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twinklelilstarkey
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twinklelilstarkey ¡ 1 day ago
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after tutor do you plan on writing still? for some reason this feels like a goodbye😭
When it comes to entirely new imagines/series, to be completely honest, I have no idea. Maybe whenever the new season of OBX comes out, I'll feel inspired...? But, at the same time, from all I've heard that they're doing to Rafe's character (and more) + what they've done in the past seasons, I just don't see it happening.
But I do have an idea of continuing the Tutor series as a blurb thing, if that makes sense? Like, maybe open requests for tutor!Rafe and just let y'all ask me for stuff you'd like to see in this universe. Maybe that'll be cool.
And I still write other stuff for different fandoms. It's more "spontaneous", so I post it on my other accounts here (that nobody knows) or just don't post it at all and leave them on my Docs, lol.
Either way, it's not a goodbye. I'm always on tumblr. You can always message me or send me asks. I'll just not be writing stories <3
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twinklelilstarkey ¡ 2 days ago
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Tutor: Feel-good
Words: 7k+ Summary: Rafe doesn't like how much Sarah wants to hang out with you, while you don't see what the problem is. And if there is anything that defines Rafe Cameron, it is petty. Warnings: Fem!Reader. SMUT {no condom, piv, biting, dirty talk, a bit of dacryphilia}, mention of alcohol consumption, petty silent treatment (because Rafe will always be petty in my fics).
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A/N.: This chapter wasn't exactly planned. So enjoy it as the day off drama for my two babies <3
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It is the day before your graduation ceremony, so the days have gone by pretty quickly since you left your parents’ home. You’ve received your results from your last exams, you got the answer back from UNC-Chapel Hill, and your summer is finally starting. Nothing's holding you back now. There are no more secrets. No more drama. Nothing. It’s just you, Rafe, and, of course, Patty.
“I’m starting to think they love you more than me,” Patty says as you two look through the snack aisle.
They, meaning her parents, got home last night with no prior warning and discovered you living in their spare room. You expected to be given at most a week to pack your things and go. Nope, you got invited for dinner and got wine drunk with her mom as you celebrated your high school grand finish with straight A’s.
“You’re exaggerating.” You roll your eyes.
“I wish I were,” She sighs dramatically, “But they’ve literally just texted me after we left the house to make sure that you wear sunscreen.” And you laugh uncontrollably at that.
Maybe you had a magic touch with families. After all, Rafe’s wasn’t much different. You haven’t been to his house to tutor Wheezie ever since she got done with her exams, but he has been telling you how Rose wants you to come over for dinner nearly every night. And Sarah has been nagging him non-stop to finally have your number, since you’re a lost cause when it comes to answering DM's on social media. Also, Wheezie has always loved you, so dating her brother only really made things that much better for her. And Rose and Ward welcomed you, maybe a little too fast, after the party.
With your hands full of your favorite snacks, you decide to abandon not-so-only-child-anymore Patty to go leave them at the register and vacant your hands once more. There, some drinks already wait to be paid for, but you assume Rafe and Kelce are still going to grab some more. You offer the girl working at the register a small smile, which she answers back with one of her own, and the sound of the ringing bell of the door invades the small store.
You look over to find Sarah and her friends soon follow. You’ve never formally met them, but you’re sure many people could recognize them from afar. It’s the usual group of JJ, John B, and Kiara, though Pope is nowhere to be seen. Probably waiting in the van, just like Topper is waiting at the Jeep.
Sarah’s squeal of excitement fills the store when she sees you, and before you can even smile at her, her arms are securely around you, pulling you into a hug.
“Oh my god, I finally get to see you,” She exclaims, “Rafe has been an asshole and refuses to give me your number.”
She pulls away from the hug to look at you, and her excitement is contagious, making you smile at her back.
“I’m not sure why he’s not giving you my number,” You try to justify, “I’ve told him to do it-”
“He's a gatekeeping bitch, that’s why.” She says, probably knowing that he’s somewhere in the store and might hear him. “I only want to go shopping or hang out with you. He acts like I’m trying to steal you away every time.”
You laugh at her frustration, and as you pull your phone out to give it to her - in a silent gesture for her to give you her number and text herself - you notice that her friend group has not moved on with their shopping without her. They’re all looking at you two.
You can tell from some faces that, at least, John B. and JJ don’t recognize you, but Kiara surely does. You went to middle school together, after all. The guys look at you as if they’re not sure about you, whether to like you or not. Sarah surely likes you, but, from the conversation they’ve heard till now, they’re not all that sure about you anymore. Kiara, on the other hand, seems bored with having to wait for Sarah, but her face grew into annoyance pretty quickly.
Sarah grabs your phone from your hands to type in her number, and, as you begin watching her do it, a hand appears from behind you and snatches the phone. You two look up to find none other than the true enemy of this friendship, your boyfriend.
“You are unbelievable,” Sarah tells him, her tone full of frustration and pure hate.
“Leave my girl alone, Sarah.” He tells her, serious as all hell. “If you have something to say to her, say it to me first and I’ll pass on the message.”
You scoff at his behaviour and smack him on the stomach. He looks down at you in response.
“Give her my phone, Rafe.” You tell him, and he’s unmoving. “We just want to hang out, what’s so bad about that?”
“I don’t trust her,” He motions at his sister, “She’ll convert you into her little tribe there-”
And that’s enough to startle the thin peace among the Pogues. Kiara, who had stayed back and been silent, now scoffs at the loudest volume she could muster, and JJ takes his cap off his head in utter disbelief. You notice that Rafe’s mouth twists up in amusement, and you only shake your head at him.
“My phone.” You outstretch your hand at him, “Please.”
“Please, nothing.” Sarah interrupts, “Give me her phone, dofus. You have no right. It’s her phone, she doesn’t have to ask you for anything…” She keeps going.
You sigh as they start to fully argue in the most sibling way possible, and you can’t help but share a look with the girl at the register. Even she is dumbfounded.
Sarah and Rafe continue to call each other the most outrageous names while also fighting for their right to either spend time with you or 'look out for your safety,' as ridiculous as that sounds. You think about walking away, but you’re literally the only person on Sarah’s side, and you don’t want her to lose this battle.
Halfway through Rafe’s sentence, you put your hand in his pocket and grab his own phone. Sarah and Rafe are too distracted in their argument to notice you at first, but then Sarah’s phone dings loudly.
They pause mid-sentence, and you lock Rafe’s phone.
Sarah reaches and looks down at her phone, reading the just-received text from her brother, with your number on it. Rafe doesn’t have to read it to understand what just happened, so his eyes go to you, disappointed, as you return his phone to his pocket. You look up at him after. A little startled to already find his eyes on you, you give him a small smile, and it’s enough for Rafe to calm down his staring and lose his previous deadly look.
His sister then starts laughing in his face, and you can’t help but smile a little. Rafe rolls his eyes and decides to take his brooding self elsewhere. You watch him disappear into the cold section of the small store, back to grab more drinks with Kelce.
John B. and JJ decide they’ve seen enough and go look through the store to find what they need, but Kiara stays back with Sarah, which intrigues you. Is she also 'looking out' for Sarah? Just like Rafe had with you?
“... Wheezie needs to come with us too, she has been telling me how much she misses you.” Sarah continues telling you about your plans together. “We could have a sleepover!”
You smile at her, “Sure!”
“Do you want to come with us, Kie?” Sarah asks, turning her body to face her friend. Your eyes go to her too, and she stares back, unstartled from being, all of a sudden, included in your conversation.
“Nah, I think I’m good,” she says directly to you, which confuses you. It’s as if you’re the reason for her answer, even if you two haven’t spoken in years.
Sarah doesn’t accept that, “Oh, come on. It’d be so fun!” Her volume rises in excitement, “I haven’t had a girls' night in so long. You have to come!”
Patty appears beside you with a lot of chips and other savory snacks and lays them on the counter beside you. She doesn’t say anything yet, but she studies you and Sarah for a bit, almost as if waiting for something. You can’t help but chuckle.
“Do you want to come too, Patty?” You invite her, only raising Sarah’s excitement by a million, because: more girls!
“Kiara, now you have to come with us,” Sarah tells her friend, but Kie is unmoving. “Why not?”
“Not exactly my crowd,” She answers with a shrug. Her eyes stay on you and on Patty as if to appoint the crowd in question with her eyes.
“Okay…” You say in a low voice, only for Patty’s ears to hear. You turn to her and then to Sarah, not enjoying the vibe that has been laid out between all the girls after that. “I’ll go help Rafe with the drinks.”
Kiara’s slight reaction to your words gives you a good enough justification for her tone towards you. Her problem with you begins and ends with your association with Rafe. Good to know. She’s not the only one.
You send both your friends a short smile and disappear into the closest aisle to get out of Kiara’s sight. You walk by JJ and John B, who go silent when you walk beside them, and then finally reach the fridge section.
Rafe is with his back to you, staring at the open fridge as Kelce does most of the work to find the drink they want, and, when you reach him, you playfully nip at the skin of his arm. Rafe doesn’t even react. You frown and move to stand beside him, looking up at his face, but he doesn’t meet your eyes.
Rafe Cameron is sulking, people.
He shares some words with Kelce while you just stand there for a bit, and he continues to ignore you, even when Kelce includes you in the conversation too. You move closer to him, and, thankfully, his sulking doesn’t extend to avoidance because he doesn’t distance himself from you. With that information, you wrap your arms around his waist, as you always do, and kiss his chest. No response, so you smile and keep your body wrapped around his anyway.
Kelce disappears with the rest of the drinks to finally pay for everything, and Rafe leans away from the fridge door to follow him. But it’s difficult for him to do so when you’re still hugging him.
He struggles to walk, but he doesn’t move you out of the way. He’s petty enough to prefer to struggle rather than lose his silent protest against your actions. You don’t take it to heart, and he knows you wouldn’t. You just laugh into his shirt and let him go, before saying, “Fine. Be moody!”
You walk back to the register with a giddiness nevertheless present in your heart, and go help Kelce and Patty put all your purchases in bags. Rafe only shows up to swipe his card and pay for everything. And, after that, you all leave for the Jeep outside. You say your farewells to Sarah, and she smiles widely as she waves you goodbye.
(...)
It’s been a few good hours since the store, all of you have been in Rafe’s family’s boat ever since you’ve bought everything you needed, and, since then, all you’ve done is drink, swim, and lie in the sun. The, finally, good enough start of your summer.
Rafe… is still sulking, but not in the traditional way. Everyone has noticed his silent pity party to himself, but he talks and interacts with everyone else but you. That’s why they caught on so early. You still take everything he’s doing as a joke and continue on with your life. You still love him as if he’s reciprocating it, and, though he’s ignoring you, he doesn’t seem to hate it all that much.
After baking in the sun for enough time, your bikini is already mostly dry again, and you’re on your way to find a drink. You’ve been talking to Patty while in the sun for most of the time, so you have no idea what the guys have been doing ever since you left them in the water.
You go down a few steps after leaving the front deck, and you can already hear Topper and Kelce’s voices on the other side of the boat, probably still by the water. You grab Rafe’s shirt from the couch in the aft deck and pull it over your head, tying it at your stomach due to the heat.
You enter the dining area of the boat by pushing open the door, and your eyes fall on the half-naked man. “Hey, grumpy,” you say as you walk towards him. No answer. You kiss his hot skin as you walk past and go grab a glass.
You look around for the water bottle that you guys bought and see it in front of Rafe. You scootch in closer and try to reach the bottle as you say, “Excuse me” in a whisper. He does respond to you this time, not moving out of the way like you asked, but by grabbing the bottle and pulling it closer to you so you can reach it. And, just to get on his nerves: “Thank you, baby. I love you so much!” You enthusiastically say.
Still no response, but you can’t exactly see his face as he looks down at his phone, so you drink your water and lean against the cold stone of the counter. Rafe’s attention continues to be on his phone, so you lean in close until your bodies are touching. Rafe stops typing, and you see it as an opportunity to spy on what he’s doing.
You never felt so disappointed in your life. He’s, quite literally, answering emails.
“You’re no fun,” you whisper into the skin of his tanned and naked arm, “I don’t even think I recognize you.”
No response, so you do the second-best thing and start touching him more. Alcohol is already well a part of your system, so you welcome it with all your might. You lean in closer to Rafe and kiss his arm and shoulder. The room you’re in isolates all noise from the outside, so you two can practically hear your lips on his skin.
You leave your glass on the counter and go behind Rafe, wrapping your arms around him to have your chest glued to his smooth back and kissing his spine. But, right before your hands can even begin to explore, the door slides open and disrupts your peace.
You squint at the light behind whoever comes in, and, to your surprise, it’s everybody. You don’t separate from Rafe, given that they were the ones who came in during your love session, and lean your head against him. Rafe looks at them, too, and speaks, as if he doesn't have you glued to him.
“I checked it,” He says to Topper, making his torso vibrate with his voice, “they didn’t talk about any collaborations in the email. Just something about…” and you zoned out.
Patty, having her priorities straight, walks over to the food on the opposite counter and starts making herself her lunch. You eye her as she works in silence, thinking about what you could put on your own sandwich, but Rafe starts moving, disrupting your peace of scanning the imaginary list of ingredients that you brought into the boat. 
You begin to let go of him, thinking he’s planning on leaving the room or whatever, but he simply turns around to lean his back on the counter, and, consequently, faces you. Kelce and Topper start another uninteresting conversation, and you look up at Rafe, who is looking and listening to them attentively. 
Your eyes eye him with much annoyance, and you pull away before your drunken mind decides to really test his ability to ignore you. Aka, twist his nipple.
Moving over to Patty, you look at everything in front of you and decide on your lunch.
“Still ignoring you?” Patty asks with a smile.
You look up at her and shrug. “Guess so”.
“Men…” She says as she shakes her head and resumes her stacking of her ingredients, and you can’t help but laugh.
You grab two pieces of bread and join her in the stacking. You two decide to go eat elsewhere, and you don’t even spare Rafe a look. Yet, if you had, you would’ve seen his eyes on you as you left.
(...)
Hours and many drinks later, everyone gave up swimming for the day. Topper grilled hamburgers for dinner on the above deck, and, with a stomach full of food and alcohol still pumping through everyone’s systems, some retired directly into their beds. The only ones remaining are you, Rafe, and Topper. 
You scroll through your phone’s gallery while they talk, still not being affected by the need for sleep, unlike Topper, who has yawned endlessly for the past 10 minutes. You’re entertained and happy while looking at your screen. 
Now that you and Rafe have no one to hide your relationship from, posting on social media has become a thing. You two aren’t posting anything crazy, like endless pictures of each other's faces or collages of you two kissing – of course not. But things like the same locations in your stories, the same parties, or, in this case, the same boat. Or even other photos, like ones with the entire group – tendency of Patty to force everybody in a group photo spontaneously – or just canon pictures of you or your friends.
It’s maybe dumb that something as small as that makes you happy, but showing off Rafe had been the privilege you had been deprived of ever since the beginning of your relationship. So, you bet your monthly photo-dumps or random groups of photos get to include him and his friends. Your boyfriend’s hot, damnit, god forbid you let the entire world see that.
You’re lying over the couch, mostly hidden by the table in front of you, while Rafe and Topper sit at the head and foot of the table, leaving you more than enough space to just lie down on your phone and roll in whatever direction you might like to.
After a good few moments of scrolling through your gallery, Topper announces his wish to go to bed. They might think that you’re asleep by now, since they both start cleaning up the table without you, so you decide to come out of hiding.
You stretch and sit up, letting Rafe’s shirt, now untied, fall to your lap, and see them talking with the door slid completely open as they throw everything in the trash. You get up, grab the remaining trash, and walk over to them. Topper looks up at you, giving you a sleepy smile to acknowledge your presence, and you give him one of yours, too.
“Good night, love birds.” He says as he turns around to go downstairs to the bedrooms.
“Good night,” the two of you say, almost in sync.
Rafe closes the trash once you throw in your stuff, and you go back outside to grab your phone, tying the shirt back up as you walk. Surprisingly, Rafe follows you and takes back his seat at the head of the table. You watch him as he grabs his phone and just continues to be in his own world.
You stand there, just a meter away from him, watching him, and the man just keeps on scrolling.
“Want to go to sleep?” You try to ask him.
No response.
You groan out of frustration and throw your phone back on the table. You’re not going to sleep until he talks to you and stops being his petty self. So, you try to be annoying.
You poke his head, flick his forehead, play with the buzz cut, pinch his neck… Literally nothing.
As you watch him, Rafe leans back on the couch on his phone, and you, with a lack of patience, snatch the phone from his hands. You stare at the screen and sigh. At least he’s not checking emails, but he was just scrolling through social media. You look over at him, and he is still not meeting your eyes.
You throw the phone in the direction of yours, and it falls perfectly in the middle of the table. You take a seat next to him and face him.
You tell him, “All of this because I gave Sarah my number?”
You expected to be ignored, but he, dead serious, turns his head to face you like you hit the nail right on the head. You sit still for a second, shamelessly enjoying his attention on you for starters, and then laughing in his face for how petty this entire afternoon has been. You move, with his eyes still on you, to sit on his lap, facing him, and Rafe doesn’t look away at that.
“Why?” You ask him, looking down at him.
He doesn’t answer, and you roll your eyes.
“How am I supposed to not want to hang out with your sister, when you don’t even tell me what’s so bad about her?” He gives you a look that it’s comical, but you continue, “I’ve known her for as long as I've known you. She seems as normal as any other person in your family.”
That gets him talking, “What is that supposed to mean?”
You laugh at the baffled look on his face, and lay your hands on his shoulders. “You’re still not answering me.”
“She’s annoying,” he tells you.
“That’s it?” You frown, lifting your hands off his shoulder to lay them on your thighs. “Everyone can be annoying, and I still hang out with them.”
Rafe gives you a look of ‘you better not be talking about me’, making you smile, and you look over at the closed glass door everyone had gone through to go to sleep.
“So…” You start again, looking over at Rafe to already find him looking at you, of course. “I can’t hang out with her?”
He shrugs. Like a complete toddler. “You do what you want, babe.”
You groan out of frustration for him and smack his chest, making him sit up and hold back a grin of his own. You two are now much closer to one another, though you still have an advantage in height for sitting over his legs. Your hands move upwards, and your fingers begin to play with his buzzcut.
“What’s so bad about Sarah?” You ask again, looking at him dead in the eyes.
“She is annoying.”
“To you, maybe. Because you’re her brother.” You shrug, “I’ve never found her to be annoying.”
“That’s because you don’t hang with her enough.”
“And you do?” You pause your hands, knowing damn well that Rafe does not spend time with his family unless he is forced/coerced to. He leans back on his hands while looking at you. “Why is she annoying?”
“Babe,” Rafe starts, letting out a dry laugh, “Hang out with her, if you want. You can be friends with whoever-”
“But you’re sulking,” you tell him.
“I’m not.”
“Rafe,” You say seriously, “You’ve been sulking all day.” He makes a face as if you’re the wrong one, “You have to be kidding me.”
He doesn’t answer, and you huff out a breath. You use his shoulders as something to hold as you stand up. His eyes, in return, only watch you as you move.
“I’m going to bed. I’m done talking to you.” You tell him, only meaning those words half-heartedly, and Rafe knows it.
“Why?”
“Because you’re being annoying,” You tell him. “You ignored me all day. I have a right to be mad at you.”
Rafe smiles at your words, and you begin to walk towards the glass doors. You hear him moving behind you, but you’re quicker. You slide the door open and get in, closing and locking it behind you. Rafe, on the other hand, stands there, on the other side of the glass, hands on his hips like he expected you to do this. His hand doesn’t even reach for the door to know that you locked it.
“Open the door,” his voice is muffled, making you smile.
“What?” You lean in closer to the glass, “Can’t hear you.”
Rafe doesn't say anything, just to add suspense.
“There are other doors,” Your eyes widen, “you know that, right?”
First, your brain thinks that surely the other doors would be locked, given that time has begun to reach AM, and all of you have to be safe out here... But, if they're not, can you even run that fast to close everything up before he gets in?
“And where is the fun in that?” You shrug.
“So what? You want me to stand here and-”
“And think about what you did, yes.”
Rafe looks at you as if expecting you to laugh and unlock the door, but you’re unmovable. You cross your arms and lean against the kitchen counter, watching him. He looks over his shoulder as he sighs, and then a smile appears on his face.
“You left your phone out here.” Damn it.
“That’s fine, I’ll get it after.”
Rafe makes a face that makes you lean away from the counter, “I don’t know. He might fall in the water during the night.” He takes a step back, towards the table, making you smile in panic.
“Rafe,” you try to sound serious, but fail miserably.
“What?” He pretends to not hear you, mimicking you, and keeps walking towards the table. You watch as he grabs his phone first, putting it into his pocket, and then yours. You don’t fold just yet, but keep watching his every move.
Rafe looks down at your phone, acting as if he’s messing with it, and then, suddenly, starts moving away from the table and the view of the glass. You call out his name, no answer. Gosh, will you actually have to fall for his bluff?
“You’re not going to throw my phone in the water.”
“It’s outdated anyway,” You hear him a little far away already. “I’ll get you a new one.”
You try to be strong and hold yourself together. You can’t fall for his tricks this easily, but blame it on the alcohol, which is minimal at this point, to make you more gullible. You have too many things in that phone to lose it in the waves because of locking your boyfriend out.
“Okay, fine!” You exclaim, unlocking the door.
You step out, expecting to see him just by the door, with a stupid smile on his face about how he tricked you. But you don’t see him anywhere. “Rafe?” You call out, still no answer. You leave the door open behind you and keep walking.
You check the front deck first, empty. You go down and keep calling out his name. Still nothing. You look around, trying to not spook yourself with something so dumb.
The waters surrounding the boat are dark, and so is everything all around it. The darkest you’ve ever seen the night be. The boat, of course, is well illuminated, but it still leaves you uneasy.
As you keep walking, now nearly by the back of the boat that leads to the water, you’re silent, not calling out for Rafe anymore. Maybe he went around and is now locking the door to keep you out? Should you go back? And then, when you least expect it, he just comes out of nowhere and grabs you.
The scream that comes out of you is inhumane, which makes you laugh as soon as you come to your senses - hopefully, not waking up anyone. Rafe is laughing at you, and you smack his head.
“You’re such an asshole!” You ask him, “Why weren’t you answering me?”
He mimicks you again, now putting on a squeaky voice, “Where’s the fun in that?” You smack his head again, making him laugh more.
“I was scared, you ass.” You say, admitting it outright, as you look up at him while being glued to his chest. “What if I’d fallen in the water?” You point to the water right next to you.
“You think I’d let that happen?”
“Yes!” You say a little too loudly, making him smile brightly at you. “Yes, I do. You’re an ass, and that would be an ass thing to do. So, yes!”
“I would never.” He tells you, making you give him a death stare.
Rafe kisses your lips anyway, but you don’t budge. He deserves to have you be the one to sulk now. After this entire day, and now this? He deserves worse.
Rafe seems to notice what you’re doing right as you start it, which makes him chuckle, but, of course, the way Rafe deals with you is much different than the way you are with him. He begins kissing your cheek, holding you close to him, and then he lands a kiss on your neck... right before throwing you over his shoulder.
You hold in any sound of surprise, and he starts walking upstairs again. You don’t move. You act dead, letting yourself swing on his shoulder as he moves.
When upstairs, he grabs the phones from his pocket and throws them on the table again, confusing you, as you expected to be brought to your bedroom. Rafe takes you off his shoulder and sits you down on the table, too. You stare up at him, with no reaction, and then his lips go directly on yours.
You kiss back, but you make sure to lay your hands on the table, refusing to touch him as you usually do. Rafe’s hands hold onto your waist, pulling you closer to him, and then move over to your hips. You ignore it at first, but it’s hard to when he starts untying the bows at the sides of your pink bikini.
Still, you give him no reaction.
Your lips don’t separate, but your bikini lies now open, making a warmth travel and burn at the bottom of your stomach. One of Rafe’s hands, previously lying over one of your thighs, moves between your legs, and you hold yourself together when you feel his fingers touch your pussy. He groans into your kiss when he drags his fingers in between your lips down towards the entrance, to already find you wet. You concentrate on your silence and on the kiss, but his fingers move up to your clit again, making you lose almost all hope in yourself.
Rafe breaks the kiss to look down at his wet hand, and so do you. His fingers work slow circles over your clit, and you let out a breath, making Rafe smile and look up at you. Your eyes meet, and his hand stops, making you want to protest, but you stay put. Rafe lays his hand on your stomach, laying you down over the table, and he goes down on his knees.
With one of your legs over his shoulder and one of his hands on the other, Rafe’s mouth starts working as soon as it can. You lift your hand over your mouth almost instantly, feeling the warmth of his hand against you, his tongue on your clit, and his breathing on your skin. Your eyes stay trained on the white roof over the table, and you focus on your breathing.
Rafe’s mouth licks, sucks, and kisses your pussy like he’s a man starved. He knows what you’re trying to do, but he also knows that you’re near failing. You’re trying to control your breathing, your sounds, your hands, and your legs to not let out any reaction, and it’s getting to be too much.
His mouth abandons your clit to move down to your entrance, and his nose touches your clit almost by accident. You bite your tongue, but Rafe catches the feeling of your thigh twitching once on his shoulder. He smiles into you and brings up one of his hands to start playing with your clit while he slides his tongue inside you.
His thumb moves faster in circles on your clit, and you can’t help but let out a small whimper. Your eyes sting a little, as tears are wanting to escape from the corner of your eyes, and you blink them away. Rafe slides his tongue out of you and moves upwards to your clit, moving his hand away for now. The warmth of his mouth is almost too much for you, but then his tongue starts moving, and you feel two of his fingers slide into you with almost no warning.
You cough out a moan, but your hand doesn’t move away from your mouth. Rafe wraps his lips around your clit and sucks on it while his fingers begin to move back and forth inside of you, knowing exactly where to hit every time.
As always, his knowledge of your body is beginning to be a little too much for you.
And then, what feels like seconds after, his mouth pulls away, and so do his fingers. When you see him stand up, you take your hand off your mouth and try to ignore the cold between your legs as you pull yourself up on your elbows.
“Turn around,” Rafe tells you, with his hands on your hips, but you don’t move, both for still trying to catch your breath and for your promise to not give up that easily.
Without any delay, Rafe flips you easily to lie on your stomach, and you huff out a breath of annoyance when you almost face plant into the table. Your bikini bottoms now fall to the ground, but you ignore them as you feel Rafe grab onto your hips from behind you. And, just in a few seconds, your annoyance evaporates when you feel Rafe’s dick slide into you. It’s slow. Torturing. And without any pause. But you almost forget your anger the moment it happens.
You two stay like that for a bit, but then Rafe begins to move. You try to concentrate, of course you do. You repeat the words, you got this, over and over in your brain, but it’s way harder than you think it is. The pleasure that had gone dormant from Rafe’s pause of his initial attack on you resumes exactly where it left off, and you almost lose it.
Your entire body feels warm, your pussy feels soaked, and your back naturally arches as soon as Rafe keeps moving. You hear him chuckle behind you, but you try to ignore it so as to not give him the satisfaction of a reaction. His dick slides easily back and forth inside of you at a pace that, though it isn’t the slowest he has punished you with, it’s nowhere near the pace you wish you could be at. It’s almost anxiety-inducing because Rafe knows what he’s doing. And he’s just telling you, without using any words, that though he almost has you breaking, he hasn’t even started yet.
And then, finally, he speeds up to a normal pace, and you lean your head onto the table. You focus on your breathing, knowing that it is already shaking, and at the beginning of a moan, but you know that Rafe can’t hear it. So, you let yourself indulge in that alone.
You close your eyes, concentrating further as pleasure continues to burn at the end of your tummy and travels down to your legs, and Rafe doesn’t seem to like how silent you are.
Out of nowhere, Rafe grabs you by your torso and pulls you up, making you arch into him and almost lean your head back on his shoulder.
“Why are you doing that?” He asks you in a mumble just below your ear, “Uhm?” He questions you.
You don’t respond, but your hands lie on the table to hold you better. His hands hold onto your waist, and you try to ignore the sounds coming from both of you. Rafe knows it right away.
“You think you’re winning, uhm?” He continues, “But you're so fucking wet that the whole boat could hear you if they were awake.”
The sound of the wet smack of skin and squelching of your pussy, makes you unconsciously squeeze Rafe’s dick, and he laughs into your ear.
“Look at you,” He kisses your neck between words, “Holding yourself together so well.” He nips at your skin, and then all you feel is his lips and tongue over your skin.
Rafe’s hands undo the tie of his shirt on you, and his hands disappear under the fabric. Your hands lift off the table as Rafe pulls you in closer and closer to his chest, and the angle worsens your entire situation. His hands find your chest and pull your tits out of the tight bikini, and, as soon as you feel his mouth on your skin again while his fingers pinch at one of your nipples, you let out a loud and shaky sigh that Rafe can now definitely hear.
“You got it, you got it.” He pokes fun at you. He kisses your cheek and the corner of your lips, “But I got to say… I already miss your whining.”
You intake air harshly through your nose as Rafe thrusts into you with a little more force, and you open your eyes. He kisses your jaw and pulls you in closer to his chest, making his warmth familiarly engulf you.
Rafe looks down at you, his head just beside yours, and you force yourself to not meet his eye. “You know what, baby?” He asks, “I’m being way too nice with you… And I really shouldn’t.”
You stay silent, biting your tongue to try and distract yourself with the slight pain of it. Rafe’s hands move away from under the shirt, and he pauses his thrusts. You breathe in and out slowly, and he grabs one of your legs, lifting it to the table and opening space for his hand. His thrusts resume with that, and his fingers return to your clit.
Rafe kisses up your neck and lets go of your waist to force your head to face him. You strengthen your back to hold yourself up as his hips continue to meet yours - his movements at the same pace as before - and Rafe looks you right in the eye as if nothing is affecting him. His poker face is surely better than yours, but you try to not lose hope in yourself.
“Am I being mean to you?” He asks you, the sound of his thrusts invading your ears and making you hold in your breath. “Uhm? Am I?” He kisses your lips with a peck, and you look down at his mouth when he pulls away, “You can tell me, baby, and I promise that I’ll take better care of you.”
He kisses you again, and a little sound escapes your mouth when Rafe’s tongue meets yours. Your hands itch to touch him. To grab his head to force him closer to you. Or his arm to hold yourself up. The kiss is wet and messy, but Rafe intends for it to be so. You squeeze his dick harder and harder, and smaller sounds escape you as you get more drunk off of him.
Rafe then decides to put some more force into his thrusts, and, with your mouths open into a kiss, an actual moan breaks out of you. Rafe smiles and pulls away from your lips, victorious and proud. You try to go back down to the table, trying to get yourself back together by distancing yourself from him and his warmth, smell, and lips, but Rafe doesn’t let you. He roughly pulls you back to his chest by wrapping his arm around your waist as he thrusts, and a shaky breath comes out of your mouth.
“Are you going to cry?” He asks you, his tone so heavy with humor, that you find it evil when directed at you. You close your eyes and force down the urge to cry out your pleasure, and Rafe just keeps making it worse. His fingers pause on the small circles on your clit and pinch it softly as he leans his head onto the crook of your neck. He bites your skin and moves away to look down at your face. Rafe looks as he speeds up his pace and thrusts fully into you. He reads your face like a book. And though you’re silent, you couldn’t make it more obvious to him. “You can cry. I got you. I always do.”
You’re getting distracted. Your pleasure is getting higher and higher, and Rafe does not shut up. He keeps talking in your ear, knowing that if he does, your pleasure just gets worse as your pussy squeezes him like a vice. He calls you his crybaby, his baby, his pretty girl. All of it to get in your head. And he succeeds.
Your hand lifts off the table and moves towards his on your waist. You grab it to try and get some strength back into you, but Rafe sees it as a slip-up and starts moving his fingers quicker against your poor clit to only make it worse. Your eyes open, and Rafe bites at your neck. Your other hand lifts up to his nape, scratching his skin, and he grunts at your touch.
“You want to come?” Rafe asks you against the skin of your cheek, and you find yourself nodding. His chuckle hits your face, and he forcibly kisses you. “You do, yeah?” You nod again when he pulls away, “Ask me, then.”
You sob out loud as the pleasure intensifies and a tear escapes. Rafe smiles at you, prouder than he’s ever been of himself, but you don’t ask him for anything. He kisses you again, with bruising force, and that just makes you whimper against his lips. His fingers move faster and faster, and your hands hold onto him like a lifeline. Your sounds start getting louder and louder, still not yet being their usual volume, but Rafe takes them in like medals. Every single one of them.
“I’ll stop.” He warns you, making you look at him in surprise. “If you don’t ask for it, I’ll stop, and we’ll go to sleep.”
And the look you give him… Rafe could’ve melted right there and then. You plead with your teary eyes, small sobs of pleasure leaving your mouth, as you almost pout at him. Rafe was ready to give you the orgasm and more. Anything in the world could be yours if you kept it up. But you decide to shake your head.
“No?” He asks you, “No, you don’t want to come?” He tests you, “Or no, you don’t want me to stop?”
He pinches your clit when you don’t answer, and you, finally, let out a real moan. He can tell that you’re getting closer. Your pussy is impossibly wet, your breathing is irregular, you're holding onto him as if he’ll let you fall to the ground at any second, and then you tense up. Rafe, though it pains him to, stops moving right away.
“I guess we’ll go to sleep, then.”
“No, no, no…” You whisper at him, pulling at him with your hands as if scared that he’ll disappear. Rafe leans in as you pull him by his nape, and you peck his lips. Rafe kisses you for more time, and you start to feel everything. His naked chest against you, his tight hold on your waist, his lips on yours, his dick entirely inside you, and his other hand paused at your clit. He pulls away, and you sigh.
“Say it, then.” Rafe encourages.
“P… Please make me come.” You whisper against his lips, so low that Rafe’s ear almost doesn’t register, but he takes it as enough.
“Of course, baby.” He kisses you at the end of the sentence, “Anything for my pretty girl, yeah?”
You nod at him, and he starts slowly at first. As soon as the speed and force come back, you’re too aware of every single thing and come incredibly fast. Rafe holds you as he keeps going, thrusting into you deeply as he forces you to ride out your orgasm as he finds his, and, the second you start making your overstimulated whines, Rafe is done for. He thrusts a final time and comes inside you, and he grunts against the skin of your shoulder.
His breathing takes some time to calm down, and you relax your hold on him. Rafe takes his hand away from your pussy and lays it over the table to stand up straight. Your hand falls from his head as he does so, and you grab his wrist from that same arm. You lean your head back onto his shoulder, and the wind of the sea hits your wet face. Gosh, what a mess.
You two don’t talk for a bit, but Rafe doesn’t take long to feel himself get back to normal. He is careful when he pulls out of you and pulls his shorts back up. He’s slow to let you go, making sure that you can stand on your own already, and he grabs the bottoms of your bikini from the floor. He hands it to you, and when he goes to pick you up, you stop him.
“Rafe, the table.” You tell him, looking at it.
“What?”
You laugh and point at the table you just had sex on, “We got to clean the table. We have every meal on that thing”. Rafe sighs as he looks at it.
You put your bikini back on while Rafe trusts you to stand by yourself, and he cleans the table very well, to your request (also known as orders). Once he’s done, he goes to wash his hands, and you move towards the inside of the boat. You close the door and lock it behind you, and look over to find Rafe drying his hands on the kitchen cloth.
“Don't forget the other doors,” you tell him.
“What other doors?” He asks, making you frown.
“You said they were unloc-” And he smiles at you.
Asshole.
Rafe throws the now clean, once again, cloth onto the counter, and you kiss his arm. “Let’s go,” you whisper at him, and he nods.
Both of you are about to get the best night of sleep in your lives.
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Tutor: Feel-good
Words: 7k+ Summary: Rafe doesn't like how much Sarah wants to hang out with you, while you don't see what the problem is. And if there is anything that defines Rafe Cameron, it is petty. Warnings: Fem!Reader. SMUT {no condom, piv, biting, dirty talk, a bit of dacryphilia}, mention of alcohol consumption, petty silent treatment (because Rafe will always be petty in my fics).
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A/N.: This chapter wasn't exactly planned. So enjoy it as the day off drama for my two babies <3
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It is the day before your graduation ceremony, so the days have gone by pretty quickly since you left your parents’ home. You’ve received your results from your last exams, you got the answer back from UNC-Chapel Hill, and your summer is finally starting. Nothing's holding you back now. There are no more secrets. No more drama. Nothing. It’s just you, Rafe, and, of course, Patty.
“I’m starting to think they love you more than me,” Patty says as you two look through the snack aisle.
They, meaning her parents, got home last night with no prior warning and discovered you living in their spare room. You expected to be given at most a week to pack your things and go. Nope, you got invited for dinner and got wine drunk with her mom as you celebrated your high school grand finish with straight A’s.
“You’re exaggerating.” You roll your eyes.
“I wish I were,” She sighs dramatically, “But they’ve literally just texted me after we left the house to make sure that you wear sunscreen.” And you laugh uncontrollably at that.
Maybe you had a magic touch with families. After all, Rafe’s wasn’t much different. You haven’t been to his house to tutor Wheezie ever since she got done with her exams, but he has been telling you how Rose wants you to come over for dinner nearly every night. And Sarah has been nagging him non-stop to finally have your number, since you’re a lost cause when it comes to answering DM's on social media. Also, Wheezie has always loved you, so dating her brother only really made things that much better for her. And Rose and Ward welcomed you, maybe a little too fast, after the party.
With your hands full of your favorite snacks, you decide to abandon not-so-only-child-anymore Patty to go leave them at the register and vacant your hands once more. There, some drinks already wait to be paid for, but you assume Rafe and Kelce are still going to grab some more. You offer the girl working at the register a small smile, which she answers back with one of her own, and the sound of the ringing bell of the door invades the small store.
You look over to find Sarah and her friends soon follow. You’ve never formally met them, but you’re sure many people could recognize them from afar. It’s the usual group of JJ, John B, and Kiara, though Pope is nowhere to be seen. Probably waiting in the van, just like Topper is waiting at the Jeep.
Sarah’s squeal of excitement fills the store when she sees you, and before you can even smile at her, her arms are securely around you, pulling you into a hug.
“Oh my god, I finally get to see you,” She exclaims, “Rafe has been an asshole and refuses to give me your number.”
She pulls away from the hug to look at you, and her excitement is contagious, making you smile at her back.
“I’m not sure why he’s not giving you my number,” You try to justify, “I’ve told him to do it-”
“He's a gatekeeping bitch, that’s why.” She says, probably knowing that he’s somewhere in the store and might hear him. “I only want to go shopping or hang out with you. He acts like I’m trying to steal you away every time.”
You laugh at her frustration, and as you pull your phone out to give it to her - in a silent gesture for her to give you her number and text herself - you notice that her friend group has not moved on with their shopping without her. They’re all looking at you two.
You can tell from some faces that, at least, John B. and JJ don’t recognize you, but Kiara surely does. You went to middle school together, after all. The guys look at you as if they’re not sure about you, whether to like you or not. Sarah surely likes you, but, from the conversation they’ve heard till now, they’re not all that sure about you anymore. Kiara, on the other hand, seems bored with having to wait for Sarah, but her face grew into annoyance pretty quickly.
Sarah grabs your phone from your hands to type in her number, and, as you begin watching her do it, a hand appears from behind you and snatches the phone. You two look up to find none other than the true enemy of this friendship, your boyfriend.
“You are unbelievable,” Sarah tells him, her tone full of frustration and pure hate.
“Leave my girl alone, Sarah.” He tells her, serious as all hell. “If you have something to say to her, say it to me first and I’ll pass on the message.”
You scoff at his behaviour and smack him on the stomach. He looks down at you in response.
“Give her my phone, Rafe.” You tell him, and he’s unmoving. “We just want to hang out, what’s so bad about that?”
“I don’t trust her,” He motions at his sister, “She’ll convert you into her little tribe there-”
And that’s enough to startle the thin peace among the Pogues. Kiara, who had stayed back and been silent, now scoffs at the loudest volume she could muster, and JJ takes his cap off his head in utter disbelief. You notice that Rafe’s mouth twists up in amusement, and you only shake your head at him.
“My phone.” You outstretch your hand at him, “Please.”
“Please, nothing.” Sarah interrupts, “Give me her phone, dofus. You have no right. It’s her phone, she doesn’t have to ask you for anything…” She keeps going.
You sigh as they start to fully argue in the most sibling way possible, and you can’t help but share a look with the girl at the register. Even she is dumbfounded.
Sarah and Rafe continue to call each other the most outrageous names while also fighting for their right to either spend time with you or 'look out for your safety,' as ridiculous as that sounds. You think about walking away, but you’re literally the only person on Sarah’s side, and you don’t want her to lose this battle.
Halfway through Rafe’s sentence, you put your hand in his pocket and grab his own phone. Sarah and Rafe are too distracted in their argument to notice you at first, but then Sarah’s phone dings loudly.
They pause mid-sentence, and you lock Rafe’s phone.
Sarah reaches and looks down at her phone, reading the just-received text from her brother, with your number on it. Rafe doesn’t have to read it to understand what just happened, so his eyes go to you, disappointed, as you return his phone to his pocket. You look up at him after. A little startled to already find his eyes on you, you give him a small smile, and it’s enough for Rafe to calm down his staring and lose his previous deadly look.
His sister then starts laughing in his face, and you can’t help but smile a little. Rafe rolls his eyes and decides to take his brooding self elsewhere. You watch him disappear into the cold section of the small store, back to grab more drinks with Kelce.
John B. and JJ decide they’ve seen enough and go look through the store to find what they need, but Kiara stays back with Sarah, which intrigues you. Is she also 'looking out' for Sarah? Just like Rafe had with you?
“... Wheezie needs to come with us too, she has been telling me how much she misses you.” Sarah continues telling you about your plans together. “We could have a sleepover!”
You smile at her, “Sure!”
“Do you want to come with us, Kie?” Sarah asks, turning her body to face her friend. Your eyes go to her too, and she stares back, unstartled from being, all of a sudden, included in your conversation.
“Nah, I think I’m good,” she says directly to you, which confuses you. It’s as if you’re the reason for her answer, even if you two haven’t spoken in years.
Sarah doesn’t accept that, “Oh, come on. It’d be so fun!” Her volume rises in excitement, “I haven’t had a girls' night in so long. You have to come!”
Patty appears beside you with a lot of chips and other savory snacks and lays them on the counter beside you. She doesn’t say anything yet, but she studies you and Sarah for a bit, almost as if waiting for something. You can’t help but chuckle.
“Do you want to come too, Patty?” You invite her, only raising Sarah’s excitement by a million, because: more girls!
“Kiara, now you have to come with us,” Sarah tells her friend, but Kie is unmoving. “Why not?”
“Not exactly my crowd,” She answers with a shrug. Her eyes stay on you and on Patty as if to appoint the crowd in question with her eyes.
“Okay…” You say in a low voice, only for Patty’s ears to hear. You turn to her and then to Sarah, not enjoying the vibe that has been laid out between all the girls after that. “I’ll go help Rafe with the drinks.”
Kiara’s slight reaction to your words gives you a good enough justification for her tone towards you. Her problem with you begins and ends with your association with Rafe. Good to know. She’s not the only one.
You send both your friends a short smile and disappear into the closest aisle to get out of Kiara’s sight. You walk by JJ and John B, who go silent when you walk beside them, and then finally reach the fridge section.
Rafe is with his back to you, staring at the open fridge as Kelce does most of the work to find the drink they want, and, when you reach him, you playfully nip at the skin of his arm. Rafe doesn’t even react. You frown and move to stand beside him, looking up at his face, but he doesn’t meet your eyes.
Rafe Cameron is sulking, people.
He shares some words with Kelce while you just stand there for a bit, and he continues to ignore you, even when Kelce includes you in the conversation too. You move closer to him, and, thankfully, his sulking doesn’t extend to avoidance because he doesn’t distance himself from you. With that information, you wrap your arms around his waist, as you always do, and kiss his chest. No response, so you smile and keep your body wrapped around his anyway.
Kelce disappears with the rest of the drinks to finally pay for everything, and Rafe leans away from the fridge door to follow him. But it’s difficult for him to do so when you’re still hugging him.
He struggles to walk, but he doesn’t move you out of the way. He’s petty enough to prefer to struggle rather than lose his silent protest against your actions. You don’t take it to heart, and he knows you wouldn’t. You just laugh into his shirt and let him go, before saying, “Fine. Be moody!”
You walk back to the register with a giddiness nevertheless present in your heart, and go help Kelce and Patty put all your purchases in bags. Rafe only shows up to swipe his card and pay for everything. And, after that, you all leave for the Jeep outside. You say your farewells to Sarah, and she smiles widely as she waves you goodbye.
(...)
It’s been a few good hours since the store, all of you have been in Rafe’s family’s boat ever since you’ve bought everything you needed, and, since then, all you’ve done is drink, swim, and lie in the sun. The, finally, good enough start of your summer.
Rafe… is still sulking, but not in the traditional way. Everyone has noticed his silent pity party to himself, but he talks and interacts with everyone else but you. That’s why they caught on so early. You still take everything he’s doing as a joke and continue on with your life. You still love him as if he’s reciprocating it, and, though he’s ignoring you, he doesn’t seem to hate it all that much.
After baking in the sun for enough time, your bikini is already mostly dry again, and you’re on your way to find a drink. You’ve been talking to Patty while in the sun for most of the time, so you have no idea what the guys have been doing ever since you left them in the water.
You go down a few steps after leaving the front deck, and you can already hear Topper and Kelce’s voices on the other side of the boat, probably still by the water. You grab Rafe’s shirt from the couch in the aft deck and pull it over your head, tying it at your stomach due to the heat.
You enter the dining area of the boat by pushing open the door, and your eyes fall on the half-naked man. “Hey, grumpy,” you say as you walk towards him. No answer. You kiss his hot skin as you walk past and go grab a glass.
You look around for the water bottle that you guys bought and see it in front of Rafe. You scootch in closer and try to reach the bottle as you say, “Excuse me” in a whisper. He does respond to you this time, not moving out of the way like you asked, but by grabbing the bottle and pulling it closer to you so you can reach it. And, just to get on his nerves: “Thank you, baby. I love you so much!” You enthusiastically say.
Still no response, but you can’t exactly see his face as he looks down at his phone, so you drink your water and lean against the cold stone of the counter. Rafe’s attention continues to be on his phone, so you lean in close until your bodies are touching. Rafe stops typing, and you see it as an opportunity to spy on what he’s doing.
You never felt so disappointed in your life. He’s, quite literally, answering emails.
“You’re no fun,” you whisper into the skin of his tanned and naked arm, “I don’t even think I recognize you.”
No response, so you do the second-best thing and start touching him more. Alcohol is already well a part of your system, so you welcome it with all your might. You lean in closer to Rafe and kiss his arm and shoulder. The room you’re in isolates all noise from the outside, so you two can practically hear your lips on his skin.
You leave your glass on the counter and go behind Rafe, wrapping your arms around him to have your chest glued to his smooth back and kissing his spine. But, right before your hands can even begin to explore, the door slides open and disrupts your peace.
You squint at the light behind whoever comes in, and, to your surprise, it’s everybody. You don’t separate from Rafe, given that they were the ones who came in during your love session, and lean your head against him. Rafe looks at them, too, and speaks, as if he doesn't have you glued to him.
“I checked it,” He says to Topper, making his torso vibrate with his voice, “they didn’t talk about any collaborations in the email. Just something about…” and you zoned out.
Patty, having her priorities straight, walks over to the food on the opposite counter and starts making herself her lunch. You eye her as she works in silence, thinking about what you could put on your own sandwich, but Rafe starts moving, disrupting your peace of scanning the imaginary list of ingredients that you brought into the boat. 
You begin to let go of him, thinking he’s planning on leaving the room or whatever, but he simply turns around to lean his back on the counter, and, consequently, faces you. Kelce and Topper start another uninteresting conversation, and you look up at Rafe, who is looking and listening to them attentively. 
Your eyes eye him with much annoyance, and you pull away before your drunken mind decides to really test his ability to ignore you. Aka, twist his nipple.
Moving over to Patty, you look at everything in front of you and decide on your lunch.
“Still ignoring you?” Patty asks with a smile.
You look up at her and shrug. “Guess so”.
“Men…” She says as she shakes her head and resumes her stacking of her ingredients, and you can’t help but laugh.
You grab two pieces of bread and join her in the stacking. You two decide to go eat elsewhere, and you don’t even spare Rafe a look. Yet, if you had, you would’ve seen his eyes on you as you left.
(...)
Hours and many drinks later, everyone gave up swimming for the day. Topper grilled hamburgers for dinner on the above deck, and, with a stomach full of food and alcohol still pumping through everyone’s systems, some retired directly into their beds. The only ones remaining are you, Rafe, and Topper. 
You scroll through your phone’s gallery while they talk, still not being affected by the need for sleep, unlike Topper, who has yawned endlessly for the past 10 minutes. You’re entertained and happy while looking at your screen. 
Now that you and Rafe have no one to hide your relationship from, posting on social media has become a thing. You two aren’t posting anything crazy, like endless pictures of each other's faces or collages of you two kissing – of course not. But things like the same locations in your stories, the same parties, or, in this case, the same boat. Or even other photos, like ones with the entire group – tendency of Patty to force everybody in a group photo spontaneously – or just canon pictures of you or your friends.
It’s maybe dumb that something as small as that makes you happy, but showing off Rafe had been the privilege you had been deprived of ever since the beginning of your relationship. So, you bet your monthly photo-dumps or random groups of photos get to include him and his friends. Your boyfriend’s hot, damnit, god forbid you let the entire world see that.
You’re lying over the couch, mostly hidden by the table in front of you, while Rafe and Topper sit at the head and foot of the table, leaving you more than enough space to just lie down on your phone and roll in whatever direction you might like to.
After a good few moments of scrolling through your gallery, Topper announces his wish to go to bed. They might think that you’re asleep by now, since they both start cleaning up the table without you, so you decide to come out of hiding.
You stretch and sit up, letting Rafe’s shirt, now untied, fall to your lap, and see them talking with the door slid completely open as they throw everything in the trash. You get up, grab the remaining trash, and walk over to them. Topper looks up at you, giving you a sleepy smile to acknowledge your presence, and you give him one of yours, too.
“Good night, love birds.” He says as he turns around to go downstairs to the bedrooms.
“Good night,” the two of you say, almost in sync.
Rafe closes the trash once you throw in your stuff, and you go back outside to grab your phone, tying the shirt back up as you walk. Surprisingly, Rafe follows you and takes back his seat at the head of the table. You watch him as he grabs his phone and just continues to be in his own world.
You stand there, just a meter away from him, watching him, and the man just keeps on scrolling.
“Want to go to sleep?” You try to ask him.
No response.
You groan out of frustration and throw your phone back on the table. You’re not going to sleep until he talks to you and stops being his petty self. So, you try to be annoying.
You poke his head, flick his forehead, play with the buzz cut, pinch his neck… Literally nothing.
As you watch him, Rafe leans back on the couch on his phone, and you, with a lack of patience, snatch the phone from his hands. You stare at the screen and sigh. At least he’s not checking emails, but he was just scrolling through social media. You look over at him, and he is still not meeting your eyes.
You throw the phone in the direction of yours, and it falls perfectly in the middle of the table. You take a seat next to him and face him.
You tell him, “All of this because I gave Sarah my number?”
You expected to be ignored, but he, dead serious, turns his head to face you like you hit the nail right on the head. You sit still for a second, shamelessly enjoying his attention on you for starters, and then laughing in his face for how petty this entire afternoon has been. You move, with his eyes still on you, to sit on his lap, facing him, and Rafe doesn’t look away at that.
“Why?” You ask him, looking down at him.
He doesn’t answer, and you roll your eyes.
“How am I supposed to not want to hang out with your sister, when you don’t even tell me what’s so bad about her?” He gives you a look that it’s comical, but you continue, “I’ve known her for as long as I've known you. She seems as normal as any other person in your family.”
That gets him talking, “What is that supposed to mean?”
You laugh at the baffled look on his face, and lay your hands on his shoulders. “You’re still not answering me.”
“She’s annoying,” he tells you.
“That’s it?” You frown, lifting your hands off his shoulder to lay them on your thighs. “Everyone can be annoying, and I still hang out with them.”
Rafe gives you a look of ‘you better not be talking about me’, making you smile, and you look over at the closed glass door everyone had gone through to go to sleep.
“So…” You start again, looking over at Rafe to already find him looking at you, of course. “I can’t hang out with her?”
He shrugs. Like a complete toddler. “You do what you want, babe.”
You groan out of frustration for him and smack his chest, making him sit up and hold back a grin of his own. You two are now much closer to one another, though you still have an advantage in height for sitting over his legs. Your hands move upwards, and your fingers begin to play with his buzzcut.
“What’s so bad about Sarah?” You ask again, looking at him dead in the eyes.
“She is annoying.”
“To you, maybe. Because you’re her brother.” You shrug, “I’ve never found her to be annoying.”
“That’s because you don’t hang with her enough.”
“And you do?” You pause your hands, knowing damn well that Rafe does not spend time with his family unless he is forced/coerced to. He leans back on his hands while looking at you. “Why is she annoying?”
“Babe,” Rafe starts, letting out a dry laugh, “Hang out with her, if you want. You can be friends with whoever-”
“But you’re sulking,” you tell him.
“I’m not.”
“Rafe,” You say seriously, “You’ve been sulking all day.” He makes a face as if you’re the wrong one, “You have to be kidding me.”
He doesn’t answer, and you huff out a breath. You use his shoulders as something to hold as you stand up. His eyes, in return, only watch you as you move.
“I’m going to bed. I’m done talking to you.” You tell him, only meaning those words half-heartedly, and Rafe knows it.
“Why?”
“Because you’re being annoying,” You tell him. “You ignored me all day. I have a right to be mad at you.”
Rafe smiles at your words, and you begin to walk towards the glass doors. You hear him moving behind you, but you’re quicker. You slide the door open and get in, closing and locking it behind you. Rafe, on the other hand, stands there, on the other side of the glass, hands on his hips like he expected you to do this. His hand doesn’t even reach for the door to know that you locked it.
“Open the door,” his voice is muffled, making you smile.
“What?” You lean in closer to the glass, “Can’t hear you.”
Rafe doesn't say anything, just to add suspense.
“There are other doors,” Your eyes widen, “you know that, right?”
First, your brain thinks that surely the other doors would be locked, given that time has begun to reach AM, and all of you have to be safe out here... But, if they're not, can you even run that fast to close everything up before he gets in?
“And where is the fun in that?” You shrug.
“So what? You want me to stand here and-”
“And think about what you did, yes.”
Rafe looks at you as if expecting you to laugh and unlock the door, but you’re unmovable. You cross your arms and lean against the kitchen counter, watching him. He looks over his shoulder as he sighs, and then a smile appears on his face.
“You left your phone out here.” Damn it.
“That’s fine, I’ll get it after.”
Rafe makes a face that makes you lean away from the counter, “I don’t know. He might fall in the water during the night.” He takes a step back, towards the table, making you smile in panic.
“Rafe,” you try to sound serious, but fail miserably.
“What?” He pretends to not hear you, mimicking you, and keeps walking towards the table. You watch as he grabs his phone first, putting it into his pocket, and then yours. You don’t fold just yet, but keep watching his every move.
Rafe looks down at your phone, acting as if he’s messing with it, and then, suddenly, starts moving away from the table and the view of the glass. You call out his name, no answer. Gosh, will you actually have to fall for his bluff?
“You’re not going to throw my phone in the water.”
“It’s outdated anyway,” You hear him a little far away already. “I’ll get you a new one.”
You try to be strong and hold yourself together. You can’t fall for his tricks this easily, but blame it on the alcohol, which is minimal at this point, to make you more gullible. You have too many things in that phone to lose it in the waves because of locking your boyfriend out.
“Okay, fine!” You exclaim, unlocking the door.
You step out, expecting to see him just by the door, with a stupid smile on his face about how he tricked you. But you don’t see him anywhere. “Rafe?” You call out, still no answer. You leave the door open behind you and keep walking.
You check the front deck first, empty. You go down and keep calling out his name. Still nothing. You look around, trying to not spook yourself with something so dumb.
The waters surrounding the boat are dark, and so is everything all around it. The darkest you’ve ever seen the night be. The boat, of course, is well illuminated, but it still leaves you uneasy.
As you keep walking, now nearly by the back of the boat that leads to the water, you’re silent, not calling out for Rafe anymore. Maybe he went around and is now locking the door to keep you out? Should you go back? And then, when you least expect it, he just comes out of nowhere and grabs you.
The scream that comes out of you is inhumane, which makes you laugh as soon as you come to your senses - hopefully, not waking up anyone. Rafe is laughing at you, and you smack his head.
“You’re such an asshole!” You ask him, “Why weren’t you answering me?”
He mimicks you again, now putting on a squeaky voice, “Where’s the fun in that?” You smack his head again, making him laugh more.
“I was scared, you ass.” You say, admitting it outright, as you look up at him while being glued to his chest. “What if I’d fallen in the water?” You point to the water right next to you.
“You think I’d let that happen?”
“Yes!” You say a little too loudly, making him smile brightly at you. “Yes, I do. You’re an ass, and that would be an ass thing to do. So, yes!”
“I would never.” He tells you, making you give him a death stare.
Rafe kisses your lips anyway, but you don’t budge. He deserves to have you be the one to sulk now. After this entire day, and now this? He deserves worse.
Rafe seems to notice what you’re doing right as you start it, which makes him chuckle, but, of course, the way Rafe deals with you is much different than the way you are with him. He begins kissing your cheek, holding you close to him, and then he lands a kiss on your neck... right before throwing you over his shoulder.
You hold in any sound of surprise, and he starts walking upstairs again. You don’t move. You act dead, letting yourself swing on his shoulder as he moves.
When upstairs, he grabs the phones from his pocket and throws them on the table again, confusing you, as you expected to be brought to your bedroom. Rafe takes you off his shoulder and sits you down on the table, too. You stare up at him, with no reaction, and then his lips go directly on yours.
You kiss back, but you make sure to lay your hands on the table, refusing to touch him as you usually do. Rafe’s hands hold onto your waist, pulling you closer to him, and then move over to your hips. You ignore it at first, but it’s hard to when he starts untying the bows at the sides of your pink bikini.
Still, you give him no reaction.
Your lips don’t separate, but your bikini lies now open, making a warmth travel and burn at the bottom of your stomach. One of Rafe’s hands, previously lying over one of your thighs, moves between your legs, and you hold yourself together when you feel his fingers touch your pussy. He groans into your kiss when he drags his fingers in between your lips down towards the entrance, to already find you wet. You concentrate on your silence and on the kiss, but his fingers move up to your clit again, making you lose almost all hope in yourself.
Rafe breaks the kiss to look down at his wet hand, and so do you. His fingers work slow circles over your clit, and you let out a breath, making Rafe smile and look up at you. Your eyes meet, and his hand stops, making you want to protest, but you stay put. Rafe lays his hand on your stomach, laying you down over the table, and he goes down on his knees.
With one of your legs over his shoulder and one of his hands on the other, Rafe’s mouth starts working as soon as it can. You lift your hand over your mouth almost instantly, feeling the warmth of his hand against you, his tongue on your clit, and his breathing on your skin. Your eyes stay trained on the white roof over the table, and you focus on your breathing.
Rafe’s mouth licks, sucks, and kisses your pussy like he’s a man starved. He knows what you’re trying to do, but he also knows that you’re near failing. You’re trying to control your breathing, your sounds, your hands, and your legs to not let out any reaction, and it’s getting to be too much.
His mouth abandons your clit to move down to your entrance, and his nose touches your clit almost by accident. You bite your tongue, but Rafe catches the feeling of your thigh twitching once on his shoulder. He smiles into you and brings up one of his hands to start playing with your clit while he slides his tongue inside you.
His thumb moves faster in circles on your clit, and you can’t help but let out a small whimper. Your eyes sting a little, as tears are wanting to escape from the corner of your eyes, and you blink them away. Rafe slides his tongue out of you and moves upwards to your clit, moving his hand away for now. The warmth of his mouth is almost too much for you, but then his tongue starts moving, and you feel two of his fingers slide into you with almost no warning.
You cough out a moan, but your hand doesn’t move away from your mouth. Rafe wraps his lips around your clit and sucks on it while his fingers begin to move back and forth inside of you, knowing exactly where to hit every time.
As always, his knowledge of your body is beginning to be a little too much for you.
And then, what feels like seconds after, his mouth pulls away, and so do his fingers. When you see him stand up, you take your hand off your mouth and try to ignore the cold between your legs as you pull yourself up on your elbows.
“Turn around,” Rafe tells you, with his hands on your hips, but you don’t move, both for still trying to catch your breath and for your promise to not give up that easily.
Without any delay, Rafe flips you easily to lie on your stomach, and you huff out a breath of annoyance when you almost face plant into the table. Your bikini bottoms now fall to the ground, but you ignore them as you feel Rafe grab onto your hips from behind you. And, just in a few seconds, your annoyance evaporates when you feel Rafe’s dick slide into you. It’s slow. Torturing. And without any pause. But you almost forget your anger the moment it happens.
You two stay like that for a bit, but then Rafe begins to move. You try to concentrate, of course you do. You repeat the words, you got this, over and over in your brain, but it’s way harder than you think it is. The pleasure that had gone dormant from Rafe’s pause of his initial attack on you resumes exactly where it left off, and you almost lose it.
Your entire body feels warm, your pussy feels soaked, and your back naturally arches as soon as Rafe keeps moving. You hear him chuckle behind you, but you try to ignore it so as to not give him the satisfaction of a reaction. His dick slides easily back and forth inside of you at a pace that, though it isn’t the slowest he has punished you with, it’s nowhere near the pace you wish you could be at. It’s almost anxiety-inducing because Rafe knows what he’s doing. And he’s just telling you, without using any words, that though he almost has you breaking, he hasn’t even started yet.
And then, finally, he speeds up to a normal pace, and you lean your head onto the table. You focus on your breathing, knowing that it is already shaking, and at the beginning of a moan, but you know that Rafe can’t hear it. So, you let yourself indulge in that alone.
You close your eyes, concentrating further as pleasure continues to burn at the end of your tummy and travels down to your legs, and Rafe doesn’t seem to like how silent you are.
Out of nowhere, Rafe grabs you by your torso and pulls you up, making you arch into him and almost lean your head back on his shoulder.
“Why are you doing that?” He asks you in a mumble just below your ear, “Uhm?” He questions you.
You don’t respond, but your hands lie on the table to hold you better. His hands hold onto your waist, and you try to ignore the sounds coming from both of you. Rafe knows it right away.
“You think you’re winning, uhm?” He continues, “But you're so fucking wet that the whole boat could hear you if they were awake.”
The sound of the wet smack of skin and squelching of your pussy, makes you unconsciously squeeze Rafe’s dick, and he laughs into your ear.
“Look at you,” He kisses your neck between words, “Holding yourself together so well.” He nips at your skin, and then all you feel is his lips and tongue over your skin.
Rafe’s hands undo the tie of his shirt on you, and his hands disappear under the fabric. Your hands lift off the table as Rafe pulls you in closer and closer to his chest, and the angle worsens your entire situation. His hands find your chest and pull your tits out of the tight bikini, and, as soon as you feel his mouth on your skin again while his fingers pinch at one of your nipples, you let out a loud and shaky sigh that Rafe can now definitely hear.
“You got it, you got it.” He pokes fun at you. He kisses your cheek and the corner of your lips, “But I got to say… I already miss your whining.”
You intake air harshly through your nose as Rafe thrusts into you with a little more force, and you open your eyes. He kisses your jaw and pulls you in closer to his chest, making his warmth familiarly engulf you.
Rafe looks down at you, his head just beside yours, and you force yourself to not meet his eye. “You know what, baby?” He asks, “I’m being way too nice with you… And I really shouldn’t.”
You stay silent, biting your tongue to try and distract yourself with the slight pain of it. Rafe’s hands move away from under the shirt, and he pauses his thrusts. You breathe in and out slowly, and he grabs one of your legs, lifting it to the table and opening space for his hand. His thrusts resume with that, and his fingers return to your clit.
Rafe kisses up your neck and lets go of your waist to force your head to face him. You strengthen your back to hold yourself up as his hips continue to meet yours - his movements at the same pace as before - and Rafe looks you right in the eye as if nothing is affecting him. His poker face is surely better than yours, but you try to not lose hope in yourself.
“Am I being mean to you?” He asks you, the sound of his thrusts invading your ears and making you hold in your breath. “Uhm? Am I?” He kisses your lips with a peck, and you look down at his mouth when he pulls away, “You can tell me, baby, and I promise that I’ll take better care of you.”
He kisses you again, and a little sound escapes your mouth when Rafe’s tongue meets yours. Your hands itch to touch him. To grab his head to force him closer to you. Or his arm to hold yourself up. The kiss is wet and messy, but Rafe intends for it to be so. You squeeze his dick harder and harder, and smaller sounds escape you as you get more drunk off of him.
Rafe then decides to put some more force into his thrusts, and, with your mouths open into a kiss, an actual moan breaks out of you. Rafe smiles and pulls away from your lips, victorious and proud. You try to go back down to the table, trying to get yourself back together by distancing yourself from him and his warmth, smell, and lips, but Rafe doesn’t let you. He roughly pulls you back to his chest by wrapping his arm around your waist as he thrusts, and a shaky breath comes out of your mouth.
“Are you going to cry?” He asks you, his tone so heavy with humor, that you find it evil when directed at you. You close your eyes and force down the urge to cry out your pleasure, and Rafe just keeps making it worse. His fingers pause on the small circles on your clit and pinch it softly as he leans his head onto the crook of your neck. He bites your skin and moves away to look down at your face. Rafe looks as he speeds up his pace and thrusts fully into you. He reads your face like a book. And though you’re silent, you couldn’t make it more obvious to him. “You can cry. I got you. I always do.”
You’re getting distracted. Your pleasure is getting higher and higher, and Rafe does not shut up. He keeps talking in your ear, knowing that if he does, your pleasure just gets worse as your pussy squeezes him like a vice. He calls you his crybaby, his baby, his pretty girl. All of it to get in your head. And he succeeds.
Your hand lifts off the table and moves towards his on your waist. You grab it to try and get some strength back into you, but Rafe sees it as a slip-up and starts moving his fingers quicker against your poor clit to only make it worse. Your eyes open, and Rafe bites at your neck. Your other hand lifts up to his nape, scratching his skin, and he grunts at your touch.
“You want to come?” Rafe asks you against the skin of your cheek, and you find yourself nodding. His chuckle hits your face, and he forcibly kisses you. “You do, yeah?” You nod again when he pulls away, “Ask me, then.”
You sob out loud as the pleasure intensifies and a tear escapes. Rafe smiles at you, prouder than he’s ever been of himself, but you don’t ask him for anything. He kisses you again, with bruising force, and that just makes you whimper against his lips. His fingers move faster and faster, and your hands hold onto him like a lifeline. Your sounds start getting louder and louder, still not yet being their usual volume, but Rafe takes them in like medals. Every single one of them.
“I’ll stop.” He warns you, making you look at him in surprise. “If you don’t ask for it, I’ll stop, and we’ll go to sleep.”
And the look you give him… Rafe could’ve melted right there and then. You plead with your teary eyes, small sobs of pleasure leaving your mouth, as you almost pout at him. Rafe was ready to give you the orgasm and more. Anything in the world could be yours if you kept it up. But you decide to shake your head.
“No?” He asks you, “No, you don’t want to come?” He tests you, “Or no, you don’t want me to stop?”
He pinches your clit when you don’t answer, and you, finally, let out a real moan. He can tell that you’re getting closer. Your pussy is impossibly wet, your breathing is irregular, you're holding onto him as if he’ll let you fall to the ground at any second, and then you tense up. Rafe, though it pains him to, stops moving right away.
“I guess we’ll go to sleep, then.”
“No, no, no…” You whisper at him, pulling at him with your hands as if scared that he’ll disappear. Rafe leans in as you pull him by his nape, and you peck his lips. Rafe kisses you for more time, and you start to feel everything. His naked chest against you, his tight hold on your waist, his lips on yours, his dick entirely inside you, and his other hand paused at your clit. He pulls away, and you sigh.
“Say it, then.” Rafe encourages.
“P… Please make me come.” You whisper against his lips, so low that Rafe’s ear almost doesn’t register, but he takes it as enough.
“Of course, baby.” He kisses you at the end of the sentence, “Anything for my pretty girl, yeah?”
You nod at him, and he starts slowly at first. As soon as the speed and force come back, you’re too aware of every single thing and come incredibly fast. Rafe holds you as he keeps going, thrusting into you deeply as he forces you to ride out your orgasm as he finds his, and, the second you start making your overstimulated whines, Rafe is done for. He thrusts a final time and comes inside you, and he grunts against the skin of your shoulder.
His breathing takes some time to calm down, and you relax your hold on him. Rafe takes his hand away from your pussy and lays it over the table to stand up straight. Your hand falls from his head as he does so, and you grab his wrist from that same arm. You lean your head back onto his shoulder, and the wind of the sea hits your wet face. Gosh, what a mess.
You two don’t talk for a bit, but Rafe doesn’t take long to feel himself get back to normal. He is careful when he pulls out of you and pulls his shorts back up. He’s slow to let you go, making sure that you can stand on your own already, and he grabs the bottoms of your bikini from the floor. He hands it to you, and when he goes to pick you up, you stop him.
“Rafe, the table.” You tell him, looking at it.
“What?”
You laugh and point at the table you just had sex on, “We got to clean the table. We have every meal on that thing”. Rafe sighs as he looks at it.
You put your bikini back on while Rafe trusts you to stand by yourself, and he cleans the table very well, to your request (also known as orders). Once he’s done, he goes to wash his hands, and you move towards the inside of the boat. You close the door and lock it behind you, and look over to find Rafe drying his hands on the kitchen cloth.
“Don't forget the other doors,” you tell him.
“What other doors?” He asks, making you frown.
“You said they were unloc-” And he smiles at you.
Asshole.
Rafe throws the now clean, once again, cloth onto the counter, and you kiss his arm. “Let’s go,” you whisper at him, and he nods.
Both of you are about to get the best night of sleep in your lives.
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I indeed just wrote a 7k+ extra smutty chapter to have before the last one. It was done as an apology for the wait. It will be posted this week <3
The new chapter is so good!! How many chapters do you think you’ll write?
Don’t hate me 🙃 The next chapter will the last one, and then there will be an epilogue. BUT, I plan on making random extra imagined whenever I miss writing for these cuties
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I'm gonna scream brb
So... did you like the new chapter?
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Currently editing an old fic of mine that I also intend on finishing and going through the phase of: how did people even read this????
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BABE- THE NEW CHAPTER SLAPS SO HARD!!
Honestly I've been following this story for a few years now and I've imagined how the confrontation after the revelation would go, but this was honestly more than perfect. You've literally outdone yourself once again because this was amazing! Can't wait to see how you wrap everything up!
Love you babe, keep on slaying <3
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Omg, that is the sweetest thing ever. I love you too <3
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Tutor: Promise
Words: 8k+ Summary: After the party, everything goes down. Warnings: Female!Reader. Insults. Slut shaming. Difficult relationships with parents, specifically fathers. Mention of drinking, sex, drugs, and violence. MDNI. A/N.: Ignore the fact that I've been gone for almost a year. Imagine it only took me like... 2 months :) Probably needs more proofreading, so, pls be nice <3
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Time felt weird. It felt like it was going too fast and too slow at times. When you walked out of that building, the cold outside made everything too real. All the words. The expression on your parents’ faces. All of it. They kept replaying yet again in your memory, making you more nauseous by the second. And, with each second that went by, your parents never seemed to finally walk out of the building.
You tried to prepare yourself for when they did, what to say, and how to act so that nothing could become much worse for you by not knowing what to say. You thought of saying a whole speech of how you regretted not telling them, and how you will explain everything. You thought of maybe even calling Rafe out of the room, but that felt even worse. You thought of not saying anything at all, but you could already see how that would just leave them to assume more and more of what went down.
When the doors of the building behind you opened, you almost lost your footing, watching as your parents walked out. They looked composed at first, like nothing had happened. But the closer they got to you, right beside the car, you noticed your father’s tense posture and your mother’s eyes, reddened and moist with tears ready to burst out.
You opened your mouth to talk, your chin shook when her broken eyes met yours, and, with much disappointment on your side, no words that you practiced came out, just a small sob. Your father’s eyes moved to stare at you once the sound came out, but he didn’t say anything just yet.
You tried to reach for your mother when she was close enough, but she didn’t respond, simply sniffled and moved her hand to clean the corner of her painted eyes, careful to not smudge a thing. As your father reached for the car keys, you swallowed some of the tears and tried to speak, letting out a short and ridiculous “I can explain”, but it met deaf ears. No one responded.
Once the car was unlocked, your mother opened the door and walked right in, but your father stood there, watching her as she did it, deep in thought. You tried to open your mouth to talk to him instead, but when his eyes met yours again, all he said was, “Get in the car.”
You did, and the trip home was horrible. You held your tears in, feeling your chin shake and your face wet from tears you didn’t care to wipe away. Your mother cried in small sniffles, ones which at times got the response from your father as an understanding look or a hand over hers. No words were said, and it all hurt more by the second.
Once inside your house, you felt like it all broke loose. Your mother put down her bag at the entrance, and her eyes met her feet as she let out a sob for the first time. Your father does not move, standing mere inches from the door that was just closed behind him.
“I can try to explain.” You blurted out again, heart beating out of your chest, and panic beginning to rise higher and higher.
“Is there anything to explain?” Your father asks, almost spitting his words in your direction.
“Yes.” You nod, trying to sound convincing, but your following words, with the nerves, just shoot out of your mouth, “I didn’t mean to hide it like this- It was not really planned- It all just started as a… I’m not sure- But there is nothing wrong with Rafe. I love him, and he treats me well. I promise. He is nothing like people say he is-”
“Do you hear yourself?” He asks you, his expression morphing into a worried yet angry look.
“Yes, Dad, please. You have to believe me!” You step closer to him, wanting to hold his attention and make him believe your words, “Rafe is not as bad as you think he is. Please don’t be mad.”
He shakes his head and pulls his hand away before you can even reach him. Your heart breaks, and he walks away from the door, creating a larger distance between the two of you as he needs space to think. Your eyes stupidly fill up with tears again as you grow more and more helpless, and it all seems to get worse just because of it.
“Stop crying,” Your mother says, looking at you, finally. “You have to stop crying every time something does not go your way. You are not a child.”
“But mom…” You try to talk, but your broken heart wants to express itself further, consuming your body and making you want to cry or else run out of air to hold it in further. “You have to believe me. There is nothing wrong with this. We are just dating... He is like any other boyfriend.”
Your father chuckles at your words, and your wet eyes meet his again. Your body is starting to feel weird. Your skin feels clammy, your body feels hot, but your teeth keep wanting to chatter. At the same time, your mind is going too fast with ideas of what to say to the point of not being able to get anything out to defend yourself or Rafe. Your previous attempts had been bad enough. You feel ridiculous, but there isn't much you can do.
He leans forward as if to hear you better once you speak, “Like any other boyfriend? Do you hear yourself?” He asks you, chuckling but finding no humor behind his questions. “The Rafe that I keep hearing gets into multiple fights a week and got into the hospital for alcohol poisoning, is like any other boyfriend?”
You frown amid your tears, “That isn't freaking true!” You exclaim, “This is what I mean when I say that Rafe isn’t like what other people say he is. He does not get into fights like that, and he doesn’t drink- I never saw him drunk, even!”
Your mother turns to face you, “When could you have seen him drunk? At home?”
“I-”
“Y/N, you better shut up.” Your father interrupts you, “You are only digging yourself a bigger hole.”
“How long has it been going on?” Your mother asks, going against your father’s wish to have you in silence.
“Months.” You admit, “Not sure how many.”
“More than two?” You nod, “More than five?” You nod too, and her eyes swell up in tears again before she looks away, all while your father seems to be driving himself to madness as he looks at you. “Have you been to parties too? Is that it? Without your friends?”
“Kristy and I haven’t been talk-”
“And why is that?!” Your father asks loudly and angrily, making you flinch.
“Because she found out about me and Rafe.” You admit, forcefully wiping away your tears to grasp onto any dignity you had left.
“What do you mean ‘found out’?”
“I didn’t tell her either when we started seeing each other,” Your father chuckles again humorlessly, “And she saw me with him once.”
“Let me guess, he has been in our home too?” Your mother asks, trying to see if there is anything the man hasn’t done yet without her knowledge.
“Yes.”
She shakes her head, disappointment filling her every pore, and she does not try to hide it from you. Your heart keeps jumping in your chest, but you try to calm it down as it is doing you absolutely no favors.
A silence follows, and you notice that you have finally run out of tears, even when your mother has not, and her make-up has become too smudged for any of it to be salvaged. Your father stands feet beside you, seething with the idea of anything ever happening between you and Rafe.
You smooth your hands down on your dress, cleaning the sweat from your palms, and try to think back on what you had been wanting to tell them before you lost control of everything around you. “I am not proud of hiding it from anyone. I did it to try to calm down any unwanted reactions. I tried to not make this a surprise. I-” You pause to clear your throat when you notice you are nearing tears yet again, “I meant it to be me who would say it to you and to Kristy and the rest of the girls. I wanted to tell you everything when I would be done with school. Not be ambushed by it twice in a month… I’m sorry for lying and for hiding all of this. I never meant to hurt anyone with it.”
“Hurt anyone with it?” Your mother asks dumbfounded, “Has it ever occurred to you that we, or Kristy, are against this relationship, not because of our feelings, but because we are scared for you?”
We… or Kristy…
“You’ve talked to Kristy…” You realize in a low tone. They ignore it as they mustn’t have heard it.
“Rafe, rumors or not, is dangerous. He has always been.” Your mother throws her hand in the air to emphasize her despair, “I am angry that you did not tell me, but I am angrier with the fact that you chose him, of all people, to date. He can hurt you. He can… He can do so much wrong. Drugs, alcohol, unprotected relations, all of it.” She breathes, “He is bad news, Y/N. He has always been. You cannot do this to yourself.”
You turn to your father and see that he must agree with all of your mother’s words, because he doesn’t seem to have anything else to add. Angry or not, he seems to prefer to be silent.
“No matter what you think, I am not breaking up with Rafe.” You tell them both. “I am not doing it. I have said this to Kristy, as I’m sure both of you have heard from her. And, since our conversations weren’t exactly civil, I am sure you will not even want to hear when I say that I know Rafe. I know him and I have known him for quite some time. I have watched him before. I have met his family, years ago. I have met his friends. I have seen him do everything possible under the sun, and he has not once hurt me.”
There is a short silence until “What about Aiden?” Your father asks, bringing his hand up to rub his jaw in frustration.
“What about him?” You ask, knowing exactly what he means.
“Rafe sent him to the hospital. He beat him to a pulp, Y/N.” He explains, still angry.
“I know he did.”
“You were there?” Your mother asks. Her mouth hangs open as she isn't able to contain her shock.
“I was.”
Your father can’t help but laugh at how ridiculous you sound, “And you’re fine with it.” He affirms it, moving his shoulder as if it is so natural to say it aloud.
“No, I was never fine with it. I have always hated violence. Rafe knows how much I’m against it, too.” You tell him, trying to sound sure of your words. “But though I think he took it too far... Aiden did deserve it.”
“Deserve it?!” Your mother repeats in a squeal.
“Who even are you?” Your father dramatically asks, “Because my daughter would never say this, ever-” You interrupt him.
“I made Rafe apologize for it. I’ve contacted Aiden, and he himself told me that Rafe did indeed say ‘sorry’ and paid for the medical bills.” You tell them, “I didn’t make him do it like he was a child, or because he needed someone to tell him how wrong it was. He knew that he went too far, and that is why he apologized as soon as I called him out on it.”
They don’t say anything.
“That was the only time I saw Rafe being violent. He didn’t initiate it, and, still, he never did it again.” You conclude.
“So, Aiden started it?” Your father asks. “The Aiden that I’ve known for so many years and has sat at our table, that Aiden- That Aiden picked a fight with Rafe?” He almost laughs at how ludicrous it all sounded.
“No. Aiden started it with me, and Rafe ended it.” You clarify. “Aiden was drunk, and that is why I don’t think he deserved what happened to the full extent. He came up to me, figured out that I didn’t want anything to do with him, insulted me, and Rafe punched him.”
“Right…” Your father nods, finding you to be full of shit. “Rafe, the gentleman.”
You look away, noticing how he’s beginning to make fun of you. You look towards your mother instead, who has been silently listening to you and never tried to test your patience as much as him.
“I don’t believe you. I don’t believe it, Y/N, I am sorry.” She tells you. Her natural, saddened pout reappears as her eyes fill up with tears again, forcing you to look down at the ground. “I’m scared for you, really. I am.”
“Mom-” You try to stop her.
“He is dangerous, Y/N. People will talk as soon as you go public with him. Everyone will see it and think the same thing.” She says, almost running out of breath as she fights her tears.
You don’t seem to have any more words to say.
She tells you outright, “He is a drug addict. My friends have kids just like you who have been to these parties with Rafe. He is always coked up, they say.” She tries to wipe away her tears. “He drinks a lot. He is rude. He is mean. And he might sound dreamy, but that is only because you are a teenager. He sounds dangerous, and that is why you are attracted to him.” She holds your shoulders now, “But you need to get away from him before it is too late-”
“Mom, stop it!”
“He is a bad influence… He will get you into drugs, too. You cannot do this to yourself. To us!” Her eyes are wide, and she looks insane. As if she has already gone mad with all that has happened. “You need to break up-”
“Shut up!” You say loudly, and she shuts her mouth. She lifts her hands from your shoulders and brings them over her mouth, creating a distance between the two of you. “Jesus Christ, Mom! Please stop this craziness about how he will hurt me. You don’t even know the guy!”
“Watch how you talk to your mother!” Your father defends her, “She is worried about you!”
“Yeah, because she prefers to think back on the rumors that she’s heard rather than listen to her daughter. She prefers to listen to Kristy rather than her own daughter, who is healthy and not into drugs, and tells her that everything is fine. And, still, everyone is going ABSOLUTELY INSANE!” You almost scream out the last words. The frustration inside of you had to get out in some way.
“You need to leave him.” Your father says, ignoring your words.
“And why should I do that?” You ask him, scoffing.
“Because your mother is right, Y/N. He is dangerous. Even you, yourself, admitted it in your version of the story. Rafe preferred to start a fight instead of talking it out with Aiden! Imagine when he has an argument with you!”
“He punched Aiden because Aiden called me whore!”
Before you even get to say anything else, your father responds, “Well, given how you are acting, maybe Aiden was right.”
The entrance hall of your home goes silent, and even your mother stops her sobs amid all the yelling. No one dares to speak, but your father does not seem to regret his words. He doesn’t try to correct himself or, as he usually does, admit he only spoke from a space of anger and frustration. You stay silent because you wait for him to say it, but he never does. Your father thinks you are a whore, all because of your relationship with Rafe.
Your mother doesn’t say anything, but her eyes find her husband’s. She doesn’t agree with him, but she doesn’t try to defend you. You are acting too differently for her to recognize you in your actions, but all these words were going too far.
“Maybe.” You tell your father, looking him in the eyes.
“What?”
 “What?” You repeat, “Maybe Aiden was right. That’s what you said, why are you so surprised?” You shrug, “But since you agree with him that you have a whore of a daughter, and maybe a druggie as a future son-in-law, it's not that bad, right?” You spit your words, letting them escape your mouth, finally with no filter. “Just like I have an idiotic father and mother who prefer to believe strangers over their own daughter.”
Your father is fuming at your words. Only now that your words finally have a bite, and you aren't struggling to put a coherent sentence amid your tears. He has a problem with all that you’ve been saying, even if all you’re doing is repeating what they’ve said to you.
“Did you know that Aiden was the one who introduced me to alcohol, along with Kristy?” You tell them both, and then fixate on your mother, “Aiden also was the one who took my virginity and introduced me to unprotected relations…” You quote her. “The same Aiden that you both have known for years and has sat at your table.” You smile sarcastically, “That Aiden.”
And then your cheek stung, but you expected it.
“Get out of my house.” Your father says. His hand is hot from the impact.
You look into your mother’s wet eyes as your smile falls, and your own eyes plead to cry from the pain and humiliation of its form. You sniffle before you say, “Okay.”
(…)
The walking out wasn’t as smooth as you’d wanted it to be. You were still able to hear your mother gasp as you reached for the handle of the door, as if walking out of the house had been your idea all along. She didn’t stop you, physically or verbally. She let you go, but you still heard her project her worries to your father as soon as you closed the door behind you.
You hesitate on who to call. Rafe felt obvious, but he was also at the party. Rose already knew enough. You didn’t want to pull him away from the family hangout and ruin it any further. So, you thought about it a little more. You had Topper or Kelce, but they probably already got too drunk. As soon as Patty sent you a text asking where you’d gone, you didn’t hesitate to call instead of typing.
“Hey, where are you?” she asks, loudly, as if in a loud room. “I went outside for a bit and, when I came back to check on you, you were gone.”
“I’m at my house.” You tell her, holding in any of the tears.
“Oh, okay.” She says, finding the location weird, given how early the night still is.
“But I actually have to get out of here,” You try to explain, taking a deep breath to make sure you don’t make this any harder for yourself, “Could you come pick me up?”
“Sure,” She says, but her tone is thick with utter confusion. “Is everything alright?”
“I got kicked out.”
“Oh shit.”
“Yeah…” You sniffle and kick a little bit of gravel into the path before you. “So, could you come pick me up?”
“Yeah, yeah. Of course!” She says, loudly, almost as if snapping out of the shock, “I’m going to my car, now.”
“Thank you.”
 “No need,” She says, “See you soon.”
You answer her before turning off the call, but your phone starts vibrating with another one right after. You expected it to be Patty, having found Rafe, or forgetting your address, but no. It’s actually Kristy. You have no idea why you thought she would stay away now.
 You smooth down your dress, thanking the summer night for not having you shaking in the cold as you waited for your friend. Your breathing is shaky, but tears seem to have dried out completely by now. A miracle. It must be from dehydration.
The phone vibrates yet again from another call, but you deny it again when noticing that it is Kristy calling you yet again. What more could she have to say to you?
Hope rises in your chest every time a car drives by, expecting it to be Patty, who will finally drive you away from this house, where you can finally stop thinking about what went wrong.
You had to start thinking about your life. Your parents have always given you everything. They were going to pay for college and support you in whatever future you’d decide to have. And now, you’ll have nothing. No help. No support. You’re on your own. Could you even afford to go to college anymore?
A car slows down to a stop in front of your home, and you get ready to talk to Patty. But that isn’t Patty’s car.
Well, shit.
“Y/N, I am so sorry. For everything!” Her voice shouts out into the night, and you close your fists in pure irritation to see her again. “I never meant for it to go this far!” Kristy shouts as she gets out of the car.
You don’t answer her. You simply fish out your phone from your purse again and text a ‘Hurry up’ to Patty to keep yourself busy. Kristy doesn’t seem to have cared for your lack of attention, as she continues to walk in your direction and outstretches her hand, as if asking you to hold it. You can't even hold back your disgust once you notice it.
 “I am so sorry,” Kristy says, now standing in front of you. “I’m sorry that it took me so long to realize it. I should’ve listened to you.”
Her hand tries to envelop yours, but you pull away quickly. “Don’t touch me.”
“Please, you have to hear me out. I was just so worried about you. I even tried to talk it out with your parents to calm them down, too.” She breathes out as if she ran to say this to you. “But they just wanted to leave and talk to you about it.”
You still don’t say anything.
“Let’s go inside and talk to them together.” She reaches for your hand again, and you take a step back. “We’ll figure this out together, okay? We’ve been best friends for so many years, we can’t just throw that away, right?”
“You already did.” You answer her, surprising her. “You did it as soon as we talked in your car, and only fortified it with whatever happened tonight.”
“That’s not true.”
“It is to me.” You tell her, “I haven’t been your friend since then. So, yes. We did throw that away.”
Your name escapes her lips in a pleading tone, and you almost slap her across the face when noticing tears forming in her eyes. She had to be joking. What reasons could she have to cry? In your face, specifically?
Another car comes to a stop in front of your home, and you sigh when you notice another right behind. Patty told Rafe. Great.
You start walking towards them, but Kristy seems not to really get what you told her, because she stays close behind. “We can fix this, still, Y/N.” Kristy says, “Let’s go inside, please. Let’s talk to your parents and sort this out.”
You look over your shoulder and see her turn around. You watch her as she starts knocking on your front door. All while Rafe, Patty, and Topper all start getting out of the cars, you begin to want to bury yourself in a literal hole. With this, the front door also opens, and you let out the biggest sigh. This could not have gotten worse.
You decide to keep on walking in the direction of the cars, and Kristy’s voice starts again, but now with your parents. It's all the same: apologies and trying to amend anything that she’s done. But the reality is that your parents are not focused on her or her words, but really on your back as you walk away, and the cars that are parked in front of their home.
“What the hell happened?” Rafe asks you as soon as you stand close enough, and his voice, though low, gets everyone’s attention.
“Got kicked out.” You say, surprising yourself with a shrug.
Your parents stand by the door with Kristy right in front of them. She tries to reach out to them, trying to hold onto your mother’s hand and rain down more apologies, just like you had listened to. Your mother’s hand is unmoving, even when Kristy’s hand goes around it. She tries to speak to her, but your mother’s eyes are focused on you only. She cannot hear what you’re saying to Rafe, who is still wearing his suit, and as he lays his hand on your shoulder. His own eyes haven’t lifted to face anyone else. They are stuck on you as you speak.
Patty and Topper also walk closer, almost covering you away from your parents’ gaze. Your father notices how Rafe’s expression twists multiple times throughout the sentences that you tell him. A mixture of anger and confusion all around. A girl he doesn’t recognize, Patty, wraps her arm around you and continues to listen to you in silence. All while Topper Thornton has brought his hands to his head, listening to you, frustrated, as he scrubs his hair.
“We can all fix this.” Kristy’s voice cuts through everyone’s trances, those who listen to you and those who are fixated on you from a distance. “This can all be fixed.”
Rafe lifts his gaze for the first time with her words and looks directly at her. He has no reaction, but Kristy still cannot find herself to meet his eye. Not after all of this. She holds onto your mother’s hand and squeezes it before facing her, with her smudged makeup and teary eyes.
Rafe looks away and down at you. Your parents notice that you seem to be calmer than when you were inside the house. At least, you didn’t seem to be violently crying as you once had done amidst the argument inside. Rafe says something to you that your mother cannot understand, and you only nod in response. Patty smooths her hand down your back in comfort, and Topper shares a look with her in complete shock. He never knew how bad this was.
Kristy looks between the two groups in despair, not knowing what to say or do. She lets go of your mother’s hand, making her realize she had been holding it this entire time, and decides to start walking towards you. Topper notices her first, and Patty right after. Patty looks Kristy dead in the eye, and it makes her stop walking.
 “We should go,” Patty says to you before turning her head to face you.
“Where do I even go?” You ask her, and Kristy looks at you, noticing you are holding Rafe’s hand as you speak.
“Any of our houses.” Patty shrugs, and you look up at Rafe, who is looking down at you in silence. “Why don’t you stay with Rafe today, and I’ll get the spare room in my house ready? My parents are on a trip for a month.” Her hand rubs between your shoulders, and you nod.
“Is that okay?” You ask Rafe, as if he could ever say no to you.
He gives you a look that would’ve made you laugh any other day, but not this one. Rafe then pulls you over in the direction of the car, and Patty’s hand falls from your back, letting you walk away. Kristy, for the last time, tries to follow you before you leave for the Camerons’ home, but Patty steps in her way, stopping her.
“You’ve done enough today,” Patty tells her, as she listens to the car door closing on the passenger’s side. Rafe walks around the car to the driver’s seat, and Kristy follows him with her eyes.
“I have to tell her that I’m sorry.”
“It won’t do anything,” Patty tells her, almost letting out a groan when noticing that your parents are walking closer too.
“Let us speak to her.” Your mother says, right as Rafe’s car starts.
Patty opens her mouth to answer her, but she is walking in the direction of your, blacked out, window before she can even say anything. You look over at your mom, watching as she moves her hands to ask you to roll down the window. You don’t do it.
“Honey, please let me talk to you.” Your mother still says to the window, but you look away and say something to Rafe, which makes him drive away without you sharing a word.
Your mother sobs out loud as the car pulls off the driveway, and Patty looks over at Topper, who is in absolute shock at all that has happened.
What a hell of a night.
(…)
Waking up seems to have become easier after a few days in your new bed. It, obviously, doesn’t compare to your old one, but you have a sense that your body is finally getting accustomed to it. The lack of curtains, on the other hand, is what you think you'll never accept into this new home. It is absolutely ridiculous to be brought up from your slumber by what feels like a spotlight right in your face.
You stretch before bringing yourself to sit on the bed. Your hair already feels like a mess, and you haven’t even touched it. You let out a breath and bring your body up on your feet, forcing yourself into the bathroom.
You decide to take a shower and start getting yourself ready for the day, even without breakfast, which has been hard to stomach lately. You run over to the bedroom to get something quick and comfortable to put on, and decide on a dress, given that today will be hot.
When finally out of the bathroom and bedroom, you can hear voices from the TV in the kitchen. You talk in the direction of the voices and, in the room, you get Patty's attention right away. She had just been distracted by her phone while mixing something in a pan when you stepped into her field of view.
“Good morning, sleeping beauty!” Patty excitingly tells you, “How did you sleep?”
“Good,” You answer, leaving it short and sweet.
“Do you still love my lack of curtains?”
“Absolutely.” You give her the fakest smile ever, making her laugh out loud.
You walk over to the island, and Patty hands you a plate full of food. You thank her, and the room soon goes back to just the noise coming from the TV - some sort of podcast video Patty tends to listen to while she cooks. You don’t mind the noise. Nor do you mind Patty’s silence as she cooks. It only leaves you to think to yourself, or, better, not think at all about what truly wants to be brought forward into your mind and made into a real issue.
Everything just went down 4 days ago. It’s supposed to still be fresh and still make you want to cry your eyes out. You’re supposed to be okay with being upset about what happened. But you really can’t bring yourself to cry anymore.
“Where’s Rafe?” You ask Patty, making her look away from the pan.
“Gym, I think.” She shrugs, “Topper picked him up just an hour or two ago.”
You nod and go back to eating. Your phone sits right in front of you. You’ve made yourself block Kristy and many of the other girls by now, as your phone was becoming unusable by the number of notifications you’ve been getting. And now, your mother’s contact flashes on the screen, and you hesitate before you grab to answer it.
“Hello?” You say, as Patty turns around to notice what you’re doing. She stands still.
“Y/N.” Your mother says, “I need you to come grab your things as soon as possible. I need your room vacant by this afternoon.”
If you didn’t know your mother, this would’ve hurt more than a stake through the heart, but you know what she’s doing. She’s trying to rub at the wound, so you’ll go back home and tell her how right she was all along.
“Okay.” You tell her.
You could hear a pin drop with her following silence. You let yourself continue it for longer, getting yourself a mouthful of food while you’re at it. Once you swallow it, you speak again.
“I’ll make Rafe drive me there, we’ll go grab everything as soon as he’s back from the gym.”
There are a few seconds of silence.
“And when will that be?” she asks, suddenly. “I want to be out of the house when that happens.”
Dramatic.
“In-” You’re ready to say a random number, but the doorbell is heard from the front of Patty’s house, “In an hour, max.”
Patty walks out of the room to open the door for Rafe, Topper, and probably Kelce, and you take another bite from your food. Patty really does know how to cook.
“Alright.” Your mother says, dryly.
“Bye.” You say before ending the call.
The voices of the three, as you had assumed right, men fill the house all of a sudden, and you look over your shoulder to find Rafe walking into the kitchen, definitely looking for you. You smile at him and jump out of your seat. He leans down to get a kiss as soon as he’s close enough, and you continue smiling up at him.
“I need a favor.” You tell him.
(…)
You have been packing with Patty for the past hour, and you still feel like things are far from being all packed. Rafe came to be of no help at all. He helped in the first few minutes, finding much pleasure in looking through your things as you put them into bags and boxes, but now, as he says, he is bored. You’ve thrown 3 pillows at his face in this entire hour. With no regrets.
He keeps lying on your naked mattress, as you had decided to take the sheets off your bed while you were packing. His phone has been asking for battery for the past minutes, and he is seemingly close to closing his eyes and going to sleep. You don’t have it in you to force him back up. At least he will be quiet.
“Do you want to take these too?” Patty asks, pointing at the things on top of your desk.
“Yes, please.” You say, seated on the ground as you forced closed a bag of clothes.
Your wardrobe is empty, except for some boxes that you have no interest in taking with you, as well as the bedside tables. Your book stands are just halfway done, and all you can think about is how you are probably taking too long, and your parents might appear sooner or later.
“At what time did your parents say they would be back?” Patty asks, and you walk to your phone.
Your phone is on your bed, just beside Rafe, who opens his eyes as soon as you step closer. You try not to trip on your way to him and, as you reach for your phone, Rafe tries to caress you. You simply smack him away.
“In thirty minutes.” The text from your mother only said that you had less than two hours to pack everything. And then leave the key on the kitchen table.
Patty sighs and starts to throw your things with less care into the bags. You can’t judge her. You two have no more time, and it’s been long enough to start losing the patience you once had when you first got here. You look down at Rafe, who is burning a hole through your skull, and he pretends to close his eyes as if he’s going to sleep. You grab onto the pillow that hadn’t fallen onto the bed on your previous attack and hit him square in the face. Rafe gets startled, and you embarrassingly squeal as you try to get away from him before he grabs you.
Rafe refuses to get out of bed, so you get back to work in peace. It takes Patty a few more minutes to clear out the desk and the rest of the book stand, and then she announces that she needs to go to the bathroom really quickly. Right as the door closes, you grab the plastic hangar closest to you and throw it at Rafe.
“Why are you throwing things at me?” Rafe, with his male audacity, asks.
“Because you aren’t moving a single muscle, that’s why.” You tell him, sincerely. “Help me out. We’re almost done, anyway.”
He huffs out a breath with his dramatics and gets back up. You hand him the hangars, and he starts putting them down on the box as you collect them from the ground.
Right as you’re holding the box together so that Rafe can tape it closed, a sound interrupts your peace. It isn’t Patty getting out of the bathroom, or a notification on your phone. Nope, it was a door. More specifically, the front door.
Rafe looks directly at you when the door closes, and you take a breath. Everything will be fine, you tell yourself. Patty gets out of the bathroom with an expression that could only show that she, too, heard the front door. So, all of you get back to work without saying anything.
Whoever is in the house among you may not hear your voices as you work, but you three aren’t silent with packing, nor do you intend to. It’s better if they know you’re still here.
“Want me to take anything to the car, yet?” Rafe asks, hands on his hips.
“Yes, please.” You tell him, pointing at the boxes closest to the door. “Can you go with him, Patty?”
Patty nods at you, letting out a breath as if relieved from being free from the packing job, and they grab as many boxes as they can. Patty takes two boxes piled on top of each other before getting out of the room, and you help Rafe pile the second one as he already has a bag over his shoulder. A pink one too. He looks cute.
“Be right back.” He says before leaving the room.
You turn back to face the boxes and decide to finish up the tape first. At least, whenever they get back up here, they’ll be able to take more boxes and free up some space in the room. You grab Rafe’s phone to check the time, and you supposedly have 20 more minutes. Whoever just got home, got here early.
You kick the least fragile box of clothes closer to the door for easier grabbing and go back to the hangers, taping the box shut and kicking it away. You look around the room and start taking down your posters and whatever else is left on the walls.
Due to your complete concentration, you fail to realize that Rafe and Patty have come back to grab more boxes, and that, after they’re gone, someone now stands by your door. They wait for you to notice them, but with the back and forth of taking things down and shoving them into bags, you don’t even realize you’re being watched.
At some point, you zip up the small backpack and notice someone at the door. Naively, you assume it’s Rafe as he’s usually the fastest to come back for boxes, and Patty had just left, so you speak to him.
“Babe, could you just-” But it’s not Rafe. When you turn your head to hand Rafe the bag you want him to take down to the car, you find your mother instead. “Oh, hi.”
She doesn’t talk, at first. You watch as she takes in the room, absent of nearly all your belongings and having lost all the personality it once had.
“We’re almost done packing.” You clear up, “We’ll be done in like… 5-ish minutes.”
She still doesn’t say anything, but she steps into the room. Your eyes follow her as she moves, and then she simply takes a seat on your bed. Your naked bed. She notices the lack of clothing and runs her hands over it.
“I put the sheets in the hamper,” You try to get her to talk again. “Thought it would be easier for you to clean it after.”
Out of ideas on how to break your mother’s silence, you decide to continue your packing, letting her decide when she’d like to talk. You finish up quickly, and soon Rafe shows up at the door again. He opens his mouth to talk, but immediately shuts it when he notices your mom sitting on your bed. His widened eyes find you, making you the one to break the silence.
“Can you take these,” You point to the last boxes, “and these?” You hold two small bags in your hands.
Rafe doesn’t verbally answer. He just grabs everything and gives you a look before disappearing again. It was a look of caution, almost as if you are near some predator that is ready to bite you. You ignore it and take in the finally empty room.
You don’t let your eyes sting with tears. Not even when you think of how you slept most of your nights in this room. This was where you had the best sleepovers and late nights with friends. Gosh, even with Rafe. And now, it lies naked and cold. Something that makes you understand your mother’s sudden silence a bit too well.
You knew her bite over the phone was a fallacy. Her mask following arguments is always the same. Cold. Stoic. But they always crumble, and she’s always the first to apologize. Though you don’t think today will be it.
“I don’t agree with what your father did to you,” the slap, she means.
You don’t say anything.
“Nor what he called you.”
She lifts her eyes from the empty bed, finally, to you.
“But I want you to understand that we had worries before having any anger towards you.” She admits, with her voice low. “We don’t know Rafe. Nor do I think we wish to… Nor do we know his family all that well… But you need to understand that we were terrified when we first heard it.”
“I understand.”
Her silence makes you want to elaborate.
“I don’t agree with what happened. Nor do I believe I will forgive either of you.” You notice a flash of anger behind her eyes for a second, but it disappears quickly. “But I understand why you’d be scared. That’s why I wanted to be the one to tell you, and the one to ease you into it.” You let silence consume the room yet again before finishing with, “You don’t know Rafe. It’s fair that you’d be scared.”
“So, he isn’t what we’ve heard?” She challenges, though in a calm voice, almost sounding curious.
You hesitate to answer her, but then you remember. Your situation cannot get any worse, can it?
“He does drink, and he does party a lot.” You nod at her, and she’s focused on your every word. “I’ve seen him do drugs, too.” You admit, with little hesitation. “He has never coerced me into doing or drinking anything. And I don’t think I’ve ever really seen him actually drunk or high. Just…” You try to find a word, “dazed, I guess.”
The silence that follows is deafening, so you continue.
“I drink too, at parties.” You admit, “When I drink, he never drinks. And he always makes sure to drive me home, his or mine, and make sure I drink water before I go to sleep.” Your words surprise her, and she doesn't even hide it, so you continue. “He has fought a single person in front of me. Aiden, to be exact. And we got into a fight. And Rafe never fought again. Just like he promised.”
Your mother looks away to hide her surprise, which she is able to do by returning to her stoic and silent expression.
“He’s caring, and playful, and nice.” You keep going, “When he likes you.” You clarify with a short smile, which is evident in your tone. “And we didn’t start dating in the most romantic way possible. Nor did we go on a bunch of dates… we just… got together and enjoyed each other’s company too much to just… stop.”
You move towards the door, initiating your exit, but her eyes find you again.
“He loves me, Mom. He really does. He makes me feel safe and taken care of.” You admit with complete sincerity, “Since that fight after Aiden, he has never, ever, made me doubt him.”
She listens to you, and you can tell that she doesn’t believe you fully. But, in the very least, you’re happy that she is listening. This had been the speech that you had intended to tell her, calmly, if things had gone your way. You would’ve eased Rafe into her life, not forced him all in one go, like Kristy has done. Maybe you'd mention how he is when you tutor Wheezie, and how he helps you out so much with drives from his place to yours. Then, slowly, you would mention how he isn’t all that bad. Not anymore, at least. How nice he is to his sisters. How much of a clown he is with his friends. How gentle he is with you.
Rafe is someone you’ve grown out of a crush and have begun to love with your whole heart. You’d want your parents to love him, too.
“Where are you staying?” Your mother asks.
“Patricia’s house.” You explain, then prefer to actually say the location of the house on the island, and provide more specifics, “She has a vacant room. So, I’ll probably stay there until college.”
It will be less than three months of summer. You’ll be off the island before you even get used to your new house.
Your mother sighs while looking away, and you watch her in silence.
“I don’t feel ready to talk about the other night, yet.” Her eyes meet yours again, “As your mother, I know that I should. But a lot happened, and it doesn’t feel right yet to talk to you about it.”
“I agree.” You nod.
“Just…” She hesitates, “Know that your dad is regretful. He really is.” Your face must have shown your surprise, because she adds again, “He should’ve never done what he did. I made sure he knew that, too.”
You aren’t sure what to say, but you know this conversation is coming to a close.
“And… while we don’t get this over with,” she waves her hand between yourselves to symbolize your argument, “Just promise me…” Your eyes sting at her sudden tone of voice. It's soft. “Promise me that you’ll be safe.”
“I promise.” You say right away. “I promise, whole heartedly.”
“Good.” She nods before her eyes hit the floor again.
Silence comes back to haunt both of you, so you decide that it is time to leave. You don’t reach for her, even when your heart begs you to. You have always been close to your mom, and knowing that she has come to her senses… It makes you hopeful again.
“I’ll be going, then.” You announce, and she nods without looking at you.
And, with that, you go and, with a quick reach into your pocket, leave the house keys with her.
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A/n.: Feel free to send me asks about literally anything: my plans regarding the following chapters (spoiler free, of course), where the hell i've been, etc. I've missed y'all <33333
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if it wasn’t so late i would’ve started squealing and jumping around when i saw there was a new chapter of tutor, i lovelovelove reader’s dynamics with rafe (MYMANNN), topper, patty (MY GIRL LOVEE HER) and kelce, i love that they’ve taken her under their wings and accepted her so wholeheartedly, im glad she has true friends. i’m so sad to see this series coming to an end soon as it has been one that i hold dear to my heart for a while now, but i am soso happy and grateful for the new chapter, i missed your writing so much and i hope everything is well with you!!! <3
Thank you so much!!!! Rafe and Y/N in this universe are my babies, my gosh, I'll never get tired of them. And I'm also so happy that I made Patty (she was honestly supposed to just be a random character) because she's become such a good and important character to Y/N. And as always, I love including Topper and Kelce, because they are my favorite sidechicks of Rafe, and that will never change.
I cannot thank you enough for your kind words. Y'all make me tear up every time I post a chapter. I truly loved doing this update, and I hope that the last one will be just as good. (I promise I will include a lot of ooey gooey moments between Rafe and the reader to make up for the sudden finish to the story)
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the next chapter is the last one !!?!? i don’t remember how long i’ve been reading tutor but it’s definitely since the early days…. i had to re read the previous chapter to remind myselfbut i might (will) have to re read the entire thing before the last chapter. i loveee this story and your writing. i don’t want it to end ;(
Unfortunately, it is the last one. I've thought of so many ways to end the story with a lot more chapters, but it never felt good enough. Or, better, what this story truly deserves. Tutor has been going on for a good while, more than two years, I think. So, it has definitely been in our lives for a while.
I, too, will be re-reading and editing (shocker) some chapters, as I do think some things can be improved. But soon, I know that I will get the last chapter done and posted, and you guys will have an epilogue just as cute in the end.
Thank you so much for reading my stuff and sending the ask <3
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The new chapter is so good!! How many chapters do you think you’ll write?
Don’t hate me 🙃 The next chapter will the last one, and then there will be an epilogue. BUT, I plan on making random extra imagined whenever I miss writing for these cuties
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Tutor: Promise
Words: 8k+ Summary: After the party, everything goes down. Warnings: Female!Reader. Insults. Slut shaming. Difficult relationships with parents, specifically fathers. Mention of drinking, sex, drugs, and violence. MDNI. A/N.: Ignore the fact that I've been gone for almost a year. Imagine it only took me like... 2 months :) Probably needs more proofreading, so, pls be nice <3
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Time felt weird. It felt like it was going too fast and too slow at times. When you walked out of that building, the cold outside made everything too real. All the words. The expression on your parents’ faces. All of it. They kept replaying yet again in your memory, making you more nauseous by the second. And, with each second that went by, your parents never seemed to finally walk out of the building.
You tried to prepare yourself for when they did, what to say, and how to act so that nothing could become much worse for you by not knowing what to say. You thought of saying a whole speech of how you regretted not telling them, and how you will explain everything. You thought of maybe even calling Rafe out of the room, but that felt even worse. You thought of not saying anything at all, but you could already see how that would just leave them to assume more and more of what went down.
When the doors of the building behind you opened, you almost lost your footing, watching as your parents walked out. They looked composed at first, like nothing had happened. But the closer they got to you, right beside the car, you noticed your father’s tense posture and your mother’s eyes, reddened and moist with tears ready to burst out.
You opened your mouth to talk, your chin shook when her broken eyes met yours, and, with much disappointment on your side, no words that you practiced came out, just a small sob. Your father’s eyes moved to stare at you once the sound came out, but he didn’t say anything just yet.
You tried to reach for your mother when she was close enough, but she didn’t respond, simply sniffled and moved her hand to clean the corner of her painted eyes, careful to not smudge a thing. As your father reached for the car keys, you swallowed some of the tears and tried to speak, letting out a short and ridiculous “I can explain”, but it met deaf ears. No one responded.
Once the car was unlocked, your mother opened the door and walked right in, but your father stood there, watching her as she did it, deep in thought. You tried to open your mouth to talk to him instead, but when his eyes met yours again, all he said was, “Get in the car.”
You did, and the trip home was horrible. You held your tears in, feeling your chin shake and your face wet from tears you didn’t care to wipe away. Your mother cried in small sniffles, ones which at times got the response from your father as an understanding look or a hand over hers. No words were said, and it all hurt more by the second.
Once inside your house, you felt like it all broke loose. Your mother put down her bag at the entrance, and her eyes met her feet as she let out a sob for the first time. Your father does not move, standing mere inches from the door that was just closed behind him.
“I can try to explain.” You blurted out again, heart beating out of your chest, and panic beginning to rise higher and higher.
“Is there anything to explain?” Your father asks, almost spitting his words in your direction.
“Yes.” You nod, trying to sound convincing, but your following words, with the nerves, just shoot out of your mouth, “I didn’t mean to hide it like this- It was not really planned- It all just started as a… I’m not sure- But there is nothing wrong with Rafe. I love him, and he treats me well. I promise. He is nothing like people say he is-”
“Do you hear yourself?” He asks you, his expression morphing into a worried yet angry look.
“Yes, Dad, please. You have to believe me!” You step closer to him, wanting to hold his attention and make him believe your words, “Rafe is not as bad as you think he is. Please don’t be mad.”
He shakes his head and pulls his hand away before you can even reach him. Your heart breaks, and he walks away from the door, creating a larger distance between the two of you as he needs space to think. Your eyes stupidly fill up with tears again as you grow more and more helpless, and it all seems to get worse just because of it.
“Stop crying,” Your mother says, looking at you, finally. “You have to stop crying every time something does not go your way. You are not a child.”
“But mom…” You try to talk, but your broken heart wants to express itself further, consuming your body and making you want to cry or else run out of air to hold it in further. “You have to believe me. There is nothing wrong with this. We are just dating... He is like any other boyfriend.”
Your father chuckles at your words, and your wet eyes meet his again. Your body is starting to feel weird. Your skin feels clammy, your body feels hot, but your teeth keep wanting to chatter. At the same time, your mind is going too fast with ideas of what to say to the point of not being able to get anything out to defend yourself or Rafe. Your previous attempts had been bad enough. You feel ridiculous, but there isn't much you can do.
He leans forward as if to hear you better once you speak, “Like any other boyfriend? Do you hear yourself?” He asks you, chuckling but finding no humor behind his questions. “The Rafe that I keep hearing gets into multiple fights a week and got into the hospital for alcohol poisoning, is like any other boyfriend?”
You frown amid your tears, “That isn't freaking true!” You exclaim, “This is what I mean when I say that Rafe isn’t like what other people say he is. He does not get into fights like that, and he doesn’t drink- I never saw him drunk, even!”
Your mother turns to face you, “When could you have seen him drunk? At home?”
“I-”
“Y/N, you better shut up.” Your father interrupts you, “You are only digging yourself a bigger hole.”
“How long has it been going on?” Your mother asks, going against your father’s wish to have you in silence.
“Months.” You admit, “Not sure how many.”
“More than two?” You nod, “More than five?” You nod too, and her eyes swell up in tears again before she looks away, all while your father seems to be driving himself to madness as he looks at you. “Have you been to parties too? Is that it? Without your friends?”
“Kristy and I haven’t been talk-”
“And why is that?!” Your father asks loudly and angrily, making you flinch.
“Because she found out about me and Rafe.” You admit, forcefully wiping away your tears to grasp onto any dignity you had left.
“What do you mean ‘found out’?”
“I didn’t tell her either when we started seeing each other,” Your father chuckles again humorlessly, “And she saw me with him once.”
“Let me guess, he has been in our home too?” Your mother asks, trying to see if there is anything the man hasn’t done yet without her knowledge.
“Yes.”
She shakes her head, disappointment filling her every pore, and she does not try to hide it from you. Your heart keeps jumping in your chest, but you try to calm it down as it is doing you absolutely no favors.
A silence follows, and you notice that you have finally run out of tears, even when your mother has not, and her make-up has become too smudged for any of it to be salvaged. Your father stands feet beside you, seething with the idea of anything ever happening between you and Rafe.
You smooth your hands down on your dress, cleaning the sweat from your palms, and try to think back on what you had been wanting to tell them before you lost control of everything around you. “I am not proud of hiding it from anyone. I did it to try to calm down any unwanted reactions. I tried to not make this a surprise. I-” You pause to clear your throat when you notice you are nearing tears yet again, “I meant it to be me who would say it to you and to Kristy and the rest of the girls. I wanted to tell you everything when I would be done with school. Not be ambushed by it twice in a month… I’m sorry for lying and for hiding all of this. I never meant to hurt anyone with it.”
“Hurt anyone with it?” Your mother asks dumbfounded, “Has it ever occurred to you that we, or Kristy, are against this relationship, not because of our feelings, but because we are scared for you?”
We… or Kristy…
“You’ve talked to Kristy…” You realize in a low tone. They ignore it as they mustn’t have heard it.
“Rafe, rumors or not, is dangerous. He has always been.” Your mother throws her hand in the air to emphasize her despair, “I am angry that you did not tell me, but I am angrier with the fact that you chose him, of all people, to date. He can hurt you. He can… He can do so much wrong. Drugs, alcohol, unprotected relations, all of it.” She breathes, “He is bad news, Y/N. He has always been. You cannot do this to yourself.”
You turn to your father and see that he must agree with all of your mother’s words, because he doesn’t seem to have anything else to add. Angry or not, he seems to prefer to be silent.
“No matter what you think, I am not breaking up with Rafe.” You tell them both. “I am not doing it. I have said this to Kristy, as I’m sure both of you have heard from her. And, since our conversations weren’t exactly civil, I am sure you will not even want to hear when I say that I know Rafe. I know him and I have known him for quite some time. I have watched him before. I have met his family, years ago. I have met his friends. I have seen him do everything possible under the sun, and he has not once hurt me.”
There is a short silence until “What about Aiden?” Your father asks, bringing his hand up to rub his jaw in frustration.
“What about him?” You ask, knowing exactly what he means.
“Rafe sent him to the hospital. He beat him to a pulp, Y/N.” He explains, still angry.
“I know he did.”
“You were there?” Your mother asks. Her mouth hangs open as she isn't able to contain her shock.
“I was.”
Your father can’t help but laugh at how ridiculous you sound, “And you’re fine with it.” He affirms it, moving his shoulder as if it is so natural to say it aloud.
“No, I was never fine with it. I have always hated violence. Rafe knows how much I’m against it, too.” You tell him, trying to sound sure of your words. “But though I think he took it too far... Aiden did deserve it.”
“Deserve it?!” Your mother repeats in a squeal.
“Who even are you?” Your father dramatically asks, “Because my daughter would never say this, ever-” You interrupt him.
“I made Rafe apologize for it. I’ve contacted Aiden, and he himself told me that Rafe did indeed say ‘sorry’ and paid for the medical bills.” You tell them, “I didn’t make him do it like he was a child, or because he needed someone to tell him how wrong it was. He knew that he went too far, and that is why he apologized as soon as I called him out on it.”
They don’t say anything.
“That was the only time I saw Rafe being violent. He didn’t initiate it, and, still, he never did it again.” You conclude.
“So, Aiden started it?” Your father asks. “The Aiden that I’ve known for so many years and has sat at our table, that Aiden- That Aiden picked a fight with Rafe?” He almost laughs at how ludicrous it all sounded.
“No. Aiden started it with me, and Rafe ended it.” You clarify. “Aiden was drunk, and that is why I don’t think he deserved what happened to the full extent. He came up to me, figured out that I didn’t want anything to do with him, insulted me, and Rafe punched him.”
“Right…” Your father nods, finding you to be full of shit. “Rafe, the gentleman.”
You look away, noticing how he’s beginning to make fun of you. You look towards your mother instead, who has been silently listening to you and never tried to test your patience as much as him.
“I don’t believe you. I don’t believe it, Y/N, I am sorry.” She tells you. Her natural, saddened pout reappears as her eyes fill up with tears again, forcing you to look down at the ground. “I’m scared for you, really. I am.”
“Mom-” You try to stop her.
“He is dangerous, Y/N. People will talk as soon as you go public with him. Everyone will see it and think the same thing.” She says, almost running out of breath as she fights her tears.
You don’t seem to have any more words to say.
She tells you outright, “He is a drug addict. My friends have kids just like you who have been to these parties with Rafe. He is always coked up, they say.” She tries to wipe away her tears. “He drinks a lot. He is rude. He is mean. And he might sound dreamy, but that is only because you are a teenager. He sounds dangerous, and that is why you are attracted to him.” She holds your shoulders now, “But you need to get away from him before it is too late-”
“Mom, stop it!”
“He is a bad influence… He will get you into drugs, too. You cannot do this to yourself. To us!” Her eyes are wide, and she looks insane. As if she has already gone mad with all that has happened. “You need to break up-”
“Shut up!” You say loudly, and she shuts her mouth. She lifts her hands from your shoulders and brings them over her mouth, creating a distance between the two of you. “Jesus Christ, Mom! Please stop this craziness about how he will hurt me. You don’t even know the guy!”
“Watch how you talk to your mother!” Your father defends her, “She is worried about you!”
“Yeah, because she prefers to think back on the rumors that she’s heard rather than listen to her daughter. She prefers to listen to Kristy rather than her own daughter, who is healthy and not into drugs, and tells her that everything is fine. And, still, everyone is going ABSOLUTELY INSANE!” You almost scream out the last words. The frustration inside of you had to get out in some way.
“You need to leave him.” Your father says, ignoring your words.
“And why should I do that?” You ask him, scoffing.
“Because your mother is right, Y/N. He is dangerous. Even you, yourself, admitted it in your version of the story. Rafe preferred to start a fight instead of talking it out with Aiden! Imagine when he has an argument with you!”
“He punched Aiden because Aiden called me whore!”
Before you even get to say anything else, your father responds, “Well, given how you are acting, maybe Aiden was right.”
The entrance hall of your home goes silent, and even your mother stops her sobs amid all the yelling. No one dares to speak, but your father does not seem to regret his words. He doesn’t try to correct himself or, as he usually does, admit he only spoke from a space of anger and frustration. You stay silent because you wait for him to say it, but he never does. Your father thinks you are a whore, all because of your relationship with Rafe.
Your mother doesn’t say anything, but her eyes find her husband’s. She doesn’t agree with him, but she doesn’t try to defend you. You are acting too differently for her to recognize you in your actions, but all these words were going too far.
“Maybe.” You tell your father, looking him in the eyes.
“What?”
 “What?” You repeat, “Maybe Aiden was right. That’s what you said, why are you so surprised?” You shrug, “But since you agree with him that you have a whore of a daughter, and maybe a druggie as a future son-in-law, it's not that bad, right?” You spit your words, letting them escape your mouth, finally with no filter. “Just like I have an idiotic father and mother who prefer to believe strangers over their own daughter.”
Your father is fuming at your words. Only now that your words finally have a bite, and you aren't struggling to put a coherent sentence amid your tears. He has a problem with all that you’ve been saying, even if all you’re doing is repeating what they’ve said to you.
“Did you know that Aiden was the one who introduced me to alcohol, along with Kristy?” You tell them both, and then fixate on your mother, “Aiden also was the one who took my virginity and introduced me to unprotected relations…” You quote her. “The same Aiden that you both have known for years and has sat at your table.” You smile sarcastically, “That Aiden.”
And then your cheek stung, but you expected it.
“Get out of my house.” Your father says. His hand is hot from the impact.
You look into your mother’s wet eyes as your smile falls, and your own eyes plead to cry from the pain and humiliation of its form. You sniffle before you say, “Okay.”
(…)
The walking out wasn’t as smooth as you’d wanted it to be. You were still able to hear your mother gasp as you reached for the handle of the door, as if walking out of the house had been your idea all along. She didn’t stop you, physically or verbally. She let you go, but you still heard her project her worries to your father as soon as you closed the door behind you.
You hesitate on who to call. Rafe felt obvious, but he was also at the party. Rose already knew enough. You didn’t want to pull him away from the family hangout and ruin it any further. So, you thought about it a little more. You had Topper or Kelce, but they probably already got too drunk. As soon as Patty sent you a text asking where you’d gone, you didn’t hesitate to call instead of typing.
“Hey, where are you?” she asks, loudly, as if in a loud room. “I went outside for a bit and, when I came back to check on you, you were gone.”
“I’m at my house.” You tell her, holding in any of the tears.
“Oh, okay.” She says, finding the location weird, given how early the night still is.
“But I actually have to get out of here,” You try to explain, taking a deep breath to make sure you don’t make this any harder for yourself, “Could you come pick me up?”
“Sure,” She says, but her tone is thick with utter confusion. “Is everything alright?”
“I got kicked out.”
“Oh shit.”
“Yeah…” You sniffle and kick a little bit of gravel into the path before you. “So, could you come pick me up?”
“Yeah, yeah. Of course!” She says, loudly, almost as if snapping out of the shock, “I’m going to my car, now.”
“Thank you.”
 “No need,” She says, “See you soon.”
You answer her before turning off the call, but your phone starts vibrating with another one right after. You expected it to be Patty, having found Rafe, or forgetting your address, but no. It’s actually Kristy. You have no idea why you thought she would stay away now.
 You smooth down your dress, thanking the summer night for not having you shaking in the cold as you waited for your friend. Your breathing is shaky, but tears seem to have dried out completely by now. A miracle. It must be from dehydration.
The phone vibrates yet again from another call, but you deny it again when noticing that it is Kristy calling you yet again. What more could she have to say to you?
Hope rises in your chest every time a car drives by, expecting it to be Patty, who will finally drive you away from this house, where you can finally stop thinking about what went wrong.
You had to start thinking about your life. Your parents have always given you everything. They were going to pay for college and support you in whatever future you’d decide to have. And now, you’ll have nothing. No help. No support. You’re on your own. Could you even afford to go to college anymore?
A car slows down to a stop in front of your home, and you get ready to talk to Patty. But that isn’t Patty’s car.
Well, shit.
“Y/N, I am so sorry. For everything!” Her voice shouts out into the night, and you close your fists in pure irritation to see her again. “I never meant for it to go this far!” Kristy shouts as she gets out of the car.
You don’t answer her. You simply fish out your phone from your purse again and text a ‘Hurry up’ to Patty to keep yourself busy. Kristy doesn’t seem to have cared for your lack of attention, as she continues to walk in your direction and outstretches her hand, as if asking you to hold it. You can't even hold back your disgust once you notice it.
 “I am so sorry,” Kristy says, now standing in front of you. “I’m sorry that it took me so long to realize it. I should’ve listened to you.”
Her hand tries to envelop yours, but you pull away quickly. “Don’t touch me.”
“Please, you have to hear me out. I was just so worried about you. I even tried to talk it out with your parents to calm them down, too.” She breathes out as if she ran to say this to you. “But they just wanted to leave and talk to you about it.”
You still don’t say anything.
“Let’s go inside and talk to them together.” She reaches for your hand again, and you take a step back. “We’ll figure this out together, okay? We’ve been best friends for so many years, we can’t just throw that away, right?”
“You already did.” You answer her, surprising her. “You did it as soon as we talked in your car, and only fortified it with whatever happened tonight.”
“That’s not true.”
“It is to me.” You tell her, “I haven’t been your friend since then. So, yes. We did throw that away.”
Your name escapes her lips in a pleading tone, and you almost slap her across the face when noticing tears forming in her eyes. She had to be joking. What reasons could she have to cry? In your face, specifically?
Another car comes to a stop in front of your home, and you sigh when you notice another right behind. Patty told Rafe. Great.
You start walking towards them, but Kristy seems not to really get what you told her, because she stays close behind. “We can fix this, still, Y/N.” Kristy says, “Let’s go inside, please. Let’s talk to your parents and sort this out.”
You look over your shoulder and see her turn around. You watch her as she starts knocking on your front door. All while Rafe, Patty, and Topper all start getting out of the cars, you begin to want to bury yourself in a literal hole. With this, the front door also opens, and you let out the biggest sigh. This could not have gotten worse.
You decide to keep on walking in the direction of the cars, and Kristy’s voice starts again, but now with your parents. It's all the same: apologies and trying to amend anything that she’s done. But the reality is that your parents are not focused on her or her words, but really on your back as you walk away, and the cars that are parked in front of their home.
“What the hell happened?” Rafe asks you as soon as you stand close enough, and his voice, though low, gets everyone’s attention.
“Got kicked out.” You say, surprising yourself with a shrug.
Your parents stand by the door with Kristy right in front of them. She tries to reach out to them, trying to hold onto your mother’s hand and rain down more apologies, just like you had listened to. Your mother’s hand is unmoving, even when Kristy’s hand goes around it. She tries to speak to her, but your mother’s eyes are focused on you only. She cannot hear what you’re saying to Rafe, who is still wearing his suit, and as he lays his hand on your shoulder. His own eyes haven’t lifted to face anyone else. They are stuck on you as you speak.
Patty and Topper also walk closer, almost covering you away from your parents’ gaze. Your father notices how Rafe’s expression twists multiple times throughout the sentences that you tell him. A mixture of anger and confusion all around. A girl he doesn’t recognize, Patty, wraps her arm around you and continues to listen to you in silence. All while Topper Thornton has brought his hands to his head, listening to you, frustrated, as he scrubs his hair.
“We can all fix this.” Kristy’s voice cuts through everyone’s trances, those who listen to you and those who are fixated on you from a distance. “This can all be fixed.”
Rafe lifts his gaze for the first time with her words and looks directly at her. He has no reaction, but Kristy still cannot find herself to meet his eye. Not after all of this. She holds onto your mother’s hand and squeezes it before facing her, with her smudged makeup and teary eyes.
Rafe looks away and down at you. Your parents notice that you seem to be calmer than when you were inside the house. At least, you didn’t seem to be violently crying as you once had done amidst the argument inside. Rafe says something to you that your mother cannot understand, and you only nod in response. Patty smooths her hand down your back in comfort, and Topper shares a look with her in complete shock. He never knew how bad this was.
Kristy looks between the two groups in despair, not knowing what to say or do. She lets go of your mother’s hand, making her realize she had been holding it this entire time, and decides to start walking towards you. Topper notices her first, and Patty right after. Patty looks Kristy dead in the eye, and it makes her stop walking.
 “We should go,” Patty says to you before turning her head to face you.
“Where do I even go?” You ask her, and Kristy looks at you, noticing you are holding Rafe’s hand as you speak.
“Any of our houses.” Patty shrugs, and you look up at Rafe, who is looking down at you in silence. “Why don’t you stay with Rafe today, and I’ll get the spare room in my house ready? My parents are on a trip for a month.” Her hand rubs between your shoulders, and you nod.
“Is that okay?” You ask Rafe, as if he could ever say no to you.
He gives you a look that would’ve made you laugh any other day, but not this one. Rafe then pulls you over in the direction of the car, and Patty’s hand falls from your back, letting you walk away. Kristy, for the last time, tries to follow you before you leave for the Camerons’ home, but Patty steps in her way, stopping her.
“You’ve done enough today,” Patty tells her, as she listens to the car door closing on the passenger’s side. Rafe walks around the car to the driver’s seat, and Kristy follows him with her eyes.
“I have to tell her that I’m sorry.”
“It won’t do anything,” Patty tells her, almost letting out a groan when noticing that your parents are walking closer too.
“Let us speak to her.” Your mother says, right as Rafe’s car starts.
Patty opens her mouth to answer her, but she is walking in the direction of your, blacked out, window before she can even say anything. You look over at your mom, watching as she moves her hands to ask you to roll down the window. You don’t do it.
“Honey, please let me talk to you.” Your mother still says to the window, but you look away and say something to Rafe, which makes him drive away without you sharing a word.
Your mother sobs out loud as the car pulls off the driveway, and Patty looks over at Topper, who is in absolute shock at all that has happened.
What a hell of a night.
(…)
Waking up seems to have become easier after a few days in your new bed. It, obviously, doesn’t compare to your old one, but you have a sense that your body is finally getting accustomed to it. The lack of curtains, on the other hand, is what you think you'll never accept into this new home. It is absolutely ridiculous to be brought up from your slumber by what feels like a spotlight right in your face.
You stretch before bringing yourself to sit on the bed. Your hair already feels like a mess, and you haven’t even touched it. You let out a breath and bring your body up on your feet, forcing yourself into the bathroom.
You decide to take a shower and start getting yourself ready for the day, even without breakfast, which has been hard to stomach lately. You run over to the bedroom to get something quick and comfortable to put on, and decide on a dress, given that today will be hot.
When finally out of the bathroom and bedroom, you can hear voices from the TV in the kitchen. You talk in the direction of the voices and, in the room, you get Patty's attention right away. She had just been distracted by her phone while mixing something in a pan when you stepped into her field of view.
“Good morning, sleeping beauty!” Patty excitingly tells you, “How did you sleep?”
“Good,” You answer, leaving it short and sweet.
“Do you still love my lack of curtains?”
“Absolutely.” You give her the fakest smile ever, making her laugh out loud.
You walk over to the island, and Patty hands you a plate full of food. You thank her, and the room soon goes back to just the noise coming from the TV - some sort of podcast video Patty tends to listen to while she cooks. You don’t mind the noise. Nor do you mind Patty’s silence as she cooks. It only leaves you to think to yourself, or, better, not think at all about what truly wants to be brought forward into your mind and made into a real issue.
Everything just went down 4 days ago. It’s supposed to still be fresh and still make you want to cry your eyes out. You’re supposed to be okay with being upset about what happened. But you really can’t bring yourself to cry anymore.
“Where’s Rafe?” You ask Patty, making her look away from the pan.
“Gym, I think.” She shrugs, “Topper picked him up just an hour or two ago.”
You nod and go back to eating. Your phone sits right in front of you. You’ve made yourself block Kristy and many of the other girls by now, as your phone was becoming unusable by the number of notifications you’ve been getting. And now, your mother’s contact flashes on the screen, and you hesitate before you grab to answer it.
“Hello?” You say, as Patty turns around to notice what you’re doing. She stands still.
“Y/N.” Your mother says, “I need you to come grab your things as soon as possible. I need your room vacant by this afternoon.”
If you didn’t know your mother, this would’ve hurt more than a stake through the heart, but you know what she’s doing. She’s trying to rub at the wound, so you’ll go back home and tell her how right she was all along.
“Okay.” You tell her.
You could hear a pin drop with her following silence. You let yourself continue it for longer, getting yourself a mouthful of food while you’re at it. Once you swallow it, you speak again.
“I’ll make Rafe drive me there, we’ll go grab everything as soon as he’s back from the gym.”
There are a few seconds of silence.
“And when will that be?” she asks, suddenly. “I want to be out of the house when that happens.”
Dramatic.
“In-” You’re ready to say a random number, but the doorbell is heard from the front of Patty’s house, “In an hour, max.”
Patty walks out of the room to open the door for Rafe, Topper, and probably Kelce, and you take another bite from your food. Patty really does know how to cook.
“Alright.” Your mother says, dryly.
“Bye.” You say before ending the call.
The voices of the three, as you had assumed right, men fill the house all of a sudden, and you look over your shoulder to find Rafe walking into the kitchen, definitely looking for you. You smile at him and jump out of your seat. He leans down to get a kiss as soon as he’s close enough, and you continue smiling up at him.
“I need a favor.” You tell him.
(…)
You have been packing with Patty for the past hour, and you still feel like things are far from being all packed. Rafe came to be of no help at all. He helped in the first few minutes, finding much pleasure in looking through your things as you put them into bags and boxes, but now, as he says, he is bored. You’ve thrown 3 pillows at his face in this entire hour. With no regrets.
He keeps lying on your naked mattress, as you had decided to take the sheets off your bed while you were packing. His phone has been asking for battery for the past minutes, and he is seemingly close to closing his eyes and going to sleep. You don’t have it in you to force him back up. At least he will be quiet.
“Do you want to take these too?” Patty asks, pointing at the things on top of your desk.
“Yes, please.” You say, seated on the ground as you forced closed a bag of clothes.
Your wardrobe is empty, except for some boxes that you have no interest in taking with you, as well as the bedside tables. Your book stands are just halfway done, and all you can think about is how you are probably taking too long, and your parents might appear sooner or later.
“At what time did your parents say they would be back?” Patty asks, and you walk to your phone.
Your phone is on your bed, just beside Rafe, who opens his eyes as soon as you step closer. You try not to trip on your way to him and, as you reach for your phone, Rafe tries to caress you. You simply smack him away.
“In thirty minutes.” The text from your mother only said that you had less than two hours to pack everything. And then leave the key on the kitchen table.
Patty sighs and starts to throw your things with less care into the bags. You can’t judge her. You two have no more time, and it’s been long enough to start losing the patience you once had when you first got here. You look down at Rafe, who is burning a hole through your skull, and he pretends to close his eyes as if he’s going to sleep. You grab onto the pillow that hadn’t fallen onto the bed on your previous attack and hit him square in the face. Rafe gets startled, and you embarrassingly squeal as you try to get away from him before he grabs you.
Rafe refuses to get out of bed, so you get back to work in peace. It takes Patty a few more minutes to clear out the desk and the rest of the book stand, and then she announces that she needs to go to the bathroom really quickly. Right as the door closes, you grab the plastic hangar closest to you and throw it at Rafe.
“Why are you throwing things at me?” Rafe, with his male audacity, asks.
“Because you aren’t moving a single muscle, that’s why.” You tell him, sincerely. “Help me out. We’re almost done, anyway.”
He huffs out a breath with his dramatics and gets back up. You hand him the hangars, and he starts putting them down on the box as you collect them from the ground.
Right as you’re holding the box together so that Rafe can tape it closed, a sound interrupts your peace. It isn’t Patty getting out of the bathroom, or a notification on your phone. Nope, it was a door. More specifically, the front door.
Rafe looks directly at you when the door closes, and you take a breath. Everything will be fine, you tell yourself. Patty gets out of the bathroom with an expression that could only show that she, too, heard the front door. So, all of you get back to work without saying anything.
Whoever is in the house among you may not hear your voices as you work, but you three aren’t silent with packing, nor do you intend to. It’s better if they know you’re still here.
“Want me to take anything to the car, yet?” Rafe asks, hands on his hips.
“Yes, please.” You tell him, pointing at the boxes closest to the door. “Can you go with him, Patty?”
Patty nods at you, letting out a breath as if relieved from being free from the packing job, and they grab as many boxes as they can. Patty takes two boxes piled on top of each other before getting out of the room, and you help Rafe pile the second one as he already has a bag over his shoulder. A pink one too. He looks cute.
“Be right back.” He says before leaving the room.
You turn back to face the boxes and decide to finish up the tape first. At least, whenever they get back up here, they’ll be able to take more boxes and free up some space in the room. You grab Rafe’s phone to check the time, and you supposedly have 20 more minutes. Whoever just got home, got here early.
You kick the least fragile box of clothes closer to the door for easier grabbing and go back to the hangers, taping the box shut and kicking it away. You look around the room and start taking down your posters and whatever else is left on the walls.
Due to your complete concentration, you fail to realize that Rafe and Patty have come back to grab more boxes, and that, after they’re gone, someone now stands by your door. They wait for you to notice them, but with the back and forth of taking things down and shoving them into bags, you don’t even realize you’re being watched.
At some point, you zip up the small backpack and notice someone at the door. Naively, you assume it’s Rafe as he’s usually the fastest to come back for boxes, and Patty had just left, so you speak to him.
“Babe, could you just-” But it’s not Rafe. When you turn your head to hand Rafe the bag you want him to take down to the car, you find your mother instead. “Oh, hi.”
She doesn’t talk, at first. You watch as she takes in the room, absent of nearly all your belongings and having lost all the personality it once had.
“We’re almost done packing.” You clear up, “We’ll be done in like… 5-ish minutes.”
She still doesn’t say anything, but she steps into the room. Your eyes follow her as she moves, and then she simply takes a seat on your bed. Your naked bed. She notices the lack of clothing and runs her hands over it.
“I put the sheets in the hamper,” You try to get her to talk again. “Thought it would be easier for you to clean it after.”
Out of ideas on how to break your mother’s silence, you decide to continue your packing, letting her decide when she’d like to talk. You finish up quickly, and soon Rafe shows up at the door again. He opens his mouth to talk, but immediately shuts it when he notices your mom sitting on your bed. His widened eyes find you, making you the one to break the silence.
“Can you take these,” You point to the last boxes, “and these?” You hold two small bags in your hands.
Rafe doesn’t verbally answer. He just grabs everything and gives you a look before disappearing again. It was a look of caution, almost as if you are near some predator that is ready to bite you. You ignore it and take in the finally empty room.
You don’t let your eyes sting with tears. Not even when you think of how you slept most of your nights in this room. This was where you had the best sleepovers and late nights with friends. Gosh, even with Rafe. And now, it lies naked and cold. Something that makes you understand your mother’s sudden silence a bit too well.
You knew her bite over the phone was a fallacy. Her mask following arguments is always the same. Cold. Stoic. But they always crumble, and she’s always the first to apologize. Though you don’t think today will be it.
“I don’t agree with what your father did to you,” the slap, she means.
You don’t say anything.
“Nor what he called you.”
She lifts her eyes from the empty bed, finally, to you.
“But I want you to understand that we had worries before having any anger towards you.” She admits, with her voice low. “We don’t know Rafe. Nor do I think we wish to… Nor do we know his family all that well… But you need to understand that we were terrified when we first heard it.”
“I understand.”
Her silence makes you want to elaborate.
“I don’t agree with what happened. Nor do I believe I will forgive either of you.” You notice a flash of anger behind her eyes for a second, but it disappears quickly. “But I understand why you’d be scared. That’s why I wanted to be the one to tell you, and the one to ease you into it.” You let silence consume the room yet again before finishing with, “You don’t know Rafe. It’s fair that you’d be scared.”
“So, he isn’t what we’ve heard?” She challenges, though in a calm voice, almost sounding curious.
You hesitate to answer her, but then you remember. Your situation cannot get any worse, can it?
“He does drink, and he does party a lot.” You nod at her, and she’s focused on your every word. “I’ve seen him do drugs, too.” You admit, with little hesitation. “He has never coerced me into doing or drinking anything. And I don’t think I’ve ever really seen him actually drunk or high. Just…” You try to find a word, “dazed, I guess.”
The silence that follows is deafening, so you continue.
“I drink too, at parties.” You admit, “When I drink, he never drinks. And he always makes sure to drive me home, his or mine, and make sure I drink water before I go to sleep.” Your words surprise her, and she doesn't even hide it, so you continue. “He has fought a single person in front of me. Aiden, to be exact. And we got into a fight. And Rafe never fought again. Just like he promised.”
Your mother looks away to hide her surprise, which she is able to do by returning to her stoic and silent expression.
“He’s caring, and playful, and nice.” You keep going, “When he likes you.” You clarify with a short smile, which is evident in your tone. “And we didn’t start dating in the most romantic way possible. Nor did we go on a bunch of dates… we just… got together and enjoyed each other’s company too much to just… stop.”
You move towards the door, initiating your exit, but her eyes find you again.
“He loves me, Mom. He really does. He makes me feel safe and taken care of.” You admit with complete sincerity, “Since that fight after Aiden, he has never, ever, made me doubt him.”
She listens to you, and you can tell that she doesn’t believe you fully. But, in the very least, you’re happy that she is listening. This had been the speech that you had intended to tell her, calmly, if things had gone your way. You would’ve eased Rafe into her life, not forced him all in one go, like Kristy has done. Maybe you'd mention how he is when you tutor Wheezie, and how he helps you out so much with drives from his place to yours. Then, slowly, you would mention how he isn’t all that bad. Not anymore, at least. How nice he is to his sisters. How much of a clown he is with his friends. How gentle he is with you.
Rafe is someone you’ve grown out of a crush and have begun to love with your whole heart. You’d want your parents to love him, too.
“Where are you staying?” Your mother asks.
“Patricia’s house.” You explain, then prefer to actually say the location of the house on the island, and provide more specifics, “She has a vacant room. So, I’ll probably stay there until college.”
It will be less than three months of summer. You’ll be off the island before you even get used to your new house.
Your mother sighs while looking away, and you watch her in silence.
“I don’t feel ready to talk about the other night, yet.” Her eyes meet yours again, “As your mother, I know that I should. But a lot happened, and it doesn’t feel right yet to talk to you about it.”
“I agree.” You nod.
“Just…” She hesitates, “Know that your dad is regretful. He really is.” Your face must have shown your surprise, because she adds again, “He should’ve never done what he did. I made sure he knew that, too.”
You aren’t sure what to say, but you know this conversation is coming to a close.
“And… while we don’t get this over with,” she waves her hand between yourselves to symbolize your argument, “Just promise me…” Your eyes sting at her sudden tone of voice. It's soft. “Promise me that you’ll be safe.”
“I promise.” You say right away. “I promise, whole heartedly.”
“Good.” She nods before her eyes hit the floor again.
Silence comes back to haunt both of you, so you decide that it is time to leave. You don’t reach for her, even when your heart begs you to. You have always been close to your mom, and knowing that she has come to her senses… It makes you hopeful again.
“I’ll be going, then.” You announce, and she nods without looking at you.
And, with that, you go and, with a quick reach into your pocket, leave the house keys with her.
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A/n.: Feel free to send me asks about literally anything: my plans regarding the following chapters (spoiler free, of course), where the hell i've been, etc. I've missed y'all <33333
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twinklelilstarkey ¡ 8 days ago
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I made myself read Tutor just to remember the story... Y'all weren't kidding, this is good... what the heck??
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girl omg sorry to barge in your asks but i literally just let out the biggest sigh when i found ur acc and it's still up 😭😭😭😭😭 you were like one of my favorite obx writer during 2021-2023 who still hasn't deactivated to this day. everybody else disappeared 🫠🫠🫠
I promise that I will never deactivate. Even if I haven't posted in a while, I'm on Tumblr every day just reading, browsing, and whatever. You guys can always message me, send me asks, ask me about Tutor, etc., etc. I will always answer <3
And thank you so much for enjoying my writing. It means the world to me <33
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twinklelilstarkey ¡ 16 days ago
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I HAVE FINALLY BEEN ABLE TO THINK OF A GOOD ENDING FOR THE TUTOR SERIES. Y’all, it’s real, I’m actually going to finish writing it this year. Holy shit.
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