[1] Good Trouble - JJ Maybank - Rafe Cameron - (An Outer Banks AU)

Chapter 3

THE THORNTON RESIDENCE

Violet came home to a house blaring with music and red solo cups everywhere. There was people she knew and people she didn't know making a mess. It was just another one of Topper's parties. To think he's stop throwing parties to try to get their father's attention- since he left the family. It felt strange to her that she would be in the same class as him this fall, he was only older than her by a year but treated her like she was a toddler.

"You know I hate when you gel your hair down." Violet says, seeing Rafe snort a questionable substance at the table. She knew he wasn't good for her, but she didn't want him going down the same path she did,. They've always had a flirty past, but haven't gotten past anything except flirting and the occasional make out sesh.

"Come here and fix it then." He says, flirting with Violet. She goes over and sits on his lap, playing with his hair and messing it up just the way she likes it.

"There. All better." Violet says, turning his hair from preppy rich boy to surfer boy. Hair can make or break someone.

"I missed you. Why'd you have to leave?" He asks, his speech slurred. Violet knew he was out of his mind right now so she didn't bother to care about what he said. She knew if he kept going down this path, he would either forced to go to rehab or end up dead.

"Wanna go to my room? Looks like you can take a break from all of this." Violet suggests, playing with his hair.

"Hell yeah baby." Rafe says. Violet helps get him up off the chair and up the stairs. It was like babysitting a sixteen year old boy. 

They finally manage to get into her room, where she threw him on the side of her bed and tucked him in like a child.

"Come here." He says with his eyes closed.

"Why?" Violet asks. She felt like she was on babysitting duty, she wasn't wrong.

"I wanna cuddle." Rafe says, normal Rafe would never say that.

Violet sighs. He clearly had some mommy issues. She put his head on her lap and stayed there while he fell asleep, playing with his hair. Once he was knocked out for good, Violet left the room. The party was slowly dying down and people were all leaving sooner or later. She looked for Topper, who was clearly in a bad mood about something.

"Hey, Rafe's knocked out in my room. So if you wanna drag him home, be my guest." Violet says to Topper in a relaxed voice.

"V? When did you get back? Why didn't you tell me I would've clea-" Topper says.

"T you know you don't have to treat me like I'm some fragile piece of glass right? I'm sick of it." Violet says, sticking up for herself. Ever since she overdosed everyone tip toed around her like she was going to break down any moment. And she was sick of it. She just wanted to be normal again.