Chapter 20

He looked her up and down and turned around to walk away from her at the door. He took a deep breath as she rolled her eyes and followed close behind him to his couch of the living room.

They sat on separate couches waiting for the other to speak first. As Safaree made it to sit down, he buried his big hands into his face. Nicki stared at him, biting at the corner of her lips, thinking. What felt like 2hrs, a long silence filled the apartment for only 2 minutes. Since it was becoming awkward and Safaree wasn't going to speak up anytime soon. Instead, Nicki went first. She rolled her eyes and sighed.

".....I uh..talked to the detective recently and...um he told me some bad news." she waited for a response but Safaree still didn't move from out of his position. Nic rolled her eyes and continued.

"He told me that some guy named Detroit hijacked a plane from New York to track me in Florida. He...he was ordered to follow me there to kidnap me but when he saw the tour bus, he landed the plane wrong and killed himself....." Nic was in a trance replaying the horrid day once more in her head. She blinked away to see Safaree's expression, but yet he still never moved.

"Th-The guy who killed Rozay's security guard and his partner were at Rozay's mansion waiting for my arrival......and planned on kidnapping me. Detroit and those two guys are apart of some gang." Worry began to plaster across Nic's place at the last part.

Safaree still hadn't moved from his face being buried into his hands. Nic was also getting annoyed and snapped. "WHAT DID YOU BRING ME OVER HERE FOR?! WHY AM I HERE, SAFAREE?! WHY AM I WASTING MY T-"

He swiftly jumped up and charged over to Nicki which startled her. He walked passed her throwing his phone in her lap and walked into his kitchen. She glanced down at his phone and picked it up. A text message appeared across the screen which made her raised her eyebrows.

"So they're threating you too now?"

He didn't respond.

"Safaree....when did they start this?"

"Why you doin this to me, Nic? Huh? Was it that fucking serious to get me back by having these fucking dickholes threaten me?!"

She was in complete shock at his comment. She turned around with quickness in her seat, seeing him come out of the kitchen and walk pass her again. "So you think EYE had something to do with this?!?!?!" she stood and pointed to herself.

"How else did they get my number, Nicki?!"

"WHA?! I- I canNOT believe you right now! Are you really THAT DUMB to believe I'm really coming up with this shit?!"

He went back over to his couch and flopped down on it, not looking at her.

"Seriously Safaree, I didn't come OVER HERE for you to bash me in my face about some BULLSHIT text message! I don't even know why I wasted my time coming over here! I don't need this, I have a gotdamn show in a few days and I need to go and pack." After grabbing her keys and purse she made her way to the door.

"Nicki." He watched her walk to the door and got up to follow.

"NO SAFAREE!"

"WAIT." he slammed the door shut and rested his arm on it to prevent her from exiting. She stood there facing the door with her arms crossed and never looked up at him. He threw his head down and sighed. He leaned closer to her ear and tried to redeem his sudden actions.

"Look Nic, I-I'm sorry. I just don't really know what the fucks going on. It's fuckin' with my head right now. I...I know you're scared and its even worse not knowing who these niggas could be. I- Nic? Nicki?"

He moved Nic's hair behind her ear to see tears streaming down her face. He felt a pain in his chest to see how he had just hurt her feelings. He had let his temper get the best of him and it made her cry. SB immediately pulled her into his arms to calm her down.

"Come here. I'm sorry. So sorry..." he rubbed her back for a minute before placing his hands on her wet cheeks, wiping away her tears.

They're eyes met and when SB saw the fear in Nic's eyes, he began to regret everything and now felt guilty. "Come here." He grabbed her hand and lead her back to the couch. He kneeled down in front of her and continued to hold her hands.

"Look, if you want me to do the tour with you I will. I'll be right there with you."

"Safaree, you must don't understand.....Ever since that day, our lives, personally, haven't been the same. You saw what happened. You know how that made me feel. I was scared for my life. And where were you? Right there in my arms. Holding me safe and telling me you would protect me from this crazy world. You know when shit like that begins to corrupt your mind, it messes you up mentally. So when I began having those flashbacks and crazy dreams and seeing those crazy people, baby, I wasn't pretending...."

"How come you waited so long to tell me about the messages?"

"....I," she bit at the side of her lip before speaking up again. "I hid them from you because of what they said. I didn't want you going all crazy over some strange threats and doing shit you would regret, so I never told. But OBVIOUSLY you took it the wrong way and did the COMPLETE opposite, believing that I was cheating. Which I wasn't. I don't know how you got Drake out of it because you and I BOTH know I don't even go that way with him."

"Well why di-"

The loud ring of Nicki's phone went off and it was an important call from Manny. Unfortunately, she would have to leave.

"I have to go. Something's not going right with the stage and I need to go see what's going on." Nicki began to gather her things and head for the door. SB quickly jumped up and followed behind her.

"Oh. Aight."

"Um...I guess I'll call you?" she turned back to look up at him.

"Yeah. Text me when you've made it inside, safely."

"Will do. Bye, Safaree."

"Bye." He watched her swiftly walk to her range and drive away.

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Day 13:

Nicki, Safaree, Diamond, Manny, T, Grizz, and Joyce were all on their 18 hour flight to Australia for Nicki's very first World Tour. The Pink Friday singers and dancers had already left hours before them so they would all meet up for last minute rehearsals. They had one day left before the first show and Nicki couldn't believe it. All of the troubles, nerves, and negative problems were pushed away into a corner of her mind locked away. She had to focus on her show, her barbz, her career. It was all about the grind, love and dedication for her Barbz. She prayed that this moment in her life would rebuild the empty hole that that tragedy created. Now that SB was back on track and in his right mind, he was very much content with being there with Nicki despite all the craziness that had happened over the pass two weeks.

He glanced over at her across from him and gave her a genuine smile before getting comfortable and taking a nap. She giggled at his cuteness and rolled her eyes. Nicki turned around to talk to Joyce, T and Diamond about what the show was gonna be like and her setlist for the Australian tour. For once, Nic felt at peace and was elated to be with her 2nd family.

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With the flight taking away most of the day away, they finally landing in Adelaide, Australia. On the day of the first show, the team was united again and ready for preparation. Nicki, T, Joyce and Safaree made it to the hotel and headed up to their rooms. Grizz followed Nicki and Safaree to their suite and began taping footage of Nicki giving a brief tour through her room.

After he got enough, he exited and SB came in the bedroom to find Nicki laying across the bed on her belly, with her feet propped up in the air. He snuck up on her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She looked back at him through her shades and smiled. She looked back at her phone & tweeted her barbz about how excited she was to be in Australia this week to kick off her tour. The barbz went crazy and told her to have fun.

"So, how you feelin right now?"

Nicki sat up on the bed and made a long relieving sigh before responding. "I've never felt better.." She closed her eyes for a second to take in this moment around her. "I'm so excited that I'm here. And that I have you...." Nic turned toward Safaree and smirked. He blushed and leaned forward and pecked her on the lips before giving her a long well-needed hug she haven't felt in quite awhile. She took in his seductive cologne that made her heart melt then let him go.

"Thank You.....Safaree."

"Hey. I'm supposed to be here. I'm here. With you..." he tilted his head and smiled at her once again.

"Alright, it's about that time. Let's go." Nic got up off the bed and grabbed her phone walking past him, patting him on the butt.

They grabbed there things before leaving the hotel to head straight to the venue.

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Barbz had already began to pile into the venue getting ready to see Nicki's show unfold in a few. Backstage in the dressing room, was a nervous Nic, a busy Terrence, Joyce and Kanna & a hyped SB.

30 minutes later, Nicki was on her way to the stage as Safaree was close behind. Halfway there, a phone call came to SB's phone. He stopped to pull it out of his pocket and it had nothing across the screen. It only rung. He twisted his face for a second before he ignored the call and turned it off. As he continued close behind Nic, another loud vibrate ring came to Nicki's phone this time, which was stuck in his back pocket. Before going up the ramp onto the stage, he quickly took her phone out and saw the same exact thing. SB glanced at Nicki still pacing towards the stage to start the show and looked back at her phone screen. The phone continued to ring. Before he could answer the call, a stage worker called him back to the back. He pressed ignore and followed the worker.

A loud roar of the crowd filled the entire building as "Roman Holiday" began. Nic took her place onstage and didn't notice Safaree was gone. The curtains dropped and she lifted her arms up to the crowd as she began to slay her first show.

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Backstage.

"Terrence needs you back in the dressing room." The stage worker told SB as he departed ways and left.

"Aight." Safaree proceeded to walk off unto the back hall where Nicki's dressing room was. Before he could go any further down the hall. A hand yanked him into a stage storage room and closed and locked the door. He got yanked so hard, he ran into a shelf of metal things which made him fall. SB opened his eyes to a tall, skinny, well-shaped, vanilla-skinned woman in her mid-20s. She stood in all black in front of Safaree. She gasped and bent down to help him up.

"Oh my god! Sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." she pulled him up and help dust his shirt off.

"What the hell?! Who are you and wh-"

"SHHHH!!! Someone may hear us."

"WHAT?!"

"Look...look...please just be quiet. Give me 5 minutes. I-I promise. Just-" She stood face to face to SB, looking him in the eyes. She was whispering.

He looked her in the eyes and quickly looked at her lips moving. He focused back on her and interrupted again. "Who are you and how'd you get back here?!"

"Shhhhhh....I said be quiet, Daddy..." the chick placed her index finger over Safaree's lips and raised her eybrow talking in a seductive tone.

"Wha..What are you doing??" he removed her hand out of his face and frowned.

She didn't listen to him. Her right hand when straight to his pants and began rubbing against his zipper. She kept her eyes on him and bit her lip. Safaree harshly pushed her hand away, as he jolted. "WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA..." he slightlychuckled. "Ohhhhh No. Nope." he shook his head and covered the front of his jeans with his hands.

The chick smirked and locked her fingers with him, then pressed her body against his frame and rubbed her thigh inbetween his legs. You could hear her beginning to pant as she was getting a kick out of this. Safaree was beginning to become hard at what she was doing which was his weakness. He forcibly pushed her against the door and fixed his shirt and chains. The chick whipped out a blade and ran up on him, pointing the blade straight at his neck. He froze and threw his hands up.

"Aight! AIGHT!!!" SB began to panic, hoping the crazy chick wouldn't do something she'd regret. "Whadaya want from me??"

She was breathing hard now as she was becoming impatient. "I just need a moment with himmm..." the girl tugged on his pants and pouted like a puppy. She moaned at the end of her sentence.

Safaree cringed inside at the fact that it was actually turning him on. He couldn't move because the blade was still pressed against his neck.

All he could think of at the moment was: [This bitch is crazy....]