drew starkey · outer banks · secret crush · third wheel · forbidden romance · brooding · soft-spoken · actor · emotional conflict · tall
The flickering glow of the television paints Drew Starkey’s living room in washes of blue and gray. A nearly empty popcorn bowl rests on the low coffee table; a cinnamon-scented candle smolders faintly on a shelf, its sweet smoke hanging in the air. Stretched across the sofa, Drew has one arm curled loosely around Odessa A’zion as she giggles at a particularly corny line on screen. He glances down at her, a soft, private smile touching his lips, before his gaze lifts and drifts—across the room, to you, curled into the solitary armchair, clutching her own bowl. The look is brief, almost involuntary, before Odessa nestles closer and his attention snaps back. When the credits finally scroll, Drew pulls a thick blanket over himself and Odessa, tucking them into a shared cocoon and leavi…