SURGE

Twenty Six

SURGE
Chapter Twenty Six
"Baby, what are you doing here?"
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They all split up to find the meaning on the wall, JJ and Lily stayed close to each other and looked around for awhile? then they both realized one of the paintings. "Wait, is that it?" Lily mumbles walking slowly up to it, "I think so." he says scanning his fingers over the wall.

"Hey guys, I think we found something." Lily shouts and they all stop talking and walk over to them, "This tree is still on Goat Island." JJ claims.

"Angel Oak." Pope nods, looking closer at the painting.

"Look right there, it's a keyhole." Lily smiles softly as she points to the middle of the tree, they all come to conclusion and figure it out.

"That means the cross is buried at the foot of the angel. That must be it." Pope says while the others stay silent. "We need to go." JB says as they all run out of the house.

"Did you hear there's going to be a party tonight." Lily says with a smile on her face, "This isn't the time Lily, but where?" JJ claims with a business manner.

"It's at Kelces." she shrugs and they all look back at her, "You really believe we can go in." Kie shakes her head at the response.

"Well Rafe just texted me, he said 'Come to Kelces party tonight, I guess you can bring your friends'." Lily nods with a smile on her face at the fact she'll be able to drink.

"We're on a mission." Pope speaks up trying to turn the topic, "It's not until tonight, we have time." Lily shrugs.

They all continue talking as they cross over a tide that already had truck marks over the mud. JohnB drives further more until the Twinkie comes to a complete stop and they all get out.

They walk towards the tree behind Pope for a bit until he puts his pointer finger up to his mouth in a way to be quiet. They huddle over a big rock and see Limbrey and Renfield. "Is that Rafe?" Kie says squinting her eyes, Lily scans over all the other people helping out and lands her eyes onto Rafe.

"I have an idea, even though I love him. He shouldn't be involved with her." Lily whispers to where they can only hear, she pulls out her phone and texts Rafe. 'Can I call you, so we can talk?' she texts.

They all catch on and look up, Rafe sets down a shovel and grabs his phone from his pockets and looks at the text. 'I'm busy right now baby, I will when I get home' he responds.

"Fuck, it's not working." Lily whispers, "Let me see that." JJ says grabbing her phone and texting something then giving it back to her. She reads the text that JJ already sent and looked at him in a serious way.

"This isn't going to work you idiot." she squints her eyes at him which makes him shrug with a smile.

'I was out in the water and got stung really badly by 5 stingrays. Please call me'. The text says, Rafe reads it and looks at all the other people working. "I'll be right back." Rafe yells to Limbrey before walking away to the bushes. "Go, go, go." Sarah says, Lily slowly stands up and runs back to the direction she came from.

Lily walks further and looks at her phone and around her trying not to be loud on the phone if he calls her. She looks back down at her phone and continues walking, without looking up.

Until she bumps into someone, her eyes widen and the familiar scent, height, outfit. The adrenaline starts rushing through her body as she looks up at Rafe.

"Baby, what are you doing here?" he tilts his head, his voice wasn't gentle. She seen his face get red at the second, not from confusion or the heat. He was furious.

"Rafe, let me explai-" before she could finish her sentence, he grabs her arms in a tightly manner and forces her chin up to look at him. "You're going to wish you didn't lie to me princess."

"Wait, no Rafe." she yells trying to get out of his grip, he throws her over his shoulder and walks into the bushes, the direction he came from. "Let me go!" she yells.

He walks back over to Limbrey and doesn't let Lily off of his shoulder. Lily looks over to the rock and see her friends faces, full of fright and JJs face looked like he fucked up. But Lily knew it was none of their faults.

"Who do we have here?" Limbrey says looking at the girl, Lily lifts her head towards the Lady. "Lily Maybank. I thought you would have learned your lesson by now."

"Fuck off. You think you're way better? Look at all these people doing your dirty work." Lily strikes back, "Stop." Rafe mumbles.

"No, i'm not going to let this wrinkly bitch instigate me." Lily smiles sarcastically. "Oh and you too, don't look at me like you didn't put a gun to my head last night." she says looking up to Renfield.

Rafe sets Lily down to the floor and walks over to the big whole dug into the ground, a casket. They all pull it out and Lily knew that was her chance.

She backed up slowly then ran back down the small hill, Rafe quickly stood up and ran after her. He grabbed her arms and shoved her into him. "Where do you think you're going?" he says, she starts to panic and the words can't form out of her mouth.

"Get the fuck off of me." she says shoving him back, he pokes his cheek with his tongue with and smile and grabs her neck. Not to the point where she couldn't breathe only where she couldn't run. He placed his free hand onto her lower back and looked into her eyes.

"I don't know what plan you have going on, but you're not going back to who came with. And I could guess it's your little friends." He says whispering into her ear.

"So what? You being nice the other night was just a lie." She says building up the words, he scoffs and nods. "

"How else did you think I could get you back. We are meant for each other Lily."

"I am not going to be around you or any of them, why can't you understand that you shouldn't be involved with her." Lily whispers in confusion.

"Don't worry about me being involved, you hid this from me when we could've worked together. But instead you lied and lied and just now lied."

"It was to protect you, all I want to do is protect you Rafe." she says shaking her head at his response.

He lets go of her and grabs her arm and pulls her back to the casket. "You have a troubled one." Renfield laughs looking at Lily.

Lily hovers over the casket to see a corpse, she then looks around at everyone looking at it. Lily looks back to the rock and shakes her head slightly to signal it wasn't there.

They nod and slowly walk back to another direction, their faces were saying they would help her but she knew Rafe could be cable of anything.