We all looked at Pope as we heard the man whistle and assumed the people were gone.

"I'm so sick of this shit," was all Pope said before walking off. Kie followed him.

Me, JJ, and JB just looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Fuck," I said angrily before walking inside. I'm so damn sick of this, just like Pope said. When is it going to be over. When are we not going to have these problems.

It's never going to end.

I sat in my room and just stared at my wall. I was trying to think through a lot of things.

When my door opened I looked up, and saw exactly who I expected, JJ. He sat down beside me.

"Do I have problems?" I asked after we sat in a second of silence. "What?" J questioned, confused. "I think I have problems. Like really bad problems." I said, my eyes almost teary.

"I start every damn fight that gets us hurt I swear. It's always my problem, I can't hold back my fucking fist," I explained. "I hurt... way too many people, J." I said at almost a whisper.

"I hurt people that I love for no reason just because I get angry." I concluded. At this point I was on the verge of crying.

"No," JJ put his hand on my thigh. "You don't have problems. You are perfect the way you are."

I took his hand in mine, but still said, "JJ, I hurt you more than anyone." I finally looked at him and the look on his face nearly made me break down.

"(Y/N), I promise you I am fine. What's life if people don't get hurt sometimes." JJ told me. "It doesn't mean that you have problems and it definitely doesn't change the fact that I love you more than anyone in this world."

I kissed him first. In the middle of it, I said, "I love you too." I really loved JJ more than anyone. He was the person that kept me sane.

I was straddling his lap in a quick second and the next second I was laying on top of him on the bed.

My shirt was off first, after JJ ran his hand up my back and I couldn't take it anymore. Then he flipped us and took off his own. He held my hands above my head while he kissed down my chest.

There was one sweet spot on the place where my jaw and neck connect and I was sure there was going to be a massive hickey on it.

He came back up to my face and squeezed my hands as he kissed me again. He let my hands go and ran his own down my body. I felt dizzy just by the rush of him on me again.

"(Y/N)," he pulled away for a second. "No," I shook my head and pulled him back to me by his neck. "Shut up for a second." I told him before his lips were on mine again.

While in the middle of all of this, I realized that JJ was my person. My person I couldn't live without, the person I wanted to be around all of the time. JJ Maybank was basically my lifeline.

~~~

The next morning Kie and I were still very tired, laying on the couch with our eyes closed, as the boys played a small basketball game on the porch.

I had on black ripped jeans and a cropped blue t-shirt.

We both opened our eyes as Saran walked in.

"Well, hello princess." JJ told her. "What's up?" Sarah said in return.

"Shouldn't you be on Figure Eight with your little group of polo players?" I asked her. "Or did you break up with Topper?" JB added with a smile. "We're just friends," Sarah told John B. "He's just a friend." JB repeated.

"You have a lot of friends, Sarah Cameron." John B said. "Yeah, and it seems like you've got some of your own too." Sarah replied.

"All right, what are you doing here?" John B asked and sat up. "I'm here for Pope." Sarah sighed. "I think I found the island room." She told him. We all sat up now.

We went to Sarah house, where they figured it was. On the way there, we found out that the cross supposedly healed people and that's probably why Limbrey wanted it. Also that there was a curse and that's why there was the ship wreck.

"This place still freaks me out." John B said as we walked through the Cameron house. "Yeah, same." I agreed, looking around.

"Pope, look." Sarah said as she opened a door. There was a room that had ripped wallpaper all over but under the ripped wallpaper was a drawing of what looked like a map.

"Woah. You've got to be kidding me." Pope said. "Incredible." John B said. "No freakin way," JJ added. "It's been here the whole time." Sarah said with a small laugh. "This definitely means something." JJ muttered.

"This is a map of the whole island." I told them as I looked around. "I think you're right because this is Rixon's right here. And then there's the lighthouse." JJ replied, pointing it out. "Parcel 9 and the well." Kie said as she looked at them.

"Okay, so if that's Parcel 9, and then if that's Rixon's, then that's gotta be the surf break at Mass." JB said, going to a different wall.

JJ got out the Denmark thing and it showed the drawing matched up.

"These are all his drawings. He painted this entire room." Pope noted. "Yeah. Question is why. What's he trying to tell us?" Kie asked. "It's gotta have something to do with the key, right?" I asked. "Yeah, but what?" Kie asked again in return.

More confusion.

"How did you know to uncover this?" JB asked Sarah. "I didn't. It was like this when I got home." Sarah replied. It didn't sounded like she hadn't yet connected the dots and figured out who did.

"Okay, then who did it?" Kie asked. "I don't know." Sarah replied.

A voice suddenly came behind us, saying, "The freaks," making us all jump. It was just Wheezie.

"What freaks are we talking about, Wheezie? There are quite a few on this island." I told her. "Uh, that sick lady and her attack dog." Wheezie replied. "They showed up last night and they wanted to talk to Rafe." She added.

"Wait, pale blond lady?" JJ asked. "With crutches?" I added. "Uh-huh," Wheezie replied with a nod.

"It's gotta be Limbrey." Pope said. "What happened?" JB asked Wheezie. "First, they searched the whole house looking for something, and then Rafe told me to go upstairs. But I didn't want to miss out, so I listened through the grate." Wheezie told us.

"And they and they were talking about getting across the sand flamingo." Wheezie said uncertainly. "That's code! That's code for something," J immediately said.

"The cross of Santo Domingo," I corrected Wheezie. "Yeah that's it," She nodded. "Oh, and they were talking about angels. A lot of angel talk. I don't know." Wheezie told us. "Angels?" John B questioned.

"Guys, Denmarks famous last words. He buried the real treasure at the foot of the angel. They're looking for an angel. We have the find the angel in the room." Pope explained to us in a panicky voice.

We immediately started looking and pointing out random things, trying to figure it out.

"Hey, yo! Hey, guys! I think I found something!" JJ yelled at us. "This humongous tree is still on Goat Island. You know what it's called?" He asked us as he pointed it out. "Angel Oak." Pope said.

"Look right there. There's the keyhole." JJ told us, pointing out the trunk. "That means the cross is buried at the foot of the angel." Pope said. "Woah. That must be where he put it." John B added.

"J, you're a fucking genius." I told him. I didn't look up at him but I could feel him looking at me and I could guess he had a smile on his face.

"That must be where they are right now! We have to go!" Pope yelled at us. "I think I'm Sherlock Holmes, all right?" JJ said as we crowded out of the room.

"You're welcome by the way," He added. "Yeah, thanks Sherlock." I said sarcastically but kind of did mean it.

We passed the church that Denmark made for the slaves he freed and not too long after that, came up on Angel Oak. However, the tide was extremely high on the road.

"Ah, shit. Tides comin in." John B said as he drove, me in the front with him.

"Hey, wait a second. Look. They already came through here." Pope told us as John B slowed down. "Those have to be Limbreys tire tracks. Guys, we gotta go." He added.

"Mmm, what do you think, chief?" J asked John B from the back. "I'm thinking it's looking a little dicey." John B replied. "Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with that statement." I added.

"Okay, well clearly they made it. No?" Kie told us. "In a two wheel drive? I don't know." I replied.

"Why are y'all acting like you're not gonna do it anyways?" Sarah asked us. John B and I looked back at her at the same time. "Like when have y'all ever done the safe thing?" She questioned.

JB and I looked at each other, not knowing what to say because she was right. "She's got a point." We said in unison.

"Alright," He put it in drive. "Speed is your best friend here. Put down the hammer." I told him. "Stick to the high ground in the middle," JJ said from behind.

"All right, ready? Here we go." John B said and started moving.

"Come on punch it. Speed is your friend. Speed it your friend. You're not going fast enough." JJ told John B. "It's gonna slide," Kie said in protest.

"You're fishtailing already." I said with a small laugh. "Yeah, I know." JB said and laughed a little too.

"Okay, not to put any more pressure on you, but if you don't make it through, we'll be stuck here forever." Pope told us as he stuck his head through the middle of the front, emphasizing forever. "Okay," I shoved his head back to the back.

We all let out a sigh of relief as we got through.

"All right, all right. Here's good." Pope told us. We stopped and got out of the car.

"All right, so, word to the wise, definitely a gators nest back here so keep your eyes peeled." JJ told us as he got out. "You don't wanna step on a mama gator. That's the last thing you want." He added.

"J," I scolded him and punched his arm. "They have nest's?" Kie asked. "Seems like a good place to park." Sarah said as we started walking in a line.

"All right. You don't wanna be a Pat Womack." JJ said and picked up a branch in front of me. "She had her calf chewed off by a gator," he explained.

"You know that, right?" He asked me as he turned his head around to look at me. "That's actually not true," Kie said from behind me.

"Pat Womack was injured in a car accident, but I hear you." I told JJ and patted his shoulder. "Okay, just live in ignorance." JJ replied, making me laugh and roll my eyes. "But like, she did have her calf chewed off by a mama gator. I know that for a fact." He told me, turning around yet again.

"They like the brackish water." He said. "Wait, wait. Hold on. I see something." He told us and stopped. "What are you doing?" I asked him as he smacked the water with his stick.

"Right. Wake them up. That's so smart, Einstein." I told him and pulled him back up, pushing him to keep walking. "I was just making sure it wasn't a gator. That's all," He defended.

Sarah and JB started talking behind us and Pope shushed us all as we came up onto the tree. We all looked over a bush. There was a metal machine working and a couple of men shoveling dirt.

"I don't see shit." Rafe said. "You sure this is the right spot?" He asked. "It's there. The garment will be in the cross, and the cross will be at the foot of the tree." Limbrey replied.

They continued talking but I couldn't hear them.

Suddenly they stopped and then two men jumped in the hole, digging. They pulled out a casket. "They got the cross? What do we do? What do we do?" JJ asked us in a whisper. "What can we do?" JB replied.

Rafe opened the casket with a crowbar and they took the lid off.

He rubbed his mouth with his hand and I remembered why I loved him for a second. Then he yelled and I remembered why I didn't.

They stared at it for a second then stood up. What the hell is happening. Limbrey yelled "We're going back!" then they left.

Pope went first out of the bush, with a small yell from JJ but then we followed him. When we looked in the casket, it was just a dead corpse.

"Cecilia Tanny, Denmarks wife." Pope said as he read the casket. He got up and looked at the tree, stepping closer. "He wasn't talking about the cross. He buried her at the foot of the angel." Pope told us.

"The true treasure," Kie said. "His wife," I finished.