❝ THANKS AGATHA, YA BATCH❞

third person

"morning boys, morning sage." kiara said as she walked closer to the boat, pope reaching his hand out to help her onboard. she set her red cooler on the edge of the bow as sage leaned over from her spot to open the cooler and peer inside.

"please tell me there's more than beer in here." she whined as kiara grinned at her.

"your shits in the bottom." she said as sage dug farther through the ice in the cooler to pull out a glass bottle of coca-cola, smiling up at kie.

"thanks, homie." sage said as she passed the bottle over to jj to open. as john b throttled the boat up and began cruising towards the marsh, jj reached into kiara's cooler to pull out a beer, passing sage her coke as he did so.

"lemme show you guys a party trick." jj said to sage and kiara as john b backed away from the steering wheel.

"yeah, pope, come drive, i'm moving." the brunette muttered as pope took his spot at the steering wheel.

"can you give it some speed, pope?" jj asked as he grabbed sage by the arm and pulled her up with him.

"this isn't going to work, we've tried like, six thousand times." pope protested as he throttled the boat as fast as it could go.

"it's gonna work." jj said as he looked over at sage. "trust me."

with that, jj tilted his head back and began attempting to pour beer into his mouth. kiara cringed away as john b and pope covered their eyes.

"jj, that nasty shits getting in my mouth- jj, stop!" sage yelled as kiara picked up her towel to cover her face.

"my god, you're getting beer in my hair, jay!" she yelled.

"okay, that's enough, you can come down now!" pope yelled.

"jj, i'm serious, get-" john b started, but was cut off as the boat jolted to a stop, sending everyone flying forward then backwards as jj and sage were thrown completely off the boat.

"holy shit!" kiara yelled as she sat up, rubbing the back of her head as pope grabbed the part of his stomach that had been thrown into the steering wheel.

"where's-" john b started as sage and jj broke the surface of the water in front of the boat, gasping and groaning as they did so.

"you good, jj?" pope asked as jj groaned again.

"i think my heels touched the back of my head." he whined.

"how're you doing, sagebrush?" john b asked mockingly as sage flipped him off.

"if i didnt have scoliosis before i definitely do now." she groaned, grabbing kiara's hand as she pulled her back on board.

"pope, what the hell did you do?" jj asked.

"it's a sandbar, the channel changed." pope attempted to defend himself.

"no shit." sage muttered as she wrung her hair out with her towel, looking over at kiara. "you good?"

"i'm fine." she muttered as pope walked towards the bow to see how long the sandbar was, squinting into the water.

"hey, i saved my beer though! and your sister." he added as he looked at john b.

"congrats, jj." sage muttered. "you didn't save my drink though, so i'm now pissed at you."

"guys, i think there's a boat down there." pope voiced from behind sage and kiara, who turned to look at him.

"shut up." john b muttered, but pope quickly shook his head.

"no, no, guys! i'm serious, there's like a boat down there." pope rushed as sage stood up and walked next to him, peering down into the water.

"holy shit, he's right!" she yelled, pointing towards the water as john b rushed over to peer over the edge.

"you don't think that's, like, the boat, do you?" he asked sage, who thought for a moment and shrugged.

"maybe." she said, looking down into the water. "only one way to find out, though."

"you coming, sage?" jj yelled, to which sage responded by diving back into the water, swimming to just above the boat.

"get your ass in here, pope!" john b yelled as he and kiara jumped into the water to join sage and jj, pope following behind soon after.

without any words being exchanged, the group dove under the water, sage and john b reaching the boat first. the twins looked at the boat, then to each other before motioning for everyone to surface.

"holy shit!" jj screamed as soon as he broke the surface of the water.

"you saw that, right?" john b asked sage, but jj didn't notice he was talking specifically to her.

"hell yeah i did! that's a grady white, new one of those is like, 500gs easy!" jj yelled as he pulled himself onto the boat and helped sage as john b shook his head.

"sage, that's the boat we saw when we surfed the surge, isn't it?" he asked as the blonde nodded, quickly drying her face and hair.

"don't know who else's it would be, and who the hell is driving it in the marsh?" the blonde replies as she sits next to her twin on the bow.

"you guys surfed the surge?" kiara asked concerned as sage smirked while jj clapped both the twins' backs.

"thats twins, pogue style." he said happily as sage stood up and pulled the anchor out of the hull.

"i think i can help us find out who's boat that is." she said as she untied the rope and threw the excess line into the water, glancing at john b. "that is, if my keeper will permit it."

"it's too deep, no way." jj said, completely ignoring that sage was talking to john b instead of him, the blonde on the bow rolling her eyes.

"for the weak and feeble, maybe." she said as she walked over to the edge, john b grinning as he stood up next to her.

"diver down?" he asked, sage nodding in response.

"diver down."

"hell yeah, she is!" john b yelled, shoving sage off the boat will all his strength, sage catching a breath as she hit the water letting the weight of the anchor pull her down into the water until her feet hit the sand. she swam towards the boat, looking around the dash of the boat, a yellow keychain that she recognized to be the key to a local motel. she grabbed the key quickly and kicked up off the floor of the boat.

"oh my god, that took forever!" kiara yelled as soon as sage broke the surface.

"any dead bodies?" pope asked, sage shaking her head.

"looting potential?" jj tried, sage shaking her head again.

"i did find a motel key." sage said, tossing the key to john b who grabbed her wrist and pulled her onto the boat.

"a motel key?" pope said disappointedly as sage rolled her eyes.

"no, pope, the queen of england's crown. yeah, a motel key, you dumb bitch." sage said annoyedly as the key was passed back to her.

"guys, we should report the wreck to the coast guard. maybe we'll get a finders fee!" kiara said excitedly as john b steered the boat out of the marsh.

"yeah, and not work all summer." jj said happily.

"thanks agatha, ya batch." sage replied, clinking her coca-cola bottle with john b's beer.

kens speaks 🪐

this took an unnecessary amount of time to write

anywho