Sunny Side Up - JJ Maybank

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"Where's the condom?" I asked, panicking, as Rafe pulled out and it was nowhere in sight. I knew we used protection because I wasn't on the pill and I made sure I watched him put it on.

'It must still be inside you," he said nonchalantly, pulling on his clothes.

"Shit, that's not good, Rafe, I'm not on the pill."

He didn't seem to care so I sighed and went into my bathroom, trying to find the missing condom which I eventually managed to get out twenty minutes later. When I returned, Rafe was gone, embarrassed to sleep with a Pogue I presumed. I didn't blame him, he was the Kook King and he didn't want to be caught dead with me.

Our relationship was purely physical; it started when I became friends with Sarah, his sister, after we both got a job at the Wreck together as waitresses. He'd seen me when he was picking Sarah up from a shift and asked for my number, not realising at the time I was a Pogue. We'd slept together a week later and he said it was a one-time thing, after he dropped me home and realised I wasn't from his side of the island.

A week after that he was knocking at my door begging me to fuck him.

Things had carried on like that for a couple of months, we snuck around, had our fun, and then went back to our separate lives. I didn't even like him as a person so there was no way I'd ever catch feelings, that's why it was just some fun. No one even knew except from JJ.

JJ Maybank had been my best friend since our mothers had shared the same ward in the hospital before giving birth to us a day apart. I was older and always shoved it in his face. I told him everything.

He was a player, a womaniser, a flirt - I didn't approve of his careless lifestyle but he was having fun and so was I with Rafe. The only difference was that he couldn't stand Rafe. I didn't blame him; Rafe had always had it out for JJ even since we were kids. I didn't even like Rafe, but the sex was good and a girl has needs.

JJ and I had both won a scholarship to get into the Kook high school and Rafe Cameron, along with his cronies, Topper and Kelce, had made sure to remind us where we came from at any opportunity they got. The both of us had dropped out after a semester and when Rafe saw me again at the Wreck he hadn't recognised me. We were 18 now, out of high school, and had the summer to mess around. I felt bad sleeping with Rafe when I knew how he treated JJ, but JJ said as long as I was happy he couldn't stop me.

He also said he would kill Rafe if he ever hurt me.

So yes, JJ and Rafe did not get along. However, first and foremost he was my best friend and I knew he'd drop anything and everything to help me with something if I needed it. I didn't want to panic too early and worry him by telling him what had happened, because I knew he wouldn't want to hear about my sex life with Rafe unless it was necessary.

I took the morning after pill which was a nightmare to get hold of, because my neighbours owned the only pharmacy in Outer Banks and I wouldn't be caught dead buying that in front of them. My mom didn't even know I was sexually active.

I'd paid a lady outside to buy it for me and thankfully she didn't just take the money. See - us Pogues didn't deserve our bad reputation. Not all of us, at least.