𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣'𝙨 𝙋𝙊𝙑
Barry's car comes to a stop and he looks at me but I ignore him, getting out of the car while trying to push all my fear and anxiety as far back in my mind as I possibly can.
"Rafe Cameron!" Barry sings loudly as we approach the country club and people start to stare at us "Get over here!"
"Are you supposed to be here, sir?" The man at the desk asks and Barry grabs the back of my neck, making me flinch.
"Yeah, I believe so" Barry smirks widely as Rafe storms towards us with Topper, both boys looking at me in confusion "Hey, look at what I found!"
"Hey. What are you doing, man? You good?" Rafe grabs Barry and escorts him out of the fence, leaving a confused Topper and I to follow them.
"No, I ain't good, man" Barry snaps, his amusement flipping to anger.
"All right, what-" Before Rafe can finish asking what's wrong Barry stops walking and spins to face my boyfriend.
"Why's your family think I'm just some bitch they can shit on?" Barry spits out "First your dad kneecaps me in my house"
"You got your money" Rafe argues.
"That ain't the point. I'm asking you, what am I?" Barry questions in rage "Am I just some little bitch? Is that what your family looks at me like?"
"No. No" Rafe tries to save his ass but Barry laughs in his face.
"No! No!" Barry mocks him "Okay, so then why is your little sister and her little surf rat friends running around stealing 25K out of my house? Can you tell me that?"
"My little sister robbed you?" Rafe asks in disbelief, looking at me for confirmation but I just shrug.
Barry stopped by his house on the way here and found his home ransacked, a bag with 25K in it missing from his room. He has immediately blamed the Pogues but we don't know for sure if it was even them, he's just pissed and jumping to conclusions.
"Yeah, Sarah robbed me. That's why I'm here" Barry confirms
"She won't pick a dollar up off the street, man. What are you talking about?" Rafe scoffs at the man.
"Do I look dumb to you? You think I don't understand what's goin' on here?" Barry retorts angrily "Cause I'm telling you right now, you better sort this out with your sister, or else I am"
"Cause I want my money" He adds.
As Barry and Rafe continue to argue, Topper pulls me to the side and I try to tune out the arguing.
"Are you okay? Why are you with him?" Topper questions me, but Barry seems to hear him and takes it as an opportunity to rat me out.
"Oh, you wanna know how I found little miss sunshine, huh?" Barry laughs, grabbing my arm and pulling me next to him so I'm facing Rafe "Go ahead. Tell Rafe how I found you"
"I was with Sarah" I answer vaguely without actually lying and Barry's grip tightens on my already bruised arm till I wince in pain.
"Hey, man. Loosen up. You're hurting her!" Topper demands but he's ignored.
"You're pretty little girlfriend was with your sister and those fucking Pogues" Barry reveals and Rafe looks at me in anger.
"You were what?" He grits out.
"They are my friends" I admit, feeling a little too brave and his face contorts with rage.
"How many times do I need to tell you that they're not your fucking friends, Allison?!" Rafe screams at me, grabbing my arms from Barry's hold and shaking me roughly.
"Rafe, stop it!" Topper yells.
"Sort this shit out with your sister, Rafe. I'mma get my money" Barry declares, walking backwards to his car "If it's not from you, it's from her. Remember that"
"I'll see you boys around" He adds before getting into the vehicle and driving off.
"Hey, what the hell is goin' on?" Topper questions, prying me from Rafe's hold.
"I don't fucking know" Rafe spits.
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I sit on my living room sofa as Rafe rages at me in anger, his pissed off voice echoing throughout my empty house and I pretend to be nonchalant but I feel like it's only making him angrier.
"Fucking answer me, Allison!" He hollers at me.
"I don't know what you want me to say!" I scream in defence.
He looks at me in surprise and I immediately regret raising my voice at the angry eldest Cameron.
"Is that what your dirty Pogue friends are teaching you?" He sneers in disgust "Are they teaching you to be a disrespectful brat?"
"No" I frown deeply.
"Why can't you see that they're corrupting you? You're acting like a completely different person!" Rafe shouts at me as if I'm the insane one.
"No, I'm not" I argue, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Yes, you are!" He barks.
"Stop yelling at me!" I snap at him in a burst of confidence.
A look of pure insanity crosses Rafe's face and he suddenly grabs a chunk of my hair, ripping me off the sofa as I scream.
"Rafe, I'm sorry" I choke out in regret.
"No, you don't get to just take it back" He snarls in a fit of unfiltered rage "When you act like an dirty Pogue, you'll get treated like one"
A strong backhand to the face sends me stumbling backwards and I feel blood running down my cheek, his ring clearly having burst the skin. Tears well up in my eyes and I turn to run towards the door but I'm dragged back by my hair.
"Rafe, no!" I cry out in pain as he throws me across the room.
My back hits the glass table in the middle of the room and I scream rips through my throat as the glass shatters beneath me, small shards impaling my body. I let out a sob of agony but he's not done with me yet, pulling me up from the pile of glass and throwing right hook to my face, but I lift my hands to protect my face so it hits my arm.
I stumble backwards away from the bloody glass and he stalks towards me like a predator zeroing in on their prey, my heart hammering against my chest wildly.
"Please, stop" I beg desperately as he grabs a hold of me.
"I dare you to disrespect me again, Allison" He declares firmly.
The Cameron boy abruptly shoves me with all his strength and my body smashes into the mirror on the wall, the sound of shattering filling the room again as I cry heavily.
"Rafe, I'm begging you" I sob, my knees hitting the rug at his feet as I collapse.
"Get up" He demands, grabbing my wrist and dragging me to my feet.
I stumble to stay steady on my feet as Rafe scowls down at me like I'm a bug caught on his windscreen and my whole body trembles in pain.
"You're gonna tell everyone that this was the Pogues" He orders crazily and I look up at him in disbelief "When your parents find this mess, you'll tell them the Pogues did it. That they turned on you and beat you up so that they could steal from your home"
"I can't say that" I croak.
"You can't or you won't?" He questions.
"I won't" I stand my ground, mustering up a glare.
My nose suddenly erupts in pain as Rafe's fist collides with it and my ears ring as I fall backwards, grabbing onto the door frame for balance.
"If you tell anyone this happened, I will ruin your family" He threatens me and my blood runs cold.
Before I even get the chance to reply, the back of my head is grabbed and he smashes my temple into the doorframe. A burst of stars fill my vision and I feel myself falling before everything goes black.