WILD RIDE (Rafe Cameron x OC) *COMPLETE*

Chapter Forty (Alana)

CHAPTER FORTY

Alana

"Wait, so he sent you 911 and then just never replied?" Sarah says as she sits on my bed in my bedroom back at The Chateau. Rafe already texted me and I apologized in advance for having to send a sexy picture in front of her to her own brother.

"Typical JJ, right? I shouldn't have dropped what I was doing for him. I was stupid to think he was ready to move on and try to be friends again." I admit to her.

My mind is blown when I hear the stairs creaking and I see JJ walk into the doorway of my bedroom. He knocks on the frame and gives Sarah a look. She looks at her phone and clears her throat. "I have to get ready anyways. I'm meeting Wheezie in an hour."

"Good luck." I tell her hopeful. "If she doesn't show up let me know and maybe I can talk to her for you."

"I'll let you know." Sarah blows me a kiss before tapping JJ on the chest and heading out.

JJ huffs a breath and nods to me. I point to the bed and motion for him to sit down. He comes and sits and doesn't look at me. He looks out the window and watches as Sarah leaves on the boat.

"What was the text for?"

"Do you want to break John B out of jail?" He says. "Cause I've got a plan but I need some help. Can't do it alone or it'll fail."

"I'm not going to Shawshank Redemption my brother out of jail, JJ. You and I will be sitting in cells on either side of his if we do this." I roll my eyes and cross my arms.

JJ scoffs. "You haven't even heard my plan."

"Let me guess. We put on a disguise, break him out of his cell, give him cash and a boat and send him to Yucatan?"

Silence. "Not entirely.."

"JJ I can't do this. I really can't, my anxiety has been so bad lately I don't think I'd be able to do a damn thing to help. Plus... This isn't a movie; we can't just break him out and everything will be okay. You've got to be some sort of idiot to think it'll work."

"You're right. It's not a movie." He says as he goes for a duffel bag that he left in the hallway. "But hear me out... I've got my cousins ambulance and some uniforms. I told John B he needs to pretend like his appendix is about to burst-"

"He got his appendix out when he was seven."

"Does Shoupe know that? Does Plumb know that? No. Didn't think so. With that being said John B is going to pretend he needs to go to the hospital. When they call in ambo, I'll be there. You'll drive and I'll do all the work, okay? I just can't drive and treat a patient at the same time. Ambo's always go in pairs."

"And if we get caught?"

"We won't."

I click my tongue. "Why should I do anything for you? After everything you've put me through-"

"Me? You're the one who should be sorry and apologizing to me, Alana. You broke up with me. You chose Rafe Cameron over me. You went full Kook instead of staying a Pogue. This has nothing to do with my wrong doings. Which wasn't many. Oh, so what- I broke a bracelet and dropped your book in the water."

"Your father touched me and you still pushed me every single day to do more with you even though you knew it made me uncomfortable to even be touched." I swallow hard and my stomach wants to explode with everything I've put into it this entire week. "You never understood me, JJ. And I don't think you ever will."

JJ is silent and breathes in and out loudly a few times. He turns to me and blinks away the wetness in his eyes. "I'm sorry he did that and I... I should've understood better. Even now I can't bring myself to be anything but pissed off. At Dad, at you.. Especially at Rafe."

"Rafe did nothing-"

"Rafe is the reason we're going to break your brother out of jail. It should be Rafe sitting in there and you know that as well as I do, Alana. Just because you're in love with the kid doesn't mean you can ignore the fact that he pulled that trigger. Not once but twice.. Alana I am terrified for you."

"Don't be." I tell him quickly. "Let's just get the damn uniforms on and go."

Once we're in the ambulance I'm sitting passenger seat while JJ is in the driver's seat. We parked a few streets over from the police station so that we get the call first. JJ keeps checking the time on his phone and I adjust myself in the seat a few times.

"You good?" JJ says. "Anxious?"

"Yeah." I reach into my go-bag and grab a granola bar. "You want one?" I ask with a mouth full and JJ shakes his head. "You're missing out. It's the smores ones."

A chuckle from JJ Maybank and for a moment it's like he's my friend again. "Once John B is free we should have a big bonfire and make smores like we used to. I miss that shit."

My stomach ties into a knot. "And what happens after this? Where do we hide him? It'll be a manhunt all over again."

"We'll figure it out. I promise."

A cop pulls up on the side of us and JJ looks at me with wide eyes. "Act natural." He whispers as I take another chunk of the granola bar into my mouth.

The cop shuts his engine off and rolls his window down.

"Damn, I hate slow nights."

JJ peeks his head up and I try not to laugh. "Yeah... Sucks, doesn't it?"

"What happened to Ricky?" The cop asks. "He bang out?"

"Something like that." JJ mutters. "You know how he is. I mean.. I'm new but I've already learned from the others."

The cop laughs and JJ looks over at me. I kick my go-bag down further so the cop can't look in and see it. He's be suspicious if he saw what I had if I'm only supposed to be an EMT on call right now.

"Damn, you got a hot partner." The cop tries to be discrete when talking to JJ and I almost shrink back in the seat. "No wonder you two are parked off over here.. You know what, I'm going to leave you two be. Enjoy your night. Tell Ricky I said hey."

"Will do, Officer." JJ salutes him and then we watch as the cop drives off.

Laughter erupts from both of us and I nearly choke on my granola bar. I take a sip of water and lean back. Adjusting myself in the seat again. "This seatbelt is irritating me so bad."

"So take it off."

"With you driving this thing? Yeah no, I actually value my life and would like to get home to my husband tonight. Thanks."

JJ's face falls. "H-Huh? Husband?"

"Oh. Right... I may have left out that minor detail. Rafe and I got married today. Signed off on a page of an old book that I had on my bookshelf. Cute right?"

"That's not really getting married-"

"We said our vows. We kissed. We..." I pause and take another sip of water. "Anyways... It's real. It's real because that's what we declared it to be. We're married, JJ. Rafe and I are married. I'm officially a Cameron now."

The radio comes in to the KC Detention and JJ and I know that's our cue. He takes the call and we pull up to the jail. I move to the driver's seat and JJ goes to the back of the rig to load in who we thought was going to be my brother.

Before we can get caught we take off with the rig. Leaving the patient behind meaning we're also leaving John B behind too. We end up dumping the rig on the side of the road and Kie picks us up. She's pissed about having to pick me up too so the ride is like sitting on a bed of nails. All the nails that have been put into my coffin at this point.