{"Would you guys rather fuck Officer Shoupe, or Topper?"}

Star rushed out of the house that morning, picking up a slice of toast from the table and putting it in her mouth as she hopped on one foot, trying to put her shoe on.

"Where are you going?" Her father shouted after the running girl.

"Out!" She shouted back, going to open the door but being stopped by her father.

"Stop!"

"But dad.." She tired to protest, not wanting to be late for the others.

"Nope, you just sit right down there." Rob pointed to the chair across from him at the other side of the small wooden table.

"What?" She huffed, slouching down on the chair, knowing her father had something he wanted to complain about.

"You were at the beach last night? correct?." He raised an eyebrow at his daughter, taking a sip from his coffee mug.

"Yeah?" Star asked confused as he never seemed to have a problem with her at the beach before "What about it?" She looked out the window to see if she could see the boat.

"I heard there was a gun involved." He looked at his daughter, seeing her expression change from boredom to shocked.

"Umm.."

"Was there a gun involved Star?" her father asked, becoming slightly worried as before he didn't believe when he heard it from some man at the shops that morning, but seeing his daughters face, maybe it was true.

"What." she scoffed "no, of course not."

"You sure Angel?" he raised a brow at the girl "It wasn't. Maybank, was it?" he said concerned, knowing that the boy would never have a gun but wasn't sure if he was trying to convince himself or others.

She laughed at her father "You really think JJ, would have a gun? of course not. What makes you think that?." She asked as a knock was heard at the door.

"Come in" Rob called out, knowing that whoever it was, was a regular round at the Owens house so he just lets them walk in. "I don't think that, i was just asking okay?" his gaze softened "I just want to make sure you're safe."

"I'm fine dad." She rolled her eyes getting annoyed about her dad being so overprotective for no reason.

"Uh hi." Spoke a voice. making Star and her father face the person "I hope i'm not interrupting anything?"

"Maybank, no of course not." He smiled at the blonde boy who rocked on the heels of his feet "We're done now." He faced his daughter with a stern look.

Star knowing he wasn't actually angry. she just rolled her eyes and stood up out of her chair. "Bye daddy." She kissed her father's cheek who returned a smile.

"Bye." JJ smiled nervously.

"Bye kids, don't do anything stupid!" he called out to the two teens who were already out the door.

"You okay?" She asked the blonde, seeing as he was acting a bit off.

"Huh." he cleared his throat "Yeah, yeah i'm fine." he smiled.

That was a lie, JJ wasn't fine in a sense. He had been up all night thinking about her. Sure JJ had thought about the girl like that ever since he started to have a thing for her, but these last few weeks, it was different. He couldn't seem to get the girl out of his head, and he started to feel a different feeling around Star. But what was it?, that's what JJ didn't know, and it was killing him.

"Omg you're alive!" she beamed, running down the dock of her back garden where the group were sat waiting on the boat to pick her up, and with the help from JJ made it on "Ooo, gnarly eye." She scrunched up her face, noticing the boys now purple eyes.

"Oh really? i hadn't noticed. Thanks Twinkle." John B replied sarcastically, earning a glare from the girl.

"Don't call me that." She sternly to the nickname he had came up with when they were seven. John B finding the hilarious, and even more funny when he got a reaction out of the girl.

"You know JB here almost back out." JJ told the girl, pointing at boy with the black eye.

"What! really why?" She asked
but was quickly interrupted by Kiara.

"It doesn't matter Star, what matters is that John B here brought us a tank that is a quarter full. It's only enough for one of us." She explained.

"Oh! i'll do it!" Star raised her hand with excitement.

"No you won't." JJ forced her hand down "I'll do it. I mean how hard can it be? you put the thing in your mouth and breath."

"Well if you come up to fast nitrogen gets in to your blood and you get the bends." Pope explained to the boy in front of him.

"Bends like, bend over and..." JJ said bending over and sticking his ass in Star's face so she slapped it away "Hey!"

"The bends kill you." Pope stated.

"Oh, right..."

"I can dive." John B raised his arm in the air.

"Yeah he can dive, i'm cool with that." JJ agreed.

"Since when can you dive?" Kie asked, going protective mom mode.

"I'll do it, it's fine." John B replied.

As Pope began blabbing about John B diving, out of nowhere Kie took off her t-shirt and jumped into the water.

"What was that all about." Pope asked, as the boys all looked at one another confused.

"I don't know, but that was hot as fuck." Star spoke honestly.

"I tied my t-shirt to the anchor chain about ten feet down." Kie said popping her head out of the water and swimming back over to the boat "It's where you need to do your safety stop."

"Do that again!" Star shouted to her friend who shook her head smiling.

"You need to make sure you have enough air to decompress." Pope explained to John B.

"Okay, how much do i need?" He asked the brainy boy.

"Uhh...Breathe as little as possible." Pope smiled and walked away as John B pulled his lips in a tight line.

"Zen. Think Zen, you know?" JJ told the boy.

"If we get caught in the marsh we're basically screwed." Pope spoke up from the steering wheel "So, come on John B, let's go."

"Copy that." John B saluted.

The three other friends watched in confusion as Kiara went over to John B and kissed his cheek like it was nothing.

"Diver down?" John B said getting caught off guard.

"Diver down."

They all watched as John B put his mask on, and JJ, Pope and Star all looked at each other, puzzled on what had just happened and Star made her way straight over to Kie as John B jumped into the water.

"I swear to god. If you don't tell me about whatever the fuck that was later. I will kill you." She mumbled to her friend who simply rolled her eyes and walked to the other end of the boat. "I mean it bitch!"

~

"Hey! would you guys rather fuck officer Shoupe or Topper?" Star innocently asked as she stood balancing herself on the side of the boat board outta her mind, even though it had been only about 2 minutes since John B had dived into the water. But to her it felt like hours.

"Have you had any weed today?" JJ asked his friend, rather weirded out by her question.

"Whattt." She said in a high pitched voice "Of course not!" She scoffed, completely lying as the joint she had smoked out of her bedroom window moments before running out of the door was only now just kicking in.

"Without me!?" Shouted at the girl.

"Okay but seriously who?" And before she could get there answers they heard a siren and the cops pulled up.

"Shit, cops!" Pope whispered.

"I'd do Shoupe." Star mumbled to herself but earning a shocked look from Kie "What? like you'd do Topper?" she held a disgusted expression on her face when she said the kooks name.

"Just act frickin' normal." Kie ignored the girl's weird answer and brushed the hair away from her shoulder.

"Normal, okay!" Star nodded before running around the boat frantically, trying to act normal as the boat pulled up beside their's, causing the girl to freeze on the spot and making Kiara pull her down to sit next to her. But once Star had spotted that it was Shoupe on the other boat she quickly crawled over a hide behind the steering wheel where he wouldn't see her.

"What are you doing? get up." JJ whispered, leaning towards the girl trying to put out his hand to help her up as Kiara just literally just told them to act normal and Star was doing the complete opposite of that.

"Shut up!" Star whispered back, slapping the boys hand away "Pretend i'm not here."

"Evening officers." Pope spoke in a steady voice.

"Evening." Officer Shoupe replied handing the rope the JJ for him to tie off. "How you kids doing? you know the marsh is closed right?" Shoupe spoke, taking his sunglasses off.

They all acted stupid pretending they didn't know why it was closed as Star stayed quiet while she hid from the one specific cop as there last encounter was when Star had been put in the back of the cop car by the man after catching her shop lifting alcohol. And Star being Star, once the officer wasn't looking she made a run for it. But Shoupe was far too tried of the girl so he just let the girl run and decided to let her off easy that time.

"Oh, why is it closed?" Pope asked Shoupe.

"We're conducting a search out here. Boat went down." Shoupe explained "You seen anything?"

"Nope."

"No boats, no."

"Where's your friend you're always hanging with, he here?" Shoupe asked, talking about John B.

"He's working." Kie lied.

"And Owens?" He asked, still not seeing the girl who he always seemed to get calls about, along with JJ of course hiding behind the wheel.

"Umm." Kie was confused as she slyly looked at the hiding girl, but quickly making up a lie seeing that Star was telling her to be quiet. "She's helping her dad out at the shop."

"Huh, i'm gonna check your little boat out."

And the second Star heard those word she quickly crawled round to the other side of the steering wheel so Shoupe wouldn't see her as Kie and JJ looked at the girl weirdly. And to her stupidity, she had crawled to the wrong side and bumped her head right into the Police officers legs.

Everyone was silent as they watched in confusion, and Shoupe who slowly looked down at the ground seeing the girl on all fours.

"Hey Owens." He put both his hands on his hips, looking down at the girl knowing exactly why she was hiding.

Star slowly put her head up to look at the man "Ohh, heyyy Shoupe." She said as if she didn't know he was there and stood up in front of him "How are you? long time no see."

"Yeah." He nodded, raising an eyebrow and brushing past the girl to go to the front of the boat, looking down at the water as Star huffed in relief that the man didn't do or say anything.

They all watched the Police officer stood at the front of the boat right where John B and jumped off of, scared that he would come up any moment and they would all get caught.

"All right." Shoupe faced away from the water and walked back over to his boat "Beautiful day ain't it."

"Sure is." JJ replied relieved that they didn't get caught.

"Let us know if you see anything on your way out." Shoupe said getting on to his boat before turning around "You." he pointed to the girl who was high as a kite "Stay outta trouble."

"Roger that." Star saluted the man who drove away. "Why is he kinda..." She spoke a bit too loud, so when she turned around to face her friends they looked at her as if she was a ghost.

"I...I'm not even gonna ask." Pope put up his arms in surrender walking over to the boat waiting on John B who was probably out of air at this point.

"What the hell was that about?" JJ asked "Not the part where you just said...you know, that." He scratched the back of his neck rather weirded out "The hiding part?"

"Got caught shop lifting." She smiled making her friends look at her in shock "Hey! JB." She said getting her friends off the subject as John B made his way to the surface holding up some sort of bag.

"You okay?" Kie asked the panting boy.

"I ran outta air."

"Yeah the cops came." Pope spoke "You know Star shop lifts?"

"Dude." Star said slapping the boy on his chest.

"Hey guys?" Kiara said squinting her eyes in the distance "Bogey, two o'clock."

"Do you recognise that boat?" Pope asked.

"I've never seen it." Star replied.

"What are they going back here? the marsh is closed." Kie asked.

"Well, i mean we're in the marsh." Star pointed out the obvious.

"Okay, but let's not stick around to find out." JJ spoke.

"JJ get the bowline."

"Yeah."

"Should we wait on them?" Pope turned to his friends.

"Wait on them?" Star's eyes widened "No where not gonna wait on them are you stupid. John B dive."

"Guys don't wait on me go!" JJ said as he quickly began pulling the anchor out of the water.

John B began driving the boat as the other boat began speeding up close behind, following them.

"They're following us!"

"This isn't good."

"Dude, you gotta go faster."

The group raised through the marsh with the other boat following fast behind them. And then out of nowhere they began to shoot at them.

"Holy fucking shit!" Star shouted, ducking down.

Another bullet.

"Oh my god where gonna die." Pope spoke practically shitting his pants.

"Star!" JJ called out to the girl, grabbing her arm and pulling her into his chest,  facing his back to the other boat to shield the girl from the shots.
Because truth be told, JJ would literally die for her.

Star looked around frantically and then noticed the fishing net bundle up on the side of the boat and an idea popped into her head. And by the looks of it Kie had the same one.

The two girls gave each other a nod and quickly made their way over to the net. Star having to break free from JJ's strong grip.

"Star!" JJ shouted, seeing the girl now out of his hold and making her way to the bottom of the boat with Kiara. "Get down!"

"Kie, Star. Get down!" John B shouted as another bullet was fired.

The two girl grabbed either side of the net and longed it into the water, their plan working. The boat behind them jolted to a stop as the engine got tangled up in the net.

Kiara and Star looked and one another laughing and high-fived each other.

"Holy shit!"

"Whoo!"

"Nice!"

The group cheered as they got away from the two fucking manics and happy to still be alive.

~

"What do you guys think it is?" Kie asked, them all on John B's dock. The sun now set.

"Gotta be money right?" John B said crouching down.

"That or a couple of keys with street value to the low to mid mils!" JJ said and John B whoood.

"I hope it's weed!" Star beamed as the group laughed at her, and JJ high-fiveing the girl.

"Can we please just open the bag?" Pope said getting rather frustrated.

"Wow Pope."

"That a rare outburst of emotion."

"It's okay Pope." Star whispered, rubbing the boys shoulders "Calm down. Remember what JJ says? think Zen."

"Stop it!" Pope shrugged the girls hands off him "You guys are literally killing me with anticipation. Open the bag."

"Jeez."

"We almost died over this."

They all watched as John B pulled out a metal tube looking thing and unscrewed it, tipping it upside down and holding out a compass.

"Oh wow. Yup. That's about right." Pipe said sarcastically "Good job everybody. We found a compass."

Star watched John B as he knelt there, frozen, just starring at the compass in his hand.

"John?" She asked, placing a hand on his right shoulder and kneeling down next to him. The boy still not moving a muscle or uttering a word.

"Dude, What? it's not worth anything." JJ spoke. Only for Star to give him a look which made the boy quickly shut his mouth.

"This was my father's." John B spoke just above a whisper as he continued to stare at the compass in his hand.

"Holy shit." Star whispered, looking at the rusty, gold compass.