Rafe Cameron was probably the antagonist in a lot of people's stories by now, but first person who could claim that title was the one-and-only, Leonie Maybank. The oldest sister in a line of sarcastic, hotheaded blondes, only getting worse the further you go down the line. There was Leo, of course, who once chased Barry halfway through The Cut when she caught him standing near her baby brother, JJ, the next Maybank. Probably the most annoying one, too. He liked to think he was the oldest, assuming the protective brother role over Leo and failing most times when she just laughed in his face―at least he had Poppy to corrupt, the youngest Maybank. She was only their half-sibling, a present on their doorstep at 3:09 a.m. seven years ago with a yellow sticky-note on her chest saying "she's yours." Luke Maybank wasn't the best father in a lot of respects, so no one was surprised to find that he'd gotten some woman knocked up, especially after JJ and Leo's mother left when they were still toddlers.
Leo was the same age as Rafe Cameron, just like JJ was in the same year as Rafe's younger sister, Sarah. Both of them had younger siblings. Both of them had daddy issues. Both of them hated each other. The unwavering rivalry between the Kooks and Pogues really ignited with Leo and Rafe one night at the Boneyard when they were seventeen, and he ended up dinging her (new-to-her-but-very-used) SUV she'd been saving up years for with his expensive ass truck. The person who was more upset in that situation was not Rafe. If not for the quick steps of her younger brother, then Rafe probably would've ended up in the hospital with road-rash and Leo sitting on a manslaughter charge―she would've taken first-degree in that moment, though.
But eventually what happened in all angsty-teenage-coming-of-age movies happened to them. The enemies-to-lovers trope, the sexual tension, the moment where they got a little bit too drunk at a mutual OBX party and well...that's when the rulebook came into play for them.
At first, it started out with just one.
𝐋𝐄𝐎 & 𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐄'𝐒 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊
Signed on:June 2, 2018
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𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄: This is a one-time thing. But then they broke that one.
So, came 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄 𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐎: Don't catch feelings. They broke that one, too.
