In Love With a Thug✔️

Chapter 15

I was a little late picking up Mariah and Lisa but they didn't make a big deal out of it. Me, Jasmine and my sisters were in my moms car talking, on the way to the mall.

"When am I going to meet your new bestfriend?" Jasmine asks, her nose in her phone as I drive.

"I don't have a new bestfriend. Me and Adrianna are just cool. Really cool."

"That's fine, when we do we meet."

"We already spoke, she's meeting us at the mall with her boyfriend.

"Whose her dude?"

"This fine dude that they went to school with. His name is Noah, he was the captain of their football team." Lisa blushed from the backseat. She always had a tiny crush on Noah. Adrianna thought it was cute.

"Okay well damn Lisa. I'm gonna take your word for it." Jasmine laughed, amused by my sister's small crush.

We pulled up to the mall and once I found parking we we're out the door and walking through the food court. Adrianna spotted me before I spotted her and she waved me over.

"That's her? She's cute." Jasmine's eyes got slightly bigger when seeing Adriana. Let me find out my bestie got a thing for girls?

"Hey guys." She greeted us when we walked over. Noah's eyes left his phone and he spoke as well.

" Hey Adrianna, this is my bestfriend Jasmine." I introduced them and said hey to each other.

I wanted them to get slightly acquainted before we started walking around the mall and buying things.

"So I'm just supposed to stand by and watch you guys shop?" Noah asked, irritation laced in his voice. "Imani, where's Malique?" He asked me and I looked at Adrianna. I didn't tell her Malique was coming so I didn't know why Noah was here.

"Okay so my bad. We were already together when you hit me up about the mall so I just dragged him along and told him Malique would be here." Adrianna sucked her teeth and I laughed at her. If I thought I was obsessed with my man, Adrianna had me beat.

"Well it's a good thing my brother just texted me that he was here." Jasmine announced, causing me to look at her with wide eyes.

"I don't know, I don't do well with new niggas, especially ones that ain't from around her." Noah puffed his chest out causing Adrianna to roll her eyes.

"We are from down here, just moved away for a little while. You'll like my brother." Jasmine assured him. Before I could even say anything Jonah was walking into our space. He spoke to Jasmine, and hugged my sisters and looked at me.

"Adrianna, Noah, this is Jasmine's brother Jonah. Jonah, Adrianna and Noah." I introduced them.

"Oh I think I'm a little more than just Jasmine's brothers wouldn't you say so Mani." He noted, making Noah tilt his head in uncertainty. I'm sure he wanted to know what that meant.

"So now you have someone to hang in the back with babe." Adrianna said to Noah ignoring Jonah's comment. The second Jasmine said 'her brother', she knew who he was to me. Adrianna knew a decent amount about Jasmine and Jonah because I told her about them. She knew that Jonah was my first love.

"Yeah man." Jonah agreed, never taking his eyes off me.

"Well come on then." Adrianna got up from her seat and walked over to me and the girls and we all started walking, leaving the boys to follow if they wanted in the back.

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"You need to speak to him." Adrianna whispered in my ear. And Jasmine nodded. Lisa and Mariah were in the changing rooms trying on some clothes while we sat out here waiting on them.

"Don't you guys think I know that. What do I even say to him?" I snap at them.

"I don't know, maybe, how have you been since you've been shot is a good start." Jasmine snickered, pissing me off.

"He was shot?" Adrianna asked with her mouth dropped. She didn't know that part of the story because I decided to keep that to myself.

"Yeah, don't ask." Jasmine waved her off. "On a serious note though, I don't know what you say to him either, but a conversation needs to be had Mani." she continued.

"I know, I just don't know how to go about it."

"Do you love him?" Adrianna asked out the blue, making Jasmine look at me as if she wanted to know the answer to.

"Yes, I love him. He was my first love." I passed over it like it was nothing.

"You know what she means, Imani." Jasmine snapped. I did know what Adrianna meant.

"Yes, I never stopped. But I have a boyfriend now. A boyfriend I love very much." I ensure them and Adrianna shook her head while Jasmine nodded her head and put her attention back in her phone. Adrianna knew what Jasmine didn't. I was very much still in love with Jonah and I didn't even realize until I saw him in person again.

"Guess it's easy to mask your love for a person when they aren't here. But now that he's back..." Adrianna trailed off. I look behind me and see Noah and Jonah in the distance laughing about something. They seemed to be getting along well. Jonah looked up and we made eye contact for a second before he ripped his eyes away from mine and continued his conversation with Noah.

I guess Adrianna was able to read my mind because she waltzed over to Noah and gave him a small kiss. Pulling his attention away from Jonah. "I'm gonna talk to him." I let Jasmine know and walk away from her and in the direction of Jonah. Adrianna pulls Noah off in another direction.

"Hey."

"Hey." He looked down at me. "What's up with you?"

"Nothing much." I cower under his gaze and look down at my feet.

"Aye, I'm talking to you." He lifts my chin up so I can look at him in his eyes. He always demanded eye contact with me. "What's up man."

"I don't know what to say to Jonah. How's your chest?" I ask. The reason why Jasmine and Joanh upped and moved was because Jonah had gotten into some street trouble and got shot in his chest. After being laid up in the hospital for weeks, their grandma came down and refused to leave without them.

"Not shit to a real G." He boasted but I knew better. So did he, one look at him and straighten out his act for a second. "I'm good Imani."

"No breathing trouble?"

"Nothing I can't handle alright." I nod and look away from him. "I've missed the hell outta you Imani."

"I've missed you too." tears clouded the brim of my eyes. He reached into me and like second nature I fell into his arms. "I've missed you so much." I whisper. My phone goes off in my pocket, making me pull away slightly to check it.

Babe flashed across my screen, making Jonah suck his teeth. I put my phone on silent and put it back in my pocket, giving Jonah my attention. "What's up with him?" He finally asked and I didn't even know what to say.

"He's my boyfriend."

"No shit. You love him?"

"I do." I admit.

"You still love me?"

"Very much so." I wasn't going to lie to him. I did love him, but I moved on.

"Why that nigga seem so familair to me." He asked but I wasn't sure if it was actually a question for me.

"What do you mean familiar?"

"His body stature, his cold dark eyes. I've seen him before."

"That's impossible, he's older than us."

"Yeah, maybe..." Jonah trailed off. "I still love you Imani, nothings changed."

"Everything has changed Jonah. I'm in a full ass relationship. I pretty much live with dude. I just want us to be friends Jonah. I've missed you."

"We always gonna be friends alright." He looked down at me and I smiled at him. "And friends hangout right?" I nod my head with a slight smile across my face.