' , , He Can Then Drop The Faade And Simply Be With Her. When They're With His Friends The Mask Comes

𝖧𝖾 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾𝗌 𝗂𝗍 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒'𝗋𝖾 𝖺𝗅𝗈𝗇𝖾, 𝗍𝗈𝗈, he can then drop the façade and simply be with her. When they're with his friends the mask comes out and stays on until they're alone again. He chuckles though as he leans his head back. ❝ I agree. They can be a bit...❞ there are some words he does want to say about Ruthie but he keeps them to himself.❝ But now it's just us, we don't have to think about them.❞

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"Hmm." Sofia shrugs. "I wish I knew what to say, Rafe. I like us better when we're not hanging around your friends. They can be a little bit of a pill to swallow sometimes." Especially Ruthie, and Topper when they're together? God. . .

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@exbourgeois

where?

She swears to not speak of his random good deed and he smirks at her for a moment, then he looks back to the road. She's not that bad, but to let anyone know that he can be a good guy would brake the facade that he's got going. The only one who knows he can be a softie sometimes is Wheezie and yeah, he'd like to keep it that way most of the time. There are just some things better left to mystery.

❝ That's all I ask.❞ he replies. ❝ Never asked. How are you liking it here ? Weather aside.❞

@borntobebroken

As a girl that had been raised middle class bordering on poor during the lean times, Georgie had little in common with the wealthy crowd her cousin regularly surrounded himself with. Though she lived on the North side of the island with her uncle’s family, the petite surfer could honestly say she had never really taken to the Thorntons’ way of life. Perhaps that made her a Pogue at heart, but…

Well, Georgiana didn’t actually like them. They were all larger than life in a way that bordered on obnoxious. Even if Topper hadn’t actively hated them, Georgie would have steered clear anyway. Maybe you couldn’t judge a book by its cover, but she’d read enough of the summary to know they were trouble. And trouble was the absolute last thing she needed while living under her aunt’s roof.

Yet here she was accepting a ride from Rafe Cameron, one of the most infamous figures on the island, anyway. “Don’t worry, Cameron. I won’t tell anyone about your random good deed,” she quipped with the barest hint of a smile, voice quiet but playful. “The secret’s safe with me.”

He can't fully blame Ward, but a good portion of it is on him and the way he is now. The fact that he's got all of these issues and he opted to self medication. Ward didn't want to believe his son was weak and needed help. So why get him what he needed? He could pick himself up by his bootstraps and fix it himself. That's how his generation thinks, right?

Either way, there's a lot of things he wishes he could take back and how he treated Sarah is one of those things he wishes he could take back first. Everything else seems to come secondary - even though she's now friends with the pogues. Those apologies would have to wait sometime later.

He takes a breath, and as Sarah asks if he wants to get dinner with her he lets his mouth curl into a soft smile - a ghost of a thing - but it's there.

❝ I'd like that.❞

sarah can't always blame rafe for his actions. sure he was old enough and of sound mind most times but his actions weren't always driven by his own thoughts or feelings. ward had a way of twisting and manipulating things. a con if you will. like the lengths that ward would go to try to get sarah back. ward was the one who made their sibling bond into a competition for rafe. no matter how horrible sarah had been as a daughter, ward had always had this light. not that she wanted that view or anything from her father.

so as rafe cries, sarah holds onto him. she had people to rely on when she was at her breaking point and she realizes that rafe hasn't had the same luxury. she knows that topper and kelce are emotionally stunted. rose was never going to be a mother, she had never been to begin with. all they had were each other when it came to family and maybe it's their turn to fix things that are broken between them. they will never get any answers from ward and rose probably was too deep in the bottle to give them anything that made sense.

"hey, rafe..." she starts softly after a moment. "you want to grab some dinner or something? we can have a chinese take out night like we use to when we were kids." when they were a family."

DREW STARKEY in UP THE HILL (2016)