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Under The Influence:
N2DEEP

Two months later

Drake's POV

"I miss youuu." She says with a little whine.

"I miss you too, baby. I'll be home soon." I sigh heavily just thinking about her laying in bed alone.

This is the first time since we've been married that we've been apart for this long. I don't like it.

I put the phone on speaker and I scroll through her pictures on my phone, select two and type a caption.

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"We don't have to get too much into details about it because I know what you're going through right now. And it pains me to not be there with you. You already know that." I say laying my phone on my chest.

"Okay...." She goes silent for a few seconds. "But when are you gonna be able to come home?" She asks

"I have to be in Miami by the morning. I have an interview at ten am, then I gotta be in New York by 6 o'clock tomorrow night. If I can knock that out with no problems, I'll be able to shoot home for a few hours because I have to be back in New York for another TV appearance."

"How many hours?" She asks

"Hopefully, I could be home by one or two am and then probably leave that night, around 11/12. You know I'll stay as long as possible." I say

"Okay. We've been away from each other for a couple of days at a time but it has been two weeks."

"It's late baby, try to get some rest." I say

I tried my best to avoid this conversation. I knew she was going to say that. Hearing I haven't been around my wife for two weeks gives me a nagging pain in my heart. Don't get me wrong, I knew I was gonna have this problem because I simply hate to be away from her and I'm constantly trying to tell myself that I shouldn't put so much into one person but she's my wife.

When we first started talking I knew it was something about her. I couldn't put my finger on it but the first time she went away from me and went back to him she was all I could think about. I knew if we got more serious that this could potentially become a problem and now here we are, it's a major problem.

"I know you're trying to avoid it, so I won't say anything else about it. So we can get off the phone if you want but I know you're not going to bed." She says.

"The way I'm feeling right now, I just can't handle a conversation like that. You're going through it, so am I. I know you're not gonna go to sleep either but you should try anyway." I say

"You too. You're the one who called me at 230 in the morning." She laughs

"I figured I can sleep on the plane. We're leaving at five."

"I'm just at home with the baby. You're the one who needs to get at least a couple of hours asleep." She says

"Don't worry about me. I've been doing this for years."

"I think I'm going to fly out to LA to take Gen to Chris because I need a change of scenery." She says. I'll take the phone away from my ear and I look at it like it's the one talking.

I'm not gonna say anything, I'm just going to get the details.

"How long do you think you're going to be in LA?"

"I don't know. If you're going to be here tomorrow night, I can just leave after you leave. I'll bring Lexi and Christina with me. I think I'm going to bring Dori too."

"You're staying in Hidden Hills?" I ask

"Of course."

I sigh as I go over the scenarios in my head. The last time we were in Hidden Hills, Chris did some crazy shit and sometimes he just doesn't know when to stop. I don't want him popping up over my house talking about how he wants to see his daughter like he was doing before. This motherfucker pulled a gun on one of the security guys so he could get in the house. I just don't know how much of a good idea that is. But I'm not gonna say anything because I don't wanna start anything. I'm just gonna keep this to myself.

"Aight. Let me know so I can set it up. And I need Dori's full name." I say

"Dorian Lincoln. I already ran a background check on her months ago."

"Oh okay."

"She's really cool. Too bad you'll never meet her. At least not right now." She says

I laugh, "I'm good with that. I don't need to meet any of your friends."

"Exactly. I don't need another situation like what happened with my ex best friend. I just refuse."

"What happened with Brooke?" I ask

"Nothing. She lives in LA. Maybe I'll catch up with her since I'm gonna be there."

"I like Brooke. She was funny as hell."

"You only say that because she wanted us to be together. You could've made a complete ass of yourself and she would've been team Drake as she was always saying."

"She's smart. You should keep her around."

We both laugh

"Go to sleep." She says

"I'm laying down now. Wishing you were next to me."

"Me too.

"My hand is in my pants too." I smile to myself.

"I know you're thinking about it. The baby is right here. I'm not doing that right now."

I sigh heavily, "Aight, Mami. I'm sluttin your ass out when I get home though."

"You gotta get here first."

"I'll be home, baby. All right, let me try to get at least two hours asleep. I'll text you before I take off."

"Okay. I love you."

"I love you too, baby." I say then I end the call.

I reach over and plug my phone in on the nightstand and I lay back on my back. I look down at my hard dick and just shake my head. I don't feel I should have to use my hand because I'm fucking married. It's been two months since we've had the baby and she said after two months she's going to start traveling so we need to get this in order because I'm not doing this. I need to have her when I want her. I already had to wait 6 weeks before we could have sex again.

I kind of timed the release of CLB prematurely. I kept pushing the date back and to make a long story short, the Record label said it had to be released and so now we're not able to go to Turks and I'm not able to get her pregnant. That was the plan, but we kind of decided that we were going to wait at least six months to a year before I got her pregnant again because she was pregnant when we got married, up until two months ago and we kind of wanna enjoy just being married and fucking the shit out of each other without a baby bump in the way.

I love the life that Shawnie and I have created for ourselves. We spend most of our time up in Toronto now and moving her there has done wonders for our relationship. I'm so in love with my wife. There ain't no other way to put it. It took a lot for us to get here. Our situation was a little messy and toxic in the beginning and I know I display a lot of toxic traits. I know I can be toxic, but I had to do what I had to do to get my girl.

Yeah, I took her from Chris. Well, I really didn't steal her, I just had to make her realize that the time we spent together was more than what she was trying to make. I eventually got her to see and realize her feelings for me were much deeper than she was trying to make it. I know she was only doing that because she was in a relationship at the time. Luckily he fucked up so many times she was just ready to walk away from the relationship and I've benefited from that.

So now that everything has settled, all of the media has somewhat died down, and everything, we're good. We get to live our life privately and publicly without no regrets. We don't sneak around, she doesn't feel the need to have to hide from the media now. Everything is out in the open and it's perfect. We're perfect.

Chris Brown, I don't know where to start with him. We see Chris every two weeks when he flies in to see his daughter but he's actually been pleasant to be around lately. He comes over to the house, says hello when we're around, he picks her up and he leaves. He doesn't bring any drama to us. The man stays in his feelings but instead of voicing his opinion and his thoughts every chance he gets, he seems to hold them in now. I think my conversation with him got through his thick ass head. I would like to sit down and talk to him again because it seems like that helped. He was over it, I was over it, the situation was bad, but we both talked it out like adults and we made a lot of progress. But I still have a couple of issues that need to be addressed.

I know I have certain insecurities that restrict me from being the man that I want to be. Honestly, my insecurities and paranoia don't match with the type of person that I am or my profession, it comes off as arrogance. But I have to be that way. I know I am who I am and I have a lot of people and things that feed into certain things that I need, but it's like when it comes to Shawnie, all of that shit goes out the window. She breaks me down. I'm so open with her. She shows me day after day, that none of this fame bullshit, or my status doesn't mean anything to her. She will walk away in a minute...and that scares the shit out of me because I know she will.

Her relationship with Chris makes me so insecure and I always second-guess myself. I'm sure I aided in that because she was somewhat messing around with me when they were together, so I kind of did it to myself. She tells me that it's nothing between them and I believe her but it's still a voice in my head that's telling me to think the opposite.

The woman told me she still loves him. How am I supposed to feel? It's hard for me and I struggle with it every day, so now when she's telling me she's going to LA for a while, I don't know how to feel about that. I feel like it's going to be a repeat of what happened when we lived there. She was stressed out and he was pulling all types of crazy stunts trying to get her back. I'm not gonna be able to handle that this time around, I'm just gonna have somebody take care of him.

I've always felt like if I took access to her away from him that things would die down and they did die down. We're 100% happy in Toronto, but if she goes back there he has access to her again and I don't know how I'm be able to deal with that because I don't know what he's gonna do. If I'm on the road, there's nothing that I can do about it. The only thing I can do is keep security around 24 seven. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do, that's what I've been doing and that's what I'm gonna continue to do. She's mine now, not his.

I just lay there on my back looking at the ceiling. My room is eerily quiet. I hate when it's so quiet like this. All the thoughts and shit that's going on in my head gets louder and louder. I'm totally sober at that. That makes the situation worse. All the stress of everything that falls on me from the regular day, taking care of my family and my friends, managing my many businesses and my career, everything really starts to penetrate my head and it prevents me from sleeping. I'm stressed out. I'm overwhelmed. I missed my wife and son. I got people calling me left and right, asking for money, or asking for some kind of help. I'm just in a bad space right now.

I always have a glass of wine before I go to sleep. I always have Shawnie there to talk to, or take my mind off of things. When I'm away, I don't have her and that kills me. She really does calm me. It's not just her who struggles with sleeping when I'm not there, I struggle too.

I'm going to figure out a way to fix this, like I do everything else.

Chris' POV

I was sitting in my kitchen, talking to Diamond. She was over cooking dinner for me. She comes over pretty much every other day. She's here a lot. Like, a lot. She's gotten very comfortable. I think she thinks this is like old times and shit. I'm not there. She's 6 months pregnant now and showing. I think she's trying to work her way back in, but I don't want that. I have too much going on right now, on top of having three baby mommas to deal with. I'm working like crazy on a few new projects and the album. I'm fucking booked. I don't have time to entertain her life goals.

She finished up dinner and we sat at the table to eat. I was texting a "friend" letting her know that Diamond is here, and I wanted to know if she could come over after she leaves.

"I would like for you to give me your attention." She says, turning off the stove. She's been talking, but I've been on my phone.

I finish up my text and I sit my phone down. "You got it."

"So what do you think about us having a girl?" She asks

"I'm happy. I didn't care if you were having a boy or a girl, I already have both, I just wanted to make sure they're healthy. Remember, I told you that already." She makes both of our plates and stores down at the table.

"That's very true. I wanted a little girl though. I'm happy. I just wish we could've had a gender reveal."

"Well the baby shower is going to make up for it."

"Are you going to be able to come?" She asks

"I don't know. I have shit going on. Plus, I thought we weren't going to reveal that you were pregnant by me. If I show up, all of that goes out the drain. It's best to keep this private for now."

"I forgot." She puts her head down and starts eating.

"I told you, for your safety and sanity, this is the best way. After a few months I'll come out with the information for right now just sit tight."

"Yeah..."

"Why you want everybody to know you're pregnant by me so bad?" I ask

She puts her fork down. "I don't. I just don't like having to keep this a secret."

"Well you gotta get over that. I'm not some regular ass nigga. They already think you are pregnant by me anyway, so it is better to just not confirm anything, don't even address it, just let it be."

"Okay. But I do have another concern." She says

"What?" I roll my eyes.

"I was thinking maybe I can move in." She says

"Move in?" This girl has lost her damn mind.

"Yeah, I think things would be a lot easier if I lived here. I'm already here 24/7. We spend so much time together now... it makes sense." She says

"It makes sense to you, but not to me. I'm not moving nobody else in my house." She has me all the way fucked up if she thinks I'm about to let her move in and her take over all of my shit.

"Well what am I supposed to do when I get closer to my due date? I need someone else around."

"That's in a few months. You have your mom, your sister and brother to help out. I'll do as much as I can but you're not moving in."

"Well my apartment is too small. I need more room." She says

"Fine, I'll buy you a house. Start looking." I start eating my food. I swear I will do anything to try to make this easier.

"And money..." She says

I exhale. She's killing me. "I'll give you more money."

"Thanks. So what's up with this new bitch that you've been having around?"

"Her name is Jasmine and she's not a new bitch. I've known her for a while."

"Right. So is this something I need to worry about?" She asks

"Diamond, we ain't together, although you want everyone to think we are. I don't say too much because I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you need to chill. We fuck every now and then, you got pregnant and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. That's all this is. What is it with you and Ammika? Always trying to one up each other." I say. This shit has been going on for years. I'm tired of it.

"First of all, that bitch is crazy and you know that. You knew that and you still entertained her. Secondly, you owe me. You threw me to the side for a relationship that didn't last with Shawnie. Don't give me shit because I want more with you. You're lucky I gave you another chance."

"I can't give you that. I'm giving you what I can. You want a house, you got that. You want more money, you got it. It's hard trying to manage the three of you. I need y'all to get along."

"Shawnie and I get along, that's all that matters. Ammika lives all the way in another country. Fuck her. If you want me to meet this new bitch then I will but I can guarantee any promises. You know me, I let you have your fun but that was before. This time around things have been different and you know it. I'm not gonna be so accepting of another bitch coming before me again." She says

"She's been talking about bringing Aeko for a couple of weeks. I would love for all three of y'all to get together if possible. I know her and Shawnie don't get along but if she doesn't show up, I need you to be there. Can you do that?"

"Shawnie and Ammika doesn't have the history that me and Ammika have. There's been plenty of times where you have broken up fights and arguments between her and I." She says

That comment was very true. I've had to stop Diamond from knocking Ammika upside her head a few times. I know it was my fault though because I was dating both of them but they agreed to it so I don't really see the major problem.

"But you are grown now. You're pregnant. If now isn't the time to mature, then I don't know what it is."

"Okay, Chris. Just let me know when and where to meet her and I will try to keep it together long enough to get through it. But I'm begging Shawnie to be there." She says

"Shit, me too." I laugh

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