After all this time⇢ ꒰Rafe Cameron꒱

chapter eight

"the salvage yard, they got a drone that can drop 1,000 feet, it has a 360 camera and everything, it's for deep dives and stuff," jj explained, shrugging his shoulders.

"and can your dad get his grimy little hands on that?" john b asked, not convinced by jj's words. 

"his ass got himself fired, but the drone's there, i'm sure of it," jj said surely.

"how much did you say was on the royal merchant again?" kiara whispered, hoping flora didn't hear her words. flora, who was discreetly listening to their conversation had heard everything, those words were oddly familiar to her.

"400 million," john b whispered back, a smirk on his face.

"whatever you guys are doing, can i come?" flora asked, hoping she wasn't too direct and that they would say yes.

"sorry babe, but top mission pogue things," jj said quickly, walking towards the girl. "don't be a stranger though," he whispered in her ear before exiting the room with the three other pogues.

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"stupid mission pogue, i'm a great treasure hunter," flora said under her breathe, walking into the cameron household from the kitchen.

"i don't want you to say anything!" she heard ward scream. flora looked outside the window, careful not to get caught. rafe was sitting in front of ward, no emotions on his face. "i gave you money for the generators!" ward yelled, only getting simple "okay's" and " i know" from rafe. "where are they?" ward pesisted.

"they're on backorder," rafe said simply, stretching his arms. 

"of course they are," ward said unconvinced, eyeing his son up and down as if he were a disgrace.

"there was a hurricane!" rafe said, trying to contain his anger. 

"i tell you what, you know that pogue i just fired? way more reliable than you," ward said, referring to john b.

"really?" rafe said quietly. flora knew his quietness indicated hurt, but his father would never put two and two together. he didn't know his son well enough.

"you need to get it together rafe, or you can go live on the cut," flora bit the inside on her cheek, rafe was everything to her, and his father just didn't understand him. maybe rafe was trying, maybe ward was the problem.

"wow," rafe said, laughing in disbelief. 

"now get out of here, i'm sick of looking at you," ward said, getting up from his seat. flora quickly moved to go to the bathroom, before hearing rafe mutter. "sarah's not working,"

"this isn't about sarah rafe, you're almost 20," ward said sighing. flora often forgot the age difference between her and rafe. she had just turned 17. no one ever talked about their age difference because of how long the pair had loved each other, even if it seemed bizarre to some.

"i'll take care of those generators, okay," rafe said before walking into the house. flora quickly hid into the bathroom, pulling rafe by the back of his shirt when he walked past her.

"flora," rafe mumbled, as if he was annoyed of seeing the girl.

"what'd you do with the money rafe?" the girl whispered, pulling rafe into a tight hug. she wouldn't let rafe's anger get the best of him, she wouldn't let him isolate himself anymore. people needed people, and she was going to be his person.

"come with me," rafe said, grabbing flora by the hand, pulling her to the backyard. "you fucked a pogue to forget me, i bought a motorcycle to forget you," he whispered, putting his helmet on.

"so, where are we going," flora asked, smiling at the boy slightly. 

"you're not going anywhere with me right now," rafe said, pulling the girl closer, wanting to feel his lips on hers.

"please," flora said, giving rafe puppy dog eyes, something that always made him say yes.

"fuck sake," rafe said, removing his helmet and putting it on the girl. "you good?" he asked the girl, looking back towards her making sure she was gripping his waist tightly. 

"i'm amazing," flora said, a rush of adrenaline flowing through her blood.

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"whatever happens, don't let go of my hand dollface," rafe whispered, removing the helmet from flora's head. flora had never been to this side of the island before, this was where all the drug addicts lived, she wasn't going to be scared, she was with rafe, nothing could happen to her.

"you should pop that collar bro, nice girl," a man said, winking at flora. flora's hand tensed in rafe's, but he squeezed it reassuringly, even if he was uneasy, he wouldn't let anyone touch his girl.

"hey, barry," rafe said, talking to a brown-haired boy. barry looked at flora up and down, smirking slightly when he saw rafe's hand in hers. 

"hey country boy!" he said getting up. "this your girl?" he asked, referring to flora. 

"yeah man," rafe said, quickly letting go of flora's hand to give barry and handshake hug. he quickly placed his hand back in hers, holding it tightly.

"let's see what we got here," barry muttered, walking into a dark room, flora and rafe trailing not far behind him. "and voila," barry said, holding up a small bag filled with cocaine.

"holy shit," flora said, quickly letting go of rafe's hand. 

"calm down dollface," rafe answered, pulling her hand back in his, scared something would happen to the girl.

"your girl doesn't know you're looking for this?" barry asked, moving his body in front of flora's. 

"yeah, yeah," rafe said, moving flora behind him protectively.

"you got the cabbage?" barry asked, smirking at rafe's action.

"i was hoping for a little credit," rafe muttered.  "listen man," rafe protested, knowing that barry wouldn't give him any credit.

"you're hoping in the wrong place," barry said, closing the bag that contained all the merchandise.

"you do know how much i'll move that, right," rafe said, smirking slightly. 

"you deal that shit?" flora said in disbelief, biting the inside of her cheek.

"not the time dollface," rafe muttered. "i'll be here in what, two days tops," rafe said, trying to convince barry. "you want my bike as collateral?" rafe asked, as if it all were just an easy trade.

barry quietly laughed at his words, his eyes resting on flora's, a grin on his face. "you stupid," barry said laughing. "not the bike, the girl, i want the girl," he said, an evil grin on his face. rafe's hand tensed under flora's, he was ready to fight barry. 

"deal," flora said, now standing in front of rafe protectively. 

"your girl got balls kid, i'll give you that." barry said grinning. "i'll give you two days max," he said, shaking flora's hand in agreement.