Ours For The Taking

chapter 2: Secrets that are too hard to keep

(NEXT DAY, 1:00 PM, NICKI'S POV)

"Um..no that won't work. I'm too busy today." I say. On the other end of the phone is my creative director, Laurieann. She wants me to come in for a meeting today, but I really have no time.

"Alright, I'l call tomorrow." She sighs and hangs up. "Safaree! Can you grab my jacket?" I yell from downstairs. He comes down, hands me my jacket, and we walk out of the door.

We got in my aventador and I sped off. "Okay remind me after we leave Trey's studio we have to go to Chris's." I tell him. "Are you listening?" I look over to him, then back to the road. "Yea. Trey, then Chris."

"Mhm. Then we get on the plane to Illinois." I finish. "That's tonight? We won't get there until like 9 PM!"

"Well we can't leave tomorrow morning because I have a meeting with Kmart's CEO at 7.. you know that." I say. "Fine. Where's Oscar and Joyce?"

"They're meeting us at the airport."

"How many songs are you recording today? Only 2, right?"

"Maybe. If I like the song Chris is talking about."

I pull up to the studio, and park the car. Safaree grabs my bag. I hold his hand, but we quickly pull away when Trey comes outside. "Hey love!" He says, hugging me and kissing my cheek. "Hey!"

"SB sent me that verse last night. It's amazing!! I can't wait to get started!"

We walk inside and Safaree sets my bag down. He hands me my note book and I go into the booth. Before we start, I get a call from Rihanna.

"Hello?"

"Nicki....He broke up with me!" She cried.

"Drake? Why?"

"He didn't tell me!"

 "Um, I'm on a super tight schedule..so I'll talk to him later when i have the time. I just saw him yesterday...I wonder what's wrong. Bye babe." I say and hang up.

I record my verse and background vocals. It only took about a hour. I grab Safaree's arm and we all walk outside. "Bye Trey! See you later!" I hug him and drive off. "Drake dumped Rihanna. She's crushed."

"Drake?" he says. "That's what I said!"

When we got to Chris's studio, The paparazzi surrounded the car. "Move!" Safaree yelled and  guided me through everyone. Then I saw TMZ. Perfect.. We got inside, and Chris was in the booth singing. His producer looked over to me when I walked in, and smiled. "Sounds good." I say.

Chris put the headphones back on the stand and opened the booth door. "Hey Nic!" He says, hugging me. He daps Safaree. "Hey Breezy. Did you hear about-"

"Drake and Rihanna? Yea. Drake's been acting weird lately."

(2 HOURS LATER)

I wrote my verse, but I didn't have time to record it. "Alight...I guess I'll see you when I get back? And is Tyga recording his verse tomorrow?"

"Mhm. I'l send you his verse. You'll probably be asleep." He says. "Okay babe. Bye!" I hug him and Safaree opens the door for me. "Okay, See you when you get back."

"We're going home, right?" Safaree asks. "Nope, Drake's house."

"Ughhh....why?" He groans.

"I need to know what's going on."

"It's like 4 we gotta get to the airport."

"Safaree."

"Fine."