"I told you, you were supposed to pretend to like him, and date him. And once he trusts you enough, bring him back here. Why would you cheat?" He says over the phone, "Who's the hoe anyway?"

"Valerie. And I know, I know. I fucked up." I say facepalming. "She sounds basic." He says with a chuckle.

"What he say? Y'all break up?" He asks.

"I haven't even told him yet. Valerie said that she was going to if I didn't.." I said.

"Then what the fuck are you doing pouting over the phone?"

"Jefferey, it's hard to do things like this."

"No it's not. Just tell him." He insisted

"How would you know? You fuck people. Illegally. Jahseh wasn't even yours, you literally kidnapped him."

"Listen, Michael. Tell him before she does. Jahseh deep down has a soft spot, he's very forgiving." He explains.

"Then..I should just play victim?"

"Pretty much."

I sigh, "And what if he doesn't forgive me?"

"I'll handle it." He says.

"Get the fuck out." Jahseh says getting up off the couch.

"L-Look Jahseh, it was an honest mistake, I didn't even want to, she made me-"

I was cut off by him throwing a couch pillow at my face, "I don't give a fuck what she did or you did, end of the day, you did it." He shouted, throwing another pillow but this time I dodged it.

"I know, Jah, I'm sorry." I said picking up the pillow that was thrown at me earlier.

"Whatever, Michael." He says waving me off. "I already knew something like this was about to happen, I'm not even surprised.."

"What do you mean 'you knew.'" I asked confused.

He chuckled, "Michael, you're bisexual, your ex girlfriend, a hoe, comes back into your life as an 'old' friend, while you're dating a boy. Besides, I had a feeling from the beginning." He says sitting back down and sighing.

I hesitantly go to sit down near him, I put my arm around him, him surprisingly leaning into my touch.

"I was going to tell you sooner..but.."

"But what?"

"N-nothing..I was just too guilty." I said.

He stayed silent before jolting up,

"If you slept with Valerie, Valerie cheated on Stokeley." He says getting up.

I absolutely forgot about Stokeley and Valerie. I can't imagine how Stokeley feels right now, I don't know If he's going to beat my ass, or be more mad towards Valerie..whatever it is, I'm ready and I deserve it. The original reason I was dating Jahseh was for Jefferey, but now that I've caught feelings, I'm in for more than I signed up for.

"Michael. Do you know if Valerie has told him?" Jahseh asks, grabbing his phone. I shrugged, honestly not knowing. Knowing her, she probably didn't. She has no shame and most likely kissed Stokeley with the same lips she sucked my dick with.

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At this point, I'm not even mad about Michael, I'm concerned about Stokeley. He really didn't deserve Valerie in the first place, and I didn't even like her. He knew that.

I didn't want to tell him not to be with her, that's rude to intervene in another's relationship, me liking them or not. But I knew Valerie would do some type of shit like this, and I already had a feeling Michael and I would eventually..split.

I really liked Michael, but he blew it.

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I quickly put on slides and walk out the door without even shutting it. I hear Michael follow me, and shutting my door.

"The fuck you following me for?" I say picking up speed.

"So you don't fight anybody." He says catching up.

"Oh? So you can hold me back with your pussy fingers?" I say.

"I didn't even touch her like that."

"You probably have STDs now." I say moving away from him.

"Jahseh I don't have any STDs." He replies, still pacing near me.

I don't say anything, as I finally get over to Stokeley's door. I stop, hearing muffled talking. I signal Michael to be quiet as I eavesdrop

Stokeley, Jahseh just wants to tear us apart.

Why would Jah do that?

You guys have been close lately, and that shit is weird and gay, do you forget Jah's gay? He's stealing time away from me that I can spend with you.

Yes, I'm aware that Jahseh is gay. But that doesn't bother me because he's my fucking friend.

I knock, all that y'all going silent.

"That's probably Jahseh now." I hear Stokeley's voice coming towards the door,

"Who told him he could come over?" Valerie asks.

"It's my house so I did." He says.

He opens the door and looks at me with a smile,

"I told you the door was open." I said. He told me to leave the door open so I did. I was confused why he knocked. I saw Michael behind him, I don't know why he was here but I didn't think a lot of it. He walks in without saying anything, Michael coming in without not even making eye contact.

"Hey Jahseh." I hear Valerie say. "Did you come over to tell him?" Jahseh responds, disregarding Valerie's greeting.

"Tell him what?" She asks.

"Tell him what you did, did you come to tell him?"

I looked at both of them confused, they both looked at me, "Tell me what?" I asked, lost.

"Your girlfriend her-"

"No no no, he's lying." Valerie says cutting Jahseh off, "Stokeley, I didn't do anything. I changed, so you don't even have to worry about that." She says.

"Stokeley, she cheated on you." Jahseh says quickly, "there's Michael, who she cheated on you with." Jahseh points at Michael who looks very anxious.

"No I didn't, I didn't cheat on you. Jahseh is lying. You don't even have proof that I did."

"You're a fucking hoe, that's all the proof that we all need!" Jahseh exclaims. I don't even know what to say, or what to feel in this situation. I already knew something like this was going to happen being with Valerie again and I can admit I was wasting my time.

"Hold on guys!" I say quieting them down. "Jahseh, how do you know?" I asked him.

"Michael told me." He answers,

"Michael is fucking lying. They're deadass lying to you." Valerie says quickly.

"Ask Michael. Michael, tell him I'm not lying." Jahseh says looking over at Michael. Michael says nothing. He opens his mouth to say something, but then closing it and sighs.

"Jahseh is lying to you." Michael speaks up.

"What?!" Jahseh exclaims, looking at Michael.

"See that, Stokeley? I told you." Valerie says.

"Jahseh is lying being she didn't just cheat with me." He starts, "She cheated with Dimitri also." Michael says. I scrunch my eyebrows, "Dimitri? Our manager?" I ask, looking over at Valerie.

"I thought he was gay.." Jahseh asks.

"Yeah that's what I thought too." I said, surprised."

"Okay, fine. I did sleep with Dimitri but we weren't even together that time Stokeley. I didn't sleep with Michael."

Michael walks over to me, showing me text messages on his phone. I already believed she did, so I didn't even read everything. I sighed,

"Sorry man.." Michael says.

"Jahseh, Michael. Get out." I say finally. "Wait, What?" Jahseh asks.

"Just do it." I say. He looks at me then at Michael, then start to leave. Leaving Valerie and I in the living room alone.

"So. That's it?" She says shrugging.

"For the second time." I said. "You told me you changed, what happened to that?"

"Look, Stokeley I made a mistake, I'm not going to lie." She says.

"You've made multiple mistakes, Valerie. Not just A mistake." I corrected her.

"Yes, multiple. But I'm sorry, Stokeley. Is there anything I can do to make up for it? Anything?" She says getting closer to me.

Not a goddamn thing.

"You can..get out." I say pointing at the door.

"Stokeley-"

"We're done, for real this time." I say. "When Jahseh said that thing about you that time in the car, I agreed with everything he said. That's why I didn't stand up for you, I'm not going to sit and go against something that's true."

"So we're just done? Like that?"

"Like that." I say, walking over to the door and opening it for her. "You can leave now." I say.

He gives me a look before storming out.

"You can come back in, guys." I spot Jahseh and Michael peeking around the corner.

"Are you okay, Stokeley." Jahseh asks giving me a hug. I hug him back and nod,

"Yeah." I answer simply. I look over at Michael,

"I have been waiting for her to do some how shit, so I can leave her. I really should've listened to you Michael." I say. He looks up at me and smirks, "Yeah. But uh..sorry for what I did, man." He says.

"You honestly shouldn't even be apologizing, you did me a favor." I said. I let them enter in. We sit and talk for a while, laugh, and joke before Michael has to leave, and eventually Jahseh has to too.

"Alright, Stoke. I'm gonna go home now." Jahseh says patting my thigh and getting up. I get up with him and walk him over to the door,

"Hey Jahseh?" I call to him

"What's up."

"Are you..and Michael still together?" I asked.

He thinks about it for few seconds before shaking his head no.

"I'm lonely gay boy now." He says chuckling, turning to leave. "Wait Jahseh." I fall to him again,

"Yes, Pokeley?"

"We should chill tomorrow."

"I was planning on raiding your fridge anyway." He says laughing and leaving.

"Jahseh, Kim's sim is going to die if he doesn't eat."

"He's bulimic and depressed, he don't need food." He replies. "Look, look, look, we're at Jared's funeral." He says pointing at the screen. I laugh at him,

"Aye! A man lost his life, don't laugh." He says jokingly. "Oh shit, Kim's dead." He says. I look up at the screen and see Kim's character lying on the floor and the grim reaper thing pop up.

"Kim ain't gonna be happy." I say.

"Yeah but.. I made sure to keep your sim alive." Jahseh says. "Where's your sim?" I ask.

"He died a while ago." He says.

"Awww how sweet of you." I say jokingly, grabbing him and hugging him. He laughs before hugging me back. "He doesn't have friends now, just like you in real life."

I suck my teeth and push him away,

"Shut up, midget." I say. "I'm a thick midget, so it don't even matter." He says turning off the tv and setting down the game controller.

"I'm tired." He says yawning.

"It's literally morning time." I say. He comes to sit near me and leans his head in my shoulder. He lets out a sigh, "you have bony shoulders."

"No I don't." I say.

"I'm hungry." He whines.

"Then go get food." I whined back.

"You do it for me?" He says pouting.

"Why me?" I ask.

Jahseh's been acting like a big baby lately. I feel like I'm talking care of a literal toddler for the past week. It's cute and all until he makes me do a million things for him.

"Because I'm your favorite, so do it." He says.

I groan and try to get up,

"No actually, I'm tired, stay down." He says holding me down.

"So what you want me to do? Get you food or sit?"

"Sit and sleep with me." He says sounding actually tired.

"But I'm not tired, Jah."

"You will go to sleep when I snap my fingers..." He says waiting a few seconds then snapping his fingers. He looked up at and I looked back at him with a straight face,

"Since you're not tired, tell me a bed time story." Jahseh says, adjusting his head on my shoulder.

"I don't know any stories."

"Make one up then, dummy."

"Okay, Fine...there once was a boy. His name was...Heshaj. He was a very short. He was like 3 foot 2. And he ate everything. One day he ate sooo fucking much, he died because he exploded. The end." I said quickly. Jahseh says nothing, I thought he was asleep for a second before he lets out a loud gasp.

"You little bitch, that's my name backwards." He says giving me a playful slap. I chuckle before it goes silent. All that can be heard is breathing, and the cars passing by outside. I look down at Jahseh's head that's filled with long blue dreads. I always liked his dreads, I miss the black and blonde but he blue suits him.

I reach around his head and grab one of his dreads, looking at them. "Why did you change the black and blonde?" I asked

"I've had it too long." He says.

"But I liked it." I say.

"You don't like the blue?" Jahseh asks looking up at me.

"I do, I just miss the black and blonde." I said. He nodded. "I'll keep that in mind." He responds.

"My birthday is coming up." Jahseh says suddenly.

"Your birthday's next year, Jahseh."

"It's still coming up."

"January 23rd is in 3 months." I said chuckling.

He gasped and looks back up at me, "You remembered!"

"I just remembered the time we stayed in a hotel and our key number was 123, and you were like 'that's my birthday'." I recalled.

"Oh yeah. I forgot I was fucking kidnapped not too long ago." He says chuckling and rolling his eyes.

"Why didn't you call the police?" I asked, "isnt that the most logical thing to do?"

"I ask myself that everyday, Stoke." He says finally.

I hope nothing like that does happen to Jahseh again, and whoever did kidnap him. Jahseh has been through a lot I can tell, and I sometimes forget that we aren't too much of strangers, and that we met years and years ago.

I look down at Jahseh, who's breathing got slower indicating he's probably asleep now. I'm trapped now, with my arm around his head and him leaning on my chest, not my shoulder anymore. So I have no choice but to nap with him.

I'm actually glad Valerie and I broke up. I should've known that getting back with her was a mistake and I am stupid for even thinking that she changed and everything would work out. Now that Jahseh has cut ties with Michael, and I with Valerie, he seems happier and more open. And we weren't the closest, but now I feel we're the closest in the whole group.

I'm genuinely happy that I've gotten closer to Jahseh. I feel a certain happiness that I don't really feel with anyone else, not with any girl, or any of my other friends. I feel some type of way when I'm not around him long enough, or when he checks out other people, joking or not.

I never thought I'd be admitting I have a crush on a guy but, I think I have a crush on Jahseh.

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**if there's typos, sorry. I'm too lazy to proof read. I always am.**