With The Tide (Outerbanks JJ Maybank x OC)

Chapter 2 - Chaos Walking

This chapter may have some tough spots if your easily triggered. There is brief verbal abuse and a mention of assault so if this will harm you to read, please keep that in mind.

Thanks for reading :)

Hopefully in the next chapter if not this next one but the one after I will be bringing more of the season 1 events in that I wanted to include and also hope to put a few twists and turns in here.

All errors are my own, no beta for this.

"Dad?" I say surprised to see him standing in front of me. I was frozen in placed by an unknown force as he stared at me. He must have just come home since he was still dressed like he was at the courthouse. His mouth formed into a thin line as he looked me up and down. I became hyper aware that I was in his eyes very under dressed. I was in my short jean shorts I typically wear at work and a t-shirt that I had cut to hand just above my navel. "I didn't realize you were home."

"Where have you been?" he asked his voice low and demanding as he just continued to stare at me. I swallowed the lump in my throat. My dad wasn't aware I was working at The Wreck. His idea of work was allowing the underclass to do it for us. Since I had been working there, I had made a point to keep it hidden, as my own hideaway from home when I needed it.

"I was out on the beach today with some friends." I lied gaining enough composure to set my face to mask anything he might be able to call me out on. The last thing I needed was for him to cause a big to-do in the cut with the people I cared about.

My dad was a well-known corporate lawyer. He was the man they called when someone screwed up and they want to get out of it, and when I say screwed up I mean royally f'd up to the point they should be in jail. If he didn't like something he made sure you knew about it.

Deciding I didn't want to continue standing in the entry way any longer I closed the door behind me and made a pass to walk by him. His hand grabbed my arm so quick that I winced as my skin rubbed roughly against his as he spun me to look at him.

"Would this be the same friends I told you to say away from?" he asked his voice was almost venomous.

"There good people and I'm not going to stop hanging out with them just because you don't like them." I state so fast that my brain couldn't stop me. I instantly realize I had pushed the wrong button when he let go of me by pushing me back into wall next to the stair a finger lifting to point at me.

"You are an embarrassment to my names. Why I let you walk around here without any.... Do you realize the things I have had to give up for you? Do you realize what I have lost because of you, you ungreatful..." He was angry and couldn't formulate words to finish his statements, but I could easily replace the pauses with words. I quickly averted my eyes and looked down, unable to meet his dark eyed stare. "How many of them have you slept with for them to keep letting you come back? Why do you really think they want you there, do you really think they like you? They are using you and I will not watch you throw away everything I have worked for so you can go whore around the south side." I stood there with him in my face for a very long excruciating second before he released me and turned. "Your mother left because you wouldn't be good enough and left me with you whether I wanted you or not." His last statement hurt but he had said it before so I kept my eyes down and let him rant hoping it would end soon.

"I have a brunch tomorrow with Ward Cameron at the country club. You will join me and will you make your appearance as such would be expected of you." He said, his voice becoming a little lighter, but still firm. He wasn't asking, it was a request that I had no choice about.

"Ward Cameron?" I asking risking a look up at him.

"Yes as well as his family." I inwardly cringed knowing who he was referring to.