𝟎𝟐. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬

"I'm just saying, I don't understand why you don't at least try it with Kiara. She clearly likes you." I say sitting in the back of the car. "Yeah! She's like, 'Oh John B' She's sketching about you diving, then she kissed you bro!" JJ adds, "She kissed me on the cheek. It's not like we were makin' out." John B responds. "Low hanging fruit man. Don't pretend that you don't notice, I see it in you eyes your like 'I kinda like that' and you start blushing." I tell him. "I blush?" "Yeah."

JJ grabs the compass, "I gotta admit, your father's compass in Scooter's boat, that's freaky." he says. "Yeah. That's why we're going to talk to Ms. Lana, figure this whole thing out." John B says. "I'm sure she would just love to talk to us. It's not like her husband just drowned or anything." JJ adds while I roll my eyes.

As soon as we enter the house, we here noises coming from the house, such as crashing. "Where the fuck is it, you bitch!" "I don't know!" we hear Lana sobbing. We run up to the window and we push John B down, "Still think we should stay?" I ask him. "The compass wasn't in the boat! Where is it Lana?" The man yells and we look at each other.
"Dude, those were the guys that shot at us." JJ says as we see the guys leaving.
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"I mean, I just- I can't get it out of my head." Topper says. "Bro, he had a semiautomatic pointed at your head. Safety off." Kelce adds. "That's what i'm saying. It's insane." Topper keeps trying to get Rafe his attention.
While Rafe could only think that girl, that Pogue girl. What was she doing to him? Whenever they met Rafe couldn't take his eyes off of her. She had something special about her.
"They're freaking Pogues, man." Rafe decides to respond. "You know you should get a piece." "What do you mean?" Topper asks, "You gotta fight fire with fire and defend the homestead." "Listen I-I'm gonna get him back, all right? I'm making it a little project of mine." "Yeah, you should man." Rafe supports Topper because he knows if Topper is pointing it at JJ, he gets to see Chloe again.
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"And we were right outside like this." JJ imitates is this morning, "And all we hear is just, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' Knocking paint off the wall, G! From the inside, all right? And i'm just looking at him and at that point i'm just waiting for death yeah." "Jeez JJ come on." I roll my eyes at him.

"Oh, okay so you saw the guys that shot at us, right?" Pope asks. "Yeah." "Did you get a good description of them, what did they look like? Anything that we can take to like a police report?" "Burly." JJ responds proud. "Yeah that's not helpful." Kie sighs. "Okay well, no, like the type of guy at my dad's garage. I can tell you with full confidence guys, these boys, these killers... they're square groupers." JJ says pitting up his cigarette. "Okay so what does this square grouper look like, specifically?"

Pope asks while they kept going no where. I saw John B fiddling with his Compass. "What are you doing?" I ask him. "The office." He suddenly says. "What?" "My dad. My dad's office. He always kept the office locked because he was worried about his competitors stealing his Royal Merchant research. We used to laugh at him like he was actually gonna find it. But now that he's gone, I've just kinda.. I just left it as he kept it." John B says grabbing the key for the office. "Yeah, for when he gets back." Kie says, "Yeah."

We walk in and look at the generations who used the Compass. They all died. "Yeah uhh, you have a death compass." I say. "I do not." "You have a death compass." "Seriously dude, get rid of it. It's cursed, and it made its way back to you." JJ adds. "Look, my dad used to talk about this compartment in here. Soldiers used it to hide secret notes." John B says opening the compass, but nothing was in it. "What's that?" Kie asks pointing at a word written on there. "That wasn't there before. This is my dad's handwriting." "How can you know that?" Pope asks chuckling. "Because he does those weird Rs with the- see it?" "Red- Rout.." JJ tries to read it, "It says Redfield." I add, "Right." JJ says annoyed. "Okay, well, what's Redfield?" I ask. "Uh, maybe- maybe it's a clue right? Maybe it's a clue to where he's hiding." John B responds. "A clue? Come on, that's-." Pope tried to say with Kie gives him a serious look, "But if it is a clue, maybe it's an anagram?" "Yes. Perfect! Anagram. You need paper." John B says getting up.

I walk around and notice a black car coming up. "Guys.. Guys! Somebody's here." I yell. "Guys, guys, it that them?" Kie asks worried. "Oh no.." JJ adds. "John B, I told you man. Why does it always-." "JJ! Hey, look at me. Where's the gun?" John B seriously asks him. "Gun? I, uh, I can't-." He stutters. "Now you don't have the gun, the one time we need to gun?" I say getting worried too, "It was in my backpack, and then I-." "On the porch." John B realizes, "It's on the porch." JJ says running out the room. "John Routledge!" A man yells, so JJ comes running back immediately. "Come on out now! Where's the compass?" The man yells again. They start searching the house. "We gotta leave!" I say. "Guys, window. Window." Kie adds. "Sack this place!" We hear glass shattering. "Why is it taking so long?" Kie asks stressed. "It's painted shut, okay?" JJ says, not getting the window to open. "Okay, guys. Guys. Here, I got it." Kie runs up to the window. Then a man tries to open our door, "You better not be in there!" He yells while he starts kicking the door. As soon as they entered we got out. We hid in the chicken hut and saw them taking boxes from the house.
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I was taking a walk to proces some things. And one again I found myself wondering of to the Kook side of Outer Banks.. I see Rafe walking with Topper. I turn around to try and find a way to get out of their sight, but it was to late. "Chloe Maybank." I hear Rafe's voice so I turn around, "What are you doing back here?" "Uhm, I was just taking a walk." I answer nodding my head as they approach me. "Wait, Maybank? as in JJ Maybank." Topper asks. "Yes." "So your bitch ass brother hold his hun against my head huh?" Topper yells grabbing both my arms. Rafe pulls him back with his shirt. "Yeah he did. What's wrong Topper? You got some nightmares about it?" I ask him making a sad face. Before I knew it he punched me in the face. Rafe pushed his shoulders and he fell over, "Don't touch her man!" He says turning around to face me. "Don't challenge it, Chloe." "I'll do whatever I want." I say walking away. Who the fuck did he think he was? Bossing me around.
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Redfield Lighthouse. Big John's favorite place. The five of us get out of the car and look up to the lighthouse. "Right, here's what's gonna happen. You guys are gonna post up and look for bogeys, okay?" John B says pointing at me and JJ. "Wait.. Why us?" JJ asks, "Yeah?" I add with a questioning look on my face. "Because you guys are not coming." Pope responds. "Why?" JJ asks him. "Look, there are independent and dependent variables. And you guys are independent. We don't know what you'll do." "No shut up!" "Listen to me for a second." John B says getting JJ's attention, "Chloe, you stand look out with JJ. Okay? That's how we'll do it. If we get split up, we meet back at Chlo and JJ's house." "Great." Kie answers. "At least let me come, dude." I try again. "Chloe no!" John B says walking away. "It was worth a try." I say shrugging my shoulders. "All right, you wanna do that essay for school?" Surprised that even got out of my mouth. "Would you just shut up already?" JJ says annoyed. "Okay, Jeez. Grumpy head."

JJ and me notice that a police car is entering, "Shit!" JJ yells and we run to the car as fast as we could and drive off. "JJ stop! We need to wait for the rest." I say. "No no, John B said himself, if we split up to go to our house. I'm not waiting for them."
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I heard that John B and Kie got caught by the police so I went over there to wait for them. That's where I walk by him, again. I roll my eyes and continue walking but he comes up to me. "I heard your little friends are at the station. What'd ya'll do huh?" Rafe asks me smirking. "None of your damn business." I say looking at him. "Look, about earlier. That wasn't Topper's intention." "Oh yes it was. I mean he also threw the first punch at the beach party so.. I think what's best for him is to or control his stupid anger issues or stay the hell away from us." I tell him as I turn to walk away, he grabs my arm to turn me around and hovers himself over me. "Listen, Maybank. Your brother had a freaking gun, okay? So here's what's best for you, or you tell your brother to get rid of it or we'll actually go to the cops. Your choice." Suddenly a guy took Rafe away from me, "Hey man, why don't you leave the girl alone." He tells him. "Who the fuck are you?!" "I'm Jacob Grey, just moved here." "Listen up, Jacob. How about you go fuck yourself." Rafe says before looking at me and walking off.

"I'm sorry. He's just like the biggest douchebag on the Island." I say. "It's okay." He answers laughing, "I knew a lot of these guys from where I came from." "I'm Chloe by the way." "Nice to meet you, Chloe ...?" "Maybank." I say laughing. "Well I'll see you around. Chloe Maybank."
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John B comes pulling up. "Let's ride." I say to JJ and Pope running up to his car. "This better be good." JJ responds. We drove up to Kie's parents restaurant. "She says she's not comin'." Pope says walking out. "Why not?" I ask. "What'd you do to her, John B?" JJ adds. "Shit." He responds, "Hang on, i'll deal with it."

"You mind if I just relax on this one? It's been a long day, and a lot of weird stuff's gone down. I'm just gonna lay low." JJ says, "Oh, did you want a hit of this?" "No JJ." I answer. "Dude okay. Do you understand that your problem is that you don't get creative, you're just flirting with that stupid Kook boy." "What the fuck are you talking about?!" I ask him. "What Kook boy?" John B adds. "Yeah that Rafe Cameron guy. I've seen you guys." "Oh my god JJ, that's nothing. I fucking despise the guy." But did I?

"Hey, come on." John B says. "I'm coming. This place is scary." Kie answers. "John B, what are we doing?" I ask him, "Okay so you know how you're trying to remember a song and you can't remember who sings it?" "Yeah." I respond. "So, Redfield. This whole time, I thought it was a place, right? But it's not a place. It's a person." He says while walking up to someone's big ass tombstone.

"See, my great-great-grandmother, Olivia Redfield. That was her maiden name. Help me with the door, come on." He asks us. "All right. One, two, three." Pope helps him. "Hold on I got it." JJ helps them. "This door is like 700 pounds man. It's not gonna budge." Pope says. "We didn't come this far to get this far, all right? We got this!" JJ adds trying to pomp some confidence.

Suddenly a snake comes hissing out, "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Pope says scared. "Ew, a snake!" I say disgusted. "That's a moccasin, all right. Ye olde Dr. Cottonmouth. Death in tall grass." JJ starts barking to the stupid thing. "JJ, shut up you dumbass!" I yell at him. "You're gonna wake the freaking dead, man." Pope tells him. "They're afraid of dogs. Everyone knows that man." JJ says acting innocent. "Wait, hold on. If there's one, there's probably dozens. All around." He adds. "Stop. You're scaring me." Kie says. JJ starts barking again, "Stop barking at the snakes." John B also tells him.

"John, look. We're not gonna get in there, all right? It's not budging. We should probably just go." Pope says being scared once again. "I can get through." Kie suddenly says. "What? No, no, no. You think you're gonna fit through the hole? That hole?" John B asks looking at her. "Look, this is about your dad. And honestly, I really don't believe in it, but you deserve to know the truth. I'll do it." We held the branches out of the way, "I'm gonna boost you, all right? I've seen it in the movies several times." JJ says leaning up against the door. "Remind me what we're looking for." She asks. "You'll know when you see it." John B responds. "Okay flashlight." She says while being inside. "You alive? You got like, a heartbeat and everything?" I ask her. "So far." She responds. "Uh.. I need some more light." "Yeah, yeah here. Yeah I gotcha." John B answers giving hanging the light inside. "Did you find something? Is there gold?" JJ asks. "Oh, my god."

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