Unfortunately, Lilah couldn't go pick up Kiara and Sarah with the boys the next morning because she had work. Her shift at the golf course was long and boring as usual but still worth it as she was earning good tips. She heard a buzz from her phone that was laid out on the bar counter. She picked it up to see a that JJ had texted her a picture of Sarah from the boat.

Sarah is not dead 👍

She rolled her eyes as she knew he texted her because the night before, they were joking that Kiara had drowned Sarah during the night. She knew the brunette wouldn't actually do that, thankfully, but it was still funny of joke about. She typed a response back quickly, hoping her manager wasn't around.

     does this mean they're cool again?

     She played with her nails on one hand while holding her phone in another, waiting for a response. The message back was quick as she felt her phone buzz in her hand.

     They won't admit it but yeah

     Before she could even respond back, he texted again.

     Girls are so damn weird

     While she giggled at the message, she heard a cough in front of her that made her freeze. She slowly looked up to see an older man waiting on the other side of the bar, waiting to order. She profusely started apologizing as she put her phone down and got back to work.

"You got rope?"

"Got it."

The Pogues plus Sarah and Lilah were in John B's van, (he calls it the Twinkie but Lilah refuses to call it that), on their way to the Crain house. Mrs. Crain was a known name in Outer Banks but not in a good way. They say she murdered her husband with an axe and later, her daughter, Hollis, found him long gone.

     Lilah has always believed that story, even when she was little.

     "Grappling hook?" John B asked which made Pope and Lilah look at each other with confusion. "We don't have a grappling hook." Pope shook his head while Lilah rolled her eyes, "We're not Batman."

"Right. Pulley?"

"Check."

"Dark clothes?" John B asked as they pulled up to the Crain house and Lilah looked down at her outfit. She realized she was wearing the most Kook fit of all with her black Lululemon shorts with a plain black t-shirt. She looked at her black high top converse then nodded her head at John B, telling him check for dark clothes.

"Hopefully your expensive clothes don't get dirty, Lilah."

"At least I got the memo. You're literally wearing a light grey shirt with camo shorts. What part of that is dark clothes, JJ?"

John B laughed at her remark which made JJ look at him with a playful glare, "Don't laugh with her." John B shrugged, "Sorry, dude. She's right."

"Whatever."

John B went back to the list, "Flashlights?" to which JJ nodded, "Check." Lilah held her flashlight as John B tilted his head, "All right, good. We're ready." JJ smirked at the group, "Let's go get rich, guys."

John B got out of the driver's seat and opened the sliding door of the Twinkie. "Wait. I wanna say thank you, guys. Seriously. It means a lot to me that you're here tonight." He looked at the group as they smiled back, minus JJ. Kie rolled her eyes playfully, "Always."

"Of course, man." Pope held his hand out so him and John B can do a handshake, "My man."

"All right, we done with the circle jerk? Can we go do this?"

"Surprised you know the term circle jerk."

"You need to stop being shocked everytime I say something smart."

"Circle jerk isn't a smart term — you know what, nevermind."

JJ huffed as he got out of the car first. "Let's go get that wheat in the water." Pope told the group as JJ slightly grinned, "Weed? I'm up for weed." Lilah rolled her eyes waiting for everyone to get out of the car, "Turn your hearing aid up, Grandpa. He said wheat." Pope nodded, "Thank you, Lilah."

Sarah felt eyes on her and turned her head to be meet with similar eyes looking back at her. Lilah held her hand out for her twin to take with a slight smile on her face, telling Sarah that everything will be okay. Sarah took a deep breath and grabbed her sister's hand before they both headed out of the car together.

The group had to hop the fence so the twin's let go of their hands and stepped up to jump over the fence.

Once they were all on the other side, they walked closer to the front of the house until the front light flashed on which made the group scramble behind some bushes to hide. "Shit! Go, go, go, go!"

"Flashlights!" Kiara reminded them, watching them turn their flashlights off minus JJ who couldn't work his. "It's on strobe, dumbass!" Lilah scolded as he glared at her as he finally got it off, "Yeah, I know that!"

John b put a finger up to his lips, telling them to shush.

"Okay, so she has motion sensor lights." Pope panted and the group looked around, trying to figure out a plan. "We could, uh...move really slowly, maybe?" JJ hesitated but still said it which made everybody look at him with confusion, "What?" Sarah whispered-yelled at the blonde boy. "Yeah. That's not how it works." Pope shook his head.

"Oh, shit. Let's throw a rock at it."

Confusion turned into disbelief as the rest of them looked at John B, "What?!" Pope looked at his friend as Kiara slowly turned to him, "That's a really good idea. Let the axe murderer know that we're here." She sarcastically said as Pope was still in shock, "Throw a rock at it?"

"Okay, you guys have a better idea?"

"Literally anything but that." Lilah sharply told him as Sarah nodded next to her until she thought of an idea. "What about the breaker? In the circuit box on the porch." She turned her head to her sister, "Remember, we used to play hide and seek here as kids. And if we were brave enough, we'd go all the way up to the porch. We've seen it."

Lilah nodded to her friends, deciding to leave out the fact that when they were little, Sarah would have to drag her to the porch because Lilah was too scared to go up there. Sarah was risky and so was Lilah but only to some degree and the Crain porch was always something Lilah never wanted to mess with.

"No, you're not going in the house alone." John B shook his head but Sarah just shrugged at her boyfriend, "Watch me. Plus, I won't be alone, I'll have Lilah."

"Wait, you'll have who? No, no. I'm good here. Thanks though."

"You're coming with me. I used to drag you up there then and I will do it again if I have to."

Lilah huffed as JJ looked at the twins, "Crain chops people into pieces." Lilah hit her sister's shoulder, "See? Into pieces, Sarah." Sarah Cameron rolled her eyes at the two scaredy cats, "If you believe that, but she's like what, 85?" JJ nodded, "Yeah, something like that."

"She's probably barely still kicking."

Lilah looked at her sister with pleading eyes, "Please, do not make me go with you." Sarah glared at her, "What if something happens to me and you're not there? You'll never forgive yourself." Sarah hummed as Lilah groaned, "Guilt tripping bitch."

"Here. I'll go with you guys." Kiara nodded at them which made the Cameron girls nod back at her. "We'll wait for your signal." Pope told them as Lilah sighed at the situation. The girls got up quietly, with Sarah holding Lilah's hand, as John B stopped them.

He looked at his girlfriend with love, "Hey! Be safe." Sarah smiled slightly, "We will."

They walked closer to the porch as Lilah smirked, "Y'all are gross. He's so in love with you."

"Shut up."

The three girls walked through a bunch of branches and bushes around the house to get to the porch, "She must have a generator plugged into the main power supply." Kiara breathed out, letting them know, but genuinely, Lilah didn't know what that meant.

Finally, they made it to the dirty white porch that creaked everytime they took a step on it. Kiara saw a metal box and quietly pryed it open just to be meet with a bunch of wires, "Where are the breakers?" Sarah asked them as Lilah tilted her flashlight up at the roof, "Shit."

The other two girls followed her light, "It goes inside."

Lilah shrugged, "Alright, well, we tried."

She was about to walk back to the boys but Sarah grabbed her wrist and held it as Kiara opened the front door. "What?! You guys aren't serious." Lilah whispered-yelled at them and they whipped their heads around, shushing her.

"Oh please. Shush me all you want. This is breaking and entering aka illegal."

"Stop acting like you didn't get arrested a couple days ago."

Sarah's words made Lilah quiet down, knowing that her sister was right. Sarah walked in the front door after Kiara did, leaving Lilah last. She quietly groaned before walking in and whispering to herself, "If there's a demon in here and you can hear me, take John B and JJ. Leave us girls plus Pope alone."

They quietly looked around with their flashlights, only their shallow breathing was heard. Kiara and Lilah yelped hearing a cat yowl and scurry away. Kiara led the way and showed the twins the wiring up top, following the wire to the breakers. They turned a corner and Kiara grinned, finding the electrical box.

Kiara switched the lights off and the front light turning off made Sarah and Lilah look out the door from far away. "Great. Let's get out of here." Lilah whispered as quietly as she could which made Kiara nod, "The lights might be out but we should go through the back again just incase the door is locked."

"But the front door is closer." Lilah reasoned but before they could make any decisions, a loud creak came from across the living room which made the girls gasp and lean against the wall. "If we die, I'm making it everybody's problem." Lilah whispered more to herself than the other girls.

The creaking increased but now a thumping sound was included, leaving the girls scared and trying not to make a noise. Kiara held her hand to her mouth, trying to silence her breathing as Mrs. Crain started talking, "It's—It's late, Leon. Too late."

Lilah's eyes widened at the JJ was right. Mrs. Crain was coming to get them and she was about to chop them into pieces. Lilah looked at her sister who was trying not to breathe at all. She was in the middle of the girls and grabbed both of their hands, trying to comfort them and herself.

Lilah felt her entire body freeze when Mrs. Crain started walking right in front of them. "I can hear you, Leon. I've been waiting all night!" Mrs. Crain looked at the three girls as their flashlights light up her face, showing her ghostly eyes and yellow teeth. The girls scream and started to run away from the terrifying sight.

Lilah followed Sarah, not realizing Kiara went a whole different way, and the twins made their way into a separate room. They took a deep breath, realizing Mrs. Crain's booming voice sounded farther away now as Sarah looked around, "Shit. Where's Kiara?"

They looked at each other with no words before running out of the room, retreating their steps, to find the curly headed brunette. They caught Mrs. Crain trying to hit Kiara with a fire poker and Sarah's flight or fight mode came through. Choosing fight, she grabbed the fire poker that Mrs. Crain had mid swing and snatched it from her, drawing it back.

Not knowing Lilah was behind her, the fire poker reeled back into her, scratching through her t-shirt and marking her stomach. She hissed at the cut but forced the pain down and grabbed Kiara's hand. "Guys, let's go. This way!" The three girls found a door and slammed it shut as the heavily breathed on the other side of it, "You okay?" Lilah asked Kiara who nodded at the girl.

     Lilah winced at her stomach that was screaming at her to stop and take care of this cut that sliced through her torso. She wished she could have a light to see what really happened but she couldn't think about that right now.

She couldn't think about that right now because the fire poker shot through the door, in between Lilah and Kiara. Lilah screamed and the girls continued running, "This way! It goes underneath the house!" Lilah yelled at them and they did not hesitate to follow her. The ran down the stairs, Lilah being first took slight comfort in hearing Sarah and Kiara scared because that meant they were right behind her.

"Guys!"

"Woah, what's going on?" Pope and JJ shined a flashlight on them and their eyes widened, "Jesus! What happened to your shirt?" JJ asked Lilah who looked down to see her shirt had a slanted rip on her stomach, revealing a cut that was slightly bleeding but not too bad to need a hospital, thankfully. "No time. Mrs. Crain! She's up there!" Lilah exasperated, tired from all the yelling and running.

"She tried to kill us with a fire poker. Guys, we gotta get the fuck outta here!" Kiara's voice shook out of terror as Sarah nodded, out of breath, "We locked her in the parlor but we gotta go!"

"Okay, that's code red!"

Lilah got in front of JJ to help with the line holding John B as Kiara and Sarah got behind him. "John B, get back on man!"

Pope nodded at the four, "Three, two, one, pull!"

They pulled and immediately fell down to the floor, telling them that there was nobody on the line. They frantically got up, "Where the hell is he?" Pope looked down as they all started yelling down the well, "John B?!"

They heard yelling from his end but couldn't hear what he was saying. "JJ! Pope! Kie!" They heard him scream and they all widened their eyes. "Yo, he's drowning! We gotta pull him up!" Sarah freaked out and got to her side of the rope and everyone followed in her footsteps.

"Hey, John B! Get back on the rope. We're gonna pull you back up, okay, buddy?"

Finally, John B was on and the group started pulling all together but they needed to be faster. "Pull!" Pope yelled right before a gunshot ran through the underneath of the house. "Holy shit!" Lilah screamed and covered her ears at the loud noise as JJ tied the rope to a rock so John B wouldn't go anywhere.

Pope grabbed Lilah's arm and pulled her to the side of the room, "Pope, Lilah! Hide!" JJ grunted and threw himself next to them. Lilah's breath got caught in her throat as she frantically looked around. JJ watched her freak out and he grabbed her hand, "Sarah's over there with Kie. Don't worry."

Lilah swallowed her saliva and nodded yet still didn't feel any comfort until she heard the other girls voices from the side. "She can't aim for shit." Kiara breathed out as Sarah nodded, "She can't see. She's blind." Lilah didn't know those words could be such comfort to her but they did make her relax as she heard Sarah's voice.

The comfort went away as soon as another shot rung out.

"Go! Go, Sarah!" Kiara yelled as the two girls ran out of the house, leaving Pope, Lilah, and JJ waiting until they could move.

Once a third gunshot happened to land in the wall that Pope was laying on, he rushed up, "Go! Go!" He pushed the two to get up on their feet as they still held hands. "I don't care if she is, that's buckshot!" JJ screamed and ran hand in hand with Lilah out the house. They ran as fast as they could with Pope right behind them.

They stopped in front of the gate and JJ squatted and put his hands in a cup so he could help Lilah get up faster. She took his help with putting her foot in the grasp as he boosted her up, letting her jump over in ease. She waited until Pope and JJ made it over the gate before running to the Twinkie. JJ ran to the driver's side as Lilah jumped in the passenger meaning Pope was in the back with Sarah and Kiara.

They were only missing John B.

"Start the car. Go!" Pope yelled at JJ who frantically put the keys in the ignition. "John B!" Kiara yelled out as the car slowly started and rode down the dirt road but not too fast so John B could catch up.

"Why are we always getting shot at?!" Pope yelled at to no one particularly but Lilah whipped her head around the the back, "This has happened to you guys before?!" Her question went unanswered as Sarah, Pope, and Kiara ushered John B inside of the van.

He hopped in the car with mud covering his entire body, "Ew! What the fuck?!" Lilah covered her nose at the boy who laid against her seat, out of breath. "Are you shot?" JJ looked at John B then at Lilah in the passenger seat. She shook her head, "Are you?" He steered the wheel as he also shook her head. Lilah let out a breath of relief before whipping her head back at Sarah.

Her twin was already looking at her, "I'm fine." She smiled and Lilah took her real breath of relief. "I think I'd know if I was shot, right?" Kiara felt her body and looked at the crew around in the van.

Pope's mouth slightly opened in shock, "You look disgusting." He told John B and Kiara nodded, "God, you smell like ass." She looked at him is disgust and Lilah couldn't help but agree with them.

"What the hell just happened?" Sarah exasperated at the group who just laughed in shock. "All-time Pogue Hall of Fame, baby." He grinned while Kiara clapped his back, "Hell yeah!"

Lilah looked back at the crew, "That bitch is possessed!" They nodded at her while Sarah looked back at the house that was now far away from them, "That bitch can't aim!" Pope shook his head, "How does she move that fast? I mean, she literally sliced Lilah with a fire poker!"

"Actually, that was Sarah when she was trying to get the fire poker away from Mrs. Crain."

"Yeah...sorry about that."

"I still don't understand how." Pope continued as they shook their heads, "She's blind!"

JJ's grin stayed on his face, "She was like Master Yoda." Lilah giggled at the comment before looking at him completely, "Dude, your voice stayed in my head. Kept telling me that she was gonna chop me into pieces." She rolled her eyes but she wasn't serious and be knew that. "She practically did. Have you seen you stomach?" He tilted his head towards her as she looked down at her scar. She got lucky, it could have gone a lot deeper but it was still visible.

"Once we get to the Chateau, I'll help clean it up. It doesn't look too bad." He shrugged and Lilah just smiled at him, "Yeah, that's great. Thanks."

"What is that?"

"No, you didn't!"

JJ and Lilah turned their heads to the back and saw John B holding something shiny in his hands. He wiped the dirt off it, making it more clear to the eyes, "We did it, baby!"

Everybody's eyes widened as Sarah's smile grew, "No, you didn't!" John B whistled, "I did it!"

The car blew into cheers and excitement at the fact that they found real life treasure. John B was holding real gold in his hand. "Oh, my god!" JJ and Lilah yelled in unison as Kiara kept repeating, "Holy shit!," over and over again. "Wait, wait! Guys, we're gonna be rich!" Kiara finally said another word and looked at everybody.

Sarah and Lilah smirked at each other, "Like Kook rich!" They yelled in unison even though it was ironic because they were the ones who were Kooks but the Pogues didn't mind. The van started cheering "Full Kook!" as they drove back to John B's house.

BEAU SPEAKS !

I LOVE THEMMMM OH MY GODDD

jj & lilah being scared of crain🥹💞 my scaredy cats <33

that's actually all i have to say

MWAH SEE YALL NEXT CHAPTER