𝙊𝘾𝙀𝘼𝙉 𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙎, ʳᵃᶠᵉ ᶜᵃᵐᵉʳᵒⁿ

i. boats and bruises

ocean eyes | rafe cameron

KALI WALKS OUT FROM THE house that is under construction with Kiara having wanted to see if it was eco friendly in anyway (and spoiler alert; it wasn't.) "they're going to have Japanese toilets with towel warmers" Kiara says walking next to her sister "of course they are why wouldn't they?" JJ says to her.

"this use to be a turtle habitat, but who cares about the turtles I guess." Kali says climbing to sit next to JJ. "I can't have cold towels" He says as she rolls her eyes and bumps his shoulder with her own shoulder.

"can you please not kill yourself?" Kiara says looking up at John B "don't spill that beer I'm not giving you another one" JJ says to John B. He almost falls and drops the beer and Kali chuckles at him with a shake of her head "smooth." She says in unison with Kiara making JJ look at them with a shake of his head "of course you did, like right when I told you not to" JJ says to John B as he groans and ignore his friends as they all make comments about him dropping the beer.

"hey uh, security's here, let's rap it up" Pope says as the security guard yells at them to get down "Boys are early today" John B says Kali climb's down from where she was sitting "let's go boys" Kiara says as the twins stand next to each other with a sly smirk.

"Gary is that you?" JJ says as they wait for him and John B to get down. Kali looks at him with a small shake of her head "now you're just asking for it" she says before they all start to book it to the van.

Kali doges one of the guards almost falling but skipping all the steps on the stairs and running out of the back to hop the fence "come on Slow Pope" she says seeing Pope fall behind her. JJ comes over after him "come on Pope fatsos comin'" he says helping Pope up off the ground.

"bus is leaving!" John B yells as Pope, JJ, and Kali jump in. Gary starts running after them and JJ opens the van door. He taunts him with a beer "stop your gonna give him a heart attack" Kiara says sarcastically.

Kali looks out of the van door "oh your so close!" JJ says as he throws the beer at him "they don't pay you enough man" Kali says with a giggle "guys stop, stop." Kiara says giving her and JJ a look. "Oh come on, that sort of initiative is just begging to be punished." JJ says smiling at Kiara and Kali just laughs and leans her head on her sister's shoulder.

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The Outer Banks, Paradise on earth.
It's the sort of place where you either have two jobs, or two houses.
Two tribes one island.

All right, so Figure Eight, the rich side is the island. Home of the kooks. So guess where we don't live.

And then there's the south side or the cut. Home of the working class who make a living busing tables, washing yachts, running charters. Natural habitat of drumroll please...The Pogues.

That's us. Pogues, pogies, the throwaway fish. Lowest member of the food chain. Ok so, the down side of pogue life is we're ignored and neglected. But the up side of pogue life? We're ignored and neglected, which means we do whatever we want whenever we want.

That's JJ, my best friend since the third grade. He's about as local as they come. Latest in a long line of fishing, drinking, smuggling, vendetta-holding salt-lifers who made their living off the water. Best surfer I know. Just don't tell him I said that. Mild kleptomaniac and a future tax cheat but most importantly, an amazing brother to Lucy.