[ CHAPTER THREE, DONT TELL WARD ]

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cassie woke up in the afternoon after having a deep nap after a swim earlier that morning, walking out of her bedroom she took a cold shower and changed into a jumper and shorts since it wasn't as warm as this morning.

walking down stairs she was met with her family talking, sarah had pulled Cassie in another room to tell her something 'important'.

"promise me you won't tell anyone" sarah whispered to cassie with a panicked look on her face.

"you know I won't" cassie said trying to calm her twin down.

"john b brought tanks back this morning and I promised not to tell dad" sarah admitted wide eyed.

"so?" cassie asked confused.

"he's a pogue" sarah muttered.

"if you like him it's okay you know, he isn't actually that bad" cassie admitted.

"how do you know" sarah asked with her brows furrowed.

"you know Jj right?" cassie asked.

"yeah the crazy one" sarah laughed.

"I slept with him-" cassie blurted out.

"what" sarah whisper-yelled.

"shhh, it was at a party and. . . I don't regret it" cassie admitted for the first time but quickly put a hand over her mouth wide eyed at what she'd just admitted.

sarah laughed "cassie it's fine I'm not mad actually I'm kinda happy for you" sarah said with a smile on her face.

"I love you s" cassie said with a smile pulling her arms open for a hug.

sarah gladly hugged her "I love you too c" sarah mumbled into the hug.

little did both of them know, topper thornton heard everything. . .and was on his way to tell ward.

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sarah and cassie were walking until they seen john b routelege, and he looked mad.

"hey John b" sarah greeted as she stopping walking.

"I'm sorry that's it" sarah said as he ignored her.

john be turned around with a pissed off look on his face.

"no 'hey how are you or kiss my ass'" sarah said with sarcasm in her tone.

"your secrets safe with me?" john b said with a raise of his eyebrows.

"what secret are you talking about?" sarah asked.

"oh, I see" sarah said with a smile but it dropped as soon as john b said.

"I just got fired because of you" john b raised his voice.

"and I know you can't imagine that but some people need jobs so they can eat" john b said slapping the crisps out of sarahs hands.

"what the fuck" cassie shouted.

"you exactly who I thought you were sarah cameron" john b said walking back over.

and just like that, he walked away from them.

"asshole" sarah muttered walking away.

"you didn't even tell dad though? we haven't even seen him" cassie said furrowing her brows.

"fuck" cassie said realisation coming onto her face.

"what?" sarah asked.

"it was topper" cassie admitted.

"how do you know?" sarah asked.

"remember you invited him over, I overheard him talking to wheezie about John b and wheezie said youse looked cozy" cassie started.

"but the only way he'd know is if it was from your mouth and he obviously wanted to know, but you wouldn't tell him yourself you'd tell me" cassie said with a shocked expression on her face.

"fuck" sarah muttered annoyed.

"your gonna have to say something sarah or I can" cassie offered.

"no it's okay, I will" sarah said with a smile walking away.

—————back with john b

walking down a road, he heard a car.

looking over he seen the same men from the boat who 'shot' at them.

"DONT RUN BOY" one of them shouted as he ran.

"JOHN B"another shouted.

one caught up as he'd ran out of the car.

"STOP"one shouted again.

as he ran he jumped onto a log wired fence.

"watch the log wires after a storm" he said.

"now your gonna give me what a want" he got into john bs face.

as a police siren was heard, it turned out to be sheriff peterkin.

the man walked off as sheriff stared at him.

"so how's it working out kid?" peterkin asked.

"it's a whole lot safe if you give it to me than anybody else" sheriff said.

john b looked at her slowly, as he gave the compass to her.

"this thing probably saved your life, lucky" peterkin said as john b got out the police car and she drove off.

"maybe my friends were right I should let go , move on pull myseld self together and pick up the pieces and stop living in denial and leave the past behind."

—————back with cassie

cassie walked home and sat with rafe in there front room with a stressed look on her face.

"You okay c" rafe asked.

"yeah just worried about Sarah rafey" cassie smiled trying to convince him.

. . .he wasn't very convinced but he leaved it, she'll talk about it when she wants to he thought.

the truth was cassie was stressed not only about sarah, she was worried about john b.

she walked out of the house and got into her car and drove to the chateau.

she got out of her car and walked over to the pogues who were staring in disbelief.

"hey" cassie said smiling at them.

"hi cassie" kiara said with a smile, she liked cassie she wasn't like Sarah.

"well since you lost your job not Sarah's fault by the way it was topper" cassie started.

"oh" john b mumbled suddenly feeling guilty.

"I kinda felt bad so" cassie said pulling out £20 and placing it on the table.

"before you start it's not my dads money it's mine" cassie said.

"I can't take it" john b said shaking his head.

"I insist, it's also a sorry for topper the other day he's a dick" cassie laughed.

"yeah he is" kiara spoke up with a laugh.

"I know none of you like my siblings but I still felt bad" cassie said with a guilty expression.

"it's fine, if I'm being honest I liked you better than rafe and Sarah anyway" kiara muttered with a smile.

"well thank you I guess" cassie said laughing.

"I'll go now since you look busy" cassie said walking away.

"thank you" john b shouted she nodded and drove home.

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ruby speaks...
sooo.... yeah