Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 10

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Inherent Love - Season 1 - Episode 10

“What exactly did Adunni tell you?” She asked without looking at him.

He looked at her for a while as if not knowing how to say what he had to say, then he turned off the car stareo, sat back in his seat before saying, “She told me you wanted to have sex with me.” A few seconds went by and when he didn’t get any response from her, he went on to say, “She told me you have been working on getting me hooked up with your friends so you could have sex with me eventually.”

“Is that all she told you?”
“Yes.” He said with a face like he was wondering why she was not denying the allegations.

“She told you my friend, Ann told her that, right?”
“Yes.”

“The only mistake i made was trying to hook you up with that girl before i really knew her.”

“What are you saying?”
“Yes, at a time, I really wanted to be more than your friend.” She paused, took a deep breath before countinuing. “And yes I told her how i felt, but i never said i wanted to sleep with you. It was all girl talk I thought would stay between us.” She looked at him affectionately for a few seconds before adding, “I didn’t want you to end up unhappy like me, that’s why I wanted to hook you up so bad.”

“What are you talking about? Jack is a good guy.” He said with a curious look on his face.
“Yes, he is a good guy. He is a great guy. But…but i am nothing more than his beard.”
“His beard? What are you talking about?”
“Stephen, Jack is gay.”

“What?” He said as he turned in his seat to face her.
She had a smile on her face as she said, “I have nothing against gay people, but he lied to me.”
“You didn’t know while you were dating?”
“You know him just as much as I do…did you?” Stephen shook his head slowly, lost in thought. His mind went through all the times he had spent with Jack, wondering if there were any signs that he might have been gay, but he couldn’t even picture Jack as a homosexual. He was too macho.

Not like they had been best buddies, but back when he was a heavy drinker, Jack had been a regular at a bar he frequented. They had connected when they discovered they both had a love for psychological thriller movies.
Coincidentally, Jack worked on the same street with Modupe back then, and one day, after going to see Modupe at work, he saw Jack while she was walking him to his car. He introduced them, and, a few months later, they told him they had started dating. And a year later, they were married. Stephen had thought the whole thing happened so fast back then, but since he knew both of them really well, he had been genuinely happy for them.

“You see why I didn’t know how to explain things to Adunni, or you.” Modupe said, distorting his train of thought. “Also, you and Jack were very good friends at some point, so…”

“So…” Stephen said, urging her on.

She took a deep breath before saying, “The other reason why I wanted you to hook up with my friends was because…”
“Because…?”

“Because I needed to know something, and I couldn’t find out on my own. I needed to know if you were gay.”