Hollywood || JJ Maybank ✓

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty

As the sun was setting, JJ, John B, and Pope were hurling the lifeboat onto shore from some Island we had found.

The ocean shore gathered Cleo, Sarah, Kie, and me. Sarah and I were sitting next to each other; Kie was on another side of Sarah while Cleo sat a few metres away.

"Good job, guys," Sarah called out.

"Good job." Kie smiled.

I had no energy to say anything. I curled my legs up and placed my chin on them. I felt so drained.

"JJ, you alright there, buddy?" Pope questioned.

"Yeah, a little dizzy," JJ standing next to me. John B and Pope sit down. "Okay, anyone know where we're at?"

"Deserted beach." Pope pointed out smartly. "Unknown island."

"All right, I'll take that as a no." JJ respond. "Plan A, huh, Pope? That went well."

"This is the lowest we can go," Pope spoke. "We literally have nothing else to lose. The cross is gone."

"The gold gone," Sarah added. Pope flops back onto the sand.

"Seriously, if we had a nickel for every time we got beat up, I'd say we have a dollar fifty." JJ jokes.

"That's more than I got on me." Kie helpless said. I silently agreed.

"That somehow doesn't make me feel any better." Sarah sighed.

"Yeah, you're right." John B agreed. "But, I mean, we've... We've had some good stuff happen, right?"

"Name something." Pope dared him.

"Um... Uh, the boiler room." John B looked over at Cleo. Cleo smirks. "What? If the boiler didn't explode, I wouldn't have gotten away from Rafe. I couldn't have gotten the Zodiac and gotten us out of here."

Cleo shakes her head. "That wasn't luck. That thing was gonna blow the second I stopped feeding it."

"Stealing my thunder, Cleo." John B playfully said. "Um..."

"Sorry." Cleo apologised dryly.

"Okay. Pope." John B looked at Pope. "You're related to Denmark Tanny. That's crazy."

"And I lost all his inheritance." Pope sadly said.

"You know what?" John B asked and stood up. "Guys, this is it. This is the Pogue life. We are in the Caribbean. It's our own little slive of paradise. With my best friends, with my family. I don't know. I wouldn't wanna do it with anyone else. Look, and while you guys were complaining about every little thing... JJ?"

"Hmm?" JJ looked over at him, stabbing the knife in the tree.

John B points to the waves. "I was looking at those burly lefts."

The boys smiled at each other. "There's some slaps out there."

"Just a few." John B agreed. "Kie, you see that? I know you wanna get out. You too, Stormy."

"No boards." Kie smiled, shaking her head.

"I don't know if I'm in the mood..." I whined softly. "I'm so tired I just wanna—"

"Stormy, don't say what I think you're about to say." John B teased me, bending down in front of me. "Come on, show JJ what a better surfer you are than him."

"I do like to humiliate JJ." I grinned up at JJ, who scowled at me playfully.

"And Kie, we can bodysurf until we make some boards." John B turned to Kie.

"Lame." Kie responded.

"Pope?" John B looked at Pope. "Come on, man."

"They do look pretty tasty." Pope agreed.

"Oh, yes, they do." John B grinned.

Pope stands up. "There's nobody around. We could squat here for a bit. Kind of belongs to us now, huh?"

"You got a point." John B claps hands with Pope.

"Seven-way split?" Pope grinned.

"Poguelandia," JJ speaks in a funny accent. "I claim thee Poguelandia," he speaks in a normal voice. "I like the ring of it. I'm gonna make a flag. It's gonna have a chicken on it. With a coconut bra, smoking a J... In crocs."

I couldn't help but giggle at the stupid idea. But I liked it. "I could use a J." Kie spoke up.

"Can we vote on this?" Sarah questioned, chuckling.

"Shall we get to work?" Pope asked us.

"Let's get to work." John B agreed, fist pumping Pope. "Let's start working on provisions. Set up shop."

"You know what? I think if Marty, from Madarscar can set up a perfectly capable tent on an island like this, we can, too." I figured and they all laughed at me.

"Let's do it." JJ agreed and hauls me up from the ground, I let out a squeal. He wrapped me in his arms. JJ grinned at me. "Storm?"

"Yeah?" I whispered, arching my neck to see him. JJ brought a ring from his back pocket, and my mouth opened wide. "Where the fuck did you get that from?" I looked at the glamorous ring, staring at it in awe. It was a diamond ring.

"My cousin gave it to me. It was our grandmothers, handed down and stuff like that. Said I should give it to you at the right time and I think now, is the right time." JJ softly said, smiling at me. "Bout time we got a ring anyways."

I grabbed his face and kissed him passionately, the others cheering and wooping us on. As JJ pulls away, he puts the ring carefully on my finger.

"Sarah?" John B bends down slightly to Sarah. "Till death do us apart?"

Sarah smiled. "Till death do us apart."

"Welcome back to the Pogue life." John B congratulated her.

"Full Pogue." Sarah claims as John B lifts her up.

"Full Pogue." John B agreed.

I couldn't help but stare at the beautiful ring on my finger. "I'm surprised you haven't lost this." I tell JJ.

"I have zip pockets." JJ grinned. "Although, I thought I did at one point. But we don't talk about that."

Pope helps up Cleo. "Welcome to the Pogues." Pope greeted Cleo.

"Thanks." Cleo smiled.

"Going full Pogue." Sarah helped up Kie.

"What is a Pogue, anyway?" Cleo questioned, and I almost forgot that outsiders from the Outer Banks don't know the rivalry.

"Going full Pogue," JJ repeated, and I looked at JJ again; he was looking down at me. "Going full Pogue." I glanced at the carving in a tree that JJ had carved in. P4L. John B had dragged JJ away, walking along the beach, and I quickly caught up to them. I ran over to JJ and jumped on his back; he stumbled forward but catching my legs. 

I'm glad to call this my family. And I can't wait for more adventures to come with them living on this island. 

A/N 

Can't wait for season 3!