I'm taking a walk at the harbour after we didn't find the gold. I saw that they where taking some boat that sunk out of the water. I realized it was Topper's boat so I couldn't help myself but to take a closer look.

I hear his mother yell at him saying it was his fault. He turns around and sees me. Shit. I try to make it seem like I was just randomly walking by.

"My mom thinks that I did it. Even though there's no way I could've. I mean how? It's always my fault, no matter what." Topper says to Rafe and Kelce. "Well, we know who did it right?" Rafe says. "It was that little geek Pope." Kelce responds. "Pope, yeah. You know I saw that little Maybank bitch there. She was enjoying it." Topper adds while Rafe looks up with a death stare. "So it had to be Pope. Rafe, if you wouldn't have jumped him on the golf course, I'd still have a boat, right?" Topper continues.

"Sorry if I, uh.. had your back after some Pogue put a gun to your head. Listen man, I'm not the enemy here. And don't ever call that Maybank girl a bitch again, understood?" Rafe asks him. "Yeah man, yeah." Topper answers. "What is going on between you two though?" "What are you talking about?" Rafe asks annoyed. "You and Maybank girl. Chloe?" "Nothing is going on. What are you on about man." Rafe tries to laugh it off.

JJ and I are practicing shooting with that stupid gun. Well JJ is, I'm just here to make sure he won't do something stupid.

"JJ! Chloe!" Pope walks over to us. "What was that? That's what I thought, man." JJ says as if he's shooting someone , while he's shooting at a stuffed bear... "JJ!" I yell taking his headphones of. "What Chlo? I'm in the middle of this epic battle, of course I'm winning." He answers winking. "Pope is here, idiot." I roll my eyes

"They know." Pope says. "What?" JJ asks. "They know." "Know what?" I add. "Rafe and Topper, they know." Pope responds. "All right, chill bro. All right? They don't know shit." JJ says calm. "Topper knows I sunk his boat." "How do you know they know?" I ask. "Because Rafe and Topper posted outside of Heyward's and mad dogged me." Pope answers stressed. "Will you calm down and get a grip, man? They don't know shit." JJ says again. "They have cameras. They could've seen me." "There was no power Pope. How could they have seen you?" "It's Figure Eight. They got generators."

Is this the right time to tell them I probably gave us away...

"Enough with the regret, bro!" JJ yells to stop him. "They caved your face in. They hit us, we hit them. It's the law of the jungle. Now, if any Kooks come up to you and ask if you had anything to do with it, you walk up to 'em, look 'em right in the eye, and?" "Deny the living shit out of it." "That's right. Deny, deny, deny. But just for safety, we don't go anywhere without protection." JJ says pointing at the gun.

"I'm so glad that they're still doing this. Keep calm. Carry on. Back to OBX life." Kie says as we walk up to watch the summer movie series. "Aren't you guys glad I made you come? "Ecstatic." Pope answers. "My couch was pretty comfy, I'll be honest." JJ adds. "I like it Kie." I say rolling my eyes at them.

"We're out of the green zone, guys." Pope says stressed again. "Dude, tranquilo okay?" I tell him. "We're in the middle of Kooklandia. This is the last place I wanted to be." "Shut up, Pope." JJ says.

I walk over to get us some drinks. "Hey, uhh.. can I get two Pepsis, please?" I ask the barman. "Sure."

"Hey, Chloe." I look over and see Rafe. I sigh. "Hey, what's up? How are you?" Rafe asks me. "I'm fine." "Good, good. Um.. Tell your boy that we know what he did." He says. "Sorry, what boy are you talking about?" I ask trying to act like I have no clue. "He'll know. But you do too, don't you?" He tilts his head. I look at him and walk away. "Bye Chloe." "Douche."

I walk back over to the rest, "Just saw Rafe, and he said, and I quote, 'Tell your boy that we know what he did'." I say quietly so that Kie doesn't hear. "Where is he?" JJ asks. "Right there." I answer as we turn around.

"Great, the whole death squad. Ah!" Pope says shaking. "Don't stare, bro." JJ turns his head back. "Just warning you. If they corner me, I'm coming out swinging, okay? Slice and dicin'. I'm one edge right now. If that doesn't work, I got this right here." JJ says pulling up his bag with the gun inside. "No JJ. Not again." I tell him. "I'm sorry, JJ. Please tell me that you did not bring a gun here. JJ, there are kids!" Kie silently yells. "Kie, I didn't bring the gun. Everything's fine, okay?" "Oh wow, thank you. That's really convincing. I love that JJ."

"Founding principle, you guys. No secrets amongst Pogues. What is going on?" Kie asks. "Kie, it might go down tonight." Pope tells her. "What does that mean? What did y'all do?" "Deny, deny, deny." JJ whispers.

the movies started and it was dark already. "Chloe." Pope wishers. "What?" "Gotta take a piss." "Hold it." "I can't hold it. I drank too much soda." "It's too exposed. They'll totally see us." "I gotta go." We look behind our backs over to Rafe and Topper. "They're blocking the bathrooms." Pope says. "Come here. I know where." JJ suddenly says.

"Hey, where y'all going?" Kie asks. "We gotta wring it out." JJ answers. "You gonna hold it for each other?" "Oh my god, Kie." I say disgusted.

I see Rafe and Topper waking over to them so I follow them with the bag knowing this isn't gonna end well. "Chlo? Where are you going?" Kie asks.

"Yeah, that was some nice work you did on my boat." Topper yells. "I don't know what you mean." Pope says scared. "Sure, of course you don't."

"Not so burly without a gun now, are you?" Rafe tells JJ. "Take one more step, I'll rip that prepubescent face off." JJ responds. "Pope. Do you feel good, stealing shit? I mean is-is you mom proud of you? Is your dad?" Topper says. It triggers Pope so he punches him and they start to fight. Rafe also starts fighting JJ, because who is Rafe without a fight right?

I walk up and see them. "Hey kick his ass Top!" Rafe yells. "Let go of him, Topper! You fascist asshole!" I yell throwing the bag at him. He pushes me back and grabs the bag to throw it away. "Topper stop it!" I yell jumping on his back trying my best to punch him. Rafe looks over to us and sees me on his back so runs over to us and lifts me off. "Let go of me, Rafe!" I yell at him. "Stay out of this, Chloe!" He throws me away. Literally. "Chlo! You okay?" JJ yells. I go over to the bag and get the gun out, deciding not to use that I get the lighter and put the movie screen on fire.

"Guys! Fire!" Rafe yells. "Get off of him!" I yell at Kelce who is still holding JJ. "Let's get out of here, go!" Rafe says. "Holy shit, you almost killed him, man!" Rafe tells Topper laughing. I lock eyes with Rafe and I can only look at him in disgust.

Next day.

Hey, I haven't heard of you in a while. How are you? Jacob texted me, but I decide to ignore it for now.

"What was your thought process, using your head?" JJ asks Pope. "I don't know, man. I just kind of acted of instinct. I was a cornered animal." He answers.

"Hey pope, someone here to see you." His dad says. Officer Shoupe walks in. "Evening, Officer." Pope says stressed. "I have an arrest warrant for felony destruction of property. Hands on the counter where I can see 'em." Shoupe says. "Whoa. Shoupe, what'd he do?" Heyward asks. "Take a look at the warrant." "You're arresting him?" I add giving Shoupe a weird look. "You're just arresting my boy?" Heyward yells. We all follow them asking Shoupe questions.

"It wasn't him!" JJ suddenly yells as we walk outside. "No, JJ, no!" I tell him. "It was me. He tried to talk me out of it, but I was mad because he'd just been beaten up. I was so sick of those assholes from Figure Eight that I lost my shit. I can't let you take the blame for somethin' I did. You've got too much to lose." JJ says looking at Pope.

"JJ, what are you doing?" I shake my head. "I'm tellin' the truth. For once in my goddamn life, I'm gonna tell the truth." "JJ, come on man." Pope tries to stop him. "Just shut up, Pope! Just shut up. He's a good kid. You know where I'm from." He says looking at Shoupe. "Yeah." "This was all me." JJ adds. I couldn't believe he was doing this. Why would he? I can not see him go to jail, I can't.

"That's the whole truth?" Shoupe asks Pope. "Whole truth, I swear to God." JJ responds. "I know what you think, damn it, I'm asking Pope here." There was a long silence before Pope responds, "Yeah, that about covers it." I sigh and shake my head. Something inside of me dropped and JJ looks at me. Shoupe takes Pope's handcuffs off and put them on JJ. They get in the car and drive away.

I run away because I couldn't handle any of this shit anymore. Why would JJ do this? I mean of course, I felt bad for Pope. But JJ shouldn't have done this.

I keep running, and accidentally run up to someone. "Whoa, whoa, Chlo calm down." As soon as I see that it's Rafe, I actually lose my shit. "This is all... your fault!" I scream while I push him back. "All of it!" I start hitting his chest. Rafe grabs my wrist, "Chloe, calm down. The fuck is going on?" "Ugh!" I rip myself out of his hands. "Because you couldn't control your stupid anger issues from the start, my brother took the blame on something he didn't even fucking do! And they're now escorting him to the fucking police station!" I yell and I walk closer to him, inches away from his face. "And it's all, because, of you."