"Alright, do we have everything?" Pope asks as we pull up to the stone wall again.
"We've been through it around 10 times, Pope. I'm sure we've gotten everything." I say, tying up into a messy bun.
"Alright. Okay." Pope pulls the door open.
We all crouch and get out of the car.
"Let's go get rich, guys." jj whispers.
"Let's go guys." Kie says.
"Let's roll." I say.
"Wait- wait wait." John b stops us.
We all stop to look at him.
"I wanna say thank you, guys. Seriously." He says with a smile.
What a cutie, even if i hated him from deep in my core last night.
"It means a lot to me that you're here tonight." He continues.
"Always." Kie shrugs with a smile.
"Of course, man." Pope says, doing his handshake with John b.
"All right, we done with the circle jerk? Can we go do this?" jj says, a long rope throww we n over his shoulder.
"Yeah."
"Let's go get that wheat in the water." Pope says.
"Weed? I'm up for weed." Jj says, getting out of the car.
"Wheat, I said wheat." Pope sighs.
"After you." Kie says to Sarah.
"Ladies first." Sarah hops the wall.
"Alley-oop." I say, letting Kie go in front of me.
I hop the wall swiftly.
We land in the garden and click on our flashlights to see.
We come to see the house.. it definitely looks much scarier in the dark.
The light suddenly turns on.
"Shit!" Sarah whispers.
"Oh, Shit!" John b says after her.
We all fall to the ground and crawl behind a bush.
"Flashlights!" I say, clicking mine off.
"It's on strobe!" Jj says, his flashlight flickering.
"Shhh..." John b presses his finger to his lip.
"Okay.. so, she has motion sensor lights." Pope huffs.
"We could uh... move really slowly, maybe?" jj shrugs.
"What?" Sarah shakes her head in jjs stupidity.
"That's not how it works." I tell him.
"Oh, shit. Let's throw a rock at it." John b, the mastermind comes up with yet another shit idea.
"What?" Pope raises an eyebrow.
"That's a really good idea, let the axe murderer know that we're here." Kie says to him sarcastically.
"Throw a rock at it?" Pope can not believe his friends very low IQ.
"You got a better idea?" John b genuinely asks him.
"Literally anything but that." I sigh.
"What about the breaker? In the circut box on the porch. We used to play hide and seek here as kids." Sarah suggests. "And if we were brave enough, we'd go all the way up to the porch. I've seen it."
"No, no. You're not going in the house alone." A protective john b protests.
"Watch me." Sarah says.
"Crain chops people into pieces." jj tells her.
"Oh my god, jj. We know." I say to him.
He makes a face at me before i look back at Sarah.
"If you believe that, but she's like what, 85?" Sarah shrugs.
"Yeah something like that." jj says.
"She's probably barely still kicking." Sarah answers.
"Here, I'll go with you." Kie says to her.
The two look at me.
Hell the fuck nah..
Okay maybe.
"Fine. I'll go too since y'all apparently need 3 to flip a switch." I shrug as I say.
We stand up. "Okay, cool."
"Hey! Be safe." John b says to Sarah.
I laugh a little. "Okay, jombee."
We walk past the trees and up to the back door.
"She must have a generator plugged into the main power supply." Kiara suggests.
We walk up the back porch stairs, I swallow my nervousness.
"No- nah fuck this." I say.
"Huh?" Sarah turns around.
"Come on." Kie says.
"Uhh, i think i'll just stall you guys. Why don't you do this one yourselves." I shakily say.
"You scardy-cat." Sarah laughs.
"Alright, go with the boys.. pussy." Kie chuckles.
"Ugh, you cunts. Fine, I'll go." I keep walking.
"But you can't stall, okay?" Sarah adds.
"Whatever, yeah." I shrug.
Kie opens up the door on a power box outside the door to enter the house.
"Where are the breakers?" I whisper.
"What is this?" Kie asks.
"No, no, no, no, no, no." Sarah whispers.
"Shit." I say.
We look up and the wire seems to be leading in the door. "It goes inside."
Kie immediately opens the door quietly.
"Wait, y'all are actually going in?" I whisper, nervously.
"You said you wouldn't stall." Kie says to me.
"I'm not, can't a girl just be a little nervous?" I tremble.
We walk in and look around this huge ass house.
Suddenly we hear a car yowling.
"Oh my .. oh my god, that fucking scared me." I hold my hand up to my racing heart.
We keep walking and see the official control panel, with the breakers and everything.
"Finally, we do this and get the fuck out of here." I whisper.
"Yeah. I know." Kie says, observing the switches.
She flicked a switch, nothing happened.
She flicked another switch, the generators powered down.
"Whew." I say, "Okay come on."
Suddenly we hear whirring.. and then bells tolling.
Sarah and Kie back up against the wall.
"Guys, nah. Let's go, this is not okay." I shiver as I say.
They put their finger up to their lips.
Sarah grabs my arm and drags me over, I flatten against the wall.
"The doors too far for us to run to." She whispers to me.
I put my head back against the wall in fear. "I should've left y'all."
"Shut up!" Kiara whispers.
We all of a sudden hear shuffling and thumping near the staircase.
"Shit.." Sarah whispers.
"No, no, no, no, no, no. Guys we have to just run." I shake my head.
"Once she reaches the bottom of the stairs, she'll be blocking the exit. " Sarah looks at me.
Kie pressed her hand to her mouth, and I look up and pray for mercy.
"It's— it's late Leon." Mrs. Crain grunts.
I hold my breath and she slowly walks in our direction.
"Too late." She coughs.
She's now walking past us. I literally can't hold my breath for any longer.
I whimper in fear by accident.
"I've been waiting all night!" She turns us, hee eyes glowing white and her teeth black.
We scream and dodge her cane, running to find a way out.
"AAAH! Ah! Leon!" I hear her scream.
I run into a room, and see a door.. but it's boarded up with planks of wood.
"Shit!" I try to pull the planks off.
"Where are you leon!?" I hear the woman shout.
"Come on.. come on!" I pull the latch off and start pulling at the planks again.
I turn around and see Mrs crain storm in.
"NO GOD- please I don't want to die!" I keep trying to kick the door in.
I see her swing her fire poker at me, but I dodge.
Sarah and Kie come running in as I'm dodging her hits, which are really bad. But she's still scary as fuck.
Sarah grabs the fire poker and throws it to the ground.
"Come on, come on this way!" Sarah grabs my hand and we run in the opposite direction.
We quickly all close the door on the woman.
All of a sudden her axe hacks the door and we all scream.
"Shit!" I say as the wood smashes.
We run to another door.
"This way! It goes underneath the house!" Sarah yells.
We go down the stairs in a hurry.
"Guys! Guys!" We yell.
"Woah- What's going on?" Pope asks, he's lowering a rope.. so I suspect John b is down in the well.
"Mrs Crain! she's up there!" I cry.
"She tried to kill us with a fire poker." Kie huffs. "We gotta go, we locked her in the parlor."
"Okay, okay!" Jj panics.
"John b! get back on man!" The boys yell as we hyperventilate.
We hear john b saying something, but we don't know what he's saying.
We all hold the rope.
"3,2,1.. pull!" Pope yells.
We all pull and the rope is so light that we all fall back.
"Shit! He wasn't on the rope!" I say.
"John b?!" Sarah calls.
"SH, Sh guys!" Kie tells us.
John b screams something, but I cant make out what.
"What's he saying?" jj asks.
"JJ! Pope! Darla! Kie!" He echoed.
"He's drowning, we gotta pull him up!..." I say.
"Go- go! go! get the rope!" Sarah says.
"John b! Just get back on the rope, we're gonna pull you up.. okay buddy?" Pope calls as we go to pull the rope again.
"Come on!" I say.
"Pull him up!"
We grunt as we pull the rope, this time it's heavier, so we know John b is on it.
"Pull!!" I groan.
Suddenly a gunshot fires at me, but it misses and hits the wall.. making me drop the rope in shock.
We all scream.
The rope starts to fall.
"Hang on! Hang on!" Jj screams.
"Go, go!" We run to hide.
"She can't aim for shit." I huff.
"She can't see... she's blind." Sarah figures.
We suddenly get fired at again.
"Aah! GO GO! Sarah! Kie go!" I push them and we all sprint away.
We run to the door we found earlier..
"I'm gonna throw up oh my god!" I cry.
"Whoo!" We hear john b yell.
"Is this bitch seriously celebrating after we nearly died?" Kie says as we all run towards the wall.
"JJ! Pope! Kie! Darl! Sarah!!" He calls out.. but we're too busy hopping the wall.
We sprint over to the twinkie. "Get in the car!"
Jj pulls the door open and lets me into the passenger seat.
"Holy- holy shit!" I huff out of breath.
We all get in.
jj gets into the drivers seat.
"Go- go, go! jj go!" I say.
Jj starts up the engine as we hear another gunshot.
"Where is he?" Kie says, referring to john b.
We suddenly see him hop the wall, getting fired at AGAIN.
"Come on, John b! Run!" I yell out my open window.
The car is moving while john b chases it. He jumps in the open car door, and Kiara closes it.
"Dude! Holy fuck." I rest my head back.
"You good?!" Jj looks at me, searching for any wounds.
"I'm- I'm good!"
"Jj drive!!" Sarah yells.
"Dude you freaking reek!" Kiara laughs.
"Are you okay? Are you shot! Are you shot!" jj asks, looking at john b.. then back at the road.
"I think i'd know if i was shot, right?" Kie asks, feeling around her chest and stomach.
"You look disgusting." Pope chuckles.
"You smell like ass!" I call out.
"What the hell just happened!" Sarah cries.
"All-time Pogue Hall of Fame, baby." Jj says, running his hand through his hair.
I pat him on the shoulder, still out of breath. "Hell, yeah. That bitch is possessed!"
"That bitch cant aim." I hear Sarah laugh.
"How does she move that fast?" Pope asks.
"She's freaking posessed, dude!" Kie says.
"She's blind too, and eighty-fucking-five!" I yell.
"It doesn't make any sense, like scientifically." Pope shrugs.
"She does yoga, pilates." I hear Kiara say, making me laugh.
"Oh god." Jj winces.
"What is that?" I hear Kiara ask.
"No you didn't!"
"We did it, baby!"
In this moment, my heart drops to my ass. Is this what I think it is? If i turn around.. will I see what we've been searching for all this time?
"No you didn't!" Sarah sobs of happiness.
I turn around, so does jj.
And yes, right in front of my eyes.
The merchant fucking gold, baby.
"No, NO! No it's not!" I yell, tears well up in my eyes.
"Oh, my god!" Jj screams.
"I did it!" John b howls.
"Oh my god!" We all yell.
Everyone starts screaming and yelling in joy.
"Holy shit! Holy fucking shit!" I look at jj, he has the biggest smile painted across his face as he's screaming.
"That's gold!" Jj bangs the top of the car as he drives.
"Wait! Wait! You guys, we're gonna be rich!" Kiara screams.
"Full kook!" John b starts to chant.
"Full Kook! Full Kook! Full Kook!" We all chant.
jj honks the horn as we chant it out.
This is us, we're full fucking kook baby. No going back.
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"He said it looked something like this.." Kie holds up a map drawn out.
"So... that's 50 feet down and they're using 100ft rope.."
We look at the map, trying not to laugh at these stupid ass shitty drawings.
"So I guess this little wagon leads.. straight to the gold room." Kie laughs.
"Who drew this?" Sarah cackles.
"Who do you think?" We look out at Pope and John b.
I notice john b looking at Kiara.. but i smile to myself and say nothing.
"Darl! This better work.." Jj comes over, holding all the gold bars he just washed the dirt off.
"We can't pawn this if there's a giant weed symbol on it." He sighs.
I hold up a Flame canister. "Oh, it's gonna work."
We place the hold upon a stove, and use the flame canister to melt it.
I smile as I melt it.
jj and pope do the handshake.
I watch as the weed symbol slowly melts away.
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We pull up to the pawn shop, the gold in a cloth.
"Hell of a job.. melting it down, dr. Frankenstein." jj says to me sarcastically.
"Likd you could've done any better." I laugh.
"I could have done better, I took a welding class." jj clarifies.
"When?" I tilt my head, not believing him.
"Yo, whoa. Hey- hey. Shush." John b stops us.
"Easy for you to say, you're not the one who has to park this piece of shit off." Jj crosses his arms.
"Awe, poor you. Having to exchange gold for a shit ton of cash.. must be hard." I scoff.
"Oi." He looks at me.
"jj- stop. Go." john b pushes him into the shop.
"Afternoon, ma'am." He says, now in a more posh voice.
I walk past them to the other side of the shop.
"Afternoon.." The lady says back.
"I see you buy gold.." He smiles.
"That's what the sign says." She shrugs.
"Well, I sure hope you buy a lot of it, because I'm about to blow your mind.." He laughs, taking the gold out of its cloth.
"How bout them gold apples?" Jj tilts his head.
"That ain't real." She rolls her eyes.
"That ain't real?" He scoffs.
"It can't be." She shakes her head.
"Feel how heavy it is." She taps the gold.
She lifts it up, and struggles.. her eyes widening a bit.
"Mm-hm!" jj says as she struggles to grab the light.
He grabs the light and shines it on the gold, it shimmers brightly.
"Spray-painted tungsten." She concludes, turning off the light.
"Spear-painted tungsten, really? Okay." He nods. "Why don't you see how uh- soft it is?"
"You mind?" She asks.
"No, go for it." He grants her permission.
She taps it and presses down, feeling the soft touch.
I look over, crossing my arms as the two talk back and forth.
"This shit better work.." I mumble.
Pope shrugs. "She doesn't look like she has enough money to exchange for all that gold."
I look at him, concerned that we mightn't get all this money back.
"Ooh! The acid test, my favourite.. guys." Jj looks at all of us, I snicker a bit.
"I'm telling you, this thang is as real as the day is long." Jj blabbers.
"It looks like someone tried to melt it down.." She looks up at jj.
"My mom." Jj quick fires. "She had all this jewellery laying around the house, and she thought it was best— to melt it down." He shrugged.
I rub my forehead cause that might've just been the most unbelievable shit i've heard all day.
The woman weighs it. "Ooh.. that's a lot of earrings."
"Okay, to be honest ma'am, it's really heard to see my mom falling apart with Alzheimer's." jj sighs.
I raise my eyebrow. Why in every lie does he have to bring up some family member dying or being sick?
"Give me a minute." The woman walks off into a room.
"Alzheimer's?" I whisper.
"Dude, I don't know?" He whisper shouts back at me.
"Just keep up the sob story, it seems to be working." John b nods.
"All right." Jj sighs.
"So.. I, uh... I spoke with my boss and, uh. This is what I can do." The woman comes out of the room and walks back over to the register.
She sets a 50 thousand stack on the counter.
"50 thousand?" Jj looks at her, shaking his head. "You think I walked in here, not knowing the price? Ma'am I know for a fact.. that this is worth 140 at least."
"Sweetheart, you in a pawn-shop." The woman shrugs. "This ain't Zurich. Do I look swiss to you?"
"Ninety, or I walk." Jj says to her.
"Seventy, half price.. and I don't ask questions about we're you got this from." She snaps back.
jj looks over at john b, john b nods.
"I'm gonna need that in large denominations, please." Jj says.
She huffs. "Well, here's the thing.. I don't got that amount on me. So I could write you a check—"
"No, no, no, no, no." I interrupt. "We want it in the cold hard cash. The sign says Cash for gold." I point up to it.
She shrugs. "Well, I'll have to send you to the warehouse. I have the money there.. that all right?" She asks.
"Where is this warehouse?" Jj asks.
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END OF CHAPTER 13!!!!!
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