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Certainty {part one'} July 28, 1934 Tennessee Amelia
••• a u t h o r n o t e... please take note that chapters from here on out will be lengthy. It's been a debate whether I'd break them into separate chapters— but for now they will remain together. So hopefully that is not such a bad thing! Enjoy! •••
In every love story comes a concrete of hurdles that always stands between the two lovers path, keeping them reaching their happily ever after..
For Danny and I, our story was no different than those romantic fairy tales written amongst pages within the bookshelf in my bedroom.
Though what stood between us weren't made of stone-- yet he still wedged like a heavy rock between our relationship. Keeping us from being known to the world.
..Even though the rumor has always been around about Danny and I. and whether we were together. Rafe always shot those myths down, or so he believes to be fake.
Staggering with his arm draped over the shoulders of some fire headed, small framed, local bimbo named Mary. Rafe's eyes were tightly pulled almost closed, his feet tripping over one another with every step they made closer to our group that had been waiting for their arrival for the past hour.
The evidence of Daddy's locked away whiskey flowed vividly in my older brother veins. His face dimming to a faded violet, as his blood pressure could never control itself while under the influence.
Rafe was spiraling carelessly in front of everyone, no regrets, just numb from the present that he seemed to be hiding from.
And we were the only ones who could see it.
I could sense the tension building high within Rafe. What ever the whiskey was trying to disguise, must be one hell of a hefty burden to make my brother act out this way.
Even though we shared the family curse that every McCawley in our family (other than Dad,) enjoyed... At times a bit too much. But Rafe and I always had our limits and never dared to squander over them... At least not in the public's eye.
Giggling flirtatiously slurred remarks into Mary's ear. His smile was easy to define as fake.
Rafe was almost unrecognizable to myself, and as my eyes rolled in the direction to a more perfect reality that stood tall and ever so handsomely only a few feet away...
The only other person who could sense the same change as I, batted his stare in my direction causing my world to freeze and take in this very moment.
A slight apologetic smirk tugged so brightly over his face. Capturing the fluttering mess of my heart within its grasp. In seconds, I almost had forgotten Rafe's behavior as Danny's smile sparkled under the carnival lights that strung all around.
