"I'm so glad they're still doing this," Kiara referred to the film night. "Keep calm. Carry on. Back to the OBX life. You know? Aren't you guys glad I made you come?"

            "Ecstatic."

            "My couch was pretty comfy. I'm gonna be honest." JJ also disagreed, but secretly, he did love that they were doing this.

            Kiara and Maggie walked away from the group to get the drinks. Kiara asked the bartender for a few Pepsis, and it wasn't long until she was called upon by some rich looking boy.

            "Hey, Kie. What's up? How are you?" The boy asked her. Kie turned to Maggie, showing her disgusted face.

            She looked everywhere except him, showing how uncomfortable she was. "I'm fine."

            "I'm sorry, who are you?" Maggie asked, getting in between them. She saw how much Kiara was avoiding conversation. It was the least she could do to help her best friend.

            The boy turned his gaze. "Oh, I'm sorry, I must seem like a douche for not introducing myself. Rafe Cameron." There was something in the way he spoke. Something Maggie didn't like. It was almost mockingly, but Maggie must've been wrong about that. She didn't even know the guy.

            Rafe's expression dropped to a way more serious one. "Um, tell your boy that we know what he did."

            "Sorry," Kiara replied. "What boy are you talking about?"

            "Uh, he'll know."

            Kie walked away with two of the cans of drinks, expecting Maggie to be behind her. Maggie stayed behind, with Rafe.

            "I'm gonna need you to be really, really clear on this." She also became dead serious, just like Rafe was seconds ago. "Who did what, to who, and when?"

            Rafe smirked before cupping his hands around her ear, whispering to her all that he knew. Maggie had to try to keep a straight face listening. She couldn't let Pope and JJ know now that she knew.

            When she looked back, leaning against the bar as Rafe went back to his friends, she saw JJ and Pope staring at the interaction with nervous eyes, especially Pope. Maggie had never seen JJ that nervous.

            She returned to her spot in the laid back seats in front of the screen, but everyone was silent. And not in a good way.

            After the film had been going on for about an hour, Pope reached out to JJ. "Gotta take a piss." Pope whispered, he had hoped no one heard, but the brunette next to JJ heard. She wasn't gonna let them know that.

            "Hold it."

            "I can't hold it. I drank to much soda." Pope replied. Maggie looked to the toilet, seeing Rafe and his buddies standing in front of it. This was not gonna end well.

            However, JJ still felt their safety was more important than peeing. "It's too exposed," He argued. "They'll totally see us."

            "I gotta go," He looked back, also seeing the Kooks sitting. "They're blocking the bathrooms."

            Maggie sneaked a look at JJ, "Come here. I know where." He said. He stood up, ready to walk away, but stopped in his tracks to look down at his hand. It had been holding Maggie's hand throughout the movie without either of them noticing it.

            JJ stared down at the conjoined hands for a few seconds, then looked up at Maggie, who'd also been staring at it. He shook his head, letting go of her hand, and walked after Pope.

            "Hey," Kiara asked for the boys' attention. "Where y'all going?"

            The two looked at each other. "We gotta wring it out."

            "You gonna hold it for each other?" Kiara frowned. Adriana laughed at her comment.

            Maggie bounced her leg, waiting for them to get back. When they didn't come back within two minutes, or however long it took guys to pee. JJ and Pope did not come back within those two minutes, Maggie looked back. She cursed under her breath when she saw Topper, Rafe and Kelce were gone.

            She jumped up to go after JJ and Pope, but Kiara grabbed her hand. "You wanna watch?" She asked, astonished. "Gross."

            "No. Ew, Kia," Maggie scrunched up her nose. "Just — stay here. Both of you." She switched gazes between Kiara and Adriana.

            Once out of sight for the people watching the movie, Maggie ran behind the screen. She could already hear the landing of the punches. Maggie hated herself for what she was about to do. Especially after meeting with Berger.

            Kelce was holding JJ as Rafe was punching him, shile Topper and Pope were having their own fight match.

            First came JJ.

            She wrapped her legs around Rafe's neck, swinging herself around and landing him harshly on his back on the floor. Maggie made eye contact with JJ, whose eyes were wide.

            Kelce let go of JJ, focusing on the shorter girl. She smiled to dare him, getting her fists fight–ready. Kelce made the first move by punching her jaw.

            Even though her lip started bleeding, Maggie didn't show the reaction Kelce wanted. In fact, she barely reacted at all. She just smirked. "Did anyone ever tell you you hit like a twelve–year–old girl?"

            She punched the boy in his face twice before roundhouse kicking him to the ground. From the back, Rafe pulled her back, but Maggie was quick to respond by turning around and kneeing him in the crotch. Rafe bent over, allowing Maggie to kick him in his gut and send him back to the ground.

            Behind where Rafe stood, Topper pushed Pope to the ground to run to Rafe's side and take Maggie out. He punched her in her face, turning sideways just in the slightest bit. Maggie jumped on his back, clasping her feet around his torso. She let her upper body fall back and with that, she took Topper down too. Just before Topper fell down, she managed to roll away.

            Kelce and Rafe had gotten back up and were coming at Maggie from left and right. But before they were even in punchable reach, Maggie jumped back, grasping both their heads from the back to knock them against each other, sending both of them to the floor.

            The three boys rolled around on the floor, trying to get up. Maggie looked down at them, she was breathing heavily. She wiped away the blood from her lip before crouching down besides the boys. "Don't you ever— ever mess with my friends again! You hear me?" She tilted her head.

            "Dude, you're fucking crazy!" Kelce screamed, scrambling himself and his friends off of the floor. He supported them both by holding them up under their arms, since his damage was the least bad. Maggie stood back straight, tilting her head back to breath more freely.

            She brought her head back and before her were the two people she'd told to stay back, Kiara and Adriana. They were staring what Maggie thought was horrified. She'd seen that look before.

            Instead of reacting to the stares, she got Pope and JJ off the ground, supporting them. "Let's get you guys cleaned up."

            Once back at the chateau, Kiara and Adriana promised to take care of Pope, while Maggie cleaned up JJ's wounds. JJ was silent, for once in his life, as he let the brunette take care of his wounds. He wasn't usually the sort of guy to let someone else take care of him, but Maggie insisted.

            She hadn't spoken of what happened, but she hadn't been silent either. She just acted as if it never happened, which JJ had to say something about. "We just not gonna talk about it?"

             "Talk about what?" She asked as she dipped a piece of cloth in some water, "Head to the side."

            JJ waited with turning his head. He wanted to make full eye contact now that their faces were so close. "You know what I mean, Mags." Even though he'd been horrified by the actions committed, he still cared deeply. Hence is why his voice was still laced with concern.

            Maggie sighed, placing the cloth back in her lap as she looked down. She looked back up and said. "Let's just say home wasn't the least violent place, all right? That's all you need to know."

            Was this gonna be the girl JJ could tell everything about his dad to? Had he finally found the one that understood him? He so wished it was. If it really had been violent at her home, maybe she could help him with his current one.

            "Look, I just— I don't wanna talk about it," She finalised. "Now let me clean you up. Please?" She begged.

            JJ's eyes travelled from her eyes to her lips and back to her eyes. His bottom lip began to tremble, his eyes filled up slowly. He couldn't stop himself from leaning forward and wrapping his arms around her frame. JJ buried his face deeply in Maggie's shoulder, but she could feel the wet spot growing on the thin fabric of her shirt.

            She softly grabbed his head, cupping his cheeks to make him look at her. No matter how hard he tried, JJ's now red eyes would always find their way back to hers. Maggie wiped his tears from his cheeks, being careful not to touch the bruises. "Don't ever hide your feelings for me." She spoke, as soft as she could.

            JJ's mind immediately went to the other feelings.

            The ones he'd been suppressing for a long time.

OMGGG

ive been looking forward to writing the fight scene for so long, because its honestly so important for maggie's backstory. dont even think about commenting about it being unrealistic i dont have any experience with fighting so i just went based off of movies

think black widow style. kinda

also, i impulsively added that last scene bc i love them. i was contemplating on making them kiss but then i was like nehh