PROMISE-ME ☼ outerbanks

chapter 15

I was about to knock on the Cameron's door when it was pulled open, "Oh hi" I said, looking down at a brunette girl with glasses, "you must be Wheezie" I smiled. "And you must be Chloe, Rafe's girlfriend" she spoke, "don't worry, I like you...from everything that Rafe tells me" she nodded, letting me in the house. "How is he? He's been living with you" She asked, sitting down in the kitchen.

"He's good, he really misses you" I said, trying to be nice, "I miss him too, even though he's an ass" I laughed. Couldn't help but to agree with her.

"He's cleaned up his act though, he's not the same Rafe" I spoke, looking at her smile and nod.

Wheezie and I had a short heart to heart conversation about Rafe and I. She seemed nice and accepting of it, unlike most, it was nice to have someone else a part of his family like me for me.

I didn't know what I was supposed to be looking for, nothing seemed out of the ordinary to me. In all honesty, talking to Rafe's sister caught me off guard and I no longer seemed interested in snooping around.

"We're like the black sheep of the family, Dad only cares for Sarah, the princess" she rolled her eyes, "I doubt he see you and Rafe that way, I think that he just sees Sarah as someone who obeys him and let's him be the controlling authority. You and Rafe are the ones who test his patience and go against him" I smiled, nudging her shoulder. I felt bad for her and Rafe, their dad was a dick and a psycho. I didn't bring that up to her because she was just a kid and she had a 'big-mouth' from what Rafe told me.

A sudden wave a nausea hit me, "can I use your bathroom?" I asked and quickly ran towards Rafe's room, well old room. I emptied my stomach as soon as I reached the toilet, "ugh what the hell" I groaned, staring at the ceiling. "Chloe?" I heard Wheezie's voice from the room, "Sorry, I wasn't feeling good" I told her, "maybe your sick, I can tell Rose and we can take you to a doctor" She looked at me sympathetically, "No it's fine, It might just be a stomach bug" I reassured her.

I was leaving to go back to mine, hopefully everyone would be back from the plane and had got the gold before lift off. Wheezie gave me a hug bye and handed me a walmart bag with a box inside. "Wait til you get home" she said, "thanks" I said, kinda awkwardly since I didn't know what she was talking about.

"No fucking way" my mouth hung open as I stared at JJ and Pope. "He fucking framed John B??" I said again louder, the guys all nodded.

After John B had stopped Ward from leaving with Sarah, Sheriff Peterkin had caught Ward and somehow he had a gun, no one was are of and he shot Peterkin. Then he had called in that it was John B. "What a bitch" I couldn't believe it, "so what now we kill him? I'm down for that" I said, "no Chlo, as much as we want to..we can't" Pope said, "So what now? he just stays hidden, on the run forever?" I respond, "no we're gonna help him escape, get him the hell out of dodge and to safety" JJ spoke, "The Phantom will give us that help" "your Dad's boat?" I asked, making him nod his head.

John B was on the run and now it was up to me to keep everyone away from him. I was the distraction of the operation.

{ the next morning }

"Chloe" I stirred away, groaning as my hand hit something hard. I woke up seeing my nightstand, "Hey Chlo" Rafe stood at the doorway, "hi" I sat up, rubbing my eyes. "You okay? Wheeze said you threw up" "yeah, all day I felt so sick yesterday, I don't know maybe a stomach bug?" I said, he laid down next to me, pecking my lips. "You wanna go to the doctor?" he mumbled against my neck, "no" I yawned, "I think i'll be fine, not life threatening" I joked.

The entire day, I had no motivation. My entire body hurt and I was so exhausted, from doing what? I'm not sure, nothing at all.

I literally slept through the whole day, Rafe stayed in the room with me just in case. I woke up around two in the afternoon, eating some lunch Rafe had made us.

"You feeling any better?" he said, hugging my waist as we laid on the couch. "yea baby, eating something helped..and the sprite" I replied, kissing his head. We cuddled for a few hours and napped, the tv woke us up as a loud ass commercial came on. I stirred away, pulling up my hoodie, because it was hot as fuck now.

"you down for swimming?" I asked, running up to him while he was looking for some clothes. "It's like nine at night" he chuckled, pulling me into him, "I know but it'd be fun" I mumbled into his chest, "...plus it's somewhere else" I smiled up at him, then pressing a kiss to his lips.

"Where are we going?" he questioned as he sat in the passenger seat of his truck. Rafe had FINALLY let me drive his truck, after me asking every time we go out. "Chloe, watch the tree!" he shouted, grabbing the steering wheel and turning it slightly to the left, "whoopsie" I giggled, pulling it in park and jumping out his truck.

"give me a damn heart attack" he laughed, "it kinda scared me too" I laughed, pulling his hand towards the direction of the hot tub. "A hot tub?" he said, looking around at the lights and bubbles that displayed in front of us.

"JJ got it for the group, bless his heart...there's not here sooo let's have fun" I said, pulling my top off and bottoms. Rafe's eyes never left my body, "damn did you get hotter?" he drooled, "close your mouth, you'll catch flies" I teased him, stepping into the tub. He followed in after me, "this feels nice" I relaxed as the water made my body less sore.

"No way, our kids are gonna like me more" he laughed, disagreeing with me saying they would like me better. "Hell no" I shook my head, splashing him with the water, "I'm going to carry them, give birth to them, and they'll you'll end up the favorite?" "one of us will be the favorite for each kid" he shrugged, "I want like three" I said, "whatever you want" he smiled, pulling me into a kiss.

"HEY!" we heard a slurred yell call out, both our heads turning in the direction of JJ's dad.

"What're you doing? trespassing on my property" he said, wobbling over to us. "Sorry Mr. Maybank, we'll leave" I spoke up, "you're damn right" he mumbled. Rafe helped me out as we grabbed a towel.

"how dare you be with a kook, Chloe. Didn't that dad of yours teach you anything, they're the enemy here" he babbled on, "you have no say in talking about my dad when you can't even be one to your son" I snapped at him, Rafe pulling my arm. "What did you say?" JJ's dad started to step closer to us, "you're not a dad to JJ, you literally are a scum piece of shit and-" "Chloe, lets go" Rafe cut me off, taking our stuff and pulling me along with him, "JJ deserves better than you, you asshole" I yelled out,

"Chloe what the fuck" Rafe said as we got into the truck, him driving this time. Knowing damn well if I asked he'd say no now. "What" I mumbled, "he was drunk Chlo, and you were egging him on. If he had snapped at you or put his hands on you, I would've had to beat his ass" he said, looking at me. "I'm sorry but he deserves it, for JJ" I whispered, my thoughts going to all the times JJ got beaten and the first night with the hot tub.

I wiped a few tears as Rafe drove back to mine, I sniffled. His hand on my thigh squeezing a bit, "hey what's wrong" he said looking at me then back to the road. "I'm sad, I should've been there for them. Now look, John B is framed for killing sheriff Peterkin and I'm being no help to help him free his name. Like what the fuck" I said, by now we were at my house.

"Chlo" he sighed, "for one, you were sick and didn't need to help anyone but yourself the past two days, and two, you are helping I know I have no say bc Ward's my dad and I know what he could do...you're helping them by being out of the eyes of others..you know stuff and they're protecting you from anything happening to another one of their friends."

I knew that to some extent he was right, I needed to find them before John B left and be there for them in person.

We walked to the hammock, laying down and listening to the crickets around us. "I love you" I mumbled into his chest, "I love you forever and always" he replied, kissing my head.

authors note;

thank you guys for 4k reads! hope you guys are enjoying this. I decided to change up a bit of the original story line, we keeping Rafe unproblematic for once hehe. Sorry for any errors, I was lazy to go back and fix them.
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