Unbelievable

chapter 13

Raymond POV

"Mariah just wait a second...." I tried to reason with her as she stormed through the room gathering her things. She ignored me and finished oacking her suit case.

"Mariah please wait. I'll talk to him. I'll make him realise he's wrong." I tried to calm her down.

"Fuck him! I'm done with this shit! He called me a fat bitch!" She yelled. "I have put up with his bullshit for too long! Never have I had to be disrespected so much in a work place! It took everytging in me not to get my tazer and fry his ass!" She ranted.

"I know. I know. Look, I'll give you $100 extra on your pay checks." I bargained.

She stopped in her tracks. Maybe I had convinced her.

"You think an extra $100 is gonna fix this?" She glared at me.

"Yeah?"

"No it won't. I'm out if here." She grabbed her bag.

"Okay okay $200."

"Nope. Bye." She headed for the door.

"$300."

She turned around and dropped her bags. She walked iver to me and extended her hand. "You got yourself a deal." She spoke.

"Thank god." I sighed.

"At the end of the month, my $300 better be right in my paycheck too." She said with much attitude before unpacking again.

"Trust me. It will." I spoke.

That meant Chris' paycheck had to go down a few dollars as well as the rest of the crew, but I'd come up with a good excuse.

"Also, could you hold off on the drinking? It looks unprofessional for you to be getting hammered at every outing." I told her.

"Sure." She rolled her eyes and folded her arms.

"I mean it Mariah. Not only is it not good for your health, but if the tabloids see it, good luck getting a job anywhere else while having news about you drinking on the job." I warned.

"What do you care if I get another job? You don't even know me." She mugged me.

"I don't know. It's just the person I am. I look out for others." I explained.

"Well you don't have to look out for me. I'm fine. Its not like I'm an alcoholic. I can stop anytime I want." She said matter-of-factly.

"If you say so." I shook my head at her denial of her problem and prepared to leave.

"Wait-" she called out. I turned to see what she wanted. "Did you talk to Chris?" She asked.

"Yeah. I told him to get his shit together." I told her.

"Thanks." She gave a small smile.

"No problem. Now I gotta go see my wife. She's pregnant with our first baby and she's got that pregnant brain. Forgets everything. See ya later." I walked out of the room and made my way to my hotel room that I was sharing with my wife, Corrine, who was 6 montjs pregnant.

"Gosh. Our baby is growing so fast." I smiled as I rubbed her belly.

"I knooow. Goodness. I feel like I'm about to pop already." She kissed my cheek and lay down on the bed.

She looked tired, but thats all her fault. We had to get up early and leave so we could beat traffic and make deadlines. It wasn't easy, but hell, it paid and it was great seeing everything always come together. Sure it was early mornings and late nights, but it paid the bills and put money towards my unborn child's trust fund and college fund.

"Babycan you rub my feet? They killing me. I took a walk around the hotel lobby trying to get some excersize like the doctor been nagging mw about and now mt feet hurt." She whined.

"Alright baby." I smiled before picking up her swollen feet and massaging them. She sighed and closed her eyes as I massaged her feet. I loved catering to my woman. She was a gift from God and was giving me another gift. A child. What more could I ask for?

Chris POV

"And I know you love yo privacyyyyy." I sang as I did a slow grind.

"Ooooh." The female dancers hooted and hollered.

I ignored them and keot practicing my moves.

"When you gon be mines?" One of the dancers asked.

"When he's done being with me. Which is never." Angelina said as she walked in swaying her hipz. I smiled and walked over to her. I gave her a hug and kiss. It was my last day being in Louisiana and I wanted to ask her if she would go on tour with me.

"Hey baby. I gotta talk to you about something after practice is done." I told her.

"Alright. I'll be sitting over here waiting." She gave me one more kiss before sitting in a corner with her legs crossed.

"Ugh what a slut bag. You could do so much better." The same dancer who asked me when I was gonna be hers said. Her name was Brittany.

"You need to be more worried about keeping your rhythm and keeping up with the rest of us than who I'm dating. Your ass be all off beat." I rolled my eyes before shooing her away and calling all the dancers to practice with me.

"1 2 3 4!" We all fell into step as the music played and I sang and danced along.

I noticed Mariah walk in with her purse on her arm. She stood by the entrance and stared at her phone. Once we were all finished dancing, I walked over to her. She had some nerve coming here after how she'd been acting.

"Fuck you doing here?" I asked.

"My job. Duh." She mugged me and went bavk to looking at her phone.

"Who is that?" Angelina walked over to us and stood with her hands on her hips.

"This is my aggy ass assistant, Mariah." I introduced them.

Angelina stared Mariah down while Mariah nonchalantly looked her over and went back to her phone.

"Sup" she greeted Angelina dryly. Angelina ignored her and pulled me to the side quickly.

"What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" She asked while she hugged all up on me.

"I wanted you to accompany me on the rest of my tour." I rubbed her booty and she looked at me with a skeptical glance.

"I don't know. I usually have to work all-"

"Baby don't worry. Its only just for a few weeks and then you can come back here and keep working." I reassured.

"Hmmm. I'll think about it and call you later okay?"

"Fine. But don't think too long. This my last day here. I leave in the morning."

"Like I said, I'll think about it and call you. She strutted out the door swaying her hips. She spared Mariah a glance on her way out and grimaced.

"You have a show in four hours. You need to go back the the hotel and start getting ready. I'll stay here and make sure everything that needs to be done gets done in order to make this show spectacular." Mariah said as she lightly pushed me out the door.

"Fine whateva." I said before walking out the door. I was annoyed as hell woth her for wjatever reason and I didn't know why.