Passion and Pain | rafe cameron

chapter ten

jj walks out of his house stone cold with the phantom keys in his left hand. 

his dad has always beat on him growing up, especially last week when jj got arrested for sinking topper's malibu when it was actually pope. jj still had the lingering bruises from his father which is why he didn't mind the idea of stealing the phantom. 

he hops in the passenger seat of kie's car and we drive down the road to the boat shack where the phantom rests. 

jj jumps onto the back of the boat, checking the gas and cheering when he finds out its a full tank. all he can talk about is how no one could possibly catch up to anyone driving this boat. it was the best boat in history blah blah blah. 

kie and pope get out of the car as well and laugh at jj for his intense interest in the phantom. 

i get into the driver seat of the car. kie stands on the driver side so i can see her out of the mirror while i back it up until the hitch is perfectly aligned with that of the boat. she walks up to the window of the car that was rolled down and gives me a fist pump.

all at once, we hear pope's muffled yelling. i look at the passenger side mirror and barry is there with his left hand covering pope's mouth and the other with a gun pressed into his neck. as fast as i can, i jump out of the car and see rafe on the back side of the boat pressing jj against the wall. jj is fighting as much as he can but rafe calmly is holding him down. rafe and barry are looking the opposite way of kie and i. neither of them realize we are there and i make eye contact with kie and nod running up to barry and jumping on his back attempting to loosen his grip on pope. rafe whips around hearing the commotion of us fighting barry. kie and i overwhelming barry causes pope to get loose and the gun gets thrown onto the hard concrete ground. 

rafe remains holding jj to the wall seemingly having faith that barry could get rid of the three of us. barry manages to throw kie and pope onto the ground with them crawling across the floor farther away from him. i'm the only one left to fight him. 

i throw the first punch. growing up with basically two brothers, john b and jj, i had fought a boy once or twice. but i had not fought with them this aggressively since we have gotten older. i would have lost every time. i hit barry hard in the side of the face as a smirk grows. he steps back and begins to run towards me as rafe is suddenly there ripping onto the back of his shirt pulling him in the opposite direction of me and ultimately throwing him into the corner where the wall meets the hard floor.

rafe let go of jj to defend me who is now loose and running towards kie and pope as they slowly get off the ground.

seeing rafe makes me my stomach flip. he murdered peterkin and his family is now framing my brother. he has yet to make eye contact with me as he quickly turns around and picks barry off of the ground and tells him to leave. barry immediately gets up and runs towards the road to get his dirtbike. the other three pogues run after barry leaving rafe and i alone. 

he walks towards me. "don't get any fucking closer", i manage to say. he stops immediately. my heart is racing. his presence makes me nervous. "you are ruining my family rafe". 

he responds, "alex, i had to do all this to protect my father. you have to understand".

his eyes looked soft and understanding. he looked like he truly believed what he was saying. 

"rafe you can't just murder people", my voice is getting uncontrollably loud. "you're ruining my brothers life just to save yourself, you coward". i'm practically screaming at this point. tears flowing from my eyes. i aggressively wipe them away and turn around so he doesn't see how emotional this makes me. rafe has never liked my brother, let alone any of the pogues so it shouldn't be so surprising that he couldn't care less about giving him the blame.