Company

Chapter 55

Tae sat at the kitchen counter sipping tea out of a black matte mug. Jazmine's house was paled in comparison to the YOLO Estate. Drake's master bedroom alone was the size of her kitchen, but Tae wasn't complaining, it was warm, comfortable, and she was somewhat happy to be around her best friend, besides the circumstances that lead her here.

Tae groaned as she began to regret selling her house to move in with Drake when she first became his PA, but there was no point in keeping it, she was never there, all her belongings were already at the Estate so she put it on the market. She started mentally kicking herself in the ass for not keeping her 'own' that if things like this did happen she'd be back at her own house.

"You not going to be sulking the whole time you here are you!?" Jazmine said with an annoyed look, as she bent down to grab a carton of eggs on the bottom shelf of the fridge.

"I'm not 'sulking' I been thinking. I have to send all this shit over to Kimora by the end of the night, and I'm not done." She barked back with the same annoyed tone of voice.

"Bitch! Who are you trying to fool!? I mean honestly. I really need to know, cuz we the only two in here, and I know it ain't me...... It's you! Yup, that's what it is. You tryna fool yourself. Ok." Jazmine convincingly said back mocking her as she cracked eggs into a large deep white bowl.

Tae took another sip from the big mug trying to hide her heavy puffy eyes she was sulking and Jaz called her out on it. After reading his song length apology she felt sorry for him, but he should of spoke to her first and not sit in his thoughts. He had always been straight forward, right to the point, but for some reason, he was standoffish with this.

"I'm not trying to fool anyone. I'm just tired. I didn't sleep at all." Tae replied finally giving her friend a rebuttal. That was all Tae could come up with. Was that she was tired. And that is what she stuck with, it wasn't a lie, she didn't sleep at all, but that wasn't the true reason for her sulking and Jaz saw right through her.

"Just talk to him, answer him back, hell! Go back! Have makeup sex and all that!" Jaz said as her back faced Tae while turning on the front burning of the stove.

As much as Tae wanted to do that, she couldn't. She needed Drake to understand she was with him for him, it wasn't for popularity, it wasn't to get her name in a song, it wasn't because he was 'Drake'. Tae was anger that he had the nerve to question her for a second time, and that wasn't cool. If you had to question the person you were with, why bother with them. Tae never questioned why she was with Drake.

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Drake scrolled Tae's Instagram to see if she posted anything new. He scrolled her Twitter but no updates. All he needed was to find out which friend she was with.

"You need to get some sleep." 40 said interrupting his thoughts, as he stopped touching the soundboard and looked at his friend.

"You got a lot of nerve telling me I need some sleep." Drake said back sarcasm filled his voice as he dropped his hands in his lap and his head went back on the chair. He closed his eyes and sighed heavily. Drake heard 40 chuckled at the mention of sleep. "How do y'all do it? You, Chubbs, Oliver, Jhonny. Y'all got wives and girlfriends that y'all been with for years." Drake asked with his head still resting on the chair and his eyes still closed. Oliver laughed at the question. As he sat forward placing his elbows on the soundboard.

"Women are at your disposal. You have women that will literally drop what they are doing to be associated with you." 40 shook his said as he turned to his friend. "I hate to say it but, you've gotten use to women NEEDING you and not WANTING you. You've gotten use to women needing your name and your popularity that you mistake it for them wanting you." 40 spoke as he watched Drake lift his head, turning to him meeting his gaze, Drake's thick eyebrows frowned inward as he took in his best friend and mentors words. "So you date them for a few months, the media catches on, now she's popping, and just like that it's over and you're onto the next needy woman."  40 spoke using his hands for more elaboration, as he looked Drake in the eyes. "Tae doesn't NEED you, she's got her own, she doesn't thrive on the paparazzi, she doesn't want to be seen holding hands with you for a picture. She WANTS you. But you confuse that with her distancing herself from you, you think she's wondering off, because she doesn't nag you about other women, she doesn't demand to be at every event front row with you, she doesn't want to be seen in every club with you. So you push her away the first chance you get." 40 finished as he watched his friend grow irritated.

Drake grew frustrated with himself that he let things get to this point. He always spoke about wanting a woman that had her own, confident with herself, with what she was doing, a woman that didn't need him for her own popularity, but when he got it his own insecurities messed it up for him. Women like Rihanna, Serena, even Nicki Minaj didn't need his shadow which intimidated him in a way, so he'd ultimately find himself being just friends with these women in the end. Drake began to realize that if he didn't get ahold of himself, Tae would end up as just another female friend to him.