Limelight

Chapter 1- Promise

Prissy's POV

I checked my flight once more and saw that it was still delayed. The growing frustration I had just wanted to bust out of me but I had to keep calm.

"Still delayed," I said to him but he just ignored me.

"Trap?"

She made a face like I annoyed him. I only wanted to get the hell out of his place and go about my fucking business.

"Prissy?"

"You heard what I said? My flight got delayed and I have to be back in Jamaica before 9 am tomorrow."

He took a puff off his spliff and blew the smoke into the opposite direction of me, before he spoke. "Suh what you want me to do, guh fly the plane?"

I hissed my teeth. "You don't care because you don't want me to leave."

"Prissy, we haven't seen each other in over a month. I had to literally book you a ticket for you to come see me. Imagine that?"

"Trap, I have work just like you."

"Yo,me know a nuh the money enuh. So it's either you don't have any interests in the relationship or someone else has your time and attention."

I got up so quickly from my seat.

"Don't sit there and accuse me of anything. Just like how you have your commitments it's the same way I have mine."

"Prissy, stop behaving like seh yuh have to work as hard as you are right now. Everything is already set for you babe."

This is what I hated. Everyone keeps telling me this and I can't wait to just shut them up.

"You are always doing this to me. Just because I inherited all of what I have, does not mean I am not going to work hard to keep it or to grow with it."

He got up from the chair and placed his spliff in the ashtray on the centre table. I knew he was coming towards me so I moved to the other side of the room.

"See how yah behave now?"

"I am only reacting to your attitude Trap. You seem to tell yourself that I am just your girlfriend and not the Record label owner, the studio owner, the sound stage owner and aspiring music manager."

He came walking towards me, there was no sense in me moving again. He wrapped his hands around my neck and placed a kiss on my lip. I could taste the stain from the weed on his lips.

I hated it..

"Babe, listen I believe in you and I support everything that you are doing. However, I need my girl to be my girl sometimes when she takes all those hats off."

"And I need my boyfriend to understand that I take my career seriously and it does not matter how I got it."

I felt like a scratched record now.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that babe. Come, sit with me and calm down."

He pulled me along with him back ro the couch. He sat first so I could sit between his legs and rest my head on his chest.

"I want you to stop being so miserable Prissy," he said.

"Lee, I'm not being miserable it's just that I feel like you don't take me seriously and I want that support from you."

He pulled my face up and placed a kiss on my lips.

"Baby, trust me I believe in you and I know you will be great at whatever you do. I just want you to show me you love just as much as I love you. I need that P."