You're The One!

Chapter 31: It's Time

After Chris and Futures Tour

7 months later

Chris

"I hope you had fun on your little tour." My clothing line manager Maya spoke.

"It was lovely. I had so much fun." I smiled.

"Glad you did. Because now it's time to get to business. You have been avoiding black pyramid for almost 5 months and team breezy want to see something new." She said crossing her Arms.

"Sorry that I've been working." I mumbled.

"Have you even thought about us since you left?"

"Of course I did. But I can't do anything no time time soon Maya, I got studio time for the fan of a fan album with Tyg for the next few months."

She sighed.

"Well you leave me no choice. Until you can find time for this clothing line, you have to put a pause to it." She said crossing her arms.

My eyes widened.

"What?"

She shrugged.

"It's obvious that music is taking your time away from us, so until that slows down, BP is gonna be on a halt. Or as B likes to call it, Layaway." She chuckled sitting down.

"Really?? Lemme get this straight... because I'm doing. Y other job I have to basically discontinue BP?" I asked annoyed.

"Well, I didn't know I could put it more clearer than that. But yeah."

I sighed and shook my head.

"For how long?" I asked.

"Until you can prove to us that you can multitask. You focusing on music isn't making BP any money."

"The money I make from my albums and tours come here first and you know that." I semi yelled.

"Apparently not. It used to be that way, but now it's changed. People aren't buying the same clothes over and over again. They want something new."

"What if I have an assistant or my boys help me out?"

She laughed.

"Please okay, I have seen Keeis and Mijo's fashion before and they don't know the first thing about it. Okay, I even know how they dress themselves in the morning. Plus we've worked way too hard on this line and company to have them ruin it. Unlike you I have a family to feed and only one house. I am a Single mother with 4 kids and neither baby daddy is paying a eetie-ota of a child support. So no, I will not let them run BP."

I sighed.

"What about after the album drops?"

"Tell you what, if you can prove to me that you can find someone to help you with BP while you're out, I will see to it that we continue." She smiled crossing her arms.

I smiled and stood up.

"For real?"

She nodded.

"Yeah."

I kissed her cheek.

"Not too much." She said pushing me. "You need to get up out of here anyways. You have other meetings to get to I'm sure."

I shook my head.

"More like a date. Peace out."

Amara

"What abouuuutttt this one." I asked holding up a bad dress I just got.

"I mean it's cute if you were going on a red carpet to a patty label concert." Ashley said.

I rolled my eyes.

"You've had something stupid to say about everything I pulled out my closet." I said plopping on my bed.

"You asked...."

"You know what forget it. I'm going to call Chris and cancel our date."

I picked up my phone and dialed his number. She snatched it out my hand and locked my phone.

"You're not. And I won't allow it. I know how much this means to you and I will not let you go down like this. Hey up."

I rolled my eyes and stood up.

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"Really Ashley?"

"What?" She asked.

"I went from front cover of thriller to Goodies album cover to Prince at his year's Grammy to party label now I look like I'm about to street battle with some d boy kids.

She laughed.

"It's not even that serious."

Doorbell,

"That's him. How do I look?" I asked facing her.

"Like you finna go to a street battle with some d boys." She laughed,.

I opened the door and smiled.

"Hey." He smiled.

"Hey. Gimme a sec and I'm gonna go change my clothes."

"Yeah I was gonna say. I thought we were shooting a girl version to battle of the year." He laughed.

"Shut up! Come in and I'll be right down."

"Actually what you have on is fine. We can chill and watch some movies."

I looked back and seen Ashley walking towards the door with her purse.

"As long as I want to stay with you boo I have to go, duty calls and I have to work, but don't worry, I'll be home later." She said smiling at Chris.

He laughed and shook his head.

"I can't deal with her."

I chuckled.

"So What's up?"

"I need to talk to you about something."

I sat on the couch and faced him.

"About?"

"Us."

I chuckled.

"Okay? What about us?"

"Look, me and you have knowing each other for a while now and I actually like hanging with you. I feel a way I have never felt with another woman before. With you, you make me feel like a man. You always have a smile on your face and you never let anything get to you, at least not around me, it shows me that you cherish our time together. And the way you take care of Cameron.... You love that little boy and I do too. I just... I love the both of you and I know that I want to be apart of tour life. Amara, I like you and I wanna be your man. And I think it's time that we stop playing around and be with each other. Will you be my girl?"

Tears ran down my face. No man has ever said that to me before and if I'm honest, it sounded like he was proposing to me.

I shook my head yes.

"I'll be your girl." I smiled and kissed him.

"Now that that's out the way. We can start with our movie night."

I smiled and snuggled up with him.

"What we watching." I asked looking at him.

"Battle of the year."

"You just wanna see your face." I laughed.

"Nah not really you look like you wanna watch it by the looks of your clothes." He laughed.

I hit him in his side and laughed.

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