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A dead brother. A dead sister. Two dead friends.

As the five were in mourning of the recent news of John B and Sarah being dead at sea, Pope axes away at the tree outside John B's house. JJ heats a tool and carves 'John B Routledge 2003-2020 p4l' in a heart shape on the tree.

Julia drinks her bottle of alcohol while Olivia looks at the ground.

"To John B." JJ toasts, taking a sip from his hip flask.

"And Sarah.." Olivia turns her gaze to JJ

Kiara begins to bury a box of his things and places some white flowers ontop of it.

The following night, they all slept on the hammocks together, not wanting to be alone at that exact moment.

Olivia lays awake in her hammock looking up at the stars, she misses Sarah, I mean of course she does she's just lost her twin sister. She wishes it was her not Sarah.

Julia is just swinging in the hammock, drowning herself in alcohol. She looks over to see Olivia is still awake. Julia offers her some of the drink in her hand, but the girl denies it.

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Somehow, the next day, Julia and Olivia find themselves outside of the Cameron estate. They didn't exactly know how she got there or why, but Kie was writing the word 'murderers' on the wall with red spray paint.

Julia is drunk, yet again as she watches the scene unfold. It takes her a few seconds to even comprehend the fact that Kie was writing 'murderers', she didn't ask any questions at all.

"Okay, im not sure, but I think they can see us from up there." Pope looks over to the house.

"Who care? We should be glad im not setting the house on fire." Kie snaps back

"Okay, well, just... can you hurry up?" Pope whispers.

"Look, doesn't it piss you off, even a little?" Kie looks at him again.

"Of course it pisses me off. I'm just—I'm just tryna channel my rage into different vectors right now."

"Oh, okay." She stands up once she finishes her 'art work'Z

"God, she is so annoying." Julia mumbles to herself .

Olivia heads the girls words and looks over to her, "Guess you're pissed at her? Or is it the alcohol?"

"I quite literally hate her. It's just, like, she will practically do anything to get attention from one of the boys. And shes constantly going on and on and on.." Julia slurs as she trails off.

"I—" Before Olivia can reply, Kie starts yelling "Look, we know what you did! Murdered!"

Pope pucks her up and moves her away from the wall "No. Now is not the time. Are you serious?"

Julia burst out laughing as she looms over to see Rafe on the balcony of his house. "He's soooooo cute." She giggle.

Olivia gives her a disgusted look before dragging her away, following pope and kie.

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Olivia sits in English, bored and out of her mind, she answers a few questions before her phone goes off. She looks around the classroom before getting her phone out and hiding it using her desk.

Unknown number? She opens it and almost lets out an audible gasp before she stops herself. Sarah..she's okay. Her and John B are alive.

She doesn't think twice before packing her things away and running out the classroom, "I'm sorry! Family emergency!" She sprints down the corridor.

She gets the message from Kiara and knowing Julia she knows she won't answer because it's Kiara. So she messages Julia herself.

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As they got onto the boat, Pope states the obvious "Rafe is a psychopath. He could come after us."

"Let him try. We have his sister, and Julia." kie smirks, taking a drag of the joint in her hand.

"Listen, don't get me involved in this." Julia laughs as she drink her alcohol.

"Yeah, me neither, thanks." Olivia shakes her head.

"Look, I wanna pin Rafe as much as you do, but—" Pope starts.

"Really? Cause you could have fooled me. Are you even a Pogue?" She sasses.

"Says the kook." Julia mumbles. Olivia lets out a small snicker at the girl's hatred.

"I can't go around doing stupid things like this. we have school tomorrow. we should be focusing on laying low." Pope states.

Kiara ignores whatever he said. "Do you wanna hook up?"

Julia bursts out laughing, "See what I mean?" She turns to Olivia.

Olivia chuckles and shakes her head.

"What?" Pope snaps his head towards her.

"It's not like we haven't kissed." Kiara sounds all excited.

"Kiara, you're pretty high right now, and I honestly don't think you would want to." But once again, she doesn't listen. Instead, Kie places her lips on Pope's. Pope ducks down "Kiara."

"Cool." she nods her head.

"Haha, get rejected!" Julia laughs again.

"I don't like you." She turns to the Routledge girl.

"And I don't like you either, bitch." she shrugs.

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The five teens exit the wreck, with grins plastered on their faces.

"I never doubted them." JJ smiles holding the door open for Olivia.

"I owe you five buck." Kie laughs, hoping down the stairs.

"Kiara, I need those setups done by five!" Her mom shouts to her.

"There are other people that work here."

"But none of 'em are my children."

"I feel that. On a deep, emotional level, I understand that." Pope speaks while throwing his bag onto the bench and sitting down.

"So we going to the Bahamas or what?" JJ questions as he leans down on the bench where Olivia is sat.

"There's no way we're getting to the Bahamas."

"John B will get nabbed sooner or later." Julia speaks up. "So if we're gonna clear his name, we need to have done it yesterday."

"I'll tell you how we do it." JJ stays up straight.

"Oh, so, you have it all planned out?" Olivia looks up at him.

"As a matter of fact, I do. We kidnap Rafe."

"I'm sorry, what?" Julia speaks up once again.

"We kidnap Rafe, tie him up and stick the gun in his mouth and just wait till he starts squawking."

"Sorry but no." Olivia butts in.

"Yeah, you know, torture'd a war crime." Kie agrees, nodding her head and pursuing her lips.

"Yeah, so how exactly do you plan on clearing John B's name from a prison cell? Because that's a felony." Pope speaks in a matter of face tone.

"All right, well, what do you got, Pope? I was just trying to keep it simple. You know, one stop, and we're done."

"Guys, all we need is a material witness." Julia and Olivia look at each other when Pope says this. "We saw Ward's plane fly right over our heads with the gold inside of it. He didn't fly it. If somebody else flew, they were there on the tarmac. They saw Peterkin get murdered. We have to find whoever that was and get them to confess on record."

"How do we do that?" Kie questions Pope's plan.

"A little light espionage."

"A little ghost recon." JJ speaks pulling his hat back on his head.

"Woogity-woogity." Pope questions, holding his fingers out.

"woogity baby." JJ speaks as he and Kie wiggle their fingers with Pope.

Olivia sat in the middle seat between Julia and JJ while Pope and Kie sat in the front.

"If this guy flew planes for Ward, he's gotta be pretty tight-lipped."

"So then, direct approach gets my vote." JJ replies to Pope while holding up the gun.

"JJ, no." Olivia mumbles

"No. What?" Kie looks back at the road.

"Put the gun down, man." Pope yells.

"Guys! We gotta keep this simple, or we'll never get John B off." Olivia pushes him back into his seat.

"Or we just tickle the wire." Pope holds up AirPods.

"What?" Kiara questions rather confused.

"We tickle the wire. I plant my phone in his car, and then we listen in on your AirPods." Pope speaks while putting Kie's AirPods in his ears. He holds the phone up to her mouth. "Say something."

"Something." And it echoes back through.

"Okay, we have audio." They pull up to a house. "I think that's his house over there. All right, honk or, uh...or yell or something if you see anything suspicious."

"Don't do anything dangerous."

"Come on. I'm not JJ."

"Funny, Pope. We live third-wheeling. It's our favourite thing." JJ speaks sarcastically while Pope exits the car.

JJ turns back to Kiara, "In the bedroom, is he, like, kinda freaky, 'cause it's Pope, you know?" Olivia looked at him disgusted.

"Why are you asking?" Kie turns around and looks at him.

"I don't know. Just kinda curious. Just spitballing here."

"You don't need to spitball." Julia mumbles.

"We could sit in silence." Kie agrees.

During the silence Olivia slumps her head onto JJ's shoulder enjoying the silence, which is then broken by JJ questioning once again.

"-Ranking-wise—"

"Oh, you're still asking?" Kie turns back around slightly pissed off.

"Yeah, I was just curious."

"You're still curious."

"Is John B better?" JJ questions moving his hands up and down.

"What?" She exclaims.

"Okay." He stops speaking.

Pope runs back into the car, "Okay. Phase one is complete." He looks at everyone noticing the uncomfortable silence between them all. "Everything—Are we all good?"

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"Why does she get to tickle?" JJ asks, sounding jealous.

"She's the best tickler." Pope answers his question.

Kie looks down at the phone then up at her four friends, "Should I do an accent?"

Pope looks at her, "Definitely disguise your voice."

"disguise my voice. How would you like me to talk?" Kie speaks in a British accent. "Like this."

"Not like that." Julia starts laughing, and Olivia knows it isn't out of pure comedy it's more her making fun of her.

"No." Pope agrees. "Not like that, no. Batman."

"Batman." Kie says in a deep voice keeping a straight face, making Julia laugh even more.

"There you go." Pope nods.

"Spot-on. Let's do it." Olivia leans forward.

Kie presses the call button on the contact name.

"Hello?" The man answers in phone after a few seconds.

Kie clears her throat before speaking in her 'Batman' voice, "Hello." She looks back at Pope moving the phone away from her mouth, "I can't."

"Just talk."

"Hello?" The voice of the man asks again.

"Is Gavin there?" Kie speaks in her normally voice this time.

"This is Gavin. Who's this? Hello?"

"I know what happened on the tarmac."

The man laughs nervously, "Um...who's this?"

"It was Rafe Cameron. But you already knew that, and you lied about it."

"Okay. Who is this?"

"We're gonna prove it. You're guilty."

"You're gonna tell me who this is right now."

"You could have saved her, Gavin, and you didn't. And you're not getting away with this."

"Listen to me! Who is this?" The man shouts into the phone.

Kie puts the phone down. "How was that?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I was scared. Good job." JJ speaks.

"All right. We tickled the wire. Phase two complete. Now we wait and listen."

"Okay."

A car comes driving past, presumably the man's car, and due to Julia being still intoxicated Olivia pushes her down as her and the rest hide out of view from the man.

"All right. Hey, here he comes. Stay down." Pope whispers to everyone.

The man drives past not noticing anyone, "He didn't see us." JJ points out the obvious and Olivia was gonna say something but Pope interrupts her.

"Go, go, go, go, go, go, go." He urges. "My seatbelt, my seatbelt." He pulls on his seatbelt which isn't moving.

"Are you seriously buckling up now?" Olivia questions.

"Yes, I am."

"You don't need it right now." Julia mumbles as Kie drives off.

Pope puts Kie's AirPods in and speaks as the man does, "It's Ward. He's talking to Ward." This makes Olivia cringe and sink back into her seat.

"Are you serious?" Kie speaks as JJ leans back, grabbing Olivia's hand comfortingly.

"Yeah." As Pope listens he turns to Kie, "Get clo..get closer. I can't hear."

"Okay." Kie nods.

"He's talking about negotiating something. Re..renegotiating. Gavin's got the gun that Rafe used to kill Peterkin."

"Holy shit."

"Oh shit." Olivia and Pope spoke at the same time.

Pope speaks again, "I think he's trying to use it as extortion, as leverage."

"Wait . He's pulling over." Kie slows down as the man over the phone slows down.

"Shit. He's panicking."

"Do I pull behind bim? What do I do?"

"Go around the block." JJ leans forward as he speaks.

"Yeah. Yeah, just go." Pope agrees.

"We're gonna lose him." Kie complains as she turns.

"Go, go, go!" JJ urges.

"I'm going. I'm going

"I can't hear anything. Shit. I'm losing the signal. I can't hear him." Pope panics.

"What the hell is this?" Olivia leans forward as they come up to a 'ROAD CLOSED' sign.

"Stop. Just stop and turn around now." Pope voice urgent.

"Pull in here and back up." JJ points instructing Kie.

"Okay, I'm just gonna back up." But before she can a digger truck comes out and stops them.

JJ gets pissed off and climbs over Olivia and gets out her door, "Hey! We were about to back up."

"What are you doing?" Kie shouts out the window."

"You literally had to do that now? Wait! Pope!"

"We gotta know where they're meeting."

"We're going after him, right?" He opens the door for Olivia who holds it open for Julia.

"Yep." Olivia grabs Julia's hand to keep her on her feet as they run after Pope.

Olivia and Julia reach Pope at the push, standing by him and watching the man in the car.

Pope turns to look at everyone.

"What? What does that mean?" Olivia questions the look on his face.

"Did you hear something?" JJ asks.

"He..he's meeting Ward right now. We gotta go. Come on."

"Okay."

And with that they all run.

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Lexi speaks!!!!

long time no see.

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