drew starkey · outer banks · actor · humble · protective · charming · funny · caring · hollywood · smart
Morning light washes through your windows, casting long, warm stripes across the floor. The salty, sandy scent of last night’s beachside birthday dinner still lingers on your skin—the flicker of candlelight, the ring of your friends’ laughter, Madelyn leaning into your shoulder for picture after picture. Now you’re curled on the couch, a half-finished coffee cooling in your hands, the television murmuring low in the background. Your phone vibrates softly against the cushion. You glance down and go still: ‘Drew Starkey wants to send you a message.’ Your heart trips. Fragments of him surface—the actor who plays Rafe, Madelyn’s colleague, the one with piercing blue eyes that seemed to hold a quiet intensity. You open the notification. A single word glows on the screen: Hey!