𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕖 - 𝕣𝕒𝕗𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕟 - 𝕠𝕔- 𝕛𝕛 𝕞𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕜

f o u r

Rafe and I walk into the party. His hand in mine as everyone greets us. It's loud and lights are flashing. I look at Rafe and he smiles back at me. Kelce comes up and gives Rafe a handshake.

"Hey I got some yayo. Spread the word." I hear Rafe whisper. Kelce walks away and Rafe runs his fingers through his hair.

"Hey, I'm gonna go find Mel okay?" I turn his face towards me.

"Okay i'll be downstairs if you need me." He kisses me and I walk away. I look around at all the lights, the pool, and the open bar. Kook parties are so much different than pouge parties. People don't get guns pointed at their heads here. I searched party for Melanie, but couldn't seem to find her. I ask some of Rafe's friends and they said they hadn't seen her. I kept walking around hoping to find her until I ended up by the pool. I bumped shoulders with someone and knocked their drink over.

"Oh my god I am so sorry." I look up and see my ex boyfriend, Daniel. "Daniel? What are you doing here?" I asked concerned. Daniel is a true pouge and has no business at a kook party. He tried to talk me out of going kook. Rafe pretty much stole me away from him.

"I- I was invited." he says nervously.

"Mhm"

"By a friend."

"Okay, right. Which friend?" I know he's lying.

"Uh Alex?" He's an even worse liar than Rafe.

"Bullshit Daniel. I know you. You don't have kook friends. You hate Kooks." I say.

"Okay fine. You're right. I just wanted to experience one figure 8 party in my life, so I figured if I dressed the part, and went to a party with a shit ton of people, no one would notice." I cross my arms. He did dress the part. He was wearing a teal polo with kaki shorts, and a backwards hat. He looked too much like Rafe. I feel like he did that on purpose. Maybe i'm in over my head, but I think this is just another one of his plans to pull me back into the pouge life.

"Well, you need to get out of here. Like now. If Rafe finds out you're here you're dead." He laughs.

"Rafe's not gonna find out. Now let's go get me another drink. You spilled mine."

"And what will the people say when they see Rafe Cameron's girlfriend hangout out with some random dude at a party?" I ask.

"I guess we'll just have to find out." He says as he leads me inside. He helps himself to a beer and I get a rum and coke. We sit down outside and talk for a while. It was strange hearing about some of my old pouge friends. It was even weirder that I was not only speaking to Daniel, but at a Kook party. He was different, but a good kind of different. Daniel and I dated for two years. He was my first love. He was the type of guy that didn't really take shit from anyone. He never cared what other people thought of him. I remember sneaking out late at night to go smoke weed with him on the beach. Of course, John b loved him, but not as much as I did. His presence reminds me of the days I spent on the cut. I don't know if I like that. I look up to see that he's staring at me.

"Stop it." I say.

"Stop what?" He laughs.

"Looking at me like that. Like how you used to. Things are over. Okay Daniel? I'm not going back to that life." I say seriously.

"You're a pouge, Lily. Just accept that. You're a pouge, and you always will be." He stares into my eyes.

"No i'm not. I left that life behind me." I look away.

"It's not just a life you can up and leave. Please just come back. Be with me." At this point he's just begging me to come back to him.

"Wow I really thought you were trying to get back on better terms."