Company

Chapter 129

Tae pressed her elbows to the table she leaned into her hands as they covered her face. Her hands covered all her frustration at that moment they covered just how uncomfortable she was. "And you want me to be comfortable about this? You want me to be cool with you on stage with her bumping and grinding on her, like y'all miss one another!? I'm supposed to be ok with this?"

"It's solely for the music nothing more. I did her a favor, now it's time to preform the song live, it's going to be the single, she wants to preform it." Drake used his words carefully doing his best to let Tae know this was only for fans, that his actions with Rihanna while on stage were not to be taken seriously.

"Of course she does Aubrey! Of course she wants to make a song with you, of course she wants to make it the single and shoot not one BUT two separate videos!" Tae hissed back cutting into Drakes explanation.

"I know she's not your favorite person and given the history of her and I... I get why she's not your favorite person. I just need you to understand that this is only business only for the views the ratings." Drake pleaded with Tae doing his best to convince her he wouldn't fall for the self proclaimed "bad gal" the industry knew her as, trying his best to convince Tae that she wouldn't have to see anymore surprises from the ex-couple. She put her head in her hands and sighed heavily once again.

"You don't get it Aubrey, you don't get it. You're so committed to this friendship with this woman... to the industry, that you're willing to sell yourself to her ever two, three years to get some attention going! Whether you're in a new relationship or not! You're NOT SINGLE! And the shit you do with her affect me! US! At some point you gotta grow the fuck up and tell the bitch you're done with the bullshit! At some point it's not about the 'views' it's not about the ratings! It's about your relationship! Look around you Aubrey! LOOK! Everyone is growing up! Everyone is moving on with their relationships Aubrey! Chubbs has a child now and a fiancé! Oliver and Nikki are now married! Niko with his son! Hell, even OB found his own place! When is the last time you walked upstairs and seen Ryan in his room!? It's been months! Everyone is moving out and moving on with life! Everyone in the crew is finding themselves while still backing you up!" Tae looked around the huge mansion that was infamously known as the OVO Estate, still fully furnished and once crawled with all his friends and family, parties occurred almost every other day it seemed like, it wasn't that the partying had stopped and random close friends didn't make their way into the mansion whenever they wanted, but with everyone growing of age, rooms had eventually cleared and changed. She stretched her arms out to either side of her motioning for him to look around. "IT'S EMPTY AUBREY! EMPTY!" She yelled out loud trying to make a point that he and her were clearly able to have a full blown argument in the kitchen at three in the afternoon without anyone to walk in and interrupt them. He sighed and ran his palms done his face not wanting to hear the truth that Tae was spitting at him. "You're going to be 30 this year Aubrey and you're still making rookie relationship mistakes like you ain't been in the league for over a decade. You still gone be fucking every new 25 year old stripper that hits H-Town then blows up off your name and you left crying on a track trying to figure out why a bitch can't do right by you! You can't even do right by yourself. You really about to be 30 still having the same toxic ass relationship with this woman that you had when you was 25!" Tae's tears took no time to run down her cheeks. Her frustration with Drake's actions finally boiled over and hit their point, she had exploded on him cussing, and fussing at him. "This ain't about music! You think I don't know the alternative motives of a fellow female!? This ain't about music Aubrey! This is about her ability to take you out the relationship and from the woman you currently with! This is about her knowing the hold she has on you and her powers to get you to do whatever the fuck she wants you to do at the drop of a dime! At some point you gotta take in consideration of the woman that sleeps next to you every night, the woman that comes home to you every night! Whatever home you may be in she's there! You can do what you want with her, but you not going to do it with me backing you up! Looking stupid is one thing I won't do! I don't give a fuck if you Drake or not."