Chapter 3: Little Bit

Okay, so this is just a flashback for now until they shoot the MMP video and I can really write.  

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It was the Thanksgiving Concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Nicki was performing and bringing out a couple people with her, one of them was Drake.

He came out and they performed up All Night and Moment 4 Life. When it was time for him to leave the stage, Drake stole a kiss that Nicki claimed wasn’t on the lips. After the concert was over, Nicki went back to her dressing room, and she had a surprise in her room.  Drake left a note telling her to meet him outside his tour bus. She changed into some jeans and a sweatshirt and walked over to his tour bus where she found him and Rihanna, who also performed with Nicki that night, chatting in what seemed to her an awfully close manner. She felt a twinge in her stomach and walked back until Rihanna left. If she was going to talk to him, it was going to be a one on one thing, she decided. Rihanna was gone after about two minutes, and Nicki went back to his bus and found him sitting back against the bus. He looked a little irritated. “Hey Drizzy.” Nicki said.

“Hey Nic.”

“You wanted to talk to me?” She held up his note

“Yeah, can you come in for a minute?”

“Mhm.”

They entered his bus, he sat down on the brown leather couch and patted the space next to him.
“What’s up?” she asked him

“Can you be 100% honest with me? Like, deadass honest?”

“What about?”
“Do you really, only see me as just your brother?”
“Drake…” Nicki began

“No, seriously Onika, do you?”

She was shocked that he used her real name, it flustered her and gave her this strange feeling she’d never really felt when she was around him

“Honestly, I don’t know. I mean, I love you. You know I do. But I don’t know what we’d be like together. I can barely picture it. I’ve always looked at you as just my little brother, someone I can talk to whenever I need to vent and let shit out, you know? I’ve never put Onika, Aubrey, and romance in the same sentence or thought.”

 “Okay. I get that. But imagine this. If I’m someone you can talk to when you’re feeling down or you just need to let shit out, imagine me being there in your happiest moments, your joy, your laughs, your smiles. Don’t you want someone to share all of that with? Doesn’t it get lonely? I damn sure know it gets lonely for me, and when I get lonely like that, I think of you.  You, Nic. Your smile, your laugh, your everything. All you.”

This was all so overwhelming for Nicki. She knew he liked her, but she didn’t know it was this serious. She needed time to think, so she blurted out the first thing on the top of her head.

“What about Rih?”

“What about her?”

“I know you guys have a thing, Aubrey, don’t play stupid with me.”

“We had a thing, she played me, I’m over it. We’re just friends now.”

“But I just saw you guys talking. Ya’ll were real close, too.”

“She was trying to talk me into going home with her, but I’ve been down that road before, so I told her no.” 

“So, fuck am I? A rebound chick now? Since you can’t go home with her, you’re just gonna jump to me? Fuck that.” She got up to leave, but he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her close.

“Nic. You know damn well that you are the farthest thing from a rebound chick and I would never do that shit to you, EVER.”

“Then where the hell is all of this coming from, Drake?”

“Months and months of being with you, falling in love with you everyday since the first day we met. Thinking and dreaming about this day. Tonight, when we were on the stage together, I just felt it, Nic. All my feelings for you amplified. Look, I know you’re stuck on that little brother shit, but Nicki, you know I’m more than your “brother.” ”

All of this had her head spinning. Drake saw that she was a little dazed and he took the opportunity to make his move. His hands were already close to her waist, so he wrapped them around her and pulled her in close. He looked her dead in her eyes and she couldn’t make her body move away from his, nor unlock her eyes from his. 

“Nic.” He whispered. And then he kissed her. 

She felt butterflies for the first time in years. They weren’t the type of butterflies she got when she was about to go on stage, or the type she got when she was about to meet her Barbz. No, these butterflies were something else. They drove her closer and closer to him until they couldn’t get any closer. They kissed for minutes until they were both out of breath, and then they sat and stared at each other in awe. Both their hearts and minds racing. He raised his eyebrows at her as if to question whether or not she was okay after the kiss, or if the kiss was satisfactory. She wasn’t sure which one, so she just shook her head until she could catch her breath.

“So, you love me?” Nicki asked him once she’d gathered herself

“I do.” He replied.

She sighed and said “Okay,” then got up and walked to the door of the tour bus.

“Where are you going?”

“Home. You have my number. Call me tomorrow, first thing when you wake up.”

“Okay.” He said in a dejected tone. He didn’t want her to leave, ever, let alone right after their first kiss.

She smiled and walked back to kiss him one more time.

“Pink 4 Friday looks nice on you. It makes your lips look luscious.” She smiled at her new boyfriend and left his bus, humming ‘Little Bit’.