Brand New

Chapter 75: Surprise

Drake walked into the studio looking annoyed. Noah and Chubbs looked up at him with raised eyebrows.

"You good?" Noah asked.

"Yeah, I'm good. What do you got for me?" Drake asked.

Noah played the beat he was working on and Drake bopped his head to it. "Always cooking that fire!" Drake said a dapped him up.

"You know it!" Noah said.

Chubbs kept his eyes on Drake studying his body language. Drake didn't even have to say anything for him to know whatever was bothering him had to do with a woman. He was also willing to bet just about anything that the woman that had Drake feeling some type of way was Adriana. He glanced down at his phone and smiled then looked back up at Drake and Noah. "Tori says hi and that we better be ready cause her and Adriana got some fire outfits for tomorrow night." Tori hadn't even texted him. The truth was, he just wanted to see how Drake would react when he heard Adriana's name. The annoyed look on his face confirmed for him that he was bothered with something that had to do with Adriana.

"Tell her I'm ready for whatever. It's my birthday." He said trying to shake off the fact that he was upset with Adriana.

Noah and Chubbs both looked at him. "So what did she do?" Noah asked before Chubbs did.

"What did who do?" Drake asked.

"Adriana." Chubbs said shaking his head and laughing. "Why you tryin to play us dawg? We know you."

Drake sighed. "Damn, is it that obvious."

"Like Chubbs said, we know you." Noah tapped his shoulder. "What's going on?"

Drake rubbed the back of his head and sighed again. "I was on the phone with her earlier and that dude she went on a date with a while back, the one that kissed her, he showed up at her studio. Then she hung up on me to talk to him."

Noah and Chubbs looked at each other then back at Drake. "She hung up on you or she said she would call you back?" Chubbs asked.

"She said she would call me right back but she didn't do that. It took her almost two hours to call me back."

"What did she say when she called back?" Noah asked.

Drake shrugged his shoulders. "I didn't answer. She left me a voicemail but I haven't listened to it yet."

Chubbs shook his head. "Why didn't you answer? Dawg, your my boy, but you're trippin right now. I don't think she did anything wrong and you not taking her call because she didn't call right back is petty as hell. You're not mad at her. You're jealous that she was talking to someone else, someone you know is into her. If you haven't realized yet how down for you that girl is, even though you haven't given her a title, I don't know what's going to make you see that shit dawg. That girl is crazy about you."

"He's right." Noah said.

Drake let out a huff of air and nodded his head. "You're right. It made me feel some type of way that she would end a phone call with me to talk to him." He brought his hand up and ran it down his mouth. "You know this is the first time I didn't answer her call?" He shook his head. "Over some dumb shit!" He laughed. "I think I care about her more than I want to admit to myself."