Coastal Cowgirl ~ JJ. Maybank *mostly JJ pov *mature ( ** marks mature chapters ) *trigger warning - sensitive topics *does not follow the OBX plot until later on, also doesn't follow word for word or 100% accurately. I did change some things. *season 1 completed. *i do not own rights to Netflix's Outerbanks, only my characters.* ✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨🌊✨ On the wrong side of the island, The Cut, nothing ever comes easy. For anyone. Usually for JJ Maybank, that's never been a problem, he's used to it. This is his life - No rules, no future, no attachments. Until her. Lilah Monroe is a mystery no one can solve. No friends. No past anyone's heard of. Just a quiet, beautiful girl with haunted eyes and a life she keeps locked behind closed doors, for good reason. When JJ meets her by chance, something shifts- Fast, unexpected, and impossible to ignore. And when he finally gets to know the real her, he realizes the truth is a lot heavier than he imagined, and they have a lot in common. Caught between long summer nights, reckless decisions, treasure hunting, and the kind of love neither of them were ever taught how to have, JJ and Lilah begin to build something fragile-something real. But in a world where survival comes first for both of them, love might be the most dangerous risk of all. Because some people aren't just hard to find. They're hard to keep.