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#jj maybank x reader fic
lovelyjj · 30 days
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I have a request, might be a weird one but I can imagine reader and JJ have been dating for a couple weeks and reader gets her period and is very agitated and mad and uncomfortable one second and the next second, she’s happy overall just really moody, and JJ has no clue what’s going on. Hope you have a good day 🤍
Period
jj maybank x fem!reader
wc: 692
a/n: thank you for requesting, sorry it’s so short.
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Your relationship with JJ has only been going on for a couple weeks. It was new and exciting. You met JJ at the beach. He was there with the pogues surfing and you were there tanning along with reading at the beach.
JJ has been nothing short of wonderful. He was charming, funny, and he made you feel alive. JJ was just as smitten with you as you were him. JJ was a good boyfriend from the short time that you knew him.
Being on your period was a whole ordeal. JJ hasn’t experienced you on your period yet because you have only been going out for a few weeks. When you are on your period your emotions are all over the place. You tried your best to keep your emotions in check but it was very difficult.
You were at the château in a mood. Everyone was getting ready to go to the beach. You however didn’t want to go as you were bleeding out. You were frustrated and annoyed because you had cramps that hurt a lot.
“You ready for the beach m’ lady?” JJ asked.
“No i’m not going,” you crossed your arms.
“What why not?”
“Because I don’t want to,” you huffed.
“Ok missy don’t have to be rude about it,” JJ scolded.
“Somebody’s got an attitude,” JJ continued.
“Just leave me alone,” you frowned.
“Not until you tell me what’s wrong.”
“Nothings wrong JJ.”
“Well you seem pissed.”
You sighed. You were mad and you were uncomfortable. You just didn’t know how to get out your frustrations.
“I’m sorry but i’d like to be alone.”
“I’m not leaving you,” JJ expressed.
“Ugh JJ please just stop I’m done with you.”
“What did I do?” JJ asked.
“Everything just- what what are those,” you pointed behind you to the kitchen table that had a beautiful arrangement of flowers on it.
“Oh uh I got you some flowers,” JJ smiled.
You lit up. “Really? For me?” You jumped up and hugged JJ tightly. You squealed in delight.
JJ started laughing because he was so confused by your sudden mood switch. One minute you were mad at him and he thought he was in trouble the next you’re smiling and hugging him like he’s your own personal superhero.
———
The next day you were all eating lunch at the wreck. All the pogues were there. You were all waiting for your food and you were in a mood. You seemed upset and nobody knew why.
You were just tired and uncomfortable and that made you upset. So you sat there with a frown on your face. JJ was concerned but he didn’t know what to do.
Eventually the food came and you perked up. You smiled and did a happy dance. JJ watched you impressed and confused that your mood could change so fast.
When you were back at the château, you and JJ went to his room. There the two of you relaxed and unwinded.
“Hey I have a question,” JJ stated.
“What is it ?”
“Um you’ve been particularly moody lately and I’m just so lost as to why.” JJ explained.
“Oh um well i’ve been on my period,” you responded.
“You- what?!” JJ was stuttering.
“I’m. on. my. period.”
JJ wasn’t stupid. He knew what a period was but he’s never really been around it. Suddenly all the pieces fell together. It all made sense though JJ didn’t know your emotions could change so fast when you are on your period.
“Oh right ok. Well do you need anything?” JJ asked.
“Um some chocolate would be nice,” you mentioned.
“Right away princess,” JJ was quick to get some chocolate from the cupboards.
You were quick to indulge in the chocolate it making you feel a little better.
“Lay down with me,” you asked JJ.
He of course couldn’t deny you anything so he got on the bed and pulled you into him.
JJ rested his hand on your stomach, his warm skin heating you up and making you more comfortable. You loved him a lot, you truly did. And you figured your periods will be less horrible with JJ around.
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featherandferns · 10 months
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slipping (fic)
jj maybank x fem!barry's sister!reader | the reader is canonically adopted so all my POC lovelies aren't left out!
content warning: drinking; brief mentions of drug abuse and suicide; sexual content (p in v, oral, hand-stuff)
word count: 18k.
Blurb: you and JJ have been in a secret relationship for seven months. And it's great. It's perfect. It's just what JJ's always wanted. Except, you don't want to be a secret forever, and JJ can't risk you finding out his history with Barry.
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Barry’s house looks like a crack den. To be frank, the word ‘house’ is rather generous. It’s a run-down trailer which looks half-abandoned: surrounded by ditched appliances (like busted washing machines that people had driven out to the farthest stretch of the marsh rather than making the trip to the rubbish tip); overgrown grass and unkept shrubs; a car that no longer runs, pawned off for the valuable parts, now claimed by nature as roots grow within. The only sign that there’s life at this place - outside of the rats and critters and birds - is the tire-tracked make-shift driveway along the grass, so deep that it’s clearly well used.   
JJ parked his bike near the road, hidden in the trees of the marsh. His heavy boots sink into the grass - damp from the rainfall last night - and he shoves his hands in his pockets as he works his way up the drive. He knows he’s being somewhat brazen about the whole thing, heading up to the house in clear view, but he has good reason to. As he gets nearer, rounding to face the netted porch, he feels his smile beginning to show.
“Hey,” he calls.
You look from the motor you’re tinkering with. Smile pretty like the first sunrise of the year.
“Hey,” you say.
JJ steps up the three stairs in two steps. Leans against the frame of the porch.
“You here to pick up for your dad?” you ask. You’re wiping your hands on a rag that’s tucked into your short’s pocket.
“Not quite,” JJ says, watching as you stand. “Your brother home?”
“Who? Barry?” you wonder, playing dumb.
JJ rolls his eyes and smiles wider. “That one, yeah.”
“Nah,” you say casually, sauntering towards him, hands tucked into the back pockets of your shorts. “He’s running an errand.”
“Damn. Guess I came at the perfect time,” JJ plays along.
“Almost like someone tipped you off,” you reply.
You’re standing in front of him now, a little shorter than him. He can’t keep his hands to himself any longer. Hooking one around your waist, JJ leans down to press his lips to yours. The abruptness makes you giggle against his mouth and it keens him on. One of your hands lifts to stroke at his face; your fingers gently tracing over his stubble that’s coming through since the last shave. Pulling back, you smile up at him. That sweet, soft smile that he’s privy to.
“Thought you weren’t gonna get here ‘til later,” you quietly say. He notices that your eyes keep flitting down to his lips, half-distracted.
“Missed my girl.”
“Your girl?” you echo, quirking a brow.
JJ doesn’t reply outside of a shrug. You chuckle, blinking up into his eyes. He feels like he could drown in yours. Bathe in the endlessness of them.
Your arms loop around his neck, tugging him down nearer to your face. JJ lets his hands rest on your hips a moment before swooping down to find home just under your shorts. His fingers tease under the denim, tracing the soft skin of your backside.
“You gonna take care of your girl or what, then?”
“Impatient, huh?” JJ chuckles. He cuts off his own laugh by pressing his mouth to yours once more.
You mould against him as if the two of you were made to be together. Follow the tilt of his head with yours as he deepens the kiss. Lusciously tease your tongue against his, pulling back enough to have him chasing your mouth. If he could – if there weren’t too high a risk with him doing so – he’d take you right here on the porch. Bend you over the abandoned entryway table or have you atop of him on the couch. But inside is better and safer, so he lets you guide him in, fingers dancing through yours as you flash a smile at him over your shoulder.
He can remember a time you used to be embarrassed of the interior of your house. JJ knew rough living – his dad was far from house proud – but Barry’s place was a different level. The stove didn’t work and the door hung forever open, broken on the hinges. Half the cupboards didn’t shut right and roaches were so frequent they may as well pay rent. But he never judged and never commented. Especially now, as you pull the two of you into your bedroom, pushing him against the wall with that contagious laugh of yours that makes him smile.
“Was thinking ‘bout you this morning,” you tell him. Your hands are working at the fly of his shorts.
“What about?”
He’s watching the nimbleness of your fingers as you pull down his zip. Has him grinning, body tingling at the thought and the excitement. Being wrapped up in you is like opium: euphoric and addictive.
“Just how good you fucked me last time,” you casually sigh.
JJ gasps through his brimming grin when you shove a hand into his boxers, rubbing at his semi. The way you look up at him, innocence faked on your expression like butter couldn’t melt in your mouth…it’s a deadly trap.  
“I got a little impatient waiting. Had to take care of myself this morning. All alone,” you go on, coiling a hand around his neck to coax his mouth nearer to yours.
Your hand is still working at him, pulling him out of his boxers now, and JJ stammers a moan against your grinning lips as you squeeze gently around the head.
“Guess I gotta make it up to you then,” he somehow manages.
“Guess you gotta.”
Moving to kiss him again, you move your hand faster. Take a moment to spit on your palm, to help it slide easier. JJ lets his hands roam your clothed body (why are you still dressed?) and settles on palming at your breast under your t-shirt, touch half-restricted by your bralette. As he feels himself edging, he groans against your mouth, breaking the messy kiss.
“’M close,” he sighs, eyes slipping shut.
The way your spare hand caresses his jaw is a stark juxtaposition to what you’re doing to him, under the belt. It reminds JJ that it’s you – familiar, perfect, wonderful you – and that only drives him closer. Has him moaning out, unashamed for you to hear the sounds he makes. Only for you.
“We got time,” is all you say, voice quiet like it’s a secret, and JJ knows that he can let go.
We got time for more.
He comes with a shudder, groaning against your mouth, eyes clamped shut as he pumps himself in your closed fist, chasing the pleasure. You kiss him through his orgasm, trailing them along his cheekbone and eyelids. He chuckles as he comes down, opening his eyes to take in the mess on your shorts.
“Fuck. Sorry,” JJ mumbles.
You shake your head. “They needed a wash anyway.”
The two of you laugh, prompting his eyes to meet yours once more. You’re smiling at him, leaning forward to kiss him again, like a diver coming back for air, over and over. JJ’s impatient now. Tugs your tee-shirt over your head and shucks down your shorts and panties, following them to the floor as he lowers onto his knees. Your skin smells like rose and bergamot from your lotion. The smell screams of you and makes him smile against your skin, leaning his face softly against your thigh as he presses kisses, teething gently at the skin. You sigh out a moan above him, leaning your hands on the wall for support. JJ eases your legs open wider, mumbling playful demands under breath that have you lustfully giggling. Then he’s going at you, eating you out like a man starved for dinner, and the sounds you make are fucking heavenly. Gasping out his name, your moans are cutting into each other like there’s two sides of your brain competing. He’s only motivated more, lifting higher onto his knees, moving a hand around to roughly grasp at your cheek, manhandling you to appease his hunger. Fingers dig deep into the flesh. He could quite gladly die here, JJ thinks, as he goes down on you. Sinfully sweet and salty on his tongue, like a forbidden fruit. The tell-tale squeak in your voice is his signal that you’re close, but JJ doesn’t want you to come yet. Not yet.
He pulls away with a breath. You whine in protest, one hand even trying to shove his face back on you.
“JJ…”
He can’t help but laugh. Teasing and dark. He gets to his feet.
Your hands are shaky as they cup at his face, pulling his lips to yours. JJ pulls you off him, forces you so your chest is against the wall. The hastiness has you panting. All of your snarky quips are gone, lost to his mouth and tongue. Shoving his boxers down and pulling off his shirt, JJ grabs one of your hands in his, holding it against the wall, fingers interlocked. He’s already hard again, guiding himself to your entrance, forcing your legs apart wider once more with a foot against yours. Eases in with a groan, collapsing his head against your shoulder, fixated on your wanton moan.
JJ fucks you good and hard. He knows how you like it and what you want. His finger slips down to your clit, rubbing fervently, and you whine against the peeling wallpaper of your bedroom walls. His other hand never leaves yours. Squeezing at your interlocked fingers lovingly, strikingly different from the painful pace he’s set.
“Feel so fucking good,” he pants against your clammy skin. Your only reply is a whine. “You getting close, baby?”
“Fuck, yes,” you shiver.
It spurs him on. Makes you louder. It’s obscene and filthy and…And it’s over too soon.
You collapse against the wall when you come, voice so loud he’s only half-worried it might carry across the marsh. JJ shifts his hand away from your bruised clit to help hold you up. It’s like your limbs have turned to jelly. You let JJ use you to find his own relief, groaning against your clammy back as he finishes inside you and thank Christ for the pill. Through the euphoric haze, he half registers your fingers teasing softly at his hair, soothing him through it.
Breathing heavy, he lifts his head to find yours glancing over your shoulder, eyes watching him. You’re veering for a kiss and JJ gladly indulges.
“Jesus fuck,” JJ dozily mumbles against your swollen mouth.
“Language,” you reply with a small, breathless laugh.
The two of you can’t help but groan as he slides out. You wiggle your fingers against the wall.
“My hand’s going dead, JayJ,” you mumble, almost apologetic.
He lets go. “Sorry.”
“It’s okay,” you chuckle.
Turning around, back now against the wall, you loop your arms around his bare chest and lean against him, the way a sloth might wrap itself around a tree. JJ sniggers, brushing a hand through your hair. He feels you press a tender kiss to his chest that’s still struggling to catch breath.
“You tired, huh?”
“Mhm,” you hum. “You came at the perfect time. I was like one minute away from throwing that motor out into the marsh.”
JJ quietly grunts as he lifts you up – your legs hooking loosely around his waist – and he walks the two of you back to your bed. The pair of you cuddle up atop of the sheets, letting the few rays of sunlight that leak into the room warm strips of your skin. He finds himself drawing mindless patterns on the skin of your thigh, and you appear to be doing the same on his chest.
“Who you fixing it up for? The motor?”
“You know Mr Lewis?”
“Is that the guy who works at the deli?” JJ checks.
“Mhm. It’s from the delivery van. I told him I’d have it done by Thursday,” you reply, yawning. It’s currently Tuesday.
JJ forgets sometimes that you’re a high school dropout. You’re smart enough to graduate. Easily smarter than him. One time, when he was losing his mind over some algebra homework that his teacher insisted he do (that was, if he wanted to skip out on retaking a year), you had taken the time to explain it to him. The way you laid it out was so simple and easy, like reciting the alphabet or counting to ten. But whenever he asked why you dropped out you would just reel off the usual self-deprecating excuse. That people from your family don’t get high school diplomas - it just wasn’t a thing.
“How’s school?” you ask as if you’d been following his line of thought.
“Boring,” JJ sighs. “Bit more fun now that John B’s back though.”
“Still can’t believe they survived,” you say. Then, shifting to meet his gaze, you add, “not in a bad way, just-”
“No, no, I know what you mean,” he eases. One of his fingers comes to tease at a strand of your hair, smiling down at you. “I mean, I wouldn’t believe it either. Hell, I didn’t, for a while.”
You chuckle at that, nodding, lowering your head back down onto his chest.
This is good. This is good for JJ and good for you. Not only is it good, but it’s fun. A secret is fun. Nobody else knows: not even the Pogues or your brother. These clandestine meetings and rendezvous and unknown dates are the definition of excitement. Nobody knows that JJ spends nearly every night buried in you, and that the unsaved number on his phone is filled with sweet, soft and sometimes sensual texts that came from you. Inside jokes than have accumulated over the seven months of your relationship. Nobody knows that JJ knows Barry’s younger sister as more than just that flippant title. That he knows your favourite television show and your favourite singer, and he knows the way to twist his fingers just right to have you bordering on screaming. He knows what it feels like to have your mouth on him and your teeth biting down onto the skin of his shoulders, but also what it feels like to make you laugh and to see you work. What it feels like to be at the mercy of your stare. He’s lucky enough to be in your light and be acknowledged by someone so strangely pure for all the shit the universe had thrown your way. If JJ got dealt a bad hand, then you got dealt fake cards. But all the darkness and grit hadn’t made you mean or distant. Instead, it made you glow, like tossing logs into an open flame.
“Wish I could meet him.”
“Who?” JJ asks. He’s lost in thought, eyes staring up at your ceiling. There’s a patch of mould in the corner that you’ve tried to conceal with some cheap, fake ivy vines.
“The president.”
“Really?”
You snort. “No, you moron. John B.”
JJ’s attention comes back to the conversation. He swallows, somewhat nervous. He hates when you bring this stuff up.
“I mean, you have met him.”
“Sure, like I’ve spoken to him at a kegger like…Two years ago?”
“He’s really not that interesting of a guy so,” JJ lamely says.
“Not that interesting? JJ, John B was a wanted fugitive who lived in Nassau with Sarah for like a month or something? Come on!” you reply with a laugh.
He closes his eyes at the sound. You sound so light and cheerful. He just knows whatever he replies with is going to crush it, like treading on a freshly blossomed flower. Why did you have to bring this up?
JJ shifts so he can slip out of your hold. You move to sit, legs half crossed, and he can feel your eyes watching him as he leans to your bedside table for the box of cigarettes you keep there.
“It doesn’t have to be soon,” you quietly say to his back.
He retrieves a cig and slots it between his lips, reaching for the lighter. He’d engraved your initials in it the same way he had ‘JJ’ engraved on his own. Please, please drop it.
“Just…Maybe sometime this month?”
“They’re not very interesting people,” JJ manages out, voice muffled by the cigarette as he flicks at the lighter. He hopes it’ll discourage whatever interest you have in meeting his friends. Hopes his voice sounds casual. “We don’t do much, either. Just sit around and surf and stuff.”
“Well, same,” you eventually reply, happiness already dwindling. “So, I guess I have that in common with them.”
JJ leans against the creaky headboard of your bed and takes a puff of the cigarette. He looks down at the lighter as he fiddles with it in one hand. It seems you won’t let the topic go (not that he expected you to, if he’s being honest with himself). You grab at his attention by taking the cigarette from him, having a drag yourself. He watches as you exhale, smoke filling the space before you as you sit, naked and sweet. Holding it out to him, your smile is now gone. Instead, there’s this shadow of anxiety looming over your features.
“We’re together, right?”
JJ takes the cigarette back. “Yeah?”
“Is that a question or an answer?”
“An answer,” JJ clarifies. Then, “Yes, we’re together.”
“And we have been for seven months now, right?”
JJ takes another pull, looking away from you and to the doorway. “I mean, I don’t know the exact length of—”
“We have,” you interrupt, firmly. “Seven months, one week and two days.”
Crap.
“Didn’t know we were keeping score,” JJ nervously chuckles, hoping to lighten the mood somewhat.
But when he looks to you again, you’re not smiling. You’re shaking your head.
“I don’t want to be a secret forever, JJ,” you say. “I understand why you wanted to keep it quiet at first. I mean, I did too. Whilst we figured it all out and what this actually is.”
As you speak, you gesture between the two of you.
“But…I’m tired of sneaking around, JayJ. Of lying to my friends and my brother. Of not being able to talk about you to them. Because…Well, because I want to,” you meekly admit, shrugging. “I want to kiss you when everyone’s watching, as fucking dumb as that sounds, and I wantpeople to know that you’re taken, and that you’re taken by me.”
It takes everything in JJ not to wince at that. He swallows down your words with an inhale of the nicotine. Doesn’t hold your gaze because how can he? He knew his lie would catch up to him eventually. JJ has a bad habit of spinning these fables as if he won’t get tangled in the mess of it. Hell, his bad habit to run his mouth is the reason why JJ can’t let you two come out to anybody, not even the Pogues. If even one person knows about the pair of you, then Barry will find out. It’s inevitable. The Outer Banks is a small place and news travels fast. The moment Barry finds out is the moment you find out what he did. It’ll be the moment he’ll lose you, forever. And that fear – that genuine risk – is far worse than having to sneak around, in JJ’s world.
“Hey.”
Your fingers brush against his, coaxing his hand into yours, intertwining the digits until you’re holding hands. He looks up at that, looks into your eyes. You’re smiling again, soft but solemn, like you’ve read some mellowing news.
“I don’t wanna rush you, okay? I just…I need to know that eventually, we won’t be a secret anymore,” you say quietly.
JJ smiles at you – the best smile he can manage – and nods. Lifts your interlocked hands to his tobacco tasting lips, pressing a kiss against the skin. Rose and bergamot.
“We won’t be,” JJ tells you. Nods, affirming it. Almost willing it into reality. “We won’t be, alright? Just a little more time.”
When you smile, he swears he feels his heartbeat ease. JJ’s thankful that you kiss him, because he can’t keep looking you in the eyes and act like it doesn’t kill a part of him to lie, straight to your face.
~*~*~*~*~*
U lol
JJ can’t help but smile at the meme you’ve sent him. It’s so stupid, hardly even a joke, but somehow it taps into his sense of humour perfectly. JJ sniggers as he replies.
“What you smiling at?” John B wonders.
JJ looks up from his phone. Instinctively turns it off before anyone can catch a glimpse of the screen.
“Just this thing,” JJ shrugs.
Kiara’s plucking the strings of her ukelele, lounging in the hammock that JJ nearly fought her for. He’s taken one of the deckchair loungers instead. Pope’s sat by the tree. He’s flicking through local history books, trying to see if there might be any clues in there about the island room. JJ thinks it’s a lost cause but got shut down the moment he started to say so. John B is still brooding from his break-up with Sarah. At least the boy wants to drink – now that’s something JJ’s glad to get on board with.
“You’ve been texting someone for the past half hour,” John B says.
“You stalking me or something?”
“It’s hard not to notice when you keep giggling like a girl at your phone.”
“Since when do I giggle?” JJ counters.
“Since today,” John B quickly replies. Then, he pulls out his phone and gives an award-winning impersonation. JJ gladly flips him off.
“I think our little playboy is whipped,” Kiara says from the hammock.
“I’m not whipped,” JJ says.
“But you are talking to someone?” she checks.
JJ rolls his eyes. He hates the grilling. Wishes they’d all back off. Despite his lack of an answer, it seems to be more than enough for Kie.
“Who is she?”
“Nobody. I don’t know what you’re talking about,” JJ says.
“Those are two different answers, man,” John B tells him.
“I thought JB was bad at lying but that might’ve been your worst,” Pope indirectly agrees, not looking up from his book.
“Look, the important thing right now is getting John B macking on someone else, alright?” JJ redirects, pointing to his best friend. “The fastest way to get over someone is to get on top of someone else, I’m telling ya.”
“Spoken like a poet,” Kie comments.
“I’m not interested in anyone else, JJ,” John B says. “Sides, even if I wanted to hook up with someone else – which I don’t - who the hell would it be?”
“Bro, I’m telling you, that chick in English is totally into you,” JJ says. “Like she’s practically drooling at her desk whenever she looks at you.”
“Is she now?”
“Yeah, man. I’ve got eyes, don’t I?”
“Debatable,” John B mutters, looking back to his phone.
JJ feels himself relax back in his chair again.
After the conversation the two of you shared the other night, JJ’s feels haunted. The way that you kissed him, all happy and sweet, when he’d just lied to your face…Kie would tell him that karma was waiting at the ready. That is, she would if she knew about it. JJ didn’t like lying to you. If he could, he’d go back in time and he’d leave the house and the money like the rest of the Pogues said he should. He’d do the right thing for once his sorry life.
Sighing, JJ rocks his head backwards and glances absentmindedly to the hammock. He’s a little surprised to see that Kie’s already looking at him. She’s watching him, practically studying him, and has this expression on her face that makes JJ swallow nervously.
“What?”
“Nothing,” she shrugs. Looks back down to her ukelele.
JJ watches her a moment longer before finally looking away. It takes a liar to know one.
~*~*~*~*~*
The tide’s come in.
There’s barely any beach left and it’s pushed you back to the sand dunes. JJ cusses as he spots you, sat with your knees near your chest, staring out to the water like something from a poem.
“Hey! I’m here! I’m here!” he hollers, jogging over.
You turn around at the sound of his voice. No smile. “You’re late.”
“I know, I know,” he says, coming to a stop before you. “I’m sorry, alright? This thing, with the Pogues, it just ran over but—”
“And you didn’t think to text me?” you sigh, holding up your phone. “I mean, my legs are bitten to hell now by the skeeters.”
“I’m sorry,” JJ repeats, dropping to sit beside you. You shake your head, looking away, but don’t move your hand from his when he reaches for it. “I should’ve made up an excuse or something to leave early.”
“Or you should’ve just told them the actual reason why you needed to leave,” you mumble, ticked off.
JJ sighs and leans over, pressing a kiss to your exposed shoulder. It prompts you to look to him. Your lips are still pressed in an unimpressed frown. He gazes into your eyes.
“I’m sorry,” JJ tells you once more, sincere and genuine.
You deliberate it over with a small sigh, rubbing your lips together in thought. Eyes scan his face and his features.
“Okay,” you relent. A twitch in your cheeks, teasing for a smile. “You’re off the hook. Don’t do it again, though.”
JJ nods, smiling too. “I won’t. I won’t, alright?”
“Okay,” you smile, properly. He kisses you, making you chuckle through your nose.
“You look cute, by the way. I like this,” he says, thumbing at the fabric of your top.
“Thanks,” you say. “If you weren’t late maybe I’d tell you that I like your shorts.”
“I thought that I was off the hook!” JJ loudly returns, making you laugh.
He grins at that. He likes when you laugh, and even better when he’s the cause of it. It makes your eyes go all crinkly and cute.
“Not all the way,” you playfully reply. “What were you guys caught up with, anyway?”
JJ shrugs and leans back on his elbows. The sunset looks pretty from here, over the horizon. It shines a tapestry of colours on your legs.
“Nothing important.”
Nothing important, asides from trying to figure out what the hell an island room might be.
“Why do I get the feeling you’re lying to me?”
JJ’s head darts round to you with that, but you’re grinning at him, dispelling his worry that you’re onto him. There’s a smudge of oil near your eye from the latest handy-man job you’ve taken on. He licks his thumb and moves to wipe it away, smiling when you cringe.
“Like I would ever lie to you,” he jests as he wipes at your face.
You bat his hand away. “Ah, the thing every girlfriend wants to hear.”
JJ leans in to kiss you, unable to help it as if he’s craving another hit. He’s gently grabbing at your face to draw you closer. He swears he could make-out with you forever and never get bored. Screw food and screw water and screw air. This. This is what livings about. Humming out a moan, JJ eases you onto your back on the sand, hovering atop of you. His lips leave yours to trail delicately down your jawline. He practically purrs when you bring a hand up to play with his hair.
“You know the bonfire’s this Friday?”
“Mhm,” JJ hums against you, half-listening. His senses are flooded by the smell of you: roses and bergamot.
“You busy that night?”
“Don’t know yet,” he says, barely breaking away from the hickey he’s started working on, at the underside of your jaw. One of his hands slips under the pretty top you’re wearing, palming at your breast.
“Well, I think I’m gonna go,” you tell him. Your voice is a little breathless now. “I was wondering if you wanted to come too?”
“As in whether I’m going or…?”
“As in us going together,” you correct.
JJ slowly eases up on his assault on your throat. He closes his eyes, briefly tensing his lips together. Fuck.
“Well, I don’t know if I’m gonna be free that night,” he says, hoping to sound casual.
Your fingers tether in his hair enough to pull him away from your neck. It’s like you force him to meet your gaze.
“Well, if you are free, then do you wanna? I don’t know, I thought it’d be kinda nice? Could meet your friends and stuff, and you could meet mine,” you say, smiling bashfully.
And it’s sweet. It’s so sweet, and thoughtful, and if JJ wasn’t such a fucking idiot, it’d be the perfect way to publicise your relationship. It isn’t that JJ doesn’t want to. He wants to, more than anything. To have your hand in his in front of everyone at school, and to have you dancing with him and drinking with him, and to let everyone know that you’re his as much as he’s yours.
It isn’t that JJ doesn’t want to. It’s that he can’t.
“I, um,” he pulls away, resting back on his haunches. His hand slips out of your top.
You shift up to sit, watch as he looks away, down the beach. There’s nobody else around. The only thing you can hear is the lapping of the waves, the steady crash and break of the tide, and the distant calling of birds.
Clearing his throat, JJ rubs at the back of his neck and fixes his cap.
“I think if I go, it’ll, uh, be with my friends, you know?”
Quiet. Another bird. Another wave.
His heart clenches at the sound of your sigh. It’s heavy with disappointment.
“Yeah. Uh, right. Of course,” you mumble.
“Just cause like, it’s like a tradition that we go together, you know?” JJ tags on, looking to you. “And John B’s proper losing it with this whole Sarah shit-show.”
You’re nodding, lips pursed, staring down at your hands that twiddle together in your lap. You sniff sharply and force your face up to meet his. The smile you flash him is brief and fake. He can see right through it, like you’re made of sea glass.
“No, yeah. It was a dumb idea anyway,” you chuckle dejectedly, shaking your head. JJ frowns.
“No, hey, it wasn’t dumb—”
“—Look, I gotta be heading back soon. Well, now, actually,” you say, moving to stand up.
JJ watches you do for from his spot on the ground. From here, under the light of the setting sun, he can see the sheen to her eyes as if there are tears welling. Fuck.
“Baby, no, you don’t—”
“—No, no, it’s just cause it’s late,” you weakly continue, grabbing for your cardigan. You wrap it round you and glance behind you. “And I told Barry I’d help him with some stuff tonight and…”
By the time JJ’s on his feet, you’re already starting to walk backwards. You flash him another tense, painful smile.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
“Well, I’ll…I’ll see you soon, right?”
You nod. Give an awkward wave, in a way you never have with him before. “Yeah. Um, have fun at school tomorrow.”
Then you turn your back to him and walk away.
JJ watches after you, frozen in place like he’s stupefied until you’re out of sight, heading around the bend of a tree. He sighs loudly. He’s mad at himself. Frustrated at the bullshit of the whole situation. Why did he have to steal that money, all those months ago? John B tried to warn him off it but at the time, it just seemed so simple. He didn’t know you then. You were just Barry’s sister: a name in an anecdote, usually revolving about how you dropped out of Kildare High. But now…Now you’re you.
Yanking off his cap, JJ tosses it on the ground, grunting. Rakes his fingers roughly through his hair. He looks out to the water and the dusk-painted sky. Once he’s gathered himself enough to walk home, JJ leans down to collect his cap. He brushes some sand off it and watches how easily it slips away, and how much it resonates with the feeling that you’re slipping through his fingers, too.
~*~*~*~*~*
The bonfire is swarming with people. They stand in crowds and droves, chatting and laughing and heckling one another. Empty bottles and cans lay scattered around, making Kiara sneer and roll her eyes. JJ follows his friends out the van, hooking an arm over John B’s neck. It still feels a little surreal to have him close again and to be able to lean on him whenever. Part of him wonders if he’s still in shock, of having his brother back.
As they walk past Kathy, she’s handing over a red solo cup to John B with a smile. JJ smiles back at her, grins as John B takes a sip, and tries to pretend like his heart isn’t going to beat out of his chest with the anxiety that you might be here tonight. He hasn’t spoken to you since the evening on the beach. Doesn’t really know what to say or where to start, and you haven’t reached out to him either. JJ’s not sure a silence has ever stretched so loud.
John B’s still complaining about the break-up with Sarah. JJ tunes back in and forces his mind away from the incident on the beach. Thinking about it only makes him feel sick.
“So she’s like, ‘that’s it’.”
“I know. I know, I know, but dude, her father blew up right in front of her,” JJ reminds him, moving to stand to his side. “Just give her a minute, alright?”
Ironic, spewing dating advice whilst his own secret relationship is falling apart behind the scenes. But, hey, nobody sees you lose when you’re playing solitaire.
JJ’s eyes catch on to a small pile of cans of larger. Hell yes, he could do with a drink. He swipes a couple of beers and passes one to John B.
“In the meantime, shot gun, right now. Like the old times.”
“Hey derelicts!”
He spins around as an empty cup hits him on the back, coming face to face with the girl that had been eyeing up John B in class.
“Hey! There she is! That’s you,” JJ says, gesturing to John B. He whips out his pocketknife, slicing into the can. “I’m outta here.”
 JJ hunches forward a moment when John B jabs him low, making him spill his beer. Turning away, taking a swig, JJ looks around. No sign of you so far. Maybe you didn’t show up. Sighing, he glances down at his phone. No texts, no calls. Nothing. Pocketing it, finishing his beer and already starting on a second that he swipes off a pop-up table, JJ moves to make the most of the night and to get his mind off you.
The drinks continue to flow and the conversations come and go. The warmth from the flames of the fire lap gently at his skin, keeping away any summer night chill. About an hour in or so, he’s leaning against the wall, chatting to Pope and Kiara.
“What I don’t understand is, if Karen’s a computer then how come she still works under water?” JJ says.
“JJ. It’s a show about a living sponge at the bottom of the sea,” Kiara deadpans, raising a brow.
“Yeah, I don’t think it’s aiming for realism, dude,” Pope agrees.
JJ shrugs and looks out to the bonfire, absentmindedly scanning the crowds. There’s a nice buzz to him, helping the drinks go down smoothly. “Just always bothered me is all. Like whenever Sandy—”
JJ could recognise you anywhere, even blind. You’re looking at him too. He freezes, beer halfway raised to his mouth.
You look pretty. A pair of shorts – the pair of shorts – and a t-shirt, tucked in. Hair styled all nice, with colourful grips that he can make out, even from over here. There’s a bottle of beer in your hand. At the sight of him, you seem to take a swig. It’s almost like you scoff, but JJ can’t be sure. Then, one of your friends seems to be gathering your attention and you don’t spare another glance to him. Strange, how awful it feels to have you look away from him; to act like you don’t know him from Adam.
“That Barry’s sister?” Kiara asks.
JJ comes back to reality. Looks to his friends to see their eyes on you, too. He takes a swig of his drink, digging in his brain for a new conversation starter to drive the attention away from you. He really doesn’t want to think about all of that right now.
“She the one that dropped out?” Pope checks.
“Yeah. Probably a junkie like her brother,” Kie says.
“She’s not a junkie,” JJ can’t help but defend.
She frowns at him. “How’d you know?”
“Well, cause, like…My dad buys from her brother, right? So, he’s seen her around,” JJ shrugs, cutting himself off with another swig of his drink.
She raises a brow. “And he’s told you that she’s not a junkie? How does that line up?”
“Didn’t you used to have calc with her?” Pope asks Kiara, accidentally saving JJ in the process.
“Yeah. She was actually kinda brainy, too,” Kie replies, glancing back to you.
You’re laughing. JJ’s not sure if he’s imaging the sound or if the noise is carrying.
“I’ve gotta say, didn’t expect someone who looks like Barry to have a sister like that,” Pope mutters.
“Well, she’s adopted, so,” Kie explains simply. It wasn’t a secret, exactly. People just seemed to know that about you. “There used to be three of them: her, Barry and Louis.”
“Louis?”
“The eldest,” Kiara says. “He joined the army too but died in action or something.”
He didn’t die in action. JJ knows that for a fact. He killed himself from the trauma of shooting a man dead-on, leaving a suicide note to explain. He also knows that’s what drove your mom to start abusing pills, becoming hooked on oxy and eventually heroin, until she died with a needle in her arm. He also knows that’s what brought Barry back home, from the army, to take care of you, as a minor, so you didn’t have to go into foster care. Only knows that he did it because it was his mom’s dying wish. He knows that you don’t do drugs, outside of drinking and cigarettes - not even weed. He knows it’s because you’re scared of becoming a junkie like your mom and dying like she did. He knows you didn’t join the army because of what happened to your eldest brother. He knows you prefer to do handy-man jobs instead of following after Barry with the drug-dealing business. That you try to talk Barry out of it almost every day because of all the shit hegets into. Like being involved in fights and helping fugitives and being robbed of twenty-thousand dollars.
JJ finishes his drink in two large gulps.
“I need a refill,” he mutters, crushing the can in his grip.
Pope and Kiara aren’t listening though. He looks up to see they’re now watching something else. He follows their gaze to see a fight breaking out. Squinting through the flicker of the embers, he recognises the flash of blonde hair and the dart of brown. Topper and John B. The trio rush over to help.
It seems the fight with John B and Topper is the warm-up act to the large tiff coming. Before things can get anymore ugly, the Pogues are rushing away from the rowdy crowd, back to the Twinkie. JJ leans against the open window, finishing his beer with a burp.
“Well, that was a little unexpected,” he sardonically quips.
“Was it?” Kie asks from inside the Twinkie.
JJ shrugs, bobbing his head from side to side in deliberation. Then, his eyes catch someone moving in the distance. It’s like you’re a magnetic, always grabbing his attention. Wiping the back of his mouth, gaze still fixed on you as you seemingly mess with your backpack, as if preparing to leave, he deliberates going over. JJ has enough alcohol in him to swallow his pride and do so.
“Hey, I’m gonna be right back,” JJ mumbles, stepping away from the van.
Kiara frowns at him. “What’re you doing?”
“I need to ring it out,” JJ casually lies.
Kie rolls her eyes. The other Pogues are too distracted by discussing the fight to pay too much mind. JJ slips away and follows you out of sight. Then, he quietly calls out your name. You turn around on reflex.
“JJ?”
“Hey, I just…Are you leaving?” he asks, stopping a safe, unnatural distance from you.
Your backpack is slung over your shoulder. You shrug. “Well, you and your friends kind of broke up the party.”
“Topper started that, actually, so,” JJ lamely corrects, gesturing back to the fire.
You roll your eyes. “What do you want, JJ?”
“I wanna talk,” he says, stepping closer. “About what happened at the beach and everything.”
“It’s whatever,” you sigh. You shift your weight from one foot to the other, almost nervously. “It’s in the past now.”
“Is it? Cause we haven’t spoken since and…”
You quirk a brow as JJ trials off. “And?”
“Well,” he sighs, sticks his hands in his pockets. Strange, how after being with you for nearly eight months, it still feels abnormal to be so affectionately open. “Well, I miss you.”
“Wow, what lovely luke-warm sentiment.”
“Look, I’m serious, alright?” JJ says, walking over to you. He grabs for one of your hands and fights to keep it in his hold. You’re obviously reluctant to talk to him but JJ knows you have a weakness for him. That he can sweet talk his way out of anything with you. Part of him feels guilty for it, but the other part is nothing short of relieved. He battles to try and have your gaze meet his. “Where’s your brother tonight?”
“I don’t know,” you mumble.
JJ’s pretty sure you’re lying. He gently cups at your jaw, coaxing you to look up at him. The two of you hold the gaze for a while. There’s a plethora of emotions swimming in your eyes.
Sighing, relenting, you confess, “he’s collecting. Won’t be back until early morning.”
“Like six-ish?”
“More like eight-ish,” you reply.
Leaning down slowly, pressing his forehead against yours, he lets his eyes slip shut. “I’m sorry for being an asshole on the beach, okay?"
Nothing. Then,
"Asshole’s a strong word.”
JJ smiles. If you’re cracking jokes in his favour, then you’re warming back up to him already. The spool isn’t too far unwound to be past the point of repair.
“I have to go deal with John B, but can I come by afterwards? Make it up to you?”
“There’s a lot of making up you have to do,” you tell him.
JJ grins. “Well, we’ve got a lot of time to get it done.”
His smile dwindles only slightly when you pull your face away from his. He opens his eyes into yours. You’re gnawing on your lower lip, deliberating.
“You hurt me, JJ,” you whisper.
He looks down. Nods and purses his lips. Hearing you say something like that to him feels akin to you hurling a well-deserved insult.
“Don’t do it again, alright?”
“Okay,” he nods. At the squeeze of your hand in his, he finds himself looking back up, meeting your gaze. He nods again, firmer. “I won’t.”
“Okay,” you nod back. There’s a hint of a smile peaking through again, like rays of sunshine breaking through clouds on an overcast day.
Kiara hollers JJ’s name from the Twinkie, in the distance. You lean up and press a chaste kiss to his lips. It’s rude how quick it is.
“Come by later.”
JJ nods. Kisses you back, harder, making you chuckle. Then he’s heading back to his friends, sending you one last smile over his shoulder. It feels so secretive as if something taken from Romeo and Juliet; it’s almost exhilarating.
When JJ gets back to the van, Pope is sat behind the wheel, drumming a tune on it. Kiara and John B are talking in the back, the latter holding a cold can against his banging head.
“Where the hell were you, bro?” Kie asks.
“Did you take a dump in the woods?” John B adds.
JJ clambers into the front seat. Pope starts the engine.
“All them cans, man,” he lies, glancing out the window. “We heading back to the chateau?”
“Uh-huh,” Kie affirms. She sounds sceptical, like she’s deep in thought.
JJ doesn’t pay much mind to it. Instead, he nods and hides his smile behind his fist, leaning an arm against the open window frame.
~*~*~*~*~*
Echoing around JJ’s head is the preen of your voice from when you came. Sedated and spent, it almost works well as a lullaby, soothing him as JJ lies on his back on your bed. Your head has found home in the nook beneath his collarbone, tucked under his arm, nestled like a bird on its favourite branch. He leisurely strokes his fingers against the bare skin of your back, drawing patterns, writing incoherent sonnets. You’ve taken to joining his sparse freckles up by an invisible line, traced with your finger. It’s peaceful and perfect, and you’re not mad at him anymore, and JJ feels as though he can breathe right again. He sighs. Stares at the ceiling.
“Penny for your thoughts?”
“What the hell am I gonna buy with a penny?”
“Fine. Quarter for your thoughts?”
“Do I get that now or should I request a down-payment.”
“You know what? Forget it,” you huff, amused, nonetheless.
JJ sniggers. Gently presses his fingers into the flesh of your back as an undefined apology.
“What do you wanna know?”
“What you’re thinking about,” you quietly reply.
“I’m thinking about us,” JJ privately returns.
“Really?”
“Mhm.”
And he is. Thinking about the way you were crying out his name, tears in your water line that only turned him on more. The way you whined when he roughly grabbed at your hips, pulling you any which way to appease the both of you. He’s still replaying back the crack in your voice when you came around him. After sleeping with you, JJ’s not sure how he can be expected to think of anything else.
“So, I wanted to ask you something,” you say, pulling away from his hold.
JJ’s peaceful threatens to break, like a truck rattling through a country line road. Please don’t let it be about the Pogues again.
“Yeah?”
The two of you naturally shift so you can look eye to eye, bodies now only connected by JJ’s lose hold around your waist and your entangled feet. It takes all his will power not to stare at your exposed chest. Namely, at the love bite he’s left on your clavicle.
“It’s my birthday next week,” you tell him, voice a little reserved, “and I thought we could celebrate together?”
“Oh yeah? I might have a few ideas on how,” JJ slimily jokes. He suggestively squeezes your hip as a smirk grows on his face. You roll your eyes and flush under his stare.
“Well, yes, that, but also…I was thinking a picnic? On the beach, at our usual spot? Just the two of us.”
JJ’s expression softens. He nods. You grin back in reply.
“Yeah?”
“Sounds good, pretty thing,” he says.
You laugh, raking a finger through your hair. “I don’t think I look all pretty like this but—”
“—I think you look the prettiest like this,” JJ grins in disagreement, leaning up to nudge his nose against yours.
Your laugh bounces off his lips.
JJ’s not lying. Seeing you post-sex is like seeing a Greek goddess in the flesh. Better, even. You sit bare for him, no shame in your figure and any of the so-called imperfections it holds. At the thought, JJ suddenly becomes more aware that he’s naked, too. To be so casual about it requires a trust between two people, surely, and JJ’s never been good at trusting. You, however, are trusting from the get-go. Naïve might be a better word, but that implies that you’re dumb and foolish, which you aren’t. You just have this hopefulness that everybody has a goodness to them, somewhere, deep down. Maybe living with Barry and his crowd drives that trait for you. People do bad things but they’re not bad people was the quote JJ knew you lived by.
JJ kisses you, sliding a hand up your thigh, chasing what the two of you had shared only ten or so minutes ago. You don’t seem to complain. You melt into his touch, kiss him back gladly, hook your arms around his shoulders.
“Wednesday. Next week.”
“Mhm,” JJ hums. He guides you to lay down, clambering atop.
“I’m serious. Seven P.M.”
“Yeah, yeah, seven,” he repeats against the flesh of your neck. He starts kissing down your sweat-sheened body.
Sighing, your fingers loops into the strands of his hair, tugging him to look up at you. JJ can’t hold back the quiet groan it elicits. He loves when you do shit like that. He meets your gaze and this might be the best angle he’s ever had of you, looking up from down below, making out your hooded gaze past your breasts. He feels himself harden at the sight.
“Tell me when and where,” you demand.
JJ manages not to roll his eyes. He presses a kiss to your tummy. “Seven P.M.”
A kiss to your abdomen. “Wednesday.”
A kiss to your pelvic bone, that has you exhaling in bated anticipation. He grins. “At our spot on the beach.”
“Thank you,” you smile.
With that, JJ goes down on you. He’s insatiable.
You’re still soaked from the last time you two fucked. The flavour of your cum mixed with his is fucking pornographic. Pair that with the sounds JJ spurs from you and he’s sure that the two of you have your tickets for hell already in your wallets. No complaints. If this is hell, JJ will gladly burn, all day long.
“Stop wriggling,” he says, lips wet.
“‘m sensitive, you asshole,” you slur.
“That how you should be talking to the guy eating you out right now?”
“Shut up and fuck me.”
You hook a leg over his shoulder, urging him back to your cunt. JJ chuckles darkly before pushing your legs open wider, going in again with newfound hunger, bathing in your cries and cusses. He’s only known religion when he’s lied with you. As he lips suckle at your clit, he teases your weeping entrance with his finger. Pushing in, his silver ring cooly slides against your walls. You whine out, fucked up and pretty, and JJ rocks against the mattress, hard again.
“Fuck, JJ,” you whimper.
He glances up a moment to see you’re rubbing a hand to your forehead. Face contorted in overwhelming pleasure, there’s tears in your waterline again for the second time that night, and its JJ’s doing. It feels fucking fantastic.
“You close, baby?”
“Mhm,” you moan.
He uses his other hand that isn’t finger fucking your pussy to hold your hips down to the mattress. Picking up the pace, JJ works at you, watching your face as you teeter closer and closer to the edge.
“Come on, baby. Show me how fucking pretty you look when you come,” JJ grins.
Your body swallows at his fingers when you finish. Walls contracting again and again, JJ mouths swears against the soft skin of your stomach as he gently eases you through your high. There’s a quiet sob of euphoria.  
“Nobody fucks you as good as I do,” JJ can’t help but boast, slipping his fingers out of you. “Gonna fuck you so good baby.”
He’s shifting you onto your stomach. Your body’s pliant like a rag doll but he knows you can take more. You’d tell him if you couldn’t; if you wanted him to stop. But as you raise your hips up for him, body dripping with cum that has JJ almost falling over the edge himself, he knows you want more. It’s like you were built for him or something. The yin to his libido-oriented yan. When JJ fucks you into the mattress, your face is mushed against the pillow. Wailing and moaning and fucking desperate. JJ finds himself coming all too soon and he does so with a groan of your name.
~*~*~*~*~*
In between school and treasure hunting and sneaking to and from your house, life still happens. Bills still need paying and food still needs eating.
JJ became used to working like a grown man ever since his mother left. His dad was less than reliable so if he wanted a full stomach and a roof over his head (unless he took advantage of John B), JJ had to start earning. Mostly odd jobs and side hustles to prevent the pockets from going empty. Running groceries to figure eight with Pope always helped. The other Pogues decided to tag along for the ride, too. They’re lounging on the boat, waiting for Heyward to finish bagging up all the produce they needed to deliver.
Sound carries easy on open water. It’s the sound of your laughter that catches JJ’s attention. He glances over instinctively. There you are, stood with three people along the jetty. You’re wearing a pair of denim-short overalls with a tee-shirt underneath. Not any tee-shirt: his tee-shirt. It sits a little big on you. Your hair is pulled back and you’re smiling. One hand in a pocket and the other holding a screwdriver. You must be doing an odd job on one of the local’s boats.
“I didn’t know she worked on boats,” Pope says.
JJ looks to him. He hadn’t realised that the others had clocked you too.
“Junkies gotta pay for their stuff somehow,” John B mutters.
“She’s not a junkie, dude,” JJ sighs. “Just cause her brother is don’t mean the whole family is.”
“Why’re you getting so mad about this?” Kiara wonders, glancing to her friend.
JJ shrugs. Shoves his hands in his short’s pockets. “Jus’ don’t think it’s fair talking crap about someone when there’s no need.”
“Not just anyone though, JayJ,” Kie says.
“Yeah. I mean, did you forget the fact that her brother literally robbed us at gunpoint?”
“And that you stole from him?”
“And that he laid you out for it,” John B finishes.
“I don’t need reminding of all that crap, alright? I’m perfectly aware. Damn,” JJ snaps, shooting the trio a glare.
Pope and John B seem to shrug it off. Kiara’s watching JJ again. It’s starting to become irritating, like a pebble that you can’t get out of your trainer.
“Kie what?”
“Nothing.”
“If you’ve got something to say to me, just say it,” JJ tells her.
She shrugs and glances back to you. Then, she shakes her head.
“Doesn’t matter.”
JJ can’t help but use the opportunity steel another look of you himself. You’re nodding at something one of the fisherman’s saying. Taking a glance over your shoulder at the boat, you point at something. It must be about the job they’ve asked for you to do.
“I wouldn’t trust her to work on my boat,” Pope says. “All I’m saying is, that family is bad news.”
“Since when did we judge others from the cut?” JJ mumbles, looking to his trainers as he scuffs them on the boat floor.
“Since their brother attacked us,” Pope returns.
JJ decides keeping quiet is best. It has to be, because if not, he won’t be able to hold his tongue any longer. He’s going to fly off the handle, in your defence, and they’re going to catch on. Worse, it might catch your attention, and you might just come over and casually introduce yourself to his friends, as if they hadn’t been speculating about you behind your back. The whole situation fills JJ with anxiety. The secret isn’t feeling so fun anymore. It’s bordering on dirty work, pummelling him with dread and shame, the same way a dealer might sleep with one eye open.
Heyward is JJ’s saving grace. He appears with reams of carrier bags in a small cart, calling out for the Pogues to start loading up. Later, as they set off towards figure eight, JJ glances your way one final time. You’re watching him. The smile on your face is gone and JJ’s never wanted to see it more.
~*~*~*~*~*
Time always passes quickly with you. It feels to JJ as though you’ve both been sat on your bed playing board games for less than an hour when two have passed. He sits across from you, messing with his lighter, as you deliberate over your concealed letters. He loves the way your brain works. You always have the most creative mind. It’s a shame it’s going to waste, out here, in the trailer.
A small grin comes to your face. You gather up your letters and lean forward to reach the board that sits atop of your duvet. JJ shamelessly glances down your tee shirt as it gapes open by the collar. It used to be his but you’d claimed it a month into dating him. He didn’t much mind. It looked better on you anyway. It was the one you were wearing at the docks, yesterday. Neither of you had mentioned that though.
“Zealous,” you say as you spell it out on the board.
Your fingers tap on each block as you count up your points. The chipped blue nail varnish shines bright in the sunlight streaking through your bedroom window.
“16 points with a double letter score on the ‘s’, making it 17.”
“17 big ones,” JJ mumbles as he writes your score down.
“Read it and weep, baby.”
JJ sighs in thought and leans back on his arms, deliberating over his letters. The room smells like incense, done to counteract the stench of mould, damp and cannabis.
JJ didn’t even know ‘zealous’ was a word. He debates on asking you what it means but decides against it. He sort of wants you to think he knows the word like you do, well enough to pluck it easily from your mind. It’d be funny to see you and Pope go head-to-head in this game, JJ comes to think. It’s a shame that’ll never come to be.
“Okay,” JJ says after homing in on his word. He begins to spell it on the board. “Asshole.”
“JJ, curse words aren’t allowed,” you tell him.
JJ glances up at you, midway through spelling. “Since when?”
“Since always. It’s in the rule book.”
“Who actually reads the rule book?” JJ snorts. He keeps spelling. “Sides. It’s not a curse word, it’s a factual term. The hole of the ass: asshole.”
“Thank you for that definition,” you sarcastically reply.
JJ finishes spelling and he begins to count up his points. He feels his grin begin to morph into a cocky smirk as he totals up.
“10 points anda triple letter score and a double word score, making this…”
He drumrolls on his knees as he takes a moment to do the maths in his head. “44 baby.”
“What?” you bark, leaning over to check.
JJ sniggers to himself as he goes to write his points. The pen is snatched from his hold.
“Hey!”
“You’re cheating!”
“How am I cheating?” JJ laughs.
“Swear words aren’t allowed!” you loudly tell him. You begin to remove his letters from the board.
“Hey!” JJ repeats, lunging over to grab them off you. You refuse to yield, holding them against your chest. “Gimme them!”
“You’re such a child!” you say, beginning to laugh.
JJ glances up to meet your gaze as he replies, “and you’re not? Stealing my letters from the board cause I got a better score?”
“I can’t give up my ‘z’ just for you to get more than double the amount of points with ‘asshole’!”
“Sore loser,” JJ mutters.
He’s still battling you for the plastic letters. In the process, he ends up knocking the board, sending all the other letters out of whack.
“JJ!”
“That was technically you, bro…”
“Let go!” you laugh.
You’ve tumbled onto your back now. JJ’s laughing too, trying to prise your hands open. He grins as he moves a hand under the shirt to tickle at your rib cages. Now you’re in hysterics, crying out, shaking from the humour.
“Stop! Stop! You win, alright! You win!”
Your hand tumbles open and JJ steals the letters back. He lamely tosses them onto the ruined scrabble board with a chuckle, instead leaning down to kiss your giggling mouth. You barely kiss him back through your laughter. JJ doesn’t much care. Hearing you laugh might be the best sound on earth.
“You can’t just kiss me and think you’re off the hook for ruining the game,” you say, opening your eyes into his.
JJ rolls his eyes mirthfully, propping himself above you with one arm. “Well, I didn’t ruin the game—”
“—You messed up the board!”
“Because you wouldn’t give me back my letters!”
You’re vivaciously laughing again, prompting JJ to do so, too. He presses wet kisses to your jawline. Breathes in the scent of you – rose and bergamot – and wishes he could bathe in the smell. Wishes he could bottle it up and carry it around with him, so he never has to be without. He doesn’t say that though. Knows you’ll laugh at him if he does. Instead, he kisses you once more before pulling back to meet your gaze. You’ve mostly calmed your laughter now. Reaching up a hand, you steal his skew-whiff cap and place it on your head with a playful grin.
“How’s it look?”
“You’re almost as handsome as me,” JJ returns, flicking at the lip of it.
You snort. “Impossible.”
JJ can’t help but kiss you again. You sigh into it. Stroke lovingly at his jaw. The moment he pulls away for breath, you’re talking again. He thinks he could listen to your ramblings and never get bored.
“Can you sleep over tonight?”
Plucking out a strand of her to mess with, JJ replies, “what time’s your brother home?”
“Why? You wanna sleep in his bed instead?”
“Har har,” he deadpans. Blows a raspberry against your throat, making you laugh. “Seriously, though. What time?”
“I don’t know,” you shrug. “Maybe one-ish, in the morning?”
JJ nods. He tucks the hair behind your ear. “I don’t think I can.”
You sigh, not particularly irritated, smile still on your face. “He’s not that scary, JJ. I don’t get why you won’t just meet him. When you talk to him, you’ll be fine.”
“I just don’t want him thinking I’m treating his little sister badly. Gotta wine and dine you first,” JJ returns teasingly. He lies through his teeth as if it comes as natural as breathing.
“We’re not Catholics, JayJ,” you snicker. “I don’t think he’d drop dead if he knew there was a guy in my bed.”
“Still,” JJ says. “I don’t want to meet him by bumping into him in the morning.”
You sigh. You run your fingers through his hair in a way that has him weak in the knees. JJ loves how you touch him like he’s something precious; dote on him like a rich parent might to their only child. The way you look at him, it makes JJ feel somewhere between a young God and an innocent man. It’s like he couldn’t do wrong in your eyes. The thought shouldn’t bring as much dread to JJ as it does.
“Could you at least stay over on Wednesday night? Barry’s out of town for a couple of days, then.”
“Sure,” JJ shrugs. “Why Wednesday?”
Your smile momentarily falters. “Wait, for real?”
Oh. Fuck, of course. The picnic. Your birthday. His mind has been so scattered lately, with sneaking around and throwing the Pogues off his scent, and the chaos with the cross and the island room and Sarah and John B…Days seem to merge into one. It’s hard to keep track sometimes.
JJ hopes he plays it off well as he grins. “I’m just messing with you. I know it’s your birthday.”
Your sigh of relief is a little too real. It makes him feel guilty like a man on trial. You gently bat at his chest. “Asshole.”
“Hey! That’s a 44-point word,” JJ winks.
You roll your eyes and smile up at him, and JJ considers staying like this forever.
He doesn’t miss how your smile doesn’t stretch all the way like usual.
~*~*~*~*~*
It’s starting to feel like JJ needs organisers for his mind and thoughts. They’re racing, twenty-four-seven, robbing him of sleep. Daydreams about the cross and what the hell the island room might be. Daydreams about riches if they somehow find it. Daydreams about the future, with you always finding yourself at the forefront. White dress, gold ring, swollen belly…Thoughts about you and fears about people finding out. About the robbery that haunts him and how, because of his own stupid choices, the two of you may never reach that future. How he knows that you’re slipping away from him, slowly but surely, like sand falling through his fingers, grain by grain. How he might not be able to keep his grip. How it might all have been inevitably doomed from the start. I mean, aren’t all the greatest love affairs?
“You’re thinking an awful lot over there, JayJ,” Kiara says.
“Yeah. You’re probably gonna end up hurting yourself,” John B adds.
“Charming, man. Thank you,” JJ sighs.
He tugs off his cap and tosses his head back with another deep exhale. The Pogues are lounging around at the chateau.
“What’s bothering you so much?” Kie wonders.
“You know, just…” JJ gestures lamely. “All this bullshit cross stuff. No offence, Pope.”
“None taken, I don’t think,” he replies.
“I mean, couldn’t Denmark have just written co-ordinates or something. And made a spare key,” JJ mutters. He’s aware of the glare Pope shoots his way. “Jus’ saying.”
“It is a bit cryptic,” Kie backs.
Pope sighs. “Look, it’s somewhere on this island. If we get to it first, then the key doesn’t really matter. All I know is that it’s somewhere on this island.”
“Great. That narrows down our hunt,” JJ says under-breath.
“So broody,” John B teases.
“Yeah. I refuse to believe the cross is bothering you this much,” Kiara says.
“Why’s everyone on my back all of a sudden?” JJ snaps, looking to his friends. “Like, can we all just back off for now, alright? I’ve got a lot on my mind.”
John B holds his hands up as if he’s surrendering. “Easy, JayJ.”
“We’ve woken the beast,” Pope mumbles, making the other two laugh.
JJ rolls his eyes. He lays back on the hammock and folds his arms under his head. The weed and the liquor haven’t made him loosen up. His eyes trace the clouds in the sky above, through the canopy of the tree. Somewhere in his daydreams and thoughts, as the rest of the Pogues chatter, he ends up closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.
When JJ comes to, it’s with a start. It seems to startle Kie, too, who’s sat on the grass, lazily thrumming her ukulele.
“You good?”
He sits up slowly. Rubbing his face, JJ retrieves his cap. “How long was I out for?”
“Three hours.”
JJ is suddenly awake, any drowsiness gone in a second.
“What?”
Kiara shrugs and keeps plucking out the easily melody she’s invented.
“We tried to wake you up but you just shrugged us off, so we thought it was better if we just let you sleep. Seemed like you needed it.”
JJ only half hears her. His mind is still reeling from the reality that he was asleep for three hours.
“Wait, what time is it?”
He retrieves his phone from his short’s pocket. Pressing the power button, JJ cusses when he realises it’s dead.
“What’s the big deal?” Kie mutters, watching him get to his feet in a hurry.
“What fucking time is it?” he sharply returns. He’s lacing up his boots again.
She mumbles a less than needed comment under breath but pulls out her phone nonetheless, glancing at the screen.
“Almost nine.”
No.
No, no, no.
It must be written on his face, the soul-crushing, body numbing horror overcoming JJ. The kind of dread one gets when they remember on some idle Thursday a piece of paperwork they needed to do the previous day, though only worse. A million times worse. Kiara frowns up at him in concern.
“What is it?”
“It’s nothing,” JJ mumbles darkly.
He yanks his cap off and paces the garden. He can’t call you – his phone’s dead. Would you even answer anyway? Will you still be at the beach? Should he go? No, of course, he should go. He has to go.  
“JJ, it’s clearly not ‘nothing’.”
“It’s none of your goddamn business, Kie, alright?” he snaps.
JJ doesn’t have time to feel guilty for snapping at his friend. He has to see you. He has to make this right. The sand is falling through his fingers now, the gaps between digits nothing more than gaping caverns.
JJ pulls back on his cap and heads straight for his bike. He kicks off the stand and starts the engine in a hurry. Then he’s hurling towards the beach-spot; secluded and quiet and serene - everything JJ feels as though he’s not. He practically dumps his bike in the process of rushing to see you, racing down the familiar track to the dunes. He’s panting, panic deep in his chest, a hand coming up to rub at his heart as if worried it might beat out his body. He looks up and down the beach, searching for any sign of you, and then his eyes fixate on something. He runs over, ducking down to see it’s your cardigan.
“Fuck,” JJ mumbles.
He looks out to the water. It’s sunset. Reflects on the water, shimmers on the sand.
“Fuck.”
JJ tightens his grip on your cardigan like it’s a part of you and heads to the house without thinking. He needs to find you and make this right. The stairs creak under foot as he hurries up them, onto the porch and inside the house. Ditching the cardigan on the kitchen table, he makes a b-line for your bedroom. The door’s shut. Rapping twice on the wood, quick and short, impatient, JJ leans against the doorframe. Calls out your name.
“I know you’re home, okay? Look, can we just talk?”
Knocks again, louder. Tries the handle. Locked. He repeats your name, calling out to you, tone desperate.
“I just wanna talk, alright!? Please! I know I messed up but just hear me out and—”
The door swings open. He’s breathing heavy, trying uselessly to alleviate his anxiety, and looks down to meet your gaze. His stomach constricts like a boa snake. You’re crying. Shoulders hung like you’ve lost a battle and body sagging like you’re exhausted.
“I…”
JJ’s words die on his tongue. An apology seems so minuscule now. It’s like trying to put out a dumpster fire with a glass of water.
“I lost track of time.”
You scoff. Shake your head, breaking his gaze.
“You lost track of time,” you repeat, under breath, voice unfamiliar.
“I did and…I know I messed up, okay? I’m sorry I just…I forgot and--”
“You forgot? You forgot, huh?”
You’re looking up at him now but your eyes are narrowed. The pain has morphed into anger. Lips are downturned into a disapproving frown.
“Did you think that’s how I wanted to spend my birthday, JJ?”
“I know, but I—”
“No,” you interrupt, holding up a hand. The tears are still falling and each one feels like a pinprick to JJ’s chest. “I’m talking now.”
JJ swallows thickly.
“Did you think that I wanted to spend my eighteenth birthday on the beach having a picnic? I mean, did you think I didn’t have better offers? That my friends didn’t want to throw me a party, and that I didn’t want to get drunk and celebrate with the people in my life that care about me? No! I wanted to go for a picnic because I wanted to spend my birthday with you. And you don’t even show up! You don’t call me, you don’t text! You just leave me, sitting there, like a fucking idiot, on my own. And do you know the worst part, JJ?”
He can feel his own lips quivering. Purses them together to fight back the tears. He can feel the tapestry ripping.
You hold his gaze as your lips form a demented smile. A solemn laugh accompanies your confession. “The worst part is, I wasn’t even surprised when you didn’t show up. In fact, I had a feeling that it would happen.”
“Don’t say that,” JJ whispers.
“‘Don’t say that?’ What? Say that you treat me like shit?”
“I don’t treat you like shit,” JJ argues back. Because he doesn’t, does he?
“You don’t—JJ! What can’t you see here?” you snap at him, gesturing around you. “You’ve been losing me for a long time and you’ve just let it fucking happen! It’s like you knew you were on thin ice and you just kept on jumping! I mean, did you want us to fail? Was it easier than just breaking up with me?”
“Why would I want us to fail!?” JJ shouts back.
You turn around and retreat into your bedroom, shaking your head. JJ finds himself following.
“Answer me!”
“I don’t have to answer you, JJ!” you scream at him, spinning around. “I mean, how else am I supposed to interpret this whole situation!?”
“I love you, alright? Isn’t that enough for you?” JJ yells. His tone is angry but his face is crumbling.
You shake your head. Wrap your arms around yourself like a hug. “No! It isn’t! It can’t be, okay? I told you before: I don’t want to be a secret forever, JJ.”
“You’re not a secret—”
“Then tell me why I can’t meet your friends? Why you can’t meet my brother? I know I don’t come from the best home, JJ, and I know my family is a mess and I’m probably gonna end up in an early grave like the rest of them—”
“-Don’t say that—”
“And I know I’m not the kind of thing that people want to show off but…” You catch your breath through your sobs. Steel yourself. “But I’m a good person, JJ. I know I’m a good person, and I deserve good things, and I deserve someone who makes me feel good.”
“I can,” JJ pleads. He clears the space between you. Grabs for your hands. Feels the ground break beneath him when you fight out of his grip. “I can make you feel good.”
“You don’t, though,” you cry. “I don’t feel good, JJ. I feel fucking used.”
No.
No, no…It’s falling apart and JJ can’t lose you. He can’t…This can’t end like this. He feels like he’s a kid again, begging for his mom not to walk out, begging for forgiveness from his dad. It’s screamingly familiar. He can’t lose another thing. He can’t lose you. Wasn’t that what all this was for? The lying and the secrets was all some desperate attempt to keep you. JJ had to keep you.
JJ pants, stood before you, feeling more vulnerable than he ever has before, even more so than when he’s laid bare in front of you. You’re still crying and it’s because of him, and that hurts worse than any punch JJ’s ever had thrown at him.
“Tell me how to fix this,” JJ begs.
You shake your head.
“Tell me how to fix this,” he repeats, demanding it. “I need to fix this!”
You lift your head slowly to meet his gaze. He knows he looks desperate. Sounds it, too. But he doesn’t care. Hell, he is. He needs you in his life. With everything else that has been going on, you’re the one ray of sun, always warming his soul. His smile and his shine. JJ doesn’t know joy without you. Doesn’t know love or pleasure or trust, like he does with you. His daydreams of the future are falling apart in this moment. No dress and no house and no family. Nothing. Just him and a bottle and his wasted heart.
“Let me meet your friends,” you manage out. “I meet your friends, and you meet my brother and meet my friends, and we go on dates together like normal people, and we don’t keep this a secret. And you show up to my birthdays and you’re not late to our dates and you stay overnight and…And I get to have you. All of you. Just…Just do that and we can try and make this work, JJ.”
JJ starts crying. He’s sobbing, stood before you, because he knows that this is over now. It’s over.
You nod. It seems his tears are answer enough.
“You can’t,” you whisper. You say it, as though something has just become clear to you. Shaking your head, taking a step away from him, the distance is already gaping. You cry. “Even when you know you’re going to lose me. Your reputation is still more important to you than I am.”
“That’s not it,” he argues, wiping at his face. “That’s not what it is.”
“I don’t care, JJ,” you confess in a breath. Wipe furiously at your cheeks and stare up at the ceiling. “I don’t have the energy to care, anymore.”
JJ hadn’t experienced heartbreak before. The songs and the films lied about it, though. They play it down. It’s torturous. Slow and cavernous and insurmountably painful. He clutches at his t-shirt, over his chest, as if thinking he could make the pain stop. He wants all of this to stop. And with the next words you utter, he feels as if it does. He feels as if his whole world stops.
“We’re done, JJ.”
 ~*~*~*~*~*
Since the break-up, JJ feels as though he’s sailing through a storm-ridden sea without a compass or guide. No direction and no sign of freedom from the turmoil. He’s drowned his sorrows and anxieties with drugs. Booze for the tears and cannabis for the regret. Numbs the anger with nicotine and waits until he’s exhausted to drop to sleep for fear of dreaming about you, in any capacity. He can’t decide which dreams are worse: the ones where you’re mad at him and crying, or the one’s where you’re happy and laughing over a scrabble board. All of them feel like nightmares.
The group must’ve sensed a difference in him, but if they have, they don’t bother to mention it. JJ’s grateful. It’s not like he could talk about it anyway.
“Wake up, JayJ,” Kiara says. She kicks at his feet.
“Quit it,” JJ mumbles into the pillow.
“Come on. We’re going on a walk.”
“Have fun,” JJ sighs. He’s been awake for about five minutes and can already feel the craving for another beer starting up.
Kiara keeps kicking at his feet. It’s starting to tick him off.
“I mean me and you are going for a walk. Now get up,” Kie tells him.
“I don’t feel like walking, Kie,” JJ says impatiently.
“I don’t care, bro. I’m sick of seeing you wallow in the chateau. We could find the island room at any moment and we don’t need you like this when we do.”
He knows that’s not the truth. JJ knows his friends care about him (as hard as it is to fathom sometimes) and he knows that the way he’s acting must be of concern. Especially because they don’t know why. Who would suspect a break-up for a guy who’s been nothing but single his whole life?
But JJ doesn’t feel like pity. He doesn’t feel like talking or spending time with anyone else but a bottle of corona. His plans to fall back to sleep and ignore Kiara’s demands are thrown out the window, however, when she dunks a pint of cold water on his back. JJ cusses out, shooting up, feeling his head pound at the motion. Still a little drunk.
“What the hell Kiara!”
“Rise and shine,” she smiles in faux sweetness. She ditches the glass on countertop and heads out the front door, onto the porch. “You got five minutes, princess.”
“Fuck off,” JJ mutters under breath.
Clearly, Kie’s not going to lay off anytime soon. If he goes on this walk, even for five minutes, maybe JJ can be left in peace for the rest of the day to drink himself stupid. Besides, it would work as a nice distraction from falling into thoughts of you and checking his phone every five minutes in case you decided to text him. With that motivation, JJ tugs on a muscle tee and ties up the laces on his boots. Kiara holds out a joint in an act of peace when he steps onto the porch. It works in moving her back into his good books.
“Come on, man. Let’s go into the marsh,” Kiara says, standing up.
JJ walks by her side, smoking the blunt, passing it to her now and then. The sounds of the world somewhat mellow out when they pass the threshold into the marsh. Trees and shrubberies and bushes surrounding them. Their feet follow a path made purely from being trodden so many times. JJ kicks at a nettle plant as they pass. He’s taken to trying to distinguish the different birds around them purely from their calls.
“I know, by the way,” Kiara says, breaking their silence.
JJ looks at her. “Huh?”
“I know. About Barry’s sister,” she tells him.
JJ’s stomach drops. He’s surprised he doesn’t lose his footing. Clearing his throat, looking ahead again, he shrugs.
“What are you talking about?”
“It was kinda obvious, JayJ.”
JJ clenches his eyes shut. “Kie…I really don’t wanna talk about this, alright?”
“I had a feeling about it at the bonfire,” she says, ignoring him. “I mean, I knew you were into someone that day at the chateau, but I didn’t know who. And then you were jumping to her defence for like no reason. The real clue was when you went into the woods literally right after she did. Like, seriously, bro? Subtle much?”
“Did you not hear what I said, Kiara? I don’t wanna talk about it,” JJ hisses.
Kiara continues, nonetheless. “Then at the docks, you were defending her again. That wasn’t the giveaway though. The giveaway was the fact that she was wearing your tee-shirt, bro. That just sealed the deal for me.”
“Congratulations, alright? You solved the mystery. Now can you please just let it go,” JJ sharply tells her. He takes another hit of the bud, hoping it’ll help to calm him down.
“I just don’t understand why you didn’t tell us,” Kie says.
“Kiara-”
“I mean, I get wanting to keep it on the downlow maybe, but we’d have been cool with it,” Kiara tells him.
“I don’t wanna—”
“I haven’t told the others yet but—”
“Just shut up, alright!? Shut up!” JJ snaps.
His patience snaps like the fraying rope of a river swing. Plummets him into anger and drenches him in regret.
“What the hell, JJ? I’m saying that we support you, alright?”
“It doesn’t fucking matter, Kiara,” JJ shouts. He tugs off his cap and wrings it angrily in his hands. “None of it fucking matters!”
It seems as if he’s yelling at her, but he isn’t. Not actually. He’s mad at himself. Furious at managing to muck up one of the only good things in his life. JJ meets Kie’s gaze dead on.
“She left me, alright? It’s over. So, it doesn’t matter anymore, okay? So just drop it.”
Saying it out loud feels as though JJ’s shoving his nails into an open gash.
He collapses onto a fallen tree trunk, dropping his cap and hanging his head into his hands. When he rakes his fingers through his hair in frustration, it isn’t sweet like when you do it, and it only makes him miss you more.
JJ hears Kiara sigh. She sits down next to him and he watches her in his peripheral a moment.
“Is this why you’ve been acting the way you have?”
JJ doesn’t reply. He only sighs deeply into the clamminess of his palms. It seems to work as an answer in and of itself.
“Shit, JJ.”
“Don’t pity me.”
“Too late.”
He sighs again. Slowly, he lifts his head out his hands, keeping his fingers pressed near his lips as if in silent prayer.
“Can I ask how?”
“How what?”
“How it all ended,” she clarifies.
JJ glances to her. Kiara’s eyes are soft with sympathy. JJ shrugs as if he doesn’t know. As if it’s a mystery why you up and left, when the clues are as a clear as a confession note.
“I fucked it up. That’s how.”
“I feel like that’s not the whole truth, JayJ.”
“But it’s the point, okay? I fucked it up, like I fuck up everything, like I knew I would. It was a fucking pipe dream anyway.”
“I don’t understand,” Kiara mumbles.
Leaning down, she retrieves his cap and dusts it off. It stings just to look at it. It’s the same one you stole from him during one of your usual scrabble-offs. You always beat him. Always.
 “Can you just tell me what happened?”
“Why?” JJ sighs tiredly.
“So I can understand why you didn’t trust us enough to tell us,” she replies. JJ hates the momentary hurt that swipes across her features. “Pogues don’t keep secrets from Pogues.”
JJ shakes his head smally, like a boy in confessional. “It wasn’t because of you guys.”
“Then…Why?”
“It’s because of me,” JJ admits.
“JJ. Self-blame isn’t going to work—”
“No, Kiara. I actually mean it this time, alright? It’s because of me,” JJ doubles-down, holding her gaze. It’s suddenly exhausting to try and keep a lid on his emotions. “She didn’t want to keep it a secret, okay? She wanted to meet you guys, and for me to meet her friends and stuff. And it wasn’t that I didn’t want to. She’d get along great with you lot. I mean, she’s as damn smart as Pope and funny as hell. And she’s kind. Like actually kind, but not in a boring way, or in a push-over way. Just in a pure perfect kinda way. When she looks at me…God, this is going to sound corny as hell, but she makes me feel like I’m a good person. Like I can’t do anything wrong in her eyes. Least, she used to.”
A consoling hand is placed on his shoulder. It spurs him on.
“In all honesty, it started out as a secret because I didn’t think it’d last longer than a month. But then I started to fall for her, so hard and so fucking fast, and it scared the shit out of me. And I knew that if I wanted to keep her around, then she couldn’t ever find out about what I did to Barry.”
Kiara frowns as he says that, as if trying to follow. “Wait. Do you mean with the money and stuff?”
JJ nods, pursing his lips.
She shakes her head with a deep sigh. “JJ. That shit was so long ago—”
“It doesn’t matter. I still did it, alright? Barry’s all she’s got in terms of family and I stole from him. And not just a little bit. A lot. So if she ever found out; she’d leave me.”
Kie holds his gaze. “‘She’d leave you’? How do you know that?”
“I just do, okay?”
“No, JayJ, you don’t,” Kie tells him. “I mean, if she’s as good a person as you say she is, then how do you know she wouldn’t look past it? I’m sure she’s not blind to the fact that you do stupid shit, bro. Or that her brother isn’t the nicest of guys. He had a gun to our head, man.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter anymore, does it? Cause I lost her anyway,” JJ returns, perhaps a little sharply.
Out of guilt, JJ looks away from his friend’s eyes. He rubs at his face, perhaps in an attempt to distract himself from this pitiful conversation. JJ could do with a shower and a shave. Didn’t seem all that important in the last week, though.
“Can I say something?”
“I have a feeling that you’re going to anyway,” JJ mutters.
“Is there a chance that you were using the thing with Barry as an excuse?”
JJ face darkens into a deep frown. Looking to her, he asks, “what?”
“I mean…I don’t think it’s exactly a secret that you aren’t good at accepting love.”
“Gee, thanks, Kie.”
“Just, hear me out,” she says, stopping him before he can go off in a huff. JJ does so reluctantly. “Telling her about Barry means that she sees you for your good and your bad, and keeping it from her, and from us, and from everyone really, means that it doesn’t actually become real.”
“I’m not following,” JJ mumbles.
“Lemme put it another way then,” she replies, rolling her eyes. “Maybe – on some level – by keeping it a secret, you felt like you couldn’t really lose her if things turned out bad.”
JJ frowns again, though this time, it isn’t out of offence. Instead, it teeters on the line of confusion and understanding.
Kiara doesn’t expand more. Just lets him sit with it for a moment. JJ looks down at his feet, skimming at the overgrown plants.
Was that it? Was the thing with Barry – JJ’s big motivation to keep your relationship a secret – mostly an excuse?
He didn’t want Barry to find out because he’d definitely beat JJ’s ass again and hound on him for getting with his sister, and you probably would be crushed to know he stole from your brother, but…But then what? Then things would surely move on. He’d either have you or lose you, but it’d be reality. By keeping things secret, it was as if JJ was only playing half his hand. That maybe the stakes would be somehow smaller if he didn’t have you completely, because then he wouldn’t lose you completely either. Ironic, how wrong that was. How it didn’t matter in the end.
JJ had taken beatings before. He could stomach another from Barry if it meant he got to have you in his life. He knows that now. In fact, having you leave him hurt worse than any right-hook Barry could send his way. Being down in the dirt wouldn’t matter all that much if you were there to pull him out and dust him off. It wouldn’t matter if you were just there.
Looking to Kiara, JJ swallows his pride. “I don’t know how to fix it, Kiara. I…I don’t know if I can.”
She sighs and nods in thought.
“Tell me what the last straw was.”
“The last straw?”
“The thing that made it all end, for good,” Kie says.
JJ purses his lips. The shame comes slow and simmering when he replies. “I stood her up. On her birthday. Her eighteenth birthday.”
“Ouch,” Kie eventually whispers.
JJ nods, looking down at the ground. “Yep. ‘Ouch’.”
“Okay, you know what you gotta do then,” she sighs, hopping to her feet. JJ looks up and takes her in.
“What?”
“You gotta go all out.”
“Excuse me?”
“You gotta swallow your pride and pull a romantic gesture.”
JJ doesn’t have it in him to burst into fits of laughter. Instead, he stares at Kiara as if she’s sprouted an extra head. All he can do is repeat himself.
“Excuse me?”
“We’re righting your wrongs and throwing her a birthday gesture, and you’re going to do some serious sucking up and swoon the shit out of this girl,” Kiara instructs. She holds out his cap for him.
JJ eyes it as if it might be laced with chloroform. “She’s really not the romantic gesture type, man.”
“Every girl is, deep down. Sides. Not like you have anything much to lose now.”
His eyes dart back up to Kie’s. She’s not wrong.
With that numbing thought, JJ grabs his cap back, shoves it on, and jumps onto his feet. “Fine. Fuck it.”
“Atta boy.”
~*~*~*~*~*
It was nice to realise that JJ’s week in purgatory hadn’t impaired his planning capabilities. Once he’d finished confessing to the rest of the Pogues about his nearly year-long secret relationship with Barry’s sister (and taken the brunt of the onslaught of questions, teasing and berating), they were more than willing to help out their friend.
JJ took advantage of your trustworthiness and willingness to help others to lure you out, with Kiara as bait. She’d go to your trailer, sneak to your bedroom window (which JJ identified in his incredible, Louvre-worthy drawing) and lure you out to ‘help with her faulty car motor’. JJ knew Barry was out collecting until later that day, so it was fairly safe to send Kie out there. She was more than willing to do it anyway. In the meantime, John B and Pope helped JJ set up some romantic gesture per Kie’s instruction. He felt like an idiot as he did it. This wasn’t your style or his, but he was throwing the hail Mary now. In for a penny, in for a pound.
I.E. Fuck it.
But now that everything is set up, JJ feels like he might throw-up with nerves. He’s already ran his vape dry and it feels like the nicotine has hardly touched him. Sat on the jetty, illuminated by a myriad of candles which are definitely a huge fire risk, JJ meddles with his lighter anxiously as he waits for Kie to come back with you on the boat. The water laps at the rotting podiums, holding him up. He sighs and listens to the sounds of nightlife, as the clock nears midnight. Whenever he closes his eyes, he sees your tear-soaked face, the moment before you broke up with him. JJ doesn’t close his eyes.
The symphony of nature is broken apart by the hum of a motorboat. He glances to the sound to see Kiara stood behind the wheel. You’re sat in the back, legs crossed; face the look of scepticism. It morphs into daylight-clear betrayal when you spot JJ.
“Wait. What the…”
JJ shakily exhales and gets to his feet. He’s not used to feeling this nervous around you. Kiara slows the motor to a stop at the jetty, but you don’t move.
“You said you needed help with your motor,” you say to Kiara.
She smiles apologetically. “Well, JJ said you were pretty trusting.”
“I don’t want to see you,” you say to JJ now.
JJ nods. Instinctively he shoves his hands in his pockets, letting his nails anxiously dig into the flesh of his palms. “I know. I know you don’t but I can’t let you have a shit birthday, no matter how things go between us.”
It seems with that; you take in the sights of the jetty. The candles placed around the peeling-paint wood. Two pillows to save you both from splinters. Between them sits a scrabble board, already set up. You gnaw at your lower lip. There’s the smallest movement of your head as you try to shake it.
“Just…Just give me this, and then you don’t have to talk to me ever again, if you don’t wanna. Okay?” JJ sighs.
He extends out a hand for you. His heart thrums with anxiety as he waits for your reaction.
Your eyes move up to his. You regard him a moment. Then, with a sigh, you’re getting to your feet and taking his hand, letting him help you onto the jetty. Kiara flashes JJ a small, reassuring smile, and then she’s making off into the night.
“This might be the corniest thing you’ve ever done, by the way,” you mumble.
You remove your hand from his and stand defensively on the edge of the wood, making him a little nervous that you might fall in.
“I know,” JJ chuckles uneasily, glancing down to the set-up. “Don’t bust my balls yet though, alright?”
He sits down on one of the pillows. Nods for you to take the other spot. After a moment’s consideration, you do. You bring your cargo-covered legs near to your chest as if closing yourself off from him. He watches as your eyes dart down to the scrabble board, void of letters, and then down to your selection.
“What is this?”
“One last game.”
“JJ…”
“Just one,” he almost pleads. The two of you look at one another. Sighing, he shrugs. “I can’t let our last conversation end the way it did.”
“I don’t feel like scrabble,” you say.
JJ nods and looks down to pick at his fingernails. This was such a dumb idea. Why the hell did he let Kiara talk him into this? John B and Pope are probably watching from the chateau, placing bets on how long it takes for you to leave him there, sniggering at his uselessness.
“I’m sorry.”
“I don’t wanna do this, JJ,” you tell him, glancing out to the water.
“Just please let me get this out,” JJ says. “Then I can get John B to drive you home, if you want. Or Kiara can come back with the boat. Whatever you prefer.”
You swallow. “John B knows I’m here?”
“Yeah,” JJ nods. “They all do. They all know.”
“Know what, exactly?”
“That I’m a fucking idiot, for starters,” JJ tells you. “And that I was dumb enough to lose you.”
“The pity parade isn’t going to win you points, JJ,” you say.
JJ shakes his head. “I’m not trying to win anything.”
“So this isn’t a ploy to try and win me back? Shame. You had me going for a second.”
“I’m a fucking idiot.”
“So you’ve said.”
“I am,” he affirms. It makes you chuckle quietly. He can’t tell if the humour is genuine. “This whole time, I was telling myself we had to stay as a secret because of something I did, but I was bullshitting myself. I just…Well, I think a part of me just wanted you to myself, and none of the pressures of everyone else, but I think another part of me didn’t want to risk losing you.”
You frown.
“Yeah, dumb, I know, cause I did anyway,” JJ mutters. Makes your smile halfway return. “But then you thought that it was because of you, for some reason. That it’s because of who you are. That’s not it. That was never it. It’s just…It’s hard to explain…”
“You don’t have to explain it, then,” you say. JJ closes his eyes at the sound of your voice, sweet with understanding. “But you do have to explain this thing you did. The thing that made you want to keep us a secret.”
JJ shakes his head and purses his lips. “You’re gonna hate me.”
“I don’t hate anyone,” you tell him.
Shakily exhaling, JJ looks out to the water. He steadies himself like a first-time surfer, then looks to you. You’re watching him expectantly, waiting.
“I have a past with doing stupid things. I mean, I think you know that but…I can do really stupid things sometimes. I don’t think ten steps ahead and I make bad choices and I can’t be talked down from them. And it makes messes. I’m not proud of it, I need you to know that.”
You nod.
JJ sighs. “Do you remember when I told you about the gold?”
You nod once more.
“Well, we tried to pawn some of it off one time. We got sent out into the middle of nowhere on a fake-out and this guy stops us and robs us all at gunpoint.”
“Wait, what?”  
JJ swallows and nods. “Somehow we got the upper hand and it turns out to be Barry. I recognised him as my dad’s dealer, you know?”
You’re shaking your head. “He wouldn’t…Why would he do that? He wouldn’t do that…”
“I got angry, like a fucking idiot,” JJ sighs, dragging his fingers through his hair as he hangs his head a moment. “So I take the wheel and take us to his house and…And I rob him. Twenty-thousand.”
There’s no reply for a while. Merely the lapping of the water and the faint crackle of the candle’s wicker as it burns.
“You robbed him?”
“Eye for an eye, you know?” JJ mumbles, no conviction to his words.
“Why…Why didn’t you tell me this?” you can’t help but ask.
JJ swallows thickly. He shrugs as he raises his head to look at you.
“I don’t know. I guess because I wasn’t sure if you’d tell Barry, or if you’d leave me, maybe? Or maybe I just…You always do the right thing and you have this way of looking at me like I’m this good person. I didn’t want that to go away.”
Your expression is stoic. He can’t quite read the emotions on your face, as each seems to come and go so quickly as you process JJ’s big confession. It’s like trying to understand a story from a torn-up foreign book.
In the silence of your deliberation, JJ feels himself shrug again. He meddles his fingers together, gazing down at them; his forearms resting atop of his knees, legs brought up to his chest similar to your own.
“I’m not a good person. I do bad things and I make bad choices and I suck at doing the right thing.”
“Stop it, JJ.”
He looks up to you with that. You’re shaking your head.
“There are no good people and bad people, so don’t start falling into some self-destructive spiel thinking it’s going to make me feel better about any of this,” you tell him.
JJ nods. “You’re right. I’m sorry.”
“I just…Why would Barry…I don’t understand,” you sigh. You clasp your hands over your face.
In that moment, JJ’s nearly certain he’s lost you for good. He half wants to gloat to Kiara that he was right; that you saw the real him and didn’t like it. But it isn’t a nice feeling. JJ hangs his head and prepares himself for the final blow. He’s already planning his request for John B to drive you back home. Debating if he’ll try and kiss you goodbye. Wonders which alcohol to wash it all down with.
“I’m sorry he did that to you, JJ.”
JJ’s head nearly flies off his head with how quickly it darts back up.
“What?”
“He told me he doesn’t do shit like that anymore,” you’re saying. JJ’s taken to watching your mouth, like he’s having trouble following your words in the silence of the night. “I told him I didn’t want him doing shit like that anymore. He lied to me.”
“I don’t understand,” JJ manages out.
You shake your head. “I’m not mad at you, for robbing him. People make bad choices, JJ, but that doesn’t make them bad people. The same way he went after you guys first. The same way I jumped to conclusions about why you wanted to keep this a secret.”
“How is that a bad choice?” JJ frowns. “I didn’t give you any better explanation for why. I was just so fucking scared that I’d lose you if you knew the truth.”
“Because I knew you weren’t the type of dumbass who gives a shit about family and reputation and appearances, but I still let my own fucking insecurities lead me to think that it was because of me. That you didn’t want to be seen with me because of my family, and all of their shitty choices. Including the gunpoint bullshit thing he pulled on you and your friends.”
JJ shakes his head. He instinctively reaches a hand out to you, grabbing at your trainer clad shoes and squeezing.
“I know more than anyone that people are more than their dumbass families.”
You chuckle solemnly at that. Moving your hand, you lay it atop of his and you don’t pull away when he flips his, palm up, and intertwines your fingers. It feels like you’re mending all his gashes from that single touch alone.
“I know you have every reason to say no to me here,” JJ begins. “I mean, I’ve been nothing short of a dumbass and…Well, I’m kinda beating around the bush here, but…”
You quirk a brow. There’s that smile he loves. Teasing and playful and perfect. You’re so fucking perfect.
“But here’s a crazy idea. How about we date, like normal people, and I don’t forget your birthdays, and I’m not late for our dates, and I sleep over at night. And you meet my friends, and I meet yours, and maybe I steer a bit clear of your brother still. Just to be safe.”
“Just so you can keep your balls.”
“Ideally, yeah.”
You both laugh at that. Both somewhat tearful.
You squeeze his hand.
“Well, if your friends know about us, we can just crash at the chateau more, I guess,” you say, voice reserved still, as if he might laugh in your face.
JJ doesn’t though. He smiles wider. Nods. “Now there’s an idea.”
“I think I’d be cool with that, then,” you half-whisper.
JJ smiles at you like you’re the sun and he’s the moon, and he’d spend forever in your orbit if you’d only let him. You might just.
Leaning forward, he kisses you, sweet and tender. You don’t let him pull back; moving to slide a hand around his neck, another slipping along his jaw like a priest’s gentle touch during baptism. This close, he can smell your perfume: rose and bergamot. And this; this is what living is for.
“I love you,” JJ confesses, the moment your lips break apart.
You laugh smally; your cherubic voice easing the cacophony of thoughts that had been plaguing JJ for the past month or so.
“I love you too, you idiot,” you return. Swiping your thumb over his cheek, smiling wider as he leans shamelessly into your touch, you add, “just stop doing stupid things, please.”
“Darling, there’s no way I can promise you that,” JJ returns.
He cuts off your wonderful laughter with a grinning kiss. He doesn’t care if his friends can see. If they’re making fun of him for how much he’s at your mercy. Afterall, JJ is in love with you. It’s not like it’s a secret or anything.
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Touch her again & I’ll kill you | JJ Maybank x reader
Requested by anon / Summary: After multiple run ins with harassment from Rafe, JJ finds out what has been going on and doesn’t like it one bit. #protective JJ 
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As you sat next to Sarah and another kook girl, lounging by the country club’s pool, you regretted coming out. Maybe you should have just gone fishing with JJ and the boys; Kie had a family function she couldn’t miss. 
You especially felt that regret when you saw Topper heading toward you and his goons following; Rafe Cameron being one of them. 
Sarah and you had been friends for a couple years and during those couple years, it never failed that Rafe would say something to you that crossed the line. Rafe Cameron had seen you as this trophy; a trophy he would try to get with all of Sarah’s friends. You were the only one who hadn’t fallen for his bull shit and he’d found the chase as his own personal mission. 
You’d hoped the harassing would come to an end when you and JJ started dating, but it only seemed to get worse. 
“Looking beautiful as ever, ladies.” Topper greets Sarah with a kiss.
You tried to look occupied, texting JJ to ask how fishing was going.
“You ready to leave the pogue trash for something better yet?” Rafe asks from behind your lounge chair, leaning in dangerously close. You could feel his breath on your neck; there was a tinge of mint and of course alcohol.
“Me and JJ are fine,” You knew during all these encounters, you should say something back, stand your ground but you were terrified of Rafe. Terrified of what he would do to you if you stood up to him..
His fingers mess with the ties of your bikini top, “baby I didn’t ask if the two of you are fine, I asked if you were ready to leave him.” He rounds the chair, taking the seat on the edge of the chair in between your legs.
You’d hoped and prayed someone would stop him from harassing you. maybe one of his friends? A bystander?; You knew Sarah would never and didn’t blame her. You’d asked her after the 4th encounter if she would tell Rafe to stop, that it made you uncomfortable. She approached him that night after you left. The two of them argued and she came over the next day with a black eye. You didn’t ask her again.
Your phone buzzed next to you and when you picked it up to read the text, Rafe jumped at the opportunity, grabbing the phone from your hands, “Oh who is this that you are texting?”
“Rafe quit it.” You reach for it but he holds it away, “Rafe seriously!”
“Oh it’s JJ baby with a heart by his name,” He teases, “makes me want to vomit.” He stands, beginning to read the text, it was a photo of JJ holding a huge fish he’d just caught with a text under it, “I’d say it’s going pretty good, we’re eating good tonight.”
“What a tool.” Rafe laughs and you see his fingers typing.
“Rafe, stop what are you doing?” You stand again trying to stop him but he turns away, continuing the antic, “Rafe stop!”
“Okay okay.” He chuckles, turning around and handing you your phone back, “I’m just messing with you. I didn’t text him anything.”
~
JJ didn’t know about how Rafe treats you. You didn’t want him to know because if he did, he’d go after Rafe and knowing Rafe, there’s a chance he would kill JJ. Rafe had already threatened JJ’s life if you told him. You were stuck and didn’t have a way out.
“You okay?” JJ places his hand on your lower back. You, him and the other pogues were entering the park where they were holding a summer movie night. Your mind was elsewhere, especially when you saw Rafe’s blue pick up truck parked in the lot. Just knowing he was here, sent your anxiety through the roof. 
You forced a smile, nodding, “I’m great.” 
After finding the perfect spot, your eyes danced around the faces in the lawn trying to spot Rafe before he spotted you, but it was too late he was already feet from you. 
“Hey pogues.” Rafe announces as he steps up behind you, his hand lightly on your lower back. You try not to cower at his touch, not wanting to alarm anyone. 
“Rafe, what are you doing here?” Kie says with a roll of her eyes. “This doesn’t seem like your scene.” 
“Yeah,” His eyes look down on you, “Rose thought it would be a great family outing.” He’s subtle as his knuckles rub your lower back. 
JJ hadn’t noticed the interaction as he was distracted with Pope, arguing about the drinks and snacks in the small cooler. 
“Sarah said come see her before the movie ends,” He directs it to you, hand still on your back. 
JJ had looked up now, his eyes taking in Rafe with his hand on your back and your shrunken and uncomfortable form. But just as quick as he’d seen it, Rafe had already moved himself from the group, heading back toward his family. 
JJ watched as your shoulders sagged, like you had been holding in your breath. 
About half way through the movie, your bladder was full and bouncing your knee up and down wasn’t helping. You knew you couldn’t wait until the end of the movie, but had held it as long as you could. You were scared if you headed toward the bathroom Rafe would follow you. 
You take a look over your shoulder and spot Rafe with his family, his attention is on Wheezie and something in her hand. Maybe you could sneak away. 
You place your hand on JJ’s arm, whispering, “I’m going to the bathroom.” 
“Okay,” He nods, sitting up straighter as you stand, “you want me or Kie to accompany you?” 
You shook your head, “watch the movie, this is your favorite part.” you give him a reassuring smile and squeeze his shoulder as you walk toward the bathrooms,  trying to avoid Rafe seeing you and getting in anyones way of the screen. 
Unlucky for you, the bathrooms felt like a mile away, situated at the entrance of the park. You could barely hear the movie from the speakers. 
You quickly used the bathroom and as you were exiting you ran into someone’s hard chest; Rafe. “Rafe.” you place a hand over your beating heart, “You scared me.” 
“Sorry.” He glances over his shoulder, he was in the clear, not a soul in sight. “Perfect place if you ask me,” 
“What?” Your face is contorted in confusion, trying to side step him, but he blocks you. 
“I mean you couldn’t have picked a better place. You waited a while but I could be patient.” Before you can react, he has your back against the brick wall, his hands fondling their way around your body. 
“Rafe, what the hell are you doing!” You shriek, trying your best to push him off. 
“I saw the looks you were giving me, this is what you wanted. I know it is.” His hot breath is on your neck. 
“That is not what was going on!” You try again to push him away, but this angers him, his hand wraps tightly around your throat, holding you against the wall. 
“Stop fucking moving. How dare you bring him with you? Kiss him, hug him, right in front of me? What are you trying to make me mad? You trying to flaunt him off?” 
“Rafe,” You gasp, nails digging into his skin, but he’s unfazed, “Rafe please-” 
“What the fuck!” 
You gasp for air as Rafe’s hands leave your neck and his body is thrown to the ground. You’re met with a red faced JJ. You’d never seen him as angry as he was in that moment. 
He thought you were taking longer than needed and thought he’d check on you, especially seeing that interaction with Rafe. When he approached, he didn’t expect to see Rafe’s hand on your throat and his other hand roaming your body. He saw red. 
“She wanted it, begged me for it!” Rafe defends, shaking the dirt off him, “Fucking slut.” 
JJ looked between Rafe and you; you didn’t look like that interaction was wanting. You were scared, terrified. Tears forming in your (color) eyes. 
JJ turned quickly punching Rafe, he never seen it coming. JJ climbed atop him, his punches not slowing down. His hand gripped Rafe’s nice polo, now stained with blood and yanked him toward him, “You ever, I mean ever, touch her again. Hell you even look at her.” He was seething, his teeth clinched in anger, “I will kill you. I’m not scared to go to jail for murder,” His lips slowly turn into a smile, “Hell, I’ll smile while I kill you and smile as they carry me away in cuffs.” He tosses his body back in the dirt. 
You let out a sob and clinch onto him as JJ long arms wrap around you. He holds you for a moment, “shh.. it’s okay, I’m here.” His fingers run through your hair, trying to calm you. 
He pulls back from you, hands cradling your head and his eyes locked on yours, “let’s get you home, yeah?” 
JJ took you home and cared for you. He ran you a warm bath, made a cup of your favorite drink and sat next to you on the bed. You hadn’t said a word since you left the park and he wasn’t going to push you. 
He reaches for you, gently caressing your cheek and notices the bruise already forming on your neck, where Rafe had his grimy hand. He feels the anger boiling again. His knuckles are gentle on your neck, inspecting the bruise. “I should have killed him. I should have done it.” 
Your fingers wrap around his wrist, “don’t say that. You wouldn’t be here with me if you did.” 
“he.. touched you.” He says through gritted teeth, “I mean what if I hadn’t come to check on you? What if I hadn’t shown up when I did?” 
“but you did.” you say softly, hand on his cheek in an effort to calm him, “you saved me.” 
“And I always will.” 
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Never Loved You A Little
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Authors Note: Angst that I came up with via the songs below. Its also hella unedited.
Word Count: 941
Pairings: Reader x Unrequited!JJ Maybank x Kiara Carrera
Summary: Kook!Y/n returns home after a trip away on the verge of expressing her feelings. Little does she know its too late.
Warnings: Angst, angst, and more angst. No happy ending.
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‘If I was just a lie to you, well you were less than that to me. Never loved you a little. Tell me who you were falling for when we were lying on the floor. Never loved you a little.’
‘My lungs can’t handle anymore of this tonight. So I’ll just go home, before i say too much, oh no I’ve said too much.’
Finally, the days had passed and you were coming home. Your internship was a rousing success. You couldn't wait to see your friends again. You knew a celebration would be in order, but internship aside you couldn’t get your mind off of one boy in particular. JJ Maybank. Property after property passed by your window and you sat silently taking in these memories.
Memories flooded your mind the whole bus ride home.
There was that time when you both drank all of the booze on the 4th of July. You both were shit-faced dancing around like idiots the whole night under the light of a thousand colors. Neither of you cared, but your guts were filled with laughter until the end. The following morning came, and you woke up on the couch with JJ out cold lying on top of you.
And then the time where you and J were at a kook party and managed to steal Rafe’s pants away while he was busy hooking up with somebody. You had all the pogues laughing in the twinkie on the way home. Ironically enough, despite the cheers and good laughs, you couldn’t stop worrying about the possibility of getting caught, and JJ was the one who stroked your arm and reassured you that there was no way in hell that that could happen because he was on the lookout the whole time. 
Your favorite memory that you’d shared with JJ, was the first time you smoked weed together in the 7th grade. Your parents had been out for the weekend, so you invited him over to smoke. After several tokes, your breath was raspy, and you were shocked that you hadn’t coughed up a lung. With JJ having smoked before, he couldn’t help but die laughing at your struggle which only made you crack up between gasps for air. Soon, everything became a joke, the cat, the photos on the fridge, the songs on the radio, everything had you both on the rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter.
 You thought about how lovely it would be to have his lips pressed to yours. To be able to hug him and take in his scent. How lovely it would be to be his. So that's why today was the day you were going to tell him how you really felt.
Pulling up to the Chateau, the bus came to a halt. You gathered your things and stepped down, your feet hitting the gravel below. Your friends weren’t aware you were coming home so early, so you expected to find them scattered and figured if they weren’t around you’d just chill here like you used to.
You kept your footsteps light, and made sure to close the front door quietly behind you. Luckily, you noticed a zonked out John B, snoring softly, rustling only slightly as he had been laying on his arms just a moment before.
“JJ stop, we were supposed to meet up with Pope a half hour ago and John B’s asleep in the other room. I’d rather he not hear us.” That was Kiara’s voice, giggling softly from what seemed to be the kitchen.
You stiffened at those words, your heart race increasing. They must not have heard you come in. Slowly you made your way across the room in order to peer around the door frame. What you saw made your heart sink down to your stomach. JJ had Kiara pinned back against the wall, littering kisses from her neck down to her shoulder.
“Y/n?!” Kiara looked over at you, JJ spinning around to meet your gaze as well.
“H-hey, sorry about that, welcome home!” JJ spoke up, a smile spreading across his face.
There was a long pause as you were a bit too stunned to speak. His smile warmed your heart. You weren’t sure if you wanted to pull him into a big hug and push the negative feelings aside or if you wanted to scream. How could you bare seeing the one you love, love another? Then you saw it, his blue orbs drifting back to hers just long enough to catch hers, his smile only widening more. You couldn’t bare it at all.  
“Save it, I shouldn’t have come here.” You muttered, turning on your heel and rushing back out the front door allowing it to slam behind you.
“Y/n, wait!” JJ called after you, grabbing your wrist to stop you. “Whats wrong, w-”
That feeling that was welling up deep in your chest, came bubbling down your cheeks and in that moment he knew, but he had to ask. If anything he seemed frustrated. With himself or with you, you couldn’t tell. 
“What? Did you really think we were anything more than friends?”
“N-no,” You mustered out, quickly wiping your tears away. “You didn’t mean anything to me.  I never loved you a little.”
The pogue flinched, squinting. His eyes were a mixture of hurt and disgust. It had been 6 long, adventurous years that you had with everyone, and it seemed like it was all going to waste at this moment.
“So that's just it then? You’re just going to walk your way back to Figure 8 with those assholes? ”
“Yeah, I guess I am.”
“Y/n…” John B spoke appearing on the front porch. “Are you okay?”
“No, but it's fine. I’m a kook after all. I don’t belong in the Cut.” With that, you took your leave, never once having the bravery to look back over your shoulder at your dead friends. Maybe everything could have worked out in another lifetime, just not this one.
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princessmaybank · 3 months
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Outer Banks P!Links PT2
Here's Part 1: P!Links
*Once again: I'm aware some of them look nothing like them, but that's okay, it's all for fun*
WARNINGS: MDNI, THIS IS 18+, PORN LINKS
MINORS DO NOT INTERACT!
~A lot more than last time! Please enjoy! I didn't check to see which was already used, so I'm sorry if there are repeats from the last post!~
JJ:
Him Pounding Into You
Riding JJ While He Plays With Your Tits
Soft Fuck With JJ
Jacking Him Off
Teasing Him With Your Pussy
Riding Tatted JJ
69 Tatted JJ
4 Fingers
Oral And Riding By The Pool
Wants To Try Something From Your Book
Rubbing Your Pussy
Rafe:
Tatted Rafe POV
Cumming On Your Stomach
Hitting It From Behind
Riding Him
Gently Playing With You
Fucking You Outside
Fingering Then Fucking You
Slapping Your Pussy On The Way To Midsummers
Rubbing You Until You Can't Take It
Bent Over His Lap
Anal By The Pool
John B:
Sucking His Dick In The Twinkie
Playing With You
Couldn't Resist You
Having Some Fun With Kiara
Parking Garage Fun
Tatted JB, Playing With Each Other
Making A Mess In Your Panties
Using His Dick While He Plays His Game
Sitting On His Face By The Pool
Upside Down 69
Dicking You Down While JJ Drives
Pope:
Tatted Pope, Waking You Up
Bouncing On His Dick
He Asked For A Handjob
Jacking Him Off Then Riding Him
Under His Desk While He Studies
Fucks You In Your PJ's
Bouncing You Back
Tatted Pope Fucking You On The Counter
Anal From The Back
School Girl Fantasy
Riding Pope On The Couch
Bonus:
Kiara Eating You Out
Eating Out Tatted Cleo
Tribbing With Sarah
Tatted JJ & Rafe Sharing You
Playing With Sarah's Pussy
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shellxrls · 2 months
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asking to feel JJ while he’s soft and he’s like: “wtf? but yea.” and as soon as you touch him he’s hard.
“it kinda looks like a gummy worm,” you muse, twisting his limp dick slightly and attempting to admire it from an angle.
“babe i do not know what fucked up gummy worms you’ve been eating, but junior ain’t a gummy worm,” he states simply, growing restless from your constant touching.
you giggle, continuing your inspection for only a couple of seconds before, much to your amiss, you notice jj getting hard once again.
“jeez man it’s only been — what, a minute?” you chuckle, beginning to stroke your fist as you finish the question, causing him to choke and stumble over his answer and instead let out an embarrassing loud groan.
“‘m sensitive,” he mumbles, followed by a string of curses and a “ohh, yeah keep doing that mama.”
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rafesmuse · 6 months
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our girl — j.m & r.c.
pairing: jj maybank x fem!reader x rafe cameron
warnings: smut 18+, violence, polyamorous relationship, threesome, vaginal sex, fingering, oral sex (m. receiving), possessiveness, degradation, praise, fingering, hair pulling, creampie, squirting, spitting, kelce and topper walking in lol
word count: 2.6k
summary: your boyfriends show their possessive side when they see someone flirting with you at a party.
a/n: based on a lucid dream i had. i died while writing this
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“You want another drink?” Sarah asked, downing what was left of her drink in one gulp. “No thanks, I’m gonna look for Rafe and JJ actually, haven’t seen them yet” you replied, your surroundings slightly spinning as you were already feeling pretty intoxicated. You smiled briefly at Sarah before walking away from the pool and heading inside Rafe’s house, the music of the party increasing.
It’s been a few months since you started dating your boyfriends— yes, boyfriends, because both of them were too obsessed with you so they decided to share you, treating you like their princess. It was intense sometimes, especially at the beginning when they had to get used to one another. Besides, a lot of people had various opinions on your relationship, but you still felt thankful and privileged to have boyfriends who were so sweet and caring. Especially considering that many girls would die to be in your position. Tonight is another one of Rafe’s parties, inviting all his kook friends as well as some pogues since JJ insisted on his friends being invited too.
You walked inside the crowded house full of intoxicated people and kissing couples, trying to find them. You glanced around, seeing many familiar faces but not your boyfriends. Just as you turned to go into another room, your arm was suddenly grabbed firmly. “Hey, beautiful.” you felt relieved, thinking it must’ve been Rafe or JJ when you realised you didn’t recognise the voice. You turned around in confusion and saw a blonde frat-looking guy check you out with a smirk on his face and a red cup in his hand. His blue eyes were fully fixed on you with a cocky smile on his face.
“Do I know you?” you asked, brows knitted together in confusion as you tried your best to refresh your memory, afraid that your intoxicated state made you forget who he was. “I’m Ryan. I used to hang out with Rafe, you know, back when he used to fuck a different girl every week” he said with a chuckle as you arched an eyebrow, unsure why he would bring that up. His smile vanished at the sight of your serious expression, before continuing, “Anyway… you want a drink, sweetheart?” he asked, motioning towards the drinks table. You gazed at him, wondering if he was aware of the dangerous game he was playing.
“No, thank you. I have to g-“ you started but he quickly cut you off, “Oh, come on! You think I’m scared of your boyfriends? One drink won’t hurt, loosen up a bit” he argued before he dragged you to the drinks table. You attempted to break free from his hold, but you were too intoxicated to react quickly and he was way stronger than you, clearly taking advantage of the situation.
“Here you go.” he said, handing you a new drink as you looked at it nervously. When he noticed your anxious expression he slid a hand around your waist as he came closer to you. “Hey, hey, don’t worry. Just wanna get to know my friend’s girlfriend, that’s all. I respect Rafe, you know.” he explained, easily convincing you in your drunken state as you took the cup from him with a relieved smile.
“So, tell me about-“ he started before being interrupted in an instant when his name was called, “Ryan!” You peeked around Ryan’s towering frame and saw Rafe and JJ making their way to you. Ryan instantly took his hand off your waist and went from having a relaxed stance to one that was stiff and nervous. Rafe had a menacing smile on his face as he eyed Ryan and JJ walked next to him, toying with the toothpick in his mouth.
“I see you’ve met our girlfriend.” Rafe said, standing just inches away from you two. “Such a pretty little thing, hm?” JJ added with a cheeky grin, clearly not taking the poor guy seriously. “Yeah man, we just talked about… stuff. She-she’s nice” he stammered, evidently nervous. Rafe nodded with a downward smile on his face and his tongue poking the inside of his cheek. “I see, I see…”. “Look man, nothing happened, okay? We just talked, that’s it.” Ryan spoke up, trying his hardest to explain himself while JJ and Rafe exchanged glances, before giving each other a nod. “Fucking dumbass.” JJ sneered under his breath as he walked over to you, an arm sliding around your waist as he placed a kiss on top of your head.
“I understand man, no worries.” Rafe reassured before placing his arm over Ryan’s shoulder, “Let’s catch up outside, hmm? We haven’t spoken in so long, lots to talk about.” Rafe said as he led Ryan outside, making you turn to face JJ with a worried expression on your face. “What’s he going to do with him, J?” you asked, your brows knitted in concern. “Sssh, don’t worry about it, baby. He’s just gonna ask him to leave, that’s all.” he reassured, taking the toothpick out of his mouth and moving his head closer before pressing his lips on yours, his tongue sliding into your mouth as you were heavily making out against the table, causing you to forget about everything else. You were so caught up in the moment that it took you a while to eventually pull away from JJ as he gazed down at you with a loving smile on his face.
When you glanced over JJ’s shoulder, you gasped as your eyes widened and your jaw dropped. Rafe leaned over Ryan, who was on the ground, repeatedly punching him until blood was everywhere. “JJ!” you yelled in horror while pointing at the scene. “Oh, fuck” JJ muttered, not necessarily because of Rafe beating him up, but because of you witnessing it. He quickly spun you around so your back was facing the scene before cupping your face in his hands and desperately kissing you again in an attempt to distract you. You instinctively wrapped your arms around JJ’s neck, your intoxicated state causing you to forget about the situation again and only feeling hungry for JJ as you pressed him closer to you. His hands already found your ass as he squeezed it, not giving a fuck about anyone watching.
“My room. Now” Rafe ordered as he suddenly walked past you both, causing you to pull away from JJ as you watched Rafe climb the stairs. JJ grabbed your hand as he smirked at you, “You heard him, princess. Let’s go.” he said, pulling you along and leading you upstairs.
“Am I… Am I in trouble? you asked with a soft voice, following JJ in the hallway as you passed several kissing couples. JJ chuckled as he held the door handle to Rafe’s room. “I think we both know the answer to that.” he replied, making you gulp for a moment as he opened the door.
Rafe stood in the centre of the room, his arms folded with an angry expression on his face. Rafe's intimidating frame was accentuated by the lack of light in the room, as only a few red LED lights provided illumination. Even though JJ shut the door behind him, there was still a faint sound of shouting and music coming from downstairs through the walls. “Rafe, listen, I-“ Rafe interrupted you as soon as you attempted to explain, “We do the talking here, alright?” Rafe growled as JJ joined him, standing next to him as both of them eyed you while you walked to the bed, sitting down to relieve your sore feet from the heels you were wearing.
“You didn’t have to beat him up Rafe, I swear he didn’t do anything! He just offered me a drink and-“ you stopped when you heard both of them chuckle, looking at each other before gazing down at you. “I think our girl is a little confused, whatcha think J?” Rafe smirked while approaching you. “Nah, you’re right man. I think she forgot who she belongs to.” JJ agreed, nodding as he watched Rafe walk towards you.
Rafe bent down to get at eye level with you, then aggressively gripped your face, forcing you to look at him. “Two boyfriends is not enough for you? Hmm? God, you’re such a dirty little slut.” You were too afraid to speak as you gazed up at him. “Open that pretty mouth of yours” Rafe ordered and you obliged, opening your mouth widely before Rafe spit in it, “Swallow.” You swallowed while keeping your eyes on him, faces mere inches away from each other. A satisfied smile swept across Rafe’s face as he released his grip on your face, “Good girl.”
Rafe then moved aside, allowing JJ to approach you. JJ wasted no time and pushed you onto the bed, caging you in before planting sloppy kissing all over your neck and undressing you simultaneously, causing you to moan. “Tsk, what a dumb girl we have, Rafe.” he growled, sliding the straps of your dress down your arms before fully taking it off, leaving you in just your underwear. “But so fucking beautiful.” JJ took in your beauty with hungry eyes while biting his lip. He then discarded you of your underwear as well, tossing them across the room. “Make Rafe feel good, baby.”
JJ pushed himself off you while Rafe completely undressed himself, his fully erect cock leaking precum causing anticipation to rage through your body. He looked so beautiful— the red light accentuating the muscles on his body as he gazed down at you with dark eyes. He got on the bed, sitting against the bedframe before he grabbed your hair and pulled you towards him. “Be a good girl and suck.”
You drew your head nearer, licking up the precum and swirling your tongue around the tip, earning a groan from him. He impatiently pushed your head down, forcing you down his cock. His hand grabbed your hair in a ponytail, preventing it from falling in your face as he bobbed your head up and down. “Fuck, just like that.” Rafe groaned as JJ slapped you on the ass, causing you to jolt forward.
“Our pretty girl.” JJ praised while he teased your entrance with his fingers, gathering the wetness and drawing circles on your clit. You moaned around Rafe’s cock, only egging him on as he bucked his hips upwards, causing you to gag. JJ then inserted two fingers into you with ease, as far as they could go. “So fucking wet for us.” JJ curled his fingers up inside you, pushing against your g-spot, causing your eyes to flutter shut as you let out a loud moan around Rafe’s cock once again. Rafe now grabbed your head with both hands, fully face-fucking you, using you as his personal toy, while JJ’s fingers increased their speed, causing your orgasm to approach.
“Cum around my fingers, sweet girl. Make a fucking mess.” JJ’s words pushed you over the edge, your orgasm washing over you as you felt wetness all over. “Holy fuck, she squirted everywhere” JJ exclaimed, a chuckle leaving his mouth before he licked his fingers clean. “Dirty girl” Rafe groaned, his voice low and raspy as he continued to fuck your face.
You then heard the buckle of a belt behind you, and not much later you felt JJ’s cock teasing your folds, before fully pushing himself in. “Still so tight, fuck.” He groaned before setting a steady rhythm that made you grip the sheets. The sensation was almost becoming too much— the way JJ’s cock hit your g-spot repeatedly and Rafe fucking into your mouth, saliva running down your face.
Just as you were about to come, the door suddenly swung open, the music and yelling from downstairs filling the room. JJ's thrusts came to a half when all of you looked to your side as your eyes began to widen. “Hey, Rafe, you got some- No fucking way.” “Goddamn.” Both Kelce and Topper stood in the doorway, a smirk on both their faces as they eyed every inch of your body. “Well, this is awkward.” JJ uttered as his lips tightened into a thin line. An irritated sigh left Rafe’s mouth as he rolled his eyes, “Get the fuck out before I fucking kill both of you!” He shouted, Kelce and Topper snickering when they left the room and shut the door behind them.
“Now, where were we?” JJ asked before abruptly slamming into you again, causing you to fall forward on Rafe’s chest. “Hey, hey,” Rafe took hold of your head, pulling it up with both hands as he raised his eyebrows at you, “Did I say you could stop sucking? Don’t think so.” He pushed you back on his cock with his hand behind your head, guiding you. You could feel JJ’s thrusts getting sloppy and lose rhythm, knowing he was close. “Fuck, gonna cum so deep inside this pretty pussy.” he growled before painting your walls with his warm cum, his hands firmly gripping your hips. You could feel his sperm dripping onto the bed as soon as he pulled out.
Rafe shoved you off him, causing you to look at him with a questioning expression, given that he hasn’t cum yet. “ Wanna cum inside that tight pussy of yours, filling you with both our cum.” he said as he stood up and flipped you over, causing a small squeal to leave your mouth as you were lying on your back. He grabbed your legs and spread them wider before spitting on your cunt and pushing into you in one quick thrust, making you scream out his name loudly. He immediately set a relentless pace, gripping your waist as he pounded into you while grunting, your tits bouncing to his rhythm.
“Doing so well for us, princess” JJ praised as he sat next to you, grabbing your face and kissing you passionately with his other hand massaging your boobs. You moaned into JJ’s mouth as Rafe placed your legs over his shoulders, reaching even deeper parts inside of you. “You wanna cum?” Rafe asked as you nodded, your eyes closed as your vision became blurry, “Then fucking beg for it.” “P-please, let me cum. I need to!” JJ chuckled as his hand slowly travelled to your core, drawing fast circles on your clit. “You hear that, Rafe? Our poor girl needs to cum.” Rafe groaned as he increased his speed and placed quick kisses on your legs. “Then let’s help her.”
JJ’s fingers quickened their speed as he marked your neck in hickeys, causing you to grip his arm hard, your nails leaving crescent shapes in his skin and Rafe was close to coming too, his cock hitting all the right spots inside of you. “Gonna cum for us, sweet girl?” JJ whispered into your ear and you could only nod, unable to speak. “Gonna fill you up so fucking good, like the dirty whore you are.” Rafe groaned before his orgasm struck, filling you to the brim with his warmth. You came not long after that, walls fluttering around Rafe’s cock as your eyes rolled to the back of your head, the grip on JJ’s arm tightening. “Just like that, princess. Good girl” JJ praised as you came down from your high, chest heaving up and down as you tried to catch your breath.
Rafe pulled out slowly and bent down to place soft kisses on your cunt before getting dressed immediately, causing you to look at him with a confused expression. “Be right back. J, take good care of our girl.” He instructed before exiting the room. “Yes, sir!” JJ replied jokingly before shifting his attention back to you. “W-where is he going?” you stuttered, still feeling disoriented due to your orgasm. “Probably killing Kelce and Topper for walking in and seeing you. You know how he gets.” JJ shrugged as he picked you up bridal style before you could say anything else, taking you to the bathroom, “Don’t worry about it. Come on, lemme take care of our pretty girl.”
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rubiehart · 2 months
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jj fuckin’ his girl bestfriend all nice and slow, taking in her body just in complete shock that this is reality and not some crazy wet dream. tanned arms supporting his body weight beside her head where her hair is splayed around her head like a halo making her look like some kind of goddess, full lips parted and eyes closed, little ‘uh, uh, uh‘s’ leaving her pretty mouth at every thrust where jj’s fat cock nudges that spot inside her squelchy pussy that makes her dig her nails more aggressively into his muscly back.
her eyes opening for a second when his thrusts become more frantic and miscalculated, her orgasm building white hot in her lower stomach making her moan out, their eyes locking as he continues thrusting, his orgasm building as fast as hers seemed to be.
on a whim, she reaches up to take his shark tooth necklace between her teeth, the action innocent but making jj even more desperate for his release, her innocent eyes looking up at him as he thrusts harder, an even deeper desire consuming him as she moans out.
wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down into a heated kiss, tongues swirling deliciously against each other as he swallows all of her pretty little noises, pulling away to watch her face as she claws harder at his back, his arms aching but he wasn’t about to miss this moment, eyes flicking to her tits as her noises got louder. “‘m fuckin’ coming jj!”
“cmon come for me pretty.” he says, keeping his pace and not looking away from her face, a loud moan spilling from her wet lips as she comes undone, face contorted beautifully as her eyelids slip closed again, feeling the wetness of her orgasm coating his cock he lets go too with a loud groan, as she watches his adams apple bob as he cranes his neck back, dropping his arms which supported his weight and whispering praises inaudibly into her neck.
their sweat-slick bodies pressed impossibly close but still needed to be closer, with his slowly softening dick still inside her sopping pussy she takes a hand through the tangles strands of blonde hair and a kiss to his sweaty forehead, making him smile and press a lazy kiss to her collarbone. “can’t believe we didn’t do that sooner, you’re fuckin’ perfect.” he mumbles, making her blush crimson as he nuzzles his face into her neck and breathes out all relaxed.
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ervotica · 4 months
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jj is definitely the type to have a black cat gf and adore the fuck out of her. calls her corny shit like buttercup and cupcake and smears kisses against her scowling face when she gets tired and a little grumpy, even at the whining protests of ‘jayj!’ against his spitslick lips. he loves on her in front of the group despite the fuss he knows she’ll make but inevitably succumb to his irresistible charms (as he puts it).
jj never saves her a seat just so he can tease and tell her to ‘come sit on daddy’s lap, princess.’ (which she will); only to tease her with the nickname in bed the same very night when he’s got her speared open wide on his cock, gasping and whining and grappling for any semblance of purchase against the lean muscle of his torso while he wrings every drop of pleasure he can muster from her aching body.
he knows she loves him when she sidles in close, soft with exhaustion and sleep and snoring against the sharp angle of his jaw, sleep shirt (jj’s tee) half covering the soft swell of her bottom, rucking up when she shuffles to cover more of his body with her own.
he knows she’s temperamental and intolerant, and though that would be enough to steer many guys clear of her, it only reeled him further in.
because all the soft moments are saved for him.
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sociorafe · 4 months
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CAUGHT RED HANDED — jj.maybank
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pairing: jj maybank & fem!reader
summary: keeping your relationship a secret has been pretty easy so far, but when the both of you get carried away one day, it’s hard to defend yourselves when you get caught by fellow pogues.
warnings: making out, marking, dry humping
author’s note: requested by anon, thank you, i had fun writing this! also i just realised that my blog’s aesthetic is rafe and yet somehow i have more jj content lol. oh well. i hope you guys enjoy <3 feedback is appreciated!
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“Y’know,” you mumble out breathlessly as JJ sucks on the soft skin of your neck. “They could come back any minute.”
You feel JJ smile into his wet kisses, your hands threading into his blonde hair, gently tugging at the roots when he sucks on your sweet spot. He grumbles against your neck.
“What?” You ask, eyes fluttering closed as his lips begin sucking and teeth nibbling. You’re 100% positive that he’ll leave marks and you’re not sure how you’ll explain it to the others. Bad mosquito bite? Maybe a bad reaction to some new lotion? Please, since when did you buy new lotion?
“Jay…” you shift in his lap, your barely covered core rubbing ever so lightly against his crotch. You can feel him through his cargo shorts… so, so, so big. “S-stop. You gotta-gotta stop. Jay, baby. I can’t have you mark me up.”
JJ pulls away with a pop! from your neck. His eyes sparkle as he stares at his handy-work. “And why not? I think I did a pretty good job.”
You roll your eyes, hands sliding out from his hair to rest behind his bare shoulders— his t-shirt thrown somewhere behind you. “You do realise who we’re friends with, right? They literally came up with ‘Pogues don’t mack on other Pogues’. We’re literally breaking that rule and you’re making it obvious.”
JJ hums in thought, “What they won’t know won’t hurt them.”
You suppose he’s right, but still… the others could be back at any moment. They only went out to get some beer and food— a twenty minute errand at the most.
The angel on your shoulder tells you to call it quits before you get caught, but the devil is speaking louder; a few more minutes won’t hurt, in fact, you’ll enjoy this moment a lot more if you kept going.
“Come on,” JJ slides his hands to your hips, gently squeezing the supple flesh as his fingers toy with the waistband of your lacy underwear. “They’ll be arguing over what food to buy anyway, we have plenty of time.”
And with that, it seems he’s convinced you to keep going.
JJ smiles up at you before capturing your lips against his. You turn your head slightly to deepen the kiss and a rogue moan echoes in your throat as you feel his cock twitch beneath you. It feels like torture not having him inside you, so the next best thing is to grind against him until your body feels like putty.
Your hips move slowly at first, feeling the thickness of him through his shorts drives you crazy and you open your mouth slightly to allow JJ to slide his tongue in. You drop a hand from his shoulder to trail down his chest and torso, your own stomach tensing when you feel the hard muscles underneath your fingertips.
JJ pulls away briefly, allowing the two of you to catch your breath; his lips turning red from the force of his kisses.
“Look at you, baby.” He sinks his teeth into his bottom lip as he watches you grind against his erection. It takes everything in him not to flip you over and make you cry out his name. “Could watch you all day—“
His words get cut off by a loud slam.
You stop your movements abruptly, heart hammering in your chest. “What was that?”
Another loud slam and muffled voices now reach your ears. “Fuck! They’re back!” You push off JJ in lightning speed, your head snapping in every direction to find your shorts. “Where the fuck are my shorts?!”
JJ scrambles up from the sofa, diving towards his strewn t-shirt lying on the floor near your feet. His eyes practically bulge out of his head as he tries and helps you find your shorts but for some fucking reason they’ve vanished.
“Now is not the time for things to go missing. Where are they?” You hiss at him. Your heart is beating erratically in your chest.
“I don’t know!” JJ is picking cushions up, books up, pieces of furniture and your shorts are still nowhere to be found. “Look, hey. Just sit on the sofa, put a pillow on your lap and pretend to look comfy. I’ll sit over here and just… sit.”
You freak out at his idea but drop down on the sofa when several footsteps sound from down the hall.
“Hey, we got so much food. Kie and John B didn’t know what to get so… uhhh what’s going on?” Pope looks between you and JJ, one hand on the back of the sofa as he studies the two of you.
Sarah moves into the room next, her eyes landing on your face before swivelling to JJ’s and squinting at his hair. “What’s up with your hair, JJ?”
JJ swipes at his hair until he thinks it looks normal again. It does not.
John B and Kie file in next, the bag of food drops from Kie’s hand and she tries not to laugh. Whereas John B is holding a box crate of beer and if he dares to drop it you know you’ll get the blame for causing a distraction.
“What the hell did you two do?” Kie always figures things out first. “And don’t lie. It’s obvious you two did something. Spill.”
You look over at JJ and he shakes his head. “Nothing. We were just talking the whole time you guys were out.”
You wince at his poor excuse but from the way Pope shrugs his shoulders you think you’ve gotten away with it.
“Yeah, I’m not buying that.” Sarah says, arms folding over her chest. “I mean, if you two were just talking, then why is JJ’s shirt inside out and Y/N, why are your shorts hanging off the back of the couch?”
“Oh.” Is all you have to say. Well. That’s that then. Relationship exposed or whatever.
“Yeah, I’m not dealing with this.” John B turns on his heels and walks back outside with the beer, Pope just nods and follows him. Kie and Sarah give each other a knowing look.
“Pogues don’t mack on other pogues, remember?” Kie says, her head tilting at you but her smile says she’s not even remotely bothered. “Just don’t do it on the sofa next time, we gotta sit there.”
You and JJ nod your heads so quickly you feel as if they’re going to fall off. You both watch Kie leave the room, Sarah trailing behind so slowly but stops just before she’s out of sight. She leans against the wall and points to your neck, “Nice work, JJ, but Y/N you got to cover that up.” Her voice is soft, low, almost as if she doesn’t want the others hearing so you don’t get even more embarrassed. “I’ve got some makeup in John B’s room, use some of that.”
You nod your head, mouthing thank you. Once she’s gone back outside, you stand from the sofa and make your way over to JJ. You slap him on the back of his head. “Ow! What was that for?” He’s rubbing the spot you hit him on.
You stalk out of the room. “That’s for marking me up, dingbat.”
“I love you, though!” He calls from the living room.
“Yeah whatever.” You shout back from John B’s room. “I love you, too.”
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sunniepoo · 21 days
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sleepover champion
~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~
when you had called rafe over all panicked, stressed, tired and desperate,the last he expected was to be greeted by a group of little girls barely past the age of seven, rushing their way over in curiosity and climbing him like a jungle gym
“woahhh… he’s so tall” one of the small ones announced proudly, while simultaneously taking a rough tug of his leg, attempting to yank him along on one of their games
the prospect of babysitting twelve girls didn’t seem too hard at first but the moment they started screaming competitions and using you as their own personal mannequin to play with-you realised your error
lucky for you, your boyfriend happened to be ‘ the sleepover champion ’ his words not yours, ranting on about tiring down wheezie’s friends and getting them in bed was no challenge for him
“i’ma tell you… i’ll have these suckers in bed by half seven” his tone of complete confidence contrasting the eight year old clawing half his face
“finish making up lunch and i’ll have these buggers settled in a second” he barely manages to get out as the next girl is climbing on his back, asking for him to play dress up with them
“kay’ new rule” the older cameron removing each girl off, placing them on the large couch in front of him “we’re gonna keep our hands to ourselves”
a mixture of protests splurging out the young girls, attacking the older boy as he remains unbothered whipping out something from his bag
“so who wants to play just dance?”
the loud music bouncing from the speakers filled the house, voices dropping as the minutes went by, clearly worn out from the activity
now leading to a full circle formed with none other than sleepover champion rafe cameron in the middle- it truly was a sight to see, a mixture of pre-tweens pounce him with questions
“is she your girlfrienddd?” a voice chirps out, leading all the girls to wait, anticipating for his answer
the cameron lets out a proud ‘yeah’ causing an uproar of giggles, the young girls fascinated
“she’s pretty” they all mumble in unison, yawns making an appearance, as they all slowly start to lean into each other huddling into a blanket
“i know”
and as the night rolls over you see a certain cameron, reading out to the group of asleep girls tucking each and every one in
“point proven” you admit to him “ guess you are the sleepover champion after all” pressing a soft kiss to the tips of his nose
~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~🎀~🩰~
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lovelyjj · 2 months
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just thinking about how jj would be so sweet with your younger brother or sister. Little awkward at first but they adore jj and always asks when jj is coming again or if jj wants to play
aw how cute!
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Your younger sibling would absolutely adore JJ. They would look up to him, and would think he’s the coolest. Their relationship made you happy. You thought it was cute.
When your little sister Ella first met JJ, she was a little shy at first. Your relationship with JJ was getting serious so you decided it was time for them to meet. She hid behind your leg at first but then JJ went on his knees to get to her level.
Ella was happy that JJ accommodated to her size.
“Hi little one, I’m JJ,” JJ whispered.
“JJ? I like your name,” Ella softly told him.
“Thanks,” JJ winked at her and she giggled.
After the hellos were said and done the three of you decided to go to the park. Ella wanted JJ to push her on the swings, so that’s what he did.
Ella was enjoying herself on the swings. JJ pushed her carefully as you watched the two interact. Ella was laughing and smiling the whole time at the park.
You decided to have a picnic at the park and JJ helped you set up while Ella played on the playground. When you were finished setting up you called Ella over.
The three of you enjoyed fruit and sandwiches. It was a beautiful day at the park and you and JJ were happy to be together and you had an extra special guest who you didn’t mind sharing the day with, your sister.
“Why do you like my sister JJ?” Ella asked him.
“Well there are a lot of reasons. One of them being she’s perfect, and perfect for me. She has a good heart and she loves me as much as I love her. She’s kind, humble, sweet, caring, and beautiful.”
“Wow,” Ella giggled, “that’s a lot!”
“You’re very nice,” you leaned into JJ going in for a kiss.
JJ met you half way and locked his lips onto yours. The kiss was soft and gentle but you felt love oozing out of it.
“Ewwwww!” Ella cried disgusted.
You simply pulled away from the kiss and laughed. JJ snickered too.
When you were done at the park you all went home. The next plan was to watch a movie.During the movie Ella fell asleep on JJ’s lap.
“Are you ok?” you mouthed to JJ.
“Yeah she’s fine right here,” JJ whispered.
You thought it was adorable that Ella felt so comfortable around JJ.
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The next day Ella came up to you and asked excitedly, “Is JJ coming over today?
“I think he’s coming tomorrow,” you explained
“Aw i wanted to play with him,” Ella sounded disappointed
“I know you did E, but you can play with him tomorrow.”
“Yeah I guess,” she gave a tight lipped smile.
When tomorrow finally arrived Ella was over the moon. JJ knocked on the door and you opened it greeting him with a kiss. JJ walked into your house and sat down in the couch.
“How’s my favorite 5 year old,” JJ asked when he saw Ella.
“Hi JJ, I’m good. Do you want to play with me?”
“Of course.”
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d0llfaac3 · 1 month
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OBX P!LINKS
Warning: mdni, porn, just full 18+ warning if any of the links don’t work tell me!!
Rafe Cameron
Tatted!rafe fucking you over a counter
Cute morning sex with Rafe
Rafe eating you out
Backshots
Hospital sex 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
JJ maybank
JJ taking a video of ur ass
Giving JJ a Blowjob
JJ after Rafe flirted with you
Overnight at the beach
Giving him a handjob at the beach
Potentially a part 2 coming soon 😔😔
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cosmicmunsonwrites · 9 months
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can you maybe write something about jj always wanting to eat his girl out if that's okay:D
oh so close
pairing(s): bf!jj maybank x gf!fem!reader
warnings: implied oral, pet names, talks of sex
summary: jj begs to return the favor to his favorite girl.
authors note: thank you for the request, hun! enjoy :))
not edited
do not copy my works. i do not condone rewrites, translations, or edited versions. all my content is my content that i wrote.
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“please, please, please?” jj begged with his head laying on your stomach.
you chuckled to yourself. “no,” you replied.
“why?” he whined.
“maybe cause you just did it this morning? i need a break too,” you said, stifling a laugh.
he pouted and groaned. “you’ve had like 7 hours between then. you’ll be fine, baby.”
“i’m still sensitive, jj,” you reminded him.
he glared up at you. “even better,” he stated. “please, pretty girl? you know i’ll make you feel good.”
“i know you will,” you replied. “but you already did this morning.”
“you can go twice in one day, i know you can. you’ve done it before,” he said with a sweet smile.
you hated how soft and pretty he looked like this. you hated how you couldn’t help but say yes when he was looking at you like this, all pouty with glossy eyes.
“fine.”
the smile that took over his lips was huge as he urgently began to move down to lay between your legs. “trust me, sweetheart. i’ll make it so much better than this morning.”
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princessmaybank · 4 months
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Outer Banks P!Links
~Only JJ, Rafe, John B, and Pope but willing to look for others!~
*I'm aware some of them look nothing like them, but that's okay, it's all for fun*
WARNINGS: MDNI, THIS IS 18+, PORN LINKS
JJ
3way with Sarah
Best friends fucking
JJ finger blasting you
Bouncing on his cock
Sucking off Tatted!JJ
Rafe
playing with yourself while satisfying Rafe
Dom!Rafe playing with your little pussy
Stepbro!Rafe helps you out
Rafe taking you from behind
Taking you to pound town
John B
John B and JJ giving you a helping hand
Bouncing on JB's dick
JB eating you out
Shower sex w/ JB
Bouncing on his dick in the car
Pope
Pope puts his hands in your panties
Riding him in public
Destroying each other
Stretching you out
Pope dicking you down
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shellxrls · 2 months
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MDNI | 18+ content
jj's definitely the type of bf to inspect your pussy after a good orgasm. sticking his face down there to part your puffy folds with his forefingers, maybe kiss your clit once or twice to feel your body jerk and thrash against him in overstimulation.
"think i got 'er good this time babe, don't know if she'll be able to make a full recovery."
and you have to laugh and slap at his biceps to get his face away from your pussy bcuz the look in his eyes suggests a round two — and as his earlier statement hinted — you were in no way ready for that.
bonus points if you let him cum inside you and part of his little 'inspection' routine includes him scooping the cum up from your sopping hole and spreading it all the way around your pussy until you're crying from the overstimulation and clawing at him to stop with glossy eyes.
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