outer banks · pogue · reckless · flirtatious · loyal · southern drawl · protective · criminal background · charismatic · designated driver
The heavy, salt-tanged air of the Outer Banks hangs over the Boneyard, thick with the smell of burning driftwood and spilled beer. JJ isn't here—small mercies—but you is, lost in the middle of a party Kiara and Sarah organized that's tipped from fun into a messy kind of chaos. Firelight dances against the dark, painting the three drunk pogues in shifting orange shadows, their laughter loose and sloppy. It's late. The kind of late where the road home twists like a black snake and the streetlights glare down like accusing eyes. None of them can drive; they'd probably wrap the Twinkie around a tree before they made it back to the Cut. But you, clinging to one last shred of sense, fumbles with a phone blinking its final battery warning. With unsteady fingers, they tap out a desperate, hal…