All her stars | Rafe Cameron

C H A P T E R 26

SNEAKING OUT

Worrying and overthinking too much to sleep, Callie got up from bed and went to the bathroom so she wouldn't wake Rafe up.

She grabbed her phone and called Kiara, to know more about John B's current situation and if he had returned.

"Hi Kie"

"Hi hum.. how's it going with your man?" Kie directly asked.

"Not very well to be honest, he's saying he doesn't believe me and thinks I'm drunk"

Kiara sighed on the other side of the phone. "It sucks, I'm sorry"

"It's gonna be fine. How about John B?"

"Still no news, we're about to go near the Cameron's to check up on Ward and see if he's still alive, wanna come with us?"

"Yeah, I'll be at the chateau in like 5 minutes," Callie hung up the phone and put on dark clothes because she needed to make sure no one would see her spying on her boyfriend's father. And hopefully John B hadn't done anything dumb.

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"Hey I see Ward," Pope spoke looking at the huge Cameron's mansion with binoculars. "Doesn't look dead to me, we can go home"

"Are you sure?" Callie asked.

"Obviously Mr Cameron is fine and even if John B was here, he isn't now, okay?" Pope said, before going ahead. "Plus, I have the biggest, most important moment of my life in six hours"

"Yeah, you're right you should have some rest P,'" Callie rubbed his back and sat on the edge of the boat next to JJ.

"Yeah well our friend is in trouble,"  Kie snapped.

"I'm in trouble! I haven't been home in three days, my dad's probably put all my shit in the street by now"

"Okay so that's it?" Kie argued. "In a time of need you're just gonna bail? you're just gonna walk away?"

"Look I don't think you should see it that way. His interview is in a few hours Kie," Callie tried to temper the situation calmly for once.

"But what about John B?!" Kiara yelled.

"Why is it always about John B?" Pope screamed louder at the girl's face. JJ and Callie shared an eye contact, confused about the situation.

"It isn't about John B! It's about friendship!This is about Pogues, for life!" Kiara yelled, her voice breaking because of small sobs.

"What about forensic pathology huh?"

"Forensic Pathology," Kiara repeated as if it was the dumbest thing she had heard all day. "That's your priority?!"

"Stop the moral high ground bullshit! Where were you when Big John went missing? You weren't there for any of-"

This was gonna go way too far so Callie pulled JJ with her towards the two others and they separated them.

"Guys stop!" Callie yelled.

"If I'm the one mediating, we've hit rock bottom"

JJ dropped Pope home, Kie home too, and they walked towards Callie's mansion together. Just the two of them.

"Hey Cal"

"Hey JJ"

"So you know that if what John B says is true.. then well you.."

"Then I'll what JJ?" Callie asked, already knowing what the end of his sentence would look like.

"Look I'm not asking you to choose but it won't be easy, to be a Cameron"

To be a Cameron. God she dreamt of it. Even if her relationship with Rafe wasn't always perfect, even sometimes chaotic, like in this exact moment, she knew she'd end up being his.

"I know. But I love him too much to end things up, and he's not like his dad"

JJ sighed and looked down shaking his head. "He's just as psycho, Cal, open your eyes," they stopped walking as he finished his sentence and she looked at him.

"I'm sorry? What's wrong with you?" she asked annoyed.

"You won't admit it but he is. Look he's constantly doing drugs, his dealer hurt you and pointed a gun at us, don't you see his world, doesn't match with yours?" he caught his breathing before going ahead. "You're.. precious and he's not enough aware of it, he's gonna drag you down in his dirty life"

She opened her eyes widely, tears in her eyes. She wasn't mad actually, because it showed that he cared, but it made her deeply sad.

"I love him, he treats me right, I swear. We're just going through one of these phases," she tried to convince him, and herself.

He nodded and kissed her forehead. "If you say so Sanders"

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"You're back?" Rafe's sleepy voice asked softly, as she got in the room. "Where were you?"

She didn't reply because she knew she'd burst out in tears, so she just got in the bed and sneaked in his arms. He wrapped his arms around her waist and back, as she let out a few sobs.

She wasn't only crying of sadness, about her relationship with him being in a bad state, no. She was also crying because she was scared, of what would come next.

She couldn't choose, it was not happening. Her friends were everything she had, and so Rafe was.

"Rafe it's too difficult," she sobbed.

"What?" he asked, confused. "What's so difficult?"

"Being your girl," she said looking at him.

He hugged her tighter and kissed her head softly. "But it shouldn't be," he spoke, hurt by her words. "Is that a way to tell me.. that you wanna break up?" he asked tears in his eyes.

"No, Rafe no, not at all," she sat on the bed and looked at him laid down, before cupping his cheeks in her hands.

"Rafe I don't care if it's hard and if people hate me for being madly in love with you, because it's my life, not theirs. So no I really don't wanna break up," she kissed his lips and rested her forehead against his. "It's just complicated sometimes, but it's gonna get better soon I feel it"

If only.