When the morning came, Collins was bouncing with excitement. She couldn't wait to tell JJ that the plan had worked! Granted, it wasn't like she had anticipated it's success as she'd displayed quite a bit of apprehension towards the whole thing in the beginning and was sure that she would've seen him sooner because the boat had sank or something totally preposterous like that. Nonetheless, she was eager to let him know that his idea wasn't so bad after all and she was glad he included her in on it. She was now closer to Kie and Sarah than ever before and could now call them some of her closest friends. He kind of deserved an expression of gratitude from her.
However, Kie and Sarah weren't going to be so pleasant when the boys finally faced them after the stunt they pulled. They were determined to be as unforgiving as they possibly could and were already in the works of plotting their revenge. 
Sitting on the ledge of the boat with their legs dangling over the side, the three girls watched as the HMS Pogue came rolling in towards them, blocking their view of the sunrise. "Uh-oh! You guys forget your keys or something? Need a tow?"
"Don't give them the satisfaction in thinking this worked." Kie muttered to Collins and Sarah with an unamused look on her face. 
"Absolutely not." Sarah replied in agreement, the two exchanging small smirks with each other before wiping their expressions clean before the boys could get a closer look. "That goes for you, too, Collins. Us girls need to stand in solidarity."
Collins gave a slight roll of her eyes, but obliged to the girls' wishes nonetheless. She was just going to sit there, and be quiet; let them hold their grudge. She knew how well this plan had worked and it had also worked incredibly in her favor, so she could at least play along with them a little bit. The boys didn't need the ego boost anyways. 
"You gotta admit, it was kinda funny." John B told them with a teasing grin. 
"John B, mastermind, huh?"
Holding his hand out to gesture behind him, John B said, "I actually have to hand some of the credit to JJ, here. You know us, we're always planning, always scheming."
"That is some patriarchal bullshit." Kie spat, clenching her jaw tightly. 
"Yeah, that sucked." Sarah added. 
Collins was taken offguard by the rope that was being tossed at her, but she caught it with little difficulty and looked up to meet JJ's eyes which she was only slightly disappointed were hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. It was for the best anyways, those baby blues could've broken her in a second. "How 'bout you, Colls? You still love us, right?"
Looking away as she tried to hide the grin that was fighting it way onto her face, Collins managed to force a coy shrug. "Not any more, but maybe a little less." If Kie and Sarah weren't there, Collins would've probably attacked JJ with a hug at the first chance she got and told him everything that happened (with the omission of certain details of course),  and then just force him to not say anything about it. She could tear through her skin with her own fingernails from how badly she wanted to tell him how well things went. 
Clutching his chest in hurt, JJ sucked in a sharp breath at her remark. "Don't go breaking my heart now, Collins, otherwise you're gonna have to kiss it better."
Looking around in embarrassment, Collins felt Kie and Sarah's equally speechless gazes before they simply just raised their brows and turned away with small smirks on their lips. Jumping down onto the boat, Collins landed in front of JJ with a balky pout which was only reflected by an entertained grin on JJ's end. "You have no clue how extremely lucky you are today." She told him, only between the two of them. 
"I can think of one or three ways in which I could be significantly luckier." JJ said with a pensive look on his face. 
While Collins stared JJ down and shook her head at him in playful disappointment, the rest of the crew were still exchanging their own discontents with each other. "You still hate me?" John B asked, raising his brows at Sarah.