Labyrinth

Dalliance

"Lauren wake up, you've got a meeting..." Lauren is gently roused from her sleep from someone shaking her awake,

"Lucy, its too early," she groans pulling the sheet over her head,

"Guess again... Its Normani." As soon as the word leaves their mouth Lauren jolts awake, also forgetting about her nudity.

"Mani - shit!" She pulls the covers up to her neck as Normani gets up off her bed,

"Nah girl, if I'm gunna be here every morning you have to put some clothes on." Lauren shakes her head, rubbing the sleep out of her eye.

"Every morning - meeting?"

"You really need to get yourself together, you have a meeting in an hour," she taps her exposed thigh, "now get ready," she picks up her bag off Laurens bedside table, "I'll be downstairs," and with a sway of her hips she's out the door,
Still confused Lauren gets out of bed and has a quick shower and throwing on some clothes she heads downstairs.

"Not to be rude… but why are you here?" Normani glances up from her phone,

"You didn't get the email?" Lauren frowns scratching her head,

"What email?" Normani rolls her eyes,

"I'm your assistant." She states tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.

"You're the assistant." now that its been said Lauren can remember the said email, but they didn't say who it would be, "it must be my lucky day," she mumbles,

"Huh?" Normani looks up from her phone,

"Nothing - have you cooked?" Lauren runs a hand through her hair,

"No I ate before I came here," Normani mumbles as she scrolls through her phone,

"Oh okay, I think I have some left over pizza..." Lauren heads over to the fridge and putting the pizza in the microwave, as she strides back over to Normani, Normani locks her phone and putting it in her bag.

"It must be fate right," Lauren smirks leaning forward, elbows on the coffee table.

"What Lauren?" She puts her chin in her hand boredly,

"That night at Platinum... And now here we are," Normani rolls her eyes leaning back in her chair, creating distance between them.

"A mere coincidence - don't make something out of nothing," Lauren hums,

"Does Ms Hamilton know about Platinum?" Her eyes widen briefly her lips parting,

"Er-" the sound of a bell cuts of her speech, "-eat your pizza, I'll be in the car." She smiles taking her bag and walking out of the room again, Lauren pouts sadly getting her pizza out of the microwave and sitting down, she fishes her phone out of her pocket; jotting down a few lyrics:

My poison, my heart how did we ever drift apart, if it wasn't me then who was it,
I can't help but think the worst if I can't see you.
You don't worry like me I wish what we had was meant to be, if cared a little less but the truth is-

A loud horn indicates that she's taking to long so she shoves the rest of her pizza in her mouth and heading out to the car.
She walks up to her own car before being startled by a car horn; she turns to the sound.

Walking out of the house and walking over to her car, a short horn sounds to the right of her,

"We're taking my car Lauren," Normani pokes her head out the window, Lauren shrugs making her way over to the bright red Ferrari she was in just days before.