MARIE WOKE TO the sound of people shouting, everyone was finding out what storm agatha had caused and most of the cut didn't like it. she lazily opened her eyes and tried to get up, only to find that an arm was holding her down. marie turned over and looked at rafe. he was still fast asleep. curled up like a little puppy. her heart fluttered and she smiled. she cautiously wriggled an arm out, making sure she didn't wake the sleeping boy. her hands made their way to rafe's head, she ran her fingers through his soft hair. rafe groaned as he slowly woke up, he peeked his eyes open to see who was playing with his hair, a smirk appearing when he saw marie. he reached over and pulled marie down to him, kissing her deeply. marie pulled back, rafe furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "morning breath",,marie responded with a disgusted expression. rafe scoffed and stroked marie's thigh instead.

"country club",,barry boomed as he strolled into the room, "stop flirting with my niece, its gross",,he says as he takes a bite of some toast. marie giggled as rafe rolled his eyes. the two started getting dressed and rafe got out his phone, "for fuck sake",,rafe groaned, he noticed marie had a confused look, "no signal cause of the storm",,he explained his frustration. "i heard there's going to be a kegger at the boneyard later and i don't want to go with my sister, would you come with me",,rafe rambled while scratching the back of his head. marie stared back at him. kegger on the boneyard. the other pogues will be there. jj will be there. her heart sank. she didn't want to see him right now and she definitely didn't want him to see her. especially with rafe. "i don't know",,marie sighed while looking down, fiddling with her bracelets, "please",,rafe begged with a sigh, , his eyes travelled down to her hands, "i'll be really sad if you don't come",,he said not so sarcastically. marie huffed, "fine",,she sighed yet again, "but if i want to leave then we leave straight away",,she said sternly, pointing a finger at rafe. "fine",,rafe muttered.

the two made their way down the creaky steps of the trailer, marie hopped onto her barely-red bike. "what the fuck is that?",,rafe stared at the bike in disbelief. "this is monty",,marie grinned, gesturing at the bike, "barry bought him for me when i first moved in",,marie explained, looking down at her bike that was like a baby to her. "well monty is being held together by duct tape and i dont think thats safe so get on",,rafe said, handing a helmet out to marie. marie looked at rafe, then the helmet, then his motorbike, then back at rafe, "one, theres no way that helmet is going to fit, its like, two sizes too big, and two, there is also no way im getting on that bike with you, ill take my chances with monty",,marie laughed sarcastically, "just get on my fucking bike",,rafe mumbled, getting impatient, marie gave in, not wanting to upset the boy in front of her. she grabbed the helmet and hopped onto rafes bike, snaking her arms around his solid torso. she smirked, holding on tighter than she needed to just so she could feel his abs.

when the two got there, the boneyard was already packed. marie could hear the music blasting from a mile away. rafe came to a harsh stop, causing marie to slam into the back of him. "oh sorry, my bad",,rafe laughed, jumping off his bike. marie expected him to turn around and hold his hands out to help her down but she looked over and he was already strolling down to the beach. she huffed and not-so-gracefully jumped down so she could catch up to rafe.

marie looked around at everyone partying and she already felt out of place. this was her first party without the pogues. she didn't like it at all. her eyes quickly made their way to the pogues. they looked happy. they were all spread out, john b was sitting with a touron, marie knew cause 'spot the touron' was her and jj's favourite game to play at parties and marie was a professional at the game. she spots kie sitting next to a boy who looks kind of scared of her, pope was talking to a girl who looked even more scared, marie giggled at the sight. then she saw jj, sitting alone, drinking a beer, laughing at some kooks failing to do a keg stand. this was her opportunity, she was going to apologise and talk to him again, make sure they're still friends.

she took one step only to be dragged back by an arm. marie looked up and saw rafe, he had an arm around her shoulders and a beer in his other hand. "come on trailer girl, i want you to meet my friends",,rafe said while guiding her in the opposite direction of the blonde boy. "uh, okay",,marie said while trying to look back, unable to because of rafes tall frame.

"that is topper",,rafe said as he pointed over to the dirty blonde, trying to get sarah down from the lifeguard chair, "hey top, come here",,rafe shouted, right next to marie, making her flinch. topper makes his way over to the two, sarah following. "whos this",,topper says nonchalantly, waving a finger in maries direction. "this is marie",,rafe laughed as he bent down and kissed her, when he came back up, rafe smirked at the girl then turned back towards topper. marie looked back to see the pogues staring right at her. shit. embarrassment flooded marie from head to toe.

"isn't she a pogue man",,topper whispered, not so quietly as marie heard, "not any more, i've converted her",,rafe laughs smugly. sarah glanced over at marie, seeing that she was obviously uncomfortable with the conversation. "it's good to meet you, im sarah",,sarah beamed as she brought marie into a hug. marie was shocked but she patted sarah's back anyway.

moonlight shone onto the drunken teens, marie was sat on a fallen tree, rafe behind her, stroking her shoulders protectively. sarah noticed this gesture and shot a knowing smirk at marie. "i'm going for a refill",,marie slurred, staring down at her empty cup, "i'm coming with",,sarah slurred while reaching for marie's hand, obviously more drunk than the other girl. "yeah, there's no way you two are going alone",,rafe scoffed as he put an arm around marie so she doesn't go head-first into the sand. "don't leave me alone, assholes",,topper mumbles as he got up and followed them.

the four got to the keg, marie stumbled forward only to be caught by an arm. "woah, easy there",,a voice said, helping the girl back up to her feet. marie looked up to thank the random person. bright blue eyes met her eyes, she tried to focus her vision but the amount of alcohol in her body was making that hard. "jj?",,maire questioned, still holding on to his shoulders for support.

the blonde smiled until he realised the three behind her. his eyes stayed on rafe cameron as anger itched his body. he shook it off and stood straight, moving marie's hands so they weren't on him. he turned to the other girl, "sarah, can i interest you in a tasty milwaukee beverage?",,he said in an accent, marie couldn't help but laugh. rafe placed his hand on her shoulder, warning her to stop laughing.

"no, thanks",,sarah answered jj bluntly as she turned to topper, "what, is it not fancy enough for you?",,jj laughed, marie gulped, the tone that jj was using seemed jokey and playful but she knew what it really meant. something bad was going to happen and she couldn't stop it.

"you know what? ill take it",,topper offered, reaching out to take the cup, jj moved his hand back, "that's nice but i didn't ask you",,jj answered, everyone stood still, "jj",,marie said sternly with a warning look, the blonde couldn't look at marie, even if he tried. instead, he laughed, mostly to himself yet everyone heard it, he turned his attention back to sarah, "sarah, you can have it",,he laughed while passing the cup to the girl. topper batted the cup out of his hand, spilling the drink all over jj, making things escalate very quickly.

topper shoved jj and cursed very loudly. everyone turned towards the commotion and the music turned down. sarah stumbled towards the boys, begging topper to stop but he refused to listen. john b held jj back and topper was pulled back by a very drunk sarah. "you're nothing but a dirty pogue",,topper spat out at jj. marie looked up at rafe who was laughing at that comment. she felt powerless.

after the comment, john b launched himself at topper, making the kook even angrier. topper swung at john b and hit him hard enough to but john b on the ground. marie tried running to see if he was okay but was blocked by rafe's arm. he bent down to her ear, "you'll only make things worse". marie didn't know how but this rich boy already had power over her. she shook her head and pushed rafe's arm aside.

topper had john b's head under water. marie walked over to them only to be stopped by jj. he stood behind topper. marie heard a click, "yeah, you know what that is",,jj scoffed. a gun. everyone ran in fear. the pogues were screaming and pleading for jj to stop. "put the gun down",,marie yelled, "did you say something princess",,jj said sarcastically. the nickname that once gave her butterflies had now gave her a pit in her stomach. jj was saying it in spite. "jj, please",,marie begged, jj looked back at the girl and for a second he felt sorry. until he caught rafes eye, the sorry feeling soon changed to anger. he moved the gun from topper's head and pointed it towards the sky. he shot it twice. marie was too startled to move.

she felt herself being dragged back. rafe put her on his bike and held her hed with his hands. "are you okay? are you hurt?",,he asked, concern being obvious in his tone. "yes, im fine",,marie mumbled, "jesus marie",,rafe scoffed, he kissed her head and got on the bike. marie's eyes wandered over to the pogues, they were all shouting at jj. her eyes met jj's for a split second before the bike zoomed off.

rafe drove the two back to the camerons' house. he got of the bike and helped marie down. marie smiled to herself. she liked this side of rafe. "so um, you can stay with me if you want but you've got to be quiet going upstairs so my dad doesn't hear you",,rafe mumbled. marie nodded as she took rafes hand. rafe led her into the house and the two tip-toed upstairs until they got to his room. "i can tell you're a kook, holy shit",,marie whisper shouted as she looked around in awe. "your room is probably bigger than my whole trailer",,rafe laughed at the girls astonishment. he lay on the bed and held his arm out. marie jumped onto the bed and lay next to him. "it's so fucking comfy",,marie laughed with her eyes closed, yawning as she got comfortable. rafe pulled marie in so her head was buried is his neck. this only made her even more comfortable. she put her arm around rafe's torso and breathed deeply, taking in the scent of rafe's cologne. she liked it. a lot.

she knew that she was playing a dangerous game with rafe cameron.

she didn't really care. 

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I really like this chapter personally because it shows how different rafe is when he is alone with marie compared to when he is in public with her. I know their relationship is really complicated and confusing but that's how I imagine a relationship would be like with rafe anyway.

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