After all this time⇢ ꒰Rafe Cameron꒱

chapter twenty-one

the sound of sarah's voice woke flora up from her sleep, and she put her face into one of sarah's pillows when she remembered what happened yesterday night between her and rafe. butterflies filled her stomach, and she tried her best to hide the smile on her face.

"you have so much explaining to do!" flora exclaimed when sarah walked through the door. "you and john b? since when?" flora sat straight up when sarah walked into her room, a humongous smile on her face,

"he's downstairs! oh my god he's downstairs!" sarah squealed.

"sarah! i need details, clarification! who is downstairs?" flora asked, starting to get impatient.

"john b, he's living with us now, and we're practically dating." sarah said, laying down next to flora on the bed.

"no way!" flora said, hitting sarah in the face with a pillow.

"yes way, we hung out a few times, and then it just happened, we just kissed," sarah said, a smile forming on her face once more when she thought about john b.

"but why is he living here?" flora wondered.

"yesterday, topper found out that john b and i were together, and he got angry, really angry, so he pushed john b from the tower, and so obviously he got really hurt. we took him to the hospital and since he has been living alone, my dad decided to take him in," sarah said, a smile on her face.

"and how does rafe feel about all of this?" flora asked, knowing that rafe would be lucid if he knew a pogue was staying in his house.

"flora, i think you're the only one who cares how rafe feels about this situation," sarah said.

"oh shut up," flora exclaimed, jumping on top of sarah and hitting her with the pillow she was holding. "i am going to take a shower," she said, exiting the room.

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"man, check out this place," flora heard the voice say from the garden, she peaked through the window and saw the creepy guy rafe went to get drugs from. she tossed her hair into a ponytail and made her way downstairs, the fact that he was here was not good news at all.

"hey barry," rafe said, obviously taken off guard by barry showing up. rafe whispered something to him but it was not audible to flora, she knew that if rafe caught her spying on them he would be livid.

the only thing flora was able to hear from rafe was the word "coke" and that made her blood boil. she knew rafe was going through a lot, and no one understood the pressure he had from his dad. he wasn't okay, so he was turning to substances to make him feel better, except it didn't, it made him feel worse, and she had to find a way to explain that to him.

"how come you got all this nice shit though!" she heard barry yell, he had a hand on rafe's shoulder now, and he was getting closer to him. barry almost threw a punch at rafe, and that is when she decided to come out of the bushes.

"rafe!" she said casually, walking up to him and barry, "what's going on?" she questioned.

"chill,chill, not in front of her," rafe said quickly, walking towards flora. 

"i don't care if she's here," barry said simply, taking rafe by the hands and pulling him towards his bike.

"what are you doing!" flora yelled.

"putting that on, yeah" barry said with a smile, as if the sizzling of rafe's hand on the bike was satisfying to him.

"stop, stop, stop," she heard rafe scream, but she was too furious and barry for hurting rafe, she quickly got closer to the two and pulled barry's hair.

"let him go!" she screamed, not wanting rafe to be hurt.

"ouch!" barry yelled, holding his ponytail angrily.

rafe fell backwards because of the pain, his hand was clearly burnt.

"you already hurt him enough barry, look at him, he can't even stand up." flora said, pointing at rafe who was on the floor.

"consider this his down payment," barry said, hopping on rafe's bike and driving away. "tell your boyfriend he got three days," barry yelled.

flora ignored the butterfly in her stomach when barry called rafe her boyfriend, and quickly helped rafe get up.

"we have to put ice on your hand rafe, or it'll get really bad," flora said with worry laced onto her voice.

"what were you doing here,"rafe said angrily. "you could've gotten hurt, i know barry, he could've put his hands on you!"

"i can defend myself rafe, and i don't care about barry hurting me, you're obviously in trouble with him, and he thinks you're my boyfriend, so he'll come after me next." flora said, trying to justify why she was there.

"i am your boyfriend," rafe said, standing up on his own, helping flora with his good hand along the way.

"i don't think so rafe, since when?" flora questioned, trying to hide the fact that he hoped he remembered their conversation from the previous night.

"i wasn't that drunk yesterday dollface, and i think we made it clear, as long as i try becoming a better person, you'll be mine. so i'm going to pay barry back and try to start fresh." he explained, a smirk on his face.

"okay,"flora said with a smile completely in denial, forgetting that him wanting to change for the best over night was just too eay. "now let's go fix your hand," she said grabbing her boyfriends other hand and walking into the cameron household.