DEDICATION | Book Two

C H A P T E R 34

C H A P T E R
T H I R T Y - F O U R

          After dropping Shanice off at home, Ahmad decided to crash at him and Cali's place since it was closer to Amir and Justin apartment. Dropping his keys on the counter, Ahmad tiredly yawned as he made his way towards their bedroom where he saw their light was on so he knew Cali was up.

He wasn't sure what time it was since his phone had died hours ago, but he knew it was stupid late and he knew she was probably upset.

Pushing the door open to their room he saw Cali was sitting up in their bed with her arms folded and a slight mug on her face as she stared directly at him, before glancing over at the clock on their nightstand. "It's almost four in the damn morning, I assumed you just weren't coming by but by the looks of it .. you and your friend must've had a really good night." She scoffed followed by a laugh.

"The plan was to really just go out to eat and to the movies, but she ain't wanna go home and to be honest neither did I." He shrugged.

Cali laughed, "Oh so now you finally admit that this friend is a female, who is she Ahmad? And why haven't I heard about this girl before?"

"You have heard about her, its Justin sister Shanice."

Looking at him crazy, she got out of the bed and walked over towards him. "Justin's sister? As in the sister you almost fucked a few weeks ago? Really Ahmad? What in your right mind thinks hanging out with that bitch is cool? For one, its disrespectful as fuck and two you shouldn't be doing it! You wouldn't want me out or being around a guy that I either slept with or almost had sex with so why would you do it!?" She yelled.

"This is why I didn't want to tell you, I knew you would assume it was more going on when it's not." He argued back.

"I was there at the restaurant, I saw you two smiling and laughing in each other's faces. You aren't even funny so I knew that shit had to be forced." She scoffed.

"Okay and if you was there then you saw with your own two fucking eyes that nothing is going on between us. So why is you tripping?" He questioned.

"I have every right to feel a certain way since you couldn't be honest about the shit from jump, we're trying to work on our marriage and hanging out with bitches that you almost accidently fucked ain't the way to go. You said you was willing to work things out, but if you seeing other people on the side is your plan as well then count me out." Walking towards him, she grabbed his hands. "I mean come on Ahmad, what if the roles were reversed?"

Rolling his eyes, he stepped back and began removing his shirt. "But they were, you had Reggie all in my face, in my house, around my family, around my niggas and was all around you alone at times and the whole time you knew you two fucked! I trusted you with everything man, and you wanna talk about disrespect, nah what's disrespectful is you allowing yourself to fuck that nigga and have his ass in my face for months. We kissed, but I ain't fuck her and I don't plan too because I couldn't do that to you no matter how bad you hurt me and fuck is talking about seeing other people? We friends and that's it, you making up shit now."

Letting out a sigh, Cali began pacing the floor. "Despite what I did Ahmad, two wrongs don't make a right. You guys had a weak moment and another weak moment could come and you might not be able to stop yourself from actually going further. So I feel you two really shouldn't be hanging out and you need to dead that friendship. If you really plan on fixing our marriage."

Chuckling to himself, he nodded. "Unlike you I have self-control. I know what and who I got waiting on me at home so I would never disrespect you in that way." He spat causing her to go mute.