JJ's POV:

It has been seven years since I've seen Kie. We got off the island in a few days and when we got home, Kie got sent to that boarding school. We all missed her so much.

Her parents allowed Sarah to go see Kie and they were still super close. John B and Pope also talk to and FaceTime Kie all the time. She never tried to contact me and when I tried to talk to her, she ignored everything.

It was a hot summer day and I had just gotten done working my construction job. I was living at the house I grew up in as my dad has been gone since I helped him leave the island. I've grown to like the house now that it's just me.

I had eaten dinner and I was on my way to the chateau to go hang with John B and Sarah. However, when I arrived I walked into something totally unexpected. Kie was here and she had some guy with her.

"J..." She said seeing me and still using the nickname she used to call me

"Hey, Kie.." I said in almost a whisper

I didn't care who the guy was, I walked up to her and hugged her. I had missed her so much. She introduced me to him as her fiancé. Yuck. He was very sophisticated. Apparently, she met him during boarding school and they started dating officially two years ago.

They had just bought a vacation house here but they had other houses in Malibu, New York City, Montana, and even in Italy and Costa Rica. Kie had turned into a full kook. Her looks, her clothes, her car, her lifestyle. She wasn't the same Kie. And everyone knew about her fiancé and her lifestyle and no one bothered to tell me. Fuck them.

I left the chateau and went home and grabbed a bottle of beer. I only had a few sips and then I went for a walk on the beach. I wondered to the boneyard where we all used to hang out and to my surprise, Kie was there.

"JJ!" She called my name from a distance

"Kiara..." I called back as we walked toward each other

"What's wrong?" She asked

"Nothing" I lied looking down at my feet in the sand

"Bullshit! You only call me Kiara when you're pissed at me"

"Nothing wrong, I just don't know you anymore. It's been almost eight years" I said sadly and also pissed that she has ignored me for so long

"You know me.." She said

"Really? The houses, the car, the clothes, the looks.  You went, full kook. No, you went to a level of kook that I didn't even know existed. Just leave me alone and go back to figure eight where you belong" I said walking away from her

Kie ended up leaving and the next night she invited all of us to dinner at her new house. When I tell you it's huge, I mean it makes Wards house look like it belongs on the cut.

I didn't say much all of dinner and her fiancé loved to talk about himself and his success. I was so over this dinner. I left after we ate and that night, Kie came over.

"What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk... You don't get to tell me where I belong or how I act. I'm still a pogue." She said pissed at me

We got into a massive argument where we were screaming at each other. Neither of us could think straight as it got so intense. I was saying some nasty shit to Kie when out of nowhere she shoved me back. I froze and I tried not to cry. I turned and walked out the door and I heard, "Shit.." as she followed me

I ran to the beach with tears in my eyes that slowly made their way down my cheeks. I just stopped and I sat in the sand. Kie caught up to me and she sat down next to me and she didn't say anything at first.

"That was a really fucked up thing that I did and I'm so sorry. You know that I would never hurt you. I didn't mean it and now I'm going to sound pathetic but I'm pissed at myself for how I've spent my last seven years. My parents have tried so hard to destroy any part of me that's a pogue and I let them. I shut you out because you are my gateway drug to pogue life."

"I'm not mad at you. I just didn't want to do anything stupid back to you. I know you'd never hurt me. How am I your gateway drug?"

"What do you want to do? If you could do anything?"

"You..." I joked and she laughed as she told me to pick something else

"Fine, I'd smoke some weed on the beach and then go ding dong ditch the murder house"

Kie pulled a blunt out of my pocket with my special lighter and she lit it. She was smoking and then she passed it to me. We were both high and we went to the murder house, ding dong ditched it and then we went back to my house.

"See? I hang out with you and we do stupid pogue shit. Don't you get it? I'd do anything with you.."

"I get it now, Pogue princess" I said teasing her

She looked at me and she said, "I'm trusting your philosophy here that stupid things have good outcomes all the time."

I had no idea what she meant by that but she leaned in and kissed me. I kissed her back did a second before she pulled back.

"I've been wanting to do that since we were on the lifeboat after you almost died. I love you, JJ Maybank and you're the one I want. It's always been and always will be you."

"I love you, Kie.." I said as I crashed my lips into hers

Damn, my philosophy is amazing.