SINCERELY, YOUR DARLA. || ~ jj maybank.

🌹 | falling apart. (14)

"Look, he'll come around, all right? He's just doing a jj thing." John b assures us.

We're all sat in the Wreck, it's empty because the restaurant is closed.

"Darla has he text you yet?" Kie asks me.

I sit, worried.. looking at my phone. "No. You think he'll go home?" I say.

"There's about a zero percent chance that JJ goes home." Pope says, looking out the window.

I bite my lip, Popes right. From the age of 3 all the way up to now, jj has probably only genuinely went home like 15 times.

Pope sighs. "Okay, it's too dangerous to pawn this thing off piecemeal. So our best bet is to just go down there and get the rest of it."

I look up at Pope as he talks.

"Bring it all up at once. Put it in— a safe or a vault or something. I don't know, just until we can find someone who won't rip us off."

I shake my head. "We need money to get a vault."

"I'll ask my dad for a loan, or something. I don't know, I can figure it out tonight, get it done. And we can be out there tomorrow morning." Pope nods.

"All right, let's do it." John b shrugs.

Kiara nods.

"Okay, let's go."

"What about the thing with my dad?" Sarah says to John b.

We all look over, confused.

"Shit." John b sighs.

"What thing?" Pope asks, stressed.

"I.. have to go fishing with Ward." John b sighs.

"We can't get 400 mil because you're gonna go kill fish?" Kie scoffs.

"Look, I have to go." John b shakes his head.

"Blow it off, dude? It's 400 million in gold!" I say.

"Make something up!" Kie suggests.

"Look, guys, I—I have to.. okay?" John b says. "he— he saved me."

I roll my eyes.

"So, I have to go. Plus, it'll be better to do it at night." John b nods. "Right?"

I shrug. He's right but I hate that he's right.

"Fine, fine. Go fishing." Pope groans.

"And at least, jj will probably have washed up by then." Kie nods, looking at me.

I sigh. "Yeah, hopefully."

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Me and Kie decided to go on a walk on the beach while Pope went back to heywards to talk to his dad, And John b and Sarah went back to Tannyhill.

"What did jj say, when you were in the house? And when you went over to him before we left.." Kie asks me.

I look at her. "Oh, he just.."

I don't know whether or not to tell her about our backstory with knowing Barry. Sure, She was around when we were 11.. but not around enough to know about it.

"He was just pissed, you know.. Barry used to sell coke to his dad." I nod.

"Oh, right.. yeah." Kie nods.

I tuck my hair behind my ear. "But it was mostly 'cause they shanked us."

"I feel bad for him, it's hard knowing someone out there's ruining your dad day by day." Kie sighs.