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014. man to man introduction

ROSE NOW HAS RAFE playing tour guide and helper for Owen as he's another guest staying over in the Cameron residence. Rafe has an important job of introducing Owen to everything about Outer Banks since it's time he'd learn about where Tatum is from now that they're going to get married soon.

All of this is happening while Tatum and Sarah go out for a girls day. Rafe is the first to walk up the stairs while Owen follows up behind him. He takes the New Yorker to his bedroom.

"Welcome to my bedroom, sorry for the slight mess, we weren't expecting any guests." Rafe leaves the door open behind him, leading Owen inside.

Owen takes a good look around, nodding his head at how beautifully furnished it is. It's big and very spacious. The room is filled with different shades of blue and grey with big windows shining enough light in.

"It's no problem at all and sorry for the short notice. It was a very impulsive decision to come out here to see where Tatum's from." Owen chuckles, trying to brighten the vibe between them.

"Do you know anything about the Outer Banks?" Rafe looks over his shoulder, arching an eyebrows. He figures it's a good idea to test the guy.

"Uhh, not that much. Tatum doesn't really bring her past up, she's more of a future type girl." Owen pouts his lips, blowing out air. "Yeah, but it's never too late to learn about her hometown."

"Mhm." Rafe hums, listening to him speak. "Feel free to look around even though there's not much. I'm gonna try to see if there's any clean towels I can lend you." He makes his way into his walk-in closet.

"Cool, thanks. Hey, you have a really nice room. The architecture in here is insane." Owen does his best to get on his good side as Rafe seems the type to be hard to open up to.

"Thanks, it's all on Tate's mom, Aunty Kel." Rafe shouts Kelly out for her beautiful work and design of the place. "She designed it back with my mother."

"So you and Tate are...?" Owen trials off his sentence, waiting for Rafe to finish his sentence. "Cousins." Rafe says the last part which is a total lie. But what else is he supposed to tell Owen? That they're actually a divorced couple who dated too young with a couple of regrets.

"Hmm," he nods his head. And your mother—oh, Rose is her name, if I'm right?" Owen raises his eyebrows.

Rafe makes a face as he's rummaging through his closet, but it's a good thing that Owen can't see it. "She's my step-mom. My biological mom died when I was younger." He corrects him.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Owen grows a small hole inside him after hearing the new fact about the guy. "Don't worry about it, dude. You didn't know, it's all good." Rafe chuckles, peeking his head through the door frame.

"I can't find any towels in here, Rose must've went through my closet again. I'll be back in a bit." Rafe excuses himself to try find towels somewhere else around the house, leaving Owen in his bedroom all by himself.

"No problem." Owen takes a step back to give him some room to pass by.

When Rafe leaves his bedroom, Owen takes around look around. Finding framed pictures on his wall and little trinkets the Cameron boy has collected over the years. A couple of trophies on some of the shelves. Football trophies. No wonder why he's such a built person.

An enclosed drawer on Rafe's desk catches Owen's eyes. More of an old photograph that catches his eyes inside the drawer. Owen looks back at the door, waiting to see if Rafe is coming back or not. When he doesn't hear a sign of Rafe nearby, Owen looks back inside the drawer, opening it more wide.

There reveals an old folded up photograph of Tatum. A much younger photograph to which looks like was taken back when she was in high school. She's smiling, scrunching her nose. Owen furrows his eyebrows, confused as to why Rafe would have this photograph of Tatum.