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Sarah was thrilled for John B.
She couldn’t believe it.
His dad was alive.
She was heading back to Tannyhill to get some clothes on her bike when she saw someone she thought she recognised. Her face was extremely familiar and she seemed to be heading closer to her and the women looked up at her and that’s when she realised.
oh my god.
That was her mother.
She hasn’t seen her mother in years.
She knew her mother was quite famous in the town as she was a pogue turned kook, almost opposite of her. She made herself to being a kook by working hard and it must’ve paid off during her marriage to the Ward Cameron.
Then she left after the divorce, Sarah was young, around 6 or 7, 10 years ago, Rafe being 9 or 10. She remember her mom leaving and her dad telling her not to worry and that she would be returning, she obviously believed her father, Rafe, not so much, he was older, wiser as one might say, though she can’t say it ended out well for him,
”Sarah?” a voice spoke out, pulling her out of her thoughts, oh shit! “Sarah, honey, is that you?”
“Mom?” she asks, she’s curious, why is her mom here? She left. Before she knows it, she’s off her bike and giving her mom the biggest hug she can, she missed her, especially more recently as her father became obsessed with the gold and would do whatever he could.
“Sarah, baby, why aren’t you at Tannyhill? I’ve just been, where’s your brother, your dad?” her mother, Thea, asked.
”It’s a long story, I’m going back, if you want to come, I’ll explain there,” Sarah responds, and starts to get back on her bike and riding back with her mother following shortly behind her.
Once they arrived back at Tannyhill, Sarah realised how much of a mess it was, the last time she was here, Rose drugged her before she kidnapped her onto the Coastal venture where she realised her dad was actually alive and then he actually tried to kill her. Sarah grimaces and blinks the tears out of her eyes before walking up the spiralled stairs up to her old bedroom.
She starts to change into some clean clothes and starts to explain what happened, “It started when I became friends with John B, you know, Big Johns son?” Her mother nodded and she continued, “he went on a fishing trick and dad came back and he told me that John B had stabbed him, but I didn’t believe him, I couldn’t believe him, and then John B told me he killed his dad.” Sarah and a stray tear falling down her cheek and she quickly swiped it,
”Then dad made me go on a plane with the gold and I didn’t want to but he made me,” she continued, “and then John B stopped him, and sheriff peterkin came to arrest him, then Rafe um, Rafe killed him,” she stuttered and she looked at her mothers face which jaw dropped, “they blamed it on John B and John B and I left after he was going to get arrested and we ended up in Nassau, and we nearly got the gold, but Rafe shot me and I died but I needed up living and we came home,”
Her mom stared at me and she didn’t know what to say and was about to speak but Sarah continued,
“no, let me finish, when we came home, John B was arrested and I tried talking to Wheezie, but Rafe came and he tried to kill me by drowning me, then John B got out and Rafe was arrested, then dad was about to get arrested and we showed up to the druthers and dad exploded the boat with him on it,” she continued, more tears falling and her mother looking so nervous, “He confessed to everything, then Rose drugged me and took me on a boat and dad was alive and he tried to kill me and we escaped to an island and I’ve just came back,”
“Sarah, baby, I’m sorry,” her mother said to her, tears falling out of her eyes, as well as Sarah’s, “baby, I know this is a strange question, but I know John B, but who are the others?”
“JJ, JJ Maybank, Pope Heyward and Kiara Carrera,” she responded,
”oh, so I see you’ve joined the pouges?” she teases, “opposite of your mother,” and she gave a smile, which Sarah smiled back to her.
”I suppose I should go meet uhm my friends again,” Sarah said, smiling at her mom, picking up the bag she packed,
”Okay, I’ll hopefully see you later,” she heard her mom call out as she left. It felt good to get it off of her chest, she felt almost lighter. She missed her mom, of course she did, but she just knew it wasn’t going to end out well.
It never does.