So it's been a few weeks and Val is..whatever you want to call her. My girlfriend I guess?

She fits well with everyone else, she's a people person. This thing I have with her really made me forget about everything in the past. She's right, it was 2 years ago and I should let it go. I can see she's changed moreover.

Miles has been trying to contact Jahseh, and feels guilty that he hasn't been talking to him.

"He's been like..introverted and shit. I don't understand why he's acting this way it's not like him." Miles says over the phone. "He wanna ignore my texts, some of my calls, I went as far as emailing him. I don't know why I did, I know he won't answer that shit..and I called him the other day and he said he was was with his lil mysterious boyfriend and we'll talk another time or some shit." He continues. I was confused.

Boyfriend? Jahseh never mentioned that he was in a relationship, he never said his name, we never even met him. Miles seems like he's never heard of him until now which makes me even more confused. And also makes me feel some type of way..

"Boyfriend?..." I say. "I know right, that was my reaction. I feel like I'm a mom with a rebellious, angsty teenager that just ran away with her daredevil boyfriend." He says, both of us laughing.

Whoever this turtle neck nigga is, this mysterious BoYfRiEnD, better show himself, and Jahseh..what am I saying, I can't judge someone that I never even met yet. So..we meet him, first we need to get a hold of Jahseh and figure out his name.

"Let's meet him." I say. Miles seemed not too sure on the other line, "I don't know, Stokeley...Jahseh is..competitive." I chuckled, "The fuck you mean he's competitive?" I asked genuinely confused on what he meant by that.

"You know what, don't even worry about it. I'm down. We need to talk to Jah about it though...if that shit stops ignoring my calls." He says.

We talk a little bit more about things, randomly switching between random topic to another, finally saying our goodbyes and hanging up. I go to Jahseh's contact and begin to call him. It rings, and rings and rings and rings before finally he picks up.

"Hey, Stoke." He says, his voice sounding raspy and hoarse. "Hey, Jah..um..how have you been?" I ask, I haven't talked privately with him in so long it's like taking to a stranger. There's a slight silence on the other end before he comes to answer, coughing a little.

"I...have a sore throat, it's killing me because I'm losing my voice due to it. But how are you?" He says clearing his throat. "It's been cool, it's been cool..what you been doing that's hurting your throat?" I ask chuckling, leaning back.

He goes silent, hesitating before answering, "I..yell a lot." He says awkwardly. "What? You be screaming at the top of your lungs for no reason?" I say jokingly. He chuckled and sighs, "Something like that, Stokeley...how are you and...that girl I met last time." He says turning serious.

"Valerie?"

"..That's her name?..but yeah, Valerie." He says, emphasizing the "er".

"We're alright..she told me about how much she likes you." I say. Val always talking about how much she likes Jah, his face tattoos and his blue hair. I couldn't help but agree with her, Jahseh is a pretty good looking guy.

"Oh..well...tell her I said thank you." He says, starting coughing a little bit more after.

"You good? You sound sick." I asked concerned.

"I'll tell you right now, Stokeley, I am not sick. If you ever catch why my throat sore or not, that's why." He says chuckling, "but thank you for your concern." He continues saying cheerfully. I legit don't know what he meant by that, but hopefully his throat heals well, his voice sounds almost as raspy as mine.

"So Miles told me you got a boo." I say, saying that made me feel weird. There was this sharp feeling I got in my gut but I ignored it.

"...Miles stay running his mouth.." He says quietly.

"You didn't tell any of us?" I ask.

"Well..I didn't know when I should've so I didn't..I was actually planning on you guys meeting him. He reminds me a lot of you guys." He says sounding cheery.

Well that makes my job easier.

"I have an idea... why don't we have a double date." I suggest. His end goes silent before he starts busting out laughing, "What are we? 16? Who the hell goes on double dates anymore?" He says. I roll my eyes, "A lot of my people, Jahseh. Look, it would be great. Friendly couple bonding! Bondage!"

"Stokeley, bondage does not mean-" he cuts himself off to laugh.

"Whatever. Are you down?" I ask finally.

He sighs, I can already feel him rolling his eyes. "Yeah, whatever, I'm down." He says.

We talk about where we should go, and when. We gonna go to this restaurant, he said he didn't want to and we went back and forth, him finally surrendering and abiding. We talk about more things, catch up and finally hang up. I go to text Miles about what just happened,

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I smile and close my phone, and start thinking about how this whole night might go down.

It might, a, go down smoothly, with all of us getting closer and becoming better friends and us more acquainted with Jah's guy.

b, we have to improvise, there's a little bit of tension and awkwardness, but the night ends off smooth and we all go home calm and peacefully

Or c, my fear of what might happen, the night will not go smoothly, there will be slick and smart remarks, and not a little bit but A LOT of tension between all of us, causing an outburst, we all aren't happy, we all go home irritated, mad, and angry.

What are the odds of that even happening? There isn't, I'm just scaring myself and I need to stop. I have a feeling it will go good and this is good opportunity for us being the only couples in the friend group to connect on a level.