Rafe and JJ Imagines

Love, Rafe- Rafe

Just a heads up this imagine mentions drug use and slight violence.

Octavia smiled as Sarah held onto her hand, swaying to the music.
"I LOVE THIS SONG!" She slurred

Octavia raised an eyebrow amused, "That's not what you said a few days ago."

"Shhh- I changed my mind."

Octavia laughed and let go of Sarah's hand.

"I'll be back I'm just gonna find Rafe." Octavia said

Sarah nodded and ran off, clinging onto John B and forcing him onto the dance floor to take Octavia's place.
Octavia shook her head smiling and began her search for her boyfriend.
She hadn't seen him in a good few hours which was quite unusual for Rafe- whenever they attended parties together Rafe was always attached to Octavia making sure she was safe and not getting into too much trouble.

"Have you seen Rafe?" Octavia asked Kelce.

Kelce sighed and wrapped an arm around Octavia.
"I don't think it's best- to uh see him at the moment. Let's find Sarah?" He suggested, pulling Octavia in the opposite direction.

"No Kelce- where is he?" Octavia asked firmly

Kelce looked like he was having an internal argument with himself before he finally looked at Octavia with sympathy and silently took her into another part of the house.
Octavia gasped as she saw her boyfriend sitting on a couch, between two girls taking lines of coke.

"Rafe!" Kelce yelled out

Rafe looked up, white powder spread across his nose and his eyes bloodshot red. He looked completely and utterly out of it.

His eyes widened when he realised what his girlfriend had witnessed him doing.
"Baby-" He quickly stood up

Octavia shook her head and stormed out of the room, making her way out of the party. She wiped the tears from her eyes with the sleeve of her shirt, smearing her mascara across her face.
"OCTAVIA!"
"OCTAVIA BABY! PLEASE STOP!"

She ignored Rafe's desperate calls and pleads from behind her, she jumped in her car and sped off from the party- seeing Rafe's figure get smaller and smaller as she drove.
She probably should of told Sarah she was leaving- since she was her lift but she just had too many thoughts clouding her mind.
He told her he stopped...
He said it was a one time thing- that he was simply drunk....
He promised her...

•••

All night Rafe hadn't left her alone, he showed up to her house and stood outside for almost 3 hours yelling out her name and pleading for her to come out and talk to him. He finally was forced to leave when the neighbour screamed out and told him to "shut the fuck up".
Octavia laid in her bed amongst a pile of blankets, staring emotionlessly at the wall.
She sighed heavily and decided it was time to get out of bed and freshen up, staring at herself in the mirror she almost gasped at the state of her.
She had a tear stained face, chapped lips, bloodshot eyes and bits of makeup in all sorts of places along her face.

After a much needed hot shower Octavia began to feel slightly more perky.
She sat on her freshly made bed, scrolling through her phone while softly humming a song that was stuck in her head.

"OCTAVIA!" Her door swung open making her jump from her position on her bed.

"Rafe no!"

Rafe stood at the doorway looking extremely distressed.
"Baby please- we need to talk."

Octavia shook her head, "Rafe I don't want to, I'm not ready to talk."

"I just want to explain." He exasperated

"Explain what Rafe? That you were still doing coke even though you promised me you weren't? The fact that you were stupid enough to do it at a party I was at?!"

Rafe bowed his head in shame, not being able to look his girlfriend in the eyes.
"I know I've hurt you O, and I'm so fucking sorry. The truth is- I'm not ok. I need help. I-I try so hard to be noticed, to be loved and it gets so tiring and draining when the one person whose approval I want constantly knocks me down and tells me how worthless I am."

Octavia sighed, "Rafe I know how much you want your dads approval- but what your doing isn't a way to cope at all."

A single tear dropped from Rafe's eye, he let out a loud sob and fell to the ground, Octavia wasted no time in wrapping her arms around him to comfort him.

"I'm so sorry. I can't believe you had to see me-"

"Shhhh Rafe it's ok. I'm going to get you the help you need ok? Everything's going to get better I promise."

•••

With the help from Rose- none from Ward by the way, Octavia was able to get Rafe into a rehab facility for his addiction. It was tough to see him go there at first but Octavia knew he was in the best hands there, she knew he was going to get better.
He'd been there for around a week, he wasn't allowed his phone for the first week so she hadn't been able to keep in contact with him but when she rang the rehab they told her he was doing great so far.

Octavia walked around her house aimlessly, she was losing her mind without Rafe. She had never been so bored in her life- most of all she missed him like crazy.
She heard her phone ding from the other room, she made her way to it and picked it up- a grin making its way onto her face.

I love and miss you so much, I'm trying so hard to be the man you deserve and I won't stop until I get there. Being here has made me realise that for so long I've seeked my dads approval- I wanted him to love and praise me like he does with my sisters but this whole time I've had you do that for me and so much more, I couldn't ask for a better girlfriend and I'm so fucking grateful I have you by my side. I love you endlessly and I can't wait to see you're gorgeous self again.

Love, Rafe.

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