"This is a total mess, we won't be able to go through this chaos." Elena said her eyes looking around and seeing the group of people talking, shouting, and arguing with the only coast guard behind the counter. She went back outside and joined Kiara and Pope who waited for John B and JJ to return from talking to the guard.

"Did you know John B surfed the surge?" Kie asked Pope who hadn't talked all the way back to land since John B mentioned it. "Pope?"

"I surfed the surge with him." Pope admitted and his face was filled with embarrassment, to admit that he put himself in danger or didn't stop his friend from doing it.

Both girls with widened eyes and clenched jaws looked at Pope, Kiara had her hands on the hips and Elena with crossed arms, both had certain anger with disbelief.

"Really Pope? You know the whole situation that's going on with John B and you're part of it?" Elena said with a worried tone, her gaze was set on him strongly as if she was trying to intimidate him, which was sort of working on her friend.

It didn't take long for John B and JJ to return, clearly there was no answer given by the guard when Elena noticed the motel key still on John B's hand.

"Well, that went well." Pope looked at John B placing his hands on his pockets and looked at the group afterward. "So what's the plan?" He asked since the guard had no intention of helping the crew, it seemed like they had to do it all by themselves now.

"I think I know how we're gonna find the guy who owns the boat." John B showed the motel key, Pope immediately denied the idea.

"We don't know whose room that is. It could be anyone." Pope stated proving a point to them.

"I agree with Pope in this one, what if the person who owned the boat is dangerous, we can't just walk into the room." Melissa finally spoke out as she appeared behind Pope.

"Oh you're not coming with us, you are going back home, think you can drop her off John B?" Elena asked glancing towards him who nodded his head. "And no but's, you are staying home, if it is dangerous, I am not putting you in any type of harm."

"I'm in." JJ grinned taking the key and throwing it towards Kie who smiled and told Pope she would be the lookout.

Elena followed Kie with a smile and walked away, she could hear the groaning coming from her younger sister, but she was already used to hear her complain when things didn't go her way.

John B passed by the Herreras and dropped off the youngest, they had all waved her goodbye and promised her that they would make it up to her. Returning to the lake and to their destination, the motel where the key belong to looked awful.

"And I thought the Chateau looked bad." JJ whistled and looked at the place.

"This place looks like a shitshow" Pope babbled as his face showed a shocked expression.

Kie nudged Elena's arm and smiled. "Motel or meth lab?" she asked jokingly making her friend laugh.

"You'll be the judge." Pope responded and chuckled shaking his head.

"Doesn't look like the type of place somebody with a Grady White would stay." John B came closer to the hotel carefully to not damage the boat.

"No, it looks like a place someone with a Grady White would get killed." Pope replied to John B.

"Geez, thanks Pope, that makes me feel more comfortable." Elena said and rolled her eyes ignoring the apology of Pope.

"This is your captain speaking, HMS Pogue comin' in for landing." JJ mimicked the voice as he jumped off the boat and helped John B stop it, securing it on land and assuring John B everything was good.

Elena stood up at the same time Kiara did, both looked at each other for a moment and their attention then focused on John B.

"Hey," Pope called John B resting his arms on a bar stool of the boat "Don't let him do anything stupid." him, clearly meant JJ, of course, it had to be him, all bad ideas had belonged to JJ Maybank.

"Oh, we will."

"I'm not making promises" Both guys said as a cheeky smile of mischief appeared on their faces, Elena rolled her eyes at the comment of them.

"Uh, be careful." Kiara said making John B look at her a bit confused, "I mean it." She smiled and took a step back for Elena to talk.

"If you need anything, I'm, I mean," she looked at Kiara and Pope before turning her gaze back at John B "We, we are here." Elena face him the room key and squeezed his hand tightly before letting go and sit down. A confused look was giving by the crew for Elena's action but no one asked any questions.

The three of them sat back on the boat and watched JJ and John B walk away towards the hotel room.

"So? What was that all about?" Kiara nudged Elena's arm noticing that the brunette had her eyes looking at the pair on the second floor.

"What do you mean?" Elena asked innocently, she placed a piece of hair behind her ear, not meeting the eyes of Kie.

"What do I mean? You know exactly El, what's going on there?" Kie turned to look behind her to see if Pope was listening but he wasn't, his focus had been caught by something from the boat.

"Honestly it isn't anything Kie, I just worry, you know, John B was the first person here who I talked to, and he became a close friend, I just don't want to lose him, that's all." Elena expressed her feelings, she looked up to Kie's eyes and bite the inside of her lower lip. Just the thought of loosing a friend, she wouldn't be able to forget it.

"Wanna play truth or truth? Cause we cannot play truth or dare." Pope said and took a seat on the boat, both girls nodded their heads, they knew they had to do something to kill time while John B and JJ kept on investigating the hotel room.

"Alright then, have you ever imagined getting out of Outer Banks?" Pope asked and looked at the girl who agreed.

"I want to go to Fiji, the place looks amazing and the people there seem nice." Kiara said and glanced at Elena indicating it was her turn.

"Greece, that's my destination, the architectures, I think that's what I would study in college, I want to create amazing places for people to live in or to work at." Elena smiled at the thought of it and then her eyes set on Pope

"I would probably like Australia, it seems nice, and nature, and the animals, I mean that would be a great place to live." Pope smiled and then looked at Elena "Your turn, ask us something."

Elena sighed as she thought a question in her mind, what would be good to ask that wasn't really cliché.

"Okay this is terrible but biggest pet peeve?" She said shrugging, it did end up being a cliché question but coming up with a better one didn't happen.

"Biggest pet peeve." Pope repeated looking at Kie pursed lips, thinking of an answer to give.

"Easy, giving one percent to the environment."

"Well now I feel bad about my answer." Elena chuckled as response of Kie's comment.

"What's wrong with that?" Pope asked, Kiara rolled her eyes at him in disbelief.

"We only have one earth Pope, we should be giving it one hundred percent, bare minimum."

"Right, that's not fiscally sound."

"Neither is destroying the planet we have to live on."

Elena nodded her head in agreement with Kiara, her chin resting on her knees when she changed her sitting position. She looked at both of her friends and wondered what was making John B and JJ take their time.

"Hey, hey," Pope nudged Elena making her sit up straight looking at the same direction as him "cops."

"Shit." Kiara and Elena cursed in unison looking behind towards the building, Pope suggested to call them but Agatha has thrown the towers down making it impossible for them to contact anyone.

"Come, I have an idea." Elena spoke and hopped out of the boat towards the wall where the last room were a window was.

"If I lose my merit scholarship, I'm gonna kill someone." Pope complained but he had every right to do so. "Maybe they aren't going up there."

The trio had hid behind a post looking at the officers who were talking to a person, who pointed exactly at the room where John B and JJ were.

Kiara and Pope kept on talking on how they were going up there and how much trouble they would be. Pope continuing on his complaints of loosing his scholarship.

"Oh shut it Pope, you won't lose it, just help us looking for rocks that won't break the window and keeping an eye out." Elena looked behind her at her friends.

Elena grabbed a handful of tiny rocks and looked up at the window, her eyes back at Pope, she had a good throw but knowing that Pope was there, maybe he had a better chance of actually aiming the window.

"Step back." Pope suggested them, the rock in his hand and steps back, Pope threw the small rock, failing terrible, not even getting close to the window.

"Yeah, forget it, these rocks won't be given to you anymore." Elena scoffed shaking her head.

"Didn't you ever play baseball?" Kiara asked and started picking rocks from the ground.

"I was on the math team."

"Even though Pope, you should've at least hit something near the window, take notes or something about distance, and angles or something." Elena threw a rock from the ones in her hand, hitting way below the window.

"Throw them all Elena, let's do it, maybe we would hit it." Kiara told Elena and both nodded, taking step back, both girls threw the rocks at the same time, some of them actually hitting the window.

Elena gathered some more just in case there were no response from either boys from the room. Luckily they saw John B peeking through the shades.

"Cops, outside." They all mouthed and pointed out, seeing the officers coming closer, John B immediately disappeared and the three of them returned back to the boat.

Elena could feel the adrenaline in her body peaking up, her pulse coming fast in her heart, cracking her knuckles as she didn't see them out of the room.

"Should we peel?" Kiara who stood behind the wheel and ready to sail away, asked at Pope.

"You never leave a Pogue behind." It had been a rule John B told Elena the first week she joined their group, and it was something she stood with.

"Shit." Elena mumbled, eyes set on the window, she kept on mumbling come on, come on, when finally the two boys creeped out from the room, outside the window, balancing and holding tightly hoping not to fall off.

Pope started waving at them, trying to catch their attention and mouthing what they were doing, but there were only hushed by them. Elena pulled him down by his shirt, she knew that it would bring attention even from other people if they saw him.

John B and JJ were talking to each other, looking back and forth to the window, then something fell off from JJ's short pocket causing a loud bang from hitting a trash container.

"Pope come here." Elena pulled him back and all of them started acting "natural." speaking to each other, knowing that the sound would make the officers curious and peek through the shades.

"They are so stupid." Elena mumbled and hide her face in her hands.

Both officers left the room and John B and Jj managed to enter back and finally leave as well, returning back to the boat and sail away.

"Well that was fun," JJ chuckled "Could've warmed us a little sooner."

"We would have," Kiara said and looked over at Pope "except Pope was on the math team." Pope rolled his eyes at her nodded his head.

Elena sat down beside John B and tapped on his arm a few times before his eyes meeting hers.

"So, you went surfing the surge?"Elena asked trying to bring back the comment John B made when they first found the boat.

"Yeah I know, it won't happen again El, don't worry." He said trying to reassure her his actions.

"Oh, of course it won't happen again you ass." Elena chuckled and turned her gaze briefly back to her friends.

"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene."

"Did you find anything?" Pope was now asking the interesting and problematic questions, since if it was a crime scene, their prints were everywhere now.

JJ sat up straight and took out things out of his back pockets and repeating Pope's question, money in his right hand and a gun on the other, a smile creeping through his lips.

"What the hell," Elena tensed up, gripping tightly onto John B's arm "JJ, why do you have that?"

Kiara and Pope just like Elena were scared, John B on the other hand was trying to hide the mischievous smile, the brunette punched her friend hard in his arm and stood up taking a step back.

"Why take that from a crime scene?" Pope asked JJ, taking a step back as well. Kiara looked over at John B, serious face and with terrified eyes.

JJ and Pope kept on discussing the whole gun situation, but for Elena it was terrifying to see, seeing JJ holding the gun up to Pope's lips even if it was jokingly, he had a weapon that Elena knew he'd caused damages to her own family, even if the sizes were different, it was the same impact.

"El? You okay?" Pope asked a few times bringing back the attention of Elena whose eyes were set on the gun. She nodded and sat back down next to John B resting her head against his arm.

Reaching shore, the group had settled down and relaxed with other teenagers near the coast guard.

"You okay El?" Kie touched the back of Elena making her jump on her spot "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you" she chuckled, looking at her and keeping her hand on her back.

"Yeah, I'm okay," Elena lied with a smile and avoiding her eyes, which were still on her "Okay, maybe I'm not, is just JJ and John B having a gun." she whispered the last word just in case someone was listening to them.

"Hey girls," Pope called both of them and walking away "We going back to the Chateau." He said and continued to walk away, Kiara and Elena behind him as they all returned to the van and back at John B's place.