26| IF YOUR FRIENDS JUMP OFF A CLIFF, YOU GOTTA JUMP TOO





A Chapter| Chapter Twenty Six






"There she be." JJ stated with shiny eyes as he looked up at the boat he'd taken them to, "A 1983 A02 SR1. The phantom."

"Mhm." Kie nodded, trying to make it seem as if she cared. Lila looked up at the large boat, not knowing anything about them considering she'd only ever lived on the country side villages, but still finding it oddly enough beautiful.

"The first boat to make the run to Bermuda in under sixteen hours, ladies. Forty years old, forty. It's still the fastest that Kildare's ever seen."
JJ went on, surprising Lila as she offered him a grin at his clear love for it.

"It's kind of a junker." Kie said with a shrug as Lila gave her a look, motioning toward JJ in a way of telling her to not be mean.

"Really? She's right there, Kie. She can hear you." JJ said to her with wide eyes as Kie rolled her darker ones.

"I like her, JJ. Kie is just jealous." Lila said as JJ high fived her.

"See, Lila gets it." the blonde boy said as he looked over at Kie again, "Let's just put it this way. You would not be smoking weed right now if she never existed, okay?"

"I just hope it runs." Kie said with a shrug as Lila pulled her hair back with the purple hair tie.

"Oh, no, she'll run all right." JJ shook his head at her with a knowing look, "She's faster than any of the cutters the boys in blue got."

"Pope! Finally." Kie said as she heard the motorcycle pulling up, heading toward the other side of the garage before a unexpected face was seen.

Rafe.

"Hey, there. What's going on?" he's voice caught Lilas attention as she backed away from JJ quickly once his eyes focused on her, Lilas heart fell as she looked at him.

"Rafe, what- what are you doing here?" Lila asked as she took a step forward, her heart racing at the way he looked... dangerous.

"JJ, course you're here." Rafe commented toward the blonde, clinching his jaw.

"How you guys doing? Hey babe." Rafe said while he grabbed Lila face to give her a hard kiss before jumping up on the boat. Lila whipped the taste of alcohol from her lips, looking over at Kie who held the same confused expression.

"Well, well." Barry's voice spoke up as Lila panicked, turning to the man she feared more then anyone else. Her body shook in the slightest, the acing in her stitches getting worse now that he was closer.

"Rafe." Lila said again, her voice breaking, knowing this was his doing with the man that sliced her up. Barry cocked his gun, aiming it at JJ.

"Leave him alone." Lila said as she hurried to shield JJ with her body, having the gun pointed at her head.

"You really wanna have another go, sweetheart?" Barry mocked her as Lila looked to Rafe who let his eyes fall, clearly not expecting her to do that.

"Barry." Rafe spoke calmly as the shorter man clinched his jaw before lowering the gun away from the blonde.

"See you don't think I forgot about you and me on the side of the road." the man said as he looked back at JJ who had his hands in the air still, Barry's gun tight in his hands.

"I'm here because I want my motherfuckin money!" Barry yelled as he pushed Lila away as she hit the floor while he began to attack JJ.

"JJ! JJ!" Kie yelled as she tried to go to his side.

"Rafe! Make him stop, please." Lila begged as she looked to the Cameron boy who's eyes were blown, his jaw clinched.

"It's not you we want, Lila, where's John B?" Rafe asked as he grabbed her hands, trying to talk to her as softly as he possibly could in this situation.

"Let me go!" Lila yelled as she pulled on her wrist to try and get away from him, "I don't know!"

"Just tell me were he is, I don't want you getting hurt here." Rafe continued to go on, seeing the ways her eyes shifted when she lied, seeing it all too many times.

"She said she didn't know!" Kie yelled at him as she back handed the Cameron boy as she pushed Lila behind her.

"I really wish you didn't do that." Rafe said calmly before he grabbed Kie by her neck quickly making Lila grab at his hands quickly.

"Hey, pretty girl! You back off!" Barry yelled as he pointed the gun at her, making Lila shake as her hands fell from Rafe.

"Rafe, let her go." Lila demanded.

"You could never understand, you could never understand that i'm doing all this for us." Rafe said through grinded teeth, looking at the blonde as his nose twitched in anger.

"I know, just let her go, please." Lila continued to beg him, hearing Kie chocking from behind her. Rafe made eye contact with Lila, not letting Kie go.

"Where's John B?" Rafe yelled at her before Pope sudden came forward, hitting Rafe with a crow bar as Kie got away.

"Don't touch her!"

"Pope, Pope, enough." Lila said as she yanked on the boys arms, Rafe moaning in pain as Pope him for a third time, "Please, Pope, just leave him alone."

Rafe suddenly knocked the bar out of Popes hands, swinging at him but Pope was too quick and too good, hitting the boys back multiple times before he had the chance to hit him. Kie grabbed Lila quickly, pulling her away even though she fought against her, trying to get out of her friends grip.

"Kick it!" JJ yelled as he tripped Barry, his gun falling as Kie kicked it away.

"Pope, just listen to me, you don't have to hurt him!" Lila yelled through her pained expression, Kie holding her back from getting involved.

"Pope. Okay Pope. Pope that's good!" Kie yelled, now seeing that Pope was getting out of hand at how much he was beating on Rafe.

"Hey, Pope!" JJ yelled as he ran over after getting Barry out of the way, knocked out against the boat.

"JJ, make him stop before he kills him." Lila begged the boy, pain all through her body as she watched Rafe get the living hell beat out of him.

"Snap out of it, man, snap out of it!" JJ said, not daring to touch Pope in the situation he was in. Pope sudden wrapped a cord around Rafes neck, yanking him backwards as the boy began to chock.

"Pope! Stop! Stop! Please!" Lila begged now, her yells echoing through the garage as Kie held onto her tightly, knowing Lila would do the complete opposite from JJ and get involved and with the way Pope was right now, it was far from smart to let her.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" JJ said as he took his chances, getting behind Pope to grab ahold of him.

"Look at me!" Kie yelled as Pope let Rafe got right before he was about to pass out. Lila fell to the ground next to him, cradling his head quickly.

"Is this- is this your lip or are you coughing this up?" she panicked as her hands shook against his lips, the blood pouring from them. She opened his mouth in the slightest to find where it was coming from.

"Your lip, it's your lip, you're gonna be okay. It's okay, baby, it's okay." Lila sobbed as she held him to her chest, his left arm loosely around her as one of his hands pressed to her side while he held his head to his chest.

"I'm sorry." he spoke to her in pain, his words coming out chocky from the lack of air. Lila shhed him, rocking the two back and forth in the slightest, not letting him go.

"Lila, Lila, we gotta go." Kie spoke up first after the three didn't want to be the ones to speak to her.

"Stop talking." Lila spoke through her cry's as Rafe coughed against her, his blood staining her hands.

"Lila I-" Pope began as JJ put a hand on him in a way of saying to shut up.

"Stop talking!" Lila yelled his way, her face red as she continued to rock Rafe slowly as he regained his breathing correctly.

"Lila." JJ spoke up, "We gotta go if this is gonna work."

"Just hang on." Lila said as she sucked in a sob, only making herself weezie while she slowly stood up, "Go, ill catch up."

"Lila-" Kie began.

"Go!" Lila said sternly as JJ gave her a knowing look before the three ran off while Lila stayed with Rafe.

"Come on, babe, i've got you." she said to him with a sniffle, helping him to his feet as he stumbled in the slightest, still trying to get his breathing working properly.

"Go home, my love, go home and stay there. Take a shower, drink some water, a lot of it okay, please just listen to me." Lila spoke to him as her voice continued to break, holding his face with her hands as he leaned on her in the slightest.

"Come with me." he said slowly from the pain within his neck, leaning his forehead onto her, "Please."

"I can't, I have to do this, I have to go." Lila said as she let her blood hands run down to his neck as he flinched, making her remove them quickly, "I'm so sorry."

With that she pressed a sweet and savoring kiss to his lips, his blood now staining her mouth as well as she whipped the tear that fell from his face.

"I love you."

"Lila." Rafe called after her as he watched her run from him, out of the garage, but he didn't follow her... he knew better then to follow her.


By the time Lila showed up to the boat she sighed in relif when she was John B on it already, ready to head off. He caught sight of her puffy eyes and blood face, saying her name quietly as he jumped off the boat and ran toward her. The two hugged, tightly, not knowing when they'd ever get to do it again, "You okay? You're bleeding."

"It's not mine." Lila said, her voice was barely there, deep and scratchy as her blood shot eyes gave her a sad smile, "I'm glad I got you before you left."

"I'm glad I got you too." he said while giving her another hug.

"Come on, you've gotta get going." she said while pulling him toward the boat again while she joined the trio, not being able to look at Pope though he was staring holes into her head. John B looked down at all of them from where he stood up the boat, his eyes watery as his voice broke when he began to speak.

"I'm sorry for basically through us off a cliff." John B said with a small laugh through a cry.

"You know what they say, don't you?" Lila asked as she looked up at him with another forced and sad smile, "If your friends jump off a cliff, you gotta jump too."

"We were bound to run off a cliff at some point, right?" JJ spoke up along with Lilas words, "At least we did it together though. Pogue style."

"Pogue style." John B repeated as he looked at the four with glossy eyes, watching them put their arms around each other with soft smiles up at him.

"Get out of here!" Kie rushed him off with a break in her voice.

"We'll see you in two months, down in Mexico." Pope reassured him with a nod.

"Love you, John B." Lila called out to him as she felt Kie squeeze her arms tighter, holding back her tears as well.

"Love you guys." John B said as he neared the steering wheel, "Tell Sarah I said goodbye, okay?"

"Don't forgot! Cross the border at Brownsville, okay?" JJ asked, as if John B could forget the most important information in his life right now.

"Hey, you alright? What did you say to him?" JJ asked after John B left, the four not being able to bring themselves to leave.

"I told him to go home, told him I loved him." Lila said quietly as as she looked at her feet, messing with the necklace around her neck, "What could I possible say when the person I love most in the world was in so much pain even though he caused so much shit to go wrong?"

"I been meaning to tell you something, Lila, you just have to listen to me for a second." JJ said as he looked at her, Kie and Pope talking a few feet away from them, "I know that you know things aren't good for you, okay? I know you know that. And you were right before, I couldn't understand what it's like with the two of you. But the things Rafe did, the things he caused... non of that is your fault, non of that will ever be your fault."

"It's not, is it?" Lila asked as she looked at him, her eyes watery as she slowly came to the realization, "I didn't make him do that, it's not my fault."

"It's not, it's far from your fault." JJ reassured her as Lila nodded sadly.

"I know it's not, JJ." Lila said as she looked at him, "Thank you for that."

"I'm glad they're finally getting along again." JJ said as him and Lila looked to Pope and Kie who were hugging each other... that was until she reached over to kiss him as they both stared at the two, not expecting it.

"Definitely." Lila said to herself, though JJ heard.

"Hey, guys, sorry to ruin the party, but uh, we gotta go right now!" JJ yelled as the sound of sirens pulled up, cops jumping out of their car quickly.


"I'm sorry, excuse me!" Lila yelled out as the police lead the four into the small tint where everyone was attempting to track where John B went on, "Aren't we allowed to call someone? Hello! My boyfriend is a fucking Cameron for crying out loud!"

"Lila, they're not gonna be nice with us, not after what we did, dont put yourself in the tigers cage." Kie spoke to her as the four were forced to sit down, police swarming all over the place like sharks would a seal.

Within the next thirty minutes the same deputy that arrested them came over, dripping wet from the rain as he looked at the teens with guilty expression. Lila flickered her eyes to them and then to the other cops behind him, all holding the same look.

"Did you find them?" Pope asked as he rose from the chair first as the trio did the same.

"No." the shorter man stated.

"So they got away?" Kie asked hopefully as Lila tried to hide the smile.

"We, uh.... we lost them." the deputy said as Lila blinked.

"What do you mean you lost them? Lost them how?" she asked in a panic, her words running together as she messed with Rafes ring around her finger.

"They took a open boat into a tropical depression." the man said, sorrow on his face as he made eye contact with each other them.

"So they're dead?" Kie asked, her eyes watery. Lila bit down on her lip, nose twitching as her eyes began to fill up slowly.

"We don't know." the man said, hesitation in his voice as Lila let out a shaky breath.

"You drove them straight into the storm, man!" JJ yelled at the cop, not being able to hid his emotions either, "Are you kidding me? Come here!"

"JJ! JJ!" Kie yelled as she tried to get him to back off the cop he'd attacked, Lila walked away, not too far but she turned her back to the situation. She bit back a sob, her body shaking from the cold as she attempted to breath. But this wasn't right... this was her best friends, this was John B and Sarah.

"Lila!" she heard her moms yell, the blonde looking to her right to see them running for her. Lila broke down as they hugged her, sobbing and hyperventilating as Lacey and Grace held her to them, shhing and trying to comfort her though it did no help.

Because the girl who once talked your ear off about ghost stories and why she loved her friends and her boyfriend so much was far from there anymore, their daughter who'd experienced so much trauma and pain in the last few months then either of them had in their whole life's... was gone.



kylie speaks.

y'all. this hurt me
really bad. honestly
writing lilas character
has been such a
experience i couldn't
even began to express.
she's opened my eyes
to a lot in life and i've
fallen in love with
her backstory and
who she is. i hope
this story opens
your eyes to many
things such as how
toxic relationship can
effect you in life and how
it's not easy to just
"walk away" as people
say, i hope you've seen
that even the brightest
of people can change and
break down to nothing, i
hope you've seen how
important real friendship
is and how love can come
in so many different forms.

i will be back with my girl
again, season two is in the
making right now which
means we'll have lila back
to continue her story and
to know everything that
will happen with her.

thank you for the reads.
i love you.

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