Let's be friends

“Imani, how are you?” Noah said pacing across his living room. He had no idea why he was so nervous to talk to her when he anticipated hearing her voice for hours now.

“Hey, Noah. I am fine and yourself,” she said.

“I am great hearing your voice,” he smiled finally sitting down to relax into the conversation.

“How can I help you?” Imani said laying on her pillow pondering what to say to him.

“Imani, would you go out with me to dinner? I would love to see you again,” Noah said softly.

“Why? I am not interested in dating you?” Imani said trying to remind him that he was wasting his time.

“I am interested in getting to know you. Don’t look at it as dating,” Noah said sensing her apprehension. He could feel her walls were up even more.

“Noah, you are a handsome man. You can have any woman you want. Why do you want to torture yourself with someone like me? We have nothing in common. I am different from the women you have dated,” Imai said sitting up.