She fled.

It’s a simple as that. Y/N Y/LN, Kook Princess, the human embodiment of sunshine, fled the Outer Banks as soon as she graduated high school.

It was a shock. No one knew she was leaving except for her parents and her best friend, Sarah Cameron. She didn’t even tell her boyfriend. She didn’t tell JJ.

Sweet, beautiful JJ Maybank.

It had been her way of protecting him, protecting herself. They loved each other, more than anyone in the world. So, when, Y/N just up and left, JJ was left shattered, basically a shell of who he was before. He drank, he got into fights with Kooks, he was even arrested once.

His girl, his baby. She was gone. Just disappeared from his life like she never ever existed.

They were eighteen. It was two years ago.

They say time heals but it doesn’t.

Two years ago, she fled. But now, Y/N stands outside her parents beachside mansion. Twenty years old, and an entire new person.

Living in Hawai’i for college will do that to a person. Her once brown hair is nearly blonde from sun-bleach, her skin once tan is now even tanner, a beautiful golden color. She’s grown into her body now. No longer lanky and awkward, but a woman.

She sucks in a deep breath and opens the French doors. The house is silent, not a sign of her mom or dad.

“Mama?” She calls out.