ミ★ season 1, episode 1
𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗉𝗅𝖺𝗒𝗂𝗇𝗀 { 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 by ethel cain }
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☆ "SO WHAT ARE your guys' plans. Y'know for when we're outta here?" Kiara asked as she leaned back against the boat.

"Well we all know I want my scholarship for college, and I will be getting that scholarship." Pope said as he threw rocks into the water, trying to make them skip on the surface.

"I want to stay somewhere close to the water, probably not here though but somewhere similar to here. And I want to be a doctor. I want to help people so I feel like that's the best fit for me. But I hate science so I would actually probably never pursue it because of that." Ellie said, the others nodding in appreciation.

"Yeah I want to stay somewhere near too- shit. Guys, cops." Kiara looked alert at the blue and white truck pulling into the motel parking lot, making the others on edge too.

"Call them!" Pope uttered to which Ellie gave him a confused look.

"Towers are down. We can't" She stated as she climbed out of the boat hunched over.

"if I lose my merit scholarship I'm gonna kill someone." Pope uttered as he followed the two girls in front of him in going towards the building.

Ellie hid behind a sign, poking her head out to look at the cops while making herself hopefully less noticeable.

"You know what, maybe they're not going up. Maybe they're-" Ellie cut him off once she saw Shoupe point up in the direction of the room John B and JJ had gone into.

"Pope. They're literally pointing at the room. They're going up there. Guys we need to do something!" Ellie started to move from where she was hidden, Pope and Kiara following, and went to the side of the building, looking for anything to get their attention.

"Wait wait, rocks. Throw rocks at the window!" Kiara ushered them, making the other two looked around them to find a good rock to throw. Ellie found one but not before Pope did. When the boy threw it he missed horribly making her snort.

"God Pope you suck."

"Have you ever played baseball?" Kiara looked at him, judgement all over her face.

"I was on the math team!" He defended himself as he went to look for another rock.

"Well lucky for you little shits I was on the softball team two years ago." Ellie huffed as she threw the rock up and it hit the window straight on. John B came to the window, confusion written all over when the three below started to wave frantically and mouth the word 'cops'.

His head disappeared and so the three went back to the boat in a hurry.

"Should we peel?" Kiara was behind the wheel, ready to get out of there. Pope looked back at her offended.

"Never leave a Pogue behind."

Ellie felt her heart drop when she saw none other then John B and JJ climb onto the small roof on the side of the building. Kie put her hands on her head in disappointment while Pope whisper-yelled at them.

"We're so fucked. You know what, no. They're fucked." Ellie just went to the back of the boat and sat down heavily, over the situation as a whole. While the boys were leaning over and looking into the room, a loud bang sounded on the metal below causing Ellie to whip her head up and look at them, only to see Shoupe at the window.

Kie, Pope, and Ellie all went to looking natural, hoping the cop would look past them and not focus on the boat and see that it was them in particular.

"I have never known someone dumber than JJ I swear." Ellie muttered.

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☆ "YOU KNOW, YOU guys could've warned us a little sooner." JJ scolded them.

"We would've but Pope was on the math team. Luckily, we had El." Kiara fake glared at Pope before winking at the girl she referred to.

"You were on the math team?" JJ teased Pope.

"The cops took everything like it was crime scene." John B told them, all of the other listening intently.

"Did you guys find anything?" Pope questioned to which JJ stood up dramatically.

"Did we find anything? Nah I don't think so, oh wait, yeah. We did." He pulled out a thick stack of cash and, much to everyone's surprise, a gun.

"JJ what the actual fuck?" Ellie looked at him with a scrutinizing look , Kiara and Pope also growing pissed at the sight of the gun in the blonde's hands.

"Why would you ever take that from a crime scene?" Pope was starting to freak out at the kind of trouble they could get themselves into over this.

Ellie looked over to John B who was just laughing and smiling like it was no big deal. "John B? Seriously? What the actual hell why would you ever let him do that?" Ellie slapped the back of his head. Hard.

"Jesus fuck El. What was that for?" John B rubbed the spot where he was assaulted and looked at her offended.

"You know what you fucking dumbass." Ellie put her head in her hands, not believing the situation at hand.

They all continued to argue over the stolen items as they headed back to the Coast Guard. Ellie didn't know why they were even going there but her guess was to see if there was any new information on the sunken boat.

As they all sat around a girl named Peeler, they all chatted about recent drama that arisen from the Kook side of the island. Well that was what they were doing. Until a stretcher was being rolled across the planks of the dock and a lifeless body was rested atop it.

"It's Scooter Grubbs." Peeler told them once seeing their stunned faces. "He was out during the storm. Check out this pic I got. Dead boday." She showed them all the picture of the already greying skin the older man and his eyes that were open but seeing nothing.

Ellie felt her stomach churn in disgust at seeing the picture. Scooter was a person. Not someone to gossip about over his dead body. The fact that anyone would even want a picture of that to show people just made her even more sick to her stomach.

She watched as Ms. Lana ran over to her husband, sobbing over his appearance and his current state of life.

"What kind of boat did he have?" JJ asked the girl.

"Somehow that dirt bag copped a brand new Grady White. Everyone's out looking for it." She informed them, not taking in Ellie's shocked and paling face.

"What I wanna know is where he got money for that." She whispered into Kiara's ear who gave her a mirrored look of wonder.

Back at the Chateau, they all sat around John B's back porch, talking about the elephant in the room.

Pope ran into the closed area, panting. "Okay so, we didn't see anything. We don't know anything." He have the whole group the same look and point of his finger.

He plopped onto the couch next to Kiara, still rambling. "We need to have complete and total amnesia." He looked mostly at John B, who was the known 'leader' of the group.

"Actually, Pope's right for once." JJ got up from where he was sitting, Ellie's feet falling off of his lap from where they were resting.

"See, I agree with you sometimes. Deny, deny, deny."

"Guys we can't keep that money." Kiara looked at the boys with guilt.

"She's right. Ms. Lana needs it more than we do. She's gonna have funeral expenses and shit." Ellie played with her finger nails, not liking the hole they had dug for themselves.

"Okay, not all of us can afford unlimited data plans you guys." JJ looked over at the girls with annoyance.

"Ellie's right. We have to pass it off to Lana. Otherwise, it's bad karma." Kiara defended the brunette girl who shot a smile in appreciation.

"Bad karma to be implicated in a felony, too. We gotta go dark." Pope was clearly scared over the situation, his whole life at stake here.

"If that means we keep the money, then I agree." JJ walked over to John B, thinking he would back him up.

"I don't agree." John B looked to JJ, patting his shoulder to soften the blow of his words.

"What? Why?" JJ seemed entirely offended at the words his best friend spoke.

"Just think about it. This is Scooter Grubbs we're talking about. Same dude that's buying individual cigarettes at the Porthole. Shit, one time I saw him begging for change in the Save-A-Lot parking lot because he needed gas. We're talking about a dirtbag marina rat who's never had more than 40 bucks in his pocket, and all of a sudden he's got a Grady White? Just sayin."

"Fucking finally! That's what I've been saying. Some weird shit is going on here. This is not just a coincidence." Ellie let her body fall back against the uncomfortable chair she was in.

Time flew by and suddenly they were on John B's dock, Pope fishing while the others sat on the railing around him.

"All right, so think about it Pope. How does a marina rat get a Grady White?" John B used his hands to talk, Pope's eyes refusing to travel to the boy next to him.

"Prostitution." Pope guessed seriously, Kiara and Ellie exchanging amused looks.

"Nah man, square groupers. Okay, flying under the radar, no aerial surveillance. They don't do that stuff during a hurricane. What does that mean? JJ?" John B turned to the boy he knew would know what he was talking about.

"They were straight smugglin." JJ answered.

"Smugglin. And I guarantee there's a serious amount of contraband in that wreck." John B looked to the girls this time, making them hear his words even though they had no clue what he was even talking about anymore.

"Hell yeah!" JJ cheered, then his fishing line got caught on a fish and he turned his attention back to his side task.

When they were over fishing, they started to make their way back inside. Ellie pulled John B aside, her stomach still a nervous wreck.

"John B seriously, at this point we should just let it go. I really don't feel good about this." She crossed her arms over her chest.

"Hey don't worry El. We'll be fine. Besides I won't let anything happen to you. You know that." John B pulled the brunette girl into a hug which she immediately melted into.

"Yeah you better not." She muttered into the boys' chest.

They joined the group inside, now in John B's room. The boy in question had picked up his guitar that was lying around. Their side tasks were the most random thing ever, it was almost comical.

"For the record, if that is a smuggling ship with the illegal contraband inside of it, it probably belongs to someone else. They could come looking for it. Taking it would be catastrophically stupid." As Pope talked, he waved the stack of hundreds around. The others all listened intently, taking in all of his words.

"Right. Well, stupid things have good outcomes all the time." JJ fanned the money out, Ellie looked at him, not impressed.

"Oh yeah? Name one."

"That's not important right now El. All we need to do is figure out a way to get into the cargo hold of the wreck. Until then we just lay low. Just act normal." JJ's plans sounded dumb to the ears but smart when you thought of it as a whole.

"Right. And how do we do that?" Pope asked, looking to John B who looked to everyone else around him.

"Kegger?" Kiara asked, shrugging like it was something light. Ellie smiled at the girl. Kie had read her mind perfectly.

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☆ ONCE THEY GOT all the supplies, which included the kegger and plastic cups, they headed over to the boneyard where the small get-togethers were always held. The fallen trees all across the sand was almost like an obstacle course. Thankfully, they were also good seats.

They all started to fuck around before everyone got there, spraying the beer all over each other and laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. Instead of Ellie drinking the cheap beer, she grabbed her own bottle of liquor out from Kiara's backpack that she brought, filling it halfway with a stray half-empty carton of cranberry juice and the rest with her stash of vodka.

Eventually, a whole crowd showed up, making it more into a party once more and more people arrived. But you can't truly understand the island without understanding the boneyard. As John B would say of course.

There were the group and their friends. The working class-derelicts from the cut. Then, there were the Kooks. The rich second-homers. They were mostly from poncey-ass boarding schools just rich trustafarion posers. The Pogue's natural enemies. Then lastly, the Tourons. They're totally clueless and here for a week on vacation with their families. Most of them stayed at The Albatross, the only hotel on the island. The rest were crappy motels that only the Pogue's stayed out from time to time, or the Kook's with things to hide. They were chum for the sharks, meaning all the Pogue boys would go for the naive girls who showed up.

Ellie laughed as she talked with some of the Pogue's that looked familiar, but something caught her eye. Or should she say someone. She bid goodbye to her friends and ran over to where she saw her best friends wandering closer to the clustered crowd of people. Natalia Moore wasn't a very well known person on the island. She was a Kook but not the annoying kind. She hung out with everyone and anyone, making friends everywhere she went.

"Eee Natalia! Oh my God I missed you so fucking much!" Ellie threw herself into the brunettes arms, both of them instantly engulfed in laugher.

"I haven't seen you in weeks El. Where have you been?" Natalia grinned at her best friend who shrugged as if she didn't even have a clue.

"Working my ass off at the hotel and hanging with John B and them. We desperately need to hang out soon puh-lease!" Ellie held the girl at arms length, happy to see the familiar face.

"Where's my happy greeting?" A voice spoke up from behind the girls. Ellie turned around the see yet another one of her best friends, Ethan Mills.

"Oh calm down Ethan. You know I love you." Ellie giggled while she threw her arms around the boys frame, his arms wrapping around her in return. "Now come on, you guys can help yourself to my stash if you want." Ellie dragged the two towards Kie's backpack that was rested up against a tree away from all the people so that it had a higher chance of staying safe.

"What'd you bring? Wait no. Let me guess, vodka and some juice to go with it?" Ethan rolled his eyes teasingly at the brunette who just snorted and nodded.

"Oh please. Am I really that predictable?" Ellie wondered.

"Yes." Both of her friends replied in sync, making her look at them in offense.

"Okay fuck you both." They reached the backpack and Ellie poured their drinks. They each counted to five and then chugged half of the cup, the liquor burning their throats on the way down. She topped off the drinks again, this time they just sipped on them as they talked.

"Damn El. You really know how to make a drink strong." Natalia took another sip of the concoction, wincing slightly at the taste.

"Yeah well either go hard or go home." Ellie smirked as she took a huge gulp, the alcohol already starting to make her mind fuzzy.

"So, what have you guys been up to since summer started?" The girl asked.

"Oh well I've actually just started touring colleges. Senior years coming up soon and my mom's been on my ass about it. I went to California for a week and saw a couple down there and I actually kind liked them." Ethan told the two girls who looked at him in shock.

"Ethan it's only the start of summer. We literally have three more months until the start of school, slow your roll my gosh." Natalia teased the boy who looked at her sheepishly.

"Well I personally, have been laying in my bed and catching up on all the shows I didn't have the time to watch during the school year. I've started and finished Pretty Little Liars and now I'm on season five of Supernatural." Now it was Ethan's turn to look shocked.

"Nat. Schools been out for two weeks how the fuck did you watch that much?"

"I've been a couch potato. That's how. But now I guess it's time to actually start my summer. So I dragged my ass out of bed and well, here I am!" The two girls giggled, Ethan still in shock about how the girl has managed her time so far.

"Oh my God, there's Sarah! What is she doing?" Natalia's eyes were staring over Ellie's shoulder, causing the brunette girl to look as well.

"Ew, Topper. But I don't let's go find out!" Ellie giggled and jumped up, swaying slightly before righting herself and taking off into the blonde girls' direction.

"Sarah!"

authors note
i love ethan and natalia next and i can't wait for you guys to see what i have planned with them!

you'll learn more abt them soon i promise

love you guys!

jordyn <3