Champagne, fancy dresses and tuxes, ridiculously large chandeliers, and a bunch of kooks with bitchy attitudes. Yep, that summed up midsummers. And with you being a Carrera, you were expected to show. You hated this stupid island club.

You smoothed out your silk (or satin) baby blue dress, and fixed you flower crown that matched before joining your big sister, Kiara, who had just walked over to one of your best friends, a pogue, Pope Heyward, who just showed up with his dad, they were helping to serve food.

“Hey, Pope!” You guys did the signature ‘pogue handshake’.

Kie looked around, eyeing up everyone. “Have you ever seen this many kooks in one place?” She questioned.

“Last year.” Pope replied which made you shiver. You hated to even think about you and Kiara’s kook year at the kook academy. You never wanted to go back to that hellhole.

“If I ever had to step foot in that place again, I’d probably have an aneurysm.” You mumbled under your breath. You couldn’t help but wonder, so you asked.

“Has anyone heard from JJ?” You asked, too softly for wear.

Another one of your best friends, JJ Maybank, took the blame for Pope sinking Topper’s boat (he totally deserved it), but that landed him up in jail. Your respect for JJ went up in that moment, how he took the blame for Pope without hesitation. What a loyal friend.

“I haven’t heard from him.” Kie said, picking at whatever decor was on one of the tables. “Neither have I.” Pope said. Which made your anxiety immediately go up. Was he still in jail? Was he okay? Was he hurt??

A million thoughts played in your head, and you felt your breathing start to quicken, which your sister immediately noticed, and tried to calm you down before you got too distressed.

“Hey, hey, hey. Look at me.” She took ahold of your shoulders gently. “I’m sure he’s fine. He has the survival instincts of a cockroach.” You managed a small smile, but you were still worried.

“I just hope he’s okay..” Pope and Kie looked at each other before smiling.

“What?” You furrowed your brow in confusion.

“Wha.. nothing.” “Nothing.” They answered at the same time. How weird. They were just noticing your crush on JJ before you did.

As the party went on, and the sun was setting, you were currently downing a drink of champagne after dancing a bit with Kie, until you saw a blonde haired boy, who looked like JJ in a white button with a black vest, and a bow tie, also holding a tray of drinks. Wait.. that was JJ!

“JJ!!!” You practically sprinted to him. JJ’s eyes locked onto you as you came over. Just taking in how beautiful you looked in that dress, and the cute flower crown. He always thought you looked beautiful though.

“Woah, hey, princess, nice to see ya too.”

You immediately noticed the cut on his lip and eyebrow, and a bruise forming on his cheek.