Lack of Communication

"I need to call Manny and everyone and figure out which way should we go for the next single. Half of my fans want I Am Your Leader and some want either Pound The Alarm or Whip It."

"I say I Am Your Leader."

"Of course you do SB. But I need to figure out which would be the best move. Or should I keep going how I've been doing it? Urban single and then a pop single?"

"Which ever would be easier for you to do."

"Thanks for the help."

"Hey, don't come at a coon like that I'm just tryna help you out.Whatever would be less stressful for you is which way you should go."

"I'm stressed either way."

"Well don't be. You just got off tour you need to relax." Safaree hopped up from Nicki's bed taking off his wrinkled t-shirt. He still had his muscle shirt on. Nicki sat on her bed admiring this beautiful view in front of her. His back was chiseled and worked on by the Gods. Nicki bit her lip and focused back on the stack of papers in front of her when she noticed him beginning to turn around.

"You gotta get some rest before this fall tour starts up." He turned around walked out of Nicki's room and towards the laundry room. Nicki got up from her bed and headed towards where Safaree was. Before she stepped out of her room she stopped at her door sliding her feet into her slippers and continuing down the hall.

"But Safaree, I need another single out. Unless I wait until I go back on tour again to do it and I'll be even more stressed. So I need to decide now."

Safaree put the wrinkled shirt in the dirty clothes basket and looked around like he was looking for something. He snapped his fingers and turned out of the laundry room. Nicki rolled her eyes and followed behind him again.

"I don't understand why you're stressing so much. Any other time you have to pick a single it's easy for you. What's so different now?"

"This will be the last single for a while so I want it to be a good choice." Safaree walked into his room with Nicki still following behind. He stopped at his dresser while Nicki took a seat on Safaree's bed and folded her arms across her chest. Safaree opened his top drawer and pulled out a red t-shirt with black letters that read "Niggas tryna come for Gali?" on it. (With the back of the shirt saying "pauz" of course) Safaree took off his hat to put the shirt on and put the hat back on adjusting it whenever he was done.

"Worry about this tomorrow." he said taking a seat next to her on his bed. Nicki sighed dramatically and fell back on his bed. Safaree shook his head at her dramatics and looked down at his watch.

"Yo, it's 8:55 already? What have we done all day?"

"Not a damn thing." Nicki said rolling her head to the side and looking down at Safaree.

"We haven't even ate either. You hungry?"

"No... but yes."

"Imma run and go get us something. You coming?"

"Pauz." Nicki said while sitting up. Safaree smirked. "Yeah, I'll go."

Safaree got up from the bed walking over to the dresser to grab his shades and car keys. Nicki rolled to side accidentally hit the remote to the TV. When the TV came on it was E! News and it was the last thing she possibly wanted to hear right now. "Nicki Minaj and Nasir Jones, better known as Nas have recently came out as a couple. In her latest video 'Right By My Side' featuring R&B star Chris Brown, her and rapper Nas share a passionate kiss at the end of the video. Sources say they've been together for a while now. No word on how long but sources also say that they have been in talks of marriage. Do you think it's too soon for the newly opened up couple? We have your answers right after this break." Nicki came out of her trance to see Safaree walking out of the bedroom with his keys in hand and shades on. Nicki sighed turning the TV off and shutting off his light before walking out of the room. Walking down the hall towards the front door Nicki blinked back tears. She really did not want to deal with this. More importantly she didn't want to have so much guilt because of how Safaree is more than likely feeling. She loved him. Is IN love with him. And it just seems like lately to her everything is trying to mess that up. Safaree continued on out to the car and Nicki went to grab her jacket. Nicki sighed once again feeling her mood continuously draining. She threw her jacket over her head putting it on. Nicki zipped up her jacket and put on her hood. Putting on her sunglasses Nicki turned off her bedroom light and headed out towards the car. Safaree had her door already opened for her and Nicki slid in the passenger seat of his red Bentley. Putting on her seatbelt, Nicki glanced over at Safaree. He hadn't moved a muscle or said a word.

"Do you want to talk about this?"

"Not really." He licked his lips and looked out his window. Nicki laid her head back on the head rest and closed her eyes.

"Baby, just tell me how you feel."

"I'm cool. I know it's not true, obviously. People just desperate for a story."

"So there's nothing else you want to say?" She opened her eyes and looked over at him with him still looking out of the window.

"Nope." he said as he started the car and pulled off out of the driveway.

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Nicki opened her eyes and looked at the clock. It was 3:12 in the morning. Nicki sighed deeply without trying to wake Safaree. She ran her hand down his arm that was around her waist and held his hand. Nicki really wished Safaree would open up to her. She knew for a FACT he was feeling some type of way about this whole situation. First it was this mess with Drake and now with someone else. It was like she and SB could never just be a normal relationship. Of course it wasn't normal because they had been keeping it a secret since she became 'known' as a rapper. It wasn't so that she could still be appealing to guys or anything like that but because she just wanted her relationship to be private. She's always been that way. Yes she's very out going and lively but when it came to her relationships she always kept them private. It was just something about having something like that kept private that kept her sane. Being in the media and them wanting to know every single detail about your life just so they can throw it back at you, she didn't like. She didn't want anything to come in between her and Safaree. As much as they've been through even before pre-fame she knew he loved her and that she loved him. And of course she couldn't wait for the day to tell the world that. But there's a time for everything and she didn't want people to be focused on her relationship but to be focused on her career and her as an artist/mogul. But it seems as though whether she tells people she is in a relationship or not they always have something to say.

Nicki shifted in the bed a little causing Safaree to shift a little. Nicki huddled up and closed her eyes hoping she didn't wake him. Her breath caught in her throat when she heard him speak.

"Nic, you up?"

"Mmhm." she said slowly opening her eyes.

"You good?"

"Yeah."

Safaree shifted around getting comfortable again still clinging on to Nicki, but the way he found comfort left a space in between them. Nicki scooted back more into Safaree. She lifted his hand up and kissed it. She wanted to talk about this but she didn't want to keep forcing him to speak on a situation her clearly wasn't ready to speak on yet.

"Faree..."

"Yeah."

"You can always talk to me about whatever's on your mind. You know that?"

"I know. Sometimes I just don't wanna deal with the bullshit. And I don't want how I feel to be taken the wrong way. So I leave it alone."

"You shouldn't have to feel that way."

"It's whatever. As long as you're okay, I'm okay."

"But that's the problem, babe. I'm constantly worried about how you feel cause you don't wanna talk about it. I want you to be happy as well, not just me."

"I am happy."

"Safaree..."

"Nicki..." Safaree took his hand out of Nicki's grasp causing her to look back at him to see what was going on. He sat up in the bed and leaned back against the headboard. "Turn around to me." Nicki sat up moving her hair out of her face and sitting up next to Safaree. He put his arm her pulling her closer to him with her cuddled up into his side.

"I really am happy. Seeing you do what you do makes me happy. Seeing you smile makes me happy. I'm not lettin the media and the bullshit get to us. I know what's real and what's not. Does it get annoying? Of course. But it comes with this. I've learned to deal with it." he leaned down and kissed her on her forehead. Nicki smiled and lifted up her chin and Safaree leaned down giving her a kiss.