May 3rd, 1990
Author's Pov
Lauryn sat on the couch in a daze contemplating about what happen between her and Mariah last night.
"Aye, what's wrong with you?" Mel asked, walking over to her and waving his hand in her face.
She shrugged "Nothing".
"Bullshit, what's wrong with you" Mel said.
She sighed knowing he wouldn't go away until she had told him "remember Mariah?".
He nodded "Yeah".
"Well I saw her yesterday at Santalinos" She said.
"Oh yeah?" He said.
She nodded "Yeah and she hates me".
"How do you know that?" He said.
"Because she told me, she says that I just up and left her" She said.
"Well, did you?" He asked.
"Nah I called and told her...well her mom answered and I told her to tell her, I wanted to tell her face to face but I was in the middle of a drug war and they said if I didn't do it they'd kill Mariah....I had to do what I had to do".
"Damn" He said.
"And I tried to tell her but she ran away from me" She said.
"You gotta tell her, you can't let her go around thinking you just left her" He said, walking out the door.
She nodded and sat there and thought about how she was gonna tell Mariah.
On the set of Vision Of Love
"Alright we want you to stand here for the last shot and face this way because this is your good side" The woman said.
Mariah nodded and got into position.
"1 2 3 4" The man counted and the music began.
You treated my kind
Sweet destiny
And I'll be eternally great full holding you so close to me
Prayed through the night
So faithfully
Just knowing the one that I needed
Would find me eventually
I had a vision of love and it was all
That you turned out to be
When the she was done she sighed in relief and everyone clapped. Then she walked over to see how she did. "You were great" Claire said walking over to her and handing her a bottle of water.
"Thank you dahling" She said and she proceeded to watching the video. She eyes grew wide when she saw a little piece of her fall out during the video.
"You guys we might have to do that part over" She said.
"Nah it's ok you can't really notice it anyways and besides no one is looking at your hair when you're hitting notes like that" Her stylist said.
Mariah just nodded and went with what she said but deep down inside it really bothered her. Then her phone started ringing and she excused her self and went into dressing room and closed the door.
"Hello"
"Mariah"
"What do you want?" She whispered.
"We need to talk" Lauryn said.
"I don't want to talk to you" She said.
"Please, it's important" Lauryn begged.
She huffed "fine".
"Can we meet up at Santalino's?" Lauryn asked.
"Sure whatever" She said and hung up.
She removed all the makeup off her face and changed into her clothes. She checked herself in the mirror then put on shades.
W
hen she made it outside she got into a taxi "Santalino's please" she told the driver and drove off.
When she got there she went inside and saw Lauryn there sitting in the back. She walked over to her table and sat down.
"So what is it?" Mariah asked pulling her shades off.
"Well I wanted to explain why I left" Lauryn said.
Mariah nodded for her to start talking.
"I left because I love you" Mariah rolled her eyes "You had dreams and I didn't want the shit that I was doing to ruin it" Lauryn continued.
"I told you before that I was ride or die I didn't care Lauryn" Mariah said.
"I know but when they threatened to kill you I got scared so I did what I had to do to keep you alive, I called and tried to tell you but your mom picked up so I told her to you, Mariah I loved you with all my heart and I would've never just up and left you" She said.
Mariah went silent. All this time had she thought Lauryn had left her for no reason when she was really trying to protect her.
"Why didn't my mom tell me" She said to herself.
