Paradise on Earth~ Rafe Cameron

chapter 8

I wake up with a throbbing headache. The light from the sun in my face. I groan, putting the blanket over my face. Wait. Where am I? I rip the blanket off of my face and look around. I'm in Rafe's room, with what I'm assuming is his shirt, on. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." I whisper, sitting up. As I sat up my head throbbed even more, so I grasp my head in my hand. Rafe's door opened, my heart dropped, but settled when I see Rafe look up at me.

"Hey, princess." He flashes a smile. I stand up, feeling super dizzy, he grabs onto me. "You still reek of alcohol." He says. "Great, thanks." I hear Sarah's. once get closer to Rafes room. My eyes go wide, looking at the door then at him. "Fuck. Rafe. I can't be here!" I whisper yell. "What? Why not?" He asks. "Rafe! Sarah can't know!" I freak out. There's a knock on the door. I run to the bathroom. Rafe opens the door to Sarah and she walks in. "Have you heard from Jo today?" She asks. "Um, nope." He responds. "Her cars here and I can't get a hold of her." She says. When I can tell she's not in the hallway, I slip out of the other door of the bathroom and sneak down the hall into the guest bedroom that Sarah never goes in. I can still hear them talking. "She told me she was gonna stay with you last night so I brought her here but then she saw you weren't here yet so I think she just took off walking to her house." He says. "Rafe?! You let drunk Josie just walk around by herself?!" She yells. "I'm sure she made it home." He says. "Are you crazy?" She yells again.

I stand in the doorway of the guest bedroom and loudly open the door to make it seem like I was in there. I made sure to mess the sheets up too. I walk down the hall toward his room. "What's all this yelling about? I have a killer headache." I say, holding onto my eyes and squinting my eyes. They both come out of his room. "Jo? Holy shit! Where the hell were you?" Sarah says, hugging me. "Yeah, Jo, where the hell were you?" Rafe also asks. "You didn't know I stayed in the guest bedroom last night?" I ask. "Oh. No, I didn't even think to check." She laughs. "You scared the hell of of me!" She playfully hits me.

"Rafe, when you brought me home did you happen to see my phone anywhere." I ask him. He turns around and walks into his room again. "Oh, yeah. You left it on my b-" He turns to hand me my phone, his face goes red, realizing what he just said.  She dramatically gasps. "Left it on his bed? So you didn't sleep in the spare room." She smirks, crossing her arms. Rafe scratches the back of his neck. "Um, sorry, brothers calling. Gotta go." I say before i take off running. "Don't you run from me, Josie Rutledge!" She runs after me. I get down and into my car before she can get me. I wave at her, laughing and she flips me off.

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I pull up to the driveway of my brothers house. I see two of the boys standing at the dock with computers. "Hey boys!" I yell, walking up to them. "Well, hello, cupcake." JJ says. "Hey, Jo." Pop says. I walk up to them giving them both a kiss on the cheek. "What are you nerds doing?" I ask them. "We're testing out the camera we're gonna use to find the gold." JJ says. "So JB is down there?" I ask. "Yeah, and Kie." Pope responds. "God bless geeks, Pope. Truly. What would we do without you to control the drones?" JJ says. "Technically it's not a drone. It's a ROV." Pope mutters. "Shut up. Shut up! It's too early for that right now." JJ responds. I laugh at their bickering. John B and Kie's head pope out of the water.

"Hey, once we get the footage from the wreck, we'll bring it to a lawyer in town, and file a formal claim." John B says. "It's such bullshit. Why do we have to do that?" JJ whines. "Where there is maritime salvage law. You can't just go to the ocean floor and scoop up a bunch of stuff up." Pope tells us. "I know, I know. Lawyers aren't cheap, bro." JJ continues. "As soon as they see the footage, they'll work for a comp." JB says. "How do you know all of that?" Kie asks, laughing. "Cause my dad said it like a million times." JB deadpans.