➪𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨
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𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔...
"ɪᴠᴇ ᴡᴀɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ʟɪꜰᴇ"
𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 －𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑛－
it was the summer and the pogues were at figure 8 where they were going to build new fancy houses. John b was on the roof drinking his beer balancing on one leg and julia chuckled to herself.
"thats what, a three-story fall to the deck? i give you about a one-in-three chance of survival" pope calculated
"hm." john b licked his finger and held it against the wind "should i do it?" he stupidly asked
"yeah, you should jump. i'll shoot you on the way down." pope held the electric screwdriver up to john b
"you'll shoot me?" john b made a gun with his fingers and shot at pope "pow!"
"you guys are such idiots" julia laughed. she loved her bestfriends with all her heart. even though sometimes they were stupid, it was fun. they were fun.
kie comes out from the unbuilt house "they're gonna have japanese toilets with towel warmers."
"of course. why wouldn't they?" JJ asked sacrasticaly
"this used to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles i guess?" she looked up at john b being a nutter.
"i cant have cold towels." JJ stated randomly
"can you please not kill yourself?" kie asked the boy still balancing
"oh kie, please let him. atleast i wont have to make sure he doesnt do stupid stuff like this" julia joked
"now that is just straight up mean julia." he pulled a sad face
"dont spill that beer. im not giving you another one." JJ took a sip
"whoa! oh, shit" he dropped the beer to the floor
"of course you did. right when i say that." JJ complained
"smooth" kie whispered trying not to laugh.
"A-plus." pope said as he walked to see a car pulling up
"dumbass" julia laughed
"hey, uh, securitys here." pope looked at the man
they all got up and started to leave the almost finished house
"gary is that you?" JJ joked
they all ran through the house laughing as the security called JJ's name. running down the stairs shouting and screaming as they do. julia, john b and kie were already in the twinky waiting for pope and JJ to hurry up as they climb the fence. they jumped in and john b started to drive.
the boys started being horrible to poor gary and JJ threw him a can of beer.
they drove through figure 8 seeing all the big houses, the boats and the luxury. they crossed the bridge with a sigh that said 'danger, pogues zone.' the houses were smaller and it was more greener.
The pogues were always ignored and neglected which was a good thing because they did whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.
storm agatha was supposed to be hitting the outer banks today which is when dcs was supposed to inspect if our uncle was here taking care of john b. everyone was closing up their shops.
when the storm hit, julia was with sarah on figure 8. the kooks were always lucky because storms never really affected them.
"so sarah hows topper?" julia asked her
she laughed "he is just the greatest. he will do anything for me. i really love him"
"thats adorable, im glad your happy" julia smiled at her
"you got any new love interest lately?" sarah asked her
"not really." julia shook her head and as she did rafe cameron walked past sarahs room. all of a sudden the lights went out and the thunder hit. julia decided to stay the night because it was really bad outside.
julia, JJ and john b were on the boat to go get the others because they decided to go fishing because all the fish wouldve come close due to the storm. the boys were waffling on about different boats so julia decided to draw
"now look who we have here." JJ said in a funny voice, pope looked at the others on the boat as we came closer.
"we have a safety meeting. attendance mandatory." john b spoke pretending to speak into radio and he mimics a static
"i cant. my pops got me on lockdown." pope said as he father came behind him. popes dad was probably the best father on the island. he always looked out for his son and never treated gim like shit— unlike the rest of our fathers.
"hey heyward" julia waved to his father and he waved back
"come on, man." JJ also joining in the radio as he mimics a static "your dads a pussy. over."
"oh i heard that, you little bastard" heyward came closer
"we need your son" john b called
"yeah, and island rules. day after a hurricanes a free day." JJ shrugged his shoulders
"who the hell made that up?" heyward asked
"uh.. pentagon, i think. we have security clearance. i have a card" JJ went to pull out a card from his pocket.
"think im stupid?" heyward asked rhetorically
"ill do it tomorrow. i promise. tomorrow" pope dropped his equipment
"no, no" they argued about it "hell no. you doing it right now."
they whispered for him to make a run for it and just get into the boat and thats what the did. he jumped into the boat. heyward kept calling for him to come back.
they met kie and she had a red cooler in her hand "what you got? you got some juice boxes?" pope asked
"you know, just some yogurt and carrot sticks." kie answered as she got in the boat
they were all drinking and JJ had some stupid idea to stand on the end of the boat whilst drinking his beer with pope making the boat go faster. next thing you know the motor rattles and JJ goes flying off the boat. julia burst out laughing
"JJ are you okay" julia ask still laughing her arse off
"i think my heels touched the back of my head" he replied laying in the water
he swam back to the boat "hey, i saved the beer, tho"
"congrats JJ" john be clapped
julia and pope saw something in the waters that looked like a boat. "is that what i think it is pope?" she asked
"i think so.." he looked worried "guys i think theres a boat down there
the boat was filled with "shutups", "whats" and "no ways" but they knew what we saw
"come look" julia told them and they all came over. everyone removed their clothes and they all jumped in to investigate the mystery boat.
when they came back up for air and JJ told us it was a grady white with his boat knowlegde. they got back onto the boat and john b said he saw it when he was surfing in the storm
"you surfed the surge?" julia asked him disappointed
"thats my boy. pogue style." JJ smiled
"JJ dont encourage him please." she said
john b was about to go down and explore the boat more even though it was deep.
"john booker routledge. dont you dare step foot into that water."
"julia chill out i'll be fine" of course he doesnt listen and JJ pushed him in. julia rested her forehead in her hands.
they all looked down into the water waiting for him to come up. as he rose up he started to cough and showed them a key.
"great! we salvaged a motel key." JJ said as john b got back onto the boat
kie suggested they report the wreck to the coast guard and julia agreed and convinced the boys. they drove the boat to the coast guard and it was busy like very. they wouldnt listen to them.
they got to the motel and it was a wreck. JJ jumped off the boat and tied it with the rope
"hey julia, you go with them two and make sure they wont do anything stupid" pope pointed to john b and JJ
"dont have to ask me twice" julia followed the boys up the stairs and to the room listening to their dumb conversations on the way
as they got to the top floor they started to mess around.
"just be so careful, john." JJ grabbed his face
"god, your so weird" julia chuckled
"what was that about?" JJ asked
"i dont know. maybe she wants you guys to be careful?" she stated the obvious
"since she heard you're being threatened with exile, she's just been, like, 'oh! be so careful, john b'" JJ massaged his shoulders and julia began to laugh
"get off" john b moved JJ's hands off him
"oh, give me that john d already." JJ quoted "when are you gonna swoop on that, man?"
"kie does not have a thing for john b." she scoffed
"exactly and you know the rule. no pogue-on-pogue macking." he replied
they reach the door and JJ knocks and says "housekeeping" in a high pitched voice.
once they knew no one is in john b opens the door and closes it behind him. the trio investigate the room communicating and making jokes along the way. john b finds a safe and goes through different numbers one at a time.
"thats not gonna work booker. here use this" julia hand him the yellow post-itnote with numbers and he trys it.
"you are a genius julia." john b smiles
"i know" she smiled back
they find money, a gun and an envelope. JJ picked up the gun because what else would he do?
"JJ put the gun back! what are you doing!?" julia got anxious
"calm down julia. this is a SIG sauer!" he gets excited and starts to pretend to shoot people "one of you two take a picture of me" he poses
"no, JJ. no." the routledge children say at the same time
"guys kie and pope are saying cops i think" julia tells them as she looks out the window and see them pointing
they quickly hid anything they moved as they heard the cops outside the door "open the window" julia whispered and they both opened it quickly. the three climbed out and stood either side of the window john b looked in and saw them investigating.
JJ dropped the gun and it fell to the ground. the cop look out the window and then they left.
they got onto the boat and started talking, pope asked if they had found anything and JJ pulled out money and the gun.
they went back home and they were sitting on the patio. pope opened the door panting "okay. so, um.. we didnt see anything. we dont know anything. we need to have total and complete amnesia."
"actually, popes right for once. see, i agree with you sometimes. deny, deny, deny." JJ stood up
"guys, we cant keep that money" kie spoke
"okay. not all of us can afford unlimited data plans, kiara" he looked at her
"we have to pass that off to lana grubbs. otherwise, its bad karma." she held her hands up
"bad karma to be implicated in a felony, too. we gotta go dark." julia added
"if that means we get to keep the money, then i agree." JJ looked outside
"i dont agree" john b patted JJ on the shoulder and the argument went on and on until it moved to the deck. then moved to john bs bedroom.
"all we need to do right now is figure out a way to get into the cargo hold of that wreck. until then, we just lay low. just act normal." JJ planned
"right. and exactly how do we do that?" pope asked
"kegger?" julia suggested
the boys moved the kegs to the beach with alot of cups and started to drink and then the party got bigger.
everyone was off talking to different people and julia had found sarah and caught up with her.
"hey sarah, how you doing?" julia walked up to her
"hey, im good apart from rafe being annoying as usual." she rolled her eyes
"whats he done now?" julia took a sip of her beer
"throwing parties, doing drugs, you know. same old, same old" sarah shrugged
"wouldnt imagine him doing anything else" she laughed
"watch this!" sarah climbed onto the red thing that was sat in the sand. julia held her drink and was laughing like crazy.
topper walked over to us "sarah! sarah, be careful, okay?"
"oh topper relax! shes fineeee" julia was still laughing. topper climbed up to help her down and she jumped into his arms, when he put her down she took her drink back.
the moon was out and JJ was definitely drunk. he called sarah over to 'interest' her in a 'tasy Mileaukee beverage' in which she replied with "no thanks"
"is it not fancy enough for you?" he asked
"no, were just leaving." the kook princess informed. john b and julia were laughing at the rejection JJ just faced.
"hey, you know what? ill take it." topper took on the offer "ill- thankyou, man. i appreciate it." he tried to take the drink
"thats nice, but i didnt ask you. now, if you said pretty please, maybe, but you didnt" JJ joked
"oh, pretty please. pretty please?" topper almost laughed
"yeah. sarah. i promise. you can have it." he tried to hand it to her
"she doesnt want it, you—" topper smacked it out his hand and they started pushing eachother. john b tried to hold JJ back
"your so funny, man" JJ laughed
all of a sudden as soon as topper called us "dirty pogues" john b pushed him.
topper punch him to the ground and kicked him into the water "hey, john b, dont make me drown you like your old man, all right?"
the crowd was chanting fight over and over again. john b got up and ran towards topper and tackled him to the floor. they began to fight
the beach was full of a lot of words. punches were thrown everywhere until eventually topper began to drown john b.
"sarah tell you crazy boyfriend to get off my brother!!" julia shouted to sarah. she walked over to topper and shouted for him to get off. he didnt.
JJ came up behind and put a gun to his head "yeah, you know what that is. your move, broski."
everyone started running and julia told JJ to put the gun down
"did you say something princess? its your brother im trying to save." he was infuriated now.
"i know JJ, i know. but put the gun down, please. you dont want to make a bad decision." julia tried to talk him out of it.
topper let go of john b "we're good. we're good."
"julia! can you check your psycho friend, please?" sarah looked at her.
julia was about to speak until JJ shouted "okay, everyone, listen up! get the hell off our side of the island!" he raised the gun in the air and shot it twice.
it was the next morning and sheriff peterkin came into the routledge house looking for john b. julia pointed her to his room.
julia left the house to go see sarah to talk about what happened. as she got to her house she knocked on the door.
rafe answered.
"what do you want routledge?" he mumbled
"here for sarah. not you." julia rolled her eyes
"whatever. shes, um.. upstairs." he moved out the way slightly so she could come in.
as julia walked up the stairs she heard him speak again. "you look good with your hair like that. you should do it more often." he walked away thinking she didnt hear him. julia smiled to herself as she ran up the stairs.
she would never admit to thinking that was the best thing anyone had ever said to her. but julia definitely wouldnt admit that she had a crush on her best friend's brother— let alone the boy that her other best had a rivalry with.
julia knocked on sarahs door "sarah? can i come in?"
"yeah!" she called out. julia walked in to see her laying in bed "whats up?"
"i feel like alot happened last night.." she sat down
"yeah i agree. i didnt mean to call JJ a psycho and im sorry for topper doing that to your brother.. how is he doing?" she sat up
"he is okay, got a black eye but yeah.. sorry for calling topper crazy" she laughed at julia.
"dont be silly its fine" sarah hugged julia and she hugged her back
when julia got home everyone was there and kie filled her in on what they were talking about. she said that john b was calling it off because peterkin was gonna help him with dcs if he stayed out the marsh for a couple days and JJ didnt like that.
kie also told him her that he had a plan for john b to steal ward camerons scuba gear. julia thought that was pretty dumb.
obviously john b listened to him.
they were on the boat and kie was checking the tanks the only one that had some in only had a quarter which meant only one of them could go.
"does anyone know how to dive" kie asked and everyone looked at each other.
"it kind of a kook sport." JJ spoke up
"i.. read about it." pope added
"great, pope read about it, so someones gonna die." kie said sarcastically
"look, y-you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. how hard could it be?" JJ thought he was smart
"well, if you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends" pope informed him
"bends like, bend over and.." JJ began to arch his back and bend over
"the bends kill you" julia smiled at JJ and he slowly got back up
john b volunteered to dive and pope did his calculations. kie jumped in and and tied her t shirt to the rope 10 feet down. he put on the scuba gear and kie kissed his cheek.
"stay safe and don't drown." julia hugged her brother.
just as he went in the cops came to our boat and told them the marsh is closed. the four denied knowing anything he was talking about. he checked out boat julia became anxious that my brother wouldnt make it out.
he stood on the edge of the boat looking into the water. he finally left and they all looked for john b as he shot up to the surface.
JJ asked if he found anything and he gave us a bag. when he got on the boat they saw another boat nobody recognised.
the boat got faster trying to catch up to them into the marsh. one of the men shot a gun at us multiple times
kiara got up. "kie what are you doing!?" julia called to her and she threw the yellow ball in the water to stop their boat. they all chuckled and headed back to shore.
john b opened the bag and we saw to find a time capsule which had the compass that big john had
"its dads..." julia spoke softly and john b chuckled softly
authors note:
sorry if there are any typos cba to proof read