Rafe Cameron Imagines

Young Lovers

Idk if this would be something for a warning or not but
⚠️ Warning: Slight mention of Panic Attacks ⚠️
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Even though at a young age both y/n and Rafe were in love but they didn't like to think so. The young teens had been dating for the past year and had gone through a few rough patches.

"Your so in love with my brother. It's crazy!" Sarah exclaims falling back onto her bed.
"I'm not in love. Why do you keep saying that?" I say annoyed, folding my arms.
"It's so obvious y/n." She says laughing.
She quickly stops laughing as soon as a pillow whacks her in the face.
"Am not."
"Now you really do sound like my brother." She says.
"I am not in love Sarah!" She says imitating Rafe.
"That was a good impression actually, I can't lie."
The girls laugh and y/n lays down on Sarah's bed beginning to talk. __________________________________________

The girls spend the next few hours together until there's a knock at the front door.
"I'll go get it! Hold on." Sarah says jumping up from the bed and walking out her bedroom.
I sit up and reach over to the side table to grab my phone. Grabbing my phone, I power it on to see a few missed calls from Rafe. Strange. He never rings me?

I click on the notification and call him back. He soon answers after only two rings to his phone.
'Y/n.'
'Rafe? What's up? You never call me.'
'Nothings wrong. I just... need your help with something. But you can't tell Sarah. I sent Barry to knock at the door to distract her.'
'Sorry? You sent your drug dealer to your front door? To what, distract your sister. Oh Rafe. What's happened?'
I begin to get worried and get up from the bed to grab my bag from the floor. I rush around in silence.
'Y/n? Are you still there?'
'Yes Rafe, I'm still here. I'm staying on the phone until you tell me what's happened. I'm getting my stuff now and I'll tell Sarah I'll hang out with her later'
'No don't tell Sarah anything'
'Rafe. I have to tell her I'm leaving'
'Fine. Be quick. I'm at the corner of the street'
'Ok I'll be as quick as I can. Don't worry I won't be long.'
'Ok I- bye.'
He ends the call and I turn off my phone and rush downstairs with my bag in one hand and my phone in the other. Barry sees me rushing down the stairs and smiles making Sarah turn around.
"Y/n? What's up?" She asks.
"Rafe. Gotta be quick. I'll call you later. Promise, love ya."
"Love ya!" She shouts as I rush past her and out the door.

I run down the street to find Rafe stood at the corner like he said.
"Rafe..." I say quietly slowing down and walking over to him.
"It happened again y/n. I need help." He says looking up at me with tears in his eyes.
"Oh Rafe. Another one?" I walk closer to him and pull him into a hug. He sobs into my shoulder and I hold him tight. His arms soon wrap around my waist and he holds me tighter.
"Rafe. We will find you someone to talk to. I know life without your dad has been hard, maybe even harder than when your dad was in it." I say quietly.
"I miss him and I don't know why. He did bad things but so did I. It should be me in that cell, locked away for years on end."
"Don't say that! No it shouldn't. You didn't know what you were doing. You were protecting your dad, you thought he was in trouble and you tried to help."
"Your the best girlfriend in the world y/n. You really do care for me. I've never had someone care for me before."
"Sarah and Wheezie care for you. You know Wheezie loves you the most and Sarah always goes to you when she needs some advice."
"But they don't care for me the way you care for me."
"Yeah because it's a different kind of love Rafe."
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I spent the next few hours walking and talking with Rafe trying to calm him down. It soon worked and we walked back to his house.

As we got to the door, Sarah comes rushing over to me.
"Y/n! You won't believe it! Kiara and J-"
"Sorry Sarah. Rafe needs me right now. I'll come and gossip with you later." I interrupt.
"Oh alright. See you later then." She says walking back upstairs to her room.
I walk up the stairs after her with Rafe but walk in the other direction towards Rafes room at the other side of the stairs.

I close the door behind him and he goes and lays down on his bed. He says nothing, and I say nothing. I wait for when he decides he wants to tel and I watch him as he stares at the ceiling. My heart sinks for him as I don't understand how he really feels.

We stay in silence for around an hour before he falls asleep on the bed.

I walk over to his mini bookshelf and take a disguised covered book and sit on the chair and his desk. I lean the chair back and I get comfy before opening the delicate pages slowly and reading the words typed on it.
It reads: 'Wuthering Heights.'

I flick to the page where a tiny piece of paper was hanging out of the book. I move the piece of paper over and see a highlighted paragraph. I read it slowly taking in the words: 'Catherine and Heathcliff were just so similar that it was hard for them to get along, but if Catherine wasn't so stubborn they could have lived a long and happy life together.' Why was this certain paragraph so important to him?

I reread it a few times before realising. It's us. We were too similar in our ways and differences that it caused us to be so stubborn with each other that we just couldn't tell each other how we truly felt. Did he mean he wanted to live a long happy life with me?
I rethink the paragraph over and over and what the meaning really is.

Rafe begins to move around on the bed. I turn around quickly and see him sat up smiling slightly at me.
"Oh Y/n. I didn't know you were still here. I thought you would have left."
"Of course I wouldn't leave. You needed me."
"What are you reading." He asks getting from the bed and walking over to me.
I shut the book and place it on the desk.
"Nothing much."
"Which book is it."
"but if Catherine wasn't so stubborn they could have lived a long and happy life together." I say smiling.
"Oh that one. You weren't meant to see that." He blushes.
"So you are a sweetheart after all. You softie. Why was that paragraph highlighted?"
"It's important to me. It represents... uh well us I guess."
"Is that true? It represents us how?"
"Well we are both stubborn and very similar. And well because I'm so stubborn, I haven't been able to show my feelings properly for you yet. I wanted to say it earlier but it wasn't the right time."
"Say what?"
"You are also very dumb at times.' He says laughing.
"Hey!" I laugh.
"Y/n I love you." He says quietly.
"I love you too Rafe."

He looks at me in my eyes and smiles. He pulls me closer to him and kisses my forehead.
"I guess we really are Hardin and Tessa after all." I smile.
"Maybe we are."
He wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closer. As we begin to get closer someone knocks at the door. We turn quickly to see Wheezie stood there in the doorway.
"Oh uh hey wheezie. What's up?" I ask.
"Uhh I was kind of overhearing but I also wasn't. I also forgot what I was going to ask so uh. Bye!" She says quickly before running off down the hallway. We stand in shock for a little before we hear her shouting Sarah.

In the background we hear Wheezie say "Sarah they said it! They finally said it!"
"No way!" She squeals.
I laugh at their reaction and look back at Rafe.
"I think your sisters are more excited than I am."
"Yeah I think so too." He says smiling at me.
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Uh is this too much to ask for? Not necessarily a Hardin and Tessa relationship it was a little toxic but uh some kind of relationship would be nice

Anywayssss hope u all enjoyed I've been gone a while but I was on holiday then I went to Ireland to visit family and then I've been busy this week with results day etc etc
I didn't fail my GCSE's so go me I acc got an 8 in English language and a 7 in English literature so I'm very pleased <3