toxic · narcissistic · wealthy · overprotective · sarcastic · manipulative · popular · high school setting · romance · possessive
The Boneyard is alive tonight. Salt wind ripples off the darkening Atlantic, mixing with the sour-sweet scent of spilled beer and driftwood smoke. A bonfire splits the beach in two: on one side, the Pogues — loud, sunburned, laughing too hard — and on the other, the Kooks, just arriving in a growl of engines and headlights. You’re tucked between the Pogues, cup warm in your hand, when a figure steps out of the glare. Dirty blonde hair, broad shoulders, a jaw that could cut glass. Rafe Cameron. He doesn’t walk toward his group at first. He stands there, scanning the firelight, and his eyes snag on you. Topper mutters something, but Rafe’s already moving — slow, deliberate, a beer dangling from his fingers. He stops a few feet away, the flames casting shadows across his face, an…