When We Wrap!✔️

The night is still young.

They were still in Taraji's hotel room. The alcohol was now out of their system. They were both seating on Taraji's bed silent after Taraji pushed Terrence off of her. He went to the bathroom to regrouped. She dressed up.

He came back into the room, they sat down silently facing away from each other. Terrence took Taraji's hand and squeezed it hard.

"I am sorry Taraji," he said softly.
Taraji was still quiet. "say something babe please..." he begged.
Her tears came flooding from her beautiful eyes, her emotions were too big that they filled the room.
"what do you want me to say huh? I will tell you what's going on here... You are so afraid that Empire is over and you won't be seeing me often like you used to and you are confusing that fear for affection. Well, it doesn't work like that Terrence Dashon Howard. I need you out of my room now"

he looked at her - Terrence being a crybaby, his tears start flooding on his face, and he snorted them back sobbing. "I think you are confused with your own feelings and now you are confusing my feelings too. But you are right about one thing though" he said

she looked up at him. "about what?" she asked
he let go of her hand and rose from the bed walking towards the door. "I am scared!" He said and reached the door. "but not for the reasons you are implying."
He continued to speak with his hand on the doorknob and not facing her. "I am a man that every woman wants..."

Taraji made an irritated sound, rolling her eyes. "that is the truth and you know it" he turned his head to look at her. "but unfortunately for me, only one woman makes me feel like a real man, a complete man" he turned and looked at the door again.
"There is a woman I love and I married her..." he continued.

Taraji was irritated by this comment. " yeah we all know that, go home to your wife Terrence."
She said.

"...and there is a woman that belongs to my heart, no! She is my heart. She makes me feel things no woman ever made me feel before, she makes me feel alive, she makes my heart dance all the time, it never gets old with her, it is new every day--"
at this point, Taraji stood up. she was standing with her heart pounding out of her chest.

"Unfortunately for me, only one woman does the magic for my heart, every time I see her, my heart pound, every time! she is a goddess, she is a beautiful Black Queen,-"
he turned and their eyes lock and they both held it.
"I am in love with her. Yes, I love my wife I do. But this woman...this woman I know I am in love with her."
They paused for a while
"... Yeah you're right I am afraid out of my mind because I am about to lose the feeling that is so real, so livelihood so strong and makes my brain dance and my heart pound. You Wana hate me for that...Go ahead!" he completed.

"no...nonono"
she whispered. "I don't hate you. I Don't hate you terry, I can't hate you even if I tried. You-"
She paused. "you are--"

She couldn't complete it, then changed what she was about to say
"you are married!" she lowered her voice
"And you are engaged and you don't hear me pointing that out every time now, do you?"
He was pissed off at this point. " you know what, to hell with you. Whatever. You never wanted me even before you were engaged, what would be different now?"
He opened the door and walked out and slam the door.

Taraji gasped. "Terry!" she whispered "don't leave!"
She ran after him but he was already gone.

She ran out of the door only to see him talking to Lee Daniels who was coming from the party. "damnit!"

She whispered to herself and made a turn back to her room but lee Daniels already sighted her.

"hey... Don't act like you didn't see us here talking." Lee said.
Terrence was still pissed at Taraji, He couldn't even look at her.
Taraji faked a smile and walked towards them. "sorry I was heading over to Yazz's room, is he back?" she asked trying not to look suspicious.

"yeah everybody is back. So what's up with you two?" he asked.
Taraji's heart pounded again. Terrence was quiet and letting her hang with a robe "who--" she cleared her throat. "what do you mean?"
"you left the party early, one after the other," Lee said
Taraji looked at Terrence to respond but he was quiet. "oh well, I got pretty drunk." She faked a laugh.

"I can tell by how messy you look now, your make-up and eyeliner all smashed... Wait a minute, were you crying? Are you okay?" Lee asked.
"I'm okay lee, when I get drunk I cry sometimes." another fake laugh.
"and you--" Lee turned to Terrence. "why did you leave the party early?"

"What is this, a hearing?... I had to take a walk man come on." Terrence responded. His phone rang from his pocket. He pulled it out. They all saw caller ID MIRA 
He looked at Taraji before answering it.
"why is she calling at this hour?" Lee asked.
"mind your damn business man." Terrence snapped at Lee.

He took the call while walking through the corridor to his room.

"time difference lee.. different city," Taraji said.
"oh of course. Okay let me go lay down, I'm exhausted. I'm going to sleep the whole day."

"I will go back to my room now, I'm sure Yazz is drunk out of his awareness and doesn't need no company. Good night" Taraji walked back to her hotel room.

"good night!" Lee responded walking to his room, two doors away.

Taraji got to her room and took a breath of relief. She picked her phone and texted Terrence *we are not done talking*

But no response from him. She took off her clothes and jump into the shower. Came back and checked her phone still no message from Terrence. She got under the covers.

Kept checking her phone but still, no response from Terrence. She put her phone on the nightstand, turned to the other side and closed her eyes, her phone beeped ... She jumped and grabbed it very fast, only to find Lee's text

*if something is bothering you, I'm here if you need to talk about it. We all miss Jussie, I know you miss him more. I am Sorry!*

Taraji looked at the message and rolled her eyes and put it down. And closed her eyes to sleep.

The whole night, all she did was check her phone, toss and turn. REPEAT! She finally drifted to sleep at about 4 am!!

Terrence was ignoring her hard, it made her heart ache.