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Rain, if this couldn't get any worse, it starts raining and thundering.

The group all come to a stop in front of a wooden fence, Olivia accidentally running into JJ's back too busy making sure Julia is on her feet. She mumbles a quick sorry before going quiet as Pope turns the camera on.

"Nic camera. Where'd you dig up that relic?" JJ turns to look at Pope as he zooms in. "Why don't you just use your phone?"

"Well, first of all, I like my antique electronics. Second of all, this is a telephoto. It allows me to get a close image from far away."

"Lord of the dorks." The drunk Julia mumbles laughing at her own joke.

"For definitive proof of witness payoff, we're gonna need quality glass." He holds his camera up before looking into it again. "There he is."

"Yo, get down." JJ urges, pulling Olivia down and the rest following suit, Julia having to be pulled down.

"And there's Gavin." Pope whispered. They all peer over as Ward and Gavin go into a house that is under construction. "Where are you going, you son of a bitch? No, no, no, no. I'm losing him. Shit. Where's he going?"

Olivia notices JJ looking up, "What you thinking?"

"Hold on." He tells her before moving away.

He whistles to the group, "Yo! Hey. I found something. Come here." And everyone follow him, "Gotta go up top."

"That'll work." Olivia mumbles pushing Julia towards the ladder and following after her as she climbs.

"Hurry. I don't wanna miss anything." Kie urges Julia and Olivia to hurry up.

They all crouch down against the brick wall, Pope getting out his camera again.

"You rolling Pope?" JJ asks.

"Are you getting it?" Kie adds in.

"Yeah. Yeah, I see them." He says confirming that he is getting it and can see Ward and Gavin. "Ward just handed Gavin Something. I think it's a duffle bag."

"Guys, I think this is a payoff." Olivia turns to JJ with a really 'oh really' look on her face.

Pope then looks back into his camera, "Gavin doesn't look happy about something. It looks like he's yelling at Ward."

"Why?" Olivia asks, trying to wipe the water from her eyes to get a better look at her father and the man.

"I don't know, but he sure looks mad." He zooms in. "Shit."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa."

"What's going on?" Julia mumbles.

"I dunno. They're fighting over something."

"They're really going at it." Olivia speak watching as he dad fights the man.

"Ward's kicking the shit out of Gavin." Pope states.

"Why are they fighting?" JJ asks.

"I don't know, I'm trying to see. He looks around before speaking again, "Holy shit. Ward's got a gun."

Olivia's breath hitches as Kie then speaks, "I bet that's the murder weapon.

Everyone gasp's as the gun goes off, everyone getting down, Julia last again getting pulled down by Olivia, again.

"Oh my God. Oh my God." Pope mumbles over and over again.

"What the hell?" JJ mumbles.

"I am related to murder's." Olivia mumbles, JJ taking her hand.

"No, no, no, no. That did not just happen." Kie holds her face in her hands. "What is going on?"

And Julia, drunk and out of her mind, just giggles to herself her hand holding her mouth making sure she's not so loud.

"Pope. Tell me you just go that?" JJ looks up at Pope as he peers over the edge looking into his camera again.

"Enough to put this asshole away for life."

More gunshots and grunting is heard.

"This is freaking crazy." Pope leans up and over the edge a bit more getting a clearer view. "Oh no. Get down. Get down." Everyone gets down, Olivia yanking Julia down once again.

"Holy shit." Liv mumbles to herself.

"I think we should go right now." JJ whispers and Olivia nods in agreement. "Pope, you have enough, right?"

"Yeah. Hold on. He's coming out. There he goes. I think he's looking for the gun." Pope continues filming. "I think the gun just went down the drain. He's looking for it. Hey. He's looking for the gun."

"Hold this." Kie hands her backpack to Pope, climbing up the wall.

"What are you doing, Kie?" Olivia questions.

"What is wrong with you?" She yells. "Murder!" Olivia stands up grabbing her and covering her mouth.

"Get fucking down! What the fuck! Yell like that one more time and-" She gets cut off by Kie.

"I don't care if he hears me. He's a murderer."

"Yeah, and he won't hesitate to murder us, Kie!"

"Guys, he sees us." Pope speaks frantically.

"Are you serious?" JJ asks.

"Come on. We gotta go. He's coming." Pope responds.

Olivia lets go of Kiara and grabs Julia making sure her and Julia get down the ladder and away first.

"Kie my hand!" JJ shouts as Kie steps on his hand making him let go, kicking Pope in the head as they both fall.

"Sorry. So sorry." Kie apologies.

Olivia helps JJ up as Pope goes over to his camera making sure it's okay.

"No, no, no, no, no."

"You're kidding me. You fumbled it?" JJ stands, with the help of Olivia.

"You kicked me in the face."

"She stepped on my hand."

"I was trying to hurry." Kie interjects.

"Guys! He's coming, let's go." Olivia yells her and Julia taking off running before anyone else.

Once they reach the car everyone is panting and dripping wet.

"Could someone fill me in on what the frick just happened?" He yells. Olivia places her hand on his shoulder. "Holy crap. I can't believe it. Wait, wait. What were they fighting over?"

"Uh...it was..it was a gun, the one Rafe used. He must have kept it." Pope answers still fiddling with his camera. 

"Of course! Of course! The murder weapon!"

"Pick up! Pick up!" Kie speaks frantically.

"Who are you calling?" Olivia leans forward, still pissed with the girl.

"Who do you think?"

"The cops?!" Pope asks.

"Who else am I supposed to call?"

"Why would you call the police?" JJ's voice raises. "That's Ward!"

"Hello? Hi, somebody's been shot at the..at the Grand Street construction site! You guys need to hurry up because he's dying. I don't know if he's already dead or not! You guys need to hurry! Please!"

"We gotta go. We're sitting ducks." JJ mumbles.

"We can't stay." Olivia agrees.

"What do you want me to do?" Kie asks.

"Just drive!" Olivia shouts.

And with that she drove.

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After Kiara phones the cops, Shoupe and some of his team arrives at the location Ward shot Gavin. Shoupe looks around at the scene but could see no evidence whatsoever.

"Look, it was right here, and this is where that maniac claimed his next victim." Kie points to the floor.

"Uh-huh. His next victim?" Shoupe says in disbelief  "Right. How long ago did you say it happened?"

"Forty-five minutes ago, Shoupe." JJ gets up off the floor.

"Okay. And so, Ward Cameron just popped one off and shot him"

"Yes." Kiara exhales.

"Execution style? And cleaned it all up in 45 minutes?"

"We filmed the entire thing." Olivia speaks up.

"You filmed it?" Shoupe turns his head to her.

"Yes, but we cant show you because Kiara stepped on JJ's hand and then he kicked Pope, and then Pope dropped the camera, and it broke." Julia glares at Kie.

"This is a telephoto, and we needed to get a long-distance image, and... and... and I fell, and it broke, so the video is basically unusable. but... but we were there, and we're wit—" Pope rambles.

"So the dog ate your homework?" Shoupe questions..

"No, Shoupe. We know how it sounds—" Olivia starts but he already started to talk over her.

"Look, I don't know what you kids expect me to do with this. you drag me out there in the middle of the night for a whole lot of nothing. Except for some crazy story about how Ward Cameron's out on a random killing spree."

"We're not making this up!" JJ yells, now getting annoys.

"it's not a random killing spree! Gavin was his pilot! Okay, he was paying him hush money because he was on the tarmac that day." Olivia informs.

"Gavin was blackmailing Ward because he had the gun that Rafe used to kill Peterkin." JJ continues.

"He called him here and tried to pay him off." Julia adds.

"But it wasn't enough, and then so he shot him." Pope finishes.

"With the murder weapon." Kie folds her arms.

"How do you know that?" Shoupe questions.

"Pope did this thing with his phone. he, like, put it in his car and—" Kie panics.

"I their whole conversation." He confesses.

"You wiretapped him? Stop. Just stop. I've had enough." He starts to walk away.

"Idiots." Julia mumbles, rolling her eyes.

The five teens, other than Julia, start to speak over each other to Shoupe to get their point across. as he walks down the stairs, they follow him.

Shoupe and his team go home, causing JJ to feel more annoyed then he did minutes ago.

"I told you this would happen. Like, you're the one that had to drop the camera." He points to Pope.

"It was your fault!" Kiara yells.

"Oh, that was my fault?"

"Yeah, it was your fault!"

"Why do you always take his side? Why do you never take mine?"

"Shur up!" Julia yells. She was pretty fed up with all this arguing, she just wants to go home. She wants to go home and have a nice drink.

The two stopped arguing and pope turns around. "We're not out of this yet. We can still go get the gun."

Everyone's attention turns to the drain that lay infront of them.

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"This is the North drain. It should've gotten washed into the gully. So, if it got flushed out from this drain, it would've been pushed out to, like—" JJ points around in the swampy water.

"Somewhere in this trash?" Olivia asks in absolute disgust.

"Correct. One point to Miss, Olivia Cameron." JJ winks.

Kie sighs "Oh my God. People who use plastic should be shot."

"Okat, personally, I love plastic. Use it everyday. Love the stuff." JJ pulls out some plastic nets from the water.

"Hopefully, you recycle it and don't let it flush into the ocean." Kie snaps back.

"I thought you'd say something like that, so..." Pope holds up bags, "Trash bags."

"Did you just proactively protect the environment?" Kiara smiles.

"Maybe."

"You can stop flirting now, it's gross." mumbles.

"Yeah, like, you want us to leave you two alone, or what's going on?" JJ points between the two, earning the trash bags to be thrown at him. Julia and Olivia exchange a little chuckle before helping, well, julia is helping.

After a long time and effort, not a long time but a lot of effort, the four finish cleaning the sewer pipe, not finding the gun. by the four, it was JJ, Pope, Kie and Julia. Olivia would not get caught doing anything that involves being dirty.

"Well that was fun watching you guys do that." Olivia smiles.

"If it's not in the trash, then it's gotta be in the storm drain." Pope points to the pipe.

"It's in... it's in the drain." JJ nods "Good thing I brought the crow."

"So, are we gonna do, like, rock, paper, scissors? Or Alphabetically?" Kie asks.

"Nah. On three, Pope. One, two three." The two boys opens the bar that controls the flow of sewage coming out.

"Oe, like, the oldest goes?" Kie asks again.

"Well, i'm definitely not going in. You would be out of your mind." Olivia shrugs.

"What? Afraid you'll be all dirty?" JJ teases.

"How about you go in?" Olivia retaliates.

"In the sewer, there's this worm that you get when you're down there. It gets into your blood, and then it had to come out your pecker. So, uh... that would be a hard pass for me."

"Yeah, that's gonna be a no for me." Pope shakes his head.

Everyone turns their eyes to Julia who was zoned out. As she feels eyes on her, she looks between them all. "Fiiiine, i'll go in." She huffs.

Julia gets onto her hands and knees as she stars to crawl into the sewer.

"Jusr, uh, holler if you need anything, okay?" JJ tells her "We'll, uh... we'll holler back."

"Yep." She calls out as she crawls deep inside, gagging at the thought of what her current situation.

"Fuck sakes, this is gross." Julia grunts as she made her way through the sewage.

"Julia, you find anything yet?" Olivia calls out.

"Yeah, Julia, do you see the gun?" JJ asks.

Julia sighs "Not yet."

"It's probably at the bottom if the catch basin." Pope tells her.

JJ pulls Pope aside and starts to whisper to him. "All right, bro, I see you vibing on Kie, okay? Give me the details. Are we talking first base, second base, third base?" He counts on his fingers.

"Try not even in the same ballpark."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's like we're not playing the same game. The other night, we're— she was all over me. And..."

"Good start."

"But she was wasted, so it doesn't really count. I tried to be edgy, out-there Pope, and she didn't like it. So I tried to be straitlaced Pope. she didn't like that. So I don't know what to do."

"apope, think. I know you can do that, all right? Like, light some candles. Put on some otis redding. Yeah. That would work. Or play guitar." JJ snaps his fingers.

"I can't play guitar. I can't do any of those things. But when you gonna confess to Olivia?" Pope glances to the Cameron girl.

"What do you mean?" JJ acts like a fool.

"I mean, you're clearly in love with her. I can see it when you look at her." Pope shrugs.

Little did he know, Olivia could hear the conversation as she spoke to Kiara, having almost the same conversation.

"So, Pope, huh?" She smirks.

Kie tires to hide her smile "What about him?"

"I see the way you guys look at each other."

"And I see the way you and JJ look at each other." As those words left Kiara's mouth, Olivia start to blush just a little.

The conversation was soon interrupted by Julia's voice. "Guys, I think I found something."

"Wait, you got it?" JJ asks her.

"Is it the gun?" Pope also asks.

"Guys! Oh my God!" Julia yells "Guys, there's something dead in here! I'm gonna throw up!"

The four heard Julia scream. Olivia feels terrible for the girl and wants her to leave the dirty place. a series of questions were called out to Julia: "It it the gun? Did you find Gavin? Do you see the gun?"

All she responds back with was: "You guys owe me for life!"

"What if Ward put Gavin in the sewer, dude?" JJ put his hands on his face.

"JJ, your hands are dirty, don't put them on your face." Olivia gives him a grossed out look. "My dad wouldn't put a body in the sewer."

"You never know." He shrugs.

"Do you hear that?" Pope asks, putting his ear near the sewage pipe. "Listen."

JJ and Kiara went near the pipe and listened. Olivia didn't step into the water, but she heard it alright. The water was rising.

"Guys! Guys, the water! Help me, Please!" Julia yells.

"Julia, get out of there now!" Pope yells back as he realises she would drown in there.

"I don't have time! Someone please help! This is my worst fear!"

Everyone looks at each before saying "Shit. Julia!" At the same time. They get up and sprints to the main road where the drain was placed.

Olivia hopes they'd reach in time to save the poor girl. She was bound to be traumatised for the rest of her life after this experience.

Kiara and Olivia watches as the boys try to pull the drain off and set Julia free. Olivia tried to calm the girl down while Kiara did nothing.

"Hey, they're gonna get you out. Just stay calm, okay?" Olivia speaks gently.

"I can't do this. I'm going to let go." Julia's voice was shaky.

"No! No, don't do that." Olivia responds quickly as the boys kept pulling.

JJ pulls out a key and starts to dig it through the edge of the drain, hoping to loosen it a little bit. The key drops down the drain and they pull again.

Julia was now submerged into the water, Pope and JJ were so close. And they did it. They freed the girl from drowning.

Julia burst through the drain, gasping for air. Olivia let out a breath she didn't know she was holding as Pope and JJ pant. Kiara stands still watching the scene come to an end.

"You're okay, see I told you.." Olivia smiles softly.

"Shut up.." Julia continues to cough.

"This wasn't what we were looking for, right?" She pulls the gun from the pocket of her shorts.

Everyone let out a laugh, not a funny laugh, but a laugh of happiness and proudness that she retrieved the gun.

"We're gonna get this son of a bitch, man." JJ laughs as he wraps the gun in cloth.

JJ pulls everyone in for a group hug, even Olivia. but she didn't mind, her best friend did almost just die after all.

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The five arrive at the police station and walk into Shoupe's office.

JJ unravels the gun and placing it on his desk, in front of the man. He steps back standing next to Olivia.

"So y'all are telling me this is the firearm Rafe Cameron killed Peterkin with?" Shoupe questions the five looking at them all individually for a few seconds. Olivia shivers slightly at his words.

"That's exactly what we're telling you, Shoupe." JJ confirm's the sheriff's suspicions.

"And the exact same firearm that Ward just used to kill Gavin." Pope also adds to JJ's statement.

"I—" Shoupe looks down and sighing before looking back up at the five teenagers, "And where's that corpse again?"

"Didn't you look?" Julia asks from the chair, still dirty from the sewers.

"I checked the hospital. I went by his house. He was out."

"He was out?" Julia's voice raises.

"No shit! 'Cause he's dead!" Olivia's voice raises as she speaks, pissed off with this whole situation. Just wanting her sister to come home.

"Listen to yourself. It makes perfect sense." Kie adds.

"Just because he's not in his damn home does not mean he was a victim of a homicide."

"What are you talking about?" Kie exclaims.

"You gotta be kidding me" JJ takes his hat off taking a step back for a second.

"Are you at least gonna send it in for ballistic and shit, or are you just gonna shit on your ass?" Olivia yells, leaning forward onto the man's desk.

"He'll just sit there and wax that damn moustache. Is that even real?" JJ adds to Olivia's pissed off comment.

"I'll wax this—" Shoupe stands up, pointing at JJ.

"Shut up, JJ!" Pope turns to him.

"It's not fair." Julia complains.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hurt his feelings?" JJ speaks sarcastically.

"Shut up!" Pope yells in his face.

Shoupe opens his door standing against it, "Get out. I got work to do."

"Are you serious?" JJ asks putting his hat back on.

"Y'all are smelling up my office."

"Shit." Pope whispers slamming his hands down onto the desk.

Olivia walks over, her voice less shouting and more disappointed, "Did my dad bribe you? This doesn't make any sense." And with that she exits the office.

"You ain't gonna do shit." JJ mumbles as he passes Shoupe walking after Olivia.

"Out!" Shoupe yells at JJ.

"We brought you the murder weapon. There's no logical reason for you to not send it in." Pope stops before him.

"Go with your friends." Shoupe speaks calmly.

"This is bullshit." Pope and Kie walk out.

Julia speaks as she walks out, "I almost died for this." And she follows after her friends.

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Lexi speaks!!!!

Woop woop! I have never been on my grind this much in my entire life. If you're ever stuck with writing. Make a schedule, get a friend, and trust me it works wonders because I have been non stop writing this past week. drewsm0mmy

(i wrote this like 2 weeks ago and haven't wrote since)

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