Azlia

"She said she's not coming." Pope says walking out of the restaurant. We were picking up Ki. "Why not?" JJ asked in the passenger seat. "What'd you do to her, John B?" I ask. "Shit. Hang on, I'll deal with it." He says getting out of the car. Three of us all wait for John B to come back with Ki, and he does.

"You mind if I just relax on this one? It's been a long day and a lot of weird stuff's gone down." JJ says. He leans back into me and lights the blunt he had just rolled up. He looks me in the eyes and blows the smoke right in my face. "Asshole." I say fanning it away. "Me, an asshole?" He questions. "Yes." I state. He just winks at me and rest his head in my lap.

"Look, I know I was wrong about the lighthouse and wrong about everything else going on, but I was right about one thing, okay? My dad is trying to tell me something." John B says trying to convince us.

John B parks in front of a cemetery and the five of us pile out of the van. He gives us all flashlights. I look at the top of my flashlights and push the button at the bottom. The flashlights comes on blinds me. I quickly gave it towards the ground and blink a couple of time to regain my eyesight. "Dumbass." JJ laughs.

We start walking deeper into the cemetery. "This place is scary." I say innocently. "Yeah, John B what are we doing here!" Ki ask. "Shut up, okay do you know how you're trying to remember a song, but you can't remember who sings it?" He ask her. "Yeah." She says. "So redfield, this whole time I thought it was a place, right, but it's not a place. It's a person." He shines his flashlights up at a wall and it says the word 'Redfield'.

"Voi-effing-la." JJ says pointing his flashlight at the wall.

"See, my great great grandmother Olivia Redfield." John B says looking back at us. "Wow." Is all I can say.

"Help me with the door, come on." JB says. The three boys try and push the door and Ki and I just watch. They continue pushing and a snake slithers through one of the cracks.

"Holy shit." I say and Ki and I back up. "That's a moccasin all right, death in tall grass." JJ says. He starts barking at the snake. "JJ, Shut up!" Ki snaps. "JJ are you crazy." I say. "You're gonna wake the freakin dead man." Pope pushing JJ back. "They're afraid of dogs." He says innocently.

The four of them start bickering and I run my flashlight among the wall. I stop my flashlight at an entrance that's about the size of me. "I can get through." I say. They all stop talking.

"What? No No, you think you're gonna fit through the whole?" John B ask. "Look, I'm flexible enough to fit through it." I say handing my flashlight to Pope. "That's hot." JJ says making Ki slap him on the arm.

"Can you give me a boost." I ask anyone. JJ gets down and cuffs his hands. "I've seen it in movies several times, Ready?" He ask. "Remind me what we're looking far?" I ask John B. "You'll know when you see it." He says.

"All right, so put your hands right there, all right on three." JJ says. I don't wait until three and just push myself up. "Okay, never mind just forget about three." He says holding my balance. I climb over and land on my feet. Pope hands he my flashlight through the whole and I start searching for anything.

"You alive, you got like a heartbeat and everything." John B ask from the other side. "I think so." I say a little scared. I walk up too a hole in one of the walls and see a Fedex envelope. "Woah." I smile.

I reach out and grab the envelope. I see the words 'For Bird' on it. I hand John B the envelope through the whole and JJ helps me climb back out.

"That's not gold." Pope sighs looking at the package. "Holy shit...this is from my dad." John says.

All of a sudden a truck pulls up. "Code red. Code red. Square groupers! Square groupers!" JJ warns everyone. "Go!" Ki whisper yells. We all start frantically running around and bumping into each other not knowing where to go.

"It's the guys that robbed your house." JJ says. He pushes me behind a wall and everyone else follows.

"John B turn your flashlight off." Ki panics. He struggles with the light and decides to hide it in his shirt. "Homie's got a gun." JJ whispers. "Screw this." Ki says taking off running. Everyone follows her and makes a run for it.

While we're jumping over the fence Pope gets caught on the gate. "Guys! Guys!" He yells. Ki and I run over to him and JJ pulls out his gun. We start pulling on him trying to get him down. "You're gone rip me!" He says. We pull on him one more time and his pants rip off on the gate and we all start laughing. He makes his way to the van and I cover my hand with my mouth trying not to laugh. "Come on!" John B says pulling me towards the van.

We all take off in the van laughing and screaming.

About 30 minutes later we were laid all around John B's house.

"That bread had mold on it three days ago." John B tells JJ. "It's fine I'll just pull off the bad parts. Plus mold is good for you, it's just a natural organism." He says spreading the peanut butter on the moldy bread. "JJ." Ki says calling him over.

We all huddle around JB and the mysterious envelope. I watch JJ as he takes a bite out of the moldy sandwich and he immediately gags it up running to the garbage. I make a little disgusted face and turn my focus back to John B. "Well, open it." I say. He shakes his head and rips off the top piece of the envelope. He pulls out at map and I furrow my eyebrows.

"Holy shit." JB says admiring the map. "X marks the spot." Pope says. He points to an X that's drawn on the map. "Woah." I softly whisper to myself.

John B reaches back into the envelope and pulls out a tape recorder. "What's that." JJ ask. "It's a tale recorder, dumbass." Ki answers him.

John B clicks a button and a man starts talking from the recorder. It sounds exactly like Big John, John B's dad. We all listen carefully to every word the man says.

"There she is, the wreck of the Merchant. If something happens to me, finish what I started. Go for the gold, kid. I love you, Bird, even if I didn't always act like it. I'll see you on the other side."

Then, the tape ended. We sat there in silence. John B gets up and walks towards the edge of the door frame and leans on it l. He starts sobbing and I follow behind him. I wrap my arms around him and rest my head on his shoulder. "Shh, it's okay." I say kissing his shoulder. He turns around and wraps his arms around my body and cries. I softly pat his back trying to calm him down.

We're all sitting on the deck railing listening to Ki strum the ukulele. "How much was it again?" JJ ask. "400 mil." John B sighs.

"All right, let's talk the split. Now before we say 'evenly' may I remind you that I am the only one that can properly defend us from those groupers who were after us. Protection, not cheap." JJ holds up the gun. "You haven't even trained. You've don't zero training" Pope says. I let out a little chuckle. "YouTube, bro! That's at least a five percent bump right there. Any objections? Didn't think so." JJ defends himself.

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"You guys see that? That's the Malibu 24-MXZ, the world's finest wakesetter. Number one in luxury, quality, and performance. 200k, easy." JJ whistles. We were all on the HMS boat. "We picked the wrong parents." Pope says. "I hate to break it to you guys, but that's Sarah and Topper." I say putting my glasses above my head.

We slowly ride past them making awkward eye contact. Sarah takes her glasses off and gives us a mean mug. "You don't have to act like you don't see us, bitch." Ki says. They drive by ignoring us but I know they heard Ki.

~

I was dragged out of my bed by John B forcing me to get in the van with everyone else. I got up and just decided to throw on a white cropped tank and some Lululemon's. Soon we were on our adventure.

"All right, keep a look out. We're behind enemy lines." JJ says as we pull up to a hotel at figure eight. He takes out the gun and loads it.

"Yo come on man, just put it back." John B says. I step out of the van and stand next to Pope. "Hey, I predict that bringing a weapon to a four-star hotel will likely cause more problems than they solve." Pope says. "I second that." I say leaning on JJ's side of the door. "I swear to god, I'm gonna throw that thing in the in the ocean, JJ. Put it back." Ki states. John B snatches the gun from JJ and puts it back in the glove department. "You can't grab a gun like that." JJ sighs. "Can't forget my badge, professional busboy." He says.

I open the door for him and he gets out of the car. He shuts the door behind him and I walk in front of him. As I'm walking I feel JJ playfully slap my ass. "JJ!" I whisper yell holding my butt. "My hand slipped." He laughs.

We follow JJ into the kitchen of the hotel. He greets people as we walk by and takes little samples of food.

We walk into a room that filled with computers. "Sweet lord, the internet!" Pope says running over to a computer. I hover over him and watch him do his magic. JJ does the same.

John B gives Pope the map and he ask for the coordinates. "34 57 30 north. 75 55 42 west." John B says. Pope types in the numbers and a map of Outer Banks.

"Shit it's on the high side. It's only 900 feet." John B says. "That's not to deep." JJ adds resting his elbow on my shoulder. "Is that doable or something." I ask. "Yeah it's totally doable." He answers. "Ok will we be taking your personal submarine?" Pope ask sarcastically. "How do you know this, Mr. Dive Master?" John B ask.

"The Salvage yard, they got a drone that can drop 1,000. It has a 360 camera and everything. It's for like deep dives and stuff. It's exactly what we need. "Can your dad get his grimy little hands on that?" JB ask. "Well my dads grimy little hands got his add fired." He sighs. Figures.

"How much did you say was on the Royal Merchant again?" Ki ask. "400 million." John B says. Pope quickly gets up and blocks the door. "Absolutely not." He says. Ki pushes him away from the door and he complains from behind us.

"Pope we're not stealing the drone. We're borrowing it." John B says. "Technically, we're borrowing it without permission which is stealing but, in our case it's borrowing." I say reassuring him. "Just, shut up." John B says pushing me back with his hand to my face.

"Hey, don't be rude to my wife." JJ warns.

"You know what you're problem is?" JJ ask. "You?" Pope ask. I ignore the two bickering and get out the van with Kiara.

To get the drone we have to break into this junk yard, so John B ask Ki and I to distract security.

"Hey, don't worry you got this." John B says to Ki. "It's not me that i'm worried about." She says walking away. "What about me, do I got this?" I ask John B. He squints his face. "Nope. Love you though." He says giving me kissy lips. I give him my middle finger and catch up to Ki.

"Do you think they've got this?" Ki ask. "Not at all." I sigh.

Ki and I walk up to the security guard with bright smiles. "Hello!" She calls. The guard walks out of the booth and to the gate. "Can I help you guys?" He ask. "Hi, um we actually have a flat tire and we were wondering if you could help us out." I say Innocently. "Yeah." He says. Ki and I do our handshake and wait for him to open the gate. "It's to easy." She smirks.

He opens the gate and he follows us to Ki's car. "It's just this back one right here." She says. "It must've been a slow leak or something." I add on. The guard looks at Ki and I with a smile. "Probably just been sitting in the yard too long ." He says. "Yeah." Ki and I softly agree.

"I got this." He says bending down to the tire. "Thank you." Ki smiles.

I look around and don't see the guys, so that means they got in.

All of a sudden we hear a dog start barking. I immediately start tensing up and try to act normal. "Do our hear that?" The guard ask. "H-hear what." I ask fiddling with my fingers. He stands up. "Tebow's got something." He says.

"It's probably just a raccoon, maybe. You know. Nothing to worry about." Ki says. He gives Ki a smile before working back on the wheel.

Ki gives me a look and goes to the other side of the tire. The guard looks at me with a questionable looks and follows behind Ki. "Wait, you didn't finish this one." I say trying to get him to stop. He just ignores me. "What are you doing!" He yells at Ki. "This one looks a little low too." She lies. Seconds later the guard starts taking off towards the noise.

"No! No." I say. "Shit." Ki whispers and we both hop into her car and take off.

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