You're So High Maintenance | Jaele (Completed)

25. Until We See What This Could Be, Results Could Be Tragic

⬆️Arica Himmel as Zipporah

Almost after Khalifa had just revealed that he wanted to break up with Stefani. Josiah had interfered.

"Whoa, bro. Are you sure? You don't have to do it."

"I can't stand her anymore, J," Khalifa had replied almost immediately. "I'm tired of this façade. And I couldn't stand her for a long time. I was just reluctant to leave her because I knew how she would take it."

As Kaiden and Savannah had tried to convince Tatiana to help them find out more about Darius and Lilibet - Josiah and Reminisce had done the exact same thing with Khalifa.

Stefani wasn't here at the moment because she wanted to buy a snack for Khalifa.

She had just come back after talking to her cousin DaSanté, absolutely horrified that Josiah and Reminisce were there.

"What are these two idiots doing here?!"

"They're not idiots," Khalifa had deadpanned. "They're my friends. And one of them is family so you better watch who you're talking to."

Khalifa was very protective when it had come to Reminisce, especially how she was his only sibling, for now maybe. He didn't know what the future could have held.

If anyone had done anything to hurt her, and if anyone had done anything to hurt Khalifa - the two of them would have backed each other up. The two of them weren't just twins but were ride or dies at the same time.

Josiah and Reminisce had smiled as Khalifa had backed them up.

Stefani didn't seem happy and she wasn't. She didn't want Khalifa to talk to them ever again since they had messed with their relationship two times.

"You said you were never going to speak to them!"

"No, you told him never to speak to us," Reminisce had interfered, resting on her brother's arm. "And now Khalifa is done with you. He wants to break up with you. Bye bye!"

When she had said bye bye, she had waved at her, although Stefani wanted to hear from Khalifa himself that he wanted to break up with her.

She had looked at him for a while, and he had done the same thing with her.

"This can't be true. It's either me or them. I have put up with you for 9 months!"

"Yeah? Josiah had put up with me for 5 years, and Reminisce my whole life. 9 months is almost nothing," Khalifa grinned.

He had said almost because it kind of was something. Just not that much compared to 5 years and 18 years respectively.

"But yes, I do want to break up with you. You're nothing but a liability."

That felt so good to say, with Josiah, Reminisce and Khalifa high fiving each other afterwards.

An annoyed Stefani had swore at him, saying that it was his loss. She had even almost dumped his snacks on him, but Khalifa had managed to dodge it just in time.

Her true colours were probably going to show anytime soon, which was what Khalifa secretly couldn't have waited for.

He knew people's true colours had shown eventually - especially if someone was no longer in his life for one reason or the other.

After everything I've done for you and this is how you treat me.

I hope karma comes back to bite you like you deserve. I would bite you myself but violence is never the answer.