Ultraviolence

Chapter 3

"Ray! You came!" Sarah shrieked drunkenly at her best friend. "I love this bikini it really brings out ur eyes." She slurred. Rhea wore a pale green bikini with denim shorts on top.

"Great to see you too Sarah." Rhea smiled. "Please point me to the vodka." She said. Sarah dragged her to the kitchen and watched her best friend take 5 shots in the span of 1 minute.

"Okay calm down a bit." she says pulling the sixth shot from her hand "It's all gonna just hit you at once." She explained.

"Yeah I need that right now, have you seen Rafe?" She was breathing heavily due to all the shots she has taking in a row

"Nope, how did your talk go?". Sarah asked as the two sat on the kitchen island.

"Awful, he hates me" Rhea looked down in disappointment. She didn't want to say it and ruin the night but she had to. She couldn't get Rafe out of her head.

"Seriously? explain" Sarah was confused on how her brother could hate Rhea, he was obsessed with her. All he talked about was her. He wouldn't be able to live without her.

"He told me that I drove him to drugs. Oh and he's sick of me and that I don't really love him or I would accept his addiction then told me to get out because he didn't want to see me." Sarah was in disbelief . She never understood how someone as kind as Rhea could stay with a man as evil as Rafe.

"I take back what I said here's the whole bottle" Sarah passes the bottle to her best friend. She knew it was bad, but Rhea would have done it anyway.

"Thanks, I really need this" Rhea whispered chugging the bottle and wincing at the burn in her throat. "I think we're broken up." she said, taking another swig. She didn't believe it on the inside because if it was true she would just die.

"What do you mean, think?" sarah asked.

"I mean he just doesn't want to talk to me anymore, Sarah he hates me" the girl explained. Her eyes saddened and her voice breaking. Sarah hated to see her friend so heartbroken, especially by her dick of a brother.

"He doesn't hate you, you're literally the only thing that gives him joy" Sarah said.

"Apparently coke gives him more joy... God I'm sick of talking about this, how's things with you and Top?" Rhea asked to lighten the mood.

"They're perfect, I mean he's been so nice with me all day, Rhea I think I'm ready" The blonde smiled. Rhea had never been so happy for her friend. Sarah and top has been together for about 5 months but they never had sex, rightfully so Sarah didn't need to be rushed and Topper would be an asshole if he did. But Rhea knew it was on his mind from what Sarah had told her.

"Seriously, I'm so happy for you. Just remember that whenever you feel uncomfortable you can stop, ad he if he gets mad about that then he's not the one for you, take things slow at the pace that you want, okay?" She wanted Sarah to know that she was in control. Not Topper, not any boy. She chose what she wanted to do.

"How did you know it was the right time for you and Rafe?" Sarah asked wanting to know if her feeling was right. As sickening as it was that it was her brother, she needed to understand more.

"Well, It was Midsummer's two years ago and we had been together for a year already, and I talked to him about it, I said I was ready but I really wasn't , we went to the country club guest bedrooms and I didn't even need to tell him to stop, he knew me so well to know I wasn't ready at that minute, that's when I knew Rafe was the one for me and I wanted to give it to him. Then 2 weeks later on my 16th birthday, I told him how much I loved him and how he's the one for me and then we did it"

Rhea smiled thinking about it. It was the most magical birthday ever. Afterwards he held her in his arms all day, it was all she wanted and all she needed.