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My Baby

I opened my eyes and went to move but stopped trying when I realized I was trapped by SB’s arm that was around me tightly. I sighed at how comfortable I was and pulled my arm out of the cover and dropped my hand over his. If I could lie here all day I would. I trailed my hand down his arm rubbing his tattoos. It’s a habit every since he went tattoo crazy. I smiled and ran my hand over my lips that were on his elbow. Let me get up. I could be here all day. I grabbed at his arm trying to remove it from around my body as gently as I could. “Ugh, babe.” I pulled at his arm again and succeeded. I moved from under the covers and sat up. I sat there for a minute and smiled when I heard SB groan. I looked back at him as he grabbed a pillow and wrapped his arm around it tightly. I smiled getting up from the bed and making my way to the bathroom.

SB rolled over and opened his eyes. He sighed into the pillow when he noticed Nicki wasn't beside him. Just then he remembered his plans and threw the covers back. He slid out of the bed and walked over to his dresser. With Nicki not being beside him when he woke up, he knew she must be taking a bubble bath, he knew he had plenty of time to get things set up so he was in no rush. He opened his drawer and grabbed a t-shirt. He threw it on and grabbed a pair of sweats out of his second drawer. He put them on and walked over to the bed. Since things have been better with them he decided that today he was going to do something nice for Nicki. He had the whole day planned and if she tried to oppose he wasn't having it. Today was going to be perfect and stress free for her because she needed it.

He made up the bed and cleaned up around the room. He went to the kitchen and began making breakfast for Nicki. Safaree walked down to their movie theater and grabbed the flowers he bought for her. It was easy to keep them hidden since they haven't spent much time in there lately. He sat the flowers in the middle of the table and sat her food down in front of the flowers. He made sure everything was in place for when she got out of the shower. He heard some movement going on back in his room and finished making everything perfect before he headed down the other hall to take a shower himself. 

"Safaree!" 

Nicki walked down the stairs slowly trailing her hand down the side of the rail. She walked down the last step and looked around the kitchen. She stopped when she spotted the bouquet of flowers sitting in the middle of the table. She put her hands on her hips and smirked looking over the flowers and breakfast that was sitting before her. She walked over to the table and ran her hands over the rose petals before she looked around trying to spot SB. She listened closely when she heard the shower running. She took a seat at the table and smiled at him cooking breakfast for her. She picked up a piece of turkey bacon and took a bite. She sighed at how good and crispy it was, it was perfect especially since she woke up starving. 

Nicki sat enjoying her breakfast until she was done. Getting up from the table, she heard the shower stop. She walked over to the sink and turned on the hot water. She rinsed her plate off before she dropped it down into the sink. She grabbed the soap that was on the counter and poured it into her hands. She washed her hands before grabbing a paper towel and drying them. Nicki turned around while drying her hands and looked up when she seen SB coming into the kitchen.

She smiled at him while still dying her hands and walked towards the trashcan. She tossed the paper towel in the trashcan and leaned up against the island while SB made his way in front of her.

"What's all this?" Nicki said looking up at him while he bent down. She puckered her lips and folded her arms across her chest. 

"It's for you."

"I know that, silly. But why?"

"I can't do something nice for you?" SB questioned. Nicki smiled and grabbed at the towel that was wrapped around his waist and pulled him closer. 

"No, because your sneaky ass is always up to something."

"How?"

Nicki stared at him blankly and released her grip on the towel.

"Get ready to go."

"Where are we going?"

"Don't worry about all that. Just dress down."

"Safaree."

"Nicki."

He smirked at her face and adjusted his towel. He turned to walk away and Nicki slapped his butt before she followed behind him to get ready. 

---

"You ready?" SB said as he came walking out of the bathroom and rubbing his hands over his freshly shaved chin. Nicki turned around from the dresser and looked at him. 

"Yeah, gimme a second." Nicki said as she put the jacket on. She walked around him and out of his room. Safaree walked over to his dresser putting on his jewelry. He put on his newest gold chain and red hat to match his plain red shirt. He grabbed his gold watch and put it on his wrist when Nicki came back into the room with a cute blue jean hat to match her blue jean jacket that she had on and her sunglasses. Nicki clutched her phone up in her hand while she put her purse on her wrist. Safaree grabbed his sunglasses off of the dresser and put them on as he walked over towards Nicki. He flicked the light switch before he put a arm around her shoulder and Nicki's free hand locked hands with his. She leaned him to him as they walked down the hall and down the stairs.

"Faree, where are we going?"

"Don't worry about that. You're relaxing today." They released each others hands as SB opened the front door letting Nicki walk out first. She walked over to the car while SB stayed back and locked up the front door. 

"You driving?" Nicki asked him.

SB shook his head while walking towards her and flipping through his keys. 

"You don't know what relax means." SB pressed the unlock button on his keys and opened the door for Nicki. She took the purse off of her wrist and held it while she climbed into the car. Safaree checked to make sure she was all the way in before he shut the door. He walked around and climbed in the car before he placed the keys in his lap to put on his seat belt. He put the keys into the ignition and back out of the drive way. 

"Where are we going?"

"Nowhere special. Stop asking that."

Nicki pouted and made a whimper. "I look a hot ass mess and you got me-"

"You look fine."

He said cutting her off and continued facing ahead driving. Nicki rolled her eyes and messed with her phone while SB messed with the radio station. 

"You know what I was thinking?" 

"What?" 

"You know after you finish your clothing line and all that, we should take a vacation. I don't know where, but somewhere."

"What a bright idea."

"Yeah, I know. Your friends can't come though."

Nicki looked up from her phone looking over at him and laughed. 

"You mean your best friend Viola isn't invited with us?"

SB looked over at her and gave her a blank stare and blinked at her before he turned ahead facing the road. Nicki laughed louder at the face he gave her.

"We should take a boat trip. Why haven't we bought a yacht yet?"

"When do we have time for that, Safaree?"

"Yeah, well you bout to make time. Actually, Ima make time. I need to talk to Manny. Have him schedule you a month off."

"A month?"

"You wouldn't know what to do."

SB said as he pulled into the driveway of Nicki's newest and favorite nail salon that is just down the street from their house. He turned the car off and took the key out of the ignition and slid the keys into his pants pocket. He climbed out of the car and walked around to Nicki's side. She opened the door and he extended his hand out to hers and she placed her hand in his. She climbed out of the car and walked around him heading through the back entrance while he closed the door. He caught up with her and held the back entrance door open for her as she walked through and he followed in behind her. All of the employees stood up and greeted her and SB. SB took off his sunglasses putting in his pocket.

"Hi, Neeki." Nicki smiled and turned around to look back at Safaree hearing him chuckle at how they say her name. They all greeted each other and they walked Nicki to the back of the nail salon. She took a seat in a chair and SB took a seat in one right beside her. She took off her shoes and looked over at SB.

"You're not gonna do this with me?"

"Do what? Nah."

"Safaree, take your shoes off."

"Nah."

"Ma'am." Nicki said looking to one of the female workers. She looked up at Nicki as she took a seat in front of Nicki's chair. "Take his shoes off." 

"Nah, I-" SB cut himself when the lady slid her chair to the side taking SB's shoes off. Nicki laughed at the lady actually doing it and laughed even more at SB's reaction.

"Now take off your socks." Nicki said to SB. She looked towards the man who was standing next to her bringing his nail kit and everything over to her. "Can you turn the massage on, on my chair?" he put his thinks down and flicked the button that was on the back of the chair and Nicki leaned back into the chair more.

"I'm not taking off my so-"

"Safaree, just do it. You wanted me to relax."

He sighed and shook his head bending down to take off his socks. Nicki smiled and began messing with her phone while the lady started the water for her feet before starting the water for SB's as well. Another lady approached them and took a seat in front of SB's chair. SB pulled his phone out and looked over at the window. 

"They're here." SB said. Nicki looked up from her phone and looked over at the window to see SB referring to the paparazzi.

"How relaxing." Nicki said sarcastically as she put her phone down in her lap. She closed her eyes and rested her head back enjoying the message from the chair and the relaxation on her feet.

---

"You must have knew I was starving."

"You get hungry at the same time everyday." He said with a laugh. They walked into the restaurant and a man greeted them.

"Hi, how many?"

"2." SB said.

"Booth or a table?"

SB looked down at Nicki. "Booth." She said and he grabbed two menus.

"Right this way." 

He turned around and let them to a booth near the back of the restaurant figuring they weren't here to be bothered. He placed the menus down on the table and Nicki walked around him to take a seat. 

"Your waiter will be right with you."

"Thank you." Nicki said.

He turned and walked away and Nicki grabbed at SB's wrist when he went to sit on the opposite side of the booth from her. 

"Sit next to me." She said before she fully slid into the booth. She let go of his arm and she moved her purse and put it on the other side of her and he took its previous spot. SB leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table. Nicki leaned back and stared up at him. He looked over and down at her causing her to smile. 

Nicki raised her hand up and wiped at his arm.

"I got nail dust all over you." she said laughing. "Did you enjoy getting your feet done?"

He shook his head and licked his lips looking ahead. "Never again."

"Are we going home after this?"

"Yeah. Movie time. I wanna see the movie Mama."

"Safaree, I'm not watching that. You know what I wanna see? Django. I heard it was really good."

"Nah. No slave movies."

"It's not a slave movie. Ooooo, let's see A Haunted House. Did you get that?"

"I don't even remember. I got a bunch."

Nicki looked down at her phone in her hand before looking up. SB looked over at the person who approached their table.

"Hi, I'm the manager."

"Hi." Nicki said.

"Wuddup." SB said. Nicki shook her head with a smile and sat up in the booth.

"I'll be serving you guys today. What can I start you off with to drink?"

"Yeah, let me get a water." SB said. He nodded and wrote that down.

"Uhm, I'll just take a water too."

"Okay. Do you guys know what you want to eat yet?"

"Nah."

"Okay, I'll give you time. I'll be right back with your drinks." 

"You know what you want?" SB said looking over at her before he closed his fist and lightly coughed into it.

"I don't know about you but I want some pizza."

"I thought you were on a diet."

Nicki cut her eyes at him. "I am."

"Right."

"Don't do that to me."

"Do what?"

"Uh. Never mind. I don't want pizza."

"We're getting pizza. You'll be fine. You don't gain weight anyway." SB said as he reached over and grabbed the menu out of her hands. He picked up his and held them. He saw the waiter approach with their drinks and moved back off the table. 

---

"Home sweet hoooooooommmmmeeeee!" Nicki sang while she closed the car door. SB shut his door and hit the lock button on the car keys. Nicki stopped at the door waiting for SB to approach. He walked over and flicked the through the keys looking for the one to the house. He found the key and Nicki moved out of the way. He put the key in the door and pushed it open allowing Nicki to go first. 

Nicki walked into the house and sat her purse down. SB walked past her and she put her phone in the side of her purse and headed for the theater ready to just cuddle and watch movies.

 "Nic!"

"Yeah?!"

"Come here!"

"Where are you?!"

"Kitchen!" Nicki turned around and headed in the opposite direction from the theater. "Hurry up!" Safaree yelled right as Nicki was turning into the kitchen.

"Safaree, what the hell do you-" Nicki stopped looking at all of the stuff set up in the kitchen and behind SB. He smirked at her face and Nicki walked up to him slowly. He held his hands out and Nicki put her hands in his. 

"What is-"

She stopped herself when he dropped down to one knee. Nicki gasped and shook her head. She closed her eyes and a million thoughts began to run through her head at the moment. He looked up at her and she opened her eyes looking up at the ceiling trying to blink away her tears. "Nic." She shook her head and bit her bottom lip not taking the time to look at him. "Bubz." he squeezed and shook her hands. "Bubzy." she laughed through the tears and looked down at him. 

"We've been through a lot, Nic. So much that I'd be here forever talking about. You've always been there for me. Even when we've had our rough times and we were both being stubborn, you still always came through if I ever needed you. We've been off and on for almost ten years and I've never been more in love with you than I am now. I know we argue. I know we fight. I know say some real messed up things to you when I'm mad and I know it goes both ways. I know I'm not the most perfect man or easiest to be in a relationship with but I'll try for you. I'd do anything for you. I been thinking about this for the past few days. We've been doing good and I see it. I see how happy you are when we're doing good and it makes me never want to argue with you again. I'll do anything to keep that smile on your face, Nic. I could be having the worst day and you just have to smile. That smile... it makes my day. Nobody makes me as happy as you. Nobody makes me laugh like you. Nobody makes me as mad as you. Nobody makes me want to never fall in love again like you." he said with a laugh causing Nicki to laugh as well as she let go of one of his hands. She quickly wiped her face and placed her hand back in his. "You don't ever have to question my love for you. I want you to be mine. Not off and on but forever. I want to work on us. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I want you to spend the rest of your life with me. I love you. I'm in love with you." he let go of her hands and pulled the box out of his pocket and pulled the ring out. "Will you marry me?"

He looked up into her eyes and she looked down into his with blurry teary eyes. She shook her head yes and bent down to his level. She pressed her face against his and held his face before she leaned back and kissed his lips.

"I love you too, Safaree. Yes." she nodded before he placed the ring on to her finger. She placed her face into his neck and wrapped her arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around her waist and stood up. She pulled back and placed both of her hands on the sides of his face. "I love you." she kissed him. "Sooooooooo much." she said before she kissed him again. She placed kisses all over his face and squeezed him. "This was the cutest day ever, I love you." she said again before she kissed him again.

"I love you more." he said before he kissed her back and headed for the stairs.
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AND IT'S OVER, YAY!!!!! sdkfjhsdkjfhsdfkhskdjf :))))) Hope you guys have enjoyed the stubborn struggles of OF ^_^ Now move on over to http://committedonikafareelove.blogspot.com/ for the sequel. It's been real over here my g's xo

Oh and yeah the pink writing was Nicki's thoughts. I started off continuing to write it in her POV but I wanted to capture it better. But yeah. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo ;)

Happy Days

“Are we almost there yet?” I asked getting annoyed at how long we’ve been in the car.

“We just got in the car.”

“No we didn’t.”

“I think we did.” Safaree said sarcastically. “The house is just down the street. Chill out.”

“You know I hate when you tell me that.”

“So chill out.”

“How can I chill out, Safaree?” I stared at the side of his face as he continued driving. “I’m about to go see a set up for MY clothing line. MY CLOTHING LINE! Can you believe it?” I looked at a smile grow on his face which made my smile grow even more.

“Crazy.”

“I’m just so excited…nervous.”

“Nervous?”

“Well, yeah. I want it to be perfect.”

“It will be. You stress too much.”

“Someone has to be the stressful, responsible one around here.” I pulled my phone out of my purse. Hmmmm. I wonder what my barbz are up to.

“I’m glad I’m a man.”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

“Women are like... I don’t know. Y’all crazy.”

I looked over at him before rolling my eyes. I scrolled over my timeline. My barbz are a mess.

“They find anything we do together cute.”

“Huh?” SB said. I felt him look over at me before turning his attention back on the road. Yes, please don’t be driving reckless with me in the car. 

“The barbz. Onikafaree and Dricki are at it again.”

“They always at it.”

“Mhmmm.” I scrolled my through my timeline trying to figure out how they always got on this topic. Always. My nosy little barbz, they want to know about my relationship life so bad.

“Why they talkin bout that?”

“Do they ever need a reason?” I continued scrolling through my timeline trying to figure out why. “Oh the barbz are watching the Re-Up DVD again.”

“They done seen it a billion times.”

“They’ll never let it go until I stop hiding it from them.” I said as I closed the app and tossed my phone back in my purse. I dug through my purse. “Where’s my…” I cut myself off when I found my pack of gum. “You want a piece?” I pulled the gum out of my purse and opened it. I grabbed a stick out of the wrapper and chewed it. “Do you want a piece?” I stared over at SB who was zoned out. “SB!”

“You know what I was just thinking about?”

“Oh..” I said dramatically and dropped my hand down tossing the gum back into my purse. “I don’t but I’m sure you’re going to tell me.”

“Haha! You know those big swings that people can get put in their house?”

“What about them?”

“I’ma get one in my room and hang it from the ceiling. Boss.”

“No you’re not.”

“Why not? You know how boss that would be? Chillin’ in the ceiling.”

“You would look so stupid.”

“Aight. Don’t be trying to sit in it either.”

“Trust me, I won’t.”

“You be hatin’.”

“Boy, please.” I saw that we were pulling into the back parking lot and got excited. “Finally!” I took off my seatbelt and grabbed my purse putting it on my shoulder.  “Really?” I snarled my lip and grabbed my phone out of my purse.

“Hellooooooo.” I said in a British accent. I felt the car come to a stop and opened the door.

“Where you at?”

“Out.” I said as I climbed out of the car. “Are you guys in LA?”

“Yeah, we’re here.” Viola said.

“After this meeting I’ll be there.” I used my free hand to push my purse up on my shoulder more before 

grabbed at SB’s wrist.

“When is that?”

“I don’t know. I’ll just call you guys.”

“Alright.”

“Bye.”  I hung up the phone and placed it in SB’s pocket.

“Who was that?” SB said.

“Viola.”

“Great.” He said sarcastically. I laughed. He still doesn’t trust her. Give her a chance.

“Stop.”

“Just her?”

“Her and Candi.”

I looked up to see Manny standing at the back entrance.

“We on time today!”

“Shut up.” I said as I released SB’s wrist. Manny shook his head and turned around opening the door. I followed behind him as SB followed in behind me.

“You ready?” I looked up and over at SB who was now next to me.

“Let’s do it.”

“The displays are already set up. You’re going to meet the daughter of the founder first. She wanted to speak with you. Then the boy who made the displays…what’s his name?” Manny said.

“Justin.”

“Yeah. He’ll come out and show you the displays and explain his idea behind each one of them. Then as soon as you pick which one they’ll get started on the real one.”

We walked down this long hallway before we made it into the actual store. As soon as we walked in a lady approached us.

“Hi, I’m Christina Kresge.” The lady said with a smile. She extended her hand out for a shake.

“Hi, I’m Nic-“

“Oh, I know who you are.”

I laughed.

“This is my manager Manny.”

I said as I pointed a finger in his direction. They shook hands.

“And this is Safaree.”  I said pointing my finger in his direction to the right of me.

“If you guys will follow me right this way we’ll get started.”

I nodded and we all fell in place behind her. Walking over to the sets I could kind of see a little bit of them and my excitement kept rising. Unknowingly I grabbed SB’s wrist and squeezed tightly trying not to squeal. He looked down at me with his eyes bucked and I smiled. We walked farther down to the left of the back of the building that clothes racks cover up the displays. Walking closer just then Justin came into sight. I let go of SB’s wrist and extended my arms out to him.

“Hi babe.”

“Hi Nicki.” He said as he entered my hug.

“Don’t be nervous, babe.” I said. I could tell that he was by this half ass hug he was giving me.

“So you guys know each other?” Christina asked as we released each other.

“Yes, this is one of my favorite ken barbz. He never told me he interned to be a designer. He’s always keeping secrets from me now.”

“So if you don’t like it you’ll have no problem telling him?” Christina said with a laugh.

“He knows.” I said pointing a finger in his face. “He knows me, and he knows that if I like it I’ll tell him. And if I don’t…” I cut my eyes at him and he smiled nervously causing me to laugh. “No, I have faith in him.”

“Without any more of a hold up, do you want to show us what you have?” Christina asked him.

“Yes.” He said nervously and smiled. He turned his back toward us and walked over to the first set of clothes racks that were blocking the view of the display and moved them out of the way. My eyes lit up and I gasped.

“So, this first one is in the form of a Barbie make-up powder room.”

“I love it.” I said as I looked at the display. The shade of pink that used really popped out.

“You haven’t seen them all yet.” SB said.

“The clothes will be on both sides of this middle set up. They’ll actually be all around. Depending on where your set up will be is how you can determine this back piece here.” He stepped forward and we all stepped forward. He walked to the back of the display and stood next to the make-up table. “We can completely get rid of this if it’s too much.” He stepped up behind a black lounge chair with pink studs. “You said you’re going to have sweat suits as well, right?”

“Yeah.”

“So these two chairs here.” He walked around the chairs and stood in the middle of them that we both in front of the makeup table and placed on each side. “The hoodies can be folded neatly in one chair and the bottoms in the other. Now the make-up table is for the accessories that you’re going to have with it. I know you said bracelets and necklaces and little things like that. There is going to be things on here to hold them up.”

He said reading my mind and I smiled.

“The rug can be changed too.”

I looked down at the pink fluffy rug that had the title for the clothing line in black airbrushed looking letters.

“No, keep this rug. I love it. I have a question though.”

“Yes?”

“For this, here.” I stepped up and made my way beside the make-up table. “Can we get this in black with pink studs to match the chairs instead of this plain white?”

“Of course.”

“So, you want the official colors to be pink and black?” I looked over at Manny when he asked that.

“Yes. Because it’s going to be kind of you know…unisex. So the sweats and stuff will be for both the girls and the guys and I think those two colors will work perfectly. This whole set up is perfect, I love it. I pick this one.”

“You haven’t seen them all yet.” Justin said.

“Justin, trust me. This is the picture that’s been in my head for the display. You have the set up absolutely perfect, the colors are beautifuuuuul together. This is the one.” I nodded my head and smiled.

“Do you wanna see the other ones?”

“No. I want this one, okay? This one. The only thing I need you to change is this.” I said as I tapped the makeup table.

“So black with pink studs just like the chair?”

“Just like the chair.”

“Is that it?”

“That’s it. This is perfect. Come here.” I walked over to Justin as squeezed him into a hug. “You did an amazing job, babe.”

***

“What’s it look like?”

“I’m not telling you guys.”

“Do we look like one of your fans or something? Keeping secrets from us…”

“You guys can see the display when my barbz see it.”

Viola rolled her eyes.

“How come I don’t hear any shooting?” Candi asked.

“SB’s gone. He dropped me off and went somewhere with the Vaks. I didn’t even know they were here.”

“They only come down here for the strip clubs.”

“Is that where they went?”

“Probably.”

“How do you let him go to the strip club like that?” Viola said.

“Like what.” Candi said with an attitude. Oh, here they go.

 

“Isn’t that like you’re allowing him to cheat?”

“Not really.” Candi said speaking up for me. I laughed. I see why SB still has a problem with her.

“He’s a grown ass man, he can do what he wants.” I said shrugging.

“Couldn’t be me.” Viola said.

“Well it’s a good thing you don’t have a man.” Candi said causing me to nearly fall out of this chair laughing.

“You know what.” I said between laughs. I couldn’t even.

“Funny.” Viola said in a serious tone causing me to laugh even more. Whew. I cannot.

“Anyways.” Candi said. I picked up my phone in my lap and composed a new text while Candi was talking.

Don’t  drink. Your throat.

“Have you been keeping up with the shows like I told you to?”

“I caught up on Real Housewives. Not Love & Hip Hop. Here, see if it’s on.” I tossed the remote at her and looked down at my phone.

Thanks Mom.

You’re welcome, Daddy ;)

I looked up from my phone and Viola made a noise.

“Oooooh. Why you smiling over there?”

“Mind yours, bew bew.” I said in a ratchet voice.

“Ooo, it’s on.” Candi said and I looked over at the TV.

“So what happened the last episode?”

“You and Safaree got into it.”

“Huh?” Me and Candi said at the same time.

“Erica and Rich is you and SB.”

“No.” Candi said.

“Why do you say that?”

“The arguing over stupid stuff. That’s y’all.”

I stared at her for a moment and nodded my head. “Ooooooohhhhh kay.” I looked down at my phone.

Don’t miss me too much…

I won’t ;) Viola’s bashing you.

“So this season is New York or is it Atlanta again?”

“New York.”

“Has my name been mentioned on this one?”

“Not yet.” Candi said with a laugh.

“Shock.” I said before my phone buzzed again.

Tell Piggy to shut up.

I choked on my laugh trying to keep it quiet.  He’s so mean when it comes to her.

Bye. You better be next to me when I wake up. Love you.

I will. Love you..

In Sickness and In Health...

"So, the US tour?"

"Yes, I'm going to give my babies the tour but that's the thing. Manny, we need to get everything started now. We cannot wait until last minute to secure venues. You saw what happened last time."

"Right."

"So we need to secure venues for rehearsal, too. Everything needs to start getting done now. No more last minute shit."

"Got you. When do you want me to get started on that?"

"Now. I'll call Laurie Ann and I'll have SB call Headache."

I looked over at Manny nodding and I guess making a note of that in his phone.

"Okay, so the third fragrance. They want to set up a meeting."

"When?" I took the lid off the pen and grabbed the notebook.

"The 13th." I nodded and wrote that down. "What else?"

I looked up at Manny scrolling through his phone and looked over at SB. You would never know he's so quiet and shit when it's just us. I stared at him as he messed with his phone remaining unbothered and shifted my head in Manny's direction when I heard him speak.

"Clothing line. Final meeting. That's on Thursday at 9 in the morning."

"Okay." I said as I wrote that down.

"It's just a quick run down of how you want the display for your section to be."

"Did they get that one boy that I liked to design it?" I said getting a little too excited. It's really crazy, I always pictured me becoming successful and following my dreams, but never like this.

"I called the lady and she said yes."

"Yay!"

"The meeting will be at K-Mart. They don't open until 12 specifically for you. They're gonna have like a set up display, 3 of them they said. And you pick which one you like best."

"That's amazing.Okay, that's everything right?" I looked at the list and marked off all the things as I counted them.

"Yeah, that's... yeah, that's it. I'll meet you at K-Mart on Thursday. SB." I looked at him as he looked over towards SB and SB looked up from his phone.

"Yeah?"

"Make Nicki have an early start on Thursday. We can't be late."

I rolled my eyes. "I'll see you when I see you. Thanks, Manny." I got up from the table and dropped the pen down.

"See y'all Thursday."

"Mhmmm." I grabbed my snapple out of the refrigerator. I heard the door slam shut and snapped my head back in the direction of the door. Did this nigga really just slam my door? Ugh. He knows I hate that. I walked back over to the table and grabbed my notes. I looked over at SB who was off in a daze.

"Are you coming with me or are you going to continue to sit here and stare off at nothing?"

He finally looked my way and said nothing besides putting his phone in his pocket and standing up. I paused to stare at him. He's acting mad weird right now. Whatever. I walked around the table headed for my roo- well, SB's room. Putting my notes down on his dresser, I turned around when I felt his presence.

"Why are you being so quiet?"

Last time SB was this quiet he went to go "get something to eat" and came back with our promise rings... :) Hmmmm? I took off my shirt and my jogging pants. I need to take a nap before this studio session tonight. I grabbed one of SB's t-shirts out of his drawer and put it on. I looked over at SB who was still not saying anything. He had his face buried into his pillow. I walked over to the bed and took a seat next to him. I raised his hat up in the back just enough for me to caress the back of his head.

"What's wrong with you?" I stared down at him and watched his arm shoot up and point to his neck before he dropped it back down. "Again?" he shook his head yes. Awww, my poor baby. I stopped caressing the back of his head and stood up from the bed. "I'll be back." I said before I walked out of his room and to his bathroom. I really hope this medicine can fix this because I don't want SB to have to have surgery. It's so weird how this always happens right before the tour. I opened his cabinet and grabbed the medicine that our doctor gave him the last time this happened. Turning to walk out of the bathroom, I opened the bottle and poured two pills into my hand.

"Here, sit up, take this." I put the medicine on the nightstand and extended my hand out to him. He rolled over slightly and grabbed the two pills out of my hand. He went to put them in his mouth before I stopped him. "Sit up." He gave me a blank stare and I slightly smiled. He hates when I treat him like a baby. He sat up and took the medicine. "You need something?" I said referring to his face and assuming he wanted something to wash it down.

"Nah." He said barely audible which made me instantly nervous.

"Does it hurt that bad?" I stared at him as he laid back down to the bed. He didn't say a word just groaned. I sat down on the bed on the free space beside him and looked down at him. "Come here, let me feel." He didn't move and I rolled my eyes. "Just lay on your side, let me see." he slightly rolled on his side and  I placed my hand gently on his throat. I sighed closing my eyes for a second and dropped my hand from his throat.


"We might as well just go, c'mon, get up."

"Lay down."

"Huh?"

He tapped the space beside him and moved the cover back. I stared at him for a second before I felt his hand gently pull at my wrist. I gave in and laid down beside him. "We're going as soon as we wake up, SB." I said as I cuddled back into his body frame. "Hold me." I said right before I took it upon myself to grab his arm and place it around me tightly. I placed my hand on top of his before I locked our fingers. I closed my eyes and sighed.

"No. It's too...not clean, do you understand what I'm saying? If the girls are doing one dance move, then make- just make the boys do the same thing."

"Okay." LaurieAnn said with a nod.

"Because if not it looks so, all over the place and not well put together. So have them do the same thing."

"Okay, from the top! Boys, you know what to do." 

Nicki folded her arms across her chest waiting for the music to start. As soon as the music started she heard her phone ringing. She walked over to the table that her phone was sitting on and grabbed it. She picked it up and looked over the screen at it being a number she didn't recognize. She twitched her lip before she answered it.

"Hello?"

"Yo, Nicki, get up here."

"Rex? What number are you calling me from?"

"Nic, just get up here."

"Where?"

"SB. He's in the hospital. It's not that serious but it could be. Bring-"

"What the fuck do you mean it's not that serious?!" Nicki said as she scrambled to get her purse and everything together. In the midst of grabbing her things she unknowingly hung up the phone. She sped past the dancers and LaurieAnn.

"What's wrong, love?" LaurieAnn called out to her but Nicki kept walking. She rushed out to the parking lot and didn't miss a step rushing to her car. She hopped into the car and immediately cursed herself.

"Fuck!" she said as she fumbled through her purse for her keys. She found them and pulled them out of her purse jamming her keys into the ignition. Not even looking and checking her mirrors Nicki rushed, backing out of her parking spot. As soon as she was fully out of the parking spot she rushed down the street wasting no time to get down to the hospital.

Walking in, she bypassed everyone that noticed her and focused on getting to the front desk. As soon as she made it through the crowd of people that were all turning in shock of her presence, she stopped at the main desk.

"Hi, how can I-"

"Samuels."

"Okay,  just a second." Nicki stood anxiously as the lady clicked through the files on the computer. "Ah, Samuels. First door down the hall on the right." Before she could fully finish the last word Nicki had walked away to make it down the hall. She ignored the people who were purposely in the way trying to get her attention and made it to SB's room. She opened the door and all of the Vaks stood up more so out it scaring the shit out of them how Nicki opened the door rather than them awaiting news. Rex walked over and stood in front of Nicki.

"Chill out, he's good-"

"Get out of my fucking way, are you serious right now? SB's in the hospital and you're telling me he's good? Move!" Nicki said before she moved him to the side as much as she could. She walked over to the side of SB's bed where he was sleep. She felt tears on the verge as she looked at SB with the IV in his arm. "What's wrong?" she said barely above a whisper while looking down at him.

"His throat been acting weird all day." Chris John spoke up. "He kept saying some shit about his throat feeling weird but we thought it was whatever. Then he went to spit up the shit in his throat and he was spittin up blood."

Nicki sighed of relief that it wasn't nearly as bad as she imagined. She quickly wiped at a tear that escaped and continued looking down at him. "What did the doctor say?"

"He's good for now. He shouldn't talk much. They said if his throat starts hurting again he'll need surgery."

"Surgery? For what?" Nicki said as she finally looked up and over in the direction of the Vaks. "They don't know exactly what's wrong?"

"Nah. They said the way SB described it they've never heard that before."

Nicki sighed and dragged her feet over to a chair in the corner. She sat down and adjusted her sunglasses and the hood that was on her head. 

"We bout to leave though, you alright?" Rex said. Nicki licked her lips and nodded her head before sighing again. "Have SB call us when he's better." He said before they all walked out of the room. Nicki sighed again trying to calm her racing heart that she hasn't had time to slow down. She looked over at SB who looked to be so peaceful and silently thanked God for that. Not a second later did the doctor enter the room and Nicki stood up.

"Oh, wow. Ms. Minaj, you're his bestfriend right?"

"Yes."

"Okay, well he's fine right now." The lady stated as she looked over the clipboard in her hand. "Make sure he drinks a lot of water. No alcohol whatsoever, it could cause the throat to react. Uhm.." she continued looking over the chart to make sure she covered everything. "That's really all, he can go home when he wakes up. I'm sure the boys told you, but if this happens again he will need to have surgery."

"Do you know what's wrong?"

"No, but the doctors ran some tests and x-ray scans and will be contacting in the morning. Any further questions?"

"No." Nicki said as she sat back down. "Thank you."

"Thank you, you have a good day."

"You too."

Nicki watched as the lady walked out of the room before she looked back over at SB.

My eyes fluttered open waking me up from my nap. I yawned and stretched. That was one of the best naps ever. I rolled over when I didn't feel SB's arm around me and laughed quietly when I saw him. His hat was covering his face while he was sleep. I tapped his arm. "Faree, get up. C'mon, let's go."

"I'm good."

"No, you're not. Let's go."

"I am. Look." he moved the hat from his face but kept his eyes closed. "Feel." I rolled my eyes. Nah, this nigga just doesn't want to go to the hospital. I placed my hand on his throat and it was surprisingly better. "Told you."

"Shut up." I tossed the cover off of my body and stood up off of his bed. "You still need to get up. Meeting at 4."

"What's it for?"

"You'll know when you get there. Let's go."

"No."

"Come take a shower with me and shut up." I said before I walked into the bathroom. I laughed when I heard the bed shift. Of course he gets up now. Pig.