Why Would I Admit To Missing You, When You'd Clearly Rather Be Following Sarah Like A Little Lost Bitch

❝ Why would I admit to missing you, when you'd clearly rather be following Sarah like a little lost bitch anyway ? ❞ Clearly confirming that yeah, he misses having his friend around. But he can't come right out and say that shit to him.

He doesn't do emotions for anyone, he doesn't know how. And even when he tried he was hit, slapped, told to 'man up'. So why tell his friend he actually misses having him around?

❝ Never said I owned you, but one thing will always be clear. Friendship be damned you will always choose the girl who won't choose you. ❞

"Right, of course, because you would never admit that you missed me." He rolls his eyes. "Whatever, bro." He holds up a hand and shakes his head, but Rafe just keeps going. . .

"What the fuck am I supposed to do? Just stand here and watch her struggle?" Topper folds his arms across his chest. "If she needs my help, I'm going to give it to her, I really don't fucking care if you approve or not. You don't own me."

𝖲𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝗈𝖾𝗌𝗇'𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖺𝗌𝗄 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝗍𝗐𝗂𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝗀𝗈, he could hold on to Kie forever if she let him. Somehow after everything she has become his pillar in the storm, someone he can hold on to when things start to get too chaotic. He keeps a hold on her, arms wrapped tight as he rests his head against hers. ❝ I won't. ❞ and he means that.

If there is anything he wants to hold on to for the rest of his life , it's this. It's her.

God, of course she feels safer with him closer. He is the man that she's in love with, so it makes sense to her that she feels that way. Wrapping her arms around his shoulders when he leans down and pulls her closer, she buries her face against him. Fuck, she loves him. "Don't let go, okay?" Not for a little bit, not until she says that it's okay to. She just wants to embrace him, hold him in her arms and hope that he feels how she feels for him. @exbourgeois @borntobebroken

...What is that book title...

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, a Rafe Cameron Biography.

❝ Case and point. ❞ he replies, shrugging his shoulders. He says he's done, and he's not going to fight him on it. But tell him he's wrong ; tell Rafe that Topper wouldn't choose Sarah over him if given the choice and if it was said he'd choose friendship? Rafe wouldn't believe it. Because everyone chooses Sarah.

❝ Guy who what? Come on Top, just say it. ❞

"I'm done arguing with you." He informs Rafe. "I'm done." He's not saying another word on the matter, that's final. No more.

Running a hand over his face in an agonizingly annoyed fashion, Topper lets out a dramatic sigh. "This, coming from the guy who - - -." No. He's not entertaining this bullshit anymore.

❝ So what you're saying is your parents just fed you the baby variety of everything ; baby carrots, baby corn..? ❞ He knows if he keeps this up she is going to get him back ; and yet .. the smile on his face indicates that he isn't going to let up any time soon. ❝ Oh now you're just getting kinky, Juni. ❞

❝ Did you eat your veggies when you were a kid ? ❞ There is a light yelp he lets out when she pinches his side, but he also ends up laughing after the fact. ❝ You're about as intimidating as a chihuahua. All yips, no bite. ❞

𝖨𝗍'𝗌 𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖾, when it comes to people Rafe prefers to keep a small circle of people he actually keeps close. So far that circle is Topper, Kelce, and his own little sister. Anyone else is just there as a side character, background at best. That includes his own sister, Sarah since they no longer get along.

Georgie has done nothing to Rafe, personally. He just simply had no interest in getting to know anyone else ; he didn't need anyone else looking down on him like he's nothing or worse. Yet as a favor to Topper he's picking her up as she's walking in the rain.

Because sometimes...he can be nice.

❝ Yeah, yeah...❞ he could just say 'you're welcome' but he doesn't. At least not at first. Not until an awkward silence and he glances toward her a few times.

❝ You're welcome. ❞

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Ending up in a car with her cousin’s best friend honestly hadn’t been part of Georgie’s plans for the evening. She had gotten the sense the eldest Cameron didn’t like her initially, and so she had spent the last three years steering clear of him for Topper’s sake. Her visit had only been meant to last the summer, after all. She had thought she could wait him out.

Then had came the accident that had turned her into a permanent resident of the island. And since she’d already been in the habit of avoiding him, Gigi had just…kept doing it when he was home. Rafe didn’t seem to like many people, so it had been easy enough to stop taking his attitude personally on the rare occasions they did interact after a while. She’d even come to expect it, which made his stopping his car beside her and offering her a lift home before it rained all the more out of character. “Whether you did it for Top or not, I’d have gotten soaked if I had to walk the rest of the way in this. So, thanks.”