*What happened..? She thinks about those words all the time. Once one big family was now splitting into ways she couldn't even describe.

Ruby, John B, Kirara, JJ, and Pope The og pogues, they people who never really gave a shit….her family, her everything for that matter

It was all great at the start. Yea JJ was always getting in trouble and Pope was always more focused on books then people but so what. Who wasn't. Outer banks weren't exactly paradise on earth like they had said…

Then treasure hunting and kooks turning into pogues happen and everything as she knew it went to shit. Finding treasure became the opposite of what it was at the start. Now with Sarah tagging along and her crazy dad and brother following it made their lives harder.

But they all tried to stay together as much as they could. Ruby, JJ, and Pope were always the closest of the bunch. Ruby and JJ were like brother and sister. And Pope and JJ were brothers. Once Ruby and pope started dating, it only made their relationship stronger.

she thought things were getting better…it was until they lost JJ. Pope lost his brother, Kiara, her boyfriend, Ruby, her best friend…everyone changed after.

Pope the most he started, smoking…a lot. And drinking too. It wasn't like him at all but she couldn't even blame him. Out of everyone he had it bad and no one really seemed to care but ruby

Now every few hours she was pulling a cigarette from between his lips, she never got him about it. She just made the agreement with him that he wouldn't smoke unless it was with her. It was the best way she could monitor how much he was smoking

Currently they were in the living room, anda she was sitting on his lap while he laid down scratching his roots with her nails “Feels good?” Ruby asked softly.*