Infatuation ~ Rafe Cameron

seventy-nine

"Go, Iris."

She sniffled, grabbing her things as her lower lip quivered, "I love you."

"Me too."

Me too.

She gave him one last look before she fled out the door, practically running to the one place she needed to be.

The middle of the water on a calm night.

Except it wasn't calm, it was raining.

So, she climbed on her family boat and sat there in the rain, crying as heavily as the rain was falling down around her.

He thought she was dead until a few days ago, so of course he'd want her in his grasp.

So why didn't she just say yes?

She didn't exactly say no, but it was implied that now wasn't a good time.

How could she be so stupid as to mess this up?

Rafe took ten minutes to let out his frustrations before re-joining the party. His eyes were immediately drawn to the table covered in coke as person after person took lines. He shook it off, pretending that was something he didn't see before he finally found Topper and Jack outside.

"Where you been?"

"Inside." Rafe muttered, taking a drink.

"Okay, what is up with everyone tonight?" Topper chuckled, "You good?"

"I'm fine, Top."

Yikes, Jack thought, something happened. Jack's eyes scanned the inside for the brunette as Rafe read his mind.

"She's not here, Jack."

Jack snapped his head towards Rafe, whose eyes were now focused on him, "How did you know?"

"You're not the first one to be on the lookout for her tonight." He muttered in response.

"I don't know what's going on, but I'm assuming something happened between you and-"

"Topper, don't." Rafe spat, "I don't want to talk about her."

"That's a first."

Both Jack and Topper were curious to know what went down between the Kook power couple, but they were not going to find anything out from Rafe, that's for damn sure.

"Pogues still here?" Rafe muttered a few seconds later and Topper shook his head.

"They're long gone, bro. I took care of it." Topper replied, "Hey, you know what's funny? I didn't see a John B with them at all tonight. Did he even make it back alive? I know that they said he did on the news."

"Who fucking knows." Jack muttered back.

"Did you see that his dad is alive too?"

"Yeah, what the fuck? So where has he been this entire time?" Jack chuckled.

"Not wanting to be associated with his treasure hunting freak of a son."

"Like father like son." Rafe spoke up, taking a drink.

"Yeah, you can say that." Jack replied smugly, as Rafe briefly met his eyes before glancing away.

Rafe lasted a good ten minutes in total with the two of them before he stormed back inside.

"What's his deal tonight?" Topper asked.

"No clue. I asked him about Iris earlier and he got super defensive and told me not to ask or think about her."