A line of people waited outside the Supreme store as they waited for their turns to enter and shop. Every time people would leave, they'd unlock the doors and let a few more people in.
Tae looked at Oliver with a scrunched up face. "Ok, so, I didn't know it was going to be THIS busy..... It's only three in the afternoon." She said looking at her watch.
Oliver looked out the windshield and shrugged his shoulders. "We'll be good, it's not line were walking a mile..... Ima get out first."
As soon as Oliver came into view kids recognized him and began yelling his name, he walked to the passenger side and opened the door for Tae. She smiled as kids said her and Oliver's name asking for autographs and where was Drake. Tae pushed her way through the crowd giving people high fives.
She got to the glass doors and banged on them. Everyone in the store stopped what they were doing, including the employees. Nate smiled as he looked at Tae, her index finger pointing to the door. He quickly jogged to the door and unlocked and pulled her and Oliver in.
"What's up stranger!?" He said pulling her into a hug. He then shook hands with Oliver greeting him. "You want me to clear out the store? You shopping?"
"No no no." She shook her head. "I came to talk to you."
Nate stepped back letting her know she had his full attention. "Ok, let's go to the back though." Tae and Oliver followed behind him as he began to walk to the back. "Aye! MIKE! Y'all watch the front."
Tae overlooked Nate, seeing that nothing changed. He added a few new tattoos and shaved the sides and back of his head, only the top had hair that was pulled into a small man bun.
"I'm liking this man bun thing you got going on." She said touching his hair. Nate ducked his head down with a smirk.
"Oh you like this!? Trying something new." Nate checked his hair in the mirror that hung on the wall behind Tae.
"So, I came to offer you something." Tae rubbed her hands together with a grin.
"Is it money or alcohol?" Nate had a serious look on his face as if that's truly all he wanted.
Tae squinted her left eye. "No, but, how would it sound if you came and worked in the new OVO Flagship store, I told Oliver about you, told him I'm the one that trained you, plus I've known you for like six years, so what you think."
Nate rubbed his hand up and down his tattooed arm, he stood quietly looking between Oliver and Tae. "What about Supreme?" Nate asked.
"Well, you can work in both stores, buuut, it's OVO, and if you don't like it, I'll make sure you get back in Supreme." Tae smiled as she arched an eyebrow.
"Iigh, why not." Nate shrugged his shoulders.
Tae clapped her hands and pulled Nate into a hug, "Welcome to the family." Oliver dapped him up.
Tae walked behind Oliver and Nate watching them talk about the new store, she smiled realizing that she was building a team of her own.
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"How's the store?" Drake asked he leaned back against the kitchen counter looking over at Oliver who sat on the kitchen island in front of him.
Oliver looked up from his phone. "Good, Dan said it's like two weeks of work left." Drake's eyebrows shot up. "But! ..... He gave his word to Tae that he'll get it done in one."
Drake's face went back to normal, his fingers worked across the screen of his phone. "We were going to make a stop at the Warehouse, to bring the boxes of clothes to the store, Tae wanted to wait for you instead." Oliver continued as he looked at Drake.
"She also brought in one of the guys she trained over at Supreme, taught him everything he knows, she's knows him personally too."
Drake's fingers immediately stopped typing, his eyebrows frowned and his eyes narrowed as he looked up at Oliver. "Him? Personally?" Drake repeated, not hearing anything else other than those two words.
Oliver smiled already knowing he wasn't going for this mystery man without an explanation of who he was and the simple explanation that Oliver gave was nowhere near good enough for Drake.
"It's nothing like that, not a ex, no secret crush on her, or weird behavior in her presence." Oliver's hands went up in defense. "I was there with her the whole time, he's a cool dude, spoke to him for about a hour, got a feel for him."
Drake still didn't seem satisfied, but he did trust Oliver's word more than anything, Tae already knowing him prior to being with Drake, didn't matter either. He rubbed the bottom of his chin with his thumb and index finger smoothing the hairs of his beard down, he looked through the kitchen over at Tae, who was playing an intense game of beer pong with OB.
"She won't be in the store that much anyway." Drake said with his eyes focused on her and a straight face.
"You really think you going to keep her from being in that store!?" Oliver through his thumb over his shoulder pointing in Tae's direction. "I'm surprised she hasn't had Dan build a spare room in the back for her." Oliver laughed as he shook his head.
Drake continued looking at Tae, she focused as she held the small white ball in her hand, she slightly leaned forward and raised her hand in the air releasing the ball as if she was shooting a basketball. Like Oliver, the OVO clothing brand had become her child, and with them adding a women's line, and her overseeing it, there was no way Drake was going to be able to keep her from being in that store.
"Good luck." Oliver added after a few moments of silence, his attention back on his phone.
"When I meet whoever this dude is, personally. I'll ease up." Drake said, not taking his eyes off of her, he balanced the toothpick his lips as he spoke.
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