Tension - a pov story //rafe cameron, JJ maybank

Part VI - "no time to lose"

After you and the pogues had your own little party to celebrate you and your brother making up. Kie and sarah went back to kie's house and Pope headed back to his house for the night, leaving JJ, John b and yourself at the château. you all decided to chill on the hammocks for a while and chat before heading back inside to go to sleep. John B and JJ said goodnight as did you, and you went into your room.

You laid in bed and took out a book to read. Reading was something you often did to escape feeling shitty, or just take your mind off of something. but tonight everything felt fine, you just wanted to chill and read. When you reached the end of a chapter, you suddenly gazed up above your book and an instant thought popped into your mind, causing your stomach to drop a little. You needed to tell JJ about rafe. Yes the other pogues needed to know as well, especially your brother John B, but you knew you had to tell JJ first, because there's always been a little something between the both of you, but you were never sure what it was, though you needed to get it out of the way. Your mind was set. you had a plan, and you needed to tell him right now. no time to lose.

you exited your bedroom and snuck over to JJ sleeping on the couch, still in your pjs, which consisted of black track pants with a grey sweater which was John B's hand-me-down. you creeped up next to jj lightly nudging him. "jj! are you awake?" you whispered. he let off a groan, "yeah" he said in a tired, sleepy voice, which gave you butterflies. "do you wanna come out to the dock with me?" you questioned. "now?" he shot back, both of you still whispering. "yeah, now." you said. "alright", he replied still in a sleepy voice, which just kept building up the butterflies in your stomach.

you both walked out of the château and sat on the floor of the dock out the back. it was a bright full moon in the sky that lit up the water with its reflection, causing the light to hit beautifully on JJ's face from your view. little did you know he was thinking the exact same thing. You sat in comfortable silence in and out of talking about whatever. suddenly JJ asked "so was there any reason for bringing me out here at 2am? or was it just a spontaneous Y/N thing?". you laughed, "well no, yeah, there was something i actually wanted to talk about." you stated. you felt like after he asked that, you could've just lied and avoided telling him, but you knew you had to. you were really nervous about telling him and you were so comfortable with this boy, you just decided to be transparent and say "but i'm really scared to." he shot you a confused look from looking at the water beforehand. "yeah? whys that?" he asked, which made the nerves build up more and more. "i-uh.. i just.." you stuttered. "hey Y/N, it's alright, you can tell me anything, you don't have to be scared, alright?" he said. "okay. uh- so you need to promise me that you will try as hard as you can to not freak out." you told JJ. "um.. okay? why would i freak out?" he asked. "just please try not to JJ!" you replied. "ok, ok, i won't." he said. "okay, wow this is um- really hard to say, but i ah.. i have been with rafe the past couple of days." you stated, still very nervous. JJ's face immediately dropped at the mention of rafe. His jaw clenched tightly as he looked away, breaking eye contact. he glared back at you. "okay, what does that even mean, 'with rafe' i don't get it?" he replied. "um.. well, it means that we're sort of together now." you said. JJ's face was filled with pure anger, building up as the seconds went by. "JJ, please don't freak out on me. Can you just listen to me first." you said. Suddenly he stood up. He turned around, breathing heavily and took his hat off his head, throwing it to the ground in rage. "Jesus christ Y/N, what the fuck is your problem?" he yelled. so loudly. You followed him by standing up as he continued burning holes in your eyes with his rage filled glare, continuing to breathe heavily. "JJ, just calm down, okay? i told you, let's just talk about it, before you get any angrier" you replied calmly, trying not to get him any more stirred up. Out of no where JJ punched a wooden post sitting on the railing of the dock, luckily it wasn't holding anything up, but JJ managed to make a large indent into it, almost causing it to snap in half. he grunted loudly as he punched it. "fuck!" he yelled, so loudly, causing you to jump. He turned around and stormed off, heading into the direction of the château, you let out a sigh shaking your head.