game on | jj maybank [1]

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"I mean it's obvious, right?" John b asked. The pogues were all inside John b's van looking for more clues

"I would say there is just a possibility" Blake corrected him as she was still reluctant to believe everything about the gold

"It could also be possible that you are concocting to help, you know, deal with your sad feels" Pope told him making Blake glare at him. That was not nice.

"Pope bro, you know how I process my sad feels? Dank nugs and the stickiest of ickies, that's how I do it" JJ told him making Blake roll her eyes at him

"What?" he hit her arm

"Why are you so annoying?" Blake playfully asked JJ

"Because I hang out with you too much" He replied making Blake cross her arms

"I'm not concocting, okay? My dad's trying to give me a message" John b told them

"If it helps you believe, John b" Kie said

"Look I don't need a therapy session, okay? Look I'm not trippin' out" He said desperately because no one believed him

"It's okay to trip, bro, but-" JJ trailed but was interrupted by John b

"Look, my dad's missing okay? Missing. You don't know what it's like to have the closest person to you vanish and then have no idea what happened. Just wake up every morning wondering" John b rambled desperately. Blake just look at him, she didn't like seeing him hurt.

"It's been almost a year" Kie told the brunette boy

"Hey! He could have been kidnapped, that's definitely a possibility" JJ tried to cheer him up a bit

"Yeah, could be in a Soviet sub being interrogated be the KGB somewhere" Pope said now making Blake look at him

"That's stupid" scoffed

"Uh...or Atlantis" JJ said making Blake roll her eyes

"For all we know he could be in Narnia, right? Have we checked the wardrobes?" Blake sarcastically said being annoyed at the stupid things both Pope and JJ were saying

"Look, what do you think the message is?" Kie asked John b

"Readfield. Redfield lighthouse, my dad's favourite place" He said right when they passed the sign of the lighthouse

"Right. You're gonna post up and look for bogeys, okay?" John b told JJ as they all got out the van

"Wait, why me?" JJ asked him

"He doesn't trust you, loser" Blake laughed at him

"Why?" The blonde boy asked John b

"Look JJ there are dependent and independent variables and you are an independent one, we don't know what you'll do" Pope told him and they started an argument

"Shut up! Listen to me for a second. Pope and Blake you stay here on lookout with JJ and if we split up we meet at JJ's house, okay?" John b instructed walking up to Kie as Blake made a hurt face

"Wait, why can't I come?" Blake asked the boy

"'Cause you are also an independent variable" He shrugged leaving with Kie

"I hate him" Blake mumbled

"Life's hard, B" JJ laughed at her

"Okay look, I'm gonna work on my merit scholarship essay, and I'm trying to keep the felonies to a minimum" Pope said annoyed at his two friends

"All right, would you just shut up already?" JJ asked Pope making the latter get into the van closing the door so he could concentrate

"Hey! Don't be rude with Pope!" Blake taunted JJ taking off his cap and putting it on her own head