Day Four:

1:12pm

"Hey Max!" Rafael calls out walking over to his little brother who was pretending to be a pirate.

"Hi Rafe!, I'm a pirate Arrg!" "Yeah I see...that" Rafael says looking down at Max, his eyes showing the disapproving look his voice couldn't hold.

"Right... Well papa wanted me to tell you lunch is ready" "Lunch I'm starving!" Max yells already running down the hall to the kitchen, Rafael looks out the window that was once behind Max and seeing dark clouds starting to roll in he closes the shades and walks down to the kitchen.

"Ewww! Daddy! Papa!" He hears Max screech out before he reaches the kitchen, "What happened?" Rafe asks walking into the kitchen to see his papa smiling and dad with his cheeks flushed while little Max was covering his eyes with his tiny hands. "They were kissing Rafe! Near our food! Eww!" Max yells uncovering his eyes to show Rafe his look of horror, Rafael just raises his eyebrows and at Max and walks away to serve himself some food.
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Sitting down at the table the family of four began to eat. "Dad look my chicken nugget is a dinosaur!" Max yells as he bites off the dinosaurs head.

"But now he's dead." Max says looking down at the chicken nugget without a head,

"Wow Blueberry, are we getting violent already?" His dad asks as Max giggles.

Boom!

A crackle of thunder erupts outside as Rafael looks out the window his eyes wide seeing the storm outside as rains begins to patter down on the roof. Laughter erupts around the table as the sky begins darkening, clouds filling with rain. Rafael who wasn't laughing looks out the window again and sees a flash of lightning flash against the sky lighting it up, He looks around at his family who had just stopped laughing and silently leaves hoping no one would notice he left as he just wanted to be alone.

Rafael closes the door to his room as his lower lip begins to tremble and the tears gather to his eyes. He closes the shade to his window and sits down on the floor, his back leaning against the bed as he cover his ears and closes his eyes tightly.

Shadowhunters can't be afraid of anything.

Rafael thinks as he stands up wiping the tears off his face and from his eyes, he had always been afraid of thunderstorms every since he was a little boy but they never came to often and so he never worried about them to much but when they did come he would hide away and be scared alone because
Shadowhunters cant be afraid of anything, they can't have fears and something as stupid as a thunderstorm they would surely laugh at him.

A soft knock at his door brings him back to reality as he hears another crackle of thunder, in walks his family the ones who loved him enough to take him and love him so as he looks up he quietly says "Sorry for leaving lunch but I'm kind of afraid of thunderstorms"
"Aww it's okay Rafe" Max says looking up at his older brother before hugging him as tight as his little arms could squeeze themselves around Rafael's body.

Yeah it's alright to be afraid" His papa says his voice comforting the younger boy in front of him, "Yeah" Rafe says looking out the window for a second before crouching down and hugging back Max.

For once maybe it's okay to be afraid I mean you can't always be brave
was the last thought that passed through Rafael's mind before he went to bed that night, the storm outside still raging on but his eyes were peacefully closed.

Thanks for reading! Bye, EmeraldSkys