Oh Wow, The One Time You Told Her No...and It Took You What? Five Minutes To Remember That One Time

❝ Oh wow, the one time you told her no...and it took you what? Five minutes to remember that one time ? ❞ Rafe raises his brow to Topper and his voice gets high pitched. Rafe can tell that he's getting under Top's skin with this but he's just spitting the facts. ❝ She's going to leave you, dude. It's what she does. ❞

Sarah tells Wheezie and Wheezie tells Rafe. Great. Fantastic. WONDERFUL. Dear God, he hates this. "For fuck's sake. . ." He breathes in and then slowly exhales his annoyance. Is nothing sacred?

"One time? Okay, yeah, one time. Remember that day she ended up hurting her arm and she wanted to go to a party anyway? I told her no and I stayed in with her." That. . . is not helping his case. "A smotherer? Are you frickin' - - -." He cuts himself off. "Really?" Top's voice gets higher pitched and he's trying so hard not to get emotional about this, but what?

❝ You really think I'm telling you all of this because I'm missing you or some shit ? No, it's me trying to have your back. ❞ he tells Topper, and Topper doesn't see it that way. It's fine, he will. When Sarah stomps n his heart like it's a sport.

❝ The sooner you realize that you're giving her more than you're getting -- and that has nothing to do with sex -- the sooner you can get your balls back. ❞

"Oh my God, there's been OTHER times. Alright? You're pressuring me, man." How can he remember the other singular time that he's said no to Sarah with Rafe BREATHING down his neck like that?

"Why do you say that? I'm not - - - I am NOT smothering her. I'm just being there for her, alright? Fuck. Do you want me to spend more time with you? Is that what this third degree is?"

  𝖧𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗆𝖺𝖽𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗃𝖺𝗐 𝖼𝗅𝖾𝗇𝖼𝗁 and his fingers tempted to ball into a fist. Eyes shut for a moment before he opened them and he glanced at Cassandra trying to ease the fire behind the expression. Hatred? Anger? Uncertainty? Somehow a mix of all of those and yet not for her -- just for the company she decided she's going to keep. She's a kook trying to parade around like a pogue. She's not the first, Kie did the same thing, even Sarah is dipping her toes into it.

What is it about them, he wonders, that's willing to turn the ones with the most potential into ❛ love struck ❜ idiots ? Willing to give up everything good for some guy who hasn't a penny to their name. What do they have to even offer them except a life of misery and struggles ?

It baffles him. But he doesn't question it ; question her. Not now. Not yet.

❝ Aw, it's like you're trying to hurt my feelings. ❞ he rolls his eyes. ❝ You know this would be over sooner if you shut. up. ❞

@ladamerevuse ❛ out of all the people here, why do i have to be stuck with you? ❜ - John B.'s Cass

I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Conrad fisher just owned Rafe Cameron.

Ding ding ding.

Fisher 1. Cameron 0.

cora solmar

𝖠𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗀𝖾𝗍𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗁𝗂𝗆𝗌𝖾𝗅𝖿 𝖼𝗅𝖾𝖺𝗇 , Rafe took up cooking. Why? Basic need to eat, hated eating out all of the time, was something he learned in rehab and he actually liked doing it because it kept his mind focused on something else and he didn't get the dark thoughts / the questionable voices in his head.

Is he great at it? No, but can he make some good fucking meals? Yes. Yes he can.