Pope moved the drone around only to see that it was just the stern of the boat. "It's not there. Just pull the drone up." John B said. He walked away and I walked into the room with JJ again. "We've been through it three times. There's nothing there." JJ yelled. "Shut up!" Kie yelled back. "What? It's true." JJ said. "The gold could be buried. We don't know." Kie replied. "If it was there it would've been found on the metal detector." I said. "Somebody beat us to it." John B said. "Or it was never there." I replied. None of us said anything on the way back. When we got to shore, me, John B, and JJ got on the HMS and went to our house. Me and JJ laid in the hammock and John B went inside. "I'm sorry." JJ told me and kissed my head. "It's fine. I'm honestly not sure if I believed it in the first place anyway." I replied. We laid there in the hammock until the door opened again. I looked up to see John B, Cheryl and a cop behind him. John B looked at me and then to the tree that the hammock was hanging on before Cheryl could see. "JJ, get up quietly and get behind the tree." I said. He looked up, seeing John B and we got off the hammock, hiding behind the tree. I don't think that they saw us. "John B, where's your twin?" Cheryl asked. "I don't know." John B replied. "Yes you do. Where is she?" Cheryl asked again. "(Y/N), I know you're around here somewhere. Come out." Cheryl called. I looked up at JJ and he nodded. I grabbed his hand and came out from behind the tree with him. I winked at John B and he knew what to do. "Come on. We're taking you into foster care." Cheryl said. "Not today." I replied and let go of JJ's hand before I started running, JJ following. When we ran to the front of the house, John B was there and we all kept running. We heard Cheryl and the cop yelling at us, but we all just laughed. We jumped a fence, running through a graveyard and then jumping another fence. John B stole a bike as me and JJ kept running. There was a ramp in front of us, and John B said, "I'll see you guys later!", before jumping it over the fence. I laughed and then me and JJ started running again. We ran to his house since his dad wasn't there. JJ said he would be gone all day. We sat down on his couch, laughing. "See, their never gonna get you." JJ said. I laughed. "Never." I replied. I turned to face him and he kissed me. I kissed him back and my hand moved to his hair. He laid down on the couch and I got on top of him. I felt him unbutton my shirt and then he took it off before taking off his own. He switched us so now I was laying on the couch and he was on top of me, and started kissing down my neck. I moaned as he gripped my thigh. JJ pulled away and looked at me. "Are you sure this is okay?" He asked. I smiled. "Bring it on." I said before he kissed me again. I guess you know what happened next. Later, we were still laying on the couch, him spooning me. We also had a blanket over us since neither of us had clothes on. I was almost asleep, loving the feeling of JJ holding onto me. I quickly opened my eyes when there was a knock on the door. "JJ!" Pope yelled. I groaned and we both sat up, pulling back on our clothes. "JJ!" Pope yelled again. "Give us a second dude!" JJ yelled. "Us?" Pope yelled and came in. Thankfully, we both had our clothes on, but neither of us had shirts. "Oh my god!" Pope yelled and covered his eyes. I laughed. "We said give us a second." I said and pulled on my shirt. "Okay." JJ said when he pulled on his shirt. "I'm just gonna pretend I didn't see that." Pope said and uncovers his eyes. "Okay?" I replied. "Anyway, they know." Pope said. "What?" I asked. "They know." Pope replied. "All right, chill, bro. All right? They don't shit." JJ said and stood up. "Topper knows I sunk his boat." Pope told us as we all walked outside, going to the back. "How do you know they know?" I asked. "Because Rafe and Topper posted outside of Heywards and mad dogged me." Pope told us as me and JJ sat down. "Will you calm down and get a grip man? They don't know shit." JJ replied. "They have cameras. They could've seen me." Pope said. "There was no power Pope. How could they have seen you?" I asked. "It's Figure Eight. They got generators. They don't give scholarships to kids who vengefully sink boats." Pope said. "It's not gonna look good on my transcript." Pope added. "Enough with the regret bro! They caved your face in. They hit us, we hit them. It's the law of the jungle." JJ said, standing up. "Now, if any Kooks come up to you and ask if you had anything to do with it, you walk up to em look em right in the eye, and..." JJ told Pope, gripping onto his shoulder. "Deny the living shit out of it." Pope replied. "That's right. Deny. Deny. Deny. But just for safety, we don't go anywhere without protection." JJ said and pointed to the gun that was on the stump. Pope nodded. "Hey, where's John B?" Pope asked me. "I don't know. We had to run away from Cheryl earlier. He'll be fine." I replied. Pope nodded. We talked for a while, and Kiara eventually came. "Come on. We're going to the outdoor movie." Kie told us. None of us questioned it, and we all stood up. I saw JJ grab the gun and put it in his backpack, but I didn't say anything. When we got to the lawn where the movie was gonna be played, Kie said, "I'm so glad that they're still doing this. Keep calm. Carry on." "Back to OBX life." I added. "Aren't you guys glad that I made you come?" Kie asked us. "Ecstatic." Pope replied. "My couch was pretty comfy, I'll be honest." JJ said and winked at me. Pope looked back at us and stuck his finger in his mouth, making a gagging noise. I smacked the back of his head, making him stop. "We're out of the green zone, man." Pope told JJ as we sat down chairs. "Dude, tranquilo, okay?" JJ replied. "We're in the middle of Kooklandia. This is the last place I wanted to be." Pope said as JJ sat down and pulled me into his lap. "Shut up, Pope." I told him as Kie left to go get drinks for us. Kie came back with Pepsi's for all of us and handed them to us. "Just saw Rafe, and he said, and I quote, 'Tell your boy that we know what he did'." Kiara told us. "What is that?" She asked. "Where is he?" I asked. "Right there." Kiara replied, looking behind us. We all turned around, looking and Topper, Rafe, and their other friend, Kelce. "Great the whole death squad." Pope said. I turned his head back so he wasn't staring. "Don't stare." I told him. "Just warning you bro, if they corner me, I'm coming out swinging, okay? Slice and dicin'. I'm on edge right now." JJ said. "Yeah, yeah." Pope replied. "If that doesn't work, I got this right here." JJ said and held up his bag. "Yeah, yeah. So we just gotta stay in the group. They can't get us in the group." Pope replied. "Like a school of fish." JJ said. "I'm sorry, JJ, please tell me that you did not bring the gun here. JJ there are kids." Kie told him. "No. Kie, I didn't bring the gun. Everything's fine, okay?" JJ said. "Oh wow, thank you. That's really convincing. I love that JJ." Kie replied. "Founding principles you guys. No secret amongst Pogues. What is Rafe talking about?" Kie said. "Kie, it might go down tonight." Pope told her. "What does that mean? "Might go down tonight"? What did y'all do?" Kie asked. "Deny, Denny, deny." JJ whispered to Pope. We sat, watching the movie until it was dark. "JJ." Pope whispered. "What?" JJ replied. "I gotta take a piss." Pope said. "Hold it." I told him. "I can't hold it. I drank too much soda." Pope replied. "It's too exposed. They'll totally see us." JJ said. "I gotta go." Pope replied. We looked back to see them sitting in front of the bathrooms. "They're blocking the bathrooms." Pope said. "Alright. Come here. I know where." JJ said and patted my thigh, signaling for me to stand up. I did, and then sat back down as JJ and Pope left. "Hey, where are y'all going?" Kie asked them. "We gotta wring it out." JJ replied. "What are you gonna hold it for each other?" Kie asked, making me laugh slightly as they walked away. "What's up with them? They've been acting strange lately." Kiara asked me. "Have you met them?" I replied. "True." She said. After a while, I was starting to get worried. I realized that I didn't see JJ grab the gun. "Kie, we gotta go help them. I'll explain later." I said and stood up. Kiara grabbed JJ's bag as we started running behind the screen, seeing Pope being strangled by Topper, and JJ being held by Kelce and punched by Rafe. Me and Kie ran up to them, Kie throwing the bag at Topper, and me shoving Rafe off of JJ. While JJ was still being held by Kelce, Rafe came over and picked me up over his shoulder, throwing me on the ground. "Stay out of this Pogue." He told me. "(Y/N)!" I heard JJ yell. I groaned and sat back up, seeing Rafe already back to punching JJ. I stood back up and walked over, punching Rafe so he fell to the floor. He stood back up, but before he could come back at me, he saw the fire that Kie has set on the tarp. "Kelce let go of him!" I yelled. Kelce did surprisingly, and JJ coughed and held his throat. I ran up to him, hugging him after Topper, Kelce, and Rafe left. He lifted me off the ground slightly as he hugged me back. "Are you okay?" He asked me. "Am I okay? Are you?" I asked back. "Oh my god I love you." He said. I pulled my head out of his neck and looked at him. "I love you too." I replied and kissed him. "Come on! We gotta go!" Kiara told us, making us pull away. Her and Pope left to their houses, and me and JJ went to my house. We laid down on the pullout since John B still wasn't here. I still wasn't worried. Both of us have been gone for days before without telling anyone and we always show back up. Both of our backs were against the bed. I stood up, walking out of the room. "I'm gonna go shower." I told him as I walked. I turned around before I got past the corner. "Are you coming?" I asked. He smiled and stood up, waking over to me. As he put his hands under my thighs and picks me up he said, "Oh my god I love you.", and then kissed me as he carried us to the bathroom.

•Time skip•

Me and JJ faced each other as we laid on the pullout, arms wrapped around each other with my head buried in his chest. "Goodnight Princess." JJ said. "Night." I replied. "I love you." He said quieter. "I love you too." I said with a smile and soon fell asleep. The next day, we both got up and got ready for the day, me in a white crop top with a blue OBX sign on it and jean shorts. We went to Heywards where Pope and Kie already were. After a while, Heyward came in. "Pope, there's someone here to see you." He told him. The deputy then came in. "Evening officer." Pope said nervously. "I have an arrest warrant for felony destruction of property." The deputy told us. Pope looked back at me and JJ, stress clearly written all over his face. "What?" Heyward asked. "Hands on the counter where I can see them." Shoupe said. "Young lady, out of my way." He told Kie who was standing in front of Pope. "Whoa. Shoupe. What'd he do?" Heyward asked. "Take a look at the warrant." Shoupe replied. Everyone started yelling then as Pope was escorted out in handcuffs. We watched as Shoupe opened the door to the cop car and was about to put Pope in. "It wasn't him!" JJ yelled. "It was me." He said. "JJ, what are you doing?" I whispered. He looked down at me but then walked closer to the cop car. "He tried to talk me out of it, but I was mad because he'd just been beaten up. I was so sick of those assholes from Figure Eight that I lost my shit." JJ said and kept walking closer. I walked up to Kie. "I can't let you take the blame for something I did. You've got too much to lose." JJ told Pope. "JJ what are you doing?" Pope asked. "I'm tellin the truth. For once in my goddamn life, I'm gonna tell the truth. I took his old mans boat, too." JJ said. "What the hell?" Heyward asked. "JJ, come on." Pope said. "Just shut up Pope!" JJ yelled. "Just shut up. He's a good kid. You know where I'm from." JJ said. "Yeah." Shoupe replied. "This was all me." JJ said. "That's the whole truth?" Shoupe asked Pope. "Whole truth, swear to god." JJ replied. "I know what you think, damn it, I'm asking Pope." Shoupe said. "Yeah, that about covers it." Pope replied. Shoupe took the handcuffs off Pope. Before he could put them on JJ, I ran up and hugged him. "I'll be fine." He whispered in my ear as he hugged me back. "Time to go." Shoupe said, making JJ pulled away from me. He put the handcuffs on JJ and put him in the car, driving away. "Shit!" Pope said and threw down his hat. "Pope." Heyward said. I turned around when the car was out of sight and shoved Pope. "This is your fault." I told him on the brink of tears. "(Y/N)." Pope said. "No. You know what his dads gonna do to him. This is your fault." I told him and shoved him again before walking away. I whipped away a tear that fell as I kept walking. Eventually, I broke at some empty docks. I sat down on them, crying. I knew JJ's dad was going to beat the shit out of him when he got home. I hated that JJ had to live with him. It breaks my heart every time JJ comes back to our house with a black eye and a beat up face. Someone sat down next to me, and I looked to see Pope. We sat in silence for a while, and I eventually said, "I'm sorry. It's not your fault." "It kind of is. I don't blame you." Pope replied. "He's gonna get beat Pope. What if his dad goes to far. He's gonna-." I cut myself off by letting out a sob. I covered my mouth as Pope pulled me into his side. After a while I stopped crying. "Go home, (Y/N). Get some rest. JJ will be fine." Pope told me as I pulled away. I nodded. "Thanks." I said and we both stood up. "When JJ and John B are gone, someone's gotta take care of you." Pope told me, making me laugh sadly. Pope walked me back to Heywards and then I walked to my house. I fell on my bed and it took me hours without JJ, but I eventually fell asleep.