doughnuts

"dream of me" he said but he refused leave

"Noah?" Zamir called "it's getting late"

"yeah... it is" he sighed and pulled him in for a hug.

He was stalling. Zamir figured

"hey is something wrong at home?" he asked worriedly

"everything is fine... can I sleep..."

"NO, you're going home... I'll book you a taxi" Zamir muttered under his breath and broke away from the hug to go find his phone.

"no need, i'm leaving now" Noah drawled and began to leave.

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Perhaps he should have just allowed him to stay because now he was tormented and could not get any sleep.

He continued to toss and turn around in bed for long till he finally gave in and called the source of his misery

"yeah" a drowsy voice answered.

"um...hey"

"hi"

"sooo... you're in bed already?"

he was answered with a grunt and then shuffling sounds and after what seemed like an eternity, he heard the sound of door opening and closing

"can't sleep?" Noah asked in a deep voice

"yeah... what's with the voice?" Zamir couldn't help but ask. it was fueling up the fire within him unnecessarily and how did even figured why he called

"what?" Noah asked sounding amused "you woke me from my sleep, how do you expect me to sound?"

"you don't like it?"

"will you be bringing me breakfast in the morning " Zamir said changing the subject. it was better not to encourage him

"is that why you called?"

"yeah and...."

"and what?" Noah asked from the other side, curiosity obvious in his voice

[to hear you say you love me] but he wasn't about to blurt that out. That was just his heart acting up, it's not him who wants to hear it "nothing, just forget about it"

"okay, if that's what you want"

There was a long silence as neither of them knew what to say next

"I guess i'll see you in the morning then" Noah said breaking the silence "for your breakfast"

"hmmn... sure"

"I love you"

Those words. Those three words made his heart flutter in his chest in appreciation. He feels the same or at least his heart does but he would not be saying that out loud either "good night" he murmured and ended the call

He smiled as he lay back down on the bed. Now he was feeling sleepy.

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"it's really good, I like it" Zamir hummed as he shamelessly dug in greedily into the doughnut box in front of him "where did you get this?"

"are you trying to buy the place out Mr Jackson?" Noah asked beside him while toying with Zamir's hair.

He had insisted that morning that Zamir eat what he had brought. Zamir who has been looking forward to breakfast agreed immediately, not that Noah needed his consent anyway.

Zamir rolled his eyes and turned to Noah "no... I just wanna know, so I could get my own doughnuts"

"well..." Noah paused and sat up straight to look Zamir squarely in the eye "my mom made them"

"really, they're good" Zamir said and turned away from the uncomfortable eye contest but his shoulders were turned so he could look at Noah again

"... and I met with Mr Luke with some of them ofcourse and he thinks they're great"

"I just said the same thing Noah, it is really great" Zamir turned away again but Noah wasted no time turning back to face him

"what exactly are you trying to tell me?" Zamir asked beginning to feel frustrated

Noah began to rub his hands up and down Zamir's arm to calm him "there's a small shop that's part of Mr Luke pizzeria, he told me his ex-wife used to sell ice cream there... but now it's vacant and he offered to let my mom run a doughnut business there... if I can get your approval" he said ending it with million dollar smile

"why would Luke need my approval before he give out his shop" Zamir asked confused "why would he?" he asked again when he didn't get an answer the first time

"because you know... he was worried that you'd suddenly take away his business if he did it without you knowing"

Zamir's gaze hardened and he brushed of the hand massaging his arm. He went to sit behind his desk and began to go through the files he'd left earlier for some troublesome doughnut and perfectly ignored the other man

But he wasn't the only one offended at the moment.

"Zamir I do not appreciate being ignored, if it doesn't involve my mom, I won't even still be here" Noah said from where he remained seated

"Luke doesn't need my approval before he could give out a small shop to whoever he wants..."

"would it have been a different case if it were it bigger plus i think he really does need your approval, who knows what mood you'd wake in tomorrow" Noah cut in, slowly dishing out each word with enunciated venom.

"what the fuck is wrong with you huh? Luke doesn't need my approval to help whoever he wants and I don't particularly have anything against your mother" he was begining to shout in anger.

"oh yeah? what about the golden pen" Noah wasn't going to let go and he continued to sink his fangs straight into Zamir's fragile ego from where he sat

"you fired her because of a stupid pen and made sure no establishment within the area will employ her..."

"let's not do this Noah... please" he rubbed his temple to massage the little headache he was begining to have

"..."

"your mother did something wrong, something that was against the company's ethics" Zamir said in a more softer tone "... and that pen she took really means a lot to me, it was given to me by..."

"forget it" Noah snapped and got up.

"are you leaving?" Zamir asked also getting up from his chair but he didn't bother going close to Noah. he just stood behind the the desk

"I have a job I'll like to keep, have a great day"