Lillian Bianca Jones and Rafe Cameron have been enemies for as long as they can remember, but when the tide switches, things change. The waves take the past with them delicately. Will it be brought back to land? There are uncertainties in the ocean...
Listen to All Too Well (10 Minute version) by Taylor Swift while reading this!!
Sorry for changing povs so often in this chapter but I love writing from both of their perspectives
"Listen, Lillian, I know you hate me and you have so many reasons for that but just for this week can we be civil? For Ella's sake," Rafe said to me and I thought about his proposal. He was right, our bickering would only make Ella upset and this was supposed to be an experience that she'd remember forever. I felt bad for Rafe and had so many things to say to him.
That I was proud of him for getting so far in the scholarship competition, that he was going to be okay, and that things with his dad would settle down. I wanted to tell him that his dad didn't deserve him and that if Ward wouldn't come around it would only be his own loss. But then all the memories of what Rafe had done to me came back and I realized that Rafe didn't deserve all the things I could say to comfort him and that he'd thrown that away with his own hands.
Regardless I recognized that I had to put Ella before anything else, as this was my job and duty for these next few days. "Fine," I said quickly standing up from the bed and going inside the room's bathroom, just to be somewhere away from Rafe.
I had to tell myself how to act around him, I couldn't hug him and act like I did when we were together just because he was hurting. Although that hug felt so fucking right, it felt like even for only a few seconds, everything in the world had stopped and everything re-aligned perfectly. I wish it could've been like this forever, but there was no point in dwelling on what was or could've been. Rafe and I didn't work, and that was it, no matter how wrong it could've felt.
I left the bathroom and decided that before Ella finished her workshop I could read a little on the balcony of our room, that way I wouldn't be locked in a bathroom but still away from Rafe. I walked over to where I placed my bag and took out the book Pope gave me for my birthday, which I started reading two days prior and had already gotten halfway through. I could feel Rafe's stare as I moved around the room to get my AirPods and my phone, so that I could listen to music while I read.
I found them and quickly walked to the balcony, the cruise had left the port about an hour ago so we were far away from any land, it was just plain old ocean, and it was beautiful to say the very least. I inhaled the salt air and breathed, thinking back to all the memories Rafe and I shared with this similar view, from the Druthers, but I quickly kicked those memories out of my head, reminding myself that I had to focus on the future.
About an hour had passed and I decided to put my book down and focus more on the view. Rafe walked in the balcony looking down at me before directing his gaze to the ocean, "I'm going to pick up Ella from the workshop, you should start getting ready for dinner," he said and I nodded as a response. I rolled my eyes at him telling me what to do but I guess he was right, so I left the balcony and started rummaging through my clothes as he left the room.
Since the restaurant where we were going was pretty fancy I decided on wearing a long blue dress with a slit down the middle, I paired it with a gold bag, gold heels, and gold jewelry, along with the necklace that I had gotten.
Lillian's Outfit:
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