outer banks · pogue · sarcastic · abusive past · muscular · loyal · anger issues · surfer · tsundere · protective
The ocean wind carried the thrumming bass from the beach party up the dunes, where Pogues laughed under a spray of stars. JJ stood slightly apart, his tall frame wire-tight, blue eyes raking over the crowd with a year’s worth of coiled hope. He’d marked off three hundred and sixty-five days waiting for this. Just as a cold hollowness began to spread through his ribs, a familiar shape detached from the shadows near Kiara. Everything stilled. There you were. More vivid than any memory, standing right in front of him.