𝖲𝗈𝗇𝗀: 𝖶𝗁𝗂𝗍𝖾 𝖥𝖾𝗋𝗋𝖺𝗋𝗂 - 𝖥𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗄 𝖮𝖼𝖾𝖺𝗇

{Yeah and i bet you got that access huh?"}

The group had happily made their escape from the lion's den, JJ had sadly taken off his suit that Star thought he looked rather good in, no one needed to know that though.

John B and Star reunited in a big long hug which soon ended with the girl punching him in the arm for disappearing without a trace, and Star had quickly sat JJ down at the open door of the Twinkie to get a good look at his face as the others started the fire.

"Hold still would you?" Star spoke in a hushed tone as she cleaned dry blood off the boys face with a wet-wipe she found in the first aid kit Kiara had put in the van for emergencies.

"I know, i'm trying-ow!" he jumped away, her hand touching a rather sensitive part on his face.

She gasped at his reaction "Sorry." she gently placed the wet wipe back on his cheek bone, being careful not to hurt him any further.

The two still hadn't spoken about their little incident after the whole Kook vs Pogues fight at the movie. But in all honestly Star didn't really want to talk about it, it didn't seem to be awkward between them than what it was before, so why would she ruin that by talking about it with him.

And she didn't even know what she'd say, would she just rock but and go oh hey JJ, you know when i kissed you? yeah i'm sorry about that i don't even know why i did it so lets forget about it-but i don't wanna forget about it cause your kinda hot- what no.

She couldn't trust herself not to say the wrong thing so she thought it was best to leave it, that was if JJ wanted to talk about it.

"You look pretty." JJ blurted out before he could even think, grinning at her.

Star's eyes drifted to JJ's for a second, he bit her lip trying to hold back her smile as she let out a breathing laugh "Shut up." she shook her head.

"I'm not lying." he spoke truthfully, he didn't even know what gave him the confidence.

"Well thank you." she smiled, the alcohol still bubbling through her veins gave her the confidence to say what she was about to say "I must say you didn't look to bad yourself in that suit."

JJ's eyes shot open, his mouth hung wide but he had to remind himself that Star was drunk and that she didn't know what she was saying, nor did she mean any of it.

"You're drunk." He reminds not only her but also himself.

"Only a little." Star shrugged, now finished cleaning the boys face "Doesn't mean it's not true." Her eyes gazed up at JJ, their eyes not leaving each other.

JJ's breath hitched in his throat as he watched the look on the girls face, it was as if she wanted something, wanted him, but he again needed to remind himself that it was all just the alcohol.

Before anything else could be done or said between the two they were interrupted by Pope's voice.

"Hey guys" he spoke up "My dad's already gonna kill me, so what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope asked, everyone sat at opposite sides of the fire.

JJ and Star's heads turned quickly to the sound of his voice, JJ trying his hardest to ignored his hot and flushed face as he stood up and made his way over to the rest "Might as well tell him man, before we're gaffed." He told John B.

"You ready for this?" all eyes were on John B "So, the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant."

"Oh my god" Pope rolled his eyes "Here we go again with this."

"Wait, here him out alright?" JJ reassured the boy to listen as he sat beside Pope, bringing a slightly stumbling Star to sit beside him.

"It's been here the whole time." John B smirked, looking around at everyone apart from JJ "It's on the island."

"Are you serious?" Kiara asked "Oh my god!"

"I'd like to voice my scepticism." Pope pointed out, Star was still unsure whether she believed the boy.

"Shut up dude." She squinted her eyes, thinking that John B was bluffing.

"No i'm serious." John B stood up "Can i please present you with my evidence, Sir and Miladys?" she spoke in a funny British accent.

"Proceed." Pope and Star allowed the boy to continue.

"Alright. So, in my backpack." John B became existed as he pulled out a slip of paper "I have a letter from Denmark Tanny."

"Who the hell is that?"

"Denmark Tanny was a slave that survived the Royal Merchant wreck Star." John B answered "Check this out." he handed the paper to Kiara. "Slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship. But my dad, he found the complete manifest. That was his big discovery." Star watched the boy, becoming more intrigued "So Tanny used the golf from the Merchant to buy his freedom."

Kiara whistled, getting the other three's attention on the opposite side of the fire and handing the paper over to Pope, Star hovering over his shoulder to get a look.

"After that, he bought his farm." John B spoke "Drum roll please, because that farm is..." everyone made the sound of a drum roll as John B paused "Tannyhill Plantation."

"Tannyhill?" Kiara asked shocked.

"Yeah, after that he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit ton of rice, which pisses off all the white planters, and then... they decide to lynch him." Star furrowed her eyebrows, kind of confused by what the boy was saying as he continued "So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to hi son as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter, he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold." He smiled, walking up to Kiara.

"Where?" Kiara whispered, doing the same face John B was doing.

"Harvest the wheat in parcel nine, near the water. Except..." he pointed a finger at Kiara "There's no wheat." he turned to a confused Star and Pope "You see, wheat is code for gold. Check this out." he took the paper out of Pope's hand, and showed them a picture of a wheat symbol "The gold is in the parcel nine, near the water."

Kiara laughed as Star looked up at the boy, her mouth hung wide open and Pope expressed some words in disbelief.

"All we need is an original survey map out of the property, and we've found the gold." John B expressed with joy.

"Okay, so this might have a small chance of being actually true." Pope spoke as JJ got up, walking right over to John B.

"It's like King Tut."

"I am a genius. Hey-whoa!" John B groaned as the blonde hugged him tightly, lifting him off the ground "Hello! fire-fire you're near the fire. You're gonna burn." Star laughed at the boys interaction.

"I'm so proud of you right now" JJ spoke.

"Thank you." John B took the boy's face in his hands "That's really sweet of you."

"Okay guys" Pope interrupted the boys moment "What's the plan?" he asked.

"Good question." John B walked away from JJ "So, Sarah Cameron's coming tonight" John B rambled as Kiara and Star looked at each other in shock "She'll bring an original survey map-"

"Whoa, whoa" Kiara interrupted the boy "Hold on."

"Sarah Cameron?" Star spoke up "Why her?" she scrunched her face in disgust.

John B scratched the back of his neck nervously, feeling awkward "Sarah, um, she-she got me into the archives in Chapel Hill yesterday, and that's where i got the letter."

"You were in Chapel Hill with Sarah Cameron?"

"Why the fuck where you with her?"

Kaira and Star asked at the same time, being confused and definitely didn't like what was being said.

"Yeah umm-"

"He was mackin' on her." JJ interrupted him.

"I wasn't mackin'."

"You were totally mackin' Sarah Cameron."

"I wasn't makin' her okay? i was using her for... access." John B defended himself.

"Yeah and i bet you got that access huh?" Star mumbled, referring to the comment JJ had made.

"Did you tell her about the treasure?" Kiara looked up at the boy in betrayal, how could he bring the one person she hated into this.

"I was trying to get into the archives-" John B tired to defend himself, his voice now risen.

"Is that a yes!?" Kiara shouted.

"I-I left out the key details." The boy strutted.

"Yo what!?" Kiara raised her hand to hold her head "You let a Kook in on our secret? What about Pouge life?What about the T-shirt company, bro?" Kiara rambled and JJ, Star and Pope sat back quietly.

"I-i was just using her for information."

"Why don't I believe you?" Kiara spoke, a hint of sass in her voice.

"I'm trying to make us filthy rich here!" John B laughed "Okay, so that we can pay off a boat, or-or, uh...send you to autopsy school to study dead bodies-" he held of his hand trying to think "Look, you guys know me. Do I look like the type of person to fall for Sarah Cameron?"

"Uh..."

"Do you want us to answer that or-"

"Yes."

"Just-just stop." He pointed his finger at Star.

"Look, you don't know her yet. I do! So does Star!" Kiara pointed at her friend who looked around awkwardly "You can't trust her."

"Her brother did hit me in the back with a golf club." Pope spoke up "He also was this close-" he pinched his finger together closely "to seriously hurting Star."

"Rafe and Sarah are two completely different human being." John B tried to defend the blonde Kook.

"What did she do to you, exactly?" JJ's face scrunched up as he looked at Star for a second before turning to Kiara as he realised the girls had never told the reason for why they hated the Kook.

"She's like a-like a spitting cobra." Kiara pointed as JJ looked at her in confusion "First, she-she blinds you, and then she-"

"This is a bad analogy." Pope and Star laughed.

"Listen to me!" Kiara shouted, getting everyone's attention "Whatever we get, she gonna try and take."

"She does have a point." Star agreed with her friend.

❦

"Yo, uh....." John B spoke from the driver seat of the Twinkie as the van pulled up to the Hawks Nest, stopping the group from leaving "I think I'm gonna do this one by myself...." He paused as he made eye contact with a very pissed off Kiara "Tonight."

"Really?" JJ spoke as he leaned back on the floor, his back resting on the chair and next to Star's legs.

"What?" John B asked.

"Nothing." JJ mumbled, holding back what he was about to say.

"I just don't want to spook Sarah with the peanut gallery." The backwards cap wearing boy put his hand up.

"I just don't understand why we're involving her at all." Anger flow through Kiara's voice.

Star wasn't paying much attention to them as she watched JJ roll a blunt beside "Can I have some?" She leant down to his ear and whispered.

JJ mumbled a 'yes' and nodded his head as he licked the paper to hold the blunt together.

"Kie, we're not involving her, okay?" John B threw his head back in annoyance "It's-it's just, uh, like a-a business meeting..."

JJ took his blunt up to his lips, his mouth making an O shape as he moved his head back and forth, making nosies as he did the actions of giving a blow job.

Pope and Star were the only two to see this so they both giggled at the boy's actions.

"Look, once we get what we need, we cut her loose, all right? Plus we need the map." John B continued to try and make his friend feel better about the whole situation.

"Promise me nothing's happening between you." Kiara lent forward."

"Nothing is happening, Kie." John B shook his head and rolled his eyebrows, everyone knew he was lying.

"I'm being serious!" Kiara spoke up
"This isn't about you, and this isn't about us. This is about her. Dude, she's gonna get inside your head. Just promise me nothing's happening between you guys."

John B thought for a moment before answering "I promise."

There was silence for a moment before JJ spoke up "That was really believable."

"A hinder percent believable." Pope agreed.

"Hand on bible, swear." Star spoke up.

"Wha-just shut up Star!" John B fought back.

"What?" She threw her hands up "If it's true then you wouldn't have a problem with it."

"I'm leaving now! Gotta take care of business." John B said.

"Yup have fun."

"You're gonna take care of it so well."

"I tell you."

"We'll just sit here...in the hot-ass car. While it's lightning."

And with that John B had slammed the van door shut and went to take care of business.

Star leant back in her chair, her head resting or the top as she shut her eyes, listing to Pope and JJ talking about random shit. Kiara was still quiet, she sat there with her chin resting on her hand, lost in her thoughts.

"You want some of this?" She heard a voice, and once she opened her eyes as lifted her head she saw JJ's hand listed in the air towards her with his now lit blunt in his hand.

And without a word she took it from the boys hands, brought it to her lips and had a few long puffs, it had been an eventful night so she needed it.

"Can you guys not do that in the car, please?." Kiara spoke up, annoyed by the whole situation rather than the two teens smoking.

Star raised an eyebrow and smirked at the girls words, she knew what was wrong so she meant forward and held the blunt toward the curly haired curl, and without another word Kiara snatched it from her hands and took a long puff, it was needed.

"Kiara, holding onto your grudge is like drinking poison and thinking Sarah will die." Pope spoke up, he could see, everyone could see how un happy the girl was about John B's plan.

"And that's a bad thing?" Star mumbled, it going beard by everyone.

"Star!" Pope scolded the girl the he was her father.

"What?" She threw her hands up in defiance. "I know Kie agrees with me, and besides I'm kidding." She wasn't kidding.

"Are you?" JJ spoke up.

Star thought for a moment "No." she laughed. "Seriously, how long do we gotta wait here while they make out?"

Kiara whipped her head round to the girl, her face covered in rage.

Star made a face of regret "Sorry." She apologised for putting that back in Kiara's head.

"Hey." Kiara spoke up "We gotta talk to you two about something." Kiara looked over at Star and JJ whose both heads looked up so fast.

"Wha-" JJ looked at Pope and Kiara.

"Yeah, we do." Pope crossed his arms.

"We-uh-" Star was stopped by a noise "Wait, what was that?"

"Don't change the subject-"

Another shout "No I'm serious." Star shot up out of her seat and ran out the Twinkie.

"Star!" JJ shouted for her to come back as she ran out into the dark as he quickly followed her, Pope and Kiara close behind.

Star followed the cries and shouts for help until she stopped in her tracks, feeling a body bump into her. There may John B on the ground, unconscious as Sarah crouched over him, sobbing into his chest.

"I don't know what to do." Sarah sobbed as she looked up at the group "He needs help. Topper shoved him." She explained.

"Where the hell is he?" JJ asked, his tone and body language giving off that he wanted to kill Topper.

"That doesn't matter, just call a fucking ambulance!" Star shouted at the boy, she wouldn't have minded watching JJ kill Topper, but they didn't have time, they needed to get John B to the hospital.

And with that Pope sprinted away to get help.

"Pope hurry!" Kiara screamed to the boy.

Star stood with tears brimming her eyes, JJ stood close behind her with his arms gently resting of her hips as they waited for help.

Star and Kiara both watched as Sarah sobbed and kissed John B, Star knew something was going on between them, it was obvious, but she didn't care about that right now, she just needed her brother to be okay.

Authors note -

Chapter 18 is finally here! Oh my days that took a while, I'm so sorry for the wait I've just been super busy and kept going to write but then I'd with five words and then come back a week later but it's here now.