled as I ran ahead of him, I quickly jump into the open doors of the Twinkie before JJ
"Come on, boys! Whoo!" The girl yells from next to me
I laugh as I push the door to the van closed after they jump in. I look over to the other open door
"Check out Gary gunnin for a raise!" I laugh
"Come on, Gary!" JJ shouts "Wait. Slow down. Slow down." he tells the brunet in the front
"Hey! You little pricks!" Gary shouts
"You're gonna give him a heart attack." The girl says
"Hey!" JJ hangs out the door of the Twinkie "You're so close! You can do it. There you go." he holds his hand with his beer out as he points at the guard before throwing the beer at him "They don't pay you enough, bro."
Everyone is laughing but the girl "JJ, stop. Stop." she tells him
"Oh, come on. That sort of initiative is just begging to be punished." he laughs
"Whoo!" I clap as I watch Gary stop running "Fatso's out." I lean up and turn the volume on the radio all the way up
The Outer Banks, Paradise on Earth. It's the sort of place where you either have two jobs or two houses. Two tribes, one island.
I watch as we pass a lot full of Yachts and a bunch of mansions
All right. So this is Figure Eight, the rich side if the island. Home of the kooks. So, guess where we don't live.
I watch as we pass the small run down houses
And then this is the South side or the cut. Home of the working class who make a living busing tables, washing yachts, running charters. The natural habitat of..drumroll, please..
We all now lay around in the HMS Pogue before JJ attacks John B
"Get him!" I laugh before we all quickly pile ontop
The Pogues. That's us. Pogues, pogies, the throw away fish.
I watch as JJ sits shirtless and takes a hit of a blunt, he blows the smoke up. He's now in a green hat with sunglasses on.
"Nice necklace." I say as I look at his shark tooth necklace
"Oh, is that what you're looking at?" he smirks as he looks down before flexing. I just scoff and roll my eyes
Lowest member of the food chain. Okay. So, the downside of pogue life is we're ignored and neglected. The upside of pogue life? We're ignored and neglected, which means we do whatever we want, whenever we want.
John B pulls up a fishing net and let's out the fish in the boat "Nice dude!" everyone but Kie praises
"Ugh, John B." she groans
I pick up a fish
"Kiss it. You won't." Kie tells me
"Yea I will." I shrugged and kissed the fish
"Yooo! Y/N's first kiss!" JJ shouts
"I've kissed people before!" I defended myself as I threw the fish down into the boat
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I look at JJ drive Mr Heyward's boat
That's JJ, my best friend. He was John B's best friend first but I came along freshman year and stole him. 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. It's pretty cool if you ask me. Best surfer I know. Just don't tell him I said that. Mild kleptomaniac (he definitely got that from being around me) and a future tax cheat.
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John B hugs Kie as she's talking
"Get off of me." then she goes back to talking about plastic
And that's Kiara, or Kie, as we call her. When she's not saving turtles or listening to Marley, or getting a dolphin tattoo, she hangs out with us. I'm not really sure why, though. She's a rich 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. I guess all the boys sorta have a thing for her. Not to blame them she's kinda hot. I used to like her in freshman year, definitely got my eyes set on someone different now.
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Pope sits watching as me and JJ dance around and shove eachother
That's Pope, the brains of the operation, finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderhorst Merit Scholarship. We're all kinda stupid. He's the smartest person I know. Little bit of a weirdo. But he'd definitely fuss if I called him that. Alright, so, his father's this legendary character, Heyward. Anything you wanted on the island, Heyward could get it 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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I looked at John B as he drove the HMS Pogue, my feet were hanging out the boat and kicking in the water
That's John B, I call him JB for sort even though nobody else does. He knows all my secrets. I ran away from home like forever ago and somehow ended up here in the Outer Banks, when he found out he begged his dad to take me in. Now I live with him. His dad went missing a little while ago, I'm not sure how he's taking it but I know it's not good. Me and JB used to have these nights every week where we would tell eachother secrets that we couldn't tell anyone else, it helped us form a bond. He's like a brother to me. I'd die to protect him and he'd die to protect me. Big John, his dad, it took forever for him to warm up to me, after about a year he finally started treating me like I was his kid. I felt like I had a family again.
That's my crew
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I rolled my eyes as I walked past the spare room, JJ was on top of some random girl. Probably a toron. He shouted at me as I closed the door
And that's me, Y/N. And this is where I live.
"Morning Kie." I waved to her as he yawned
"Morning."
"Morning JB." I said as I saw him grabbing something in the kitchen and going outside. He just nodded
An old fish shack on the marsh. The Chateau, as Big John used to call it. I already gave you a brief explanation of why I'm here but let's get some details. My dad was an alcoholic, my mom was a druggie, my sister was 15 years older than me, she left me at home when I was 5. My dad hit my mom, she left, so he started hitting me. I got fed up with it when I turned 12, ran away. I somehow ended up all the way here in the Outer Banks coming from Little Rock Arkansas.
And right now it truly is paradise.