The Exception

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As the tour progressed I was starting to see how crazy it was and J looked beyond stressed. He wasn't sleeping right and I didn't know what to say to him to make him calm down. Finally I was able to get into contact with his two best friends Will and Daequantes.

Me,"hi, I don't know if you remember me but I'm Nadya. I wanted to speak to both of you guys because something is wrong with J"

Will, "what is it? he hasn't been returning my calls lately"

Me, "he's extremely stressed out and he doesn't want to speak to anyone. I don't know what happened. Everyone was having a good time and relaxing"

Dae, "has he been sleeping at all? has he been talking to his mom or writing anything down?"

Me, "no he doesn't sleep at all. I don't know what to do. I figure that you two know him the best and would be able to help me out"

Will, "listen I need you to call mark ASAP and tell him what's going on. Also tell him to meet us in Perth. Have you guys made it to Australia yet?"

Me, "no we are heading there in two days. Are you guys really worried about him"

Dae,"Nadya listen. J can be a really sweet person but he has phases like other people. He's been through a lot in his life and there is a time and place when he tell you everything. Well meet you in Australia and talk to him"

When I got off of the phone with them I was a little hurt that this man that I thought was going to be my life partner wouldn't even show me half of his life. Things were never strained with us and it seemed like he was the one that kept on pushing for us to get married and make the lives that we wanted. If I had to call his friends every time that he went into these phases then we wouldn't last. I really felt bad for the kids because they looked up to J and he couldn't so anything for them. It was like he just focused on performing and then kept to himself. When we finally made it to New York I was ready to have whatever type of intervention was needed but then he got back to normal.

I remember that we landed and I was trying to rush everyone to the hotel that we were staying at. I knew that jayden had a show the following night and he would probably want to go and get something to eat before he went to bed. The kids had slept through the flight but they were all so happy to be back in land that they all wanted to do something different. My family had flown in the day before and I really didn't want then to see J like this. His mom and other family members either took a blind eye to his actions or tried to make some type of effort to help him out. Will and Dae were waiting when we landed and J looked a bit surprised to see them.

J, "what are you guys doing here? mark didn't tell me that we were doing a group set this week"

Dae, "so can I not take my friend out to dinner every once in a a while and come and visit. Plus you know that you have some things that you need to work on and I'm here to help"

Will, "so commander how have you been? your girl was mad worried about you"

J, "yeah I know. But listen you know how life can throw you some curve balls every once in a whole. You have to just embrace it and try and either move on or do whatever you can with it. I know that I'm not an easy person to deal with but Nadya can help me through anything. She didn't have to call you guys"

Will, "but she was worried about you to the point where she had to call us in. You got to at least share some insight with us because we all know how things feel last time and you cant do that again. I'm not going to pose my best friend that easily"

Me, "why don't you three go out to dinner and talk about whatever. I'm just happy that we are in Australia. I've always wanted to come here"

J, "listen have why don't you come along with us. You need to know about me too because you are planning on staying in my life for a significant amount of time if not for forever"

Me, "are you sure, I don't want to cause any tension"

Will, "come on I know that you won't regret it"

Me, "okay. If you say so"

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Jayden POV

Will, "so we got your call and Adrian is trying to set everything up but he's run into some problems because your girl mom is popping up asking questions about everything"

Dae, "you need to go and speak to her and your mom about what you are planning on doing. You need everyone to be on the same page in order for this to work"

Me, "I know but you don't understand how hard it was for me to not tell Nadya. I was like dying from not telling her and I don't like keeping secrets from her. It's hard and the kids know when I'm lying"

Dae, "listen I've got some limited time and I just need to get some tracks done for you and then head back to the states. You know that I don't do good with islands"

Me, "okay. I'm not exactly in the right mood to record but you can play me some beats and I can see what's coming to mind. I just need to get this over with and then we can get back to work"

Dae, "boy you must be out of your mind. Mark told me that the label is expecting the album to be done by October 14. He told me that's an exact date too. What do you have already?"

Me, "I don't have anything yet. All the people that I usually work with are booked up and I know that you work on some crazy schedule. I was really trying to have you and Will be the co-executive producers and call it a day. I'm not looking for anything to complicated in this album. I want 4 guest features and I already contacted the people that I wanted. So it's basically whenever I get the tracks I'm going to work on them and then finish it up"

Will, "now how do you know that I'm going to do this for you? you always do this and you never see what I'm doing. For all you know I'm working on someone else's album and I won't be able to help you"

Me, "listen I always have you because I know that you are a master at what you do. Plus I know that you will call me out on anything stupid that I do"

Dae, "listen you know how I am. If you are willing to commit some serious time and work then I'm down. Plus I know that you think highly of me and basically made the way for me. I don't bite the hand that feeds me"

Me, "plus I haven't told anyone this yet but I think that this is going to be my last album. I've been talking to the people at SONY and they want me to come and crate my own label with them. I would love something like that and I could be with my family"

Will, "damn man. That's some serious shit. Are you sure that you are ready to give up on this life and all that comes with rapping. That's your life and hobby"

Me, "that was my life and I went with it because it gave me money and a life that I never could have had doing the normal. I made my money and people realized who I was but I'm not into it anymore. I want to help others make their dreams come true now"

Will, "well we need to get on this and make sure that the people know what you are about"

Me, "it's the final farewell we have to make sure that it's on good note and I want some great lyrics. I'm not looking for club hits and radio hits. I just want this to be something people remember and say that it was a master piece "

Dae, "so let's head to the hotel and I can show you what I've got. I recently found my old computer when I first started making beats and I'm sure that we can make something happen with that"