Bound To You- [R.C]

✧*̥˚Chapter 14*̥˚✧

"HEY SARAH, could I grab a lift to the supermarket by any chance?" I ask, crossing my fingers. I'm on the phone to Sarah.
"Eve I'm about to shower and get ready for the beach party, like you should be doing too" She answers me.
I might have to take a rain check again tonight, I'm sorry" I say, hearing her sigh.
"You said you would, I'm getting bored going to them without you" She complains.
"My dads not well Sarah, I'll come to the next one" I tell her.
"Okay, Love you" She says, before hanging up.

I try to think of who else to ask for a ride. JJ excluded as he only has his bike, and I refuse to ever go on that again. I think about asking Ward but the amount he's done for me this past week I feel like too much of a burden.

That's when I find myself clicking onto his contact. He picks up on the second ring.
"Eve? You ok?" He says, seeming confused as to why I'm calling him.
"Are you busy?" I ask him, biting the inside of my cheek.
"No. Why?" He sounds worried now.
"I need a ride to the supermarket, Sarah and JJ both can't. And I feel bad asking your dad for anything more" I explain to him.
"Be over in five" He says, hanging up the phone on me.

I wait for him, sat on my front porch. Not long later he pulls up in his jeep and honks his horn.
I walk over and let myself into his car.
"Thanks for beeping, didn't see you" I say sarcastically.
"No worries" He smirks at me.
He lets me connect to the aux and we listen to our favourite songs on the way there. Trying to distract myself from how my life is going at the minute.

Rafe turns down the radio a little and looks at me for a second.
"How was it? At home?" He asks me.
"Don't act like you care" I turn away looking out of the car window.
"How's your dad?" He asks me, turning into the supermarket car park.
"He's not well. I think he's having an episode" I tell him, not sure why I would want to share my secrets with Rafe Cameron.

I've finished picking up our groceries and at the til I'm fishing for my purse when Rafe pulls out his card and holds it against the scanner before I can even protest.
"You didn't need to." I say.
"Well I did" He says back to me.
"What a gentleman" The old woman cashier says to us. I bite down on my bottom lip to stop laughing, handing a bag to Rafe.
"What a gentleman" I mock the lady, teasing Rafe.

Once I've arrived back home, Rafe helps me carry the groceries into the house.
I'm packing the groceries away when Rafe says "It's weird, I've known you since you were a baby, yet I've never been in your house."
"Crazy. That's because your house is nicer and my mum gets house embarrassed" I tell him, putting a pint of milk into the fridge.
"Hmm" He says, scanning around the room.
"If you want a tour just ask" I say, jokingly.
"Oh yes please, if you're offering" He's trying to wind me up. So I grab his hand and lead him to the lounge.
"The lounge, which nobody ever uses." I say, walking on into the other rooms. After showing him all the downstairs rooms I walk up the stairs, Rafe trailing behind.
"Cute" He laughs to himself, pointing at a picture of baby me on the wall, I'm wearing underpants on my head.
"Shut up" I say, smacking him on the arm.

"This is my bedroom" I say, quickly showing him around. It feels weird to have a boy in my bedroom other than JJ. Even weirder that the boy is Rafe.
"It's so... you." He says, scrubbing his finger along a shelf full of old trinkets I have collected over the years.
"Yeah" I reply, rocking back and forth on my feet.
"Ha, I remember giving this to you" Rafe says, picking up a little wooden alien off of the shelf. My cheeks blush bright red.
"I like to keep things. I'm a very sentimental person" I whisper, looking at the ground.
"I think it's cute." He says, before blurting out "I remember making you this in woodwork, I must've been around eleven, twelve?" He says, a smile on his face.
"Yeah. You done yet?" I say, feeling exposed.
"Nearly." He says, walking over to my bookshelf. He runs his fingers along it.

"Some of these sound kinky" He says, reading out the titles. I feel so embarrassed right now I could puke.
"Shut up." I snap.
"Sorrrryyy, if you wanna read kinky shit in your spare time, you do that" He laughs to himself. I cringe.
His finger lands on 'Romeo and Juliet' and he pulls it out from the bookcase.
"A classic" I tell him, "You should borrow it, that's if you know how to read of course" I smirk at him, feeling accomplished with my comeback.
He slides the book into his back pocket and walks back out of my bedroom, I follow behind him.

We're back downstairs when I ask him "Is it all you've ever dreamed of and more" I jokingly say, seeing as the Cameron's house is ten times bigger and posher.
"I like it. It's got character" He smiles at me.
"Okay, well you can go now. Thanks for the ride" I say to him, his face trying to hide whatever emotion is going on beneath those thousands of layers.
"Bye, Vie" He says bluntly before leaving, and my heart almost does a somersault.
What is going on with this boy this summer.

I run upstairs to my room and pick up the wooden alien, underneath it reads 'Vie, stay weird' and I start to imagine little Eve and Rafe bickering away, Sarah being annoyed that he had chose to give me the alien. "I'm his little sister, you two don't even like eachother!" I hear her little voice in my head. 

Authors note- Sorry if this seems to be getting a big repetitive! And yes, it's hard to think of nicknames for Eve LOL X