on a small part of land in outer banks Kildare County, there's a majority of land dedicated to wealthy people, the ones that have two houses and four boats, called figure 8. then there's a portion of the island dedicated to the lower class people, the cut, the people who have two jobs and work on boats, this split island is where our story takes place. Rafe, kelce, and topper have been best friends for many years, they meet at the private school on the country club they all went too and instantly became inseparable, through it all they stuck together and are like the three Musketeers. Topper has a little sister, Ayla, who was best friends with rafes little sister Sarah. kelce and Rafe where strictly forbidden from dating Ayla, years ago but at the time none of them cared at all, she was just a little girl anyway, that they all saw as a sister figure. Until she hit high school and had a big glow up, found who she was and what she liked, and how to style her look, both kelce and topper got more protective over her as she hit this new beauty. Rafe was completely love struck, he'd never seen anyone so beautiful in his life, out of all the girls he lead on all he could think about was Ayla, and how he couldn't wait to see her again when she came over to hang out with Sarah, or when he went to toppers house, he became obsessed with her, stalking her every move and never letting anyone say or do anything bad to her, especially boys, before they even started dating the whole figure 8 knew Ayla belonged to Rafe. After a while topper finally gave up and let Rafe date his little sister, not thinking it would last more then rafes usual two week situation ships, but they've been going on strong for three years now, after rafe did a big proposal in Jamaica, there now engaged.