Happier than ever

A little Party trick

As the storm started, it kept getting worse. The water was pouring down and thunder was cracking. But, of course that wouldn't stop the pogues from surfing a few waves. It was just John B, Pope, and Evelyn. Of course they wouldn't tell Kie because we'll, she'd freak out.

They ran toward the waves in excitement, but Pope stayed pretty far back

"That's a double overhead out there" Pope shouted over the thunder

As the the thunder cracked more and the waves began to tower up more, Pope yelled again, "those aren't surfable waves guys!"
"Says who?" John B shouted

Evelyn and John B raced towards the waves and started paddling into the ocean. Evelyn, being the confident surfer she was, surfed the waves like a boss. Much better than John B was doing. Overall though, they were having so much fun surfing the surge in pouring rain. I mean, what did they really have to lose?

As they were laughing, suddenly they saw a white boat, chopping through the waves. They were surprised to see a boat out in a storm surge, just before a hurricane. They stared at it for a bit longer but as it disappeared into the distance and the storm got worse, they headed back to the chateau

When they got to the chateau, Evelyn went to her normal bed, the pullout couch next to JJ. This was just something they did. It wasn't awkward or anything, they were really just best friends. Although they would flirt most of the time they were together, really they were just best friends.

"Yo JJ you been outside" John B asked as he slapped his back "I have Polio bro, I can't walk" JJ responded tiredly, and as Evelyn woke up, she sleepily giggled at JJ's response

As John B was rambling on to himself, Evelyn and JJ walked outside and stood on the porch, bumping into each other's shoulders, looking at the chateau's destroyed yard.

"Agatha did some work huh?" JJ asked
"Yeah she did" responded John B as he was tearing branches off of the pogue
" I mean girl power right? But girlie Agatha took it way too far." Evelyn joked
"Whatcha thinkin?" JJ asked John B
"I'm thinking that the storm surge pushed all the crab out on the marsh maze. All those drum are gonna chase the crab"

"What about the DCS? Wasn't that today?" Evelyn asked, clearly still sleepy
"Nah they're not gettin on a ferry"
"Come on, think about it. It's God telling us to fish"

"Mornin!" Yelled John B
"Sure hope Guffy's boat didn't sink. He doesn't have insurance" JJ said

"Hi miss Amy! You guys get through it?"
"Still here!" The lady replied

"She totally looked at me" JJ said cockily
"You wish" Evelyn shot back
"I saw it though" John B said, backing JJ up
Evelyn rolled her light green eyes at John B's response
"Stop being jealous Ev you can look at me too" JJ said cockily
Evelyn rolled her eyes the second time, and laughed at JJ for being so cocky towards her.

"Agatha, what did you do?" JJ asked to nobody in particular
"She is a crazy lady" responded John B

"We'll look who we have here" JJ said in his dorkiest voice as they came up to Pope
"We have a safety meeting, attendance mandatory." John B called, with his hand over his mouth to make him sound like he's on a walkie talkie
"I can't, my pop's got me on lockdown" Pope replied, sounding annoyed.
"Come on man" JJ whined
As JJ mimicked a walkie talkie himself, he felt brave enough to say "your dad's a pussy. Over"

Evelyn shoved the boy playfully for calling Pope's dad a pussy. Although it was kind of funny because she knew Mr. Heyward would hear.

"Oh I heard that, you little bastard" Mr. Hayward replied to JJ.
"Hi Mr. Heyward!" Evelyn called. Pope's dad loved Evelyn. More than the rest of Pope's friends
Mr Heyward's voice turned softer as he turned to Evelyn "hi Evelyn how are you doing sweetie" he responded.
"Just fine how are you?" Evelyn replied. She missed having a fatherly figure in her life, since her mother literally kicked her out, and her dad was too busy with work to care

"We need your son" called John B
"Yeah, island rules. Day after hurricane's a free day" JJ added on
"Who the hell made that up?" Replied Mr. Heyward
"Uh, pentagon I think? We have security clearance. I have a card"
"You think I'm stupid?" Mr heyward asked JJ

"I'll do it tomorrow. I promise. Tomorrow" Pope added
"You think— no, no. Hell no. You doin it right now.

"Get in the boat" John be whispered
"Make a run for it" JJ added
"Just come on Pope, run" Evelyn added whispering
"Boy, if you get in that boat"

"Go go go!" Pope shouted
"Bring your ass back up here"
I promise I'll do it tomorrow dad"

"Sorry Mr. Heyward! Cya later!" Evelyn shouted with excitement in her voice
"When you get back you're gonna clean shrimp, you're gonna clean fish, you'll clean your dirty ass room!
"We'll bring him back in one piece I promise! Yelled back John B
"And I don't like your friends!" Heyward shouted causing them to all laugh

They drifted along the shoreline laughing as they went to pick up Kie, JJ and Evelyn still side by side flirting with each other.
To be honest, no matter how much Evelyn loved Kie, Evelyn was a pogue before Kie and sometimes Evelyn felt jealous of how much the boys loved her. Evelyn got really protective of JJ especially. She really liked him in 8th grade but let her feelings die out because of course, they were just best friends. And, she loved Kie. So she couldn't be jealous.

"Oh, top o' the mornin to ya" JJ said, as Kie walked over to the boat carrying a cooler.
"Morning Kie!" Evelyn said, cheerfully that her best friend was finally there to talk to. "Morning Evelyn! Morning boys!" Kie replied, just as cheerful

"Whatcha got? You got some juice boxes" JJ asked knowing exactly what Kie had brought.

"You know, just some yogurts and carrot sticks." Kie said in a soft voice
"How about my kind of juice boxes?" JJ asked
"Yeah" Kie replied
"Salud" Kie and Evelyn said, as they clinked their bottles with JJ's and John B's

"I'm gonna show y'all a little party trick" JJ said
"Oh God please no" Evelyn said laughing a little.
"Hey pope, can you got a little faster please?"
"Here we go. I'm movin" John B said as Pope added in "doesn't work" "we've tried this like 6000 times" John B added, annoyed

JJ stood on the front of the boat a Pope sped up, with Evelyn and Kie sitting behind him. JJ tipped the bottle and put it to his mouth, but just like every other time, it went everywhere except his mouth. "Oh my god you're getting beer in my hair" Evelyn said, as Kie agreed. "All right. All right! Stop! You're done" Pope and John B started yelling

All the sudden, The boat hit something, and they all went flying forward. JJ flew off the boat, and Evelyn hit her head, on the side of the boat. Hard. She winced in pain, along with everyone else. Evelyn gripped her forehead in pain and looked out, and saw JJ floating, gasping. For air.

"JJ? Are you okay? Oh my god Pope" Evelyn slightly shouted, worried about her friend.
"I think my heels touched the back of my head" JJ groaned out. Evelyn giggled as she took her hand away from her head.

"Oh my god princess is your head okay" JJ asked concerned about the blonde girl
"Yeah I'm fine, just hit the shit out of my head thanks to pope's amazing driving skills." Evelyn replied sarcastically.

"Sandbar. The channel changed" Pope said
"No shit" JJ asked pissed off
"Hey I saved the beer though" JJ said proudly, as Evelyn realized she was staring at the boy in the water, and turned away.
"Congrats, JJ" said John B sarcastically as Evelyn started talking to Kie

"Guys... I think there's a boat down there. Pope said questionably
"Shut up Pope no fucking way" Evelyn said rolling her eyes. As she looked down and saw bits and pieces of a boat at the bottom of the water, right under where JJ was in the water.

Hey guys! That's where I'm gonna end today I hope you enjoyed. This chapter was a little longer than I expected so I had to cut it off somewhere. Can't wait to write the next chapter! Thanks for reading

xx~ Ella<3