house without calling because that usually doesn’t happen.
I looked out my window and saw Kenneth’s car outside of my apartment. I completely panicked on the inside. What in the hell could he possibly want? He probably left something here that he wanted; he was good for dropping by at weird times and asking for his shit. Wait until he figures out that I threw all of his stuff away after I saw him with Amelia. I did it during my depressive drunken three day binge. It didn’t do much to make me feel better, and it actually made me feel worse. Now, I felt like it was the greatest thing to do because I couldn’t wait to see the look on his face when I told him that his Armani watch was smashed and in the garbage, I didn’t even pawn it.
I slipped on shorts over my panties, and decided that my tank and shorts were enough. I buzzed him in and opened my door. He walked into my apartment and he had an odd look on his face.
“ Hey Nikki.”
“Hi Kenneth, is something wrong?”
“No nothing is wrong; I just wanted to know if I could talk to you. Is now an okay time?”
“Now is as good of a time than any,” I responded.
He blew out a gust of breath, “Can we have a seat? This is pretty important.”
“ Ummm okay,” I said and went to take a seat on the couch; he sat next to me and turned his body towards me. He looked deeply into my eyes and opened his mouth to speak and closed it again before words came out. “Tell me what’s going on, you’re not a shy man, so spit it out.”
“How are things going with you and Josh?”
I smiled at the mention of Joshua’s name, “We’re good, he’s treating me really well. Please don’t tell me that you’re here to tell me some bad news about him. Did he do something that I won’t like? If he did, please don’t tell me, I don’t think that I could take it coming from you.”
“It’s nothing like that; he’s not doing anything wrong that I know of. But believe me, if he was I would be the first to tell you.”
“That’s funny,” I retorted, “You would tell me if he was doing me wrong but you never once mentioned when you were stepping out on me. What a huge double standard there.”
“I didn’t come here to argue, I came here to…”
“What?”
“I came here to say that I’ve been seeing your pictures up on Facebook with Josh and your statuses. I’ve tried to not look at them but I can’t help it, they keep popping up in my damned news feed. It’s like every time I log in, your faces are plastered everywhere.”
“ Seriously? Then delete me as a friend, it’s as simple as that. I’m not going to stop posting because it makes you feel uncomfortable. How do you think that I feel seeing you and Amelia’s photos on your account? I’m not bitching and whining about it.”
He had a lot of balls to come to my place and speak to me the way that he was. He was trying to talk to me about a social media account. Men can be so incredibly ridiculous.
He sighed, “No that’s not how I meant it to come across at all. It’s just that everyone is talking about how happy you are with my best friend. I don’t know how to take it.”
“You gave us your blessing; I came to you respectfully and gave you a chance to say no. You decided to be macho man and act like it wasn’t a big deal. I asked you and you said that you didn’t care. So I really don’t understand where all of this is coming from.”
“Look, I know what I said before, believe me I do. I’m sorry that I acted like such an asshole about it. I honestly didn’t know how to respond to what you were asking of me. I didn’t feel like it would be fair to tell you that you couldn’t date Josh when I’m dating Amelia.”
“Well, you’re right about that. It wouldn’t be fair and it would be hugely hypocritical. That’s why I’m glad that you did the right thing. But now it seems like you’re trying to