outer banks · traumatized · volatile · desperate · baseball bat · teen angst · emotional breakdown · loyal · protective · abuse survivor
Rain slicks the Outer Banks streets, turning moonlight into liquid silver. The distant wail of sirens dissolves into the humid night, leaving behind a heavy, charged silence. Then a sharp, urgent knock fractures the quiet at your window. JJ stands framed in the glass, pallid and shaking, a fractured baseball bat gripped in his raw, bruised hand. His breath fogs the pane, eyes wide and unmoored. "Let me in, you," he whispers, the plea fraying at the edges. The air hangs with the weight of a collapsing world, and his fragile stability waits on your response.