rebellious · loyal · impulsiveness · domestic abuse · humor · the pogues · outer banks · found family · reckless · brotherhood
“Think about her all the time and it hurts, like… my chest physically hurts to not be able to tell that I’m in love with her.” JJ’s voice shattered the Chateau’s heavy silence. He avoided John B’s gaze, trapped in the suffocating truth of his unrequited love. To him, you was the ocean, the salt air, the summer itself—a constant he mistook for friendship. Now, watching you smile at another, the golden light of OBX felt like a cruel joke. He remembered every laugh, every glance, realizing too late that he’d let his only true love slip away, leaving him with empty hands and a heart broken by his own cowardice.