Outer-banks, paradise on earth. It's the sort of place where you either have two jobs or two houses. Two tribes, one island.
My name is Summer Paige Maybank, my friends, my brother and I are the pogues, "the throwaway fish". The downside of pogue life is we're ignored and neglected but the upside of pogue life? We're ignored and neglected which means we do whatever we want, whenever we want, and our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.
My brother JJ and I, we're 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.
JJ is the best surfer I know even though I will never admit that to him. Mild kleptomaniac, a future tax cheat, and many more but most important of all he's the best brother I could've gotten.
He's overprotective and sometimes a little too strict seeing how he acts normally. We always had a pretty shitty life, no mom and an abusive father. JJ tried to shelter me from it as much as he could but it wasn't always possible. I'm not dumb I know how Luke is, I know what he does to my brother. I sometimes experience it myself that is why JJ forbids me to be in the house alone with our father.
I'm 15 so two years younger than him and all of our friends, maybe that's why he feels the need to baby me all the time even tho I told him countless times to stop and that I hate it.
In our group there's also John B., my brother's best friend since the third grade and pretty much my second brother at this point. He lives in an old fish shack on the marsh. The Chateau as his dad used to call it, disappeared at sea nine months ago while he was looking for a shipwreck. I know he misses him and believes he'll come back and I'll support him in that mindset until I die.
Next, there's Kiara, or Kie as we call her and when she's not saving turtles, listening to Marley, or getting a dolphin tattoo. she hangs out with us. I'm not really sure why though... she's a rich kid, actually. Foot in both worlds, her family owns "The Wreck", which is this Outer Banks institution. Total cash cow with the tourists.
I'm not really sure how her parents feel about us, especially about my family and our last name. Not that we care or anything, Kiara was a pogue just like the rest of us.
And lastly, there's Pope, the brains of the operation... finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderhorst Merit scholarship, and the smartest person I know (a bit of a weirdo as well). His father is this legendary character Heyward. Anything you wanted on the island, Heyward could get it for you.
So, that's my crew.
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(you can ignore this this is just how I imagined her)
