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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
BLUE WORLD [MAC MILLER]
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The group sat outside John B's, Kiara tapping a random tune on the bongos and Nova laying across her legs, her head in her lap as she smoked a blunt she had on hand.
JJ was sitting on a table about 10 ft away, doing whatever it was he did, and Pope was sitting across from the girls, making mindless chatter about whatever it was they were gonna do that night.
John B walked up, running a hand through his brown hair with a huff, "Look, I'm callin' it off. All right?"
The group glanced up at him, Nova quickly coughing out smoke as she choked on the words John B had just released. She enjoyed the chase they had just begun, it got her mind off of shit, gave her something to do.
"Peterkin said, if I stay out of the marsh, she'll help me with DCS." He finished.
Nova scoffed, setting the blunt down on the table next to the bongos, sitting up and placing herself next to Kiara.
"And you believed her?" JJ asked.
"Bruh did you learn nothing from me? I tell you all the time, acab." Nova sighed out, letting her body fall back into the couch.
"Not all of us do illegal shit everyday Nova." Pope explained, gesturing to the blunt on the table.
"Oh fuck off." She scoffed back.
The pair rolled their eyes at each other, listening to John B speak up, "Yes, I believe her JJ."
"An actual cop, John B. You believed a cop." JJ yelled back, the other three turning their heads to watch the conversation more clearly.
Nova watched as JJ threw a rock into the ground, fed up with John B being gullible, "All I gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out." The brunette twin explained.
"It doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting a gun." He added.
"You know what I should've done?" JJ asked sarcastically.
"God, here we go." Nova sighed, her head finding its way to Kiaras shoulder as the girls giggled.
"Just let Topper drown your ass." JJ spat.
"Shit ok." Kiara whistled, Nova mumbling back, "Who you got money on?"
Pope quickly shushed the two, reaching over and placing his finger on their mouths to keep them quiet, they were interrupting the show. They giggled in response, Nova darting out her tongue to lick his finger, Pope retracting his hand and faking a gag.
"Topper was gonna drown me?" He replied back.
"Sure looked like it." JJ answered, throwing more rocks into the ground.
The other three watched amused as they fought, not even sure what they were arguing about. Nova appreciated the normalcy of it all. Yesterday was all kinds of stressful, she needed something that was familiar.
"Funny." John B smirked at the boy, JJ getting up and walking over towards him,
"Have you looked in a mirror?" The blonde questioned.
Kiara began to pretend to eat popcorn, bringing her hand to her mouth and them to Novas as if she was eating the snack.
"Tell me some more. Come on." John B encouraged.
"Y'all are just picking a fight over nothing but please continue it's much better than Popes lame physics talk." Nova commented, not missing the way Pope narrowed his eyes, scowling at the girl and flashed her his middle finger.
"They always win, don't they, man?" JJ added to the fire.
Nova didn't really want to have this conversation right now, mostly because she knew it was true and she wasn't high enough to care, but also wasn't sober enough to talk about it. She was kinda just in the middle, slightly dazed, but not in the clouds. She knew that if they kept talking about the way the people from figure 8 got everything, she would find herself filled with a rage that she couldn't release. Nova was passionate about many things, it's one of the reasons her and Kiara were friends, their opinions were the same, they were both socialists. Nova allowed herself to tune out the conversation with her thoughts, picturing herself somewhere in a movie, or a cartoon, away from the madness of real life for a second.
"Kooks versus Pogues. They always win." JJ mumbled, leaning against the wooden pole of the covering they were under.
Nova felt herself sigh, wishing she could live on figure 8, but also remembering all the things they couldn't do, sure being rich had it's perks, but it sounded so fucking boring.
"Look it's okay!" Kie intervened, understanding that this conversation was getting too heated for something so simple. It wasn't about Peterkin anymore, it was about injustice, and she knew that we couldn't go there this early in the day.
"No it's not okay!" JJ yelled back to the girl, his eyes dark and his brows down in frustration, Nova knew that look, she saw it on herself every time she read the news.
Why was the world built to accommodate rich white men?
She sat up again, knowing that one of them might blow up soon and she needed to be mentally present to stop JJ from literally breaking her brother.
"It is not! They don't want us to go down in the marsh." JJ continued, "That means there's something valuable down there, and you know it."
Nova couldn't help but agree, wanting to mumble 'period' but understanding the conversation was probably too serious for that, she stifled a laugh, bringing her hand to her mouth to quickly stop herself. Pope couldn't help but smile at her, ignoring the fact that the two rarely got along and allowing himself to find at least one thing she did funny.
"I understand why you don't wanna go," He said towards Pope, staring down at him, "You're the golden boy. You got way too much to risk. And you-"
He began speaking to Kiara, "I mean, you're already rich as fuck anyway. Why would you bother?"
Nova heard Kiara scoff slightly, understanding why she was upset at that, Kiara was a pogue, whether she had money or not.
"And Nova," He added towards the brunette girl, "Well none of us want to see you get hurt anymore." Nova felt something in herself begin to bubble up, wanting to yell at the way he looked at her as if she was so fucking fragile. She had been through a lot of shit lately, but she never cried, she never let herself get sad, and she did it just for that. So no one thought she was weak, so no one thought she was something that needed to be repaired. She was better today, after JJ reassured her last night, finding herself holding onto his words. He wasn't going to leave. But she hated that she looked at him like she was broken, she might've been cracked, but she sure as hell wasn't shattered.
"I'm not fucking broken, JJ." She spoke back, the boy ignoring her comment continuing to talk, "But you and me man, we got nothin' to lose!"
"JJ," John B tried to put some sense into him.
"And I know it didn't used to be that way for you." He added on.
"I don't wanna talk about this." The brunette said, his voice low, "I don't wanna talk about it."
Nova nodded, lacing her hand with Kiara at even the mention of her father, she didn't want to think about it right now, not when she found herself doing okay.
"So that's it?" JJ asked. Nova was starting to get fed up with him, she understood where he was coming from, she felt the same way. But he didn't understand how hard the disappearance was on all of us, me and John B, she felt like he should respect that.
"Just get out of my way bro." John B spoke sternly, walking past the blonde boy.
"John B, listen to me. I have a plan." JJ yelled back, trying to get the brunettes attention. Kiara squeezed Nova's hand, knowing this couldn't be very fun to listen to.
"You got the key to Cameron's boat right?" The blonde asked.
Pope and Kiara rolled their eyes, Nova releasing her hand from Kiara's grasp to bring her hands up to her face, throwing her head into them.
The boys' voices were too quiet for them too hear, Pope mumbling something about how JJ seemed to take everything too far, and Nova partly agreed, not sure if she liked where his plan would go or not. She had to understand where JJ was coming from in a way Pope wouldn't. The twins and JJ didn't really have any talents or anything, they truly would be here their entire life, they didn't have much hope of getting out, of doing something great in the world. She understood holding onto the idea of money, the idea of an easy life.
"Fine." She heard her brother say, watching as JJ's face lit up with excitement, their treasure hunt somewhat back on track.
Kiara groaned, mumbling to the others,
"This can't be good."
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