↣ 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘶𝘣𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴

Playing the bongos, Nixie had her legs lying on top of Kiara as she had her back against the couch. They were waiting for John B. to finish his current task. It was quite difficult to leave her house this morning because her mother was yelling about some issue.

"Look, I'm callin' it off. All right?" John B reported as Kiara stopped playing the bongos when he was in front of his friends, and Nixie looked up at him. "Peterkin said, if I stay out of the marsh, she'll help me with DCS."

"And you believed her?"

"Yes, I believe her, JJ."

"An actual cop, John B. You believed a cop." JJ questioned, finding it difficult to fully accept what he was hearing .

"All I gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out." After John B tossed a piece of wood on the floor, Nixie sat up quickly. "It doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting a gun."

"You know what I should have done? Just let Topper drown your ass." Nixie closed her eyes, knowing that there was about to be another quarrel.

"Topper was gonna drown me?"

"Sure looked like it."JJ spoke as he approached John B and put his arms up against the post. "Have you looked in a mirror? They always win, don't they, man? Kooks versus Pogues. They always, always win!"

"Look, it's okay!" Kiara said calmly.

"No, it's not okay! It is not! They don't want us to go down into the marsh. That means there's something valuable down there, and you know it." Before focusing on Pope, JJ said while glancing across to John B.

"I know you do. And I understand why you don't wanna go. You're the golden boy. You got way too much to risk. And you two..." JJ turned to face Kiara and Nixie and continued. Nixie furrowed her brow in response. "I mean, you're already rich as fuck anyway. Why would you bother?"

"Well, I'm not sure if you've met my Mother." muttered Nixie to herself.

"But you and me, man, we got nothin' to lose! We really don't, all right? And I know it didn't use to be that way for you."

"I don't want to talk about this. I don't want to talk about it." John B tried to push through JJ and head back towards the house, but JJ just dragged him away.

"So that's it?" They were already on the verge of something, but John B was going to blow it away, JJ inquired in shock. "John B, listen to me. I have a plan. You got the key to Cameron's big boat, right?"

"No."

"There's scuba gear...We borrow that, and then we go down to the wreck this afternoon, and that is what's gonna save you, man." Nixie nodded in response to JJ's bold but foolish suggestion, but knowing John B, he would follow through.

"You don't see rich kids going into foster care, do you?" John B turned to face his pals and Nixie shook her head, clearly realising this was a poor decision. She immediately put her head back against the chair.

𐬽𐬼𐬽

Nixie watched as the sun slowly sank as she peered out across the ocean. All she had on was an orange bikini with a white shirt over it. Pope found it impossible to look away from her, and JJ had to laugh at him.

"This is empty. You took empty tanks?" Gazing at the tanks in front of her, Kiara asked. "Okay, this one's a quarter full."

"It's true that Great John B will drown and no one will know about it." Crossing her arms over her chest, Nixie spoke.

"It's enough for one of us." Muttering under her breath, Kiara turned to face John B.

"Love it when a plan comes together." Pope shook his head. Nixie grinned at him, but he looked away before she realised he was staring at her for too long.

"Does anybody know how to dive?" Kiara asked the group, and Nixie simply shook her head, she would never do it after diving once.

"Anybody?" Kiara asked again.

"It's kind of a Kook sport." JJ spoke as he looked over at her.

"I... read about it." Pope interrupted, and Nixie burst into a fit of laughing that he wanted to bottle up so he could keep it to himself.

"Great, Pope read about it, so someone's gonna die." Kiara's sardonic response caused Pope to roll his eyes.

"Look, y-you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. How hard could it be?" JJ inquired

"If you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends." Pope clarified while JJ snickered at him.

"Bends like, bend over and..." Nixie squinted at JJ as he bent over, arching his back.

"The bends kill you." Pope said, getting the blonde boy to get back up. JJ tried to play it off by looking around awkwardly.

"I can... I can dive." Unconvincingly, John B. said, and Nixie immediately turned to face him.

"You can dive. I'm cool with that." John B actually didn't need JJ's approval, so he nodded.

"Since when can you dive?" Kiara questioned.

"Should you really go diving, given what occurred the last night?" When Nixie asked, John B just dismissed her with a shrug.

"I'll do it. It's fine." John B spoke, and Nixie turned to see Pope, who merely shook his head.

"Let me do some calculations real quick."

"You serious?" Kiara muttered towards John B.

"That boat's about 30 feet down. So it'll take 25 minutes at that depth. Twenty-five. Which means you need to make your safety stop at about... ten feet. All right? For two minutes." Pope looked over towards John B, who only nodded in response.

"Yeah, yeah. Ten feet, two minutes. Got it." John B replied.

As Kiara undid her shirt and shorts and dove into the water, they turned to face her. "I'd go all gay for her." Looking over at the boys, who were still in shock over what had transpired, Nixie remarked.

"What was that all about?" Pope Inquired.

"I don't know, but I liked it. A lot." JJ stated as he peered out into the lake. "Uh, so...All righty. Yeah. Uh, when you... uh, when you're down there, you look for the cargo hold." JJ began to clarify as he changed the subject. "You stick this thing inside and twist and pull, okay?" He gave demonstrated 

"Stick in, twist, pull." John B replied.

"Yeah...My dad moved weight back in the day." JJ answered.

"Who didn't?"

"My step dad isn't really into all that watery stuff, so mine didn't." As Nixie turned to see Kiara approaching them, she said

"Hey! I tied my T-shirt to the anchor chain about ten feet down." Kiara said as she started to swim in their direction. "It's where you need to do your safety stop."

"Keep an eye on this." Pope remarked while pointing out the timer to John B and letting him know how much was left. "You need to make sure you have enough air to decompress."

"Okay, how much do I need?" John B enquired

"Unclear. Breathe as little as possible." John B smiled awkwardly at him.

"Zen. Think Zen, you know?" JJ imitated the movements.

"Yeah. Got it."

"Avoid going under there and dying." Nixie remarked in jest, although she was secretly concerned for him.

"Yea, I'm not going to die." He remarked, Pope glanced at her and wondering what her genuine sentiments towards John B were.

"Hey, if we get caught in the marsh, we're basically screwed, so... better get a move on." Nixie turned to face Pope, who interrupted her, and took a step back.

"Copy that."

As Kiara approached John B, Azalea observed as JJ turned away from the two of them. She lingered on him and then leant in to kiss him on the cheek.

"Diver down?"

"See ya, dude." JJ muttered, observing John B dive into the ocean and disappear from view.

Nixie whirled around to see a police boat approaching them as the police sirens abruptly activated. "Well fuck."

"Guys, that's the police." As they all stood up, JJ said.

"Oh, you gotta be kidding me."

"Yep, that's the police.

"Just act frickin' normal." Kiara messed with her hair, making a statement.

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Author's notes

Cutting this chapter short as it would've been way too long.

Shout out to my favourite people.norasnetflix RuffieRoseStories arsvenal kiesluverr KleeAlise11 andorss

Well that's all from me. I hope to see you in the next update