You're So High Maintenance | Jaele (Completed)

15. One Less Problem Without You

Sorry for the slow update, so here's one now to make up for it! I wanted to do so yesterday but I honestly got distracted 😣

Back it up

"No."

Clap it up

"What?"

Switch it up

"Hell no."

Change it up

"Seriously, bro?" Kaiden complained. "Come on Josiah, it's like you're not even trying to look good for this party."

Do that thing for me
Do that thing for me

As Khalifa had just made up with Stefani, Josiah, Reminisce, Tatiana, Kaiden and Savannah in the meantime were in Josiah's room.

The fancy dress party that Tatiana's sister and her friend was holding had started in about an hour or so, with everybody being ready except from Josiah.

The song Do That Thing by B2K and Lil Kim had blasted through the stereos and it had been about thirty or so minutes since Josiah had tried to get ready.

Even though he had a lot of nice things in his wardrobe and they all knew that, he was deliberately choosing bad clothes.

"Josiah, the party starts really soon, and if you're not ready by then then I'm sorry but we'll have to go without you. We don't want to do that." Savannah lamented. "Is something up with you? You're not normally this indecisive."

Something was up with him and it was Khalifa. He just couldn't have gotten over him not speaking to them again.

And the thing was he wasn't even overreacting, he had every single right to be mad at them. They had interfered not once but twice in him and Stefani's relationship.

He told them not to do so.

Josiah was the main reason as to why Khalifa wasn't speaking to any of them, and he couldn't have helped but to beat himself up because of it, even though he was just trying to help.

"This is all my fault. If I hadn't interfered again then none of this would have happened."

Josiah wasn't saying that everybody had to like him, he had his fair share of haters after all, although if the roles were reversed and Khalifa had interfered in his relationship twice then he would have been pretty angry too.

"Josiah," Tatiana had told him, standing up and placing a hand on him shoulder. "Why are you so hard on yourself, bro? We're about to go to a fancy dress party. You don't want to be looking dejected there, do you?"

He shook his head.

"And forget what people think," Reminisce had continued. "Is it not better without Khalifa? He's stubborn, rude, ignorant - I'd say that we're better off without him. One less problem without him. What about y'all?"

They had all cheered.

This didn't mean that they didn't feel guilty. They did. They just couldn't have dwelled on it, especially right before a huge and maybe once in a lifetime party.

He had smiled a little bit when they had said that, with Tatiana's phone pinging during that.

"Ooh, y'all, we gotta go help my sister out with the party. She needs approximately three volunteers."