I was home, on my bed, starring at the ceiling, thinking about how morally wrong it was to manipulate jannah and her family , their warmth made me question my principals in life, and also her, she always seems to be putting on a tough face that doesn't represent the truth about her inner self, I guess she was hurt alot in her life and she doesn't need me to add insult to injury.

When I was lost in my thoughts, the phone rang soI picked it up, it was Sophia.

" Hi darling " she said warmly.

" Hi " I said in the coldest way ever.

" Are you still mad at me babe? " she said.

" No, we are no longer together, remember? " I said trying to cut the call short

" Yes, I think that stupid bet with my brother is keeping you busy these days " she said.

Hell, she knows, why did Richard had to tell her?

She continued " I guess you have just lost it ".

"What do you mean? " I asked angerily.

" Your girl is in my house right now, I guess you should start

preparing the money for my brother " she said sarcastically.

" What the hell, what do you mean ?!!" I asked.

" Why don't you come to see it yourself ?!!" She suggested.

" Tell your brother if he hurts her, I swear I'll come after him myself " I said threatening her.

I didn't wait for her to respond so I hung up on her, then I ran out of my room and down the stairs like the flash, I was under control of the adrenaline in my blood, I couldn't realise my surroundings except when I arrived at the Atkins' mansion.

I knew that place like the back of my hand, I spent days and weeks in it, partying and playing PlayStation.

I went into Richard's room and I couldn't find him, so I went into Sophia' s room, I couldn't believe what I saw.

Richard was pinning jannah to the wall, my adrenaline kicked in again so I grapped Richard off jannah with all my power, and I began to punch him like he was the devil, and he was to me at that moment. I couldn't control my body and I didn't know why, I was so angry at my friend, how dare he does that to this poor girl?!!, she was so powerless and alone. I realized that he was drunk but it only made me madder at him.

Even with all what he had done to her, she still had sympathy for him and she asked me to stop, it was the hardest moment of self control in my whole life, I looked at his face and it was bleeding from every opening in it, I thought if I went on for another couple of minutes, I could have killed him.

I looked at her, she was on the ground, this poor little thing, I tried to calm her down as she was shaking.

She tried to get up but she couldn't, obviously she had an injury in her ankle, " so this asshole caused injured her too " I said to myself.

I wanted to go back to him and finish the job myself, but she needed help.

I helped her get up and wrapped her hand around my neck, she was limbing all the way to the car.

In the car, she thanked me, then we didn't say a word afterwards.

We arrived at her house, and I helped her to the door, her mother opened the door for us ,

" what happened ?!!" the lady said in shock.

I was about to open my mouth when Jannah stepped in.

" I fell in the school and twisted my ankle " she answered.

" So she is not going to tell them the truth " I thought.

She is that type of people who keeps their sorrow to themselves and don't want other people to carry their burden with them.

I said goodbye and left them, I started to feel guilty, if it wasn't for this stupid bet, this wouldn't have happened.

Next day at school, Jannah couldn't make it due to her injury, but unfortunately Richard could.

As soon as he saw me " hay , what was that yesterday ?" He asked angerily.

" And you have the guts to blame me?? " I said glaring at him.

" I thought we were friends " he said in defense.

" Friends?!!! You were about to destroy the poor girl forever " I responded.

" I was drunk " he said shrugging.

" That is not an excuse " I said angerily.

" Do you think she is going to tell the police?!! " He asked in concern.

" What is wrong with you, all you care about is yourself, I said you were about to destroy the poor girl's life and you ask me if she is gonna tell the police, for your information if she does tell the police I'll stand with her " I said making myself clear.

" I thought we were friends!!!! Are you backing out of the bet ?!!" He said.

" I don't care anymore about the stupid bet " I said sternly.

He looked at me in surprise, as if making sure I wasn't joking then he left without a word.

After 2 days I saw Jannah at school, she was slightly limbing, I approached her

" Hi, how are you doing today?!" I asked her smiling.

" Alhamdulilah, I'm fine, thank you " she said smiling at me for the first time ever.

" I'll pretend that I understood the first part of the sentence " I said laughing.

" Oh it means thank God in Arabic " she said smiling.

" You are the boss " I said.

" I don't think I can express how much I'm thankful for what you did, you saved my life " she said in a grateful tone.

" I was trying to tell you I'm kinda cool, plus I'm secretly Batman but don't tell anybody " I said winking.

She laughed in a cute way, then we left for our classes.

After the school day I waited for her, I wanted to drive her home, I didn't feel that she was safe anymore on her own and I didn't trust Richard.

Suddenly I saw sohpia approaching her, they talked for some time then jannah looked in my direction in sad shocked eyes, I was petrified, did Sophia tell her about the bet? if she does this will destroy my image in her eyes.

Sophia left her and walked in my direction, she stopped and looked at me

" she knows " she whispered in my ear and walked away smiling in victory, my heart dropped at what she said.

I walked towards Jannah, praying that she would understand.

" Don't even try " she shouted, pointing her finger at me but looking away.

" I'm sorry it was a stupid thing to do " I said apologizing.

" Sorry???!! You were planning on destroying my life for fun " she said angerily.

" And I repent, I was an asshole, you made me change " I said.

" Change ?!!!! Guess what James Wayne I don't believe that people can change, do you know what makes me really mad is that I began to trust you. See, I closed my heart since my father's death, I stopped trusting men, I don't even trust my own brother...until you came into my life, I thought you saved me because you cared, we even let you in our house, so I thought you were a friend, but you are a traitor James Wayne " and with this word she stormed out.

I didn't know what to say or what to do, she was absolutely right in all what she had said, but I knew one thing, I was mostly mad that she said I was a friend, being a Friend wasn't enough for me, because I simply wanted to be more than a friend of hers.