Dark Clouds || Rafe Cameron || OBX

𝟛𝟝. Friends or strangers?

     VALERIES HEART POUNDED against her chest, she had no clue what they were getting themselves into. Would Rafe know she helped them? Would he leave her? She began to grow worried at the thought of loosing the love of her life. Rafe was the love of her life, and there was nothing that could change it. Unless, he'd take up a switch just like Kelce.

"Val, you good?" JJ spoke up next to her. His hand found its way on her shoulder, causing her to turn her head around to him. She sent him a small reassuring smile. "Yeah, I'm fine." Lie.

She was honestly scared as shit. Her growing thoughts evaporated once she saw Pope's figure climbing onto one of the trains. "Is that him?" Valerie squinted her eyes. The pogues next to her turned their heads and leaned forward to try and get a better view. The small light in his flashlight lit up and he began to shake it in their direction, trying to get their attention. JJ quickly took notice and pointed both his thumbs up.

"That's it, we're green." Kie breathed out. Just as her sentence finished, it was quickly replaced by the sound of a train horn blaring. "What's happening?" Kie panicked.

"Trains moving. We need to go!" Valerie panicked. All of them made their way down the train they stood on. Valerie and Sarah went over to Topper, to found out if he had the cables they needed in order to stop the train.

"Oh, hey Sarah, Val." He breathed out, it was clear that he was anxious.

"Do you have jumper cables in there?" Sarah cut right to the point.

"Here I am involved in illegal activities." He whispered.

"Not that illegal." Sarah shrugged.

"I'm not even close to being okay with this!" Topper threw his arms around.

"Top's, quit being a baby, alright?" Valerie patted him on the shoulder.

"Jumper cables? What are we doing?" He stuttered.

"Topper." Sarah looked over at him. "If you don't wanna go, it's fine. We'll take the truck." She spoke calmly, as if she's done this a thousand times.

"The truck?" He watched as she moved passed him. "Hey, I just wanna make sure everyone here is okay with ending up in federal prison." He asked the group preparing the cables.

"Uh, if it gets to that, yeah, I'll do it for Pope." JJ argued. All topper did was sigh and get in the truck. Valerie and Sarah followed him while JJ and Kiara got on the bike. JJ began to drive off and luckily, Topper followed him without hesitation.

*

Valerie waited in the car with Sarah and Topper. They finally got a text from kie to drive up to the train. "Where the hell are we Sarah?" Topper sighed.

"Right here." She said, opening the door and waiting for Topper to press the brakes. Both of the girls left the car and made their way to Pope who waved them over.

"How's it looking?" Sarah asked, holding onto the train.

"Still searching." Cleo spoke frustratedly. She helped the two girls up onto the train so that there would be more eyes on the prize. Topper pulled his car over just in front of the box they were inside.

"You see it?" Pope asked, flashing his flashlight over the wooden boxes. "This one says Cameron Developments!"

"This is it!" Pope smiled. "This is the cross! This is it!" He slapped the box in excitement.