"Kie! This better work." JJ spoke as he walked out of John B's chateau and dropped the few things of gold at her feet, "We can't pawn this if there's a giant wheat symbol on it."

"Have faith in her, JJ." Bali called from where she'd laid upside down on the seats.

"It's gonna work." Kie said back with the blow torch in her hands. As she climbed out of the van, Bali turned in the seat and jumped out of the van, sitting down and leaning back on the open doors. Sarah was behind her with a rub to her shoulders, the pair smiling as they watched Kie melt down the gold.

"I don't understand why I can't come." Bali complained as she sat in the front seat, "I can distract from the inside."

"Bal, let me ask you something." John B hummed as he looked over at her, "You're inside with us and some Kook officer shows up. He walks in, do you really think you'll be able to distract him when he's already inside versus you stopped him before he already come in?"

"Don't mock me, John B." Bali pushed the side of his face, "The price I pay for being so pretty, always the distraction for old white men."

"She does have a pretty face, doesn't she?" JJ asked as he leaned over the seat and squeezed Bali's face slightly, "Doesn't she, Kie?"

"Like a super model." Kie laughed as JJ let Bali go and sat down again as they pulled up infront of the pawn shop. They each got out of the van while JJ held the bag of gold.

"Should I be outside of the van or inside?" Bali questioned as she leaned on the side.

"Outside, it'll look more natural." John B nodded his head as Bali agreed .

"Hell of a job melting it down, Dr.Frankenstein." JJ mocked Kie as he looked at the large blob of gold.

"Like you could have done any better." Kie rolled her eyes in disbelief.

"I could have done much better. I took a welding class." JJ said with a knowing look her way.

"When?" Kie asked in disbelief.

"Chill out, okay?" John B spoke as he got between the two.

JJ gave a look toward both Kie and John B, "Easy for you to say that. You're not the one that had to pawn this piece of shit off."

"JJ, i've got you, man." Bali reassured him from where she leaned on the van, "Anyone gets anywhere close to here, i'll come out swinging, okay?"

"Should have brought your golf clubs." Sarah hummed as Bali agreed.

"How'd I get this job, anywyas?" JJ asked as they all headed inside.

"Because you're the best liar." Pope informed him, following close behind.

"You think she's gonna tell the government?" Bali questioned after they told her what happened in the pawn shop.

"So they keep money out here?" Pope questioned in disbelief as he looked around the abandoned road.

"That's weird she told you guys." Bali confirmed as she messed with the buttons on the short overalls she wore.

"That's what she said." JJ shrugged his shoulder before giving a snort, "That's what she said."

"Stop." Pope threatened him.

"I've never ever heard of Resurrection Drive." Sarah spoke up from the front seat.

"Maybe it's cause you're rich." JJ commented.

"You've never heard of it either." Kie stood up for Sarah.

"Thank you." the blonde hummed.

"Didn't we come down here once? And Kelce picked us up because we had a flat tire?" Bali asked Sarah as she looked her way in questioning.

"Definitely not, i'd remember." Sarah shook her head.

"Oh." Bali hummed as she looked out the window before shaking her head, "Are you sure? I feel like I remember."

"No, i'm positive I've never been down here." Sarah said back, leaving Bali to think of when and who she came down here with.

"There's nothing but weeds back here." Kie spoke up again as she looked out the windows.

"All right, just cause it's just weeds, doesn't mean it's, like-" JJ began, trailing off before the sirens heard behind them. Turning, they found the red and blue flashing lights.

"Cops? Out here?" Kie asked in disbelief.

"The fucking government." Bali shook her head quickly.

"Are you kidding me?" JJ asked in disbelief.

"What did we do?" Sarah spoke up as she turned to look at Bali in the seat behind her, "What if it's your uncle?"

"Fuck, what if it is?" she panicked.

"You have a cop uncle?" Pope questioned her.

"My parents are gonna kill me." Bali began to panic, not sitting still as she messed with her brackets and buttons.

"Did you bring the gun?" John B asked JJ while he stashed the gold.

"No. Everybody told me to leave it back at the place." he said back, hiding the gold quickly. Bali grabbed his hand on instinct, making Pope and Kie look down at their joined hands.

The cock of a gun took their attention away as everyone turned to find a shorter man, with a mask over his face, holding a shot gun in John B's face. "Why don't I go ahead and see them hands in the air? All of y'all's hands up in the air now!"

They all listened to his words, their hands going up in surrender as he demanded John B out of the car and letting them out of the back of the van. The man walked around the the side as they all got our, Sarah going first before Pope was next. Bali came after him, making eye contact with the guy and recognized him immediately. She remember suddenly when she'd been back here before.

"Oh, look who it is." Barry mocked her with a laugh, "It's been a while, hasn't it, pretty girl?"

"Look, we're-" JJ began as he got out of the van right after Bali, getting infront of her.

"Shut the hell up!" Barry shouted as he held the gun to him.

"All right! Just relax!" JJ yelled back at him.

"JJ, stop." Bali said as she pulled him backwards.

"Shut the hell up! Shut up! Blow your damn head off!" Barry hollered at them again as Bali pulled JJ backwards with her, "Lay down in the ditch! Lay down in the ditch! On your goddamn hands and knees! Now! Down! Put your face on the ground!"

They each laid down in the ditch as he yelled at them. Bali held Sarah's hand in a panic but was trying to reassure her she'd be okay. Barry climbed into the van, leaving them in the ditch together. Bali looked her other way and placed her hand on JJ's arm so he'd turn and look at her, "He's a drug dealer, I know him."

"Who is he?" JJ whispered back as he grabbed her hand.

"Barry. I don't know his last name. He usually sales to teenagers in Figure Eight. He's bad news, seriously." Bali said as she ran a finger over the burn scar on her palm, "Just be quiet, please."

JJ nodded her way with a forced smile.

"No, no, no, no." the small whisperer came from the left, Bali looking over as John B was slowly rising to his feet.

"John B. Don't be a hero, man." Pope scolded him while only getting shhed in return. John B got in the back of Barry's car just as he jumped out of their van with the gold in his hand. Bali moved over and threw the top half of her body over JJ's when Barry's gun was pointed yet again.

"Y'all stay just like that unless you want your brains blown out all over the road, don't move your goddamn heads, okay?" he hollered at them, pointing to each of them. He squatted down next to Bali, JJ tried to fight under her when he saw his shoes but Bali kept him still. Barry stared at her watery eyes, "Been a while, where you been?"

Bali hesitated, "I don't use anymore."

Whatever secret she was attempting to keep from Pope and Kie was clearly known now and she hadn't wanted that.

"Oh yeah?" Barry asked, JJ moving around made Bali move as well, "Let's see how long that last this time."

He pumped the tip of his gun to her head before standing up and heading over toward his car again. Bali got off of JJ just as John B had hold of Barry, the ones on the road taking it as their que to stand and hurry over. Barry jumped out of the car and hit JJ in the face, making Kie try and fight him off but her shoved back.

"You're such a loser." Bali said as she threw sand in Barry's face, blinding him long enough to have John B hit him in the back of the head with the gun, knocking him down.

"I got the gold!" Pope yelled. Bali helped Kie and JJ up while Sarah hit Barry with the door three times. Kie kicked him in the stomach as Pope used his foot to shove him back against the car. Bali bend over and pulled the mask off, waiting a moment before spitting right in the middle of his face.

"I know this piece of shit." JJ confirmed when he pulled Bali up and saw Barry's full face, "He's a basehead."

"Probably knows my brother." Sarah said as she ran a hand through her hair.

"Yeah, and likes to burn people when they don't wanna buy anymore." Bali said angry as she gave a yell before kicking him in the face. John B scolded her. JJ took her words to his head immediately.

"He sales coke to my bad." JJ added in, following Bali's lead and hitting the gun in his face. John B scolded him as well along with Kie right behind him. John B shoved JJ, making Bali shove him back.

"Come on, let's get out of here." Pope spoke as JJ leaned over and grabbed Barry's wallet.

"We got one last stop." JJ spoke as he shoved John B, keeping Barry's license in his hands and storming off.

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kylie speaks

barry you
motherfucker.

bali has another insta
edit on my insta with her
sushi line from last chapter
in it🥺