NEXT MORNING, the pogues were all out on the dock, while Sarah was at her family's house. "He deserved it, right?" Nate questioned.

Kiara looked over at him, "Are you joking? Of course he deserved it."

"Never seen anyone blow themselves up like that." Pope says.

"Cross that one off the bucket list." JJ says from beside his brother.

"Jayj" Nate smacked his arm, and gave him a look.

Nate walked down to the dock, and sat beside John B and Kiara soon followed him. "Sucks for Sarah," the other maybank then said.

"Are you okay?" Kiara questioned, as she rubbed John B's back as Nate placed his hand on his shoulder.

"It's not me I'm worried about." John B said, looking between Nate and Kiara, making the two exes look at each other.

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LATER THAT NIGHT, Nate and John B were on the docks, as JJ, Pope and Kiara went to the store, to get more beers. "I don't get it. I don't." John B said, looking up at the sky.

"Love is five minutes of pleasure for a lifetime of pain. Wow." Nate says.

"So okay, you and Kie? What happened?" John B says as he sat up to look at the younger Maybank.

"She cheated on me...." Nate told him, as he glanced at the water in front of him.

"Damn...but that doesn't sound right N...you and Kie were happy..how did you find out?" John B gave him a concerned look.

"Her dad told me..." Nate sighed, "I went to pick her up on the day of your trial and her dad came out of the house and he told me that she wasn't inside and that someone else picked her up...and that she was happy with them and for me to leave her alone..." John B's eyes widened but before he could say anything Kiara, JJ and Pope were back.

"Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato two!" JJ says, as he threw a beer to his brother.

Nate catches the can in his hands, "Impressive catch."

John B stands up, "I need another one." He says, as Pope threw him a can.

"What are you guys doing down here?" JJ questioned.

Nate and John B looked at each other, "Just talking.."

"You know it's not your fault, right?" Kiara tells John B.

"You think she'll come around?" John B asked them.

"Yeah, dude. She's one of us."

John B smiled, as he turned, "Sarah's a Pogue. She'll come around. Yep. You know, she'll come back to me. Right. You know, I was just thinking about it. I'm gonna do a backflip." He then turned around, pointing his finger.

"Nah bro, you won't" Nate chuckled, as he took a sip of his beer.

"Hold my beer that you already dropped." JJ says, putting his arm around his brother.

"I wanna see you do it!" Pope says, as he smiles.

John B then does a backflip into the water, making the pogues cheer. "Yeah!"

"Woogity-woogity, baby!"

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NEXT MORNING, Pope and Kiara had arrived at the Chateau to see John B, JJ and Nate all asleep on the lay out bed, Pope gently smacking the canned stick on John B. "Hey. We gotta go to school, man. We have a geometry test in 30 minutes." Pope told him.

John B sat up as Pope went over to the Maybank brothers, as Nate laid on his stomach and JJ on his back. "Get up! Nate! JJ!" Pope says, as he moves JJ's face and ruffles Nate's hair. "Are they alive?" The Heyward boy turned his head towards the Routledge boy who ran his hands over his face.

"I don't know."

Pope turned his head back to Nate and JJ, "Guys. Get your shoes on." He told them.

JJ and Nate groaned as Pope pulled them up, and pulled them towards the door, "Hey, Kie. We're going this way." Pope tells her.

"Um...I will meet up with you guys later." Kie told them.

Nate and JJ turned back towards the pizza box, both taking a slice from it, then getting pulled away by the Heyward boy.

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The guys were now in the Twinkie, the Maybank brothers were in the back asleep, along with John B who was awake while Pope was in the front driving, when they came to a stop, Nate and JJ both collided into each other where JJ was laying on his brother. "Come on." Pope says, as he gets out of the van. "Let's go. Up and at 'em, boys."

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They were now in the classroom, and the teacher walked over to them. "Glad you could join us," the teacher says, as she placed down a piece of paper on the desk, "Just in time for your first quiz." Making the brothers glare at Pope who was sitting in front of them.

"A test?"

"I told you we had a test," Pope told them.

"No, you didn't." JJ shook his head towards the Heyward boy.

"The first thing I said to you—" the teacher cleared her throat, cutting off Pope in the middle of his sentence.

A girl with brunette hair and a tanned complexion leaned over to Nate, "So I heard you are single now?" Nate looked up at her, as the girl gave him a flirty smile, "Come to the bonfire tonight...We can pick up where we left off..." She gave him another smile.

Nate gave her a small smile, "Yeah...maybe.."

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THE GUYS were on their way to their next classroom, "Bonfire? I think she meant to give it to me, so we're all good there. We're going." JJ says, grabbing the note from John B's hand.

Mr. Sunn approached them, "Mr. Heyward, Mr. Routledge and the Maybanks brothers, just the men I wanted to see." He smiled at them, and opened the door for them.

"Wish we could say the same," Nate says, as he follows behind his brother.

"I have a question of an historical nature for you gentlemen." Mr. Sunn said, as he placed his hands on Nate's shoulder, they walk into the History classroom, "I digitize documents for the Maritime Museum, and in return, I've been given access to the archives. And I found...this." He says, pulling out a box, and heading back over to the boys.

"A box." Pope speaks up.

"More than a box." Mr. Sunn sets the box down on the desk, then opens it. "Go ahead, Mr. Heyward."

Pope reaches down, and picks it up. "Uh...careful with that." Mr. Sunn tells him.

It was an old diary, "Whoa." Pope says, as he starts opening it up.

"It's a diary." Mr. Sunn says, "The author's unknown."

When Pope opened the diary on the first page, a wheat symbol was on it. "Whoa."

Mr. Sunn walks over to the boys again, "And this is a sample of a Denmark Tanny letter." He says, placing down a paper. "Compare the hand-writing."

John B picks up the paper, "No way."

"It's nearly identical."

"This is Denmark Tanny's diary." Pope says as he opens a new page in the diary. "Guys, it's Captain Limbrey." He points towards the drawing. "August 6th, 1829."

"That's the year the Royal Merchant went down." John B said.

"I thought you might find it interesting." Mr. Sunn told them.

"Thank you so much for this." Pope thanked him.

"It's important to know your own history." Mr. Sunn tells the Heyward boy who looked up from the diary and at the teacher.

Mr. Sunn then leaves the class, "Oh my god. It's the Cross of Santo Domingo." Pope says as his friends approach him for a closer look.

"Holy shit." Nate muttered.

"It was on the Royal Merchant," Pope said as he looked between his friends.

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BACK AT the Chateau, "Guys, this is from Denmark's diary, 'August 15th, set sail from Port-au-Prince on calm seas. Came upon the Spanish ship San Jose on fire. The entire deck was aflame. And we could hear the screams of men trapped below. The Spanish captain cared about only one thing, his valuable cargo, the Cross of Santo Domingo and countless bars of gold. Once the cargo was on board we went to help the crew, but Captain Limbrey ordered us to pull bayonets and not to let any of the Spanish crew on board. He robbed them and left them to die.'" Pope passed the letter to John B.

"So it didn't go down off Bermuda," Nate says.

"And it was Limbrey stealing shit again." Kie says, glancing around.

"This diary proves that both the gold and the Cross of Santo Domingo were on the Royal Merchant." Pope informed them.

"Why didn't we find it in the well then?" JJ questioned, "I mean, if Denmark was able to get this, like, bedazzled cross off the Merchant to shore, why didn't he just hide it with the gold?"

"Because it was too big," John B says, looking over at Pope.

"That's what she said," Nate mumbled, as JJ looked over at him with a smirk.

"You're right. He had to hide it someplace else." Pope then said.

"But where?" Kiara and Nate both questioned simultaneously.

"Right before he was hung, Denmark said he'd buried the treasure at the foot of the angel." Pope said, standing up.

"I thought this was about the key." JJ says.

"Right. So what's the connection?" Kiara then questioned.

Pope looked down at the key in his hands, "'The path to the tomb begins in the island room.'"

"And what is an island room?" Nate questioned, furrowing his brows.

"You know what helps me figure shit out?" JJ gets up from the sofa, and ruffles Nate's hair.

"Oh boy. Here we go."

"Smoking beers and drinking weed. The ideas just pour out of me. Right N??" JJ says, looking over at Nate.

"I mean Jayj's not wrong," Nate says, still sitting on the sofa.

"If we sat around here and try to figure this out, we're gonna get nowhere. But if we get creative and go to this bonfire tonight, maybe we can get somewhere," JJ says.

"Well, I just got disowned by my parents, and I'm an official member of the I-have-nothing-to-lose club." Kie said.

"Pope?" Nate questioned, standing up.

"We're so close."

Nate and JJ went over to the Heyward boy, "Look, look, think about how much you could think if you gave your brain a rest." Nate nodded at his brother's words, with a smile on his face.

"Okay, fine." Pope says, making JJ turn and gives his brother a high five.

"Okay, wait. We gotta shotgun before we go." JJ says, putting his arm around his brother as they walked away.

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"The bonfire, an Outer Banks tradition. It was the same every weekend. Everyone went. And I mean everyone. After finding a fortune and losing it and sort of being a fugitive it felt good to be back."

THE POGUES had arrived at the bonfire, Nate was standing next to his brother and John B while Pope was walking with Kiara to grab a drink, the same girl from the classroom approached Nate. "Hey Nate," She gave him a flirty smile.

"Hey, Peyton..." Nate gave her a friendly smile, as he took a sip of his beer.

"Hey," The brunette got closer to Nate, making Nate step back slightly. "You want some of this?" She showed him the red cup.

"No, I'm good, thanks though.." Nate looked around, to see his brother and John B looking over at him.

Peyton stepped closer to him, and ran her finger on his arm, "Come on...It's not like...you weren't afraid of my germs last year.." She glanced down at his lips, then back up at him.

Before Nate could say anything Kiara had marched over to the two, "What are you doing?" She questioned him.

Nate rolled his eyes, "I was trying to have a conversation.." He told her.

"Right..." Kiara says while rolling her eyes.

"Why do you even care?" Nate then questioned.

"I don't care," Kiara crossed her arms, across her chest.

"Clearly..." Nate rolled his eyes, once again.

Kiara then looked at the girl, "Can you leave?"

Nate rolled his eyes, "I'll see you around Nate, come and find me and then we can talk," Peyton told him, as she leaned over to him and kissed his cheek as she did that she looked over at Kiara as she did that, making the Carrera girl glare at her, before Peyton walked away.

"You are unbelievable," Kiara says, looking at Nate.

"Oh, I'm unbelievable?" Nate says, pointing at himself.

"Yes,"

"I'm not the one who's being a hypocrite," Nate tells her as he looks away.

Kiara looks at him confusedly, "What?"

"Don't act like you don't know," Nate then looked back at her.

"No, because I don't know what I did Nate," Kie looks at him, still having her confused look.

Nate scoffed and shook his head. "Whatever Kie," he said as he walked away from her.

"Nate wait," Kiara quickly followed behind him, until a fight broke out.

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After the Pogues had fought against the Kooks they were back at the Chateau, "Well, that was a little unexpected." JJ says walking over to the Twinkie, while Nate was leaning against it.

"Was it?" Kiara spoke up.

Pope, John B and Kiara were around the lit up fire, outside of the Chateau, "I've had more black eyes in the last month than I've ever had."

Nate and JJ joined them, "That was building up for years. Rumble in the jungle." JJ says, sitting beside his brother and Pope.

John B turned his head to Kiara, "Hey, did you really stick up for Sarah?" He asked her.

Kiara turned her head to him, "Of course I did. She's not a real Kook."

"Tell that to Topper," Pope says, looking over at them.

"I just want one bite. That.." John B grabs the hot pocket from her hand, and takes a bite of it.

"What are you doing? No, stop!" John B then stands up and walks away.

"You're not having any of ours." JJ says, looking over at them.

"I thought you were gonna share." John B said.

"I spent my money on that." Kiara told him.

John B knelt down and grabbed the pocket. "Sixteen years in the most federal prisons."

"I'm stealing your marshmallow," Kiara tells him.

"I believe that's a...not even a fair trade," Pope said.

"It's not at all. Not even close," Kiara says.

"Yeah,"

John B turned to his friends, "Hey, hey." He tells them as he shushes them, they turn around, as rustling from behind the trees were heard. "Somebody's here."

They all stand up, "You don't think that Topper would..."

"I wouldn't put it past him," Nate says, walking over to John B. "Bro, do you have the gun?"

"No bro." JJ said, looking over at him.

"Isn't that your 'secret' weapon?" Kiara questioned them.

"Shut up." John B whispered, shouted at them.

"Now they want the gun," JJ says, going over to his brother's side.

"Hey, who's out there?" John B said.

"You Kooks better not try anything," Kie then says.

"Who's there?" Nate questioned.

Redfield walks out of the trees, "How y'all doing?" with his arms raised up.

"It's this piece of shit?" Pope whispered to the brothers.

"You gotta be kidding me," JJ says quietly.

"Lovely evening we're having." Redfield slowly approaches them, still having his arms raised.

"Look, I, uh...I don't have a grudge with any of y'all, alright? But this can go hard, or this can go easy." Redfield did a spin, showing that he had no weapons on him. "You know what I'm here for?" He says, looking over at Pope.

Nate instantly stood in front of Kiara, protectively "Let me give you a little demonstration, you see that swing over there?" Redfield pointed towards the swing, "I got the best bow hunters, in the Army Rangers with me," He says, as JJ stayed near to the tree that had the swing on.

"Yeah? Mm-hmm."

"Hidden," Redfield says, as he whistled as an arrow was fired, hitting the rope of the swing then the tree, which made the Pogues all look over to where JJ was standing. "Now they're out there. They'll stick you just as soon as I say so." Redfield says, as he walked towards Pope, JJ was behind him with a weapon in his hands. He whistled again, as the arrow hit the ground between JJ and Pope. "Uh, uh, uh. We clear?" He asks, as all of the Pogues look at each other. "Now I'm not gonna give you a countdown or any bullshit like that. I'm just gonna whistle." He says, as they watched him.

Pope reached in his pocket, and pulled it out and held it in his hands. "No. This key belongs to my family." He told him.

Redfield laughed, "I'm losing my patience with you, Pope." He raised his hand to his mouth, about to whistle but Pope hands him it, which he took of him. "Did the right thing, kid. Knowing when you don't have a choice is an under appreciated talent. You be safe." Redfield turns around and began to walk away. "Easy there." He told JJ as he stared at him, then looking over at Nate before leaving.

Once Redfield was behind the trees had whistled again, and the arrow hit Nate, making him drop to the ground, and Kiara falling down next to and quickly going to his side. "You're gonna be okay?" She frantically says.

John B and JJ helped him inside, and Kiara quickly headed over to the first-aid box, and came back over to Nate who was sitting in the chair. "I'm okay, it's just a graze." He told her.

"Am I hurting you?" Kiara questioned, as she started to carefully clean his non-fatal wound.

"No," Nate winced as he watched her, as she carefully cleaned it.

Kie looked at him sadly, and continued to clean his wound, the two were quiet for a few minutes, "I'm sorry...about what happened at bonfire."

Nate looked up at her, "I'm sorry too."

Kie looks at him again, "What did you mean?"

Nate gave her a confused look, "What?"

"Why did you call me a hypocrite?" Kie questioned him, as Nate sat up and put his shirt back on.

Nate looked down, and sighed. "That day when I was meant to come and pick you up..the day of John B's trial..I did...I arrived at your house and your dad came down and told me that you had left with someone else...and that you were happy with them..and to leave you alone.." He told her, as he looked back up at her.

"What?" Kiara's eyes widened, in shock. "Nate no one picked me up, I was in the house waiting for you...there is no one else..I love you I don't want anyone else but you.." her voice cracked, "I would never cheat on you.." Kiara stepped closer to him, as the two looked at each other.

"You can find someone better than me...I'm nothing special..any guy would be lucky to have you..." Nate says, as tears brimmed in his eyes as Kiara shook her head.

"No, I want you. I want us to be together..." Kiara told him.

"I'm sorry.." Nate planted a kiss on her forehead before leaving the Chataeu.

Kiara sat down on the chair, and placed her hands on her head and sobbed into her hands.