you got yourself a bad habit for it [rafe cameron x kiara carrera]

"My parents are happy I'm friends with Sarah," she dips her hand back in, grazing the surface of the water, "they think she's a positive influence. She'll make me more of a Kook."

It doesn't slip past him the way Kook is said with scorn.

"You say that like it's a death sentence," Rafe's eyes closes and he tilts his head back to rest on the bricks.

"Take a look around Rafe, that's exactly what it is."

He exhales the smoke in his lungs, "So you'd rather run away and hide?"

"Isn't that exactly what you're doing as well?"

or: Kiara Carrera acts out during her Kook Year and Rafe Cameron happens to be in her direct line of fire. She doesn't even want to think about the consequences of this, not yet.