𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 || 𝗷𝗷 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸

- fire -

"Good, uhm... Tell your boy we know what he did." Topper says with a wink in Emilia's direction.

"Sorry, what boy are you talking about?" Kie asks, laughing slightly.

"He'll know." He grins, turning and walking off.

"Bye?" Kie says, furrowing her eyebrows.

"The fuck was that all about..?" Melia mumbles, walking off with Kie.

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Kiara and Emilia walk back to the boys, Melia slumps down next to JJ, biting her lip. He looks at her with a confused face. She passes him his pepsi with a weird look on her face.

"Just saw Topper!" Kie says, Melia mentally face palms, Pope was gonna FLIP.

"And he said, and I quote, 'Tell your boy that we know what he did.'" She finishes, stopping the air quotation marks and putting her hands down.

"What is that?" She asks harshly, looking down at the three who were exchanging, weird looks.

"Umm... Where is he?" JJ asks, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Right over there, with Rafe and Kelce." Kie points.

Pope whips his head around, eyes wide. "Great! The whole death squad! Ugh!" He yells, kicking the ground.

"Stop staring! Bro!" Melia hisses, slapping Pope's arm and turning him around.

"Just warning you, man, if they corner me? I'm coming out swinging, alright?" JJ says, biting his lip.

"Slice and dicing, I'm on edge right now."

"Yeah, yeah." Melia agrees, something really wasn't sitting right with her.

This was supposed to be perfect, not spent worrying that they were gonna get beat?!

"If that doesn't work, I got this right here." JJ says, lifting up his bag with a small smirk.

"Yeah, so, we just gotta stay in the group." Pope nods, calming himself down.

"They can't get us in the group." Melia agrees. "Like a school of fish! Stay in the school, can't leave the school."

"I'm sorry, JJ. Please tell me that you did not bring a gun here?" Kie says, her expression blank.

JJ laughs nervously, rubbing the back of his neck with a shrug.

"JJ, there are kids!" She snaps, shaking her head in disbelief.

"No! Kie, I didn't bring the gun. Everything's fine! Okay?" He convinces her, smiling.

"Good, cause you know Mills was looking forward to this." Kie says, wrapping her arm around her best friend.

Melia smiles warmly, trying to forget about everything with Rafe and Topper. She lays her head on Kie's shoulder as she looks towards the screen.

As much as Emilia would deny it, she's everybody in this groups favourite. She's young dumb and fun, and incredibly loveable. Who wouldn't love her? (Except Rafe and all the Kooks, of course.)

"Welcome to the summer movie series..." The man announces and Melia grins widely.

"Founding principle, you guys. No secrets amongst Pogues. What is Topper talking about?" Kie asks firmly.

Melia sighs, groaning in annoyance.

"Kie, it might go down tonight.." Pope says, looking at her apologetically.