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𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱

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John B drove the Twinkie to where this warehouse that stored all of the money apparently was. Sarah had become his new Passenger Princess, so the others sat in the back as JJ admired the gold in his hand.

"Can I see it?" Cassie asked him since she really hasn't taken a good look at it yet. She was too wrapped up in the prospect of it that she had actually forgotten to see it for herself.

"No," JJ pulled it away from her like he was child trying to keep something from his parents.

The blonde scoffed at him. "Dick."

"Blondie."

"Ugh, you know I was the one that came up with that, right?" She pointed out, giving him a look. JJ shrugged just shrugged as he purposefully held the gold out in front of him, trying to make her jealous that he had been the one holding it instead of her. She sighed and rolled her eyes at him, sharing a look with Kiara who had just been shaking her head.

"Don't you guys ever get tired of arguing?" Pope queried, tilting his head at them.

The two both looked at him and answered, "No." They then shot each other a look, narrowing their eyes

Pope sighed, not wanting to entertain them any further. "So...they keep money out here?" Pope changed the subject slowly once they drove past an abandoned looking house.

"That's what she said," JJ told him before he laughed. "That's what she said," he repeated, but with a different, more inappropriate meaning.

"Stop," Pope immediately demanded and JJ's grinned disappeared as he looked down.

"I've never even heard of Resurrection Drive," Sarah pointed out from the front seat.

"Same," Cassie nodded.

"That's 'cause you're both rich," JJ pointed out like it was obvious and Cassie gave him the bird.

"You've never heard of it either," Kiara exposed.

"Thank you," Sarah said as she met eyes with JJ, giving him a look.

Kiara then furrowed her brows when she looked out the window of the Twinkie. "There's nothing but weeds back here," she observed. Cassie followed her best friend's gaze out the window, squinting her eyes to see if she could spot the warehouse through the trees but she saw nothing.

"All right, just 'cause it's just weeds, doesn't mean it's...like..." JJ trailed off before a siren suddenly bleeped behind them.

Kiara and Pope looked out the back window, their eyes going wide. "Cops? Out here?" Kiara questioned.

"God! Are you kidding me?" JJ exclaimed angrily.

"What the fuck?" Cassie seethed. The one time they weren't doing any illegal, the cops decide to come? And all the way out here?

"What did we do?" Sarah asked as she looked over her shoulder.

"Why are we getting pulled over?" Pope complained as JJ started to grab his backpack.

"Stash that," John B whispered to JJ about the gold.

"Chill, guys."

"Put it—" Pope waved his finger at JJ's bag.

"I hate cops," JJ expressed as he shoved the gold in his backpack harshly.

"Did you bring the gun?" John B asked as he slapped JJ's hand.

"What, you wanna shoot the cop?" Cassie gave him a crazed look.

John B blinked at her. "Yes, Cassie, I want to shoot the cop," he answered robotically before he quickly shook his head. "No! Are you crazy? I'm asking so we don't get caught with a gun by the cop."

"Oh," was all Cassie said in response, her face burning in embarrassment at her stupidity, before she turned to JJ. "Well, did you?"

"No, okay? Everybody told me to leave it back at the place," JJ assured them.

"Thank God. Please, just everything else in your bag," Kiara told the blonde as he sifted through the bag.

"I am! I am, all right?" JJ told them frustratedly as Pope crouched down to help him.

"How much weed do you have on you, bro?" Kiara asked as Pope urged JJ to go faster before the blonde stuffed the backpack underneath one of the seat cushions.

"Surprised you haven't already smoked it all!" Cassie quipped and JJ sent her a quick glare.

"Shh, he's walking up right now!" Pope told them quickly.

"Sir—"

However, John B had stopped himself when the barrel of a shotgun was shoved in his face. Cassie quickly looked at the window when she heard the gun cock, her stomach dropping at the sight of a man with skeleton mask pointing the gun right at the Routledge boy.

"Why don't I just go ahead and see them hands up in the air right now?" The man demanded John B and they all hesitated, not knowing what to do. "All y'all's hands up in air right now!" He suddenly yelled, making them all quickly raise their hands. "You, out of the car! Let's go!"

John B carefully opened the door and walked out as the man backed up, the gun still pointed at him. "Out of the car! Let's go! Hurry! Let them out!" He shouted, pointing at the Twinkie.

John B slowly walked over, keeping his gaze locked on the man. "What are you waitin' on? What are you waitin' on? Let them out! All y'all! Go on! Go on! Let's get out of the car! Let's go!" The man continued and John B opened the door to let Sarah out. "There you go, pretty girl. Here we go! Get out of the car, let's go! Hurry up! There you go!"

Pope went out and then Cassie followed Kiara out of the Twinkie, keeping her hands up. "Ooh, more pretty girls. Come on!" He drawled and Cassie's released an angry breath, but kept her mouth shut.

JJ had been the last to step out. "We're broke—"

"Shut the hell up!" The man cut JJ off, pointing the gun at him.

"All right! Okay!" JJ yelled back at him.

"Shut the hell up! Shut the hell up!" The man screamed as he stepped toward JJ, shoving the gun at him which had made all their eyes widen fearfully.

"Just relax!" JJ bellowed fearlessly.

"Chill!" Pope chastised JJ, not wanting the boy to get shot because he couldn't shut his trap.

"Shut up! I'll blow your damn head off!" The man threatened. "Lay down in the ditch! Lay down in the ditch! On your goddamn hands and knees! Down!" He shouted, making them back up into the ditch. Cassie placed her hands behind her head, slowly lowering herself to her knees. "Put your face on the ground!"

He passed by Cassie, seeing that she hadn't lowered herself to the ground yet and she was still on her knees. "What, that a familiar position to you, pretty girl? Put your face on the damn ground!"

"Hey!" JJ barked from the ground at the man's disgusting comment. Cassie sneered at the man before she fully lowered herself down, resisting the urge to do anything crazy even though she really wanted to punch the guy in the face right now. However, she knew better than to do anything when he had a shotgun pointed at all of them. She wasn't that reckless.

The man walked back over to JJ, hitting him on his back to push him down further. "Stay here just like that! Put your head down! Don't let me see you look up! All right?" He started to back away to the Twinkie, keeping his eyes on them. "That's all y'all gotta do."

The man then climbed into the Twinkie, searching through the dashboard to look for the gold. "It's a setup, guys," Kiara told them, fighting back tears.

"That old bat shanked us," JJ seethed before he started punching the ground. "Fuck! Goddamn it!"

"Maybe we should've fucked her up," Cassie commented furiously through clenched teeth as she stared down at the ground.

John B started to get up from the ground. "Wait. No, no, no, no, no, no. John B...No," Sarah whimpered, causing them to look over to see the Routledge boy backing away.

"John B. Don't be a hero, man," Pope whispered to him, but John B quickly shushed him before he made his way over to the man's fake cop car. Once he was far enough from the Twinkie, he sprinted over to the car and got inside.

"Is he crazy?" Kiara cried out as Sarah shut her eyes, not being able to watch if the man had saw John B and shot him.

Cassie had no idea what John B had been planning, but she had to admit, he was ballsy. She would have expected JJ to be the one to do something like this, not John B who had usually been the one to stop him along with Pope.

"All right, y'all stay just like that," the man instructed once he came out of the car, holding the blue towel with the gold inside of it. Cassie cursed to herself once she saw he had the gold, inhaling exasperatedly. "Unless you want your brains blown out all over this road...don't move your goddamn heads, okay?" He threatened as he pointed to them before he walked over to his car and got inside.

Cassie perked her head up over to the car to see John B start tussling with the guy, causing the car to rock. "Oh, shit," she breathed out, immediately pushing herself up from the ground like the others did once they saw them fighting as well.

"Guys, I got the gun!" John B called out and JJ came running over to him first. The man slammed the car door on John B and turned around to swing at JJ, but he managed to dodge. JJ punched the man in the shoulder but it did nothing as he turned and punched the blonde in the face, sending him down.

Kiara quickly came over and punched the man in the face before he easily pushed her down. "You dick!" Cassie shouted as she went up to him and lifted her leg up, kicking him in the balls.

The man yelped and immediately grabbed them in pain before John B hit him with the shotgun from behind, sending him fully down.

"I got the gold!" Pope exclaimed in the car before Sarah slammed the car door into the guy's body, making him groan in more pain. She then did it a second time before Kiara went back over and kicked him, as did Pope, who made him hit against the car door which had closed it.

"You son of a bitch!" Sarah cursed down at him as he leaned against the car, panting hoarsely.

JJ bent down and pulled the guy's mask down, revealing his face. "I know this piece of shit! He's a basehead!" JJ snarled angrily.

"Probably knows my brother," Sarah breathed out as she ran a hand through her hair. Cassie gave her a confused look. "My dad kicked him out because he found him with coke."

Cassie swallowed hard at that, growing even more pissed. Is that why he choked me? Because he was so coked out? She thought to herself before she looked over at JJ.

JJ met her eyes before he shook his head furiously as he picked up the shotgun. "He sells coke to my dad."

"Hey, listen! I couldn't hurt any single one of y'all—" JJ brought the gun up and hit the man in the face with it.

"JJ!" Kiara shouted at him at the same time as Pope and John B tried to pull him away from the drug dealer.

"Dude, chill man. Come on," Pope told him as he grabbed the gun from him. However, Cassie had ripped it from his grasp almost right away. "Cassie?! Hey, wait!"

Cassie hit the man with the shotgun again, making him groan loudly. He wasn't going to let this guy off easy, not when he had threatened her and her friends. "Cassie!" Kiara bellowed, but she didn't listen as she grabbed the man's face to force him to look at her.

"You think you can fucking come after my friends and get away with it?!" She questioned darkly as she glared daggers at the man. "You think you fucking can? Huh?! Fucking answer me!"

"N-No," the man coughed.

JJ watched her, almost in awe, as she squeezed the man's face with her hand and threatened him in defense of his friends.

Her friends.

Their friends.

Maybe they were more alike than he thought.

And if JJ hadn't hated her, he would've left his fuckboy roots behind him right then and there and married her on the spot. Hypothetically, of course. Because he did still hate her. Obviously.

"Cassie, stop!" Kiara reached forward and pulled her back, but not before she was able to spit in the man's face, making him gag as it landed on his lips.

"Fucking piece of shit," she insulted before she gave the gun back to Pope, who stared at her with wide eyes. "Thanks," she said, a little too casually, as she kept her glare pointed on the man.

"Y-Yeah," the Heyward boy stammered before he gulped at the girl. He knew that Cassie could definitely rock people's shit, but he had no idea she could do it to a drug dealer who clearly had experience with mugging people. It was safe to say he was both impressed and terrified. He was so glad he was on her good side.

JJ broke out of his trance and pushed John B away to allow him to step toward the man again, searching for something in his pocket. He pulled out the guy's wallet and grabbed his drivers license. "We got one last stop," JJ told them before started walking towards the Twinkie.

"Hey!" John B yelled after him.

"Let's go see where this son of a bitch lives."

"Fuck yeah," Cassie agreed as she followed after him, the rage coursing through her veins. She was down to fuck up this man's house after he tried to steal their gold.

She had lots of practice smashing things, evidently so when she smashed the Vodka bottle or smashed her mother's vases when she found out her father died. It was great way to let off some steam and she really needed that right about now.

The Pogues glanced at each other nervously before they hesitantly followed the two blondes to the Twinkie. "I'm gonna remember this shit! You can't hide from me!" The man shouted after them angrily as JJ started the car. "I know exactly who y'all are! Huh? You're gonna see me again! You hear me?"

John B then threw the guy's keys into the trees so he wouldn't be able to follow them. "Come on!" Pope called out.

"You hear me? I'mma see you again!"

authors note!
i love my two crash outs 🥰