it started with flirting, which was probably their first mistake. dean di laurentis x fem!oc off campus series

Vanessa Rubio has more interest in a career-ending injury than she does in falling in love. At least your body gives you an explainable reason for slipping away, because she has learned the hard way that love does not. Unfortunately for her, Dean Di Laurentis was inevitable. With her father being the assistant coach of his hockey team, she sees enough of him as is. Of course it was going to be her turn to be on the receiving end of his oh-so charming smile one day. With an Olympic dream, she already had a lot stacked against her. The last thing she needed to add was 250 lbs of muscle in the form of a blonde hockey player- 350 lbs if you count the girl that was probably on top of him as we speak. But their frequent encounters and his persistence has her a little more invested than she originally intended... and now she's keeping secrets from her friends. Vanessa finds herself in an awkward position (literally and figuratively). Dean Di Laurentis finds himself with a crush (at least he thinks, he's new to this). But are they willing to abandon their old ways for a shot at love? The better question is, are they able to? s1-tbd

𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍, rafe cameron lola larissa maybank was born into chaos. twin sister to jj maybank, the outer banks resident wild card, lola grew up learning how to take hits with a smirk and throw them back with twice the force. a sharp tongue, bruised knuckles, and a heart bigger than she lets on-she's the kind of girl who laughs out loud, loves harder, and burns quietly. the pogue princess of the cut. sunshine wrapped in gasoline. she's sweet, until she isn't. protective as hell. loyal to the ones who matter. but broken, in all the ways that don't show-unless you know where to look. everyone wants to know who lola is when the suns out and the waves are calm. but no one sees her when it's late, when her walls crack, when she stops pretending she's fine. no one, except him. rafe cameron. kook royalty. silver spoon and blood on his hands. her worst enemy. her best-kept secret. they're rivals in daylight. strangers at parties. enemies when their friends are watching. but behind closed doors? it's a different story. it started as a mistake-drunken words, stolen touches, midnight silences too loud to ignore. now it's an addiction. a secret neither of them can quit. no feelings. no strings. just heat, bruises, and pretending they don't care. even when they do. especially when they do. but in the outer banks, nothing stays buried. not gold. not bodies. not love. and when the treasure maps resurface, guns go off, and loyalties crumble, lola and rafe will have to decide if their secret is worth surviving- or if loving each other was the real disaster all along. ______ ୨♡୧ ______ warnings: drug use, violence, abuse, sexual content, explicit language, toxic relationships, emotional manipulation, mental health struggles, self harm, sexual assault. i suggest it's not the best for you to read if you feel uncomfortable with any subjects, if not then enjoy ! 1 in #obx 2 in #rafecameron

Brooke Routledge has always been told to act upon risk. She regrets it all. The love, the vulnerability, the true form that she provided to him. It wasn't worth it, and the cruelest part was the act of throwing it back into her face. She doesn't think he ever loved her. How could you? It runs so much deeper than that. Neither of them knew what they were doing, how they were feeling, and how to fix it all-though, under everything, they wanted to fix it. Risk. It's what destroyed Brooke Routledge. But in a strange way, she wondered, could risk be what saves her? OBX ␥ Rafe Cameron & JJ Maybank © elegancies