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He was surprised when I called him and asked him to fly out for a visit.
“Naseer,” he says nervously, this is the first time he’s seen me. I can see his contrite looks.
“Brian, it’s good to see you dude,” I say with a smile.
“Good to see you too,” he gives a throaty reply.
“Brian, I’m healing, stop blaming yourself,” I say to ease the contrite look on his face.
“How can I not? I put you in this bed for no good reason?”
“I accepted the race challenge, Brian; I could have turned it down. I’m just as guilty. You must stop blaming yourself. I’m still here and living to fight daily.” He nods, but he looks sad. “Trust me, I am fine, Brian. I need to share something with you.”
He pulls the chair Jade always sits in.
“When does the cast come off?”
“A few weeks. It can’t come fast enough. They have removed most of the cast just my legs are taking longer.”
“I bet and therapy is next, right?”
“Yes, I started the upper body therapy. Stop worrying. Your worried face looks worse than my mom and we both know she owns the crown on worry.”
He laughs. Good, finally got him to relax.
“First, I need to speak with you about something important.”
“Ok-ay,” he says in a dry tone.
“I met someone.”
“That’s great news,” he says excitedly.
“No, it’s not.”
“Say what now?” He’s perplexed.
“The someone is one of Taimani’s friends and I’m losing my mind here. You’re the only one I can talk to about this.”
“Back up for a second, isn’t Taimani in high school?”
“Yes, and the girl is her classmate,” I say, shocking both of us even more.
“How?” He looks more perplexed, then he starts to laugh, “Only you, Naseer, will be in a plaster cast and still get a girl, a teenage one for that matter.”
“I don’t know how.” I snap, “it just fucking happened.”
“Fine, so what’s the problem?”
“Isn’t that obvious, she’s too young for me and I don’t think she sees me as a partner, how do I make that happen without being too obvious, with a woman we both know what we want is to fuck, in this case, I shouldn’t even be thinking about kissing her let alone wanting to date her.”
“Yep, that’s a problem.” He sighs.
“Before you start convincing me to stop seeing her, you should know she made me call you back and gave me hope plus several reasons to push towards getting out of bed and wheelchair.
“I doubt you will give her up if I tell you to stop seeing her. It’s written all over your face. I’ve never seen you like this before.”
“At least we are on the same page about something.” We remain silent. I marinating my thoughts.
