MATILDA! CHAPTER THREE:
THE MOTEL METH LAB
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Liz, JJ and John B all went into the Coastal Office to try and talk to them, but it was busy as ever, and everyone was screaming over each other. Liz couldn't even keep to the front, she was pushed to the back. The three walked out of the office where Kie and Pope were waiting for them.

"Well that went well" Pope spoke

"So what's the plan?" JJ asked

"I know—we're gonna find the guy who owns that boat" John B stated

"We don't know whose room that is. It could be anyone's"

"Im in"

"Come on, I'll be lookout"

"Finders fee just sayin" John b said

"Come on Bubba" Liz said in a sing song voice to Pope

They got to the motel after a few minutes of driving, and to say it looked bad was an understatement
"I thought the cheatau looked bad" 

"This place is a shit show"

"Motel or meth lab?" Liz asked 

"You be the Judge" Pope said

"Doesn't look like a place someone with a Grady white would stay"

"No, looks like somewhere Grady white would get killed"

"This is your captain speaking. HMS pogue coming in for a landing" JJ said trying to impersonate a captain. They tied the boat to shore

"Hey, don't let him do anything stupid" Pope said to John B

"Yeah, we will" JJ said

"I'm not making any promises"

"Liz, go with them" Pope practically ordered and Liz looked at the two boys who would definitely cause to much trouble for anyone's liking and rolled her eyes and huffed

"Fine" she said getting out of the boat with JJs help

"Uh, be careful" Kiara said giving John B the key "I mean it"

"Yeah" John B chuckled before walking with JJ and Liz

"Why are all these mattresses out here?"

"After a hurricane, they ditch em cause there Moldy" JJ explained

"Can we ditch you after a hurricane?" Liz commented and JJ lightly nudged her

"Just be so careful John B" JJ mocked What Kie did on the boat

"God your so weird" John B groaned

"What was that about?"

"I don't know maybe she wants us to be careful"

"Since she heard you being threatened with exile she's been like—"

"Oh! Be so careful John B" both JJ and Liz were pretending to be all over John B

"Get off"

"Oh jsut give me that John D already, like when are you going to swoop on that man?" JJ asked

"Bro you know the rule, no pogue-on-pogue making"

"You totally made that rule so you could avoid your feelings for her" Liz stated

"JJs the one who's always hitting on her"

"Of course I'm hitting on her. She's a super hot, rich, hippie chick slumming it with us, why? I can't figure it out either Bro but who cares bro. I know that doors locked because I've tried it. Have you?"

"You need help" John b said "not a little bit of help, I mean I lot of help, it's like every girl who has a heartbeat, your like... uhhh— like Buffy, you two are constantly going at it" John B pointed out and Liz whipped her head to face them

"What? No" Liz denied 

"What? It's not a big deal" JJ added

John B nodded his head slightly; and they turned to a door

"Is that is? Twenty nine"

"This is it" JJ knocked on the door
"House keeping" he said in a high pitched voice and Lizgiggled

"Did your balls just jump to your stomach?" Liz asked and JJ nodded his head mockingly as if he was laughing

"Should we try it?"

"Yeah"

"No power, no security cameras, nobody's gonna know" They entered the hotel room

"Check the bags, see if there's a name"

"A jacket, denim slides"

"No name on the jacket. It's a nice jacket though"

"Definitely over 50" John b said "he's got new balances" Liz wandered to a table beside the bed to see a location name

"Yo guys come here" Liz said, JJ came beside her— she could feel his breath on the back of her neck

"Maybe this is where they went fishing"

"Let me see"

"Right there" Cassie said

"that's off the continental shelf—big swell, nobody fishes there"

"Okay" They looked around the room more and Li went into the bathroom to look around. She was looking in the cabinet when someone came behind here and grabbed her waist making her jump and squeal. She turned to see JJ who had a shit eating grin plastered on his face as he laughed.

"JJ" she whined "don't do that" she nudged him and JJ grabbed her hands

"Oh come on, you know you love it" JJ said and Liz didn't say anything— she hadn't used the word Love towards a boy since Tommy Jacobs.

Tommy Jacobs, her crazy ex boyfriend, was a Kook. Well, he was a pogue when they first met but his parents made their way up the chain and they were now up there in figure 8 with the Cameron's. He became best friends with Topper and Kelce and broke up with her, deeming she was to poor to even associate with him.

"Find anything?" John B asked

"A really awesome Dopp kit you won't let me steal" JJ said

"We're not stealing shit" John B told JJ. Liz and JJ found John B trying to guess the code of a lock

"Punching shit at random, that'll definitely work"

"Why don't you try and actually look for numbers that actually make sense" Liz suggested walking to the side table

"Wait a second. Here"

"I don't know. I don't know about the second one" JJ said

"Wait. My cousin said you could catch swordfish here— nah that doesn't make sense, what about a surf spot?"

"Uh..guys" Liz looked towards John B humming in response

"Your gonna wanna see this" They walked towards John B who opened the safe and it had wads if cash, a brown bag and a gun inside

"Dude, Dude, Dude" JJ grabbed the gun from the safe and John hs hands shot up to his head in panic

"You grabbed the gun" he said

"Thank you captain obvious" Liz groaned

"This is a sig Sauer"

"Put the gun back JJ!" Liz said

"This is a fucking spendy gatt, man. Just..bam! bam!" JJ pretended to shot the gun along with his flashlight in his hand going around and Liz rolled her eyes.

"We're not stealing anything" John b said

"Just take a pic of me. Right here"

"You want me to take a picture of you?"

"Yeah dude, like-"

"Make our own incriminating evidence? Is that what your talking about"

"He already touched the gun" Liz turned to sighed and put her hands on her hip before hearing a noise came from the window

"What was that?" John b looked out the window. Both Kie and Pope were there pointing to the door

"Shit" John b siad going to the window beside the door

"Cops" he said and they frantically ran around the room

They quickly climbed out the window on the ledge, just fitting on with John b on one side and JJ with Liz on the other. JJ had Liz in a tight hug and she was completely pressed into the wall

"Could you get your leg out of my ass JJ?" Liz asked and JJ groaned

"Seriously?"

"Yes I'm serious—" JJ dropped the gun while he tried to shift his position, making a loud noise, the cops inside no doubt hearing it and Liz held her breath as JJs hand moved down slightly. They heard the door shut to the motel and Liz let out a quiet breath

"I hate you" Liz muttered and JJ chuckled

"Whatever you say princess"

They came down to the boat where Kie and Pope were waiting

"Well that was fun" JJ said

"No it wasn't" Liz crossed her arms— still slightly flustered from what JJ had said

"Could have warned us sooner"

"We could have, exept Pope was on the math team"

"You were on the math team?"

"What did you expect?" Liz laughed

"The cops took everything like it was a crime scene" pope said "Did you guys find anything?"

"Did we find anything? No I don't think so. Oh yeah, we did" JJ said before taking out a wad of cash and the gun, he smiled.

"What the hell?" Pope asked

"Dude what?"

"Dude, chill. Come on"

"Why would you take that?" Liz asked

"It's better than the cops having it"

"It almost got us caught!"

"I'm gonna lose my merit scholarship" Pope said

"Hey, hey, sh, sh, sh. At least you have us right?"

"I'm living the nightmare"