LITTLE SECRET | RAFE CAMERON

58: 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳

R A F E

„Who are you texting?" Kelce asked curiously, crumbling the weed on the thin paper between his fingers.

„Wait" Rafe mumbled.

He looked down at his phone. The message shining back at him...confused him. Surprised him, even.

He and Kelce were sitting on his balcony, having hardly seen each other in the last couple of weeks. For obvious reasons. But Rafe was fed up with Kelce's constant complaints, so he had invited him over.

Rafe put down his phone and took the paper from Kelce. „it's Ian" He said, clasping a filter tip between his lips.

„Bonding with the brother-in-law, huh?" Kelce laughed, leaning back.

„Shut up" Rafe huffed through his nose and rolled the paper between his fingers, placing the small filter on one end before dragging his tongue over the paper and rolling it into a joint.

„What does he want?" Kelce wondered.

Rafe had asked himself the same question when Ian's notification popped up on his phone. As far as he remembered, he had threatened him the last time they had seen each other.

He handed Kelce the finished joint. „he asks if we wanna come over"

„Wait a minute" Kelce said, raised his hand with the joint stuck between his fingers. „Ian asks if you wanna come over?"

„We" Rafe corrected him.

Smiling, Kelce put the joint between his lips and lit it. „I get why he wants me to come over, but you?"

Rafe gave him the middle finger. But maybe Kelce was right somewhere. So far, Ian didn't seem interested in rekindling their old friendship. Especially not now that he was dating his little sister.

He leaned deeper into the sofa on his balcony and took the joint from Kelce.

The smoke from the puff he took spread deep into his lungs, rose back up and escaped through his mouth into the night air.

And suddenly his thoughts wandered to the girl who had clouded his mind more than the weed.

Rafe dropped his head to one side and looked back at Kelce. „you wanna go?"

„To Ian's place?"

„Yeah"

„Mh no, this is gonna be like that one time Alice had a sleepover with Sarah" Kelce shook his head firmly and took the joint. „when you two disappeared upstairs as soon as Sarah fell asleep"

Rafe grinned at the memory of that night. „you would've done the same in my position"

„There are many things I'd do if I was in your position" Kelce daydreamed as he looked up at the night sky.

„What did you just say?" Rafe narrowed his eyes.

„It's the weed, makes me say stuff" Kelce said over the tight cloud of smoke.

Shaking his head, Rafe leaned back again, dropped his head onto the backrest and picked up his phone. He stared at Ian's message that lingered unanswered on his display. He hadn't heard from Alice all day. She had told him that she'd be having a sleepover with some girls tonight, but there was something about not knowing what she was doing that bothered him.

A L I C E

No matter how hard she tried, Alice couldn't get her mind around it. She didn't normally like to change her habits. Well, if she could stick to these habits.