𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 at the Routledge boys that night, JJ not long showing up too.

The boy had been at his house much, for many reasons that he didn't like to actually talk about, but everyone knew.

The sun shown through the window of the Château as the girl was awoken by John B who had slammed the bathroom door a bit too hard.

The girl groaned as she stirred, feeling a large hand covering her face and slapped it away, only to find JJ lying right on top of her.

Star huffed as she tried to push the boy off her, but he didn't budge and only replied in a groan.

It was too hot to have any human contact.

John B trailed past the pull out bed and laughed at the half asleep boy who was practically on top of Star.

Star and JJ were both major wrigglers when sleeping, so if there was ever a point two people had to share a bed?
Pope, Kie and John B always deiced that it would be the duo, knowing JJ definitely wouldn't mind.

Even though Star complained and tried to defend herself that she wasn't a wriggler, which was a big lie, they all just told the girl to shut up and deal with JJ.

But the blonde boy on the other hand knew all about his wriggling problem so the pair would always wake up every morning like they did today, tangled up.

"You been outside JJ?" John B asked the boy as he watched Star struggle to get the blonde off her.

"I got polio bro, i can't walk." JJ mumbled back and put his face in the crook of Star's neck.

"SJ, there's no service." John B stated and made is way outside, knowing the girl would be pissed.

"Ugh come on!" She huffed, before  trying to push the boy off her once more "JJ, please." She groaned, now getting frustrated "For fuck sake JJ, get off!" and just as she said that, she managed to shove the boy off her and onto the floor with a thud.

JJ groaned when he hit the floor, still half asleep.

The girl knelt down and patted the boys tanned bare shoulder "Come on Jay." She only got a groan in return.

Star walked out the Château, squinting at the bright sun so early in the morning. But when she saw the damage that the storm had done she gasped.

"Agatha did some work huh?" JJ said, coming up behind Star with a can of beer in his hand.

"Yeah, she did." John B stated as he climbed onto the boat covered in trees.

"What you thinkin'?" JJ asked the boy as he made his way over to the boat, leaning his hands against it.

"I'm thinking...that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on to the marsh maze." He said picking up some of the branches and throwing them away. "All those dum are gonna chase the crab."

"What about the DCS, wasn't that today?" Star asked, walking down the steps of the porch.

"Nah, no way they're getting on a ferry." John B replied "Think about it? It's god telling us to fish." He smiled, holding up a small branch and pointing up at the sky causing Star to laugh at the boy.

"Well let's go!" Star beamed running back inside to get changed.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 their way across the water on their boat to go pick up the rest of the gang. John B was driving and Star sat at the front of the boat with her back lent against JJ's legs.

"Hi Miss Amy!" John B shouted at the women as the trio waved "You guys get though it?"

"Still here." She replied and going back to work.

"She totally looked at me." JJ piped up smirking and turning to John B as Star rolled her eyes.

"I saw." John B replied, completely unfazed.

"You wish Maybank." Star laughed at the boy, making him stop smirking and look down at her.

"What, you jelly?" He fought back.

"Oh yeah, supper jelly." She snorted as she turned to John B who rolled his eyes and laughed at the boys comment.

"Now look who we have here." John B spoke, sounding as if he had the cold as the trio spotted Pope filling up a bucket with water as they pulled up to the deck.

"We have a safety meeting, attendance is mandatory." John B spoke into his hand, pretending it was a walkie talkie.

"I can't, my pop's got me on lock down." Pope groaned as his dad started walking over.

"Your dad's pussy, over." JJ said also using his hand like walkie talkie and earning a slap on the leg from the girl sitting down.

"Hey!" He said rubbing his leg where she had hit him.

"Oh i heard that, you little bastard." Heyward said  making his way over to Pope.

"Hey Pop's." Star smiled at the man and waved "We need your son."

"Hi Star." Heyward smiled back to the one of the very few friends of Pope he actually liked as he was very good friends with the girls father.

"Yeah, and island rules...the day after a hurricane is a free day." JJ shrugged.

"Who the hell made that up?" Asked Heyward, not believing a thing that came out the boys mouth.

"Uh, pentagon i think? We have security clearance, I have a card." JJ replied, going to pull it out of his pocket.

Heyward looked at the blonde boy as if he was crazy "You think i'm stupid? I-"

"I'll do it tomorrow dad, i promise." Pope interrupted his dad.

"What? no, no. Hell no! You're gonna do it right now." Heyward argued.

"Get in the boat." John B shouted at Pope in a hushed tone.

"Come on Pope, make a run for it."

Pope quickly ran and hopped onto the boat, despite his father's shout.

"When you get back you're gonna clean shrimp, you gonna clean fish!" Heyward listed "You gonna clean your dirty ass room!"

"Bye Pop's!"

"Love you Pops!"

"We'll bring him back in one piece, i promise." John B shouted.

"And i don't like your friends! Only Star on occasions." He shouted to his son.

"Love you to Pop's!" She replied to the man she saw as a second dad while the boat drove away on their way to pick up the plant saving girl.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄 up beside the dock as Kiara made her way down, blue cooler in hand.

"Ohh, top o' the morin' to ya." John B sung in a very bad Irish accent.

"Morning boys, and girl." She said, winking at Star who smiled back.

"Whatcha got?" Pope asked, noticing the cooler in the girls hand "Some juice boxes?"

"Oh! You bring some of those chips i like?" Star piped up.

"You know it." She said walking over to the boat.

"What about my kind of juice boxes?" JJ asked the girl as he took her hand and helped her onto the moving boat.

"Yeah...." She simply replied.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 driving slowly through the middle of the marsh, everyone drinking beer and soaking up the sun.

Summer had always been Star's favourite season, it kind of had to be as it was always hot in Outer Banks

"Let me, my lady, show you a magic trick." JJ bowed to Star before making his way over to stand at the front of the boat.

"Pope can you go a little faster please?" He asked as everyone protested.

"Oh, god not this."

"Nope, i'm moving out the way."

"JJ it never works."

"We've tried this like six thousand times."

"Please don't."

"I got this, it's gonna work!"

As Pope agreed and went faster, JJ stood at the front of the boat, holding the beer bottle away from his face and trying to get it in his mouth, which he failed at.

Every time.

"Oh my god you're getting beer in my hair!" Kiara screeched as the drink splashed everyone.

"JJ, it's going everywhere!"

Just as Pope and John B argued for the boy to stop, the boat jolted and came to sudden stop, causing the blonde boy to go flying into the water and everyone else in the boat fall.

"Jesus Pope." Kie said sitting up.

"JJ?" Star shouted while standing up, noticing the disappearance of the boy, only for him to float back up on the surface only seconds later. "You good?"

"I think my heels touched the back of my head" He groaned, choking on water.

"Kie, Star you okay?" John B asked girls as he groaned from the pain of the fall.

"I'm good." Star replied.

"I'm fine, you okay?" Kiara asked the boy who nodded.

"Pope, why the fuck did you do that?" Star groaned as she rubbed her head.

"I didn't purposely do it, did i." Pope argued.

"I never said you purposely did it, did i?" Star fought back.

"You-"

"Hey!" Kiara shout, stopping the pair bickering "Both of you, shut up okay." She looked at the pair as if she wanted them to answer.

"What?" Star threw her arms up in protest.

"Okay?" Kiara said sternly.

"Okay!" The two friends replied in sync.

"Pope, what happend?" Kiara turned to the boy.

"She told us to shut up, then she wants us to speak?" Star mumbled to herself as she walked across the boat to go and help JJ.

"Sandbar. The channel changed." Pope replied and walked over to the front of the boat.

"No shit." JJ said, coming to the side of the boat, Star already holding her hand out to pull him up.

"Hey, I saved the beer though."

"Congrats, JJ."

The girl didn't look at the boy as she waited for his hand to grip her's, watching Pope. But as soon as she turned faced JJ, she saw the little smirk on the boys face and knew what was coming.

Just before she could snatch her hand away, JJ pulled her straight into the water without a second thought, causing the girl to scream and go in head first.

She screamed, quickly coming up to the surface and gasping for air as she wasn't ready to be submerged by water.

"JJ!"

JJ laughed at the girl's struggle and swam over to her.

"Come here princess." He continued to laugh and roll his eyes as he picked her up slightly so she could wrap her legs around his waist and put an arm around his neck while he held her to stop the girl from flapping about and drowning.

Star was about to slap it boy in the face for what he did, but before she could, Pope shouted.

"Hey, i think i see a boat down there!" Pope pointed down into the water.

"What?"

"Shut up."

"Fuck off!"

"No i'm serious." Pope stated frantically pointing at the water "There's a boat down there."

Everyone ran to the side of the boat and the duo who were still wrapped in each other's arms looked down at the water before the other three jumped in, and they all swam down to have a look.

They swam down to the bottom, each of them gasping at the sight of the boat sunken at the bottom of the marsh, it was everyday you saw that.

The group of five swam back up, gasping for air.

"You guys saw that right?" JJ asked.

"Yeah, i did."

"Yeah."

"Fuck yeah."

"Oh my god."

"That's a Grady white." JJ laughed as the group began swimming back "A new one of those is like 500 Gs, easy. That's a primo rig."

"Hey JB." Star squinted her eyes at the sun as she looked up at the brown haired boy "Isn't that the boat we saw when we surfed the surge?"

"Yeah, it is. Maybe it hit a jetty or something." He shrugged.

"Wait, you guys surfed the surge?" Kiara asked, acting like an overprotective mom.

"Yea, that's my girl!" JJ cheered, putting an arm around Star and then John B "Pogue style!"

"Do we know whose boat it is?" Star asked, not bothering to take the blonde boys arm off of her.

"Were about to find out." John B said as he opened the hatch where the anchor was kept.

"Dude..." Star asked the boy as if he was crazy.

"Nah man, that's too deep." JJ protsted to the boy.

"For the weak and feeble JJ." John B replied.

"Okay, well i'm not resuscitating you...just saying." JJ spoke honestly.

"Good, cause i won't need it." John B huffed, now standing on the edge of the boat and facing his back to the water.

"Diver down fool." Pope saluted.

"Diver down." John B saluted back, only to be shoved into the water with no warning by JJ.

"JJ!" Star scolded the boy as they waited for John B.

"You think he'll find anything?" Pope asked.

Kiara shrugged "Maybe."

"I doubt it." JJ stated.

"Mabey if he does we'll get rich." Star beamed.

Before another word was spoke, John B came back up gasping for the air.

"Omg my god, that took forever."

"Any dead bodies?"

"I found this motel key." John B stated, motel key in hand.

"A key?"

"Yes Pope, a key."

"Great, we salvaged a motel key." JJ laughed sarcastically.

"Guys we should report the wreck to the coast guard." Kiara stated as the group began to drive away "Maybe we'll get a finders fee."

"Yeah, and not work all summer." JJ agreed "Thanks Agatha, ya batch."

"Oh my god, more weed!" Star beamed with excitement.