Alive | Rafe Cameron

Part 33

I hear the screen door swing open and immediately jump, fearing that Barry has returned.

"What the hell happened in here?!" John B asks frantically, referring to the mess. He looks over at me and immediately comes over to pull me into his chest, I sob into his shirt. JJ walks in shortly after and looks around, confused. Rafe begins to explain what happened.

A moment of silence fills the room after Rafe finishes the story.

"You put my sister in danger." John B says to Rafe.

"I'm sorry, I-" Rafe beings to speak but I cut him off.

I pull away from John B's chest and look up at him. "What? No. John B, he saved me. I mean who knows what would have happened if he didn't show up when he did." I try to plead.

"Exactly. Who knows what would have happened? He is the reason that guy came here in the first place."

"I think you better go, man." JJ chimes in.

I look at them both in disbelief and then over to Rafe. He starts making his way to the door, not wanting to cause any more trouble.

"Rafe, wait..." he turns around and gives me a sad smile. "...don't go."

"They're right. I put you in danger." He quietly says before walking out and driving off in his truck. I stand there, staring at the doorway where Rafe once stood. The one person I want to have here, to comfort me, is gone.

"Liv?" I hear JJ behind me, he places a hand on my lower back. I flinch at the touch and quickly  turn and walk past them both and into my room, slamming the door behind me.

I lay in my bed still in shock. I hear the boys out in the main area of the house cleaning up some of the mess Barry has made. So many thoughts and emotions are running through me.

Rafe came to my rescue but John B was right, I come to realize. Rafe is also the reason Barry showed up here in the first place. Barry knew that he could get what he wanted from Rafe by coming here. I was his weakness, and that scared me.

I had no idea what I was going to do.