After the shit show of last night, Rhea decided to sleep in for half of the day, that was until she got a concerning text that woke her up immediately.
Rafe💕 i'm fucked
i should've listened to you
i should've stopped
My girl ❤️ rafe what's going on
are you okay?
please answer me
5 missed calls from My girl ❤️
Rafe 💕 barry got me, i owed him so much
i tried to steal it from my dad but he caught me
he kicked me out i have no where to go
i'm stuck in the cut
My girl ❤️ i'll be there in 15
be careful rafe
i love you
Rhea didn't care that she was in her pyjamas eating a tub of ice cream, she only wanted to make sure Rafe was safe. She checked his location to see he was in the middle of the cut and drove as quick as she possibly could.
"Rafe!" She yelled running over to him and hugging her boyfriend. "Talk to me, explain what happened"
Rafe had sad red eyes from crying for ours and was freezing in a t shirt. When Lani looked down at his arm it was raw and red.
"Ray I fucked up bad, this is worse than anything before." He balled. She just held him in her arms and sat down beside him on a rock. "I owed Barry a lot of money, he took my bike and burned my arm, I didn't know what to do, I had to pay him as quick as possible somehow, so I checked my dads safe.... he caught me, I've never seen him so disappointed"
"Shhh, don't worry, I'm here, I'll take care of you" Was all Rhea said, she didn't know what else she could've said, told him the truth? told him that he fucked up real time and if she was Ward she would've don't the same? She just held the love of her life as he sobbed into her chest.
After what felt like hours in the freezing cold, the pair got up and walked to Rhea's pink porche. "You can stay with me for as long as you want, I don't know what I'll tell my parents but the mayor won't turn down a boy with no where else to go, especially if his daughter loves him"
"No I can't go to your place my dad probably told yours and told him to keep you away from me, I can't have him think I'm ruining your life" Rafe shook his head looking out the window. "Just drop me and one of Roses properties please"
"Rafe are you serious, I can take care of you, if you still owe Barry the money I'll give it to him, let me take care of you, Rafe I love you." Rhea put her hand on the side of rafes face to get him to look in her eyes.
Rafe kept his head down and repeated "Just drop me at one of Roses properties please."
"Fine, don't take my help" Rhea whispered and drove out of the cut. The drive to Roses property was excruciating. The silence was deadly and all Rhea could think of was why Rafe wouldn't take her help.
The truth was, he was embarrassed. He hated that he had to call his girlfriend to collect him, or that she was offering to take care of him, that was his job, he was meant to take care of her in their own house with their own family. Rafe was too ashamed to take any of that help.
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When Rhea got home all she wanted to do was go to sleep, instead of that, she opened her door and was met with the face of Ward Cameron and her father.
"Um, dad, what's going on?" She enquired, visibly confused looking between the two. Part of her knew exactly what was going on.
"Rhea, come sit at the table with Ward, he needs to talk" Henry pointed to the beautiful kitchen. The two walked inside and took their seats, Ward at one side and the young girl sitting across from him.
"Rhea , I'm sure you're confused but seeing the time that you were out you might have an idea of the conversation" Ward started.
"If this is about you kicking Rafe out I have nothing to say other than that you're being really unfair and he disserves a second chance, he has no where to stay!" Rhea defended her lover.
"Honey, Rafe is very disturbed right now, you know he's struggling with addiction." Ward voiced.
"I don't want you seeing him anymore, we think it's best for the top of you to keep away from each other until rafe is clean." Ward continued . Rhea's jaw dropped. His father always loved the couple being together but now he was asked them to separate.
"I'm finished here." She got up to leave.
"Sit back down Ray. Now." Ward sternly spoke in the angry voice he used on Rafe and Sarah as kids which always made her scared. She slowly sat back down avoiding eye contact.
"Look the way he's going, my son is going to do nothing but hold you back. It starts off here, he steals from me gets into harder drugs, then what? You don't think you can have a real relationship with someone like that, then when you start to realise that, something else could happen, he could hurt you physically, you could get pregnant, he could ruin your life"
"That's a risk I'm willing to take, I love him" She ignored how he had already physically hurt him, once she helped him get better it wouldn't happen again.
"I know you make him happier, but you being by his side all the time will make him know he always has you, we need him to think he needs to work to get you" Ward continued. Rhea didn't want to admit that it made sense because she wouldn't be leaving him, she would just sneak around with him if she had to, Rafe had his own drugs but her drug was him, no matter how awful he was, she would always love him, he could do no wrong in her eyes.
"I'm not leaving him, I'll help him, but leaving him would just make him worse, I don't know what he'd do without me, the same way I don't know what id do without him" She finished, this time getting up and ignoring their calls for her to come back.
Rhea just sat in her bed and hugged her knees. She couldn't believe people didn't want them together, she wished it were people other than his so that she could do something about it.
Rhea didn't know if her father knew of this but she didn't think so because if he knew the real Rafe, Henry would lock her in a tower far away from him until the day he died.
Rhea didn't know a lot of things but she knew two things. 1. Ward was right and 2. She didn't care, not even a little bit.
