Golden | Rafe Cameron |

9. In the bathroom

Rafes pov:

We could hear the muffled sound of loud music and shatter coming from the party, our breathing being the only sounds coming from inside the bathroom.

I walk towards Aurora showing her my phone screen and the timer I just set, my body sinking down slowly next to hers, as I feel how tense she's become.

"You good?" I ask her a little concerned, I mean I knew she was scared of the dark but it's not like I wanted her to panic right now.

"Hm." She replies shortly and i nod into the dark as if she could see me.

I lean back onto the edge of the bathtub and let out a deep sigh.

"You- uh, you can just tell me in case it gets too much, I don't want you to like freak out or anything, alright?" I mutter at her.

"Yeah.." she trails off taking a couple of deep breaths.

My eyes have started to adjust to the dark and I can somewhat recognize the outline of her person.

My body is slightly turned towards her and I reach my arm outward, thinking that maybe if she grabs hold of it it'll be better for her, like it was on the walk.

"What's that?" She asks, her fingers slowly discovering my arm.

"My arm." I reply blantantly. She scoffs a little, "yeah but why?" I feel a little stupid about it now but reply to her anyway.

"For you- to uh hold I guess. I mean if you need it anyway." I explain and just before I'm about to pull my arm back again I feel her fingers grab hold of me and twirl around it.

"Since when are you so nice?" She asks me, I can hear the smile in her tone. I laugh a little at that. 

"I don't know, maybe I was never really that bad." I tell her and she scoffs at me.

"You know you were." She says and I have to laugh a little with her. "I mean you pogues have your ways of getting on one's nerves."

"Oh yeah like you kooks don't.." she mumbles, the tone in her voice suggesting that she's doing fine so far.

Silence falls over us and for a moment I question my actions. Why did I even challenge her to do this with me? I'm sitting in a dark bathroom at my own party with Aurora Marriott... and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

"Tell me something nobody else knows." She says into the dark and I draw my eyebrows together in confusion.

I try to look at her but quickly realize that there is no point in that, due to the dark.

"Why would I do that?" I ask into the room and I can feel her shrug her shoulders since our arms are touching.

"Because we're stuck here, in a dark room and you're not supposed to be boring." She replies casually and I scoff.

"You start then." I demand and she sighs. "Fine." She says, another silence falling over us until she speaks up again.

"Sometimes...when things around me get too much I...I feel like packing my stuff and just running away, just leave everything behind me." Aurora stops for a moment, and I'm a little taken back by her honesty.