Season 1

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We're the Pogues, and our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.

"I give you about a one-in-three chance of survival." I say to John B who was standing on top off the roof. "Hm." John B reacts licking his finger and putting it in the air to see where the wind is coming from. -"Should I do it?" He asks. "Yeah, you should jump. I'll shoot you on the way down." Pope says to John B with an screwdriver pointing at him. "You'll shoot me?" "Yep, pow." I laugh at them.

"They're gonna have Japanese toilets with towel warmers." Kie says walking up to us. "Of course. Why wouldn't they?" JJ says. "This used to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles I guess?" Kie responds. "Can you please not kill yourself." I tell John B who's still on the roof. "Don't spill that beer. I'm not giving you another one." JJ adds.

"Whoa! Oh, shit." John B drops the beer.. "Of course you did." JJ yells. "Smooth." I say to myself. "Dumb ass." Kie adds laughing.

"Hey." A security guard yells. "Hey, uh, security's here. Let's wrap it up." Pope says. "Boys are early today." John B says. "Alright Humpty Dumpty, let's roll." I say. "Gary, is that you?" JJ says before climbing down. "Gary, good to see you man!" "Yeah You're just asking for it." Kie tells him.

We all started running to the downstairs at the house and leaving before security could grab us. "Go Maddy! Go! Go, go, go, go!" JJ yells from behind me. "Come here, you little pricks!" The guard said and we all started laughing. John B grabbed his car Twinkie and we jumped in.

At this point I was the happiest I could ever be. I had the best people around me. Kie and I are one of the rich kids, also known as 'Kooks' but we never actually show it. We are always with them, we are Pogues. My parents and brother aren't really happy about it, especially my brother. And when I say he reminds me of it a lot, he really does.

Hurricane Agatha started at the Kildare Island on the Outer Banks. So me, John B and Pope had the amazing idea to go surfing.. we always liked a little challenge. I haven't been surfing for long, seeing as Kooks don't surf, but I'm really getting the hang of it.

"It's a double overhead out there, guys." Pope says. "Double overhead?" John B asks. We stood on top of the hill looking at the ocean. It was rough so it had a bord saying "Beach closed". "Those aren't surfable waves." Pope adds. "Says who?" I respond laughing. We started running to the ocean. We got in and are catching some good waves. Some that good we actually lost our boards.. Thunder kept rumbling. Then I saw him. The guy that I have so much hate for. Rafe Cameron. He's also a Kook, and an annoying one. He's my brother's best friend. I don't even know why he came to the beach with this kind of weather, but as soon as he saw us surfing we lock eyes.

I look away. "What the hell." John B suddenly stopped and looked away. "What's going on?" I ask, but he didn't respond. I saw a boat drifting in the distance.

Next day I walk out of my room and head downstairs on my way to meet my friends who texted me that we were going on some mission. After the storm, not really much was ruined out here on the Kook side. But on the Pogue side, it was a lot different.

"Where are you going?" Topper asks me as I walk into the kitchen to get some quick breakfast. "Out." I coldly answer knowing he wasn't going to like it. "With those stupid Pogues, huh?" He scoffed. I turn my head towards him and roll my eyes, "We are not stupid."

"Don't say we. You're not a Pogue." He responds. "I am." I sigh as a walk away towards the front door to leave. He does this all the time.

I meet up with Kie and John B picks us up with his boat. "Good morning, boys." Kie says. We sail away and JJ wanted to do some stupid trick, standing at the front of the boat pouring beer in his mouth which made Pope bump into a sandbar and JJ fell in the water. "I think my heels touched the back of my head." JJ says coming up. I couldn't hold it so I burst out laughing, while JJ is giving me that angry 'shut up' look.

"Guys.. I think there's a boat down there." Pope suddenly says. We all looked his way. "Shut up." "No way." Me and JJ say annoyed. "No, no, guys. I'm serious. There's like a boat down there for real." "Holy shit, he's right. let's go!" Kie says. "You think there's a body down there?" I say taking of my shirt. We all jumped into the water. "Get your ass in here!" JJ yells at Pope. We went underwater to inspect the boat.

"You guys saw that right?" JJ asks coming above water. "Yeah, I did" I answer. "that's a Grady-White." JJ says smiling, "A new one of those is like a 500 Gs, easy." We climb back onto the boat. "Wait, do we know who's boat that is?" Pope asks, "No, But we're about to find out." John B answers. "Dude, it's too deep." I tell him. "Oh, for the weak and feeble Maddy." "Well, i'm not resuscitating you. I'm just making that clear." "That's fine." "John B." Kie says looking concerned. "What?" "Diver down, fool." Pope says patting his shoulder. "Diver down." John B adds making the salut move. "Yeah, he is." JJ pushes him in the water.

"Should we go get him?" Pope asks after a while but John B comes up with a key in his hand. "Ah jeez" I say, "Oh my God, that took forever!" Kie adds. "Any dead bodies?" "Looting Potential?" Pope and JJ ask, "No. No. I found this motel key." John B answers. "A key?" "Yes a key, Pope." "Great! We salvaged a motel key." JJ says. "Guys, we should report the wreck to the coast guard. Maybe we'll get a finder's fee." Kie adds. "Yeah, and not work all summer. Thanks Agatha, ya batch." JJ says annoyed.

We sail to the Motel that the key belongs to to try and find who the owner is. Me, JJ and John B decide to take a look so Pope and Kie waited on the boat to keep the watch. "Hey, don't let JJ do anything stupid." Pope says pointing at him. "I'm not even gonna make any promises." I answer, knowing he'll probably do anything stupid. "Yeah, I know." Pope says sighing. "Be careful." Kie says to John B, "I mean it." "Yeah. Let's go!" He says chuckling.

"Just be so careful, John B." JJ imitates Kie. "God, you're so weird." John B says pushing him off. "Yeah what was that about." I jump in. "I don't know, maybe she want us to be careful." He says raising his shoulders. "She's hitting on you, dude." I tell him. "Guys, you know the rule. No Pogue-on-Pogue macking. Besides JJ is the one who's always hitting on you two." He says referring to Kie and me. "Of course I'm hitting on them. They're super-hot, rich, hippie chicks slumming with us." "I'm still here." I say rolling my eyes at JJ.

We reached the door and JJ knocked at the door, "Housekeeping." He says in a stupid woman's voice. No one answered so we tried the key. When we entered we saw a bag laying on the bed. "Let's check the bag. See if there's a name on there somewhere." John B says. "No name on the jacket." I add. "It's a nice jacket, though." JJ says over my shoulder while I push him away.

JJ noticed some sort of notes while John B found a safe and surprisingly one of the notes was the code. In the safe was a lot of money and a gun. "Uh.. Guys." He calls us, "You're gonna want to see this." "dude, dude, dude!" JJ says exited. "You grabbed the gun.." John B yells concerned. "This is a SIG Sauer." "Put the gun back, JJ!" I also yell at him. "We are not stealing anything." John B adds. "Just take a pic of me. Right." This man honestly.

Something hit the window, it were Kie and Pope who were mimicking the word "cops". "Shit." John B stresses. "What is it?" I ask. "Cops." John B answers looking out the window. We immediately get into action before the cops walk in so we and climb out the window. That stupid JJ dropped his gun down, "I'm pushing you of for real." I whisper yell at him putting my face in my hands. Shoupe heard it and walks up to the window, but luckily he didn't see us. We got back on the boat and rushed away before they saw us. "We'll, that was fun." JJ says." "You have a dead wish? Like tell me, then I can fix it for you." I respond raising my eyebrows and laughing sarcastic. "Nah, i'm good."

"A dead body, who's that?" John B asks, "It's Scooter Grubbs. He was out during the storm." A girl responds. "What kind of boat did he have?" JJ asks, "Somehow that dirtbag copped a brand new Grady-White. Everyone's out looking for it." She answers. We all looked at each other.
"Okay. So um... we didn't see anything. We don't know anything." Pope came in stressing. "Pope's actually right for once." JJ responds. "Guys we can't keep that money." Kie says. "Okay. Not all of us can afford unlimited data plans, Kiara." JJ says annoyed. "I agree. We have to pass that off to Lana Grubbs. Otherwise, it's bad karma." I add.

We had the great idea to throw a beach party, so we didn't look suspicious of anything. We invited all the Pogues, but of course the Kooks had to come intrude. Cause there's no party without the Kooks right? Bullshit. "What is she doing here?" Kie suddenly says looking annoyed. She was talking about Sarah Cameron. The Kook princess. Kie and Sarah were best friends, until they weren't anymore. But it was a little inconvenient that Sarah and I were still friends. She really is the only Kook I can stand though.

It got dark. JJ was drunk as fuck.. he literally tried to make people drink the beer. "Maddyyy, my sweet friend here take a sip. Want it?" "For me? Yeah I'll take a sip." I answer laughing. "Oh hey, hey. Hey Sarah!" JJ yells, "Can I interest you in a tasty Milwaukee beverage?" "JJ, leave it." I sigh.

"No, thanks." She responds and she gives me a greeting smile. "Come on, is it not fancy enough for you?" JJ asks, "This is not gonna end well." I sigh. "Hey, you know what. I'll take it. I'll- Thank you man. I appreciate it." Topper responds. "That's nice Topper, but I didn't ask you. Maybe if you said pretty please." JJ responds. "Maddy, tell your stupid Pogue friend to shut up." He looks at me and I just sigh. They kept going and suddenly Topper threw the beer in JJ's face and so JJ pushes him. "Oh for the love of God." I say pulling JJ away.

"Dirty Pogues!" Topper yells, it triggers John B so he punches him in the face. "Topper! Topper no!" I hear Sarah yell from beside me. They started to fight until someone jumped in to help Topper. Yep there he was again, Rafe Cameron. That's when we notice each other, again, he stops in his tracks and just looks at me. I can clearly tell because of his face he did not want me to see him fight.

"What the hell is going on?" He slowly came up to me. "You guys! What is wrong with you." I yell at him walking backwards. "Don't act like you're not a Kook, Maddy." He says while trying to stop me from going, "Don't. Touch me!" I say biting through my teeth, "Just get my stupid brother and leave."

At that point we see Topper starting to drown John B. "Topper! Topper stopt it!" I scream. JJ took the gun and holds it against his head. "JJ no!" I yell at him. "JJ, stop!" Kie also yells. "Put the gun down!" Sarah screams. "Did you say somethin', princess?" JJ responds.
"Maddy! Please get your psycho friend away from your brother." Sarah turns to me.

"Okay, everyone, listen up! Get the hell off our side of the island!" He screams while shooting into the air, scaring everyone away with this stupid action. "Are you crazy!" I yell, pushing him. "You idiot! Why would you do that?" Pope yells at him. "I'm saving his life, okay?"

The next day Topper walks into the living room looking at me. "Oh, hey Top." I say. He walks over to the couch and sits down beside me. "I hope I'm not bothering you." He starts and I shake my head, "Great. 'Cause there's actually something I want to talk with you about." "Okay, you have my attention." I say.

"Your stupid friends, pulled, a fucking gun at me. I'm still not okay with it. I mean who does that?" "Look, I understand. It was really stupid of JJ to do that. He knows he was wrong and won't do it again." "That's not enough, Mads. These Pogues are dangerous and as your brother I think you should stop hanging out with them."

I sigh, "I'm sorry, but I can't just dump them for you. They've been my friends for so long." "So your friends are more important than me?" "That's not what I'm saying." "Right, I'm sorry. Sorry that I'm behaving like this because they put a gun to my head. Do you know what it feels like to have a gun pointed at your head?" He asks me.

"No, I don't. But to be fair you started this whole thing." "Yeah, you're right. My bad, I deserved that." "I didn't say that." I respond annoyed. "Do you realize I'm just trying to protect you?" "When did I ask for your protection?" "You know, now I get it. Rafe was right." "About what?" I shake my head, getting more annoyed.

"He warned me that if you kept hanging with them you'd be brainwashed by them, and he was right." I scoff at what he just said, "This is insane." I get up and walk away. "Maddy, come back here." He yells while putting his face in his hands.

Later we all went over to John B's place again. "Look, I'm callin' it off. All right?" John B says referring to the search, "Peterkin said, if I stay out of the marsh, she'll help me with DCS." "And you believed her?" JJ asks. "Yes, I believe her, JJ." "An actual cop, John B. You believed a cop." "All I gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out. It doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting a gun."

"You know what I should've done, man? Just let Topper drown your ass." "JJ." I say trying to stop him. "Topper was gonna drown me?" "Sure looked like it." JJ responds. "He wasn't actually gonna do it." I add.

"They always win don't they, man." JJ says standing up, "Kooks versus Pogues. They always, always win!" He yells beating something. "Look, it's okay." Kie tells him. "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. And I understand why you don't wanna go." He says turning to Pope, "You're the golden boy. You got way too much to risk. And you—" He continues turning to me and Kie, "I mean, you guys already are rich as fuck anyway. Why would you bother."

"But you and me, man—" He turns back to face John B, "We got nothin' to lose! We really don't, all right?" "JJ." "I'm done with this." John B says pushing JJ away. "John B, listen to me. I have a plan. You got the key to Cameron's big boat, right? There's scuba gear. We just borrow that, and then we go down to the wreck this afternoon, and that is what's gonna save you, man. You don't see rich kids going into foster care, do you?" JJ says, not quitting and Kie and I share a look.

After John B 'borrowed' the scuba gear we went out on the boat back to location of the lost boat. "Does anybody know how to dive?" Kie asks, we all stay quiet. "It's kind of a Kook sport." JJ answers. "Uh.. I read about it." Pope says. "Great, Pope read about it, so someone's gonna die." I respond while I sigh. "Look, y-you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. How hard could it be?" JJ asks. "Well, if you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends." Pope answers. "Bends like, bend over and—" JJ continues doing some weird bending over pose, "—The bends kill you." Pope finishes.

"I can— I can dive." John B suddenly says. "You can dive. I'm cool with that." JJ adds. "Since when can you dive?" Kie asks. "I'll do it, it's fine." Pope took out his math skills and starts to calculate, I almost fell asleep so I didn't get anything he was saying. Pope says that he needs to make a stop at ten feet down, so suddenly Kie jumps into the water. "What was that?" John B asks looking behind him at the splashing water. "I don't know, but I liked it. A lot." JJ responds and I scoff. "Ah, don't get all jealous Mads. I'll give you attention in a sec." He says and I give him the finger.

"Hey! I tied my T-shirt to the anchor chain about ten feet down. It's where you need to make your safety stop." Kie says coming up from the water. "Cool." John B responds. "Breathe as little as possible." Pope tells him. "Zennn, think zen you know." I sarcastically assure John B before he dives in. Kie walks up to him and gives a kiss on his cheek, "Diver down?" John B says. "Diver down." She answers. I share a confused look with Pope and JJ.

Then we hear Police sirens. "Shit, JJ." Pope says. "Guys, that's the police." He answers. "No shit, Sherlock. Just act frickin' normal." I add. "Evening Officers." "Evening." Shoupe says. "How you kids doing? You know the marsh is closed?" "Oh, wow." "Really? We didn't know." We say acting surprised. "Why is it closed?" Pope asks Shoupe, "We'll, we're conducting a search out here. Boat went down. Seen anything?" "No boats, no." Pope answers.

"Where's your friend you always hang with? He here?" "Oh, he's working." I lie. "Hm, i'm gonna check your little boat out." Shoupe says jumping in. "Yeah, hop aboard." JJ responds. As soon as they left, John B was definitely out of air. He came up and found a bag in the boat. "Hey, guys? Guys, bogey, two o'clock." Kie warns us.

"Do you recognize that boat?" Pope asks. "I've never seen it." Kie answers. "What are they doing here? The marsh is closed?" I say. "I don't know, but let's not stick around and find out." JJ responds. "JJ, get the bowline." John B tells him. "Should we wait on 'em?" Pope asks. "No, we're not gonna wait on 'em." John B answers him, "—Go get the stern. Go!"

"Are you joking? JJ, hurry up." I tell him. "Guys, don't wait for me. Go." "Let's go!" Kie says. "Are they coming for us?" "Maybe they're fishing?" Pope says hoping for the good, "—Go into the marsh." "I'm going. Act natural." John B responds.

They keep speeding up and following us. But suddenly one of the guys takes out a big ass gun and starts shooting at us. "What the—" We all duck down. "Holy shit!" Kie yells. "John B, get down!" I yell at him. "Oh, my god, we're gonna die." Pope says as they keep shooting.

"Shit, Pope move." Kie says while getting a net and walking up to the back of the boat to throw it in the water. The man stops shooting as their boat gets stuck in the net. "Good job, girl." I smile at Kie.

When we got back we opened the bag. "What do you guys think it is?" Kie asks. "Gotta be money or something, right?" I respond. "That or a couple of keys with street value to the low- to mid-mils!" JJ adds excited. "Can we please just open the bag?" Pope says with a serious tone.

"Wow, Pope." John B responds surprised. "That's a rare outburst of emotion from you." I add. "Okay, You guys are literally killing me with anticipation— Open the bag." "Jeez." JJ says. "We almost died over this." Pope ends.

John B pulls out a weird type of box and in it was a compass. A compass, what were we gonna do with a stupid compass? "Dude, what? It's not worth anything." JJ asks him taking his hat off. John B smiles, "This was my father's."