Picture this: the OBX but set in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
PSA: I don't own the characters
"You invited THE queen of the kooks to join our plan John B?" Kiara's voice echoed out into the dark as the four huddled around a fire providing the only light. "You know I can't stand that bitch," she said in a stern voice. JJ and Pope glance at each other knowing that it is about to go down. "Kie listen we need her to get the gold," John B said in a voice so quiet it could barely be heard over the ocean in the distance. "Is that the best you can come up with big guy?" she said firmly. "Shit she just big guyed him" JJ chuckled under his breath while Kiara gave him daggers that could kill "We all know you are just trying to get laid because the tourists weren't vibing you this summer". "Jesus Kiara that was harsh" Pope chimed in hoping it would diffuse the tension arising between the two best friends. "Kiara, we need her for this to go smoothly, so that we can find the gold and live a kook life." John B said with a long sigh acknowledging his annoyance. "You know I was brought up the kook way and I've done the whole kook thing and it's not all it's cracked up to be. I really thought that my best friend would realise that wealth isn't better than having good mates" Kiara said as she stood up and threw her can in the fire before beginning to storm off into John B's house. Before she made it into the house, John B stood up and with a voice much louder than the initial conversation, bellowed out "Yeah well at least I didn't leave my best friends for a year". Pope and JJ glance at each other and cringe as the hey the screen door open and then slam. They glance at John B and then back to each other with a look that can only be described as utter disgust. A few years ago, Kiara started to befriend some of the kooks on the figure 8 side of the island and abandoned the boys for the entire year. She was born into that life but for some reason she chose the three pogue partiers to become her best friends, at the disgust of her parents of course who felt she needed to be seen with the influentials of the island. When she was done with that life and decided to come back to pogue life the boys invited her in with open arms. No one has really uttered any words of that time until now. "Bro that was seriously low," JJ said as he stood up finishing his beer. Pope chimed in by adding that if JJ was making sense John B really messed up. JJ begins to walk to John B's house to check on Kiara when he turns back ensuring that neither of them come in and interrupt because Kie is a fuse just waiting to blow. As JJ enters the kitchen, he sees Kiara washing the dishes that the group had created while eating burgers earlier that evening. "Washing dishes never looked so good," JJ said as he lent up against the fridge while Kiara's back faced him. As Kiara rolled her eyes she felt two strong hands wrap around her waist. JJ peppered several kisses along her neck. JJ knew these kisses were her weakness. In his arms, Kiara spun around, wrapping her arms around the back of the blondes neck, water on her hands dripping down JJ's shirt. "John B was out of line Kie, don't let it get to you". Kiara looked down and scanned over JJ's beautiful body dressed in his signature shorts and a muscle tee. "Look at me beautiful". With much annoyance, Kiara lifted her head to meet those beautiful blonde eyes. In a quiet voice, Kiara built up the courage to speak. "Are you sure? Like are you sure that you don't all still resent me because of that kook year? Because I mean it when I say that if I could take it back and never do it I would. It was the biggest mistake I've ever made, and I am so…" before Kiara can even complete her rambling, JJ's lips crash onto Kiara's forcing her to stop talking. After the initial shock, Kiara begins to mirror his movements. Kiara runs her hands threw the scruffy blonde's hair as he reaches for her hips pulling her towards him to eliminate any possible space between the two. In one swift movement, JJ's strong hands lift the brunette up onto the counter sending the dishes she had been washing all over the floor. It isn't until the dishes make a loud noise do the two separates for some air. Amongst trying to regain her breath Kiara manages to get out "JJ, the boys are going to be coming in at any moment". "So what's the story pretty girl? That you got so mad that I sided with John B that you started launching cutlery and pans at me?". "Real funny JJ" Kiara signed in a way that shows JJ she cares. JJ begins to lean in again, to engulf the beauty as they hear footsteps approaching and the door flying open, this causes the blonde to jump back and the brunette to hop off the counter and start picking up the spilled kitchen utensils. John B and Pope walk-in shocked to see the dishes all over the floor and JJ's hair looking messier than usual. "What the hell happened in here" Pope said glancing between the two. The silence and tension could be cut with a knife before JJ stepped up and spoke. "I just snuck up on Kie and scared her, which kind of just forced this shit everywhere". Kiara glanced up at JJ with a sincere look, a way of saying thank you for saving her ass without blowing their big secret. "Kiara I am so sorry I didn't mean to say that" John B spoke, his voice cracking at the completion of his sentence. Before John B could even comprehend a reaction, Kiara had made her way to him engrossing him in a huge hug. His head resting on top of hers as she glanced over his shoulder, Kiara spoke "I am so sorry. I just have had a lot on my mind. And with exams starting up soon and me having to accept that Sarah Cameron is going to have to be in my life. Well it's just a lot for me to comprehend". The large figure which Kiara was entangled in began to shake as John B began to laugh. Kiara glanced up with a look of confusion until John B spoke, gripping Kiara's face with his two hands. "Don't you ever apologise to me again Kie. You are the glue that keeps us together". Pope relieves his throat by letting out a fake cough to ensure the two know that he is a large contributor to the group. Pope joins in on the hug with JJ shortly following. "Can we all stop being so dramatic, were meant to be hunting treasure", JJ says as the group releases. "And on that note, I'm hitting the sack. All this drama has made me exhausted" John B says to the rest. As John B retreats to his bedroom shutting the door. Pope heads on out to the spare bedroom, which is really just a blow-up mattress in John B's, dads study room. Kiara heads to the bathroom to brush her teeth while JJ pulls out the couch and ensures the air mattress has enough air for himself. JJ walks into the bathroom and just glances at the girl he gets to call his, only in the privacy of their own company of course. It's a rule they've lived by for years. No pogue-on-pogue macking and what they have been doing all summer kind of breaks that rule in many ways. Kiara whispers his name waking JJ up out of his daydream. "Have you set up the beds?" She says. As JJ approaches her, he says seductively "Yeah but you've got the mattress tonight". Kiara raises on her tiptoes as they reach near centimetres between the two's lips before Kiara says, "Well I guess you can join me if you get lonely on that big bed". Kiara places a kiss on his lips and leaves the room. Before leaving JJ places his hand on her hips pulling her back in for another kiss. At the grips of his lips, JJ sighs saying "are you sure we can't just stay together? You'll just have to be quiet." Kiara chuckles as JJ's hands remain on her hips. "Oh, babe I'm not the one who makes all the noise". And with that comment, Kiara struts out of the bathroom and makes herself comfortable on the fold-out couch which she claims she is entitled to when the four of them all stay at John B's. The couch is actually JJ's designated second bed. Kiara on the fold-out facing the roof as silence falls across the room. "Hey JJ?", "Yes pretty?", "Do you think there is actually gold out there? Or are we just chasing nothing?" "God Kiara, I really do hope it's true" JJ sighs. "Because once we find it, and I get my cut, I'm am going to buy an amazing house in the figure 8 with all the other rich snobs. And you're going to live with me, and we're going to have kids which are going to grow up so much better off than I did but learn how to live and thrive just how we do now. And everything is going to be amazing Kie." Silence falls once again. Until Kiara takes a loud breath "And we won't have to pretend that were just friends". JJ lets out a big yawn while saying "Baby all in good time now go to sleep, we don't want you looking tired, just because you're my girlfriend in secret doesn't mean you still can't look cute." "Shut up you dick" Kiara bites back. A deep chuckle comes from JJ's chest is heard as he knows that she would look beautiful on no sleep and in a trash bag, but he just likes pushing her buttons.