The Girl In The Shadow || Outerbanks || Pope Heyward & Cleo Anderson

19.

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"...you're not supposed to break the pasta!" Valera said, snatching the box of pasta from Topper, who scoffed.

"Who cares! It's pasta, and I'm hungry!" Topper agrued, snatching the box back.

"Who cares!? I'll tell you who cares -"

Valera was cut off by a door slamming shut before footsteps came closer, and Rafe appeared looking irritated.

"I can hear the two of you outside. What the hell happened to laying low?" Rafe asked them, glaring at them.

Topper huffed, "I want to make spaghetti, but val says you can't break the pasta cause it's supposedly illegal."

"It is illegal in Italy!" Valera agrued, and Rafe rolled his eyes.

"Oh my god, here, you two shut the fuck up, I'll cook the stupid pasta however the fuck I want." Rafe said, snatching the box of pasta from Topper.

Valera and Topper shared a look, snickering behind Rafe, who slammed the pasta down and turned to look at them.

"What?"

Valera smiled at him, "Nothing."

Rafe narrowed his eyes at her before he noticed her hair. "You dyed your hair, Black?" He turned to look at Topper, "you let her dye her hair Black."

Topper shrugged, "she threatened to starve me."

"This is your house." Rafe reminded him, and Topper scoffed, "and I don't want to die in my own house, so I brought her hair dye. She looks good, by the way."

Valera smiled at Topper, "Thank you."

"No problem, babe." Topper winked at her, leaning closer.

"No, no, what the fuck is happening right now? Weren't the two of you just arguing? And, babe? The fuck?" Rafe questioned, pushing Topper away from Valera.

"Rafe...Top, and I...are in a relationship." Valera told him, and Rafe snapped his head to look at her, and Valera burst out laughing, holding her side,

"Ow, fuck, that hurt but it was so worth it, you should've seen your face!" Valera said,

Topper laughed, "it was priceless!"

Rafe rolled his eyes, "Why are you two suddenly friends?"

"Well, If you leave two people by themselves, they tend to talk and become friends." Valera replied, and Topper nodded

"Especially ones that help you stich yourself up after you passed out." Topper said

"Go back to hating each other, please." Rafe told them,

Valera and Topper gasped, "You said please."

"No, no, don't start being creepy and start saying shit in synce." Rafe said,

Valera giggled, turning to look at Topper with a grin, "Oh, did he ever tell you about that time we were watching the shining, and Rafe got scared when the twins came on tv."

"I did not get scared!" Rafe denied as he started to cook.

"Yes, you did! I might've been twelve, but I remembered!" Valera told him, grinning

"If I remember correctly, you gave wheezie nightmares for a whole week, and it was you that was scared because you slept in my room for a whole week with wheezie, I remember because i was repeatedly kicked off my own bed, slapped in the face by wheezie so many times that I decided to just sleep on the floor." Rafe said,