This is Me Trying ⭑ Rafe Cameron

seventy one

CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE
[71]
song: seein' stars by turnstile

"Do you have anything else besides protein powder?" Sarah asks, as she rummaged through the kitchen cabinets.

"Sorry, didn't have any time to buy groceries for you." Rafe responds sarcastically as he moves around her to grab a glass off the top shelf. "Why don't you go do that?"

"Do what?" Sarah responds, as John B stepped over to her and handed her a mug full of coffee.

"Go to the grocery store." Rafe shoos her away as he fills his glass with water from the fridge.

John B dodged Rafe as he turned back around, nearly dropping the pot of coffee in his hand. "My bad." John B said, walking over to where Cassie sat at the counter and topping off her mug.

Rafe sends Cassie a look that read as 'I'm not having a very good time', and she responded with a forced smile.

"How did you sleep?" Cassie asks John B, as poured the last of the coffee into her mug.

"Fine," John B says as he turns to look at Sarah. "You?"

"That's definitely not a sleeping couch." She groans as she stretched.

Rafe dodged her stretching hand as he moved past her toward the pantry. "Maybe you can go get a job and buy an air mattress with your first paycheck." He mutters, eyes scanning the very little food he had stacked neatly on his pantry shelves. "Or better yet, an apartment."

"Good luck with that." Cassie shook her head. "No one's really too eager to hire the Pogues who helped destroy their beloved downtown."

"We didn't do anything?" Sarah shook her head concernedly. "Actually, we tried to stop that from happening?"

"Yeah, well," Cassie took a sip of coffee, "the actual person at blame is dead, so they're going for the next best thing."

Rafe poked his head back out of the pantry and looked at Cassie, the kitchen fell a little quiet.

"Well we should at least try." John B looks at Sarah with a hopeful shrug. "Maybe I can go back to detailing cars."

"Yeah." Sarah scratched the top of her head, and the other hand rested mindlessly on her belly.

Rafe grabbed a protein bar and handed it to Sarah before walking past her and over to Cassie. "I'm gonna talk to Shoupe today."

"Shoupe?" John B narrowed his eyebrows at him. "What for?"

Rafe turned and looked at him, offended John B answered when he was speaking only to Cassie. He frowned, then nodded, "Uh, maybe 'cause Groff is still walking around with all of my money and I've heard jack shit about anyone trying to do anything to get it back?"

John B and Sarah glanced at each other, shrugging slightly. "Well, we were gonna sit down with Pope today and figure something out, but he just got sentenced to 30 days in jail, so, put a little stint in our plans." He points at Cassie. "By the way, where were you?"

She rubbed her eyes and shook her head. "Sorry, sorry. I got hung up down in the Cut. Did a whole job interview and then they told me they weren't interested."