just a bet ⟶ jj maybank x fem!reader

REQUEST:  “Heyy ! Can you write an imagine ( JJ x reader ) he dated her for a bet with JB and all the pogues knew about it, but time goes on and JJ falls in love with her and the pogues really like her so they decide to forget about the bet and to never tell her about it ( cuz she’ll never forgive them) and after a few months, the reader finds out ( you can choose how) is heartbroken and the pogues try to explain but the reader won’t listen and she leaves but she gets into a car crash and she doesn’t make it ( like coma/just dead/brain dead you decide) and the pogues are really sad ab it. I like sad endings for some reasons idk” ( @dearelliewrites)

A/N: i am so so sorry for being inactive the last few months.

SUMMARY:john b dares jj to date you. when they start to actually like you, they promise each other to never tell you. who would’ve thought there would’ve been a witness to this bet.

WARNING: mentions of drinking, swearing, partying, mentions of smoking

GENRE: angst, a lil bit of fluff

WORD COUNT: 1.7k

(fem = female reader) not edited!!

lower case intended

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Y/N y/l/n. a petite girl that everyone on both sides of the island knew. she was a kook, as usual. but she wasn’t like all the other kooks. she was actually nice.

she didn’t have one bad bone in her small 5'4 body. however, the pogues thought it was all an act. the bubbly personality, the perfectly curled hair that bounced on her shoulders, the bright white teeth that blinded everyone when she lit the room up with her smile, the flower like aroma that lingered in the air when she was around.

it all was fake. it had to be. no one here was a kook and was just like y/n. so there was only one thing to conclude.

it was all fake.

THE pogues sat on the beach, catching their breaths after a long time of surfing in the boiling hot sun. jj ran a hand through his damp hair, squinting his eyes as the light blinded him.

“look who it is. miss y/n y/l/n.” he scoffed, moving his toothpick around his mouth with his tongue. kie rolled her eyes while pope stared off in the distance. john b sat down beside jj, beer in hand and his soaked bandana being used as a headband.

“what’d i miss?” john b asked, sipping his luke warm beer before kicking his sandals off in front of him. jj nodded his head towards the girl a few feet away from them. the group watched as she chatted with an elderly couple, her flowery scent blowing over to them through the breeze.

“dude, she has to be one of the biggest bitches in private, i swear.” john b muttered as the group looked away from her, their eyes staring at the water in front of them.

“she has everybody fooled. bet you $5 she is worse than sarah cameron.” jj stated as he glanced back at the girl.

john b smirked, resting his arms on his knees before nudging jj’s side, “wanna find out? i dare you to date her and expose the real her.” jj scoffed, sitting up and facing john b.

“what’s in it for me?”

“$50 and you can use the chateu whenever you have some touron attached to your hip at the keggers.”

“deal.” the two shook hands as kie and pope chuckled at the idiots beside them. there was no way y/n y/l/n would date jj maybank.

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ITwas a friday night and the pogues were preparing for the kegger they would be throwing in about 5 hours. jj hadn’t shown up yet but the pogues weren’t necessarily worried. it was a party. he’d show.

it had been about a week since john b dared jj to try and date y/n. the group hadn’t really spoken on it since. until jj showed up 30 minutes later, a big grin on his face.

“you guys will never believe what just happened!” he exclaimed, jogging over to the group with his phone in his hand.

“guess who got y/n y/l/n’s snap. me. i did.” the three turned to the blonde, eyes squinted and eyebrows furrowed.

“there’s no way.” pope chuckled, laughing his ass off with kie while jj rambled on to them about how he got it and how he invited her to the kegger tonight.

john b sighed and rested his forehead against the palm of his hand “jj, why the fuck would you invite her to the kegger?”

“because. we have a dare to complete, jb.” jj smirked, throwing his arm around john b’s shoulder and grinning at the group, “cmon. i have $50 and an entire chateau to win.”

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FAST forward to now. 5 months later. that night, y/n showed up to the kegger and enchanted jj maybank and the rest of the pogues in her flowery aroma and sweet tooth smile.

it was something about her that made the pogues love her. her energy was crazy. she encouraged the pogues to do their usual stupid things, unlike sarah cameron, john b’s now girlfriend, who was worried they would get hurt.

she would spend hours on hours with the group and bring snacks that she would pay for with her own money. she would invite the group over to her house, where they met her parents, one of the sweetest couple out there on the island.

she cared for them like they were her own family. and that’s what made jj fall in love with her.

they was she put them over herself every single day. she cared for them like no one else ever had.

y/n y/l/n wasn’t faking it. she never was.

and that’s what made the pogues decide they would never speak of the dare. it was forbidden. they couldn’t lose her over their stupid decisions from the past.

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THE group sit outside around the fire, drinking their beers and laughing as the music blares from the speaker on the table. while you are inside using the restroom when you receive a text from rafe cameron.

rafe:u might wanna ask ur little friends and ur bf why they made a bet on you awhile ago.

y/n: what are you talking about

rafe: kelce heard ur little pogue friends make a bet with jj that he could date you and expose you.

you bite back my tears as you stomp outside, throwing your phone at jj causing the group to look at you in shock.

“y/n- what’s going on-”

“read the fucking texts, jj.” you spit, tears pooling down your cheeks. he grabs your phone, scanning the texts before looking up at you with wide eyes.

“sunshine, i can expl-”

“please tell me he’s fucking lying. please tell me i am not a fucking bet. tell me.”

jj goes silent as the group watches you, sarah sitting beside john b with a confused expression on her face.

“did you know about this?” you ask sarah as you turns to her, grasping your phone out of jj’s hand and showing her the texts. sarah shakes her head no, angrily looking at john b.

“is she a fucking bet too, john b? are us kooks just a fucking game to all of you?”

kie chews on her lip as she fiddles with her fingers, “y/n, please let us explain.”

“after everything i have done for all of you. after the shit i’ve received for caring for you guys. i have been through fucking hell at school and around my neighborhood because i am one of you guys. my parents get side eyed in the fucking grocery store. and this entire time i’ve been a fucking bet?!” you sob out, grabbing your phone from sarah’s hand and shoving it in your back pocket, “fuck all of you.”

you spin on your heel and walks to your car, hearing them yell after you.

“sunshine. sunshine please. let me explain.”

you ignore jj as you unlock your car doors and aggressively wipe the tears off of your face.

“y/n, please. i love you”

“no you don’t,” you sob, “you don’t do that shit to someone that you love. i would’ve never fucking done this to you. to any of you.”

jj stares at you in shock, tears sliding down his cheek, “y/n.”

“save it, jj. i don’t want to hear it anymore.” you mutter before climbing in your car and starting it, ignoring his gaze as you speed off.

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YOU drive home as the rain beats against your windshield, mocking you. how stupid of you to think they were good people. it was fake. all of it was fake.

they never loved you. he never loved you. it was all for a bet.

you let out an ugly sob as the wind picks up and the rain puddles into the potholes on the ground, causing your car to hydroplane. in one swift motion you swerve off the road and into the other lane, coming head on with a semi that barrels towards you.

you let out an ear piercing scream as everything goes black.

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JJgroans loudly as his phone buzzes for the 30th time beside his head. he picks it up, muttering a sleepy hello into the microphone before y/n’s mother’s voice echoes through. “jj?” she sobs, “jj? are you awake? i need you and the rest of you to come to the hospital. there’s been an accident.”

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JOHN B speeds to the hospital, as kie and pope try to calm jj down in the back seat.

“jj, she’s going to be okay.” kie states repeatedly as jj grips his hands in his hair.

“if i stopped her from leaving she wouldn’t be hurt right now.” no one says anything as they’re full of guilt from the night before.

“why did you guys do it?” sarah asks from the passenger seat, “why did you get have to bet on her? she thinks you guys don’t love her. that all of it was fake. why would you do that to her? especially a girl like her.”

“i never meant to hurt her. it’s the last thing i wanted to do. i love her. even if she thinks i don’t.” jj mumbles quickly as tears brim his eyes. he rests his forehead on his knees, closing his eyes and waiting til they arrive at the hospital.

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“JJ!” y/n’s mother chokes out, noticing the group arrive into the waiting room. jj rushes over to the older women and hugs her, listening to the woman break beneath him.

“mrs. y/l/n, what happened? is she okay??” he asks as y/n’s father slowly hugs each of the pogues one by one. mrs. y/l/n lets out a racked sob, gripping onto jj’s torso.

mr. y/l/n gently rests his hands on jjs shoulder, biting back a sob, “she isn’t going to make it, son. she’s slowly going.” jj’s life flashes before his eyes as tears flood his cheeks. his throat burns and his face goes hot. the room spins around him.

“what?” he whispers out, his grip on mrs.y/l/n loosening.

“she hydroplaned during the storm last night and swerved into the other lane and hit head on with a semi. she’s practically brain dead and her vitals are declining. there’s no saving her.” mr. y/l/n sobs, patting jj’s shoulder.

“no.” he whispers, “no. no, no, no, no. she can’t. they have to do something. she can’t go just like that. i fucking love her. she can’t leave me here like that. not after last night. she thinks i hate her. she needs to know i love her. mr. y/l/n, please. tell them to do something.” jj lets out in sobs, the pogues watching jj from a foot away as they all cry to themselves.

“please. please. she can’t leave me. i love her. she can’t go thinking i don’t love her.”