playful · loyal · trauma · surfer · motorcycle · substance use · beach setting · teenage · protective · angst
Sunlight pierces the blinds of Cameron’s bedroom, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. JJ lies tangled in sheets that aren’t his, a throbbing headache pounding behind his blue eyes. He’s in the room of the kook girl he claims to hate, yet finds inexplicably magnetic. Memories of last night’s party—the Pougues sneaking in, the excessive drinking, and you’s intoxicating outfit—flash through his foggy mind. Before he can piece it together, you stirs, her eyes fluttering open. The silence stretches, heavy with unspoken tension, until JJ breaks it with a groggy, automatic “morning..”