Harmful Love || English

3. I hit you like "bang"

I hit you like, "Bang"
We tried to forget it,
but we just couldn't

Taylor Swift, end game

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After what happened at the party I left and luckily found John B's house and asked him if I could stay there that night.

I didn't sleep at all, I couldn't rest easy with the thought that maybe at that very moment Rafe was planning how to take me out.

I would not go to Sarah's house for at least two weeks until Rafe calmed down.

"Good morning," I exclaim as I sit down in the small table with my friends. Only JJ and Pope are there, Kie has gone to talk to her parents, and John B has been gone since this morning. We arranged to meet in the Wreck for something to eat.

"Where did you go last night? We couldn't find you anymore," said JJ eating a brioche kindly offered by Kie's parents.

"Um...I went around a bit," I remain vague. I certainly won't tell them I was at a Kooks party.

"Look there's Rafe and Topper," exclaims JJ looking at them angrily.

"Rumor has it that last night at a lame Kooks party a girl threw something to drink in his face. I wish I could have seen that," JJ continues.

That girl happens to be me, I didn't think the news would spread so fast....

They are both behind my back and I make myself even smaller in my seat.

"Serves him right after what he did to me," Pope exclaims harshly, continuing to stare at him.

Now that I look at him better his eye is black and swollen, someone must have beaten him up.... Don't tell me

"Rafe attacked you?" I yell connecting the dots.

I draw a little too much attention, good thing the subjects in question didn't hear me.

They are sitting right in the table behind ours.

"Keep your voice down, no one needs to know."

"Why didn't you report them?" I say in a whisper.

The situation is absurd, Rafe hates the Pogues so much that he attacks them.

"We are Pogues, the police would never believe us," JJ explains to me.

"I would love to smash their faces in," Pope exclaims full of rage. They must have really pissed him off, I've never seen him like that.

"Pope take it easy, we've already had our revenge," says JJ stopping Pope from the urge to go to him and punch him in the face.

"Yes, but that's not enough."

"Revenge? What have you done?"

"We sunk Topper's parents' ship and now he's pissed off, he suspects we did it."

What a mess, and it's only my second day.

I turn my head slightly and read a sign beside the entrance to the restaurant door, "Staff wanted."

I jerk my head up, making my chair screech. All eyes are on me, even Rafe and Topper's. I go straight behind the counter, playing dumb.

"Do you need a waitress? I can do that," I exclaim to Kiara's parents, the owners.

They, a little confused, nod, giving me an apron.

I have found my first job!

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