Cruel Summer {JJ Maybank} [c.s]

𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑

"Oh, it's new, the shape of your body
It's blue, the feeling I've got
And it's ooh, whoa, oh
It's a cruel summer
It's cool, that's what I tell 'em
No rules in breakable heaven
But ooh, whoa, oh
It's a cruel summer
With you
I'm drunk in the back of the car
And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (oh)
Said, "I'm fine, " but it wasn't true
I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you
And I snuck in through the garden gate
Every night that summer just to seal my fate (oh)
And I screamed for whatever it's worth
"I love you, " ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?
He looks up grinning like a devil."

Aubrey Isobel Gilbert is the fraternal twin sister of Elena Marie Gilbert and was put second by almost everyone in her life, except for her younger brother Jeremy and her Aunt Jenna.

They were the only ones to see through Elena's lies, you see Elena was jealous of the attention her sister got when they were younger so she made up a lie about how Aubrey would always hurt her when they were alone and she would hurt herself as the proof and it turned almost everyone against Bree.

Then the summer before freshman year for the twins the Gilbert family took a vacation to the outer banks where 14-year-old Aubrey Isobel Gilbert met 14-year-old JJ Maybank and the two instantly hit it off and then JJ introduced her to his friends John B. Kiara and Pope and the other three also hit it off with the girl she easily fit right in with their group.

That summer Bree made friends that she was sure would end up being lifelong friends that couldn't be swayed by Elena's lies.

The next summer the family once again took a vacation to the outer banks which meant that Bree got to see her friends and JJ (who she may have developed a slight crush on during the time that they had been talking) again. Which she was excited about but she never outwardly let it show, knowing that her parents would make her take Elena along whenever she hung out with them.

That summer was when Bree had her first kiss and of course, it was with JJ, it was late one July night they were sitting on the beach just watching the ocean well Bree was while JJ was watching her as he also had developed a crush on the dark-haired beauty.

She looked at him and they locked eyes and it was almost as if the world faded away around them and then their faces were impossibly close and uttered the words 'Can I kiss you?"

Which made Bree blush a dark red but she consented and he kissed her. After that the two only grew closer which caused the other three to tease the two constantly but their summer romance turned into a long-distance romance which both parties agreed to as they didn't want to break up just for the summer because Bree knew that her family would be back the next summer and plus they would talk every day anyway so they decided to try it out. 

But only tragedy struck before that summer vacation resulting in the death of Grayson and Miranda Gilbert meaning the trip was canceled which bummed Bree and JJ both out... it may sound heartless but Bree wasn't sad when her parents died they barely acknowledged her anyway ever since Elena turned them against her out of petty jealousy.

Anyway, follow Bree and JJ on their journey of finding their way back to each other and also finding out secrets about both of their families but no matter what comes they know that as long as they have each other everything will work out in the end. 

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I feel kind of ehhh about the ending of the prologue but I'll leave it so as to not draw out publishing this chapter any longer, also there are a few twists that I have in mind for this book that I hope you guys will enjoy also do you guys want a few flashback chapters or to just get right into the story? I'm fine with doing it either way. Or get right into it and do flashback chapters for certain scenes?