"Rafe" I spat, the annoyance leaking from my tone.
"Babe" He singsonged, flashing his award winning smile at me.
The look alone making the butterflies erupt in my stomach and my body go weak at my knees. I longed for Rafe, thought I still couldn't quite figure out in which way. I love him, of course. But what did it all mean?
"Stop, your sister is next door" I whined, my eyes rolling along with my words.
"And so? She always is Maddie" It was his turn to be annoyed with me, though his annoyance coming for a slightly different reason.
"But what if she gets mad" another whine escaping my lips.
He reaches his long arms out to me, pulling me into his chest. His words just above a whisper now as he brushes a loose strand of hair from my eyes.
"Maddie, baby. You're acting like we are plotting her murder. We are literally just finding away to get her and Top back together" the blonde haired boy was less than amused with my dramatic antics. His fingers running their way through my hair ever so slightly.
"But it's an invasion of her love life" I said more to myself than to him. I did care about Sarah's privacy but more importantly I worried for Topper, he was my best friend after all and he was ruined by the Cameron girl already, and not that long ago might I add.
"She's an invasion of my life so it's fine" he stated, his chuckle causing his chest to rise and fall moving me along with it.
We had been at this for hours. Sarah Cameron has been one of my closest friends since we were 7 and well Rafe, he just seemed to come along with her. As the years have passed he's become more than just a 'friend' he's become my best friend and as the days past I'd swear we spent more time together than the blonde girl and I.
Though I like to blame most of that or her sudden obsession on all things surrounding around the word "boys".
Rafe and I, well that's the complicated part.
You see we are best friends and no one could ever probably tell you any different.
It all started a few years ago, I had just ended things with my long term boyfriend and he had just ended things with a girl he would've swore he was going to marry.
A few innocent kisses behind closed doors and everything would be fine. But it wasn't and it isn't because now 3 years later there is still a very strong thing between us and even as others have tried to come and go I just can't seem to stay away from the Cameron boy.
It's always us at the end of the day. But we would never even think of taking the relationship farther than what it is at this exact moment.
Some might call us foolish I know,
but the love I have for Rafe Cameron is something I almost wish he would never know.
"I guess you're right" my voice soft as if the thoughts of Rafe were never just in my mind.
"I think she's been hanging around that Rutledge boy, John B?" Rafe's words were soft with a touch of annoyance. He lingered on the name, almost as if he wasn't 100% sure what he was beginning to tell me was true.
"Your dad's boat hand?" I question, turning to meet his face for the first time since the butterflies had died down.
His hand now still, placed firmly against my thigh.
"That would be the one. Damn Pouge, and she's dads favorite how?" His words were always bitter when he talked about his father.
His dad could never be anything less than condescending when talking to or about Rafe. It took me a long time to understand Ward Cameron, even as a child. He always was so deep in his business dealings he never really had time for Rafe or the girls either really.
"Sarah wouldn't hang around him if he wasn't a semi decent person"
I wanted to see the good in everyone.
Rafe trusted no one.
Though somehow we perfectly meshed together, he kept me grounded and safe and I pushed him to open up. It's almost as if we had a specific purpose for each other.
"Enough about them Mads, more about you" his bored stare found mine as a smile appeared on the boys face. His arms snaking back around my waist, sending light chills all over my body.
"Nothing to say about me, Cameron" a small smile playing back across my lips.
"I know something we could be doing" he smirks pulling himself closer to me with each word he spoke.
"And what would that be Mr. Cameron?" His smirk never faltering. My smile grew bigger at the affection he was giving me. My stomach was doing flips, it felt like the first time all over again. Though I can admit, I did not ever want to stop having this feeling. I loved getting caught up in Rafe Cameron. It was like a high, one I have yet to be able to match.
"This"
Before I knew it the blonde had his hand wrapped up, tangling it's way through my brown waves of hair that had managed to fall their way out of the messy bun it once was in. A single simple kiss had my heart beating harder and harder by the minute.
There was something about Rafe that made my heart feel like it was falling out of my chest, no matter how many times we did this innocent little thing.
"I never get tired of you" his words were soft almost in a coo. This was a side of Rafe not many people got to see but it was pure bliss when you did. It made you feel like you were the prettiest princess in any disney fairytale, the one all the other girls wished they could be.
"Right back at ya, babe"
Babe.
Slipping so smoothly off both our lips as if it were the easiest thing we had ever said. But that's the joke, to him it had no meaning and well to me. I hadn't quite figured that one out yet.
"I better be heading out. Sarah and I have lunch plans down at the Wreck. Want me to pick you up for Top's party?" I spoke while reaching under by bed to find my other converse that so conveniently had slipped under the dark bedding.
"Oh." He stopped. Searching for anything and everything as long as it didn't involve looking me in the face.
"About that" Rafe's voice trailed off once again, his eyes still not meeting mine.
I continued gathering my things waiting for the boy to finish his thought. "Emily texted me this morning, she wanted me to go with her." He finally rushes out, sighing as though a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.
I know my face dropped. As much as I didn't want Rafe to know I wasn't as okay with this arrangement as he was. Sometimes I couldn't let the looks pass me over.
"Oh" simple, yet the one word that I spoke told him everything. He knew it bothered me, he knew I would question myself the rest of the evening over why she had yet again been better than I was. Before I could even begin to think about continuing my sentence he was up and by my side. Arms wrapped tightly around my hip bones, his chin resting gently on my shoulder. A small kiss lingering on my jaw.
"Maddie" Rafe spoke so softly I would've never heard him if his lips weren't just inches from my own.
"It's not even like that, you know that." He paused, searching my face for any time of reaction.
"She needs me, you know how her parents are. I'm her only out, she trusts me to make her feel better" he almost pleaded with me. Though sounding more like he was trying to make himself believe more than myself.
Emily was Rafe's ex. The only girl he ever dropped me for. You see when Rafe and Emily got together there was no more us. Not even friends, well until the end. She always doubted the innocence of our friendship and she made it very known.
Rafe never cheated on her though. He really liked the girl, well until he realized having her meant no more me. That also meant whatever sick game he thinks this is wasn't playing out in his favor anymore.
She likes to play this game every so often with him. Call him crying begging for his help. She pleads and whines about how much she needs him to make her feel better. She was lonely and upset and the kook princess always made it believable, no batter the cost.
"It's whatever, I think I'll live."
"Maddie, baby. You know you're always my number one"
Another kiss on my jaw had my knees weak and I know he had to notice this time. He never said a word though, he just let me leave.
And that's why an issue is always present when you're in love with your best friend.
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Hi friends!
I don't know how I like the plot line of this story but we are going to run with it!
Any ideas are welcome!
Do you guys want it to follow the outer banks plot line with? Or a new take with a more innocent yet possessive Rafe?
Love always,
B