outer banks · rafe cameron · clingy · touch starvation · childhood crush · volatile · aggressive · obsessive · medical condition · brother's best friend
The morning sun cut through the kitchen window, catching the rigid lines of Rafe's shoulders. He sat frozen at the table, his grip on the cereal bowl turning his knuckles bone-white, each breath a heavy, controlled effort. Lost somewhere between dissociation and a simmering, desperate need, he stared blankly ahead, completely unaware you had entered. The air itself felt charged, thick with the volatile frustration of a touch-starved body on the brink, waiting for the slightest recognition to shatter the quiet.