"Down it, Down it, Down it!" The beach is littered with chanting Pogues and pretentious Kooks drinking heavily to celebrate the end to the school year.
JJ clenches his fist disfiguring the red solo cup in hand, letting out a loud belch making it clear the dare was accomplished.
"My turn." John B steps into the middle of the circle of close friends the grains of cool golden sand cushioning his bare feet. "I dare you V, to set me up with Sarah Cameron." He points his gun fingers towards me awaiting my response with hopeful eyes.
I slide my tongue across my top row of teeth before shaking my head with a grin. "She has a boyfriend John B, are you trying to get your head caved in?" I respond quite literally, not saying no to his request.
John B has had his eye on Sarah Cameron for as long as I can remember. He doesn't care if she has a boyfriend, the alcohol running through his veins making him fearless. Besides it's not like he's never had a run in with the blonde haired, lanky, pompous kook who we are all so familiar with.
"I don't care." He shrugs nonchalantly as the rest of us glance between each other with uncertainty.
"Fine, I'll do it. You could've just asked instead of wasting a dare." I stand up from my seat beside Pope and begin to scan the beach party scene for my blonde, blue eyed close friend.
"She's stood right over there with your brother and our best mate Rafe." As soon as John B said his name my eyes land on the boy he had just mentioned. It's hard to miss him in the crowd of teens, he's the tallest one here. The thought of going up to talk to Sarah in front of him made bile physically rise in the back of my throat, it definitely wasn't the alcohol I've only drank two. I know for a fact Topper will have some snide remark ready to spit in my direction.
"Shoot me." I turn back giving John B a satirical smile before marching off confidently in Sarah's direction.
I can't tear my eyes away from him. He must feel my stare burning through him as his deep blue oceans meet with my green ones.
"What the fuck do you want?" Topper scoffs peering down at me with a disgusted frown on his face.
"To talk to my friend, Sarah." I furrow my brows in confusion like it should be obvious. I would never be walking over to talk to him.
"Sarah come and get rid of your embarrassing, pogue-loving, freak of a friend." The corners of his mouth upturn into a devilish smirk feeling proud of his quick wit.
"God Sarah, I feel sorry for you that you're stuck with this arrogant, sadistic, egocentric asshole as your boyfriend. You do realise you can dump him." Kelce and Rafe chuckle between themselves at my sudden response rinsing my brother. Earning themselves a slap to the back of their heads from the embarrassed friend himself.
Sarah strides forward grabbing me by the arm. "Jesus Christ, you two can't be around each other no more than a second without arguing."
I roll my eyes. "What is your dickhead boyfriends problem." I glance over my shoulder back at the golden trio. My eyes fall on Rafe who is staring in our direction with a smirk. I give him a small smile before Sarah notices me being distracted and jolts me along behind her, causing me to almost fall over and fix my stare back to her.
"Please don't tell me you still have a crush on my brother."
I look at her wide eyed. "NO! I do not but keep your voice down."
She grins at me. "Just checking. You know you can do way better than Rafe."
"That's not why I came over here." I try my best to change the subject.
"So what did you come marching over for?"
"Loverboy over there still has his big fat crush on you, wants me to set you two up." I point over my shoulder towards the other end of the beach where John B and the other Pogues are mucking around play fighting and downing their beers. John B's ears must be burning because he glances at us both shooting Sarah a quick wink before turning back to his friends and rugby tackling JJ.
"Just tell him...
"No, no." I stop her. "Can you please just come and tell him yourself. He doesn't seem to get the message when it comes from me."
Sarah lets out a huff. "Fine. Come on then." Sarah follows me back to my group of pogue friends, hand in hand.
"John B!" I yell as we near the group. The Pogues stop mucking around and all turn to look at us heading towards them. I plant Sarah in front of him when we finally reach the group.
"Sarah." John B nods at her.
"John B." Sarah stands confidently her arms folded across her chest enjoying making him nervous under her stare.
I hear yelling in the distance and look over my shoulder to see a very angry Topper striding towards us with his two kook friends failing to calm his drunk self down.
"Yo John B!" Topper growls from afar.
"Oh great, here we go." I groan to myself knowing full well this would be the outcome of John B's dare but going through with it anyways because he has to learn on his own.
Topper doesn't miss a step before shoving me out of the way, I was on the way to crash against the sand when an arm catches me. I look up to see who saved me the bruised hip and my eyes meet with Rafe Cameron's.
Our eyes stay connected for a second too long before I let out an awkward cough breaking our trance. Rafe steadies me on my feet before brushing his hands on his chest and we both turn back to the drama unfolding in front of us pretending nothing happened.
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Inconvenient Attachment
Fanfiction[STILL WRITING] School has just kicked out for summer. The pogues are ready to have fun and party hard. Vanessa a kook by blood but pogue by heart, has no clue what's about to occur. Rafe, the boy she has known her entire life somehow crosses her p...
