when two souls collide: A TCP fanfict ✨️

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Fantasia's POV

3 weeks later

Taraji had been avoiding me ever since our last conversation. It's been a good 3 weeks since I last spoke to her. She won't return or answer my calls and texts. Whenever I come near her, she finds any excuse to leave. When filming, she barely looks me in the eye until Blitz yells action. After that, I'm invisible to her. She hardly says anything more than 2 or 3 words when she does speak to me. Thankfully, the only ones that have noticed have been Dani, Colman, and Corey. Mainly because they all knew she liked me.

"Is she still avoiding you?" Colman asked as he ate damn near ALL of my sweet red grapes. I could slap him, but I'll probably save it for Taraji when I get her alone. How dare she ignore me?? It's not like I did anything wrong, I just made an assumption based on her behavior around me. If she wasn't ready to say anything, she could've said that.

"Uh, hellooo? Earth to Fantasia?" Danielle said.

"Oh hell, my bad. Yes, yes, she is, like I got COVID or something." I mumbled as I rolled my eyes.

"Aweeee, the love bird has gone rogue." Colman teased, I picked up a grape and threw it at him.

"Go to hell."

"Don't be like that now, Ms. Celie." He joked, I threw another one at him.

"Go away." I giggled.

"Hey, Oprah is ready for us to do our main cast pictures with her." One of the assistants called out to us.

We all gathered near the area of the tables we had set up for the ending dinner scene of the movie. We took about 30 pictures as a group, and then we had our individual pictures and pictures with Oprah. We took some as our characters, and then later we'd do them in our regular clothes.

After I finished my individual pics, I saw Danielle walking with Orpah. They were laughing hard. I walked up to join, mostly to be nosey.

"Ms. O, do it for me one time, pleaseeeeeee!" Apparently, Dani was begging her to do one of her most iconic lines from the original film.

"Okay, okay, but you have to say it with me." Oprah said with a smile as she pointed to Dani.

"Bet, bet." Danielle said.

"I loves Harpo. God knows I do, but I'll kill em dead fo I let him beat me!" Danielle squealed with joy, I loved seeing her happy.

"Omg, I love you so much, Ms. O." They laughed as they hugged one another. In the distance, I could see Taraji standing next to a tree. She was staring out into the distance.

"Excuse me, yall." I said softly, walking away from them. I slowly crept up behind her, I wrapped my arms around her waist. As I let my head rest on her shoulders, the smell of her sweet perfume filled my nose. The sound of her low hums overflowed in my ear. To my surprise, she didn't try to move away or push me away. Maybe she was done fighting and avoiding me?

"Shug Avvvverryyyyy, this is who they talkin bouttt, and everyyything they say is true too." I sang sweetly to her because she was still in one of her outfits from filming. She tried to fight it but I saw a small smirk betray her.

"I finally got you all to myself. I've missed you, are you okay?"

She didn't respond to me. She kept her attention fixated on the birds that were flying in the bright blue sky. Her presence was calm but closed off. I kept my arms around her, I liked this feeling. Never had these feelings around her before. Well, at least not this heavy. I've always enjoyed being around her. She was always making me laugh or smile during the hardest parts of bringing Celie to life. She was always my shoulder to lean on, never letting me fall or even stumble. Something I longed for in a relationship. Even though we were friends, my liking for her has grown slowly but surely. I wanted to ask her another question, but I decided against it. She seemed okay, and I didn't want to disturb her peace anymore than I already have. I figured I should let go of her now, I didn't want her to get annoyed by it. As I lifted my head and moved my arms, she stopped me.

"Stay a little longer, please." She whispered so low I barely missed it. Her "please" was weak, almost as if she was hurting by something. Once again, I fought the urge to ask her anything that had to do with her feelings. I wanted to cherish this moment. She'd been avoiding me for so long. I wanted to have as much time with her as possible before she went into hiding again.

A good few minutes went by, and all that could be heard was the blowing of the wind and the distant chatter of pur costars near the trailers. Nobody could really see us in this spot. I liked that, don't need everyone in our business. I felt my eyes becoming heavy, and this moment was very peaceful for me. I allowed them to close, but it wasn't long until the woman underneath me spoke.

"You were right." She mumbled.

"About?"

"Me liking you."

I knew it.

"Is that why you've been avoiding me?" I felt her body tense up a bit. Dang, I shouldn't have asked.

"Yes." Her body relaxed.

"But why?"

"Because..."

"Because what?"

"I don't know, you make me nervous, and I don't want to ruin our friendship. So I figured if I stayed away from you for a little bit, the feelings would go away. But-"

"But?"

"But they just grew..." She whispered almost as if she was disappointed.

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Is it?"

"You can't answer a question with a question!" I popped her forehead. My, my, was it great to hear her beautiful laugh and see her smile even if for a few seconds.

"Look, I feel the same way about you. I understand you not wanting to ruin the friendship, I feel the same way. But the difference between me and you is that I'm not running away from it. I'm here, will always be, and I am perfectly okay with remaining friends before, during, and after whatever this is between us. I just want my best friend back right now. Is that too much to ask?" She turned around in my arms to face me. My hands were now just above her bottom.

Resist the urge to grab... I told myself.

"I'd like that, I'm sorry Tasia, I'm so sorry." She apologized with tears forming in her eyes. I placed her head on my shoulder and held her tightly.

"It's okay, baby, it's okay. I forgive you." I whispered while rubbing her back.

--Literally ignore any typo you see. I just finished this while my client is sleeping rn 🤣🤣 I love yall 🩷🩷