addicted to you | jj maybank

four

you can't understand the outerbanks without understanding the boneyard, its kinda like a three-layer burrito. there's us and our friends, the working-class derelicts. then there are the kooks, the rich second-homers. they are mostly from poncey ass boarding schools, just rich trustafarian posersour natural enemies. and then there are the tourons. totally clueless. here for a week on vacation with their families.

colette walked around hoping to find someone to talk to. she saw as john b was flirting with a touron, kiara was on one of her rants and pope was terribly flirting with some girl so she left all of them be. she was hoping to find jj but when she saw him with some girl she bit her cheek and walked away.

she had a couple drinks and only thought she was tipsy and was okay to wonder off alone. she found a tree stump near the water and sat down she just listened to the waves and the soften chatter behind her. her thoughts were only on jj, no matter what her mind always found it's way back to him. but he was happy with a different girl and even if they just hook up or kiss it was still something for him and another thing he wasn't doing with colette.

"hey," a voice behind her, startling her at first but it was just a clueless touron. "hi?" she responded. "sorry didn't mean to scare you, just saw you alone over here and I thought you were cute," he said. "oh haha very forward thanks though," she was hesitant, he was a stranger and they were far from people which made her a little uncomfortable, being alone with him.

"i'm nathan," he said before walking next to her. "colette," she pressed her lips into a thin line. "that's a pretty name," he moved closer.
he continued moving closer until they were inches apart.

"you know what? fuck it" she thought to herself

he kissed her and she was still hesitant about it but she put her hands on each side of his face. his hand wrapped around her waist.

he started to become more forceful and started to kiss her neck. "you know what? I think i'm going to head back to my friends," she pushed away for a moment.

"no, no don't go, we can go somewhere quieter," he offered but she declined. "i really should be going. my friends are probably looking for me," she insisted.

"come on colette, you know you want me," those words made her want to throw up. the only thing she wanted was her friends. he grabbed her hands and blocked her view of the bonfire.

"no get the fuck away from me," she pushed him so hard he fell backwards. "fuck you, you fucking creep," she kicked him in the stomach and stormed off.

the sun started to disappear behind the ocean and the sky swirled with purples and blues tones.

a pit formed in her stomach as she walked back. the sound of the world slowly faded around her and the alcohol was really hitting her, but she wanted more. she found a full cup next to the keg and downed it.

jj noticed her in the corner of his eye and without hesitation he left the girl he was with and walked to colette.

"lottie? lottie, are you okay?" he asked and she looked at him but didn't say anything. "I-I, what did you say?" she asked rubbing her eyes. "how much have you had to drink?" he asked. "not lots, i'm just, it's just he, he grabbed me," she started but her words were slow and quiet. "who grabbed you?" a wave of anger flashed over jj.

"some touron, his name was nathan. he tried to- to," she took a breath and stopped talking. "i'm going to fucking kill him. where is he?" jj started looking around. "don't do anything. please. i'm okay now. I don't want a big scene," she begged.

"are you sure, lottie. you know you're safe with me. are you sure you don't want me to do anything?" he asked. "i'm sure," she said.

colette wrapped her arms around him before tears formed. he hugged her back and let her slow her breathing before he spoke.

"wanna get something to drink and go sit by the fire?" he suggested. she smiled and agreed, before following him.

they sat down across from kiara and pope and jj handed her a red solo cup as he took a sip from his. he talked and made as many jokes as he could to distract colette. which was easy for him because she was so interested in everything he did.

*

the sun was fully gone by this point and the moon light lit up the entire bone yard along with the light from the fire.

john b, jj and colette were now standing together and jj had two drinks in his hands. "want it?" he offered to john b.

"uh yeah i'll take a sip," john b said. "oh wait, hey hey sarah! sarah, can i interest you in a tasty milwaukee beverage?" he asked as sarah and topper walked by.

"no, thanks," she declined. "come on, is it not fancy enough for you?" jj asked. "no, we were just leaving," sarah said.

sarah and colette used to hangout, along with kiara but then kie and sarah stop being friends so colette was put in the middle and she decided to just leave them to figure it out and she stuck with the boys. it ended with kiara staying with the pogues and sarah stayed with the kooks. so sarah and colette never hated each other but they stop talking after the fight.

"hey, you know what? i'll take it? thank you man. I appreciate it" topper decided as he reached for the drink. "thats nice, but I didn't ask you," jj said, pulling the cup away. "maybe if you said pretty please," colette added, laughing at topper.

"oh pretty please, pretty please," topper tried but he got ignored. "so sarah?" jj asked. "she doesn't want you," topper yelled as he grabbed the drink and threw it in their direction, primarily on colette. jj watched as she got soaked and he immediately got mad.

"you're so funny man," jj sarcastically said as he grabbed topper's coller. colette backer up and wiped the drink off her face.

"no, hey, hey, no no," john b tried to pull them apart but topper yelled, "dirty pogues!" which caused john b to push him.

"were supposed to be incognito, remember?" pope yelled, convincing no one to stop.

topper than swung a punch at john b causing him to fall to the ground.

"babe, babe, babe" sarah yelled but topper didn't stop.

"oh fuck you topper!" colette yelled and she ran up to topper and punched him in the jaw. he placed his hand on his cheek before going to swing at colette but was stopped by jjs fist.

john b and topper started fighting each other and jj pulled colette back. kie and sarah kept yelling for them to stop but they didn't. the whole crowd yelled for them to fight and topper got john b down in the water, he started to drown him.

"hey john b, don't make me drown you like your old man, all right?" topper yelled.

soon the safety on a gun clicked and everyone became quiet. "yeah, you know what that is," jj said with the gun on toppers head.

"put the gun down," sarah yelled. "did you say something princess?" jj yelled back.

"okay man, we're good, we're good!" topper put his hands up. "colette can you check your psycho boyfriend please?" sarah yelled and colette stared at her. "how about you check yours before he drowns someone!" colette shouted.

"okay everyone listen up! get the hell off our side of the island!" jj yelled before sending two shots in the air. people began to scream and run off the beach.

"are you crazy? why would you do that" pope pushed jj and kiara yelled at him, "you idiot!"

they continued to yell at jj as colette ran to john b who had passed out in the water.

"guys stop yelling at jj and come help me!" colette shouted which made pope and kiara shut up.