Star Crossed (Chris Brown)

3.

Rae'lynn POV

a few days later..

It's been a few days since the little get together at Chris' house and I've just been grinding. I've been buying a lot of stuff for my store and now it was time to get down to business. I already had it painted yesterday. The walls were red and white and the shelves that will hold everything will be matte black. All the makeup will be hanging on the selves and down the middle, will be stations where professionals will test products on you.

Now, all that I have to do is set all of that up. Hopefully, most of it gets done today. I called Andrea and my agent hired a couple construction people to help out. At the moment, I was getting ready. I wasn't going to dress up or anything, I was going to do some work. I decided on denim skinny jeans, a black and white Tupac t-shirt, Oreo Jordans and gold hoops. I pulled my hair up into a curly bun and tied a black bandana around my head. For makeup, I just did my brows and left my face natural.

I went downstairs and started to pack my car. I had bags and boxes of shelves, tools, supplies and other stuff. I went back in to grab my purse and phone and left the house. I pulled up to the building to see Andrea and the workers already waiting for me.

"Hey, everyone." I greeted and walked up to the door and unlocked it with my key.

"Bout time you got here, got me out here almost sweating." Andrea fanned herself.

I laughed. "Okay, can you guys grab the boxes from the back seat?"

"Sure."

They got everything inside and we spread everything out on the floor. The wall was already marked of where everything would go, we just had to put it up. So, there was one guy on lighting, two guys on building the stations and Andrea and I on hanging shelves and wall units.

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We've been here about an hour and the progress was looking pretty good. We had music playing and everybody was working good. I was hammering in a nail when I heard the door open. I turned and saw Chris walking in. I got down and walked over.

"Hey." I greeted. "What are you doing here?"

His answered was delayed. "Oh! Andrea told me about it and I came to help."

I laughed. "Well, thanks and another thing, I caught you staring again."

He chuckled. "Sorry, you're just beautiful."

I blushed. "Thank you, now go grab a hammer baby boy." He smirked and walked to the center of the store. He started doing shelves like Andrea and I. I continued what I was doing but my mind drifted off to him again.

There was no doubt that Chris was sexy. All those tattoos, caramel skin, his little beard and mustache, beautiful smile. I mean, anybody with eyes could see that. I found it cute that he was nervous to talk to me the other day, I just .. I don't know. I guess what I'm wondering is what's his true motive, you know? I know what I said about not having time for a guy but Chris seems different. I know I've only known him for a couple days but his presence is just refreshing. Who am I kidding, maybe he doesn't even like me like that. Maybe he's just friendly .. but a friend wouldn't .. You know what? Stop overthinking and just see what happens.

I snapped out of my thoughts and realized that I finished all my shelves. Wow, maybe I should think and work more often. I looked around and it looked amazing. This was my dream, coming together just how I imagined it. I started tearing up, thinking about how long I've been waiting for this.

"It looks great." Chris said, scaring me.

I quickly wiped my tears and turned around. "Thanks, uh, aren't you supposed to be hammering something?"