Road to the Anniversary [Pt. 1]

"So what are you getting Safaree?"

"That's the thing, Lauren. I don't know. And he's being all secretive and shit and I still don't have shit."

"You always do this."

"Do what?" Nicki snapped her head into Lauren's direction.

"Wait til the last damn minute."

"Oh, shut up. If you're not gonna help me think of anything just leave."

"Damn, you've been so bitchy lately. Chill."

"I'm stresssssssssssedddddddddd." Nicki whined as she plopped down on her bed.

"Okay. What do y'all usually get each other?" Lauren took a seat in the lounge chair in the corner of the room while waiting for Nicki to answer.

"Just little gifts and stuff, but I want this to be different. We've been dating for ten years. I don't wanna just get him jewelry like I usually do."

"Hmmm.. write him a letter."

Nicki looked at Lauren in a strange way. "You know, as basic as that idea is, it might be a good one. I've never wrote him a letter."

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"Whatchu gettin' Nic?" Rex asked Safaree.

"Man, I don't even know. The only thing I have is the place set up and that's it."

"Just buy her like a teddy bear or some shit. Girls love all that crap."

"Nah. She's got mad teddy bears already from her fans and shit. She don't need none of that."

"Why are anniversaries such a big deal anyways? Just tell each other ya love each other and fuck."

"See, Rex. This is why you're a lonely, black coon." All the Vaks joined in laughing. "You'll never have a relationship."

"Yo, man. Just write her a letter...on some real shit. Women love that."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You right" Safaree put his hand on his chin and contemplated the situation. "Aight. Imma write her a letter. If this shit doesn't go well, Imma fuck you up."

Safaree got up dapping all the guys before heading out.

"Later, man!" Safaree opened his car door and climbed in. He adjusted his mirrors, stopping to put on his shades and pulled off heading back home.

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Nicki began to cry writing this letter. It's easier for her to keep her feelings in her head and to herself then expressing them. She was so emotional when it came to her and Safaree's relationship. When you say through Hell and back... it's been that and beyond. Never has anyone dealt with Nicki the way Safaree has. Never has anyone been there for her the way he has. And never has anyone been this patient in a relationship like THIS the way Safaree has. Nicki hurriedly wiped at tear that almost hit the notepad. She slowed down her pace of writing trying to catch her breath. She hoped she got all her sobbing out while she writes this because she could only imagine herself breaking down while reading this to Safaree. Feeling how emotional she was getting she debated with herself in her brain if she should read the letter to him or just let him read it himself. She shook her head and decided she was going to. She wanted to let him know how she truly felt and wanted him to HEAR her. No, scratch WANTING him to know, he NEEDED to know. Lately, it has been feeling like they've been drifting away from their relationship. And she was in no way here for that. So this letter meant the world to her. She needed to write this and to be honest, it was long over due. So, even if it was with a cracked voice she was definitely going to read this letter to him. As her confidence was boosting and beginning to kick in, she heard Safaree entering the house. She hurried up and closed the notepad and slammed it in the top drawer of the mini dresser beside her bed. She wiped at her face and tried her best to regulate her sudden heavy heart pace.

"Nic! Where you at?" Safaree yelled, dropping his keys on the kitchen counter.

"I'm in here!"

Safaree heard her voice on the left and headed to her room. He peaked through the cracked door making sure it was safe to go in.

"What are you doing, Safaree?"

"Just checkin'. I ain't know if you was changing or something."

"Oh? As if you haven't seen me before. Really? Boy, bye."

Safaree chuckled entering the room. He walked over to Nicki's side of the bed and leaned down to give her a kiss. Nicki put her hand on his cheek, pulling him back down to her for another kiss when he pulled a way. She held the kiss for a moment before kissing his bottom lip and then giving him another quick kiss.

"Where you been?"

"With the Vaks" Safaree answered while walking around the bed to the other side and taking a seat on the bed and leaning back. He placed his legs on the bed and she gave him a look.

"Get your shoes off my bed."

Safaree leaned his feet to the side kicking off his shoes.

"What did y'all talk about?"

"Not you."

"Oh???" Nicki grabbed the magazine from her dresser and started scanning through it.

"Don't you gotta go to the studio tonight?"

"Damn it. I almost forgot." Nicki dropped the magazine and picked up her phone scrolling through her emails.

"What time you gotta be there?"

Nicki held up her finger towards Safaree while still scrolling through her emails. Locating the email, she lowered her finger and read over the email quickly before dropping the phone in her lap and grabbing the magazine again.

"9 o'clock tonight."

"You workin on that song with Jay-Z right? Or the one with Avril?"

"Avril."

"She's just singing the chorus right?"

"Yeah."

"That's gonna be a dope record. In the Pop and Hip Hop category. I don't think people are gonna expect it. And the way you spittin on that? CRAZY!"

Nicki giggled never looking up from the magazine. Not really feeling it, she tossed it on her dresser and looked at her phone again.

"This silence is nice." Safaree said sarcastically. Nicki turned and looked at Safaree as he was beginning to sit up. Nicki grinned while she crawled towards Safaree and threw a leg over him straddling his lap. Safaree smirked and Nicki's smile grew as she began messing with his hat.

"Why do you do that?"

"Because I like it. Since I can't rub your head anymore, I like to mess with your hat."

"I like to mess with your boobs but you don't see me doing that at random times."

"Oh??" Nicki adjusted her shirt giving herself more cleavage and pushed her boobs up against Safaree. He leaned back while speaking up.

"Don't start nothing you don't want to finish. Or won't be in the mood to finish."

"Who says I'm not in the mood to finish it?" Nicki said seductively while closing the space between her and Safaree. She wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a peck on the cheek. Safaree's hand was on her lower back keeping her in this close position.

"How come when it's close to our anniversary we barely see each other? When we do have free time we're never around each other."

"I've got things to take care of."

"Yes, with me." Nicki placed a kiss on his lips and then on the left cheek. She kissed his lips again before moving to his right cheek. "My needs haven't been catered to in a while." She said moving her kisses down to his neck. She softly kissed below his ear while removing her arms from around his neck and running her hands up shirt and moving them up and down caressing his back.

"You don't need to worry about that." Safaree groped her ass causing Nicki to buck a little. Safaree's phone began to ring and Nicki sighed.

"Don't answer it." She went back to placing kisses on his neck. Safaree grabbed his phone off the bed and held it up in his view to see who was calling.

"Nic, I need to take this." Nicki rolled her eyes and dropped her arms from under his shirt and pouted climbing off of his lap. While she was climbing off of his lap Safaree grabbed a hold of her wrist and gave her a kiss.

"Don't be mad, baby. I'll make it up to you." Safaree winked as he walked out of the room answering the phone. Nicki gave a slight smile and grabbed her phone and opened her twitter app. When it loaded, Nicki pondered and then typed up her tweet.

*deep sigh* I almost got it barbz. *pouts*


Nicki watched her timeline continuously ask her what did she almost get. She cackled at their guesses and none of them were close. Safaree walked back in Nicki's room giving her a weird look.

"My barbz." She turned the phone in his direction so he could see one tweet that had her laughing so hard. Safaree chuckled looking over the tweet and sat down on the edge of her bed. He took his hat off his head running his hand over his head before putting his hat back on. Safaree rested his face in his hands before running his hands over his face and sighing. Nicki looked up from her phone at Safaree. She got up from where she was sitting and walked down to the edge of the bed and stood in front of him. He looked up at her and she slid onto his lap. She put her hand on his chin so he was looking up at her.

"What's wrong witchu?" she tilted her head to the side focusing in on his eyes.

"CJ and Rex got into a fight. I'm not tryna deal with that shit right now."

"Why?"

"Who knows. They're angry coons for no reason. Fighting over some girl they met at a strip club or something I don't know."

"I wouldn't even worry about that."

"I'm not. Where were we?" Safaree grabbed Nicki by her waist picking her up. She squealed at the fact that he caught her off guard. She grabbed both sides of his face when she felt herself in mid-air. He laid her down on her back and raised up Nicki's shirt midway. He began placing kisses on her stomach and his hands tightly grabbed hold of her waist. He began making his way down her stomach right above her leggings and looking up at her. He smirked and grabbed hold of the hem of them as soon as Nicki's phone rang.

"Are. you. fucking. kidding. me?"

Safaree laughed and climbed off of Nicki sitting on the edge of the bed. Nicki pulled her shirt down before sitting up and answering her phone.

"What?" Nicki rolled her eyes at the sound of Manny's voice. She nodded and said mhm after everything he said. "Are you done now?" Safaree chuckled and placed his hand under his chin. "BYE." Nicki hung up and dropped the phone. "We gotta go." she whined getting up from her bed and heading to her closet to search for some heels. Safaree chuckled getting up from the bed and heading in to her closet.

"Why we gotta go? We was just getting started?" Safaree walked up behind her wrapping his hands around her. Nicki smiled and put her hands over his hand. She turned, leaning her head back against his chest. She puckered her lips up and he bent down meeting hers.

"I love you." Nicki said moving out his grasp and walking around the closet in search of the perfect pair of shoes.

"I love you." Safaree watched Nicki pick through shoes not being able to make up her mind. "Where we going, anyways?"

Nicki picked up a shoe looking at it, comparing it to her leggings. She moved the hair out of her face and began to put the shoes on.

"Manny wants to talk to me about the new videos. When will I have time to shoot them. Annoying things like that we could have damn well did over the phone. So now I'm irritated and horny. Ugh." Safaree busted out laughing and Nicki cut her eyes at him attempting to get up from the floor.

"Shut up and help me up Safaree." Safaree walked over to Nicki placing both of his hands out. She placed her hands in his and stood up falling into his chest. Safaree immediately grabbed her waist to help her gain balance. When he saw she was good he waited for her to walk out and he followed behind her.

"And I was so in the mood for some bomb ass head right now." Safaree smirked and grabbed his phone and keys off Nicki's bed while she grabbed her phone and jacket.

"Stop smirking, asshole." Nicki said playfully while heading out of her bedroom.

"Don't be mad at me, baby. Not my fault." Safaree said continuing his smirk and following out the door behind her, hitting her light switch.