Chapter 24

"Essssssss Beeeeeeeee......"

There was a faint whisper in his left ear.

"Essssssssssss Beeeeeeeeee...."

He heard a small moan in his right.

"Waaaaake uuuuuuuup" he felt against his lips.

He stirred a bit and felt his bed was wet. Then he begin to hear seductive laughter from 3 voices.

Safaree turned his head from left to right, fighting the forbidden noises he heard through his sleep.

When they became louder and louder, he jumped up and tried to catch his breath.

He looked all around him and saw no one. His hand hit his chest as he was in relief he was only dreaming. All the sweat he drenched in was now a puddle soaked on his pillow.

It was 1am and Safaree was hearing things.

"I need some water." he got up and stopped at the bathroom first to release himself. As soon as he turned around the corner to go to the kitchen he was stopped by the girl he had encounters with back in Australia.

"WHAT THE FUCK"

"Shhhhh....."

"L-Look I don't know how you got in here b-but please d-"

"Oh you hush silly boy. I'm not gonna hurt you. Just waking you up so we can get ready to go to Philidelphia." the girl said with a wide smile.

"WE? No. HELL NO. I don't know where YOU going but I'M going to Philly....ALONE." he pushed her out the way and tried to move to the kitchen.

Her arm blocked the walkway. This was becoming all too familiar again to him. He backed away slowly eyeing her.

"What do you want from me?"

"Gosh Safaree, can't we be friends?! I'm trying to get to know you. Geesh." she through her hands up and put back on her hips.

"Friends?! Hoe you kidnapped me, DRUGGED me, then fucked me and now you wanna be FRIENDS?! Wow. You really a crazy ass bitch." he nodded his finger, pointing at her.

"Awww did I really do thaaaat?" she made a pouting face. One all too well like Onika.

He shook his head walked up to her slowly.

"You're not coming with me ANYWHERE. So you can get the hell out."

The chick crossed her arms. "No."

"Oh so you want to do this the hard way?!"

"Mmmm....You know I do." she licked her lips and ran her hands across the hills of her boobs.

Before Safaree could grab her and yank her by her wrist, she threw her hand around his neck and squeezed as hard as she could. He struggled to breathe and couldn't fight back.

The chick pushed him into a wall and kicked him harshly in the stomach which made him crotch down in pain.

Then pushed him all the way back into his room to his bed. He fell back onto it and she crawled on top of him. Safaree glanced up at her and swiftly raised up to flip her back and pin her down so she wouldn't move.

As soon as he did that she pulled out a pistol to his face. He froze and crossed his eyes to look at it correctly. SB's vision fixed back on her breathing hard.

"I like the way you play, boy..." she said cleverly.

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"Alright Nic, time to head back to the states today. You got everything ready to loaded up?" Manny asked as he walked into her suite, taking off his shades.

"Yep. They can take those to bags, I'll carry this bag and my purse."

The bodyguards took the two bags she pointed at and walked out with them. Manny, Nic and T followed the bodyguards down to the first floor while security took their place around them. Nic and T hopped in one black truck, followed by Joyce, Kanna and Manny in another. Grizz, Diamond and The Dancers were already on their flight back to Philly from Yokohama, Japan. Their flight would also be 18hrs long.

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"Get that shit out of my face!"

SB tried to grab it from her but she quickly stopped him.

"Eyeeeee wouldn't do that if I was youuuuuu." she dangled the gun in face.

"You wouldn't"

"Oh I would. But I really would hate tooooo..." she smirked. A pull at his chain because he was bare-chested. The girl motioned for him to get face to face with her. He stiffly got pulled down with one of her hands while the gun was aimed to his head now.

"Mmmmm...." she moaned, "Shsssssssssssss.....you seem a little...stuck with me now, so," a flick of her tongue ran over his lips.

She felt him cringe which made her laugh deviantly.

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Manny and T figured to just surprise Nicki when they got to Philly. They weren't planning on telling her way ahead because she would've pulled away and avoided seeing Safaree.

So basically Nicki had no clue on what was to come. T knew she would probably hate he and Manny for doing that in the first place but it was the only way to get them together and be civilized.

Not that any of them knew the REAL situation between them but to just get them to realize that the whole 'running away from problems' thing was getting played out and annoying.

Plus they needed to know that it was affecting the team.

T just hoped this would work out.

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"Can you just go ahead and shoot me so I can catch my flight to Philly?" Safaree sat against the wall near the door in his room.

The chick sat up in his bed and dangled her feet off the edge with the gun held tightly in her hand.

"You're really making this difficult. Just take me to Philly with you. We're best friendsssss." She tilted her head and glanced at the gun, examining it. Then he saw her body lean back on his bed.

Now was his chance too make a run for it. It was only risky because she was quick with her reflexes. Safaree's heart began to race. There was no way he would be able to grab a shirt. At least his keys and phone was on the table in the living room.

Without the girl looking and going on and on about him, he inched his ass closer outside the door. Once he reached the walkway of the door, he froze in place to observe her before making a run for it.

All he tuned in to hear was her still babbling on with the gun still in her hand.

[One.....Two..............................Three!]

Safaree dotted the corner grabbed his keys and phone. The girl automatically shot the wall nearly missing SB's head. He darted to his car and hurriedly started the car. She ran towards his car and began shooting multiple shots. Only 3 actually hit the back of his car as he swerved off down the street.

"Don't worry. You'll be sorry you did that." She said to herself, smirked and walked back into his apartment.

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Summer Jam was in Philly tonight and Nicki was amongst other headlining artists performing tonight. She had decided to do a mini version of what her Pink Friday Tour was gonna be like back in the states.

Her set was beginning at 8:45pm.

T was unpacking his wigs when he heard his phone ring.

"Hello?"

"Terrence, where da hell yall at?"

"We on the seventeenth floor. Hurry up before this girl get out the shower."

"Yeah."

T peaked around the corner to see if Nic's water was still running. He began setting out the wig she wanted to perform in and the wig she wanted to change out of after the show.

Manny knocked on her door. "1 hour left Nic!"

She rolled her eyes in the shower and finished up.

A gentle knock came to the door as Joyce went over to go open it.

"Heyyyyy, What are you doing here!" she hugged him and closed the door after him.

"Wassup." SB gave them a weak smile and went over to dap up T and Manny.

"Glad you made it on time. Um come ova here and get these bags and take'em down to the cars." T directed him.

"Aight." Safaree walked over to the two big black bags and made sure they were tightly secured.

Joyce noticed the shower had stopped and gave T a quick look.

Minutes later Nicki walked out in her towel and caught SB walking passed her out the door with the bags. She froze and gave him an evil look. Her nose begin to flare up just looking at him until he left out.

He shook his head and kept walking. Nic rolled her eyes and made a stank face as she went to go plop down in a chair infront of Terrence so he could put her straight blonde wig on.

"The fuck he doing here?"

"Nicki don't start this tonight please. We tryna have a positive vibe up in here."

"Ain't nobody ask his ass to come so I wanna know who the fuck thought it was okay for him to come."

"GIRL, EYE asked him to come. We needed some extra help with all this shit we finna carry up there so I told him he had no choice."

"Terrence, why would you do some stupid ass shit like that?"

"See THAT exactly right there," he pointed to her through the mirror with his comb. "Aint nobody worried about Safaree but Safaree. Long as you kill this show, you ain't gotta worry about nothin else boo."

Nic rolled her eyes again. "Whateva."

Manny had just got off the phone with officials with some news to inform Nicki. He slowly walked towards where they were. Joyce glanced up at them to see what was going on.

"Uhh..Nic," he scratched his head, thinking of a way to tell them correctly. "I just got word that uhh...they just found two black guys who raped and murdered two girls from your show in Tokyo the other night..."

"WHAT." she turned completely around in her chair.

"The people told me they believed it was two people from our entourage. Which I'm guessing that's what the two guys also thought. Mistaked the two young girls for your dancers."

"WAIT. How did that happen?!"

Safaree walked back in listening in on their conversation.

"They told me the guys apparently followed the two young ladies back to their hotel and raped and strangled one to death."

"Oh my god....Oh my god that's horrible. How did they even THINK they were my dancers?? I mean that's so terrible! Trust me I would've KNOWN if they were my dancers. But WOW. Two BLACK guys??"

"Yeah...we still don't know who the girls are yet. I'm pretty sure they'll have a full story on it soon."

"That's just disgusting. Two niggas at MY show grabbing women and doing shit to them! How the hell they ge-" she paused for a minute thinking about the guys from voicemail again. Then she noticed Safaree was back in the room, playing with his phone in the corner.

She turned back around in her chair and applied her lipstick on before going to throw on some colorful tights, a yellow crop top and her jean fitted cap with a gold chain.

"Come on yall let's go. We got 30 minutes."

T packed up everything he needed, Joyce grabed her makeup bag, Nicki slipped on her hello kitty slippers and shoved her purse to SB without saying nor looking at him.

They all made it downstairs to the cars awaiting them and headed to Summer Jam.

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B.o.B had just finished his set and had the crowd feeling mellow. Everyone was relaxed and smoking weed. Nic was down in her dressing room. Eating starburst with T and Safaree. For the time being both SB and Nicki were getting along. Just making alot of small talk. Avoiding going into detail about why they REALLY were upset at each other. But they pushed all that aside for now and just enjoyed the moment.

Grizz pulled out his camera and Nic stood in front of it.

"This is the...1st of the 3 radio shows we're doing this weekend. Tomorrow's Boston. Following Day is New York. And Um...We're signing out." she blew a kiss and walked away to go grab her costume to put on.

Safaree moved passed her, smacking on starburst and paused in front of the camera.

"Yeah listen...Lotta you bitches out there...I know you see what's going on," he dug into the bag and opened another starburst. "And everyday you just realize....You ain't shit. And I'm hear to let you know, You AINT shit. and you're never gonna BE shit."

"Let's Go." a lady told them as Nicki left out.

Nicki took the stage for a live crowd and a night of fun.

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Backstage stood Bob, Big Sean and SB chatting about who knows what. Nicki's set was about to end in 20 minutes. They would all see each other again the next night for the Boston show.

"Aight playa, see you tomorrow." Big Sean dapped him up.

"See you mayne." Bob dapped him up.

"Aight yall."

When Nicki's set was over she ran backstage and found SB. She followed him to the back to her dressing room.

"You did good, Nic."

"Thanks." Nic gave him a half smile and grabbed her iPhone.

A frown slowly appeared on Nicki's face as soon as she read something on her phone.

"Safaree come here..."

He looked up and walked over to her. She pulled him down to whisper in his ear.

"How did they get this number?"

He looked down and saw the message and moved his eyes right back to her. She caught his jaw slightly fall in shock as he took a few steps back away from her.