•sunset• - jiara story <3

•Part 6•

The boat heads towards the pier as we all watch in anticipation. We drive slowly up parallel to it and John b leave over and ties a rope over the end of it.

"Ok let's go." He says stepping out and helping Sarah up.

Jj and Pope follow. Me and Cleo pass over the stuff to empty the boat and climb out afterwards. We walk towards the end of the pier and see John b's house not too far away.

They all chuck the stuff down near John bs fence and all sit down nearby.

"So what do we do now?" John b asks us.

"Well I should probably try to go back to my house and talk to my parents." I say guiltily.

"Yea I should probably find my dad." Pope says, "he should be at home but he might be at the pier so I can probably pick up some food for all of us."

"Same my parents will have food I can take. Although I don't think they will let me out today to be honest." I sigh knowing my parents have every right to do that.

"Ok that's fine, my dad is gone now though and so is your family Sarah. So me Sarah, John b and Cleo can stay here? If you are all good with that." Jj suggests.

"Yea sure we might be able to get into my house though." Sarah says, I can tell she hopes her family didn't really leave and are coming back.

"Ok sure we can try get in." Cleo says.

"I do wonder though how your dad knew we were in his house in the bahamas do you think he has the same security here?" John b asks.

"He won't, the bahama house had the gold in it and I don't think he would be very welcome back after faking his death so he probably wouldn't risk it." Sarah admits.

"Ok then me and kie will go back to our parents and you 4 can try and get into the Cameron house." Pope says getting up and reaches out his hand for me.

I get up and so do the others.

"See you guys later maybe." I say and smile at them all as me and Pope walk off into the direction of the town while the others go the opposite way.

Me and Pope make our way towards my house first as it's closer.

"So um what's going on between you and jj?" He asks nervously.

"Wha- nothing." I say shocked, has jj been talking to them I think? "Why?"

"Oh I don't know you two just seem closer than usual." He says walking me up to the gate on my house.

"Oh well nothings happened and it won't I don't see jj like that." I lie and walk through the gate waving goodbye to him.

As soon as I make my to the door I am about to knock but see a little poster attached to a pillar next to it- a missing poster with my face on.

I bite my lip and knock nervously as I hear people inside coming to the door. I eight deeply and hold my breath as they unlock the door.

My dad opens it smiling and his face drops into shock as he sees me. "Kiara?" He whispers and I nod as he pulls me in for the biggest hug ever.

I catch a whiff of the inside of my house and smile. I missed it here so much. My mum appears behind him and lets out a little scream as she runs up and joins the hug.

"I can't believe it." She gasps into my head. She pulls out of the hug as does my dad and takes my hand as they close they door.

"Now we must talk to you." She says sternly. They sit me down on the sofa and I already know the scolding to come, well earned but still.

"You hug us so worried. Now you wouldn't have know but we had the whole town looking for you four, eventually we gave up looking, I knew you were still out there but I thought that I had done something wrong and you just weren't coming back. So after a few months the whole town held a memorial service for you and the other pogues." My mum cries and leans into my dads shoulder sobbing.

"We are so happy you are back and we don't want to tell you off as we promised ourselves if you ever came back but you do need some kind of punishment." My dad says clearly upset too.

"Yea um that's fine." I say sadly and begin to head up, "I'm grounded right?" I ask for confirmation and he nods as I head upstairs.

I get into my room and collapse on my bed only now realising how tired I am. I must have a proper shower though I think grabbing a towel from my wardrobe and heading into my little bathroom attached.

I wash my hair thoroughly and just reflect back on the months I spent away. Eventually I finish and change into some clean comfy clothes, close my blinds and fall asleep with my clean body against clean bedsheets for the first time in what felt like years.