Coming back to New York felt like a dream, a lot had changed. I couldn't get over the fact that I had left 5 years ago to go stay with my grandparents to get my shit together, but now I owned a condo in upstate New York and had what every man wished he could have, money and power.
But one thing I didn't have was love, I had left it when I moved. The girl was mostly a friend with benefits but I was starting to fall for her, I couldn't wait to see her again. I could remember us being us, chilling after our late night Sexcapades, she'd lay in my arms and ask me all of these questions about where we would be when I got famous. She was the only one who ever had faith in me becoming something bigger than a city boy who sold dope on the corner. She also believed we would be more than what we were at the moment.
"Drizzy Drizzy earth to Drake we are here" 40 said, waving his hand in front of my face
"Sorry man you know I was just lost in my thoughts" Drake replied
They got out the car and headed into the building to see Drake's new condo... Where unbenounced to him was a welcome home party with all of his old friends. As he headed up to the elevator, he notice 40 was constantly checking his phone.
"What's wrong man, you keep checking your phone like crazy?" Drake asked, getting suspicious
40 and the boys were never good at surprises, plus Drake didn't like them in the first place.
"Nnnothing man" 40 said stuttering away all of his excitement
As they walked up to the door of his condo, Drake swore he could have heard movement.. he side eyed 40 not amused and already detecting what 40 was trying to hide.
"Man you serious ? You go the peoples over at my crib.. I can't get a fucking break" Drake whispered to 40 as he backed away from the door
"You can't go along with the shit one time Drizzy, just act surprised and they will all be gone within an hour or two" 40 said
Wanting to get it over with walked in and turned on the lights to be bombarded with a big loud "SURPRISE" from all of his old time friends. He looked unimpressed, but smiled quickly a second after.
It had been about an hour into the party and Drake was outside by his lonesome sipping away on some henny. He heard someone open the door and he turned his head. It was? TT a familiar friend of Onika's his love who he left behind. His eyes perked up hoping to hear that Onika was here
"So you are just going to stare at me or give me a hug Aubrey ? Don't think that shit changed just because you're some big time record label owner. " TT said, placing her hands on her hips
TT was just the same as he remembered, attitude baring, beautiful full figure, dark brown eyes that matched her skin. An the wisdom of an old lady. There she was in one of his shirts he had been selling recently with the ovo owl attached to it.
He put down the drink and headed over to TT where he gave her a big bear hug, and a big fat kiss on the cheek.
"Wow, you still look good girl! How have you been ? Maybe you could tell me about.. you know" Drake said, pulling out a seat for TT to take a seat.
"Thank you Aubrey, I myself have been doing great. but.. umm, well maybe you could tell me how you have been" TT said, looking down as soon as the question came into Onika.
You see Onika wasn't even known as Onika anymore, ever since Aubrey turned too Drake, Onika turned in to Nicki. Nicki had lost various jobs for her attitude problems, and was now working on trying to become the next best female rapper. She had a reputation, for sleeping around with men. She was known as "The best any man could ever have". She had a new clique of fake ass friends who were only around for the money and men Nicki carried with her. The sad truth is Drake broke Onika and it seemed she was deemed unfixable.
Aubrey stared intently at TT with is hazel orbs making her fiddle with her fingers, he knew something was up.
"I'm good, What about Onika? why isn't she here" Drake said he was getting nervous, he had heard the stories about how Onika had ran off and started this new identity as this person who no one wanted around, she had maybe gone down the wrong path, but every once in a while she traveled to a different parts of the world to try and find Onika again.
TT didn't want to be the one to break it to him, but before she could speak the sliding glass door opened up and here walked the person of an hour. Almost unrecognizable, her body had stayed the same curves in all the right places, her hair was a barbie blonde, with dark brown roots, she was wearing a short cut body con dress which was deep red in color, with black 5 inch red bottoms. Her eyes seemed low, as if she had been smoking. The look on her face was almost like hurt, she rolled her eyes and gave a dirty look to TT as she smacked on her gum.
"As you can see this is Onika, I have to go Aubrey I will talk to you later" TT said, giving Drake a kiss on the cheek and heading out, her and this new Nicki hadn't really been on speaking terms
Drake just stared on in amazement, he still saw all of the beauty through her blunt cover up Nicki had.
But for Nicki she just came to see if the bastard was really back. She looked him up and down, well he got what he wanted right ? Fame and fortune, without her. She was pissed, he left without a word and when they did get back in touch he was too busy to talk to her most of the time. She took a deep breath before speaking to him.
"So the heart-stealing asshole is back in town, I just had to come see if it was true, and it is.. I don't see why you were wasting your time talking to TT you want to know about me, you can come find me" Nicki said, taking a seat across from Drake and lighting the blunt he had sat at the table.
Drakes world seemed to be crashing down around him as he saw his once innocent love , turned into this monster who was angry at him. He couldn't help the fact that he had to move he was 16 young and dumb. But it was his fault for not keeping the contact if he loved her so much. But he thought that she wanted him to come up and be somebody, then he would come back and pick her up off her feet.
"On.." Drake said getting interrupted
"It's Nicki now, but go ahead and continue on" Nicki said smiling
"Nicki, I'm so sorry baby girl, I meant to keep in contact with you, but I had to make sure I was set up before I came back to you , I wanted to be a man and provide you with all you needed before I got back to you. Now I am and Nicki I want you" Drake said, reaching for her hand that was resting on the table
Nicki snatched her hand away and looked at him in disgust, tears started forming, when she looked at him.
"Don't you ever try to touch me again! Try to come to me with that sorry ass apology, who do I look like some dumb bitch ?! Aubrey you left me out in the cold by myself, you left me like a chatty. Then you want to act like it was for the best ? The best for who? you ? To go around a fuck all of these little bitches" Nicki said, slamming her hand against the table as tears were rolling down her face she hadn't been this vulnerable in so long, he literally made her feel so confused clouded thoughts of emotions came running back into her.
"Nika you know it wasn't like that, I swear baby. I just wanted to better myself for you. This( points to the house and himself) was an upgrade for you, you deserved better than the 16 year old dope boy you would come over and smash from time to time. I wasn't out there fucking bitches? I was focusing on what I'm building for myself , hopefully us. I've barely touched anyone in these past 5 years. I don't know if I can say the same for you though " Drake said starting to get frustrated at how she could blame him for bettering himself.
"I said it was Nicki. Drake, well I think this bettering myself for us is just bullshit you can go feed it to someone else. Maybe I liked the dope boy you better anyways, I like my men with a little more balls and honesty. can't even keep shit real with me. I can fuck whoever I want, I wasn't yours back then I'm not now" Nicki said, irritated now, how could she want him now? She was nothing, and he was everything she wished she was..
"It's not bullshit, I know Onika is somewhere in this little Nicki bitch front that you are putting up. Let me tell you Nicki ain't cute, fuck who you want to right. At least I'm trying harder to fix what I managed to mess up in the past. Fuck, you drive me crazy. I'm not that dope boy, hes gone, I fixed myself, you need to do the same. You were mine back then don't even try to play that card" Drake said running his hand over his head, how could she be like this.
"Onika's been gone for the past three years, you can't make her come back. If you don't like the bitch I am don't worry about it , I wasn't planning on being around your light skinned ass anyways. I'm broken and you need to get that through your thick skull, cant nobody fix me, fuck me yeah maybe, but fix me never. You were my heart and when you left it went with you. Alright maybe I was yours but you lost that title sweetheart." Nicki said, getting her stuff together to leave.
Drake was like a slap to her face that everyone tried to give to her, but she wasn't about to hang around to hear more about what a fuck up she had become.
"You're fixable, just lets start over let me make it up to you. I want to bring you the heart, I stole let me bring it back. I can show you I'm more than all of those random niggas" Drake said, getting up to stop her as she was heading out the door.
"Goodbye, Drake" She pushed past him and walked out. She was done, she really had left, she let out a deep sigh got in her car and left.
Drake thought about running after her, but knew better. He had slipped his number in her purse as she headed out the door. He just hoped that she would call, and they could make up,
When Nicki got home, she walked in to see things thrown all over the place
"Shit, he found it" She said getting nervous as she walked back to her bedroom.
There he was her somewhat of a boy toy passed out with the only bottle of liquor she had left in the house. She went over to tap his shoulder, she didn't even know why he had stayed the night he knew her rules.
Nicki had three rules when it came to her boy toys
1. Always use protection
2. We are not a couple just friends
3. Do not sleep over at my house
Rah had been another guy to add to the list to never fuck around with again, every time they had messed around another thing of Nicki's had gone missing. From food to cash. So when he didn't budge when she tapped his shoulder she pulled out her 9mm nudged him with it again, she was heated, her house was trashed, he ex was back in town, and the shit jacking nigga was in her bed.
"Shit.. what the fuck NICK, why the fuck you point a gun at me ma ?" Rah asked head pounding from a hangover.
"How many times I have to tell your monkey looking ass to not be over at my house when I'm gone, yet you don't listen and your ass steals from me, shit I forgot why I even gave your ass the time of day in the first place. You used to look good and put in the work, but now you are just a bum ass nigga." Nicki said, waving the 9mm in front of his face
Rah, was an old high school friend, who had recently got out of jail 6 months ago, Nicki was having the time of her life with the muscular, dark as milk chocolate ass nigga. But in the past three months he had packed on the pounds, gotten lazy, and had been in and out of a relationship with his children's mother. Oh yeah, Rah had a set of twins by his old high school sweetheart Jessica.
"Listen Nicki im sorry, just don't shoot me, let me give you some money, cant you just let me stay the night, I don't have no where to go.. You know how Jessica gets she kicked me out again, I just need somewhere to stay just for tonight" Rah said, getting out of Nicki's bed and putting on his pants
"You can give me my money, clean up the mess you made, and then get the fuck out my house , or I can shoot your ass. Your choice Rah, im so sick of your ass, you realize I'm so far done with you at this point . Right ? " Nicki said, nudging him with the nose of the gun.
She stood there for half an hour watching Rah get his shit together, and cleaning up her house. When he tried to head for the door, she stopped him shoving the gun right in his face.
"Nuh auh, my money Rah. I'm not playing nigga" Nicki said, pushing her hand out forward
"Shit Nicki I need it to get a room to sleep in tonight c'mon" Rah said looking to the left trying to find an escape route.
"Sleep in ya raggedy ass car, now give me my money" Nicki said
Rah, handed over a wad of cash, and scurried out the house. As Nicki counted out the cash, it only totaled out to a little over 500 hundred dollars, that cheap as owed her way more, but this money would do for now.
Nicki took a seat at her island in her kitchen to just take in all of today's events. She ran her hand through her hair as the tears fell from her face. How could she be living a life like this. She had so much going for her. As she got up locked her doors and set the alarm on the house, she headed back to her room where she placed her 9mm on the dresser. She stripped out of her clothes and hit play on her old CD player to listen to the serenading voice of the one and only Beyonce. She ran her water for the bath. She added in the vanilla bubble bath, and waited until the tub filled up just right.
Through all of this she was still Onika as fragile as ever, fighting the world on the outside, because it had always seemed to be against her. As she got into the tub, she closed out the world of all the bad thoughts and went back to the time when she was happy.
Flashback
Laid in Aubrey's arms, her dark brown curls spread about the two of them as they were in an embrace. She had never been happier than when she was in his arms. He looked down at her and smiled.
"Listen baby, I'm not saying this because we have been fucking each other for a while, or that I want to keep fucking you.. I just think you are the most amazing beautiful girl I have ever seen. And every time I get your here naked, soft, an so angelic like I want to keep you here forever" Aubrey said pecking her lips as Onika took it all in
Her face was gleaming with happiness, Aubrey wasn't the type to just express his feelings for anyone. I mean he was the local weed dealer and Onika was the dance captain at school, who fell for the bad boy who snuck over on the weekends to show her what love was all about. So when she looked back up into is hazel orbs to see them glistening with love she couldn't help but blurt out
"I love you Aubrey, its not just the sex, or your sweet talks, all this time I've had this heart aching feeling that I couldn't escape, until I just let me know its ok to love him" Onika said, looking down again, there was no way he could love her, she had a feeling she had just ruined this whole booty call situation
He picked up her chin, looked at her confused, a couple tears falling from his eyes
"Why'd you have to be the one to say it first ? I love you more baby girl to the great infinities of which no one could ever reach. Though I may not be good for you in anyway" Aubrey said then he smashed his lips against hers
Onika kissed him back deeply, both so young, professing love. She had just accepted the fact that this was her soulmate. Their kisses quickly turned back into the loving making they had just finished doing.
Young, in love, and not a care in the world
End of Flashback
Nicki opened her eyes, to have tears pouring from them, lost in her own thoughts of him, his touch, his voice. It was going to be hell now that he was back, because after all the boys, drugs, and scars she still loved him even more than she had when she was 16.
As she scrubbed herself clean and got out the tub, she couldn't stop her mind from thinking that maybe he wasn't lying when he said he had bettered himself for the both of them. What if it was all true ? But by the time she had laid herself back down in her bed, all alone like the rest of her cold days, she just saw it as too good to be true.
He called up his mother, to explain today's events to her, she of all people knew Aubrey and Onika the best.
"Hello ? Aubrey it's 1 in the morning!" Sandi said tiredly into the phone.
As Drake explained the events, his mother could hear the hurt in his voice, the blame, he put on himself, she wished she could take it all away.
"Aubrey, though you may have caused her some hurt, you can't blame it all on you she has had 5 years to grow and change for the better, if you really want her just don't give up on her, but sometimes but sometimes when people change for the bad its a war to get them back." Sandi said
Drake took it all in, he wanted Onika back more than anything, maybe he'd give her some time.She would be his again.
"Thank you Mom, I don't know where I'd be without you, I love you" Drake said
"Love you too baby, goodnight" Sandi said
"Goodnight mom" Drake said hanging up
He lay back in his bed thinking of a game plan to right his wrongs.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one, but Drake songs are super inspiring for writing !
Don't normally ask but for this one, I would ask for at least 5 comments for me to actually continue with.





