Hi

this is not an update. NOT an update :/ sorry if u got excited. but this story is NOT done with. i didnt forget about it or anything. its on a temp. hiatus. if u have any questions or anything my twitter is @x_onikafaree

Trouble Finds Its Way Back

"Could y'all hurry up and walk in this damn house and shut the door?!"

"Yo, chill." Lauren said hurrily walking in the house.

"Yeah, whassup with you?" Candi scurried behind Lauren walking in the house and shutting the door behind them.

"And why did you call us over here sounding like a crazy women?"

"Just sit down."

Candi and Lauren walked over to the couch and took a seat. Nicki took off her slippers leaving them in front of her chair and tucked her legs under her.

"Sooo.. Tyrus Johnson-"

"Oooooooh, is he sexy?"

"He fine?"

"Lightskin?"

"Married?"

"Divorced?"

"Does he have kids?"

"Is he-"

"HUSH!" Nicki closed her eyes and held her hands up. Lauren and Candi's eyes got big right before they exchanged a look with each other. Nicki opened her eyes and dropped her hands in her lap.

"So, Tyrus Johnson is... it's Webb."

"Webb? Like, Webb, Webb? Like your old Webb?" Candi said with a confused face.

"Like, drug dealing Webb? THAT Webb?" Lauren spoke.

Nicki nodded her head slightly while looking between Lauren and Candi.

"Yes, it's that Webb. Crazy right?"

"Mad crazy."

"What happened?"  Candi said as she got more comfortable on Nicki's couch. She kicked off her shoes and placed her legs on the couch while she adjusted the pillow into her side while waiting for Nicki to speak up.

"Well?"

"I mean, not much. I walked in and his back was to me so I couldn't tell who it was. Long story short, I didn't want to talk to him. I was getting up to leave and he gave me his card with his number and everything."

"Did you take it?!"

"Can I finish please?" Nicki rolled her eyes and her nostrils flared for a second. There was silence. "Thank you. Yes, I took the card. He said he wants to meet with me and talk and..." Nicki bit her lip and looked off to the side not wanting to really let them know what she was about to tell them. "I'm going to meet with him later on today."

"Wow." Lauren said.

"Damn. Are you nervous?"

"I mean, yeah. I don't know what he wants and I don't care but like, I'm curious at the same time, you know? Why after all these years does he want to meet and talk to me, and what about."

"What time?"

"Around 6 something."

"Does SB know?"

Nicki looked down and played with her nails. Lauren and Candi both gasped.

"SB doesn't know?" Lauren stated more so than asking. Nicki shook her head no.

"Wait, he doesn't know you're going to meet with him or that you already met him at the club appearance?" Nicki sat there silently still not giving eye contact.

"Tell him." Candi said. Nicki darted her eyes in Candi's direction looking at her like she was crazy.

"Are you crazy?"

"ARE YOU?!" Lauren and Candi said in unison. "Nic, you know damn well that Safaree has issues with that man. It would be better to let him know from you, cause if he finds out from someone else or in your case, somewhere else, he's gonna be a billion times more mad."  Candi said.

"I can't tell him. Not yet."

"Where is he?"

"With the Vaks."

"Lauren, don't change the subject. She needs to tell him."

"No."

"Onika."

"Candice."

Nicki and Candi stared at each other both trying to get the other to break. Nicki knew she couldn't tell SB she was meeting up with Webb. Things would get crazy before she even got to meet with him and she wanted to hear what he had to say.

"Can you guys stop..." Lauren said with an annoyed voice. She rolled her eyes and they broke contat.

"Nicki, you do need to tell him though. You know him and SB has had beef since way back when. This is going to get messy, I see it."

"No, it's not. I'm going to tell him, just...not right now. Or anytime soon." Candi and Lauren both made a face and rolled their eyes. "Stop. I know how he's going to act and I don't want him to get angry and worked up if it's nothing. I'm going to meet with him, you guys are going to leave me alone about this, and SB is not going to find out."

Candi and Lauren rolled their eyes for what seemed like the billionth time since they've been there.

"Which means don't go running your mouths to Rex and Fresh." Nicki pointed at both of them.

"I guess."

"Whatever. YOU just better hope SB doesn't find out through a blog or something."

"Where are you meeting him?"

"His place.

"You have got to be kidding." Candi threw her hands up in the air. "His house, Nicki? Really?"

"Don't go telling me about myself. I'm going, and that's it."

"Uhm. Hold on. You called ME over here to sit here and talk about this MESS, cause this is exactly what it is, MESS. I didn't call you, boo."

"Well I know who I wont be calling again." Nicki cut her eyes at Candi. "I'll just call Lauren, she never says anything."

"Exactly. You want someone who isn't going to tell you about yourself."

"Yes, I would." Lauren spoke up trying to defend herself. Nicki and Candi both looked in her direction with a screwed up face before they both looked at each other before looking towards Lauren again.

"No you wont." they said in unison.

"So what are you gonna tell SB whenever he asks you where you been?"

"He wont. He wont even be back til tomorrow afternoon."

"Bitch, you got this all planned out and everything with yo sneaky ass."

"This is messy."

"I can't."

"Then don't."

"Again, YOU called US over here. I don't wanna know about your cheating, sneaky antics anymore than you wanna tell us about them."

"I'm NOT cheating Candice."

"Anyways, are we done with conversation? I got things to do and you need to get ready for your date."

"It's NOT a date and- you know what. Just leave." Nicki got up from her chair and exchanged hugs and kisses with Lauren.

"Oh?" Candi said gathering her purse and walking towards the door. Lauren followed behind Candi and Nicki fell behind Lauren walking them to the door. Nicki looked adjusting her shirt before she crossed her arms as Candi opened the door.

"I'll call you guys." They exchanged hugs and kisses and I love you's yet again before they stepped out of the house. Nicki looked over at the clock and went to her room to get ready.

---

Driving over there Nicki had so many thoughts running through her mind that she was clenching the steering wheel with so much force. It had been so long since she had last seen Webb, and to say the least it didn't end well. She definitely still had some anger pent up towards him but she was hoping that during this meeting everything would come out and she could move on from that. She turned on to the corner before she did a quick look down at the address she wrote down on a piece of paper. Looking back up she was surprised at the size of his house. He's doing well for himself. Nicki thought. She pulled into the driveway and parked next to his car. She rolled his eyes. He always had to be so extra. She sat in the car for a minute questioning whether or not this was the right thing to do. Of course she was feeling some type of way for doing all of this behind SB's back but she needed to do this for HER. Nicki grabbed her purse dropping her phone in it before she tossed it over her shoulder. She took a deep breath and opened her car door, stepping out. She looked back and pushed the button on her keys locking the doors before she dropped her keys in her purse.  Stepping up to the door, Nicki's suddenly became a little more at ease as she knocked on the door.

Webb opened the door on the second knock with that devious smile that Nicki hated and she instantly put her guard back up.

"Wussup beautiful? Come in."

"We're not doing this, Webb." Nicki said as she held a hand up to his chest stopping him from putting his arm around her waist and stepped into his house. She slid to the side waiting for him to shut the door and lead her to wherever they would be sitting.

"You can go straight ahead to the living room." He nodded his head in the direction and Nicki looked that way before looking back at him. "Do you want anything?"

"Just water, please." He nodded again and headed to the kitchen as Nicki made her way to the living room. She adjusted her purse pulling it up more on her shoulder. She stepped into the living room and looked around at all the framed photos...of just him. She looked around looking to see if he had pictures of him and a girlfriend, a kid, or anything but nothing. He doesn't even have pictures of him and his ridiculously immature cousin that are or used to be so close. Nicki sat down in the corner of the couch, crossing her legs and taking off her purse to sit it in her lap. She pulled out her phone as soon as he walked back in with the drinks. Nicki sat her phone in her lap and took the water out of his hand. He took a seat at the couch directly opposite to her and sat down.

They held eye contact as Nicki twisted the water bottle cap open taking a sip. He sat his water bottle down on the stand next to his couch as Nicki finished up.

"So."

"So...?" Nicki moved her purse off her lap and to the side with her hands taking it's previous place.

"How have you been? I see you're this big star now, congratulations."

Nicki nodded her head with a slight smile. "Thank you, I'm doing amazing. How are you?"

He sat back and put his arms up on the edge of the back of the couch. "I'm doing good..could be better."

"And why is that?" Nicki said in a low-key sarcastic tone.

"I'm lonely."

"I'm not surprised."

He chuckled. "Really?"

"Mhm. It's not like you're the best person exactly to be in a relationship with...or the easiest."

"I guess so, Nic."

"Yup."

He chuckled again. Nicki squinted her eyes at him. "What?"

"You still have the same attitude I see. You haven't changed a bit."

'Not at all."

"You're even more beautiful then when I last seen you."

"Well, thank you. But if this is all you wanted to meet with me about I really have somewhere else I could be right now."

"Yeah. Same old Nicki." he ran his hands across his face. "I just wanted to catch up with you. I see you still hanging around with that nigga Scaffbeezy." He shook his head and Nicki rolled her eyes. Webb was always jealous of her friendship with SB, especially when her and Webb were dating. He always thought Nicki was with SB at the same time she was with him.

"And he will always be around. Does that bother you?"

"Not really. He ain't got nothin' on me."

"Ha!" Nicki looked to the side before looking back at Webb. "He's got A LOT on you."

"You don't need him."

"I don't need anybody, that's for sure. But why does it bother you so much? Last time I checked whatever me and you had ended years ago. What I do should not concern you."

He put his hands up as if he was surrendering. "Hey, I'm just lettin' you know how I feel. SB ain't that nigga."

"Damn. Safaree isn't even here and got you feeling some type of way, isn't that something?"

"You know me and him always had problems though, Nic."

"And you know when all that broke out because of you guys and your problems I said I was done with you."

"Mhmm. You took his side over mines. That was fucked up shit, I ain't even gon' lie. You was supposed to be my girl. I was hurt by that, Nic."

"Uhm, do you not remember what happened or do I need to refresh your memory? Of course I'ma take his side. Don't play fucking stupid. We was all hurt in the end by the situation so don't even go there."

"Shit, I-"

"Look." Nicki held her hand up. "If you're going to spend all this time disrespecting SB then I can leave. I don't need to be here."

"Onika, th-"

"Don't EVEN call me, Onika. You know I hate that shit...Tyrus."

"How you know about that?"

"I know a lot. You of all people should know that."

"You always was sneaky."

"The irony." Nicki cross her arms across her chest. "Why the name change?"

"I had to get a clean slate. Wouldn't nobody in the business take me serious if they knew about my other life."

"I still don't take yo ass serious."

"Well it's a blessing I'm not employed by you, huh?"

"A true blessing. If I can't deal with your arrogant ass now I know it would be hell working with you."

"Damn. That's how you feel, huh? I still love you, Nicki."

"Sucks that the feeling isn't mutual."

He clenched his teeth and leaned up of the couch resting his elbows on his legs. "You still cold-hearted."

"You still haven't explained to me what you wanted me here for."

"I guess I'll get to the point."

"Should've done that when I first walked in."

He kissed his teeth and looked off to the side.

"I'm waiting." Nicki dropped her arms from her chest.

"Before you walked out on a nigga, you owed me a kilo. What'd you do with it?"

Nicki sarcastically laughed. "WOW. You called to meet with me over some old ass drugs. The fuck do you think I did with it? I threw that bullshit away. Are you serious right now? You're joking right?" Nicki clutched her phone in her hand uncrossing her legs. She put her purse on her shoulder and moved up to the edge of the couch.

"Nah, I'm dead serious. There's a lot of drugs you didn't sell and I need you to make these drops"

"So you smokin that shit too, huh? You seriously think after all these years and at the point I'm at in life right now, Imma go back to selling drugs for your stupid ass. Are you serious?"

"You either do what I tell you or--"

"And if I don't?"

"Pay me for the lack of drugs you sold, Nic. I still got a business to run here and ever since back then my whole shit has been off."

"And this is my problem because?" Nicki stood up and pushed her purse up on her shoulder more. "Your dumb ass should have thought about that before you did all of that shit. YOU messed up, Webb. YOU did. So don't try and bring me back into this. It's over." Nicki began to walk towards the door when she felt Webb's hand grab hold of her wrist. She yanked away from him.

"Don't fucking touch me." Nicki walked aggressively towards the door and swung it open. She walked down  his porch steps with him still following not too far behind but at a normal and calm pace.

"Nic, relax." he called out to her. She waved him off as she made her way over to her car. "I'm not done talking to you, Nicki."

She pulled out her keys and unlocked her doors. "I'm done talking to you."

"It's not over, baby."

Nicki stopped her body halfway as she was climbing into the car to cut her eyes at him. "It's over." She fully put herself in her car, aggressively putting her seat belt on. She tried to regulate her breathing to get herself to calm down, knowing she shouldn't drive while she's in rage. She started the car and looked up in time to see Webb giving her an evil smirk before he shut the door to his house. Nicki shook her head and pull out of his driveway and headed home.

---
Nicki adjusted her head on the pillow, finishing typing the text before she hit send.

I wish you were here.

What's wrong? You need me to come home?

No, I'm fine. I just wish you were here to hold me.

:)

Don't get cocky, Safaree. 

Pauz.

Bye.

Night.

Goodnight.

Nicki slightly smiled before her face went serious again at the annoying thought of Webb. She adjusted her pillow again and placed her phone on the nightstand before dozing off with a lot on her mind.

Hello

Uhm, you all seem to be more interested in my other story than this one, so I have something to propose. I can get rid of this one and keep the other one, which will lead to updating more over there than I already do now. OR I will keep this one and get back to updating regularly like I did before I started the other, which will mean keeping both stories going. Let me know what I should do please. My other story [which I just finished updating] is unlabeledonikafareelove.blogspot.com. Thanks, you guys!

Running Into Trouble

"The barbz really think they know everything, huh?" Nicki said in her bird voice while rolling her eyes. She watched as her timeline was still slightly in an uproar to her posting a picture of her and SB on the set of Pound The Alarm. She had posted it earlier in the day and the die hard Onikafaree fans we're still dying over it. Nicki rolled her eyes at one tweet that said "Why you wait so long to tweet that pic of you and ya bew bew? That was on July 4th bew bew, zon't play him." She twisted her lips and continued scrolling her TL. After a while she closed her app and pulled her BBM that was alerting her.

Thanks for the kind words on Westwood in regards to the whole situation with Chris. I still wanna have a talk with you soon. Take Care.

Nicki closed the BBM knowing that this would only start a whole long conversation that she doesn't really want to have.

"Nic!" Nicki looked up towards Safaree and the rest of the crew waiting for her to come join them. "Get off ya phone and c'mon!"

"Don't rush me!" Nicki said in her bird voice while climbing out of the car. She caught up with Terrence, Joyce, Safaree, Candi and Lauren who clearly wasn't slowing down waiting for her.

"Thanks for waiting for me, assholes."

"Girl, just cause you stay late 24/7 doesn't mean we tryna be. Girl, please."

"Shut up, Candi! Ain't nobody here for yo ass anyways."

"Don't get cocky, Nic. You still just a regular hood chick from Queens to me." Nicki walked around Lauren to push Candi.

"Shut up, before you be finding another way home."

They walked in through the back entrance of the building and all of them unknowingly fell in place in a single line. The program director met up with them letting them know where Nicki's dressing room was and how it was a pleasure that Nicki agreed to host this party. They all walked to Nicki's dressing room and lounged around until the party was actually suppose to start.

"This must be some strip club type shit. Only club I know to have this many dressing rooms" Safaree said as he looked around. Nicki looked up from her phone and cut her eyes at Safaree. He smirked at her face before he went back to looking around.

"How long before I go out there?"

"So used to showing up late you don't know what to do when you early, huh?"

Nicki dropped her phone in her lap before giving Candi a look.

"I know y'all not gon' start this." Lauren spoke up looking between Candi and Nicki.

"Candi's smart ass starts it."

"Well damn, somebody finish it. Ain't nobody tryna hear all that. Joyce you wanna go walk around and be nosy? They boring me." Terrence said. Nicki laughed and shooked her head turning her attention back to her phone. Joyce waddled out of the chair.

"Yeah, let's go."

"Alright, we out. We'll see y'all when we see y'all. Joyce, let's go." Terrence grabbed her hand and dragged her out of the door with him.

"I always get stuck with y'all women." Safaree shook his head while looking down at his phone.

"Where's the Vaks?" Lauren said.

"Who knows. I wish they'd hurry up."

"Boo, Safaree. You should be fine in a room full of women. Most men would love to be in your spot right now." Nicki said dropping her hand down on her legs after she crossed them and looked up at Safaree.

"Yeah, if it was actual women though. It's just y'all."

"Oop." Candi teased looking back and forth between Nicki and Safaree.

"Oh gosh." Lauren let out a small laugh before directing her attention back to her phone.

"Oh?" Nicki sat her phone in her lap and crossed her arms across her chest while leaning back in the chair. "You always talking, you'll remember that." Safaree opened his mouth to say something but Nicki quickly raised her hand up stopping him. An evil smirk formed on Nicki's face before she put her hand down before raising it again to point at him. "I got you. Remember that."

Safaree waved them off before standing up and dropping his phone down in his pocket. "Imma go catch up with the fun people."

"Mhmmmm." As Safaree was walking out of the door the program director came walking in.

"Hi, Ms. Minaj, I'm sorry to bother you again." the lady said who looked extremely nervous like she did earlier. Nicki could tell this lady must be an undercover fan or just trying to keep her cool for the sake of her job. Nicki smiled at the lady.

"You're fine, continue."

The lady nervously straightened the sleeves of her suit jacket and finally made eye contact with Nicki. "The owner of this club would like to meet with you...just you. He said it's fine to bring your security but he would like for it to be just you when you go to speak with him. He said only if it's okay with you, he doesn't want to force it."

Nicki relaxed her now confused face trying to figure out why exactly would whoever the owner of the club is want to meet with her alone. She let out a relieving sigh whenever the lady announced that the owner said she could bring her security. She was going to anyways whether they would have wanted her to or she wouldn't go to meet with them. Nicki nodded her head at the lady as she was finishing up what she was saying.

"Uhm, that'll be fine. Would he like to meet with me now, or...?"

"He said before you leave if that's alright?"

"That'll be fine. Could you just come find me before I leave?"

"Sure thing, Ms. Minaj. Is there anything I can get you and your friends?"

"Yes!" Candi spoke up loudly. "Can I get some hot wings or someth-"

"We're fine. Thank you." Nicki rolled her eyes at Candi before looking at the lady and giving a smile.

"Okay, I'll be out of you guys' way. If you all need anything before you're called out there's a phone in the back corner of the dressing room." The lady nodded her head in the direction of the phone and Nicki, Lauren, and Candi directed their attention back there before looking back at the lady. "Just press 1 and I will get it for you guys. If that's all I will be out of your way now."

"Thank you." Nicki waved goodbye to the lady before waiting for her to shut the door. As soon as the door closed Nicki dropped her face and looked towards Candi and Lauren.

"What is that all about?"

"Hell if I know."

"Who's the owner anyways?"

"I don't know. One of y'all Google it." Nicki got up out of the chair and made her way over to Candi and Lauren taking a seat in the space in between them. Lauren and Candi both pulled up Google on their phones.   They both typed in the name of the club and scanned down the Google listings until they found the name of the owner.

"Tyrus Johnson!" Lauren yelled out.

"Tyrus?" Nicki and Candi said in unison. They all sat there for minute trying to figure out if they ever knew or heard of a Tyrus Johnson. They all looked at each other with a scrunched up face before laughing a little.

"Do y'all remember a Tyrus? 'Cause..."

"Nah. Maybe it's somebody we've never met. I mean it IS New York." Lauren put her phone down on the stand that was beside the lounge couch and looked at Nicki.

"You could be right. But y'all, we knew everybody."

""Maybe he's not from here." Lauren shrugged and leaned back. Nicki rolled her eyes at Lauren.

"You're so boring. You're supposed to be going along with this. Helping us figure out the mystery. This is one of the only times I actually like Candi more than you."

"WHAT?!"

Nicki turned looking at Candi before she threw her arms around her neck pulling Candi into a hug.

"You know I love you, shut up."  Nicki released Candi from the hug and stood up making her way back over to her seat.

"So what's been up with you? Secretive ass, you never tell us shit."

"Cause don't shit be happening." Nicki crossed her legs again and held her phone in her hand. "It's work, work, work, and more work. I'm so glad I get some time off."

"Yeah, that's good." Lauren said sounding completely uninterested forreal.

"Yeah, you need some rest. Because girl..."

"Candi, don't start." Nicki gave a little laugh and shook her head. "Everyyyyyyyyyy body has been saying I look like I need some rest." Nicki whined. "Safaree's been trying to get me to get some rest but I don't be listening to him."

"And you need to, cause them bags under your eyes..."

"SHUT UP!" Nicki reached over grabbing a pillow and tossing it at Candi. They all looked towards the door when they heard a knock.

"We're ready for you Ms. Minaj."

"Thank you!" Nicki yelled back and stood up from the chair. Nicki pointed at Candi and cut her eyes at her as Candi was standing up. "We're gonna fight before I leave. Watch."

"Whatever." Candi waved her off.

"Why am I always stuck with y'alls arguing asses?"

Nicki and Candi both stopped dead in their tracks and turned looking back at Lauren. "Bye." They said in unison before walking out of the dressing room and following behind the program director. Nicki opened up her messages sending out a group text to Joyce, Safaree, and Terrence letting them know she was heading out there and to meet her out there.

---

"Safaree, take this." Nicki held her phone out to him and he placed it in his pocket. "Wait for me out in the car while I go speak to the owner?" Safaree nodded his head before putting on his sunglasses and making his way out the back entrance as Nicki stepped over to the program director who was waiting for her outside of  her dressing room.

"If you'll follow me this way, we'll go to Mr. Johnson's office." Nicki fell in place behind the lady as her security guards fell in place behind her. They turned into a long hall that didn't have many rooms except one which Nicki knew was his office. The lady stopped at the door before stepping to the side and opening the door to see Mr. Johnson with his back to turned to them.

"Mr. Johnson, Ms. Minaj is here to see you." Nicki and her security stepped in as Mr. Johnson put down his drink and turned around with a smile on his face. Nicki's face dropped at the sight of the last person she thought she would see for a while, or even more someone who she never wanted to see again.

"Nicki."

"Webb?" Nicki crossed her arms and shifted her weight to her right leg and looked at him through squinted eyes. Though nothing has changed about him besides the fact that you could tell he has more money now, she was still shocked.

"Well, I'll leave you all to talk."

"Thank you, you can leave now. We're done for the night." she nodded at him before giving a nervous wave/smile to Nicki and stepping out of the office.

"How have you been?" he said taking a seat at his chair at his desk. Nicki looked at him weird before looking back at her security guards. "You all can leave, it's fine."

"But ma'am, we can't leave you-"

"It's fine. I know this man. I'll be fine. I can handle this if something goes wrong, trust me." They stood there looking at Nicki not sure whether they should really leave or not. "Go." Nicki watched them as they exited the room slowly and shut the door behind them.

"What do you want?"

"I just wanna talk, baby."

"Don't even." Nicki moved around the chair and took a seat at one that was directly across from him. "What do you really want? There's always some ulterior motive with you."

"Why you gotta be like that, baby? I just wanna catch up with you."

"DON'T call me 'baby', Webb. You know I told you I never wanted to see you again, did you think I was playin'?"

Webb leaned off his desk and leaned back in his chair with a smirk on his face and threw his hands up as if he was surrendering. "Woah, woah. Calm down. I just wanted to-"

Nicki rolled her eyes and lazily moved her head to the side. "Look, I'm tired and would rather be anywhere but here talking to you right now so if you don't mind... I'm leaving.  Nicki uncrossed her legs and stood up from the chair. She adjusted the bottom of her shirt and turned to walk out before he stopped her.

"Alright Nicki, just wait." Webb reached over to his stack of business cards and grabbed one. He grabbed a pen and flipped it over on the back writing his personal cell phone number down. He sat the pen down and extended his arm with the card stretched out to Nicki. "Take it. All I wanna do is straighten things out, that's it." Nicki rolled her eyes and yanked the card from his hand and placed it in her back pocket.

"Think about it, really. I just wanna talk, Nic." he said as Nicki turned her back to him walking out of the door and slammed it shut. He smiled at the view of Nicki's butt as she was walking out and he bit his lip before he smiled.

Nicki walked down the hall with so many emotions and thoughts running through her mind. She was thinking so much and moving at such a fast pace she didn't realize how fast she made it out to the car. She slid into the passengers side still not even really realizing that she was in the car now or aware of everything. She unknowingly slammed her door shut and looked at the window.

"Nic!"

"Huh?" Nicki broke from her trance and turned to look at Safaree with a confused face.

"Are you okay?"

"Huh?"

"Are you okay? Did something happen?"

"What? No. I'm fine. Can we go, please? I'm starting to feel sick." Nicki turned to look back out the window. Safaree looked at Nicki confused while starting up the car. He knew something had happened but he would wait until a later time to ask her about it. He leaned back in the seat pulling off down the road with his left hand on the steering wheel and the right arm placed on the arm rest in the middle between his and Nicki's seat. Nicki leaned her head back on the headrest and took Safaree's hand in hers. 

Baby Fever [cont'd.]

Nicki rolled over and slowly opened her eyes to the sound of soft cries. She picked her head up before dropping her head back down. She threw the covers off of her body and got up standing next to the crib. She picked Elijah up and bent down grabbing his bottle.

"It's okay, babe." Nicki bounced back and forth walking beside the bed trying to rock him back to sleep. She stopped in her tracks pushing her hair out of her face before going back to rocking him back and forth. She sighed and looked down at the bed when she saw Safaree's movement. He rolled over and looked up at Nicki through squinted eyes. He ran his hand over his face before speaking up.

"Here. I got him." Safaree slid out of the bed taking Elijah out of Nicki's hands. "Lay back down."

Nicki moved to the side and made her way back to the bed. She got comfortable before adjusting the covers over her body and rested a hand under her head. Looking up at Safaree, she gave a soft smile seeing him interact with Elijah. He was being so patient with him and she really loved that. Elijah's cries become softer the longer Safaree held him and rocked him. Eventually he fell asleep and Safaree slowly took the bottle out of his mouth. He sat the bottle in the corner of the crib before lying him down on his stomach. Safaree adjusted the blanket over him and walked around the bed, climbing back in on his side of the bed. Once that she felt like he was good and comfortable, she scanned for his arm before pulling it around her waist.

***

Nicki sat on the couch putting on Elijah's jacket. She scratched her nose before going back to putting his arm through the sleeve. She looked at Safaree as he walked into the living room with Elijah's bags and sat them in his lap while sitting down on the couch to Nicki. Nicki made her pout face while looking at Elijah who was more interested in his bottle that he hasn't seen since his last visit that was in his hands.

"I don't want you to leave." Nicki gently grabbed his face making him look in her direction. He bucked his eyes and before letting them relax.

"Don't give me that look, Eli." she bent down and kissed his cheek before looking up at the door because of the doorbell that had just sounded off. Her mouth formed a frown and her eyebrows furrowed. As soon as she began speaking up to tell Safaree to grab the door he was already getting up from the couch and heading towards it.

"Who is it?!" Safaree asked already knowing it was his sister.

"Don't play. I don't have the time Safaree."

Safaree opened the door stepping back letting her in. As she walked in she punched Safaree in the chest before holding her arms out for Elijah. Safaree held his stomach where he was hit while slowly closing the door.

"You women are so evil."

"Shut up."

Nicki stood up from the couch handing her Elijah's bags before crossing her arms. "You need to let us watch him more often. He's always going to sleep so soon and then leave's so early."

"Uhm, I'm sorry. If you wasn't such a busy rap star you could."

"Don't come at me like that. I try to make time for you guys."

"Yeah, you do. So I won't hold it against you. We gotta go though. I need to get him to Daycare so I can go to work. I love you guys." She leaned in and hugged Nicki and they exchanged a kiss on the cheek before Nicki kissed Elijah and moved to the side when she saw Safaree walking up and hugging his sister.

"Safaree take care of Nicki." she said as she walked towards the door.

"Why is everybody worried about her? How come no one is telling Nicki to take care of me?" He said as he made his way behind her towards the door with Nicki behind him. Nicki's fist made contact with Safaree's back before he could finish his sentence. He shook his head. "See. I'm the one he needs to be taken care of." Safaree's sister stopped right outside the door to look back at Safaree and roll her eyes before smiling back at Nicki.

"I love you, be safe you guys." Nicki leaned her head on Safaree's arm.

"Love y'all." Safaree said as he watched her make her way to the car. They stayed the making sure they got in the car safely and Nicki leaned off his arm as he shut the door. He turned around and Nicki was just standing there staring at him. He bent down and scooped Nicki up over his shoulder as she screamed.

"C'mon. We gotta ready and head to the studio."

"Ugh. Ok, so put me down."

"Nope."

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Safaree pulled up to the studio and parked the car. Nicki grabbed up her notepad and her bag as Safaree had already gotten out and was now opening the door for her. She climbed out and tossed her Louis Vutton backpack on her shoulders and headed into the studio with Safaree following not too far behind. She stepped into Studio A1 and made her way over to the couch. Safaree shut the door behind him and took a seat in the swivel chair. He watched Nicki as she pulled out her blanket and wrapped it around herself because grabbing up her notepad and pen and sitting in the other swivel chair that was near SB's.

"Start the music." Nicki said as she sat up her cranberries and almonds. Safaree started the music before rolling his chair back and grabbing Nicki's water. She nodded her head at the beat and looked up from her notepad to see SB sitting the water next to her snack. She took in a handful of almonds before he hand started flowing across the page.

It was always much easier for Nicki to write her features. It was no doubt that she always slayed her 16 and bodied anybody on the song. To quote the guy from My Time Now she was ubiquitous in a flash. It was interesting that he had described it that way because that's how Nicki always thought of it.  But was also dominate in her features and that's what she loved the most.

"Stop it for a second, Safaree." Nicki silently read over the lyrics in her head before marking through the 4th line not really feeling it. "Play the beat again from the top." Safaree pushed the button before turning the music up all the way. Nicki nodded her head again to the beat and began filling in the 4th line. She smiled at the line before giving a slight laugh before her face went back to serious. She continued filling up the page. Looking over her verse again satisfied, she hopped up from her chair with her notepad and walked over towards the booth.

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Nicki sat next to Safaree on the couch. She stared at the TV rolling her eyes not understanding how Safaree found this movie to be so funny. She propped her legs up on the coffee table before crossing her legs at her ankles and adjusting her blanket over her body. She leaned her head on Safaree arm.

"You're getting buff again."

"I know. Been working it out when I can. Gotta stay sexy for the ladies."

"Oh." Nicki said leaning her head up from Safaree's arm. Safaree smirked looking down at her then looking back at the TV. Nicki took her feet off the coffee table and tightened her blanket around her heading towards the kitchen. She swung the refrigerator door open and grabbed the jar of pickles on the door. She took them and placed them on the counter and shut the door. She grabbed a paper towel before opening the jar of pickles and pulling on out and placing it in her hand with the paper towel. She sat that on the counter to put the jar of pickles back. She snatched up her pickle before tightening her blanket around her. She took her seat next to Safaree again and he instantly scrunched his face and looked down at Nicki.

"Seriously?"

"Sorry. I really needed one right now." Nicki said before biting the pickle.

"You know I hate the smell of those."

"And you know I just said I really needed one right now." Nicki said before rolling her eyes and continued chewing the pickle while placing her legs back on the coffee table. Safaree shook his head before turning back towards the TV.

"You ready to go to New York?"

"Not really. I really want some time off. But at least I'll have a little after this appearance." Nicki put the last bite of the pickle in her mouth and wiped her hands with the paper towel before scrunching it up and clutching it in her hands. She placed her head back on Safaree's shoulder leaning into him.

"Damn. You ate that already?" Safaree looked down at her and Nicki laughed.

"I told you I really needed one right now. Leave me alone." Nicki said right before she yawned.

"You want me to take you to your bed? I'll be in there after the movie."

"No it's fine, I'll sit here with you til I fall asleep."

"You just want me to have to carry you to the bed." Safaree shook his head. "Selfish."

Nicki turned her head to kiss his arm through her tired smile. "I haven't had a kiss all day. Where are my lips?" Nicki looked up at him with her newly heavy eyes and he laughed out loud at how tired she looked all of a sudden. He bent down and Nicki puckered her lips as he kissed her.

"Pickle breath and all." Safaree shook his head again before directing his attention back to the TV. Nicki smiled a lil before placing her head back on his arm and closing her eyes.

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Lol. Ok. This chapter is so ugly. Anyways. I cannot WAIT for you guys to read the next one. That is where the drama begins ^___________^ You will NEVER guess who she runs into in New York who's going to cause some trouble for the rest of this story. You may THINK you know, but you have no idea :) *insert evil laugh here* hope yous didn't think this was gonna be a tidy little story. 

Baby Fever

"Yo, do you have on jeans?"

Nicki stopped dead in her tracks and looked in Safaree's direction. She looked down at her pants and then looked back up at him with her lip twitched.

"Obviously."

Nicki continued walking to the bathroom stopping at the sink. She grabbed the rag while turning on the hot water. She looked up at herself in the mirror and smiled when she saw Safaree walking in the bathroom. She stared at him through the mirror as he made his way over and took a seat on the lid of the toilet. Nicki focused back to the sink and put her rag under the steaming hot water ready to get all this make up off her face and just relax. She turned off the water and placed her other hand under the rag pushing it into her face. She ran the rag up and down her face and took it off of her face looking in the mirror to see if she had got it all off.

"Yo, now that I think about it I'm glad we're home. Their bathrooms wasn't as good as ours."

"What time will my baby be getting here? I miss him." Nicki said ignoring his statement and continued wiping at her face getting the little bit of make up that was left on her face off.

"He should be here any minute." Safaree looked down at his watch and looked back up catching Nicki's eyes in the mirror.

"SB, why do you even look down at that knowing damn well for one, you can't tell time- and for two, it doesn't even tell time?"

Safaree threw his arm up and waved her off. He leaned back against the toilet and folded his arms across his chest. He licked his lips while looking over Nicki.

"You're such a pig."

Safaree took his eyes off her ass and looked in the mirror locking eyes with Nicki. He wiggled his eyebrows and Nicki rolled her eyes. He watched her as she balled up the rag wringing it out before tossing it into a basket in the corner. She went to turn around bumping into Safaree's chest. He palmed her ass and Nicki dropped her hands over his. She smiled up at him and slowly removed his hands from her ass, even though he was loving it because she was basically helping him get his feel on, and put them back down by his sides. Safaree leaned his head down right as the doorbell sounded off. Nicki's eyes bucked open and her smile grew on her face.

"He's here!" Nicki let go of his wrist, dashing out the room and towards the living room as Safaree was left hanging with his licks puckered. He shook his head, straightening up his face and turned heading out of the bathroom and towards the living room. He turned into the living room seeing Nicki already holding Elijah smothering his face with kisses as his sister was placing his bags and things on the floor by the door.

"Coonista!" Safaree through his arms up for a hug and she gave him a look before accepting his hug.

"I told you about calling me that Safaree."

"Ah, whatever." She leaned out of the hug and leaned against the dresser that leaned against the wall in the living room. Nicki finally detached her lips from Elijah and looked at her when she began talking again.

"Now, he hasn't been fed yet but I don't think he's hungry. I tried feeding him before we got here so he could just go to sleep but he didn't want it. You could try again though." Nicki nodded and stared at Safaree who went to go take a seat on the couch. Nicki grabbed hold of Elijah's hand that was trying to grab her earrings and looked back at Safaree's sister. "I shouldn't be out too late, we're just gonna go to dinner and a movie. If you need me, just-"

"Call. Yeah, we know. We've watched him before."

"Safaree, I don't want to have to hurt you in front of Nicki."

"Oop!"

Safaree smacked his lips and flicked through the channels on the TV.

"Now everything you need is in the bag and stuff. Uhm... I don't think I brought his rattle but-"

"Thank God."

"One more time Safaree. I'm telling you, I really don't want to embarrass you in front of Nicki."

Nicki laughed while looking at Elijah as he looked down at his tiny hand wrapped around her long finger. "I don't think that's a problem anyways, he still has toys over here from the last time. My baby will be good. Right, babe?!" She stared at him as he still seemed to be fascinated with the way that his hand was wrapped around her finger.

"Alright, Imma get going." She leaned off the dresser and walked towards Nicki. She stopped in front of Nicki bending down to kiss her son before embracing Nicki in a hug. She walked towards the door opening it, she stopped to pick up her purse off the floor and turned to say her goodbyes. Nicki stepped to the door after she closed it and locked it before wiggling the handled making sure it was locked. She turned away from the door placing a hand on the babies back heading towards the couch. She stopped in front of Safaree and he looked up at her.

"Hold him while I go put on some sweats." She leaned down putting the baby in Safaree's arms before smiling at him and placing his kisses on his cheeks again.

"Nah, keep them jeans on."

Nicki dropped her smile and rolled her eyes looking up at him. "I need to be comfortable."  She stood up straight and turned walking out of the living room.

"That ass looks like it's comfortable to me."

"Watch your mouth, SB!"

Nicki turned into the room unbuttoning her jeans. She wiggled out of them as she made her way to the dresser, bending down to her last drawer pulling out a pair of black jogging pants. She grabbed the jeans off the floor while clutching her jogging pants in the other hand standing up. She tossed the jeans on her bed before put on the jogging pants. She put one hand on her night stand as she adjusted her socks and stood up. Making her way back to the living room she smiled as she heard Elijah's giggles. She stood peeking at Safaree behind the corner smiling at him. She really loved how good Safaree was with kids. Just then she thought about how Safaree has never even said if he wanted kids. Of course she did and of course he knew that, but he never said whether he did or not. Nicki pushed herself off of the wall and made her way to the couch. Safaree looked up at her as she took a seat next to him and moved in close. She propped her right leg up on the couch and caressed the back of Safaree's head with her left hand while smiling down at Elijah.

"Do you ever want kids? I know I talk about it all the time but you never say anything."

"Of course." Nicki stared at him as he continued looking down and playing with Elijah making him laugh.

"Really?" Nicki gave a soft smile while looking at him. "How many?"

"Two boys."

"Aww. What? You don't want a mini me?"

Safaree looked up at Nicki and blinked. Nicki gave a little giggled and looked down. She reached out grabbing hold of Elijah's foot and her smile grew when he began giggling even more. She dropped her leg down that was propped up and stopped caressing the back of Safaree's head, holding her hand there as she bent down to place kisses on his stomach. She raised up his shirt and blew on his stomach making a little motor boat sound and his arms flew around in the air before landing on her head. Safaree laughed at him continuously hitting Nicki's head as she was placing kisses on his stomach. He began pulling her hair and Nicki took her other arm off of the back of Safaree's head and grabbed hold of Elijah's wrist.

"Babe, you can't. This isn't my hair."

Safaree's laugh got louder and Nicki quickly let go of one of Elijah's wrist to punch Safaree in the stomach. "Help me, Faree." He grabbed Elijah's hands the were pulling at Nicki's wig and held them captive. Nicki leaned up pulling his shirt down and staring at his blank face.

"You know I love you, but you can't be messing with da kid's hair. Ya dig?"

Nicki ran her hands through her black wig and straightened her bangs. She leaned into Safaree again and propped her leg back up on the couch placing her arms around her leg and locking her hands there.

"I think my lil' man is getting tired." Safaree sat him up in his lap with Elijah's back to his chest and stomach. Safaree placed his arm under Elijah's arm and rested his right hand on his stomach. Nicki looked down at Elijah before looking up at the TV that seemed to grab his attention. She grabbed the remote and turned from VH1. She looked down at Elijah who made a noise.

"What? You can't watch that. I don't want you listening to that and seeing that."

Elijah blinked at her and reached up playing with his ear. Nicki went back to flipping through the channels looking for something else for him to watch.

"Yeah." Safaree licked his lips and tilted his head to the side looking down looking at him. "Every time he starts messing with his ear that's when you know he's sleepy. What time is it?"

Nicki looked at the time on the TV Guide before looking back down at the remote. "8:42"

"Ahhh yeah." Safaree turned him around and looked at his face. Nicki stretched her arms out and Elijah stretched his arms out toward her. She smiled and scooped him up out of Safaree's hands.

"Come to Aunty Nicki." Nicki cradled him in her arms and stared at looked at Safaree as he got up from the couch. He pulled up his pants before he bent down and grabbed the bottle out of the side of the bag and made his way to the kitchen.

"I can't believe my baby is about to go to sleep and he just got here." Nicki poked out her bottom lip and stared down at him playing with his ear as she caressed his cheek. Safaree took the top off of the bottle putting it in the microwave for 30 seconds. He took the bottle out placing the lid back on and shaking it while walking back over to the couch. He stopped before he sat down holding his arm to give the Nicki the bottle. She took it out of his hands and adjusted Elijah before placing the bottle in his mouth.

"Have you met the new guy your sister is out with?"

"Nah. She trippin'. She said she doesn't want me to meet him until things get serious." he said putting air quotes around the word serious."Cause I overreact and starting hounding them."

"You do."

"No I don't."

"Yes...you do Faree. You're overprotective and she's a grown ass women now."

"So."

"So, you should let her date who she wants and accept it if she's happy." Nicki eased the bottle down a little when she saw Elijah's eyes getting heavy as he remained playing with his ear. Nicki looked up at Safaree when he flipped it and began going in on her.

"This coming from the overprotective big sister. Okay." Safaree took the remote from the other side of Nicki and began flipping through the channels.

"Fuck you, Safaree."

"Watch your mouth, Nicki." SB said mocking her from earlier. She rolled her eyes and looked down at Elijah who had dripped off. She smiled down at him taking the bottle out of his mouth and placing it beside her foot on the floor. "Safaree bring his crib out of that room and bring it into my room." Safaree turned off the TV and dropped the remote to the couch to stand up in front of Nicki. She placed Elijah on her chest with his head resting on her shoulder and grabbed Safaree's hand that was extended to her. He placed his free hand on her waist to make sure she didn't fall. She looked back down at the couch before placing her hand that was in Safaree's hand on Elijah's back. She walked down the hall with Safaree on her heels before he made a left.

She took a seat on the edge of her bed patting his back and looking around her room and nothing in particular. She looked up at the door when she heard the crib being rolled into the room.

"Where do you want this?"

"Put it on my side." Nicki stood up and followed behind Safaree when he rolled the crib by her side of the bed. He moved to the side of it and Nicki stood beside him. Nicki removed Elijah from her shoulder placing a soft kiss on his cheek before laying him down in the crib. She rested her hands on the rim of the crib looking down at him.

"Go get his bottle and his bags and lock up for me." Nicki said never removing her eyes from him. Safaree nodded and turned heading out the room. Nicki moved around the crib and to her nightstand checking her phone. She scrolled the business emails from Manny and made a mental note to get back to him in the morning. She pulled up her BBM and scrolled right passed the BBM from Waka and closed BBM. She opened her missed calls and nodded at the ones from Candi and Lauren assuming they weren't serious and said she would get back to them later. She put her phone down and stepped back to the crib when she heard Elijah make a noise and shift. She stepped to the other end of the crib and patted him on his back slightly. She stood there smiling down at him when she felt Safaree wrap his hands around her waist.

"Have I ever told you that ass is crazy in sweatpants?"

Nicki playfully rolled her eyes and gave a slight laugh. She smacked his hands that was wrapped around her before placing her hands back on the crib.

"Babe. I want a baby. Look how adorable my baby is sleeping right now." Nicki spoke in a soft voice.

"Let's start trying to make one." Safaree took one hand from around Nicki's waist and moved her hair out of the way placing kisses on her neck before wrapping his arm back around her waist. Nicki closed her eyes and took one hand off the crib reaching up and grabbing the side of Safaree's face.

"No." Nicki slowly opened her eyes and tilted her head to the side to look at Safaree. He stopped kissing her neck and looked up at her. They held eye contact before Nicki's eyes traveled down to his gorgeous lips. She kissed his bottom lip before breaking away and leaning back into place a quick peck on his lips and then looked back down at the crib.

"Whenever my career settles down. You know this." she smacked his hands the was around her waist lightly and he let go of her. She stepped to the side before plopping down on her bed. Safaree patted Elijah on the back before leaning down kissing his cheek.

Are you jealous?

"You feelin better?"

"Yeah." Nicki coughed staring at Safaree's back standing at the dresser. "If I can get rid of this cough I'd be perfect."

Safaree chuckled while removing his watch and placing it in the watch case. He removed his chain and laid it out across the dresser. Nicki watched him as he took out his earrings and placed them in his jewelry box. Her eyes diverted from his back to his eyes when he turned around. He folded his arms and leaned back against the dresser while he listened to Nicki speak.

"I'm so ready to go back home. I miss my bed."

"What's wrong with this hotel?" Safaree looked around. "Looks just like my bedroom actually."

"That's the problem."

"Lies. You stay in my bed."

Nicki gave a slight smile before she closed her eyes.

"You have fun tonight?" Safaree leaned off the dresser and grabbed his clothes that were sitting on the edge of the bed making his way towards the bathroom.

"Yeah. I met your girlfriend tonight. I almost forgot to tell you."

"Huh?" Safaree made his way back into the bedroom and stared down at Nicki's body frame under the covers and leaned on the bathroom door frame.

"Your girlfriend." Nicki removed the covers from her shoulder and sat up in the bed leaning against the headboard looking in Safaree's direction. "Yeah, what's her name? Trina or Tera or some shit." Nicki raised an eyebrow and looked up while folding her arms across her chest. "Oh. Tiana. Yeah, that's it. Tiana"

"Oh." Safaree chuckled.

"Oh?" Nicki scrunched her face up while giving SB an evil look. "Explain."

"There's nothing to explain. I ran into her- well, more like she ran into me when I went to get your medicine." Safaree folded his arms across his chest while staring back at Nicki.

"What else?"

"That was it."

"Try again."

"What?" Safaree held his arms out before dropping them to laugh. Nicki squinted her eyes at him more before unfolding her arms and pointing her finger at Safaree.

"Don't. Don't play with me right now, SB. What happened?" Nicki stared at him intently waiting for him to answer while she folded her arms back across her chest.

"She asked me did I have a girl and I told her no...for obvious reasons. But I told her I wasn't looking for a relationship and all that and that was about it."

"Are you lying?"

"No."

Nicki stared at Safaree and stood there staring back at her knowing what she was doing. SB licked his lips never breaking eye contact. Nicki held her composure from wanting to smile. SB leaned off of the door frame and began walking towards the bed slowly still holding eye contact. Nicki began to slowly smile and it expanded the closer SB got to her. He dropped down on the bed and grabbed hold on Nicki arm. He pulled her to him slowly and she leaned over resting her head on her hand that extended by her elbow. Nicki dropped her smile and rolled her eyes looking off to the side. Safaree grabbed a hold of her arm and licked his lips again.

"You mad at me?" Safaree leaned closer to her to give her a kiss but Nicki quickly turned her head. "That's how you feel?"

"Why didn't you tell me about your little hoe, Safaree?"

"It's not even like that, Nic."

"Whatever." Nicki tried to get up from the bed until she remembered SB had a grip on her wrist as he pulled her right back down. "Let me go, Safaree." She paused trying to free herself from Safaree's grasp giving him a stern look. "I'm serious, SB. Let me go." She wiggled her wrist again and he still didn't let up. "Can you let me go? Please?" Nicki turned her head and looked towards the dresser. When she felt his grasp on her wrist ease up she quickly got up from the bed. Safaree stared at her as he watched her walk towards her clothes and pulled out her face wash, a t-shirt, and a thong.

"What are you doing?" he stared at Nicki still moving her clothes around putting them back in her suitcase in the neat position that they were in. She ignored his question and continued putting things back in place. "Nic."

"I'm minding my business, what are you doing?" Nicki turned and leaned against her suitcase that rested on some random stand. "I'm obviously about to take a shower SB. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"How you gon take a shower now, I was about to." He stared at Nicki as she stared back at him walking right pass him as she dropped her t-shirt and thong on the bed and went towards the bathroom. He heard a little thump and assumed Nicki dropped her face wash on the counter. He looked over at his phone before turning his direction back in the way of the bathroom to see Nicki stepping out with his clothes as she tossed them at him. He sat there for a minute before removing the clothes from his face to see Nicki standing there with arms folded across her chest.

"You can wait."

"Wow."

"Yeah, wow." Nicki turned around removing her shirt and walking into the bathroom. Safaree got up from the bed following Nicki into the bathroom. Right before he could step in the bathroom Nicki shut the door. "Go shower with Tamar" Nicki yelled. Safaree shook his head before walking back to the bed.

"It's Tiana." Safaree mumbled under his breath.

"It's irrelevant!" Nicki screamed back before turning on the shower.

---

Nicki looked up from her phone looking at Safaree entering the room before looking back down at her phone. She laughed out loud at a tweet she had just seen and continued scrolling her timeline. She was lurking at the moment and the conversation topic was Love & Hip Hop. She smiled at a random tweet on her timeline of one her barbz telling her they loved her. That's what she loved most about her barbz. The most random moments of the day they would stop their tweets to tell Nicki that they loved her. It made her heart melt. Her smile grew as she seen her barbz continuously RT'ing the tweet. She looked up from her phone when she felt the bed shift. She looked at Safaree sitting at the bottom corner of the bed staring at her.

"Problem?"

Safaree shook his head and turned back around while messing with his shirt in his hands and fixing it so it wasn't inside out. He put the shirt over his head and ran his hands over it trying to smooth out the wrinkles in it. "Talkin' to Team Minaj?" Safaree asked never looking back at Nicki and still smoothening out his shirt.


"No, if you must know everything."


Safaree got up from the bed and walked towards the bathroom turning off the light. He stopped at the nightstand looking at his phone before dropping it back down and sliding into the bed. He got turned his back towards Nicki and made himself comfortable. Nicki looked down at Safaree and rolled her eyes before letting out a fake laugh to try and get his attention. 


"Oh, sorry Faree. I don't want our conversation to interrupt your sleep. You want me to take this somewhere else?"


"Nah, you good. Doesn't bother me." Safaree caught on to what Nicki was doing but he played along with her. Nicki rolled her eyes and twitched the corner of her lip up annoyed at Safaree. She was trying to make him jealous and he was trying to go to sleep? No bueno. Nicki laughed again.


"Yo, Nas is stuuuupiiiiidd. I can't."


Really? Safaree thought. Really? Is she serious? Safaree shifted in the bed flipping his pillow over before flopping his head back down on it. Nicki continued her little act for over 15 minutes with Safaree just sitting there. He knew what she was doing but it still mad him a little mad that she would act like this over someone he wasn't even interested in. Let alone the fact that he barely gave her the time of day, and she was acting like this. He felt the bed shift and assumed Nicki was laying down until he heard the door open. He looked towards the door to see Nicki walking out and sighed. He threw the cover back getting out of the bed and walking out the bedroom. He scanned the suite for Nicki before he spotted her on the couch with her arms folded across her chest staring ahead at the TV that wasn't on. Safaree sighed again before walking towards the couch and taking a seat next to her. He put his arm around her but more so on the ledge of the couch not knowing her mood.


"Nic."


"Leave me alone, SB."


"Wussup with you?"


"You don't care." 


"Yes I do." Safaree tugged at his sweatpants before moving closer to Nicki. He put his arm around her waist pulling her into his side. She unfolded her arms and pouted while falling into him.


"No you don't. You didn't even get mad a minute ago."


"Mad about what?" Safaree sat there caressing Nicki's back as she stayed leaned into his body.


"Nothing." Nicki leaned her head up from his chest and buried it into his neck. 


"Why are you actin' like this?"


"I don't know." Nicki said in a soft voice as she wrapped her arm around his neck.

"Yes you do."

Nicki sighed and removed her arm from around Safaree's neck and sat up. She crossed her legs and looked forward again avoiding eye contact with SB as she felt him staring at her.

"I don't know. I guess I got...upset at that girl trying to get with you. And it's not like you made it any better having secret meetings with her and shit."

"It wasn't even a meeting though, Nic. We just ran into each other." Safaree stared at Nicki still looking off ahead. She bit her lip when he began moving closer to her.

"You jealous, huh?"

"No." Nicki snapped her head in Safaree's direction before looking off again. "I just don't think she's cute, but if she wants you she can have you."

"Ah, really?!"

Nicki cut her eyes at Safaree. "Don't." He laughed before he pulled Nicki into him again. She snuggled up into him and ran her nails down his arm that was resting in his lap.

"You enjoy this don't you?"

"What?"

"This."

"What is this?"

"I'm not going to say it, Safaree."

"Then I don't know what you're talking about."

Nicki sighed and looked down at her nails still running up and down Safaree's arm.

"You like when I'm jealous, don't you?"

"Since we being honest. I think it's sexy."

Nicki gave a slight smile still looking down.

"You think everything is sexy. Shut up."

"It is though. It's nice to see that you're territorial over me. Makes me feel loved."

Nicki stopped running her hand over Safaree's arm and playfully hit him in the chest before grabbing his chin and tilting her head to look up at him. He looked down at her and stared into her eyes.

"You're always loved, okay? Even when I wanna chop your dick off. It's out of love, babe."

Safaree dropped his head down laughing at Nicki and she gave a little giggle. Nicki stared at him as he raised his head and licked his lips.

"Now give me my lips." Nicki held on to his chin and pulled him toward her to give her a kiss.

Untitled [Part 2]

Safaree stared at Nicki as she adjusted the blanket over her head and her body. She coughed again and he could tell that she lifted her hand under the cover to cover her mouth. He watched her as her arm appeared out of the blanket and she dropped the tissue into the trashcan. She sniffed and adjusted the blanket once again.

"I hate this." Nicki said with her barely audible croaky voice. She let out a whimper and leaned her head back down on the pillow. Safaree reached over and placed his hand on Nicki's thigh. He rubbed her thigh as he sat there and stared at her for a minute.

"You need me to get you anything?"

She shook her head no and he continued caressing her thigh. His eyes slowly scanned up her body when he heard her sniffles. He seen her arm pop out of the blanket once again as she grabbed a tissue from the night stand and her arm disappeared again for the millionth time.

"I'll be in my room. Just call if you need me." He took his hand off her thigh and stood up. He went to walk out of the room and stopped at Nicki's voice.

"Nooooooooo." she said before she let out a cough again. Safaree turned around and looked down at Nicki's body curled up in the bed.

"Wussup?"

"Can you hold me?" Nicki brought the cover down some to reveal her eyes. He gave her a blank stare and Nicki's frown deepened. 

"Faree, pleaaaassseeeeeee. You haven't touched me since I've been like this. You don't give me love."

Safaree made his way back to the bed sitting down beside Nicki's body and looking down at her as he put a hand on her back.

"Don't be like that. You know I would. You're sick though, babe."

"Please? Just until I fall back asleep?" she sniffled once again. "Please, baby?"

Safaree got up and kissed the little bit of her forehead that was visible. He walked around to the other side of the bed and climbed under the covers. He took his hat off and put it on the night stand before scooting closer to Nicki. He pressed his body into Nicki as she wiggled in his grasp getting comfortable. Nicki closed her eyes again and let out a sigh. She adjusted the blanket over her head once more before she felt herself drifting off.

---

"Joyce could you grab me a shear skirt" Nicki took the hat from Safaree that he had outstretched for her and put it on her head. She adjusted the hat before she ran her hands over the wig before she covered her mouth with her arm as she coughed again.

"What color?"

"It doesn't matter."

Joyce shrugged and grabbed the green shear skirt from Nicki's luggage and walked over to her with her arm out. Nicki grabbed the skirt from her as she was standing up. Walking over towards the trashcan, Nicki dropped the tissue and put a hand on the table. She put one leg in the skirt trying to balance herself before doing the same with the other leg.

"Safaree, where's my jack-"

She looked up to see the jacket right in front of her face. She took the jacket out of his hand before swinging it over her shoulders and putting it on. She double checked her boots making sure they were zipped up and adjusted her skirt.

"Y'all ready yet?!" Terrence spoke up standing by the door.

"Yeah, let's go." Nicki said as she picked up her phone off the coffee table and following everyone out the door and to the after party.

---

Nicki and the crew sat directly in the middle of the club. Nicki was cracking up laughing at Terrence standing up in the middle of the dance floor acting like he's the number one dancer in America. Doing all these dances, new and old. Her laugh only got louder when he began doing the cry baby on the floor out of nowhere. Even though it was hurting her stomach to laugh she couldn't help it. She held her stomach and clutched her eyes closed but opened them after a quick second.

"I can't! I can't anymore! Joyce go get him!" She continued laughing and leaned over as she placed her hand on Safaree's arm. Joyce laughed but remained seated. "Terrance get your ass back over!" Terrence got up from the floor laughing and making his way back over to Nicki and everyone.

"I don't know why you tryna stop me Nicki! I'm showin you how to do this! Better take notes next time girl cause I'm not givin you no more twerkin lessons!"

Nicki leaned out of Safaree and took her hand off his arm as she continued laughing. Terrance approached them taking a seat next to Joyce.

"No. I'm so done. When you started to do the cry baby? No, no, no, no, no, no. I just..." Nicki's eyes widened so she could wipe her tears and her mascara that she assumed she had messed up.

"Don't hate!" Terrance shot back before picking up his glass and sipping it.

"Ugh. I need to be around my babies." Nicki stood up and walked over to her security. "Just start letting people in."

"You sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure." she patted him on his shoulder and turned to walk off. Their area was rather large so security let about roughly 15 to 20 people in. Nicki, SB, Joyce, and Terrance all spread out letting people take places in between them so Nicki could speak to everyone. She had the people in the VIP with her switch out a spot after every 7 minutes or so. When people were beginning to switch around Nicki ran her fingers through her hair as she saw a very pretty girl approaching to take a seat with her. Nicki smiled as the girl sat down at the girl smiled back.

"Hi Nicki."

"Hi babe, what's your name? You're beautiful."

"Thank you, my name's Tiana."

"Pretty. Is this all yours? It's gorgeous." Nicki reached up and touched her hair. "I'm sorry. Do you not want me to do this?" Nicki diverted her eyes from the girls hair to her eyes.

"No, you're fine. Yes, it's all mine. I'm part Indian."

"Wow. So is my father." Nicki removed her hand from her hair and Nicki grabbed her phone while sitting her hands in her lap. "So how old are you?"

"I'm 27."

"Oh my gosh, you look so much younger."

"Thank you. You're way more beautiful in person by the way."

"Thank you. Do you have a twitter? Do I follow you?"

"Yes you do. I'm @tt_43"

Nicki gasped. "Oh my gosh, that's you? You're hilarious, you have me cracking up." Nicki's smile softened and made it's way to a frown. "You seem so shy in person."

"I am. It takes me a while to loosen up to people."

"Aw, it's okay." Nicki looked in the direction of all the noise to see Terrence up dancing acting a fool once again. Nicki laughed a bit before moving back a covering her mouth with her arm to cough.

"That's cough is tough. Aw, are you sick?"

"Just a little, but I wouldn't dare miss a night being with my fans."

"Explains why I seen Safaree getting medicine the other day."

"Oh really? Where'd you see him?"

"The hotel."

"You're staying at our hotel?"

"No, I was just waiting in the lobby for my parents. Where is he by the way?"

"Uh-over there somewhere I think." Nicki turned her body and pointed her finger in the direction to the corner of the VIP section and turned back around looking down at her phone. "Probably acting a fool."

"Ugh. He is so sexy. I don't see how you can take it." Nicki dropped her phone in her lap, cocking her head to the side and squinting her eyes at Tiana while Tiana was looking passed Nicki and at Safaree in the corner. Tiana pushed her hair out of her face messing up her middle part and continued staring at Safaree as she bit her lip.

"You think he's cute?" Nicki tried to say nonchalantly. Tiana met Nicki's eyes and gave a nervous smile.

"Yeah. I just think he's the finest. Is he dating anyone?" Nicki looked over her shoulder at Safaree before turning her attention back to Tiana. Nicki hesitated to answer seeing as how determined and non-shy this girl became when the conversation switched towards Safaree. Nicki gulped a huge lump in throat that had began hurting her and spoke up making clean eye contact with her.

"No, not at all. I don't know if he's looking for a relationship right now, but he's not seeing anyone." Nicki's heart began going at a fast pace but yet still felt like it was beating it slow motion. Sure there were a few of her fans that liked Safaree but none that were bold enough to tell NICKI, or to even try to pursue something with him. Nicki straightened her jacket up on her body and tried to refocus her attention on what Tiana was saying.

"Would he?"

"I'm sorry?" Nicki said only catching the last part of whatever it was Tiana said while she had zoned out.

"Do you think he would be interesting in just hanging out with me? To get to know each other?" Nicki just stared at her not being able to find an answer. "You know what. I see my time is almost up anyways. Could you give him my card?" Tiana opened up her clutch and pulled out her card and handed it to Nicki.

"Oh, sure." Nicki took the card out of her hand and gave a smile.

"It was nice meeting you Nicki. I hope to see you more often." Tiana said closing her clutch and gripping it getting ready to stand.

"That would be wonderful. It was nice meeting you." Nicki opened her arms and Tiana leaned in for a hug, Nicki rolled her eyes and then leaned out of the hug with a smile.

"Bye Nicki."

"Bye babe."

Nicki watched Tiana as she got up and walked off. Nicki's eyes followed her when she assumed Tiana was making her way to go to speak to Safaree but she made her way towards the exit of the club. Nicki rolled her eyes and turned her body back to how she was originally sitting and jumped a little at another fan being right next to her.

"Ugh." Nicki put a hand over her heart. "You scared me barb." She dropped her phone in her lap to hug the familiar barb in front of her.

"How are you- no, wait. How did you get in here?" Nicki gave her a smirk and put a hand on her hip waiting for her response.

Untitled.

"Well the BET Awards was a success." Nicki rested her head back on the seat in the truck while looking over towards Safaree. "Everything went great during my performance."

"Yeah. It was actually a good show." Safaree said a he remained facing forward.

Nicki began to laugh and squeal a little at the thought that popped back up in her head. "No, when Jay interrupted Kanye. In my head I was cryin."

"Yo, that was funny. Did you see Kanye's face? Priceless."

Nicki just continued cackling which made Safaree chuckle.

"I'm glad you got your award. If they tried to pull some slick shit I would've pulled a Kanye too."

"Oh I know you would. You should've went up there with me."

"You know how BET is. They kept moving me around and shit. But that's why I pointed to Mack and told him to go up there with you.

Nicki held up her phone and looked at the time. She yawned and dropped her phone into her lap and looked out her window.

"Sleepy?"

"I just want my bed."

As soon as Nicki finished her sentence they pulled up to her LA home. She uncrossed her legs and grabbed her phone in her hand. When they came to halt Safaree hopped out and walked around to Nicki's side. He opened her door and extended his hand. Nicki stepped out of the car and stood to the side so Safaree could shut the door. She dropped her phone in Safaree's pocket while she swung her hair back over her shoulder and let go of Safaree's hand, placing both hands on his wrist. He placed his free hand on top of her hands helping her walk knowing for a fact her feet were hurting. He pulled her along up the drive way and towards the front door of the house. When they got to the porch Safaree turned his head back and nodded off the driver. He let go of Nicki's hands and dug in his pocket for the key. He retrieved and opened up the door letting Nicki go first. He stepped in behind her and turned back towards the door to lock up. He placed the keys on the stand by the door and looked up seeing Nicki taking off her heels on the couch. Safaree walked over to the fridge and pulled out a water bottle.

He walked back over towards Nicki and handed her the water bottle. He pulled up his pants before he bent down and placed a hand under her legs and under her back.

"You love this don't you?"

Nicki giggled tiredly but didn't answer his question, she only wrapped her arms around his neck gripping her water bottle. Nicki felt her eyes getting heavier and heavier feeling herself slowly drifting off. He gently kicked open Nicki's bedroom door and walked in. He laid her down and pulled her phone out of his pocket and placed it on the nightstand.

"You want me to run your water or you got it?"

"You can."

"Shower or bath?"

"Shower."

Safaree nodded his head then headed towards her bathroom. Nicki got up from the bed and stepped over to her dresser. She opened her top drawer and pulled out a t-shirt.

"What time is our flight in the morning?!" Safaree yelled over the water he had just began running. He moved around in the bathroom getting Nicki's towel and face wash ready for her.

"Around 5:30-6 I think!" Nicki turned on her heels and headed towards the bathroom dropping her thong and t-shirt on her bed on the way. She stepped in to the bathroom and Safaree turned around at the same time she entered.

"Here." Safaree watched Nicki remove her jacket and hand it to him. "Take this." He took the jacket out of her hand as she began to pull down her leggings. She stared at him as he made his way out of the bathroom and walking to her closet to hang her jacket up. Pulling off her lime green bra/top she walked over and closed the bathroom door.


---


Nicki huffed again for what seemed like the billionth time this morning and nudged him again. Safaree would not wake up and they had a flight to catch. She got up and walked back over to his side of the bed and sat on the little bit of space that was left between him and the edge of the bed. She ran her fingers through her hair and licked her lips while staring down at him. She tilted her head to the side and rolled her eyes and threw her head back dramatically. 


"SAFAREE!" 


He shifted a little and rolled over so his back was facing her but still didn't wake up. Nicki's eyes bucked and her jaw dropped.

"Oh hell no. I don't have time for this." Nicki hopped up from the bed and made her way to the kitchen.  She walked over to the cabinets over above the sink and pulled out two pots and pans. She looked over them and tried to think if it would be worth the damages she is about to cause them. She shrugged and made her way back to her room where Safaree was sleeping. She walked up to him and threw a leg over his body and sitting on top of him while she tightened her grip on the pots and pans. She licked her lips again and smiled deviously before putting the pots and pans close to his ear and banging them together. Safaree sat up quickly causing his head to collide with a pot and send his upper half right back down to the bed. He looked up at Nicki's face while rubbing his forehead where he had got hit. He frowned at her continuously growing smile and huffed.

"Get the fuck up next time." she dropped the pans beside him and used his stomach to climb off of him. She picked up the pots and pans and headed for the door. Right before she walked over she banged the pans together one more time without looking back.

"GET UP, SAFAREE!"

-

Nicki walked in the room as Safaree walked over of the bathroom with just a towel wrapped around his waist. Nicki stopped at the opening of the door and leaned against the wall. She bit her lip and stared at him as he grabbed his shirt off of the bed. He looked at her which caused her to look at his face instead of his abs.

"Need something?"

Nicki leaned off of the wall and walked over towards Safaree as he smirked at her making her way over to him. She stopped in front of him and ran her hands over his abs and his chest while still biting her lip. Safaree looked down at her concentrating on his body.

"Don't start nothing."

Nicki looked up meeting his eyes and puckered her lips and he bent his head down and pecked them. He pulled away and bent down to peck her lips again before his lips met her hand. She patted him on the chest and walked away.

"Get ready so we can get to the airport."

Safaree licked his lips and shook his head before pulling the shirt over his head.

---

"How long until our flight?"


"About 10-15 minutes" 


"Terrence and Joyce already caught their flight, right?"


"Yeah, he called last night and told me theirs was earlier than ours."


Nicki sighed and looked up from her phone. She looked around at all the people in the airport and her eyes focused in on one guy. He was obviously about to miss his plane and ran straight into a worker standing by the door. He stopped and looked at her looking like he wanted to apologize as she was slowly hitting the ground but continued on anyways. Nicki's laugh roared out at the sight as she leaned over laughing even harder. She picked her phone back up and typed up the tweet. She looked over it one more time before pressing send.


The things you see in airports. #cryingrealtearsrightnow


She closed the app and dropped her phone back into her lap still laughing.

"You're the type of person who ruins jokes."

Nicki's laugh came to a halt and she snapped her head in his direction.

"What do you mean?"

"You know. Like if someone tells a joke, yeah it's funny. But you're the type to laugh at it for minutes passed and it's not that funny."

"Whatever, Safaree. Shut up."

She looked back down at her phone in her lap checking the time. Safaree shrugged and continued looking around. His eyes diverted up when he heard their flight being called. He stood up placing his phone in his pocket and pushed his sunglasses up on his face more. He clutched his suitcase as he watched Nicki get up and gather her things. She adjusted her blanket over her head and scanned Safaree for his hand while she made sure she had her suitcase clutched as well. She moved closer into Safaree's side as he lead her to go catch their flight.

---

Nicki groaned and rolled her head to the side with her eyes still closed. Safaree looked in her direction and lowered his arm down that was aiming at the TV in their hotel suite. Nicki groaned again and cuddled up into the corner of the couch.

"Wussup witchu?"

"I think I'm getting sick."

"It's probably just your lady friend. It's about that time, huh?" Safaree directed his attention back to the TV flipping through the channels before he felt himself losing his grasp on the remote when Nicki slapped his arm and for once it actually hurt. His hand shot up to rub the spot where Nicki had just hit him as he screwed his face up.

"It's not my period you idiot. I'm sick."

"Damn! That hurt!"

"Get over it." Nicki buried her face into the couch more and rubbed her throat that was hurting her.

"You want me to get you something?"

"Can you get me some DayQuill? I just wanna go to sleep."

"Awww poor baby." Safaree said sarcastically as he began caressing her back.

"Safaree can you just go get the damn medicine? Playing with me while I'm in pain."

"Pauz...and RAAAAANNNNNRRRRR!" Safaree said as he clawed at her. He dropped the remote on the couch and stood up and headed down to the lobby to get some medicine for Nicki. Before going to the lobby he stopped at T's suite that was right next to theirs and told T to watch Nicki while he goes to get some medicine for her. He stepped in to the elevator and made his self comfortable in the corner getting ready for that crazy feeling that he got when the elevator goes either up or down. He turned his head to the side looking at this reflection in the elevator and rubbed his chin. He dropped his hand and began smiling when he felt the elevator beginning to move. His body jerked a little when the elevator made that feeling and he gripped the railing in the elevator. As it came to a stop and the doors open he proceeded out of the elevator doing his "rich nigga dance" while this old white man gave him a funny stare. He danced his way down to the front desk and made a beat on it until he got someones attention. 


"Can I help you, sir?"

"Uhm, yeah. Can I get some DayQuill and some NyQuill?"

"Yes, just a second please sir."

The man turned around and went back into a room to get the medicine. Safaree looked around at all the people in the lobby and it was mainly elders. His eyes stopped when he saw a woman around his age in a corner making googley eyes at him. He nodded his head and turned his attention back around when he heard the man walking back up to him. He handed Safaree the medicine in a bag.

"Here you go." the man said with a smile.

"Thanks."

"No, thank you. Enjoy your stay."

Safaree nodded at the man and turned to walk off when the girl who was just in the corner was no in front of him.

"Hi, I'm Tiana." she said moving her hair out of her face. No doubt this girl was pretty and she had long hair that looked like it was hers. He assumed she must've been some other nationality or something.

"Hey." Safaree said. She was trying to scan for his eyes but couldn't see a thing through his sunglasses.

"You're... Nicki Minaj's hype man right?"

"Yeah."

"You're very sexy in person."

Safaree chuckled. More so out of how awkward this was and not by her comment.

"Thanks. I'd love to stay and talk you know, but I have some business to take care of. It was nice talk to you though."

Safaree went to walk around her when she caught up to him walking beside him.

"Uhm, sorry to be so forward. But... are you seeing anyone?"

Safaree wanted to huff but didn't want to be so rude. There was an awkward silence before Safaree answered the question.

"Nah. I'm not really looking for a relationship right now."

"Oh...I see. Well it was nice meeting you. I'll be at Nicki's after party so maybe I'll see you there? You know, just to talk and stuff. Nothing serious."

"Alright. That's cool. I really need to go though. Have a nice day." Safaree gave a slight smile and walked ahead never looking back. Safaree walked into the room and saw Nicki laid out on the couch with a mini trashcan beside her. She looked so sick and helpless. She was looking pale and her hair was sprawled out everywhere. He had to admit she still looked beautiful anyways though. He licked his lips and made his way in front of her. She looked up at him when he began helping her sit up. He sat down and placed Nicki on his lap. He pulled the medicine out of the bag and handed it to Nicki. He gave her the medicine tube and she began pouring the medicine in the tube. He put a hand on her waist to keep her in place as he leaned and bent down to get Nicki's water bottle that was on the floor. She waited until he handed her the water bottle to down the medicine. She made a sour face and hurriedly opened the water bottle guzzling it. He took the medicine out of her hand and screwed the cap back on it and threw the medicine back in the bag. When Nicki got done drinking the water he took it from her and put it beside him on the couch. She turned her head to the side to look down at him and rolled her eyes.

"Why are you wearing those sun glasses Safaree? We're inside."

Safaree shrugged and laughed. She rolled her eyes again and stared blankly ahead.

"Are you sleeping in here or you want to go to your room?"

"Take me to my room." She stood up and waited for him to get up as well. He grabbed her wrist as he grabbed her blanket off the couch and led her to her room. She put his hand on her back when she went to lay down on the bed to make sure her balance was right. As she got comfortable he threw the blanket on top of her. He went over to the corner to grab the trash can and put it down beside her bed.

"You need anything else?"

"No, can you just hit the light when you leave?"

Safaree nodded his head making his way out of the room and hit the light switch, but right before he closed the door he heard Nicki say something softly.

"Love you." he peaked in a little as he seen her looking his way giving a tired smile. He smiled back at her after he licked his lips.

"Love you too." he said as he shut the door behind him.

Old Happenings Bring New Troubles

"Hey Nicki... Safaree..." Drake looked away and took a seat on the couch across from them in the hotel suite. He didn't think Safaree would be around for whatever it is that Nicki wanted to talk to him about. Drake assumed it would be just a normal conversation of them talking like always and discussing what's going on with both of them. You know, the usual. But when he walked in and saw how serious Nicki's face was...and SB in the room as well he figured it's definitely something else. 


"Hey Drake." Nicki spoke up casually which confused Drake but he didn't let it show on his face. He only shifted on the couch so he didn't feel like he was sliding between the seat cushions. Nicki looked next to her at Safaree to try and read his face for an expression but it was nothing. Just his normal stare. Looking around as if he could care less to be apart of this conversation but since Nicki insisted, he was here. 


Safaree really wanted to be anywhere other than here right now. Safaree's phone buzzed and he immediately thanked God when he read the message and who it was from.


"Y'all can talk. Manny needs me for help in the other room." Nicki cut her eyes at Safaree while he stood up. She watched him and Drake share a head nod and Safaree proceeded out of the room. She looked off to the side at nothing in particular until Drake spoke up breaking her from her trance.


"So, wussup with you Nicki? How you been?" 


Nicki leaned to the side tucking her legs under her and sat on them. She leaned her arm on the arm of the couch and made eye contact with him.


"I'm great, how are you? How's the movie coming along?"


"It's good. You know I had to let my hair grow out for it. That's why I'm looking all sexy and scruffy right now." Drake said as he ran his fingers through his hair and over his beard. Nicki playfully rolled her eyes and twisted her lips.


"Oh  really?"


"Yeah." he chuckled. "How are you though? How are things working with the album?"


"It's coming along fine. I'm really really enjoying making an album this time around. It's so much more fun, you know? I felt so much pressure with the first one and it's so good to just kind of... relax and be free with this one. You know?"


"Trust me, I know. I felt the same way." Drake looked at her and Nicki gave a slight smile and ran her fingers through her hair.


"So what did you want to talk about? Sounded important?" 


"Uhm... I wanted to talk to you about us." 


As soon as she said that Drake's eyes lit up and Nicki frowned. Of course he would think she meant that in a good way but little did he know what she was really here to tell him.


"What about us?" He said with a little too much excitement in his voice. Nicki sighed and untucked her  legs from under her and sat up straight looking directly into his eyes waiting for him to return the same eye contact. 


"I know we play around constantly. The flirting and stuff like that." Nicki paused for a moment. "But I really think we shouldn't anymore."


"Why? What did I do?"


"No, no. This has nothing to do with you. It's just-- look." Nicki got up and walked over to the couch that Drake was sitting on and took a seat right next to him. "I've already made it known to the rest of YM but I wanted to tell you in person and not over the phone given our relationship." She looked at his facial expression and really didn't know how he was going to take what she was about to tell him. She looked down at her hands in her lap before speaking up again.


"Me and Safaree are dating, and I really think all of the playing around should stop, out of respect for him." 


She looked up to look at Drake's face. It was emotionless and blank. He looked off to the side of them room and laughed. "Wow. Are you serious right now?" he laughed again and shook his head. "How long has this been going on?" 


"For a while now." Nicki looked him directly in his eyes while he continued looking off trying to avoid eye contact. "I still love you the same. You know you're a brother to me and that will never change. I don't want there to be any hard feelings."


"Wow. So you really was just gonna keep playing with my emotions while you were actually in a relationship?" he laughed again which began to heavily annoy Nicki. "That's some fucked up shit." Nicki made a confused face. For one she had never seen Drake look this upset yet angry at the same time and she didn't know why he had that tone of voice with her. She put her hand on his shoulder and he roughly shook it off.


"Seriously?" Nicki said obviously with her anger boiling up. She scooted back and away from Drake more so that he could see the anger in her face. He still wouldn't turn his body and look at her though which was making her more upset. She was being sincere and genuine with him but he is acting like a teenager with this attitude right now. She wanted so badly to just grab his face and make him look at her but she didn't want to think about what the action could've resulted in. 


"Can you look at me, please?" Nicki folded her arms across her chest while still staring at him.


"It's hard to look into the face of someone you thought you knew."


Nicki dropped her arms from her chest and her nostrils flared for a second. "Are you seriously acting like this right now?"


"Well how else am I suppose to react to some shit like this?" 


"Whatever, Drake. I'm done with this." Nicki said getting up from the couch and clutching her phone. "I see you don't wanna be an adult about this situation? Really?" Nicki folded her arms standing up staring down at Drake giving him one more chance to fix this. He pulled out his phone and continued ignoring her. Nicki rolled her eyes and began walking towards the door. When Nicki's hand touch the doorknob she immediately dropped it and turned around quickly when she heard Drake's sly remark that he thought he said under his breath. She charged over to him and stopped right in front of him knocking his phone out of his hand to make sure he was going to give her the attention she was demanding in this very moment.


"He's not even with me for the money Drake and I can't even believe you would say something so fucking low and disrespectfu--"


"That's some dumb ass shit right there. Don't even entertain it." Nicki and Drake both looked towards the door to see Safaree standing there with his arms folded across his chest. Nicki relaxed her tense body language when she saw him and they made eye contact and she then turned her attention back to Drake.


"I don't want to speak to you until you can act like an adult. Until then don't even try to contact me." 


"Don't even stress that shit. Let's go" Safaree opened the door and Nicki went to walk out first before they both heard him speak again.


"Yeah go on with your free loading boyfriend."


Safaree turned around and began walking back towards Drake. "Yo, you got one more time to say some slick shit and I promise you it's over. I promise you nigga." 


Drake stood up from the couch when he saw SB approaching and stepped back unknowingly but when he noticed he stepped back up a bit to seem tough. When Nicki saw Drake stand up she hurriedly walked over to Safaree and grabbed his wrist trying to pull him back. 


"Safaree, don't do this."


"Nah, this nigga keeps think it's okay to disrespect niggas and I'm about to teach him a lesson if he keep it up."


"Why don't you just teach me one now? Ain't nothing but space and opportunity." Drake said stepping closer to Safaree.


"You sure that's what you want?" Safaree chuckled. "Yeah, I'm sure you'd like it if a guy put their hands on you."


"What the fuck is that suppose to mean?"


"Safaree, c'mon!" Nicki yelled still pulling on his trying to get him to back away from Drake but Drake only kept stepping closer. 


"Exactly what I said." 


"SB!" 


Safaree looked back at Nicki still having a tight grip on his wrist. Nicki's eyes began to burn as she looked into Safaree's eyes. She had never in her life seen him this angry before and it scared her. 


"Please? Just c'mon."


"Better do what your boss said before she cuts you from payroll." 


It was then that Safaree loosened his wrist from Nicki's grasp and pushed Drake making him stumble back and fall to the couch. Safaree stepped up closer to him and went to swing before he heard the soft cries from Nicki. "Safaree... please.." she wiped at a tear that escaped. "It's not worth all of this." Nicki stepped closer to him and grabbed his wrist bring his fist down and pulling him towards her. Drake began to sit up and Safaree turned his head in Drake's direction. Drake sat up and fixed the wrinkles in shirt. 


"If you ever put your hands on me again you'll regret it."


Safaree went to speak again before Nicki pulled him off with all the force she had in her pulling him towards the door. She succeeded  and closed the door behind him. She pulled him by his arm all the way down the hall back to just her and Safaree's hotel suite. She put the card in the door still having hold of his wrist pulling him in the suite behind her. She closed the door and leaned on it. She grabbed hold of his other wrist and held both of them while looking down at the ground. She looked up at him with her watery eyes and then looked off to the side.


"Nic, I'm sorry."


"Can you please just promise to never scare me like that again? Please?" 


Nicki let go of his wrists and wrapped her arms around his waist tightly pulling him towards her. He put one arm around her waist and the other on her head. He leaned down and kissed the top of her head and then removed his hand from her head and put it around her waist.


"I promise."

---

"Did you hear this?" Nicki walked into Safaree's room holding the laptop open and spotted Safaree sitting on his bed watching TV.

"Hear what?" Safaree stared at Nicki as she made her way around the bed to the opposite side of him. She stopped right before the bed taking off her slippers and crawled into the middle of the bed but more so closer to Safaree. She sat the laptop down in front of her sitting criss cross.

"Chris and his diss record to Drake."

"THESE niggas."

Nicki playfully hit his arm and detached the headphones from the laptop.

"Just listen." Nicki put her hand to the mouse pad and pressed play.

“A fuck ni**a, that’s that shit I don’t like/ They throwin’ bottles, I’m throwin’ models just ’cause I give a bitch long pipe, / Doin' shows on tha soccer field that's dome, right? / I be singin’, he be singin’, so it’s on, fight/ But hold up, I ain’t give a ni**a no green light/ This head up, my bread up, one on one, what you scared, bruh?/ Matter fact, take care bruh, you a pu**y ni**a/ My ni**a Tunechi, yeah that ni**a nice/ Shout out to Nicki, man, that ass tight/ Them eyebrows, man, them shits is yikes/ OVO, you overdosed, screamin’ YOLO no, I live twice.”


"Hold on. Why the fuck he mention you though? Nah, he need to shut up forreal."

"Faree, calm down."

"Whatchu mean calm down? You okay with that?"

"Obviously no. But I see you getting angry babe, so calm down." Nicki ran her hand up and down his arm. Safaree sighed and kept his eyes on the TV. Nicki took her hand off of his arm and bent her elbow to rest her chin in her hand.

"Whyyyyyy do they bring me in this?" Nicki slurred her words in a pouting voice. Nicki sighed deeply and looked down at the laptop screen staring at it. "I really just wanna escape from all of this. Do you know how that line made it sound?" Nicki buried both of her hands in her face and sighed again.

"I don't understand why they keep bringing your name up."

"This is getting out of hand."

"It was out of hand from the jump. But I don't know why they bringin' up my lady." Safaree reached over to his nightstand and picked up his Blackberry. Nicki removed her face from her hands when she felt the bed shift and stared at Safaree.

"Safaree don't tweet anything."

"I'm not."

"I'm not playing with you Safaree. Don't."

"Alright, alright. I won't." Safaree put his phone back down on the night stand and then turned his attention back to the TV.

"I don't know what to do about this."

"Stay out of it."

"But Drake is apart of my YMCMB family and I work with Chris."

"Stop stressing this." Safaree sat up and leaned against the headboard. "Yo, look atchu. This don't even have shit to do with you and you stressing. Just relax."

"Well it does have shit to do with me now." Nicki said derailing her eyes back to the laptop screen. Safaree leaned over and closed the laptop, slightly pushing it out of the way. Safaree grabbed a hold of Nicki's arm and pulled her towards him. Nicki gave a slight smile as he was pulling her to him and she threw her leg over his legs and straddled him. As she got comfortable in his lap she wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest. She snuggled up to him as close as she could get and inhaled his wonderful scent. She smiled to herself loving this moment. She felt like she had escaped the world cuddled up like this to him right now. He wrapped an arm around her and used his other free hand to rub her back. She closed her eyes to take in this moment.

"Thank you." she said barely above a whisper.

"For?"

"Keeping me sane." Nicki laughed a little when she heard Safaree chuckle.

"You don't know when to relax sometimes." he said as he caressed her back a little slower.

Nicki opened her eyes and looked out at nothing specifically. "Faree?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think you and Drake could ever really straighten things out?"

"Where is this coming from?"

"I don't know, with all this drama surrounding him lately I've just been thinking about everything that's happened. It's just a thought."

"I'm actually tired of hearing about him. Only thing I'm worried about is this girl I like."

"Oh really? Is she pretty?"

"Pretty? She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."

Nicki smiled. "She sounds like a keeper."

"Yeah, she's alright I guess though. She be acting mad phony sometimes and be frontin' on me. I don't know if it'll last. I might just hit it and quit it."

"HEY!" Nicki  sat up and poked out her bottom lip while slapping Safaree on his arm causing him to laugh.

Nicki leaned back into Safaree's chest and wrapped her arms back around his waist, locking her hands together behind him. She closed her eyes again and let out a sigh. She loved moments like this with Safaree. Where he just held her and caressed her back while she let go off all her worries for the short amount of time. Just then Nicki's phone sounded off from her room and her eyes shot open and she snarled her lip. "Seriously?" She took her hands and unwrapped them from Safaree's waist and began to climb off of him. He grabbed hold of her waist so in case she was to fall he had her. When he seen she had her balance he let go. Nicki stroked her hair making her way down to her room. She scanned her room for her phone when she seen it buzz again and headed over to her dresser. She picked up her phone looked to see the missed call from her friend TT who she missed so much. She clicked the call button and walked back over to the edge of her bed taking a seat. "TT! I've missed you! Come to LA!"