Brand New

Chapter 115: New York & The Bay

Drake sat on the opposite sofa from Rihanna at her place in New York. "You flew all the way here to sit across from me and talk?" Rihanna asked glaring at him.

"A conversation needed to be had and it's better that it got done sooner than later." Drake said calmly.

"If you came here on some bullshit you could have told me over the phone." She shot at him in a clearly irritated tone.

Despite her tone with him, he remained calm. "Robyn I didn't come here on some bullshit. I came here because we both need to stop wasting our time with bullshit. You don't want me Robyn, not really. You were used to me dropping everything for you whenever you decided you wanted my company and Adriana changed that. You didn't like it and that's why you decided that you wanted to give me what I've wanted from you for so long."

"You're trippin'! That's not what's happening here at at."

"Then why don't you tell me what's happening here Robyn? Why does it seem that you only want me when you realize someone else has my attention? Why did you start coming around to being okay with giving us a title when it was clear someone else was getting in my heart?"

"Am I not in your heart anymore?"

"I didn't say that. Don't try to swing the conversation to turn this on me. What are we doing Robyn? Do you really see a future for us?"

"Do you not see a future with me anymore?"

Drake shook his head. "Are you going to answer any of my questions or are you just going to keep trying to spin this?"

"What do you want me to say? That I don't want you to be with anyone else because whenever I envision my future you're in it? That even when I never wanted to be in a committed relationship with you I still wanted you to be committed to me because I always knew I would come back to you? Is that what you want to hear? Tell me Aubrey, do you still see a future with me? Am I still in your heart or did she really manage to erase me?"

"I'm here aren't I? I loved you for a long time. You know you will always have a place in my heart." Drake said.

"Loved? So you're not in love with me anymore."

"I didn't say that."

"But you said loved, as I'm past tense."

Drake sighed. "I just don't want to waste my time with you anymore if it's not real."

"Is she real?" Rihanna sat forward and looked Drake in his eyes. "Tell me Aubrey, did you have sex with her when you were out with her the other night?"

Drake was caught off guard by that question but he didn't show it. "That really wasn't what you think it was. It was just us getting closure. We never got that. I kind of just dropped everything on her one night and she told me to leave. So we had a meal, we caught up and I apologized for the way everything happened between the two of us. I took her back to her car and we said goodbye. That was it. There was no sex Robyn. She's not that type of girl."

Rihanna rolled her eyes. "She's not that type of girl." She said in a mocking tone. "You're always quick to defend her."

"I'm not defending her. I'm just speaking facts. I don't expect you to believe me and it doesn't really matter." He sighed. "This conversation isn't even about her. Regardless of what happens between you and I tonight, that situation with Adriana is over."

"We both know that's bullshit. I can see it in your face when you talk about her. You still love her."

"I never said I didn't. But that's over. I fucked that up royally. She doesn't even want to be friends at this point. It's done Robyn. This conversation has nothing to do with her. It's about us. I need to know that I'm not wasting my time with you."