Shawnie's POV  

I was taking Genesis over to Chris's house. She was gonna stay with him for a few days. He was super excited that I came to LA to bring her to him.

I drive up the driveway and I see Chris walking out of his house.

He had a big smile on his face. I haven't seen him since he surprised me at the hospital when I had Atlas. I park the car and he gets Gen out of the back seat. He kissed and hugged her, then waited for me to come around to his side.

"Thank you for this." He says leaning in and kissing me on the cheek.

"I told you I would. You've been coming to Toronto for the last few months, and this was our agreement."

"I'm happy you held up your end of the deal. How long are you staying?"

"I don't know yet. I have to talk things over with Aubrey."

I look at him and he's looking at me weird. I watch his eyes move from my eyes, to my neck, to my shoulders, then my arms.

"What?" I say

"Why do you have bruises on your neck and arms?"

I instantly grab my neck. I completely forgot about the wild night Aubrey and I had. I meant to put makeup over it to cover it up but I completely forgot.

"Oh...Um..." I laugh. I couldn't think of an excuse quick enough.

"And this looks like a bite mark..." he points to my shoulder.

"Um, it's nothing." I smile

"Did you get into a fight with him or something? I know I'm not the ideal person to talk to about this but—."

I cut him off, "No! Nothing like that. Aubrey wouldn't do that. Don't think that. This is awkward, but...we..."

"Oh..." he looks at me for a few seconds then walks away into his house. I follow behind him.

I'm sure that's going to make things super awkward now.

I walk in and close the door behind me and I look over in the kitchen and I see dirty dishes in the sink. "Oh my goodness..." I make my way into the kitchen. "Chris, What have I always told you about keeping dishes in your sink?"

"Don't." He answers quickly.

"Exactly. So why are the dishes in the sink and this is not just from today, so don't lie."

"Man, I ain't washing no dishes."

"Well, put them in the dishwasher. Where is your cleaning lady?" I ask

"I had to fire her."

"Why?"

"I fucked her."

I laugh, but not because it's funny. I laughed because I was in disbelief. He's just so casual with how he conducts himself sexually now and he doesn't even care.

I just turned around, turned the water on, found a sponge and started washing his dishes. I actually cleaned his whole kitchen and when I was done, I walked over to him and Gen. I kissed her and grabbed my purse.

"You're not staying?"

"No, and you're welcome for cleaning your kitchen."

"Damn. Thank you, mama." He says, smiling.

"My friend is here with me from Toronto, and we're going to go hang out for lunch."

"Is she cute?" He asks

"She is, but you know my friends are off limits."

"Yeah, I know. But if you're cool with it..." he shrugs and smiles harder.

"Nah," I laugh, "I wouldn't let any female I know be involved with you."

"Damn."

"Well Chris, you know how you are."

"Nah, I know what it is, you're saving her for you and Drake. Keeping all the hoes locked away..." He frowns his face.

I laugh, "First of all, my friend is not a hoe. And  that's not happening. He doesn't even want to meet any of my friends, none of that. We don't play that shit."

"Aight, chill. I was just joking....but we had some fun times." He smiles big.

"I just wanted to make you happy. I didn't really like it." I say

"Yeah, right. You loved it. That's the only time you didn't mind another woman being around me." He says

"No comment. Anyway..." I try to change the subject.

"But Aight, get on to your friend. Gen is all good! I'll call you later." He says

"Okay."

I gather my things and I leave.

**************

After I leave Chris's house, I go pick up Dori and we head to Nobu for lunch.

When we got there everything was super cool but of course, there were a lot of paparazzi outside and they were taking pictures of me. My two personal security guys, Nate and Eric, walked us through the crowd of paps. One of the photographers asked me if I was okay, and if I was pressing charges against Drake. I was a little confused but just like I normally do, I didn't say anything to them. I just went into the restaurant.

"This place is so nice." She says as we sit down.

"Yeah, welcome to Malibu. Everything is nice. Aubrey introduced me to this place. He took me here for our first official date." I say

"Awww how cute." She says, smiling.

"Super cute. He basically begged me to let him take me out and when I finally gave in I was paranoid the whole time, I couldn't really have fun. And that was for good reason. Chris showed up and made a huge scene. It was a mess. I was miserable back then."

"But it was worth it because now you guys are married now. I must say, I was a fan of his, like everyone else, but I never really followed him in the media. I never really got into celebrities like that to follow their lives and whatnot. I mean if I like your music or movies, that's pretty much the extent of me liking someone. So with that being said, it wasn't until after I met you and we started hanging out that I actually googled everything that went on and it was a lot. I'm honestly happy that you guys worked everything out."

"Yeah, I am too. We have come a long way but we're all working out things separately and then trying to come together and be great coparents to the kids. Aubrey had his issues with Chris, I have my issues with Chris, I had my issues with Aubrey when I was with Chris, but for the most part we try so hard."

"Based on the things you say it seems like you guys are doing very well. How did everything go today when you dropped off Genesis?"

"Oh everything was super cool. He wanted me to stay but I told him that I was having lunch with one of my friends, so he didn't press me about it. I honestly think we're better apart then together because it seems like we're able to work on our friendship. And we're really good friends. I think that is the single thing that was holding me to him for so long was I didn't wanna let go of the friendship. But shit got so bad."

"Well I'm happy we're friends. I love that you live in Toronto so I can come over and have girl time. You know I don't get out often so I'm happy we clicked how we did."

"Me too and I never got to tell you, but thank you for being so cool about everything. Aubrey is such a freaking stickler for security. Like he even had me sign a nondisclosure agreement, which I was okay with but someone like you, coming in that basically has nothing to do with him and he made you sign that, I just wanted to say thank you because he's very paranoid about a lot of things. He's very protective of me and he is scared someone might have the wrong intentions."

"Oh, it's cool. Honestly I don't even care that you're Drake's wife. He's never around anyway and we don't see each other. I'm not here for him. I don't think we've ever even held a conversation. Most of this time it's just hi and bye."

"You're not missing anything. Him and Chris, they're both crazy." We both laugh.

"Yeah but how did you do it and what did you do? You have these guys pussy whipped. I might need some of what you got."

I laugh, "I forgot you're bi."

"I am. I wonder if Drake would mind if you had a girlfriend too."

"He is not going for that. He doesn't even want my doctor touching me, and I refuse to tell him about the threesomes Chris and I have had. Chris brought it up that he thought you were sexually involved with us."

She laughs, "Nah...I wouldn't mind with only you but that would make things weird. We're friends, I don't fuck my friends."

"Exactly."

"Have you ever been with a woman? Like, just you and her?" She asks

"No. Just the adventures with Chris."

"Oh okay. Sounds like a book. Adventures with Chris. If you ever write one, that's a good title." We laugh. "I've been with a man and I've been with a woman and things are a lot more emotional with women because we understand each other but my perfect ideal situation will be I have a boyfriend and I have a girlfriend so I can get what I need all around."

"That sounds like a good plan. I'm happy with Aubrey though. We communicate pretty well. He has a couple of issues but for the most part I pretty much talk him off of the ledge and he just handles me differently and I like that. I feel like he actually listens to me and tries to figure out why I react the way I do versus getting on me about why I react a certain way. He just thinks differently and I like that because it makes me think differently. And it makes me even happier because the dick is top notch too."

"Really?"

"Yes, and that's all I'm gonna say about that. The last time I talked to my best friend about my boyfriend's dick she was trying to get some."

"Girl, it is 100% clear that Drake doesn't want anybody but you. And this new song he has out, Knife Talk is my shit."

"I mean, my baby is the artist of the decade." I say

I smiled as I looked down at my menu and then I heard my phone buzz. I picked it up to see it was an article. Shawnie and Drake call it quits after an alleged domestic dispute. I almost choked on my water reading the headline.

"What?" I said in disbelief. I looked at the picture and it was of Dori and I heading into the restaurant 20 minutes ago.

I further read the article and it showed close-up pictures of me with bruises on my arms, legs and neck. The article stated that we got into a physical altercation over Chris Brown.

"I wish they would give this shit up." I say annoyed.

"Well I really wasn't gonna say anything, but why do you have bruises like all over?"

"First of all, it's not that bad and Aubrey would never put his hands on me and second of all, we like to have rough sex sometimes." I laugh, "That's all."

"Oh! Gotcha! Damn, that rough though?" She looks at me like she judging.

"Yes..."

"Okay...say no more." She smiles

We both laugh.

My phone rings.

"Hold on this is my cousin calling. Please excuse the conversation you're about to hear." I laugh

She laughs as I answer the phone. "Hello?"

"Did that bitch touch you?" She yells

"Oh my god, Mercedes, no!"

"Then what are they talking about? I saw the pictures." She says

I take the phone away from my ear and hit the FaceTime button. I wait for her to answer and when she does, I just smile.

"Look at me.. nothing." I say as I point to my face, then I show her my neck and chest area, then I point to my neck, "This is a hickey, and yes there are bruises but they're finger prints..." I point to my shoulder, "and this is a bite mark. Yes it's from Aubrey but he ain't beating my ass. Do you really think I would go for that again? Three relationships in a row? We like to fuck, Mercedes."

"Oh...Ugh. TMI!" She says

"I knew you were going to call. You are always ready to break someone's legs." I laugh

"Well, someone has to be. Why are you in LA anyway?" She asks

"I'll be here for a while. I brought Gen to Chris."

"My friend!" She says with a smile.

"You wanna come out here? I'll fly you out."

"That would be nice. I haven't seen you in forever."

"Go pack some shit, I'll make the arrangements right now."

"I need to leave tomorrow though. I have some.....business to take care of first."

"Okay. I'll set it up for tomorrow. Just go to the private side around 10 am."

"Okay, I love you. See you tomorrow."

"Love you too."

We end the call and Dori laughs.

"She's coming, get ready." I say, shaking my head as my phone goes off.

"Hold on...it's Chris." I look at the text and it's a file. 'CallMeEveryday'

I smile.

"What?"

"He sent me a song. He hasn't done this in forever."

"Why?" She asks

"He either wants my opinion, or it's about me." I say

"Play it." She says

I take my airpods out of my purse and put them in. "I can't play it for you. I don't have his permission."

"Damn. It's cool." she laughs.

"I'll be back." I got up and walked over to an empty table on the patio and sat down. I called Chris.

"What's up? Do you like it?" He asks

"I haven't listened to it yet. Before I listen, is the song going to get me into my feelings because I'm out at lunch with my friend and I don't want this to get me down."

"Nah, it's cool. It's not gonna make you feel a way. It's not one of those songs. I just wanted you to take a listen, I know you'd love it. That's all. Listen while I'm on the phone." He says

"Okay." I press play and it starts and I listen to it in its entirety.

"I love it!" I say smiling.

"You do?"

"Yes. I absolutely love this song. I see you've really been working." I say, "I can't believe you have me abandoning my friends just to listen to your music."

We both laugh

"I know where your priorities lie." He says

"It's amazing as always, Chris. You don't need me to tell you that."

"Sometimes I do though. Your opinion means a lot to me. I needed to hear that. We can talk about it later though. Have fun!" He says and we end the call.

I walk back over to the table. "Sorry about that."

"It's all good. Is the song good?" She asks

"It's so good!" I let out a huge smile. "I love his music. Like everything he does. I'm such a damn fan." I laugh at myself. "And he knows that. That's why he feeds me with his music."

"It's good that you guys still have that relationship where he can do things like that." She says

"Barely." I say, "If this happened and Aubrey was sitting here, he would throw my phone in the ocean and hound me on why he sent them. He swears he has ulterior motives. But whatever, let's enjoy our food!" I smile, changing the subject.

After we ate our food and everything we headed out of the restaurant. Of course the paparazzi were still out there and of course they were taking more pictures. I didn't say anything to them although I did go back-and-forth in my head because I felt like I just had to set the record straight but I figured that I would let Amanda handle this. So we just got in our car and went about our day.

***************

Later on that night

Dori and I were sitting in the living room talking and having a drink when I heard my phone start buzzing on the table.

"It's 11 o'clock at night, this has to be my husband." I say with a smile, picking up my phone.

"I think it's so sweet that when he calls, your face lights up." She says

"Hold on Dori, this is Chris." I put the phone up to my ear and answered the phone.

"Hey, Chris! Is everything okay?" I answer

"Baby..."

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