THUNDER WAS RUMBLING over the trailer. marie laid wide awake, listening to the storm grow angrier, she loved how storms can fear some people but soothe others. whenever she listens to storms, she thinks of her mother and her younger brother. xavier was always scared of storms, he would never stop crying whenever thunder rumbled and he was always petrified that he was going to be struck by lightning, that was mostly marie's fault for sharing horror stories she heard on the news. marie always admired her moms way of dealing with him, julia wasn't scared of anything, "the sky is just like us, it's happy so it gives us the sun, and when it's sad, it gives us rain, storms are just a way of the sky telling us that it's angry, the sky is just getting its emotions out, it's okay to be scared xavier but you have to get your anger out too, don't you?",,marie remembered the inspirational storm speeches from her mother and smiled at the memory. that's the kind of person marie wanted to be.

silence. then a flash. then a rumble. that was on a loop the whole night. lightning lit up the room like a camera flash. marie felt the bed cover pull, she turned over to see rafe, wide awake, clutching the cover. rafe turned to look at marie, his pupils wide like saucers. "is rafe cameron scared of a little thunder?",,marie taunted, giggling to herself slightly.

"no, that's stupid",,rafe scoffed, rolling his eyes, "it's the lightning actually, more stupid i know",,he corrects, making marie giggle even more.

"who would've thought",,marie says, mostly to herself. she looks back over at the grown man, feeling almost sad for him, knowing that he never had a mother figure there and marie couldn't even imagine ward giving his children the storm speeches so she decided to step in.

"i don't think it's stupid",,marie says softly, still looking at the boy, examining his reaction to her words. rafe just looked at marie, puzzled. "my brother used to be shit scared of storms",,"you have a brother?",,rafe asked, interrupting marie, "yeah, i had one once",,marie answered, turning onto her back to look up, rafe took this as a sign to let her talk and, for once in his life, he listened.

"my mom never got annoyed at him for screaming his guts out or blubbering because he didn't like the noise of the storms",,marie laughed softly at the memory of her little brother looking as red as a tomato yet her mother still being able to hold herself together, "she always just bent down to his level and assured him that it was okay to cry",,marie paused for a breath, not wanting to cry in front of rafe, "the sky is just like us, she used to say",,rafe looked up at her, intrigued to see where her point was going, "on happy days, it would give us the sun and on sad days, it would give us rain",,maire turned to look at rafe, already sensing his eyes on her, "but everyone needs to get their anger out, that's all storms are, the sky getting its emotions out",,she smiled at the memory.

maries smile must have been contagious because rafe was laying there smiling at her. deep down, the boy feels jealous. jealous that he doesn't have cute memories to smile at. jealous that he doesn't have a stable relationship with his parent. "your mom sounds cool",,rafe spoke up, slightly sarcastically but trying to push his jealousy to the side.

"yeah, she was",,marie laughed, tears uncontrollably running down her cheeks. rafe just sat still, unsure of what to do. "i've always adored her, ever since i was a kid i wanted to be like her",,marie wiped her eyes and sat up with her back against the couch part of the bed. "well, you've definitely got the cool part",,rafe smiles, marie looks at him and smirks. no one has ever made marie feel the way she felt when she was around rafe.

the sexual tension in the room was extremely loud. both of the teens sat dangerously close together, in complete silence, with the background noise of the rain and the occasional thunder. "you have really pretty eyes",,marie says to rafe.

"you do too" rafe can't break eye contact maire can't look away from his lips, catching on, rafe kisses her. it hasn't sunk in yet that his lips are on hers until his hands, as gentle as they are, come wrapping around her waist pulling her close. kissing him back, her tongue skimming the bottom of his lips, begging for entry.

they kiss like a desperate plea for them to feel something, anything in this tension filled room. not wanting to stop they get caught up in the feel of each other, until they break away due to a lightning strike. both of them panting for more air, smiling at the fact that they've finally kissed.

rafe touches his forehead to marie's, "your lips taste like liquor" marie smiles small "is that a good thing?" he chuckles "it's a great thing" separating they get back in bed, face to face. "i guess you caved into my game princess",,rafe says cockily, marie starts to turn over as he whispers this into the room. his voice bouncing off the quiet walls. "who said it was your game rafe cameron",,marie retorts, levelling up the cockiness, rafe turns to look at her, shocked at her ability to our smart him, as far as he knew, no one had the balls to bite back at him, until now.

"huh",,rafe shrugged, defeatedly biting his lip. marie smiling to herself, satisfied that she had baffled the one and only, rafe cameron. her satisfaction was soon cut short when she felt a firm arm place itself in front of her stomach, pulling her in more.

marie felt comfortable. she felt safe. safe with the person that most people would fear being alone with.

her mind wanders back to the blonde boy she was cuddling just under twenty four hours ago and what he would think if he walked through those doors right at this second. the thoughts soon left her head as she drifted off to sleep to the sound of rafes breaths, making his chest steadily move in and out.

she could easily get used to this.
but she didn't want to.

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𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐡 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬!! -

ahhh, i've been trying so hard to get this chapter out for you! i'm so sorry it ended up being so short!

they've finally kissed!!!!

i also want to say thank you to SunJewel for helping me with writing this chapter, i love you so much!! 

please let me know what you think about this chapter and what you want to see in the next one cause i have no idea of what to do next lmaoo

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