fratboy!rafe x college reader
blurb: your challenged to a game of drink or dare by rafe cameron and it ends in a soft introduction of who he really is.
warnings: soft boy rafe 🥹 • don’t get it wrong his intentions were to fuck you though • banter • fluff • angst • drugs • reader is a sophomore and rafe is a senior • whatever I missed lmk ! • reader is a bit stubborn • rafe clearly likes reader more than she likes him. • teasing • tension
ANY SPELLING MISTAKES IGNORE!! gosh i get so mad when i look back after time and time again and it’s wrong 💔
words: 5.1k
authors note: i’m trying not to always write rafe in smut because i also want to have that experience in writting fluff and angst as well, so unfortunately this chapter has no smut guys sorry!! but if you guys want a series, ill cook trusttt. but if yall want smut lmk👀
it was another year around in college, first semester of the year. and that meant one thing and one thing only, party season.
going to a school mostly known for partying wasn’t too swell, but the academics were good, not too far from home. nothing to complain about.
it was your 2nd year in college, sophomore year the intro to half way being done with college and honestly you were ready for it to be done. you were often to yourself, you were in college for It’s actual purpose— to get a degree then go. so honestly parties and everything didn’t call your attention.
but this year you got a new roommate, and you both were polar opposites.
her name was alice, she was more outgoing, loved going out and loved skipping classes. she was the definition of a college party girl, you didn’t judge her for it because well It’s her own life and besides that she was sweeter than pie.
she introduced you to her friend group and made you feel less lonely, it was a bunch of sorority girls and they weren’t the most welcoming to you but it didn’t really matter when you knew you had at least one good friend.
you had one goal and one goal only, get your degree and that’s it. no time for anything that could get in the way of your degree either, life was more simple this way.
you sat at your computer typing your next essay up which was due next week, but you just liked being ahead of work already. as you finish up you hear your roommate walk in, she has a couple more of her friends with her and they make themselves at home quickly.
“girll are you still doing homework? when I left you were just starting!” she says dramatically, you chuckle awkwardly as she catches on and walks up to you.
“I'm being serious, you need to give yourself a break. you finished all your homework for the week didn’t you?”
“well yeah I did but-“ you get cut off by her friend, making you turn to the back of the room. “I just got a notification from the app that there’s a party tonight! delta tau delta is hosting it. “ she says jumping up and down, you roll your eyes facing back to your screen.
an app just to track parties down? are you serious? you could bet she doesn’t even know where the library is.
“I’ve been dying to go to one of their parties, they said they get CRAZY. I’m in!” alice says overjoyed, her friends giggling with her as they excuse themselves from the room to get ready now. she closes the door behind them before looking at you, you know what she’s going to say and you had an answer.
“before you ask, it’s a no.” you say sternly, she throws her head back before pulling up a seat next to you, “you never wanna go, I promise it’s not even that bad!” alice protesting as she grabs your hand.
“It’s all stupid, I have better things to do. “ you look at her in the eyes, “but you deserve some fun, you finished all your work for the weekend. It’s a saturday. what seriously could you do just here on a saturday???” she says passionately, you see the look in her eyes. she was your only friend after all..
you take a deep breath, closing your eyes as you open them to look at alice. “ok. I’ll go but-“ you get cut off to alice jumping out her seat screaming, you look at her confused before a laugh comes out of you.
“MY ROOMMATE IS GOING TO A PARTY WITH ME. WOOHOOO!!” she yells ecstatically, you laugh as she runs to your shared closet going to her side before rummaging through her stuff.
you get up to look at what she’s doing, she’s pulling shirts, shorts, literally her WHOLE closet onto her bed. even some shirts hitting you.
“ok ok so no offense but I know you don’t have party clothes, so you’re gonna have to use mine. “ you look around at the selection and it’s WAY definitely out of your comfort zone, but even going to a party was way out of it, so we already passed that stage.
“do whatever you want, as long as it’s not too revealing or any of that..” you mutter, she nods before grabbing your arm to put you in front of the mirror. putting different color shirts and bottoms on you like your a barbie doll.
“this is going to be SO fun!!! let me cook, I promise.” she says shooting you a smile from the mirror, you knew this was gonna take forever..
a few hours has passed now, alice’s friends coming back to your dorm so we can all go together. you can’t believe you’d actually fold for something like this, if you told yourself freshman year you’d be going to a frat party, your now self would actually die. but life’s about having fun? this was your first and last time.
alice and her friends sit by the door wanting for you to come out, you look at yourself in the mirror not believing who you see standing there. you felt pretty, but it was unreal to see yourself looking like everyone else.
“may I now present you all, my GORGEOUS roommate! after months of begging, after two hours of hair and makeup.. behind the 6 hour study seshes-“
“ALICE!! just let me come out already. “ you yell from the inside, alice sighs before going back to her speech, “ fine fine! here she is come on out!”
you walk out the bathroom, a collective gasp from everyone as you step in front of them.
your black corset top hugging your waist and well your boobs, your necklace sitting perfectly on your chest— gold hoop earrings going down to match, paired with a burgundy skirt with shimmer on it. not to mention your black boots tugging up your thighs.
your makeup is kept simple but still jaw dropping, glitter eyeshadow on your eyelids. your lipgloss tastes like peaches with your powder keeping it all in place and to top it all together alice sprayed some of her carolina herrera “good girl” perfume on you.
your curly hair sitting on your chest along with a black coach bag that alice let you borrow to match, you looked radiant.
alice’s friends jump up and down when they see you, your awkward mannerisms taking you over as you try smile confidently.
“you look MAGNIFICENT!” one friend says, “no seriously like I don’t even know who you are right now.” the other girl exclaims, you never had been told you were pretty and such and such. your confidence going through the roof at the amount of praise being said.
“thank you, especially you alice.” you say as you give her a big smile, she fans her face acting as if she’s crying. “alice you’re so dramatic” you say playfully, “I should cry right now, you look GORGEOUS. “
“well what are we standing here for, let’s go PARTY!” alice’s friend says eagerly, you nod before grabbing the rest of your stuff walking out the door.
you don’t know what you got yourself into, but you aren’t going into tonight with high expectations. at the end of the day it’s just a party, what could really happen?
you make it to the party, a huge mansion nothing like you’ve ever seen before even in your whole two years here. a huge “delta tau delta” banner hanging from the house, people outside drunk out of their minds and the party just started.
anxiety starting to fill your stomach as you all park and start getting out the car, alice of course noticing how you're feeling letting her two friends walk up before leaving you two together.
“I know that look, and you only look that way when you’re running late on an assignment.” you chuckle as she pulls your hand in squeezing it, “you have nothing to worry about, It’s just a party. I won’t leave your side. promise. “ she says softly, you nod before catching up to the other girls.
it doesn’t take long to get in, of course because in frat rules if you look hot there’s no rules on if you could get in or not. you saw a few people get rejected and it makes you wonder if you still looked the way you did before changing would you be let in?
you walk in and instantly get hit with the smell of weed and intoxication, loud party music supplying the party as you all walk through the crowds.
it was nothing you ever expected to be honest, alice and her friends looking around thrilled as you sit there blank faced, you get to the kitchen where it’s filled with cups and bottles of alcohol. you doubt half these people are even 21 and over, drunk people all around the kitchen as you all try to squeeze through.
“it’s time for SHOTS!!” one girl says as she starts handing you all shots, you look dazed, as you place the shot down on the table, “ uh I don’t drink.” you mutter as you try to give a light smile.
“how are you at a COLLEGE party and don’t even drink..” she rolls her eyes before chuckling, snatching the shot from the table, “it’s her first party, you better chill on her. “ alice snaps back, making the other girl walk away.
“alice you didn’t have to do that.” you say smiling at her, it feels nice having someone defend you since you could rarely do it yourself. “no one talks to my roomie like that!! i don’t know what she was on but she better chill the fuck out. “ alice says fearlessly.
“oh my gosh it’s rafe cameron!” one of alice’s friends say all giddy, you look up and he’s across the kitchen, beer in hand standing around his friend’s wearing a backwards cap and a polo with shorts.
you never got the hype about him, all girls around your campus talk about him. rafe cameron, senior and the frat president. you were yawning just thinking about it, and you were pretty sure he was a player and that’s he’s fucked half the girls in your school, nothing praise worthy about that.
“he looks so good, I wanna talk to him tonight. I even shaved. “ one girl chimes into the conversation getting a laugh from one of alice, you side eye as you look around the party.
“oh my gosh he’s looking over here! act chill!” alice’s friend says quickly, fixing her hair and pushing her breasts up. you look at her in distaste as you go to your phone, scrolling through nothing.
a wave of silence washes through your group as you look up from your phone to see what’s happening, “I think he’s actually looking at your roomie alice..” and when you hear that you look up to see rafe staring at you, his eyes not letting up even when he sees that you know he’s staring you down before looking back to his friends.
alice’s friends roll their eyes in jealousy, alice jumping up and down with excitement “O.M.G he definitely wants you!” she says joyfully, you stand there blank faced— you never had a boy acknowledge you if it wasn’t for homework or test answers but at the same time you didn’t care. it was rafe, you wanted no parts with him.
“it was just a look, I doubt he wants me. and even if he did, he’s bad news. I think. “ you shrug, althought you never had a boy even think you were pretty, you knew you didn’t need validation from a man. rafe being a prime example.
alice gives you a look, you all decide to leave the kitchen as it only gets more and more packed, trying to find somewhere to go.
hours have gone by, alice’s two friends are gone and alice is gone too. so much for her saying she’ll never leave my side.
you pull out your phone to text her, turns out she ran into her ex and now they’re trying to “fix” things in a parking lot, she promises she’ll be back soon but you know it’s probably not true.
alice’s friend drove and you know after what she said she’s probably not too fond of you.. so you have to wait it out until alice gets back and when that will be? you don’t know.
instead of being a wallflower you try just to look around more seeing what you can do to kill time, as you navigate through the party crowds you get a few cat calls and whistles instantly leaving a bad taste in your mouth, drunk people.
you reach a huge crowd, and as you get closer into the crowd you hear the crowd shouting “drink or dare! drink or dare!” you don't know how the game works nor have you ever heard of it, so you go to the front curiously wanting an answer.
“our next contestant stepping up to the game, our brother, our frat president, rafe cameron!” the crowd gets louder as he steps up, putting his hands up to make everyone scream louder, you roll your eyes as you watch everyone praise him like he’s royalty, yeah right.
“now who dares to step up to the 12th time delta tau delta dare or dare champion!” the frat guy yells, hands in the crowd being thrown up as they jump for rafe to pick them, your getting pushed around as they jump and you end up near the front.
rafe scans the crowd as they jump in excitement, deep down he thinks about how fucking stupid these people are. praising him for the absolute minimum he does, he can’t even say bare minimum because he barely does that.
but as his eyes start to scan slower he runs into you, you look pushed away and oblivious of what’s going on. and he loves that, truth be told he’s always known who you were. he liked that you were all smart and shit, and that you were to yourself, he knew you wouldn’t drool over him just by him looking at you, you’d be so hard to win over. and well he likes a challenge.
and tonight? you look so irresistible, no way he could pass this opportunity.
you ever going to be in his bed one way or another tonight.
he had to have you, and rafe gets what he wants.
“her.” the crowd goes silent as his finger points to you, you look up shocked looking around to see who he’s pointing at before seeing that it’s you he’s pointing at. “ yeah sorry I don’t know how to play. “ you say dismissively, anxiety filling your mind.
“well that’s fine, because the game is really really simple.” he says charmingly, the tension in the room so thick you could cut a slice, you look around at the crowd, it only increases the more you wait it feels like.
“what’s wrong. you scared to play against me? i thought you were all big bad and tough, school girl.” he teases, you stand there slack jawed— the crowd waiting for your reaction, you feel embarrassed. rafe just staring at you waiting for your reaction
you take a deep breath, remembering that you’re here to have fun. and no one was gonna talk down on you like that.
“im in cameron, you better prepare for your title to drop.” you say boldly, the crowd getting loud watching you snap back at him, you smile as you put your purse onto the table
“we’ll see about that.” he grins softly, nodding his head.
the game starts, your palms sweaty from your nerves. you’ve never been around so many people, never even drunk before and maybe even still tonight you wouldn’t.
“here are the rules, whoever is first gets to call the first drink or dare. if you choose to drink the person you’re against will ask you to drink if you’ve kissed someone in the same room as you or something like that. If you refuse to drink, you're out of the game”
“and if you dare the person you're up against will dare you to do something, if you don’t want to do the dare you can drink and if you refuse to drink or do the dare you’re out!” you nod as you take in the rules.
it’s rafe’s turn first, the crowd around you chanting “drink or dare! drink or dare!” the lights becoming brighter and brighter as it echoes throughout the house.
“drink or dare.” he says, you ponder in your mind about your decision before settling on a option.
“mhm, dare. “
he nods his head, brainstorming before looking back up at you.
“i dare you to drink that whole cup of alcohol. “ he says pointing to the red cup full of a mystery drink, you hesitant for a second— crowd watching in suspense of what your next move is, you nod grabbing the whole cup of alcohol making sure rafe is watching you before downing it.
your throat being burned by the taste of it, your first drink ever and you don’t even know what it is— rafe smiles while watching you place the cup down.
“mhm, you got balls let’s see what else you could do.” he mocks at you, you roll your eyes.
“drink or dare?” you spat at him, he thinks for a second before locking in his answer.
“drink.”
“drink if you’ve ever slept with two or more in one night.” you say sternly, he rolls his eyes as you watch him bring the cup to his mouth while watching you.
“what can I say, I got a lot of love for everyone. “ he says sarcastically, getting a few fist bumps from his frat brothers, you roll your eyes as he notices.
“what’s wrong with that? slut shaming isn’t very nice is it.” he says from across the table, “not slut shaming, just saying have some respect for yourself. “ you say carelessly, getting a collective “ouuu” from the crowds, you watch as he laughs, not even caring at all.
“drink or dare.” he says looking at you from across the table, “drink.”
he laughs pressing his hands down aganist the table before looking up at the crowd
“drink if you’re a virgin.”
the whole crowd softens, the looks going around to you waiting for you to respond. you feel embarrassed, you didn’t expect to be put on the scene like that. feeling a tiny buzz from the alcohol consumed.
but you knew what had to be done. you pick up the cup bringing it to your mouth before crushing it with your hand, you watch as a smile creeps up on rafe’s face. he was planning something.
“mhm I bet a sweet thing like you is a virgin, you wouldn’t even know what to do. “ he says teasing you, his words creating such a feeling down below that you can’t even describe, you squeeze your legs together— making rafe chuckle as you look down.
“better than sleeping with the whole school. “ you spat back, the crowd cheering you on as you look up at him. “ now cameron drink or dare. “ you said boldly, “mhmm, dare. “ he says assertively, waiting for your response.
“I dare you to end the game. “ you say confidently, he only has two cups left in front of him. he’s gonna have to do the dare which means you win and you’ll get to leave.
but to your surprise he picks the cup up downing it before placing it down again, the frat boys hyping him up as he smashes the cup in his hands
“it’s painfully obvious you haven’t played this game before princess, just a scared little school girl. “ he says mocking you, you stand there shell shocked as you look down you have no cups left. which means he wins.
you sigh as you start walking away before your stopped with the call of your name, “ losers have to do the winners final dare of choice. “ he says, you turn around annoyed as you go back to the table
“yeah sure cameron, I'll do your homework or something. “ you say shrugging him off as you grab your phone out of your pocket.
“nah I don’t need that. “ he says softly, the anxiousness growing in your stomach as you don’t know what he wants.
“I want you to spend the rest of the night with me, i get to tell you what to do for the rest of the night.“
the crowd completely gets quiet, girls looking around at you with jealousy in their eyes as his frat brothers look at him like he’s crazy. he threw the whole game off completely. you try to speak but nothing comes out, why you?
“you’re so surprised by everything aren’t you? i don’t bite baby. it’s just for one night. nothing bad just be on my arm for the night.” he says cockiness in his words, you look around at the crowd waiting for you to answer before you finally give in.
“ok fine. i’ll be with you for the night. “ the crowd cheering as rafe’s frat brothers dap him up and pat him on the back, you roll your eyes before leaving the crowd.
as another round starts you walk to the couch to go sit down, rafe finds you instantly and plops right down next to you. sitting as close to you as possible.
“why’d you leave me hanging?”
“because i didn’t know you were actually being serious about this, why me?” you say concerned, your brown eyes piercing through his skull. you really were perfect.
“you lost a dare, fair and square. and why not you?” he says flirting, you roll your eyes before leaning back into the sofa and all he does is follow behind you.
he puts arm behind your shoulder as you spectate the party, this view making your tits sit perfectly on your chest and he can’t help but stare.
“why don’t you go to parties and have fun?” he mutters in your ear, “well I just want to go to college for the right reasons, I’m not here to party I’m here to get a degree and go. “ you said sternly, rafe loved that you were the opposite of him— smart, introverted & dedicated to your goals.
rafe didn’t truly take college for what it actually is, he didn’t even do his own work. whatever girl he was screwing for the 3rd time this week usually did, and obviously most of the time they weren’t that smart so he’d barely be passing. rafe knew he was capable of doing everything on his own, but I guess it really didn’t matter anymore. he was a senior, just trying to graduate now.
“mhm that’s understandable, I always liked how smart you were and shit. you’re a good girl” he says smoothly, those pet names have you basically going feral. why is this happening? you can’t even describe this feeling.
the feeling going straight to the heat between your thighs, it’s like the praise is seriously doing something to you. you smile awkwardly at him as your thighs shift together, you quickly lock in looking back at him
“yeah right i bet you actually noticed me, different grades, different groups. well for me, a different person.” you exclaim, “your not that hard to tell, I see you in the library and all that sometimes. “ he snickers, you roll your eyes as he looks at you, “rafe cameron in the library? rare sighting,” you say sarcastically, he nods at your statement looking back at the party
“you know what i want a drink, go get me one.” he insists.
“go get your own drink cameron.” you say flatly, “well I would if I lost the dare but I didn’t, so go get it before I give you another option. and just know the other option is way more distasteful than this option.” he whispers, his hand basically hovering over your boob. you couldn’t even explain the feeling, you’ve only heard about it from alice and the other sorority girls but you couldn’t describe it.
“fine.” you mutter, he unwraps his hand from your shoulder and you start walking towards the kitchen. rafe only saw you in pants and everything so he never got to see your shape and whew it was definitely worth the sight, he wondered how you looked with the clothes off.
as you reach the kitchen you grab him a beer, and also grabbing another drink for yourself because you knew you’d need another to get through the night. and when you walk back to the couch you walk through the crowd as of course another girl goes up to rafe
a blonde looking bimbo, she was trying to get him to pay attention to her and while he wasn’t having it at all. she was rubbing his thigh trying to get a reaction out of him he was just looking at his phone, you walk back up to the couch and that’s the only time he gets off his phone and starts paying attention.
“excuse me, sorry but I was sitting there.”
you say awkwardly, the girl looks at you rolling her eyes before chuckling, “didn’t notice. “ she says snarky, you just stand there not knowing what to say, visibly getting nervous, “well she was sitting there first so you can get the fuck on.” rafe spat out, the girl looks around at both of you— shocked that rafe would stand up to you like that she gets up walking away making sure to nudge your shoulder as she walks away.
you sit back down handing rafe his beer, his arm waiting for you to fully sit down before placing his hand on your thigh. your breath shifts as his hand touches your skin, he of course notices.
“back to our conversation,” you stutter, “ what are you majoring in?” his eyes never leave you as you speak, you were just so pretty to him. although he didn’t think you didn’t need the makeup and everything, you still shined so brightly.
“business, what about you?”
“i’m majoring in psychology.”
“smart girl, what do you wanna be after this?” he mutters, “well I really wanna be a therapist, I want to help people with their problems.” you say softly, that was your one goal, make it out as a therapist and help others and be able to help your family.
“how are you gonna help people if you lack the experience?”
“what do you mean the experience? i’m going to school for it-“ you say as he cuts you off with a chuckle, “no the personal experience, as a therapist people are gonna have certain problems and most people just want someone to sympathize with them. and if a therapist can also relate to them in their problems, it really helps. “ he explains, you’ve never seen this side of rafe before and honestly it makes you feel bad for all the stuff you let yourself believe about him.
“mhmm you have a point, maybe i’ll get that experience as I get older.” you say nodding, “I think college is the perfect time to just give yourself the freedom, you don’t have to live your whole life drinking, partying or any of that. but once in a while isn’t bad.” he states, “I know, I just don’t want to let my family down.”
“why would you let your family down? I think you’ve gotten everything pretty downpacked. “ he reassured, you feel yourself opening up to him more and more. a sense of comfort.
“well I’m the first person in my family to go to college, my parents aren’t terrible people but I do feel like a lot is expected of me because of it.” you mutter, “I’m guessing you're a pogue?” he says blanky, you nod your head, you look down as you feel embarrassed, no one knows you’re a pogue. not even alice.
rafe hated pogues, only because the ones he knew were always trying to fuck with him and be sneaky and shit. pogue girls, he’s been with plenty pogue girls before, and they’ve all gave out because he’s a kook, the kook king at that.
but when he looks at you he doesn’t see any of that, he sees a girl he wants to understand and he’s never felt that way about a girl, he could clearly see you were different.
and there’s plenty of things rafe has fucked up for just being rafe, and he knew he couldn’t let that happen with you.
you were unapologetically yourself, you were better than him in so many ways and it only made him want to try harder for you.
“ I know you’re a kook, the kook king they say.” you say sarcastically, “I wouldn’t say I’m the king, people just really look up to me for some reason.” he lies, obviously he knows why they consider him a king.
because they’ll do whatever he tells them to do, he’s the king and everyone who follows behind him trying to do everything to impress him are his jesters. rafe knew the power he had, but he’s trying to impress you so he had to be humble.
“Is the night almost over? I’m ready to go home.” you say sluggishly, you didn’t drink a lot but you still felt like crap. you couldn’t even tell if you were drunk or not, you felt relaxed but maybe not drunk. your feet hurting from the boots you were wearing, still not getting any signs from alice that she’d be back soon, you were officially over it.
“not even close our parties all night long, but if you want to lay down you can go in my room.” you cross your arms, realizing this is exactly where it’s starting to head.
“I’m not one of your girls that you can kiss up to rafe, I just met you i’m not sleeping with you. “ you say sternly, rafe chuckles at you turning his head back to you, “wow pogue you really assume the worst of me, no hidden intentions I wouldn’t even go in there with you. and plus you're drunk right now.” he mutters, “ what? i’m not drunk right now. “
“then why is your hand on my thigh right now?”
you look down and your hand is right on his thigh next to his… you know what
“oh my gosh! rafe i’m so sorry i promise-“
you saying slurring, clearly you were drunk and you just didn’t know what it felt like to be drunk, you just thought you were normal.
“your hands still there.” he says flatly, “oh my gosh see!” you say moving your hands completely off him wrapping them against yourself, “see clearly you’re drunk, if you want to lay in my room you can. no weird shit I promise.” he says laughing at your awkwardness, “yeah that sounds great, I don’t think I’d be able to manage on my own right now.” you mutter, rafe takes your hand leading you through the crowd.
as he takes you upstairs you hear a lot of clatter in the back, not even caring to turn around because you’re so tired. as he leads you to his room you look at the walls filled with memories from previous frat years and even a few pictures you see rafe in.
you reach his bedroom, you instantly fall onto his bed to let yourself doze off. all rafe does is look at your body on his bed, he takes your shoes off so they aren’t hurting your feet as you sleep, before pulling the blanket over your body.
he sits on the edge of his bed watching as you sleep, he can’t help to think he got you in his bed but not the way he expected it to be. he still knew you were gonna be hard to get through to, but for the first time in his life he might actually be ok with that.
one way or another, he’d get you.
