Skyler had been in the little shed behind her house, her mom getting it for her freshman year when she picked up her surfboard hobby. Skyler had decorated it with different paints, wax, and boards that needed mending. With old Christmas lights hung up, and a small radio that played a gentle song in her ears, she was in need of a little breather that night.

"Her lips are cherry bomb." Skyler mumbled to herself, singing the song under her breath. She'd been painting different shades of pink down the surf board.

"Sky." Kie peaked her head in, making her look up. "Your mom said you were back here."

"Hey." she gave her a small grin, setting the paint brush down. "I didn't know you were gonna come by."

"Me neither." Kie said honestly with a faint laugh. "Uh, what are you doing?"

"This chick finally dried in the middle." Skyler pointed to where the surf board had cracked down the middle, mended back together over the past few days. "So, now i'm working on painting."

"What are you gonna put on it?" she asked curiously, dropping her jacket on one of the beanbags.

"Ugh, I was thinking maybe some sort of flowers." Skyler looked at the surfboard oddly. "Like, maybe some Hibiscus."

"Hibiscus?" Kie rose her eyebrows, looking down at the board.

"Did you know a hibiscus flower can be used to determine the pH of a liquid?" Skyler looked up, meeting Kie's eye in questioning. "It'll turn a sort of dark pink shade if it's in an acid solution, green in a alkaline."

"I didn't know that." Kie cracked a grin, standing closer to her now. "You know all that from being a lawyers kid?"

"Not exactly." she laughed slightly. "But, that was probably the spark."

"No, no, I think it's cool. Like, in a nerdy way." she cracked a half grin. "I know a lot about turtles."

"Oh, yeah?" she hummed. "Tell me something."

"They date back to when the dinosaurs where still alive." Kie pointed out with a knowing nod. "Over 200 million years."

"They kinda look like little dinosaurs." Skyler nodded her head slightly. "There's little faces, maybe they're why they went extinct."

"Maybe." Kie shrugged, looking at all the paint again. "So, about before-"

"Yeah, i'm sorry about that." Skyler cut her off. "That was seriously irresponsible, we were pretty drunk."

"Well, I kissed you first, you don't need to apologize." she pointed out, biting the inside of her mouth. "I just- you know, there was just a moment."

"Right." Skyler agreed with a nod. "Alcohol does crazy things to the brain."

"Yeah." Kie forced a laugh, nodding her head. "I just, you know, wanting to clear that up a little."

"Totally." Skyler forced a smile, nodding her head as her eyes casted down. "Yeah, totally."

Kie rocked on her heels slightly. "Reinfield has the key. The real one."

Sky looked up with a crazy look. "Seriously?"

"Yeah, he was gonna kill Pope." she shook her head. "It was crazy, I just wanted to come check on you."

"No, yeah, no, i'm all good here." she nodded. "What about you? Are you okay? And-and your boys?"

"Yeah, we're good. We're good." Kie nodded her head, rubbing her palms on her jeans.

"So..." Skyler trialed off. "-what now?"

"I don't think there's a what now." she said honestly.

Skyler stared at her. "So, we're just going back to basic life?"

"Seems like it." Kie exhaled. "I just wanted to thank you, and all our behalves, for all you've done for us."

Skyler hesitated. "Yeah, of course. Anytime."

Kie gave a tight lipped smile, backward stepping toward the door. "See you?"

"See you." Sky nodded, frowned as Kie left.

"Sarah!" Skyler called, getting the phone call the next day and escaping to the Cameron house. "Sarah! Are you here?"

"Skyler!" the blonde called from upstairs. "We're up here!"

She jogged up the stairs. "Who's we-"

She stoped, seeing all the pogues in waiting. "Oh, the entire peanut gallery is here."

"See, she gets it." John B pointed out.

"Sky, we think this is the island room." Pope looked at her with wide eyes. "It's not over."

"Okay, how can I help?" she nodded her head, pushing her headband up a little more on her head.

"We were just trying to figure out how all this happened." he encouraged her to come into the room more, Skyler stepping over torn down walls. "Sarah doesn't know what happened."

"Well, it looks like something happened here." she spoke to the hole in the wall. "So, i'll give you one guess who's idiotic enough to do something like this."

"The freaks." a new voice rung, making them all jump and turn to see Wheezie in the doorway.

"Jesus christ, I could have pissed myself!" Skyler yelled, clutching her chest. "Jesus, i'm so glad i'm an only child."

Kie watched her as JJ hummed. "What freaks are we talking about, Wheeze?"

"Uh, that sick lady and her attack dog." she answered honestly with a shrug. "They-they showed up last night, and they wanted to talk to Rafe."

"So, I stand corrected." Skyler looked at the hole in the wall again. "Sounds like I need to throw golf balls at his truck again."

"You did what?" JJ looked her way.

"Broke all his truck windows with golf balls." Sarah answered for her.

"Jesus." Kie laughed slightly, causing Skyler to give a grin in her direction.

"Pale blonde lady was here?" JJ asked Wheezie, getting a nod.

"She had crutches?" Kie went on, getting another nod.

"It's gotta be Limbrey." Pope shook his head.

"Okay, wh-what happened?" John B looked at the younger teen.

"First, they searched the whole house looking for something, and then Rafe told me to go upstairs. But I didn't wanna miss out so I just listened through the grate ." Wheezie nodded her head, falling into a story.

"Smart." Skyler nodded, sneakingly standing next to Kie.

"Then they came in here and were freaking out, tearing down all the wallpaper saying how they found it." Wheezie recalled her memory with a wave of her hands, "And they were talking about getting across the sand flamingo."

"That's code." JJ confided.

"Sand flamingo?" Sky asked with an odd look, looking to Kie. "Like, a sand castle of some sort?"

"Of a statue." she agreed.

"The Cross of Santo Domingo?" Pope spoke up toward Wheezie in questioning.

"Yeah, that's it." Wheezie agreed.

"Okay, no-no not a sand castle-statue." Skyler cleared her throat.

"Oh, they were talking about angels!" Wheezie added in quickly, eyes getting wide behind her glasses.

"Angels?" John B gave a odd look.

"Guys, Denmark's famous last words." Pope looked around with wide eyes, "He buried the real treasure at the foot of the angel!"

"So, it'll be hanging around here." Skyler nodded, hurrying toward one of the walls to start looking.

The group spread out quickly around the room.

"There's a church over here."

"Yeah, check the church."

"Sky, look, is that and angel?"

"I think that's a bird, Kie."

"Could this be an angel?"

"Maybe."

"Whats- Whats going on? Are you guys gonna tell me?"

"The lighthouse maybe?"

"Maybe it's heat-sensitive."

"A graveyard maybe?"

"Graveyard is smart!"

"Hey, yo! Guys, I think I found something!" JJ cut in quickly, earning all of their attentions as they turned his way, "Come here. This humongous tree is still on Goat Island. And you know what it's called?"

"Angel Oak." Pope confirmed with mesmerized eyes.

"Look there. There's the keyhole." JJ pointed to the middle of the tree, that indeed had a key hole.

"That means the cross is buried at the foot of the angel." Popes smile formed across his face, "That must be where he put it."

"Pope, we gotta go!" Sky tapped his shoulder.

"Yes!" he agreed, hurrying out the room first as Sky and Kie collided when they tried to walk out the door on sync.

"Shit, sorry." Kie said, the pair going to do it again but colliding once again. "Oh my god!"

"Sorry, sorry, you go first!" Skyler encouraged, Kie going before pulling Skyler by her arm.

"I think I'm Sherlock Holmes, all right? You're welcome by the way." JJ spoke up as they all began running out of the island room.

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kylie speaks

i can imagine them running
into each other trying to go
out the door and kie's all
like 😒and skylers just 😳