# — ❞ TOO LATE — I'M ALREADY OUT ! ❞
╰┈➤ CHAPTER TWO ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
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              "WHOA! THAT WAS SOME LUCKY SHIT," CARI SAID AS HER AND JOHN B SAT ON THE PORCH FLOOR OF THE SHACK, "So she just let you off?" John B nodded and took a sip of root beer. Cari shrugged with an impressed expression, leaning her back on the side of John B's shoulder, crossing her legs. They were outside at the moment, looking at Agatha's damage, which to them was most fallen branches and a few broken house items on the ground such as the hammock.

John B put down his can just as a the sun rose up, golden rays glinting off of the silver beer cans, "Yeah, but I don't think it's over yet," the power had gone out from the storm, so the two have been outside all morning until sunrise — they used to do this all the time as kids to, "So expect yourself to be the one who goes in next time."

"Nothing to worry about from me," Cari said. "I won't respond with just whatever and yeah, dude."

The siblings chuckled and right at that moment, JJ walked out of the house, "Agatha did some work, huh?" He then walked down to the grass, followed by John B, forcing Cari to sit up.

Cari squinted her eyes as she looked away, "Hey, you mind putting something on?"

"Too late — I'm already out," was all JJ replied with as him and John B started moving falling branches. Cari rolled her eyes and stood up from the boarded floors, walking over to the boys. John B lifted himself up on top of the Pogues boat and sat on the side of it.

As Cari walked over she crossed her arms against her chest, looking up at her brother on the boat, while JJ stood next to her, moving a branch from a fallen tree aside, "What you thinking?"

"I'm thinking that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze," John B replied, turning to the duo, "All those drum are gonna chase the crab."

"What about the DCS? Wasn't that today?"

John B stood up and jumped off the side, picking up more branches,  "Nah, they're not getting on a ferry," he replied as he threw a few branches a side, "I mean, think about it: that's God telling us to fish."

JJ and Cari shared a look before Cari turned back to her brother, raising her eyebrows at him, "No. I think that's God's telling you to let DCS do their job."

               AS USUAL, JJ NOR JOHN B LISTENED TO CARI AND SHE JUST ROLLED WITH IT. WHILE JOHN B WAS IN CONTROL OF THE BOAT, Cari was relaxing, leaning back against the sides. Strolling across the waters, they surveyed the damage inflicted upon the island by Agatha. While Cari never agreed with JJ on anything he'd say, she did agree with him on the fact they'd be stuck cleaning it up all summer.

John B put his hands to his mouth and pretended to speak into a walkie talkie, "We have a safety meeting and attendance is mandatory," he mimicked static as they got closer to the doc where Pope was standing and his dad trailing behind him. Cari gave a chuckle at the antics.

"I can't, my pop's got me on lockdown,"

Cari drifted her gaze to Pope's dad. Pope's dad was kinda strict, but he has good intention; he just wanted a good future for Pope. JJ stood up, tilting his head and putting a hand up, "Your dad's a pussy, over."

Of course it was something JJ said that pissed off the opps, "Oh, I heard that, you little bastard," Mr. Hayward stepped forward with a rake in his hands.

"We need your son,"

Cari nodded, "Super important shit."

"Yeah, island rules: day after a hurricane's a free day,"

"Who the hell made that up?" Mr. Hayward questioned as their boat with drifting away from the dock,

JJ shrugged, "Pentagon, I think. We have security clearance."

Then, Pope turned to his dad, "I'll do it tomorrow, I promise," Pope and his father continued bickering until Pope reluctantly hurried for the boat.

"Bring your ass back here!" Mr. Hayward snapped.

"I promise I'll do it tomorrow, dad," Pope stated.

John B waved to him, "Love you, pops! We'll bring him back in one piece, I promise."

Once the boat drifted away, they headed off to get Kie which Cari was happy about since she wouldn't be the only girl on the boat for the rest of the day. As the boat headed towards another dock, they spotted Kiara with a cooler, probably filled with beers, "Morning, boys and girl."

"What ya got? Juice boxes?"

Kiara shrugged as she walked towards the boat, "You know, just some yogurts, and carrot sticks," once she got to the edge, JJ helped her onto the boat.

               "LET ME SHOW YOU A PARTY TRICK," JJ ANNOUNCED AS HE WALKED UP FROMT WITH BEER IN HIS HAND. THE GROUP OF teens chuckled as he requested Pope to make the boat go faster, but the last time he did it hadn't work. Once JJ got up to the edge, the boat started speeding just by a little and JJ put the beer bottle up to his mouth, causing the beer to spray on everyone else.

Kie and Cari had to cover their faces, "Oh, my God! You're getting beer in my hair," and it wasn't just them; he was getting it on everyone, including the one driving. The fun was quickly halted when the boat bumped into something, causing JJ to fall off the edge of it.

Everyone was on the floor of the boat, groaning in pain. As John B stood up, he looked around to check if everyone was okay, "Kei, sis, you guys okay?"

Kiara and Cari slowly lifted themselves up and nodded, "I'm alright,"

"Pope, what did you do?"

"Sandbar, the channel changed," Pope explained.

"No shit."

"Ugh, this is probably gonna mess this whole place up," Pope added, standing up at the other side of the boat. "Guys... I think there's a boat down there."

As everyone denied, Pope pointed at the bottom of the marsh, "No, no, guys. I'm serious, there's a boat!"

"Holy shit, he's right. Let's go,"

Everyone began jumping into the water, "You think there's a dead body down there?" once Pope jumped in, they all swam under the water to survey the wreck. After a few minutes, the teens all swam back up and gasped for air.

"You guys saw that?"

"Yeah!"

They all laughed in excitement, swimming back over to the boat, "That's a Grady-White. A new one of those is like five hundred Gs, easy," JJ stated as he got up with everyone else, "That's a primo rig."

"Yeah, that's the boat I saw when I surfed the surge,"

Cari furrowed her eyebrows, "You surfed the surge?.

JJ chuckled, "That's my boy, Pogue style!"

➥ AUTHOR'S NOTE
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sooo.... it's giving i was lazy and didn't want to write the full scene and I DIDN'T! lmaooo 🤪 since the episode is so long, imma have to split it up a lil more, probs one more chapter, but who knows.

anywaysss i cant wait to write more sibling moments 🫶🏻🫶🏻 it's literally them against the world and as an only child i kinda feel like whenever i write siblings i self insert myself for the full experience of having one 😭

— see you soon, meg!