Azlia

"Code red!" Pope yells from a boat. "What's the hell is going on?" Ki ask as we make our way towards Pope. "Okay, JJ and John B conked in the marsh. They need a tow." Pope says. "Idiots." I say getting in the boat. "Okay so what does that have to do with us?" Ki ask as she sits down. "We need y'all for mechanical." He smiles. "Mechanical." I repeat. We take off in the boat.

"John B and JJ are up in the Alp." Pope says as we get close to their boat. "Can't you guys do anything without out?" I ask. "Seriously." Ki adds in.

Ki and I hop over the boat and walk up towards the Alp. In there we see both John B and JJ looking like idiots.

"What happened?" I ask. "Uh the alternators, not alternating anymore." JJ says. "It's not charged." John B says. "Did you check the plugs?" Ki ask. "No no, you guys should check them." JJ says. JJ hands me the tool. "You guys are useless." I say. "Sorry about that." He says.

Ki and I bend down to the Alternator and try doing whatever to it. "Uh, is this a joke?" Ki yells.

I hear sudden splashes and look up to see JJ and John B are swimming to the boat Pope was in. "Shit." Ki says running to the edge of the boat.

All of a sudden I hear sudden banging coming from the bottom of the boat.

"John B, let me out!" I hear. I open the hatch and come face to face with Sarah. "What the fuck?" I say a loud. Ki walks over and makes a devilish face.

"Guys!" Ki yells. We both run to the edge of the boat leaving Sarah on her own.

"Are you serious?" I ask. "Are you joking?" Ki ask. A few seconds later Sarah stands right next to me. The boys were getting farther. "Get your asses back here!" Ki yells. "We can't not until you two figure it out!" John B yells. "Why am I here?" I yell. "Make sure they don't kill each other!" Pope yells. "JJ!" I yell. "I'm sorry they made me!" He yells back. With that I just give up.

"You can't just leave!" Sarah yells. "There's food in the cabin and JJ rolled a blunt!" Pope yells. "This is ridiculous." Sarah says kicking

off her slides.

The both of them take of there clothes and revel there bathing suits. Sarah jumps in the water. "You can just give up, they're not coming back." I say calmly. "This bitch." Ki sighs to me.

"Ahh! I got stung by a jelly fish. Shit!" Sarah exaggerates. "Dramatic." Ki says. She climbs on the both crying.

"Well you swan right into a man-o'-war. I don't know what you thought was gonna happen." Ki says. "Thanks for your help." Sarah snaps.

She walks across the boat and sits down. "Hey, you know what they say, about curing jellyfish stings?" Sarah ask. "No." Ki and I say in sync.

"You have to pee on me." She says.

Ki and I exchange looks. "We have a better idea." We both say.

"It's for the pain." I say holding JJ's blunt box and taking one out. "JJ bless." Sarah whines.

I take out the blunt and hand it to Ki. She puts it in between her lips and I light it for her.

"You don't smoke?" Sarah ask. I shake my head no. "I have in the past though." I say.

Ki hands the blunt to Sarah and she takes a large breath in. "Go easy." Ki says. When Sarah releases the blunt from her lips she starts coughing up a whole ass storm. Ki and I give her a weird look.

It's dark outside and we're all chilling around the boat. Except Sarah, she's high.

"Hey guess what, would you rather have, I was imagining this just now. It was pretty funny. Would you imag- would you rather have nipples for eyes or eyes for nipples?" She finally gets out. I look at Sarah with the blankets look on my face. "Imagine if you get really old and and your nipples- your boobs get saggy and your nipple if they were your eyes you could see if your shoes are untied." She goes in.

I start laughing at how dumb she's acting and her choice of words.

"Is this like your first time smocking or something?" Ki ask annoyed. "No." Sarah says softly.

The two of them start talking about why Sarah didn't invite Ki to her birthday party and how she thinks Ki and I called the cops to her party. We did. I was invited but I wasn't gonna go with our Ki.

Soon the tree of us were laying down on blankets and pillow right next to each other. I looked at the stares and tried to count every single one.

"We did call the cops." I confess. Sarah and Ki start laughing. "I knew it, you bitches." Sarah laughs and we join along.

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"Uh-oh! You forgot your keys or something." One of the guys yells as their boat comes closer to ours.

"Don't give them the satisfaction of thinking this worked." I say to Ki and Sarah. They happily agree.

"I'm always planing." John B laughs. "Some patriarchal bullshit." I say climbing into their boat. "Yea, that sucked." Sarah adds. "I'm never doing that again." Ki says climbing behind Sarah.

"You still love us though, right?" JJ ask sticking out his arms. "No." I say giving him a hug.

"We're all gonna get you back when you least expect it." Sarah yells John B.

"All right, you guys ready to jack someone up?" John B.

"Wiggedy-"Wiggedy-"Wiggedy-!" Pope and I wiggle our fingers together.

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"Rope?"

"Got it."

"Grappling hook?" John B ask. "We don't have a grappling hook. We're not Batman." Pope sighs.

"Let's go boys and girls." JJ says.

Before we get out the van John B comes around and stops us.

"Wait, wait I just wanna say thank you guys, seriously. It means a lot to me that you're here tonight." He says. "Always." Ki smiles. "Got your back since day one." I smile. John B sticks out his and we do our handshake. "Alright, we don't with this circle jerk? Can we go do this?" JJ ask ruining the moment.

We all climb over the wall and of course Pope falls. "Ow." He says. "Come on." I help him up.

We walk towards the house with our flashlights in our hands. All of a sudden the porch lights turn on and we dash behind a bush. "Flashlights!" Ki panics.

We huddle behind the push panting.

"Okay, so she has motion sensor lights." Pope says. "We could uh, move really slowly, maybe?" JJ says. I give him a small pout about how cute and dumb he is.

"That's not how it works." Pope tells him.

"Oh shit, let's throw a rock at it." John B whispers.

"What?"

"That's literally the dumbest thing you've even said."

"Okay you have a better idea." He ask us.

"We have to turn them off." I say. "We used to play hide and seek here all the time. There's a breaker in a circuit box on the porch." Sarah adds on. I turn to her and give her a high five.

"No, you're not going in that house alone." John B tells her. "Ki and I are going with her, dumbass." I say.

"Crain chops people into pieces." JJ says looking at me. "We'll be fine." I assure him. He stares at me for a little longer. "Okay." He gives in. "Plus she's like 85? She's probably barley still kicking." Sarah says.

"Okay come on." Ki says getting up from her spot and I follow behind her. I give JJ a smile and he gives me the 'be careful' look.

The tree of us quietly walk up to the porch. I open the circuit box and there's no breakers. "Where are the breakers?" Sarah panics.

Ki follows the cord with her flashlight all the way up the house. "It goes inside." She says. "Great." I huff.

Ki walks over to the metal gate and slowly opens it. The more she opens it the more it creaks.

We slowly make our way into the old smelling and dusty house. "It literally smells like a daycare with the year olds that shit their pants and not change it." I gag. "Azi, that's not funny right now." Ki sighs. "I thought it was pretty funny." Sarah quietly laughs. I look at her and make a mimicking face behind Ki's back. She turns around and I immediately drop my arms and fix my face. I look at Sarah and she's holding in a laugh.

We continue walking through the creepy house and all of a sudden a cat yowls.

What the fuck.

"Hey." Ki whispers. I point my flashlight up and Ki points to wires. We follow the track and eventually it leads us to the breaks. We quietly laugh with excitement.

Key pulls the switch and the lights shut off.

"Yes!" I whisper yell.

All of s sudden the clock goes off. We quickly face our backs to the wall. Hiding from whatever will happen next.

"Wait, do you guys hear that?" I ask. Our heavy breathing stops and we hear footsteps coming down the stairs.

"It's late, Leon." A women hisses. I cover my mouth with my hands. I feel Ki grab my hand and squeeze it.

A lady creeps around the corner right in front of us. I suppose it's Mrs. Crain.

"I can hear you Leon." She growls. Sarah lets out a whimper. "I've been waiting all night!" She yells facing us. The three of us scream and run. "Go!" Ki yells.

I follow Ki into a room and we try to unlock the door that leads to the other side. Mr. Crain walks right into the room and I let out a panicked scream. "Sarah!" I yell. Crain tries swinging a metal rod but Ki and I quickly dodge it. She keeps swinging but missing everytime. Ki and I huddle next to each other screaming every time glass shatters.

Crain swings again but Sarah throws the rod to the ground. She grabs my arm and I grab Ki's.

"Come on, this way!" Sarah pulls us.

We run into a room and quickly shut the door behind us. Crains rod slams into the door and we start running again.

"This way! It goes underneath the house!" Sarah yells. Ki and I run behind her. She opens a door and we tread down the steps. "Go go!" Ki yells. "I'm trying!" Sarah yells back.

"Guys!" I yells as we make our way underneath the house. "Woah, what's going on?" Pope ask. "Mrs, Crain! She's up there!" Ki yells. "She tried to kill us with a fire poker." "We have to go now." I say. "Okay code red!" JJ yells down the well. "We gotta go!" Sarah yells.

We all grab the rope and start pulling on it.

"3,2,1 pull!" Pope says. We all pull on the rope and we immediately fall down from it giving out. "Where the hell is he." JJ ask as we crawl over for the well.

John B yells something but we can't make it out. "What's he saying?" JJ ask. "JJ, Azi, Ki!" He yells. "Yo he's drowning! We gotta pull him out!" Pope panics. "John B!" Sarah yells.

"John B get back on the rope. We're gonna pull you out okay, buddy!" Pop yells down the well.

We start pulling on the rope again and out of nowhere we hear a gunshot.

"Holy shit!" Sarah screams. We let go of the rope and start hiding. JJ pulls me in a corner and wraps his arms around me. "Shit." JJ groans. Another gunshot goes off and I scream. "Come on!" Go, go, go." JJ leads me out of our hiding spot and towards the door.

We all make it our and start sprinting for the van.

Ki opens the door and we pile in. "Why are we always getting shot at!" Pope yells jumping in the passenger seat. JJ takes the driver seat as starts up the van. "John B, run!" Ki yells as John B jumps over the wall. He runs to catch up to the van and jumps in.

"Oh, shit!" He yells.

"I think i'd know if I was shot right?" Ki ask felling over my body. I do the same and heavily breath in and out.

"You look disgusting." Pope says out of breath. "Oh, you smell like ass." I fan my face. "What the hell just happened?" Sarah ask. "All time Pogue hall of fame baby!" JJ yells.

"That bitch is possessed." Ki says. I look over at John B and see him holding something in his hand. "John B." I say getting everyone's attention. "We did it, baby!" John B yells.

"Oh my god!" Sarah yells as we admire the gold on John B's hand. We all start screaming in happiness. "Holy shit! Holy shit!" Ki repeats.

"Whoo!" We yell.

"Wait, guys, we're gonna be rich!" Ki yell.

"Like Kook rich!" Sarah and I say.

"Full Kook! Full Kook! Full Kook!" We start chanting.

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