Chapter 4: The Pantry

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After the group finished up golfing, the Cameron siblings and Tayla went back to Tannyhill. Right when they come through the front door Wheezie runs down and hugs the girls. "Wow, I see how it is Wheeze" Rafe nods, his face shows that he's kind of hurt. As much as he teases Wheezie, he does care about his little sister and what she thinks of him... a little bit.

Wheezie laughs a little bit and gives her brother a fist bump. Tayla tries to hold in her laugh "Aw sibling love" she messes with both their hair. As much as Sarah wanted to stay in the moment, she couldn't stop thinking about what happened at the country club.

"Hey Rafe, I need to talk to you" before he can even respond Sarah walks to his room. Rafe makes a confused face and hesitantly walks to follow his sister. Wheezie and Tayla look at each other and laugh. Both girls go outside to find Ward and Rose having dinner with family friends.

Rafe walks into his room and finds Sarah looking out the window dramatically with her arms crossed. "What's wrong Sarah" he says in an impatient tone. 

"I don't even know how to say this" Sarah turned to her brother "Are you and Tayla hooking up or something?".

Caught with complete surprise, Rafe scoffs and puts his hand through his gelled hair "Are you kidding me right now?" he chuckles "Why would you even think that?". Sarah looks at him, more concerned than before because he answered her question with a question.

"The way you look at her lately and the way you were acting towards her during golf". 

Rafe shakes his head and chuckles more "So it's instantly my fault? I was just helping her". 

"I call bullshit Rafe" Sarah starts to talk with a more angry tone.

Rafe puts his hands up "You won't believe me either way so what does it matter". 

"She's my best friend and I don't want you messing her up with your stuff". 

Rafe was kind of hurt by his sister's words but just wanted the conversation to be done "You have nothing to worry about".

The two of them stand there in silence for a moment. "Can I have my room to myself? Please?" Rafe opens the door more, waiting for Sarah to go through. She rolls her eyes and walks out. He slams the door behind her, making her jump a little bit.

A few minutes later, Rafe's phone starts to ring. He sits up from his bed and sees the contact name, Kelce. He sighs and answers "What Kelce". 

"Wow, hi to you too. I was just wondering if you could give me Tayla's number". 

Rafe makes a disgusted face, his mind starts to imagine Kelce and Tayla hanging, just the two of them "Why do you need it?".

"I don't know if you're blind or something but your sister's best friend is hot as hell". 

Rafe closes his eyes in frustration "I don't think she's your type". 

"With that ass? She's everyone's type" he can hear him laughing at himself on the other side of the call.

Rafe clenches his jaw in anger just thinking about another guy gawking at Tayla and sexualizing her "Look, trust me on this one, she's not for you".

 "Fine, I'll just talk to Top" he hangs up, and Rafe slams his fist on his bedside table. "Fuck"

He didn't know why he was feeling this way but he knew that he did not want Kelce around Tayla like that. He took a deep breath and put his mind off it by going on his phone until he heard laughing from outside by the pool.

He looked out the window and saw Tayla messing around with Sarah and Wheezie as the adults were finishing up their dinner. Tayla picked up Wheezie, acting like she was going to throw her in the pool. She put her down and Wheezie started to chase her.

As he looked down, he couldn't help but genuinely smile, he had not done that in a while.

Ward catches his son peering through the window and waves to catch his attention. Rafe's smile fades, reverting back to his cold exterior, he goes outside to his father.

"Where have you been all day Rafe? You were supposed to get a new generator today and none has been ordered, I checked with the company" Ward stares his son down. 

"Shit Dad I'm sorry, I completely forgot" Rose and Ward's family friends look surprised at Rafe's word choice. 

Ward nods sarcastically "You forgot" he chuckles dryly.

"Dad, I'm sorry, okay?" Rafe actually starts to look upset knowing he failed his dad once again. 

"No, not okay Rafe. Keep it up and you can go live on the cut, your excuses don't work on me anymore" Ward raises his voice.

The girls stop playing around and turn to see what's going on. Rafe shakes his head and smiles it off. "Yes sir" he nods and walks off to the kitchen. Tayla looks at him walk away and Sarah notices.

"Go" Sarah pushes her forward. 

Tayla snaps out of thought "What?". 

Wheezie looks at both of them and giggles "Go sit in a tree and kiss him to make him feel better".

Tayla shakes her head at the girl's immature joke. Ignoring Wheezie's kissing noises, Sarah looks at her seriously "I know you want to talk to him so go". 

"Pfft- No I don't- okay fine" she walks to the kitchen as the two girls laugh.

As she reaches the kitchen she finds the tall boy searching through the pantry. She thought that she heard a sniffle come from him but it could have just been from the rummaging of all the chip bags he was going through.

"Rafe?" Tayla says softly, she knew he always hated disappointing his father. 

"What Tayla, what could you possibly need right now" taking his anger with himself out through his voice.

Without saying anything she walks over to him and hugs him from behind. Not in a romantic way but in a supportive way. It's not what she needed but what he needed.

As she held him tightly, he exhaled deeply and started silently crying.


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