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"Hey, guys. So, like, my dad's already gonna kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope asks and John B shoots finger guns at JJ.

"Might as well tell him, man, before we're gaffed" JJ says, throwing wood into the fire as I throw my legs over Pope's lap and lay my head on his shoulder, the boy patting my knee gently.

"You ready for this?" John B asks.

"Yeah" Kiara nods.

"So, the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant" John B announces and my eyes widen.

"Oh, my God. Here we go again with this" Pope groans.

"Wait, I wanna know" I argue, playfully slapping the Heyward boy's chest.

"Hear him out, all right?" JJ adds.

"It's been here the whole time. It's on the island" John B declares.

"You are fucking kidding me" I gasp.

"Are you serious? Oh, my God" Kiara asks.

"I'd like to voice my skepticism" Pope says, not believing John B's words.

"I'm sure you would, Pope, but can I please present you with my evidence, sir?" John B replies, standing up.

"Proceed" Pope nods, waving his hand at the brunette.

"All right. So, in my backpack, I have a letter from Denmark Tanny" John B declares, holding up a piece of paper.

"Who the hell's that?" Kiara asks in confusion.

"Denmark Tanny was a slave that survived the Royal Merchant wreck. Check this out" John B answers.

"What?" Kiara questions as John B hands her the paper.

"Okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship, but my dad, he found the complete manifest. That was his big discovery. So Tanny used the gold from the Merchant to buy his freedom" John B starts and Kiara hands me the paper.

"After that, he bought his farm. Drumroll, please, because that farm is..." John B drawls off and we all give him a drumroll.

"Tannyhill Plantation" John B reveals and I show Pope the letter.

"Tannyhill?" I ask in disbelief.

"Yeah. So, after that, he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit-ton of rice, which pisses off all the white planters, and then they decide to lynch him. So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to his son as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter, he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold" John B explains.

"Where?" Kiara whispers.

"Harvest the wheat in parcel nine, near the water. Except...there's no wheat. You see, wheat is code for gold. The gold is in parcel nine, near the water" John B answers.