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cruel summer | r.c | part eleven

synopsis: after she had been left heartbroken by jj maybank, y/n had felt herself feeling withdrawn from everything around her, it seemed that nothing could make her feel better, except for maybe her best friend sarah’s older brother, rafe cameron. the two had a rivalry that began before either of them could remember but after her heart was broken y/n found herself enjoying rafe’s presence more and more, maybe he wasn’t who she thought he was.

rafe cameron x desi!reader

part eleven: on my way to buy some flowers for you

word count: 5.0k

a/n: hiiiii guysss!!!! omg last hslot show was this past weekend and i can’t even lie i cried, hslot was an era and i can’t believe it’s over :( also omg the video harry posted, i sobbed too, but i’m glad he can relax now, he needs to. anyways here’s this part, it’s pure fluff, i swear there will be more plot next part. also not sure how many more parts i’ll have cause i have a lot of ideas to continue this story and i still have loose threads i need to tie up, so we shall see, as of right now i have 4 more parts planned, but that’s def not the end!! but hope you enjoy this part!! (likes, comments, and reblogs are very much appreciate <3!!!)

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“Ok seriously, we’re gonna get a cold if we stay out here any longer.” Y/N said as she slipped her hand into Rafe’s and tugged him inside. As soon as their rain soaked feet hit the floor, she winced, “We’re dripping, wait here.”

She quickly rushed to the laundry room, grabbing towels and a pair of Neal’s clothes for Rafe to change into. She wrapped a towel around herself and padded back to her room. Rafe was standing right where she had left him and she tossed him the towel, “Here.” He quickly caught the towel and wrapped it around himself, drying off as much as he could.

She held up the clothes that she had brought, “Here’s some dry clothes, I’m sure Neal won’t mind.”

He shook his head, “I think Neal will kill me for things other than wearing his clothes.”

She rolled her eyes as she started to ruffle through her hamper, “He won’t kill you.”

“He might.”

“Just go change.”

She was pulling out a shirt when Rafe spoke up, “Did you wear the white dress because I said I liked it?”

Y/N felt heat rise to her cheek, he was right in his theory, but she didn’t want to admit it to him. He chuckled as he took her silence as an answer, “Well I guess I have good taste then, yeah?”

She shook her head, but couldn’t hold back her laugh, even though they were faced in opposite directions, she could practically hear Rafe grinning as he spoke, “Just change your clothes Rafael.”

Soon the pair were sitting on Y/N’s bed, neither one of them knew what to say, they were still processing everything that had happened.

“I think we should talk about everything.” She suggested and Rafe gave her a playful frown.

“Do we have to?” He asked as he leaned forward and pulled her onto his lap, “I think we should do some more making out.”

She gave him a stern look and he laughed, “Fine, fine, we can talk and then we’ll make out.”

Y/N swallowed deeply as she looked at him, “You really love me?”

“I don’t know what else I gotta do to prove it to you y/n/n.” Rafe said, tightening his hold on her.

“I don’t know, it’s just hard to comprehend that you love me back.” She said. Her insecurities ran deep and often messed with many of her relationships. There was always a little devil on her shoulder whispering that she was never good enough. No matter what others said, she felt deep in her heart that she truly would never be good enough for anyone. But she couldn’t put that burden on Rafe, he was showing her how much he cared about her, it would just take some getting used to for her to grasp that he does love her, with all his heart.

Rafe smiled and pressed a kiss to her head, “You better believe it.”

“You promise I’m not just another notch on your belt?” She questioned.

Rafe felt hurt as he heard her question, but he couldn’t blame her, he had built a reputation for himself and now he had to live with it and prove to everyone he wasn’t some guy who only saw girls as trophies to collect. He took her face in his hands tilting her chin up, so their eyes met, “You mean so much more to me y/n/n, you’re it for me.”

Y/N couldn’t stop the smile on her face as she took in his words, but there was one more burning question she needed to clear up before she could move forward, “What about Claire?”

Rafe sighed, he really should have listened to Claire and not used her to taunt Y/N. He so badly wanted to tell her that there would never be anything between him and Claire, solely for the fact that Claire wasn’t attracted to men, but it wasn’t his place to tell, “We’re platonic friends. I swear.” He then held up three fingers, “Scouts honor.”

She rolled her eyes, “You were not an eagle scout Rafe, you and Neal dropped out before you made it to that level.”

He shrugged, “It’s the thought that counts.” She just shook her head at him before sighing and resting her head on his chest. They had never sat like this but it felt so familiar, it felt like they were always meant to be like this.

The two sat in blissful silence, just enjoying each other. Rafe hadn’t ever been in Y/N’s room this long, so he took his time to drink everything in. His eyes combed over her bookshelf and all the little knicks scattered around the many many books she had. He surveyed each painting she had hung up, each one framed by intricate gold painted wood. He surveyed her nightstands, one scattered with her jewelry and a few empty water glasses. The other nightstand had a plethora of framed pictures, ones with Y/N and her family. Ones with Y/N and her friends. Rafe noticed he had even made it on to one of the framed photos, but then his eyes zeroed on the person he was stood next to, who wore a bright grin. He turned to look at Y/N who had closed her eyes, but Rafe knew she wasn’t asleep yet, “What are we gonna do about Sarah and Neal?”

Her eyes opened and she started to gnaw on her lip. She had thought long and hard about this, that night on the beach when she made the decision to tell Rafe about her feelings, “I can’t spend my entire life trying to please people. I love you and I don’t want anyone getting in the way of that, we owe it to ourselves to put us first for once.”

He grinned at her words, “I’m glad you came to your senses.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” She questioned.

He shrugged, “I don’t know, it’s just been so obvious that you’ve been pining over me and didn’t do anything about it.”

She scoffed, “I was not obvious.”

He gave her a look, “Really?”

“I wasn’t obvious.” She insisted. He just shrugged and she huffed, “I had to write you a whole love letter for you to get it.”

Rafe just smiled, “Keep telling yourself that sweetheart.” He quickly pressed his lips to Y/N’s before she could argue back and as much as she wanted to argue back, she melted into him as their lips met.

As they pulled away she wore a small smile, “Well I guess I’m glad we both came to our senses.” The pair wore goofy grins on their faces as they reveled in each other’s presence.

“What are we gonna do now?” She asked as she played with the hair on the back of his head. They had shifted from their position sitting on the end of her bed, to sitting against her many many throw pillows.

“Well, I’d really like to call you my girl.” Rafe said and Y/N grinned.

She pretended to think, before sighing, “I guess I’d like to call you my boyfriend.”

Rafe cleared his throat and feigned a British accent, similar to the one Matthew Macfadyen used when he played Mr. Darcy, “So are you accepting my proposal my dear lady.”

She couldn’t help but giggle but played along, feigning her own British accent, “I guess I am accepting your proposal my lord.” Rafe couldn’t help himself as he leaned towards her and pressed his lips to her cheek and Y/N couldn’t stop smiling.

“What are we gonna do about everyone else?” Rafe asked as they settled down.

“Can we keep this between us for now? I don’t want anyone else ruining it.” She asked.

He nodded, “Yeah, we can. I don’t really want Neal beating me up right now, but we’re gonna have to tell them eventually.”

She sighed, “We can do that later, but for now I just want you to be all mine.”

He grinned as he pulled her so she was laying on top of him, she let out a small gasp at how easily he had been able to move her, “I can do that.” He wasted no time pressing his lips to her and wrapping his arms around her.

After some more making out the couple just talked to one another, it was easy for them to talk to each other and even though they had known each other for practically their entire lives, they didn’t run out of things to say.

“So before, when you were coming over to tell me, what was your plan?” Rafe asked as he played with some locks of Y/N’s hair.

“You really want to know?” She asked and he nodded, “Well, I was gonna ask you to come picnic with me on the beach and I got some of the food and treats you like. And then I made this scrapbook of us growing up and me growing feelings for you and the last page was where the letter was supposed to be, but I was in such a rush that I guess I didn’t tape it down properly, so it fell out.”

Rafe had a goofy grin on his face, no one had ever put that much effort in for him, “You did all of that for me?”

“I wanted to show you that I loved you.” She simply said.

He grinned, before a quizzical look came across his face, “What did you do with the food?”

“It’s all down in the kitchen.” She informed him and an idea popped into his head.

“Well I don’t mind having a picnic right here.” He told her.

“Really?” She questioned. He nodded and she was quick to slip out of his hold and off the bed, “Wait here, I’ll go grab everything.” She was out the door quickly making sure to grab the picnic basket on her way out.

In no time she was rushing up the stairs and pushing her door open to see Rafe setting up the picnic blanket on the ground, she quickly walked in and shut the door behind her before setting the picnic basket down next to where Rafe was sat, “I can’t believe we’re having a picnic on my bedroom floor.”

“It’ll be fun. I would have suggested that we go outside, but it’s still raining, another time though.” Rafe said and she felt her heart flutter, they were barely together and Rafe was already thinking of future dates. She knew it was the bare minimum, but she rarely experienced it in relationships, usually she was the one who put the majority effort in and everyone else just half-assed it. She was glad to finally have someone who seemed to put the same amount of love and energy into their relationship.

The couple started to dig things out of the basket. Rafe pulled out the two pints of ice cream, “You got my favorite ice cream?”

“We missed a few ice cream days, so I thought I’d make up for them.” She told him and he smiled.

He pulled out the pastries next and looked to her for an explanation, “Those were the things you got when we went to the farmer’s market that one time.” She explained.

“You remembered?” He was shocked that she had remembered the small detail, he wasn’t used to people paying attention to him like this.

“Yeah, I mean Lilly always used to make you guys tarts and eclairs, so I guessed that’s why you got them.” She told him and a soft smile overtook Rafe’s face. It was true Lilly Cameron’s specialty were her fruit tarts and her chocolate caramel eclairs, to him those used to be the best pastries in the world.

“Yeah, she made the best ones.” He agreed and Y/N smiled.

Rafe thought about his mom and what she would say if she knew what had happened between Rafe and Y/N. Even though Rafe never outright said it, he knew his mother knew exactly how he felt about Y/N, even back then. She didn’t tease him or push him to do anything, she just watched him with knowing eyes and a warm smile. He knew if she were here today she’d be happy that Y/N was the girl Rafe had chosen to be with. Lilly had always loved Y/N, she always said Y/N was her honorary daughter and Y/N loved Lilly. When Vera was away on work trips or working late nights at the firm it was Lilly who always watched Y/N. When Y/N and Sarah had sleepovers Y/N was always the first one up along with Lilly, she’d always help Lilly make blueberry pancakes and set the table. Y/N and Lilly spent countless hours together, whether it was making flower crowns for midsummers or baking for the latest event at the island club. When Sarah didn’t want to help Lilly, Y/N was always there, she adored the older blonde woman and would do anything to help her. Lilly had actually been the first one to take Y/N to the farmer’s market. Y/N thought she might love the farmer’s market as much as she does because it reminded her of Lilly and she wanted to hold on to every piece of Lilly she had left.

“Wait, you went to the farmer’s market again? Without Wheeze or me?” Rafe asked.

“I went to get something else, but then I saw the pastry stand and couldn’t resist.” She told him

“What did you get?” He asked. She looked through the basket and silently cursed when she realized she hadn’t put the necklace she had bought him back in the basket, she quickly stood up and walked over to her vanity where her jewelry boxes were. Rafe’s necklace was easy to find because it was still wrapped in the nice box the vendor had given her. She made her way back to where Rafe was sat and passed him the box.

He looked at the box curiously, “For me?” She nodded and Rafe took that as his sign to open the box up. He quickly undid the gold ribbon wrapped around and pulled the lid off to see the necklace sat on a navy cushion.

He looked up to her for an explanation, “I saw you looking at it, but if you hate it, I can totally try and return it or something. I just though you liked it.” She rambled out.

Rafe grinned as looked at the necklace, she was right he had been looking at it. It was a North Star necklace and Lilly had always loved pointing the North Star out to Rafe, she had told him that no matter what if he looked up at the North Star, no matter where they were, Lilly would be looking at it too and guiding him in the right direction.

When Rafe stayed quiet Y/N opened her mouth to ramble some more but he quickly shook his head and pulled the necklace out of the box silencing her, “I love it.” He quickly slipped the necklace on and she smiled.

“You really like it?” She asked once more.

“Yeah, I love it.” He told her, before grinning, “Can’t believe you’ve been watching me this closely.”

She rolled her eyes, “You’re one to talk.”

Rafe let out a laugh before pecking her on the lips, “Let’s just eat this ice cream before it melts, yeah?”

The next morning Y/N woke up with strong arms wrapped around her waist. It wasn’t a feeling she was used to, when she and JJ were still together, JJ didn’t ever spend the night at her’s and when they would spend the night together it would usually be at the chateau and JJ would always be out of bed before she woke up.

She didn’t remember getting into bed, the last thing she could remember before sleep overtook her was her and Rafe laying on the picnic blanket, talking about everything and anything. She assumed she must have fallen asleep at some point and Rafe had carried her into bed and slipped in with her.

She slowly turned around to face him, a smile gracing her lips, she could get used to waking up like this. Rafe looked so serene when he slept. From her position she needed to tilt her chin up to fully take in his face. His eyelashes looked longer from where she was and his hair fell onto his forehead in the most perfect way, she felt the need to run her fingers through it. She gently ran her fingers through his hair, it was as soft as she expected. She slowly ran her fingers through all of his hair and once she had finished she slowly moved her hand and started to sit up, but was pulled back against Rafe’s chest.

“Don’t stop.”

She hadn’t known that Rafe had woken up, but she complied and started to run her fingers through his once more, she craned her neck to check the time on her clock and saw that it was almost a quarter till eleven.

“Rafe we should get up, it’s almost eleven.” She murmured, but still didn’t make a move to get up.

Rafe’s response was to pull her even closer to him. The two lay facing each other, his arms wrapped around her waist and one of her hands in his hair, the other on his chest.

Rafe was slow to open his eyes, peeling one open at a time. But as his eyes settled on Y/N a goofy grin spread across his face, “So it wasn’t a dream.”

Her brows furrowed in confusion, “What?”

“You really are my girlfriend.” Rafe dreamily said.

She couldn’t help but roll her eyes, but a smile graced her lips, “Ok lover boy, why don’t we get out of bed now?”

“Fine, fine.” He relented and slowly released Y/N from his hold.

She sat up and started to stretch, “Why don’t we get breakfast or something, there’s that place you like on the mainland with the really good chicken and waffles.”

He nodded, he would never turn down chicken and waffles, “I’m down,” But then he realized what day it was, “Shit, I forgot I told Wheezie that I’d take her to the mainland to get jewelry today. She made an appointment and everything.”

“That’s okay, we can hang out some other time.” She said.

Rafe was about to agree before an idea popped into his head, “Do you want to come? I mean Wheeze won’t suspect anything, we’ve basically been hanging out like that all summer.”

“Are you sure?” She asked, she wasn’t so sure that would be a good idea, Wheezie might be young, but she was perceptive.

He nodded, “Yeah, it’ll be fine.”

She remembered her conversation with Wheezie after they had made flower crowns and that just made her more apprehensive, “There’s something you should know though,” Rafe nodded as a cue for her to continue, “Wheezie asked me if there was something going on between us.”

“What? When?” He asked.

She shrugged, “A couple days ago when we were making flower crowns.”

Rafe couldn’t help but grin, “And you say your pining wasn’t obvious.”

“Rafael.”

He raised his hands in the air in surrender, “I found your pining endearing sweetheart.”

“Yeah, yeah.” She grumbled and Rafe was quick to press a kiss to her cheek.

“I promise to be on my best behavior in front of Wheeze,” Rafe told her, holding up three fingers once again, “Swear, scouts honor.”

“For the last time, you can’t say that Rafe. You weren’t an eagle scout.” Y/N exasperated.

Rafe just laughed, he loved riling her up, “Ok, why don’t we get ready and you’ll meet us at Taneyhill. I’ll let it slip to Wheezie that I asked you to come because you’re better at shopping than me and she’ll be none the wiser.”

After a few more kisses and Y/N making Rafe once again promise to be on his best behavior, he was climbing down from her balcony and sneaking back to Taneyhill. She wasted no time getting ready and soon enough she was on the front porch of Taneyhill, donned in a sundress, with her hair pulled back with a seashell clip, and a raffia tote hanging from her shoulder.

It was Ward Cameron who answered the door. Y/N hadn’t seen much of the older man in a while, granted she had been avoiding Taneyhill and Ward always worked long hours, but she usually saw him every so often.

“Good morning Y/N, how’ve you been, haven’t seen you much around here.” Ward greeted her, a pleasant smile on his face.

“Morning! I’ve been busy with a few things and haven’t had time to come over, but I’ve been good, how about you?” She responded.

“I’ve been good as well, but work keeps me busy.” Ward told her and she smiled. It was then when Wheezie started to descend the stairs, a bright grin on her face.

“Y/N!”

Y/N beamed at Wheezie, “Hi Wheeze!”

“Rafe said that he invited you to come with us.” Wheezie said and Y/N nodded.

“Yeah, he said shopping wasn’t his thing and that you’d want my opinion more than his.” She told the younger girl.

“Hold on, you’re not here to see Sarah?” Ward asked. Since he had been busy recently he hadn’t been paying much attention to the kids this summer, so in his mind Sarah and Y/N were still thick as thieves and Rafe and Y/N hated each other, so to hear that she was here for Wheezie and Rafe was a little surprising for him.

Y/N shook her head slightly, “Oh, no I’m not here to see Sarah. Rafe and I are just taking Wheeze to the mainland to get some jewelry to go with her midsummers dress.”

Ward nodded in understanding before bidding the girls a goodbye and heading back into his study, leaving the two girls alone. Y/N turned to face Wheezie with a grin on her face, “Are you excited? I love picking out jewelry, it helps to really finish the look.”

Wheezie excitedly nodded, “I can’t wait, I love shopping.” Y/N nodded in agreement, there was nothing better than shopping.

It was then when Rafe descended down the stairs, he wore a grin on his face and Wheezie narrowed her eyes, it was uncommon for Rafe to be so chipper, “Why are you so happy?”

Rafe shot a quick glance at Y/N, who was trying her best to hide her smile, before he shrugged, “Nothing, now let’s go. If we go early we can go to the farmer’s market you two liked and then go to your jewelry appointment.”

Wheezie couldn’t hide her excitement after that, practically sprinting to Rafe’s car. As usual the car ride was full of Wheezie’s ramblings, this time she was rambling about what she was excited to get at the farmer’s market. Wheezie’s rambling had partially drowned out the sound of Rafe’s music, but Y/N could still hear it and she didn’t particularly want to listen to his playlist at the moment and she wanted to test something. So she discreetly started to change the music, but apparently she wasn’t discreet enough because as soon as she clicked off of his playlist Rafe shot a quick glance at her through the corner of his eye, “What are you doing?”

“I’m changing the music, I’m tired of your playlist, we listen to it everytime.” She told him. She wore her best puppy dog eyes, making sure to add a little pout, she wanted to see how far she could push her luck with him now with her sober. She knew that when she was drunk Rafe wouldn’t push back on her changing the music, but when she was sober he almost always pushed back.

Rafe let out a sigh as he saw the look on her face, she knew exactly how to play him and they hadn’t even been together a full day, “Fine.”

Rafe’s answer surprised both Wheezie and Y/N. Y/N truly hadn’t expected him to give in that easily, she thought she’d have to try a little harder, but she was pleasantly surprised. Wheezie on the other hand was confused, Rafe never let anyone touch anything in his car, he was weird like that, so to see Y/N messing with his touch screen and changing up the lights and music was astonishing to her. But she quickly forgot about her questions as her favorite music started to play. Her and Y/N had similar tastes in music, Wheezie assumed it was because she had spent basically all of her childhood with Y/N and Sarah and being around them made her more like them and pick up their interests.

Soon enough the two girls were singing their favorite lyrics at the top of their lungs, having the time of their life. Y/N had a wide grin on her face as she belted out the lyrics and as Rafe saw her he couldn’t help but grin too. He even sang along to a few of the old classics with them, much to Wheezie’s and Y/N’s surprise, but neither of them were complaining.

Luckily they were able to find parking near the farmer’s market and they wore happy smiles on their faces as they started to wander through. It was hot outside and the perfect cure for a hot summer day was ice cream, which is why their first stop was an ice cream stand. The three of them got different flavors of ice cream, Rafe and Wheezie getting their ice cream in a cone and Y/N getting hers in a cup.

Rafe and Wheezie were both able to finish their ice creams easily as they walked through the stands, Y/N on the other hand was a slow eater and once she got to the last quarter of the ice cream she felt like she couldn’t eat anymore.

Wheezie had run into one of her friends from school and was busy chatting away with them leaving Y/N and Rafe alone. She played with ice cream as she tried to convince herself that she could finish it and Rafe eyed the little hill she had made in her cup, “Are you just gonna play with it or eat it.”

“I don’t think I can eat more.” Y/N told him, she then looked at him curiously, “Do you want to finish it?”

“Are you sure?” He questioned, she nodded and handed him her cup. He was quick to finish the ice cream and she watched him with a smile on her face, causing Rafe to furrow his eyebrows, “What?”

“I guess it’s true what they say, boyfriends are human garbage disposals.” She laughed and Rafe just shook his head.

The trio had wandered through most of the market, going in and out of the many stands. Rafe watched Y/N look at things and offered to purchase them for her, but she promptly declined him every time, but Rafe kept a catalog of what she liked in his head. They were about to turn back and head to the car when Wheezie spotted the flower stand where Y/N had bought her hydrangeas from and excitedly tugged Y/N along with her, Rafe following the pair.

Wheezie had pulled Y/N with her to look at the succulents the vendor had on display along with the unique vases, which left Rafe alone looking at the flowers. He was admiring some of the tulips when Y/N’s words rang through his head and he glanced to where the two girls were and made sure they weren’t watching as he made his way to the vendor.

Y/N couldn’t believe all the different vases the florist had, there were all sorts of shapes and sizes and so many different themed ones. She was holding onto a vase shaped like a pair of rainboots when she realized that Rafe wasn’t near them. She glanced around and spotted him on his phone typing away and smiled at how concentrated he looked. She was snapped out of her daze when Wheezie held a vase shaped like a cowboy hat in front of her.

Wheezie was snapping a picture of Y/N holding onto the funky vases they had found when Rafe finally decided to join them. He had his arms behind his back and Y/N watched him with curious eyes.

Wheezie lit up when she saw him and held up a vase that was in the shape of a convertible, “Rafe look at this vase, isn’t it so cool?”

Rafe nodded, “Yeah it’s cool Wheeze, but I have something cooler.” He moved his arms from behind his back revealing two bouquets, one full of hydrangeas and the other with peonies and tulips.

Wheezie grinned excitedly as she took the hydrangea bouquet from Rafe and rushed from underneath the shade to get better lighting to take a picture, leaving Y/N and Rafe alone.

She wore a smile on her face as Rafe handed her the peonies and tulips, “You got me flowers?”

He shrugged, “Someone really smart told me that flowers are the way into a girl’s heart.”

She couldn’t help but laugh, “Yeah, she must be really smart.”

He grinned, “So you like them?”

“Of course I do.” She told him, she then took a step slightly closer to him, “I wish I could thank you properly.”

Rafe closed his eyes and gulped, “Don’t do this right now, not when Wheezie’s right there. I won’t be able to control myself.”

She laughed and patted his chest, “Keep it in your pants Rafael.”

“You make it hard to.”

She rolled her eyes before turning and heading outside the stand, “You’re impossible.”

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