Dream Girl | Omeeka

Chapter 13: Life Support

Chapter 13
Life Support

(Nicki wakes up to use the restroom to find Meek missing. She finds a handwritten note on the nightstand.

// "Rest Up Queen "

- Big Daddy //

She puts it down and her face lights up. She loves the hand written messages and sweet surprises.

She reaches over to grab her personal phone off the charger and the time reads 3:15 a.m. She has (57) notifications from what seemed like everyone.

The most alarming was (7) Missed Calls between 2:43 am and 3:01 am. Back to back from her manager Manny, he then left her 2 voicemails; she listened to the first and dialed him back.

He answered, his voice humorless.)

Manny: "Hey Nicki, sorry to wake you"

Nicki: "what's going on Manny?"

(He breaks the bad news to her about the loss of her good friend and Tour Hand Edwin Larker. He was shot to death outside of a bowling hall in Philadelphia. He was in town rehearsing for her upcoming tour. Immediate feelings of sorrow and guilt ran through her mind. She hung up the phone with Manny and the tears began to flow.)

'We were suppose to rehearse in LA'

She scans through her phone for someone to talk to. She has (2) missed calls from Sherika and a text from Safaree

// The text read:

You good? I just heard about Edwin. Call me when you get this

//

Right now, that's what she needs, to talk with her best friend of the past 11 years, but the breakup was so bitter she didn't know if she could trust him. She also promised Meek she would move forward so she sent him a text back instead saying thank you.

She called Sherika, who didn't answer. She figured that she had fallen asleep already.

The fact that Meek wasn't there by her side irritated her. She pulled up his contact in her recent call list and dialed him. He didn't answer on the first try so she dialed him again. He picks up and there is a ton of noise in the background.

Meek: (screaming over the background noise) "Hey Nick, I'm at the studio, was sup!?"

Nicki: "i need to talk to you!"

Meek: "You need what?!"

Nicki: "I NEED to talk to you!" (She then hears female voices in the background, her irritation turns to anger)

Meek: "Baby hold up, I can't hear you, IMA CALL YOU BACK!"

It sounded more like a party than a studio session. She immediately hangs up the phone and tosses it onto the bed. The tears are flowing.

5 minutes later she gets a call from Favorite <3. He's a lot easier to hear.

Meek: "my fault baby, I couldn't hear you, what u doing up?" (He hears her crying) "Why you crying? What's going on???"

Nicki: "They killed Edwin."

Meek: "who! Your tour hand Edwin?"

Nicki: "yes...." (Fighting tears)

Meek: "damn, I'm recording right now, ill be back as soon as I'm done"

Nicki: (angrily) "I'm good. Have fun with your whores"