There are two things everyone on the island knows about you: you're trouble, and somehow, everyone wants to be the one standing closest when it starts. A summer with the Pogues and Kooks was never going to be quiet. Between beach parties, bonfires, late nights, reckless decisions, and the endless war between the Cut and Figure Eight, you've somehow become the center of something far more complicated. Because somewhere along the way, everyone started falling for you. JJ flirts like it's a competition. Kiara notices the things nobody else does. John B is the friend you trust most. Pope sees more in you than you realize. Sarah makes her feelings difficult to hide. Cleo refuses to let you get away with anything. Barry finds your chaos far too entertaining. And then there's Rafe. None of them are supposed to know about the others. None of them are supposed to be jealous. And definitely none of them are supposed to care this much. But you notice the lingering looks. The arguments. The competition for your attention. The way the atmosphere changes whenever you walk into a room. You could choose one. Instead, you make everything worse. Because this summer isn't just about who falls first. It's about who finally admits they fell at all.
Everyone on the Cut knows you and JJ Maybank are inseparable. Best friends since forever, partners in every bad decision, and the first people to have each other's backs when things go wrong. To everyone else, you're just thatβbest friends. What you don't know is that JJ has been in love with you for years. He's hidden it behind sarcastic remarks and crooked smiles, convinced that telling you would only ruin the one relationship he can't afford to lose. But as feelings start to shift and the lines between friendship and something more begin to blur, both of you are forced to face the one thing neither of you ever saw coming. Sometimes the greatest risk isn't falling in love. It's realizing you've been in love all along.
When you get a text from Fred, asking for spicy pictures, and a text from Draco, asking for notes, you quickly send the pictures absent-mindedly, and sent them both the wrong thing. Now you have to handle a flustered Draco Malfoy and a very confused Fred Weasley.
You accidentally sent a spicy picture to Mattheo that was meant for your casual fling Theo, and a picture of your Potions essay to Theo that was meant for Mattheo. Now they're both confused. But, Mattheo seems to be taking it very well.
It's the week before the dance marathon in Stars Hollow. Your partner got sick. You are very competitive about the marathon because you've almost won it 2 years in a row if it weren't for your partners. Now, you have half of a week to find a new partner. Everyone already has one. Well, everyone but Jess. He's not going. But, he loves making sarcastic comments to you, so you are quite confident you can convince him to be your partner. It won't be easy though.
You're at a Nickelback concert. You're drinking, obviously, and a bit tipsy despite the fact you drank enough to make a blonde girl fall on her face. You're dancing with your friends, just enjoying your night, when Ryan (the guitarist) busts his nose open on something. He can't continue to play, he has to go get checked out but he'll be cleared before the end of the set. Chad looks around at the crowd and asks if anyone know the guitar part to Skinny Little Missy. There's a ton of guys raising their hands and yelling. You know it, so you raise your hand, but you're not looking for attention. You're not yelling, just raising your hand in a quiet admission. You think Chad is going to pick one of the many guys yelling for him. But he locks eyes with you instead.
You're the cheer captain for Stars Hollow High. You don't do it for the same reasons the other girls do. You just like being in charge, yelling, and having something to do in your free time when it isn't softball season. You're confident, sarcastic, and challenging. You're really close with Luke, basically father daughter relationship. You're parents aren't in town. They moved to Hartford when you were 16 and you hated it so you got a job at the music store and you pay for an apartment in Stars Hollow.
You walk in on Mattheo crying. He has just gonna back from his parents house and his father hit him. it's obvious written all over the bruises and bleeding on his face. but he wont outright tell you.
They broke up when they had to go their separate ways at Hogwarts. No bad blood. No contact. Until, he shows up in her bar and suddenly it's like no time passed at all.
You're an indie singer. You're at a concert, singing your music, when you completely forget a lyric of your new song. You laugh it off, and the audience laughs with you. You ask if anyone knows it and a quiet guy in the front sings it.
Wren, {y/n}, is having the absolute worst day imaginable. Car troubles, family drama, you name it. Her car decides to give up on her in the gas station parking lot. Flat tire. She doesn't have a spare, doesn't have the money for a tow company, and no one can pick her up. She looks across the parking lot, sees a guy on a motorcycle and thinks "Fuck it. What have I got to lose?" So, she asks him for a ride.
