𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡, obx

09 ... when the days go dark

john b was in nalani's house. he was living there and that made her mad. he betrayed her and nothing happened, he just got to come into where she lived. she would have to see his face a lot more than she would like to at the moment.

the craziest part was that it was ward's idea. ward would never let topper or any other of sarah's boyfriends into the house, especially not let them live there.

she was also mad at sarah. sarah was a leech who took everything nalani ever had and soaked it right up into her bubble of selfishness. now she had taken john b, too.

"i just...i hate her so much!" nalani complained to rafe, pacing back and forth in his bedroom. "she gets everything she wants and now she has to steal another thing from me? i hate her, rafe. like i never wanna see her face again type of hate."

"bit dramatic, don't ya think?" rafe chuckled, running a hand through his hair.

"no, i don't think it is!" she huffed, jumping down onto her bed. she crackled her knuckles loudly, "it's so unfair, rafe."

"look, i've been living with sarah for three more years than you have." he readjusted so he was facing his little sister, shrugging his shoulders. "that's just what she does, okay? gotta get used to it."

"you're no help." nalani got up off the bed, and walked towards the door.

she decided she was going to find oscar. he would be the type of person who would agree with her and let her be angry about this. she wondered if he even knew they were basically dating now since he wasn't at the hawk's nest last night, she hoped he didn't know so then they could be mad together.

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"he's dating sarah?" oscar exclaimed, cleaning up stuff from his kitchen table. nalani's chest started to hurt every time she looked at his face, so she tried to avoid it as much as she could.

"i mean, not officially." she whispered, playing with her hands. "but sarah kissed him at the hawk's nest yesterday. he promised me that he wouldn't talk to her after getting the maps but yet," she clapped her hands together, "they're macking on each other!"

"i guess! he probably didn't intend to hurt you, lani." he sat down on the sofa next to her, placing an old white mug on the coffee table.

nalani scoffed, "he knew what he was doing, he was acting suspicious all day and wouldn't tell me what was going on. you know why he was doing that, oscar? because he knew i would get pissed!"

"so he's like....living in your house?" oscar raised his eyebrows, "with the same rafe who's friends with topper, who tried to drown him?"

"there's a magnitude of reasons why this was a bad idea." she sighed, sinking into the sofa. everything was collapsing around her and she had no way of making it stop. it felt like she didn't know who anyone was anymore.

he rose from the couch, helping her up off of it. "the best way to figure stuff out is to talk it out."

"what does that even mean?" she released her grip on his hand, heading towards the door. "is that one of jj's bullshit sayings?"

"no." oscar shook his head, "it means if you talk to john b and, maybe, sarah you'll understand why they did what they did."

"first of all, no." nalani deadpanned, opening the door and walking out with oscar. "second, that was corny."

"yeah, it was." he sighed, jumping down the steps. "but i did tell jj i'd go and meet him at the chateau so please don't make me go alone."

"i hate it here." she groaned in a joking way.