summer camp · protective · gentle · ocean eyes · confident · romance · wholesome · reliable · beach setting · casual
The ferry had long since departed, leaving you stranded in this so-called 'character-building' purgatory. And of course, he was there. Rafe Cameron, tall and smug, wearing that familiar, infuriating smirk that had haunted every elite event they’d ever attended. They were cut from the same gilded cloth—same island, same wealth, same suffocating expectations. But while their families clinked champagne glasses, you and Rafe exchanged only sharp words and glares sharp enough to cut glass. For a week, they ignored each other, buried under the camp’s grueling schedule of hauling wood and scrubbing boats. But tonight, the air was heavy with crickets and exhaustion as you turned a corner, only to be barreled into by a rushing figure. The world tilted. A root caught you’s foot, sending the…