the routledge sister || jj maybank

twenty-seven

no one's POV

after the pouges had already ran from midsummers they went to gather around a fire. Lexi is absolutely blacked out drunk. She has no idea what she is doing. She most likely was won't have the best time waking up.

"so like my dad is already going to kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" pope had asked the group

john b had looked over to the group thinking of how to word the news. "Might as well tell him. man, before we're gaffed" jj told the boy, while lexi had been sitting on his lap. she had a whole seat next to him but decided she wanted to sit on jj's lap.

"you ready for this" john b said everyone on the edge of thier seats needing to know what the deal was.

"yeah" kie looked towards the brunette

"we're waiting b" lexi had slurred while messing around with jj's hair.

"so, the gold never went down with the royal merchant." he started

"oh my god here we go again." pope already started to complain

"shhhh" lexi had put her fingers over her lips shushing him.

"no. alright, wait. hear him out. all right?" jj said to the boy before letting him say much more

"it's been here the whole time" john b continued

"no way" lexi gasped

""it's on the island" he ignored his sister and looked at kie knowing she was next to say something

"are you serious? oh my god!" she didn't believe they went through so much just for it be on the island.

"i'd like to voice my skepticism." pope said

"i'm sure you would pope, but can i please present you with my evidence, sir?"

"proceed"

"all right so in my backpack" john b went into his bag and grabbed a folded up piece of paper. "i have a letter from Denmark tanny"

"who the fuck it tanny? whatever you said?" lexi had looked up to her brother.

"denmark tanny was a salve that survived the royal merchant wreck. check this out" he started unfolding the paper.

"what?" kie asked

"i'm confused? denmark panny? had the gold? a slave?" lexi asked nothing was making sence to her

"yes lex. and it's tanny not panny" jj had looked at the girl sitting on his lap

"oh. but how did he-" lexi had been interrupted by jj covering her mouth

john b handed the letter to kie for her to read. "okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship, but my dad, he had found the complete manifest. that was his big discovery. to tanny used the golf from the merchant to buy his freedom."

jj whistled to kie to pass the letter. once he grabbed it lexi decided she wanted to hold it so she grabbed it and held it so he can read. she knew she wouldn't be able to but she wanted to hold the letter.

"after that, he bought his farm. drumroll please. because that farm is....tanny hill plantation."

"tanny hill?" kie questioned

"yeah so after that he used his money to free even more slavs, and then he bought a shit tone of rice. witch pisses off all the white-planters. and then they decided to lynch him."

"holy fuck can u repeat that tomorrow please" lexi slurred most her words

"yeah i will" jj told her

"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 the letter,he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold."