IMADE AND JAMAL

JAMAL.

"I am not apologising to anyone because I've done nothing wrong!" I yell back at Daniel, already feeling irritated by how persistent he was being over an issue that was absolutely none of his business.

"You know you were wrong Jamal. Apologising when you're wrong is not a crime at all. Look how devastated that girl sounded because of you and I can tell by the look in your eyes that you weren't happy to see her that way which means the sensible part of your brain knows you were wrong to treat her like that. Now do the needful and apologise to her." Daniel rants on and I sigh in frustration.

"Joshua, please tell this idiot to leave me the fuck alone and stay out of my business." I say to Josh, hoping he would be sensible enough to interfere but as usual, the idiot added fuel to the fire.

  "I'm not gonna lie Jamal, you owe that girl an apology, it's very necessary. By the way, you never told me she was so hot. I mean damn bro! That girl is fire! And your stupid self don't wanna get burnt when I'd gladly let that hot butt burn me anytime, any day. You are so stupid, you know that." He says and I couldn't help but sneer at him. Why do I even bother with him? Asides going out with women and spending money, he had nothing else to offer.

"You just had to ruin it, you idiot." Daniel hisses irritatedly earning a light chuckle from an unbothered Josh.

  "Sorry not sorry bro." He teases and I roll my eyes.

"But on a serious note bro, you need to apologise to that girl cause from that little scene that we witnessed earlier, it's obvious she's hurting bro and I won't lie, you're being a fucking son of a bitch right now and it's very immature. Don't you always call me the immature one? Now look at you." He adds mockingly and I couldn't help but sigh in frustration.

"You two should just let this go. I already did my best by asking you to help her out and yes, I feel bad for not acknowledging her but I had my reasons and you need to respect my decision and stop criticising me. Imade is a good person and all but right now, I'm not ready to have her in my life. She's not good for me and I'm not good for her either so staying away from her benefits us both." I explain to them hoping they'd drop the subject and stop persisting.

"She doesn't have to be a part of your life Jamal, the only thing you need to do is apologise to her, talk to her about things and then you can both put the past behind you and move on properly." Daniel insists and I kinda understood where he was coming from although I still plan on rejecting his advice.

  "Listen Dan, I'll try to talk to her but I won't force anything. If she refuses to talk to me, I won't force her. I still want nothing to do with her." I reply him sharply.

"Well before you cut things off, at least get me her number or you know what, never mind, I'll do it myself." Joshua chimes in and I frown.

I swear, I'll kill you." I warn

How ridiculous!" He

fool. I just know Imade well enough to know that jerks like you don't fit her profile. I might not want anything to do with her but I won't let you play with her emotions. So back

boredly before gulping down the rest of

Jamal, what exactly is going on with Natasha?" Daniel asks and I'm

do you mean by what's going on? Is something

me earlier today and asked me if I knew anything about your relationship with Imade and I told her to ask you but she claims you're not being straight with her and she doesn't like the fact that you keep avoiding her questions. As usual, I could tell she was just being jealous so I ignored her." He explained

to put that girl in her place by standing up to her. Her obsession is starting to creep me the fuck out." Joshua tells me and this time he was right. Natasha needed to know her place and stop trying to pry into every aspect of

her and try to get her to stop overreacting." I assure them but part of me knew, it wasn't as easy as it

side with her, is she your friend or is she your girlfriend? You know she's in love with you and well, it seems you might like her in your weird type of way so what exactly is stopping you from putting the right name to your

her? Do I look capable of actually loving someone?" I

me hit you Jamal. You've always mentioned that she was special and all that so that must mean you feel something stronger than friendship for

physical attraction. He loves being with her but only when he's horny." Joshua chimes in randomly, earning a

I'm definitely not ready to commit to any woman. I love my freedom and my sanity. Relationship equals stress, stress equals insanity, insanity equals to an unhappy ending and I'm not cut out for such a disastrous life." I tell them and they both stared back at me with confused expressions on

to see a doctor." Daniel replies plainly before excusing himself from the table and walking off to the restroom, leaving me with

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and I want to know why!" Natasha yells angrily as soon as she barged into my

learn how to knock first Natasha. You can't just walk into my office whenever the hell you please." I

Now you're demanding that I knock before I walk into your office? Since when did my showing up out of the blue start to piss you off so much? You are changing Jamal and I don't like it one bit cause it's irritating me!" She hurled at me furiously and I stare back at her

from work until you get better cause this raging bull in front of me is very far from normal." I say