Track 9: Drake- Wants and Needs ft. Lil Baby

January 27, 2023
11:20PM

Cara looked across the table trying to see if her next move would be reasonable. She almost regretted making Dee her partner since he was able to hold blank facial expressions. She just smiled and pulled out the King of Hearts card she held and tossed it onto the table.

Booka kissed his teeth and tossed out a card, followed by Dee and Arianna. "I need a new partner" he looked up at Arianna who held up her middle finger to him.

Cara just laughed and collected their last book and added it to the rest. "Yall suck"

Booka pointed at Ari "You grown you need to learn how to play spades forreal"

Cara looked down at the message that came in from Michael. It caught her by surprise so when she started to laugh everyone looked up at her. Cara and Michael were seeing each other a little bit more since he was trying to seal a deal with her agency. He had plans on buying some residential property and just ironically chose to work with them.

Cara replied to the message and and scrunched her face up when she seen everyone's eyes glued to her. "What!? I know yall not in my business?"

"Come on. We need to head out" Dee stood up from his seat and nodded at Booka.

Ari looked between the two of them. "Where yall going?"

"To the studio" Booka said.

"We wanna go" she smiled at him. Her usual activity of flirting.

"You cool with that?" Booka looked at Dee who just shrugged.

"Ion care" He went to the side door and disappeared in the garage.

Cara slowly got up from the table with Arianna who was super happy. "You really wanna go to the studio?" Cara grabbed Ari's arm so she would stop walking.

Arianna nodded "I mean why not? We aren't doing anything...Wait you want to stay here? We can if you want to"

Cara really didn't want to make it awkward or kill the mood so she just played it off. "Yeah I don't mind going I just was asking. I know it could be boring sometimes" Cara knew that the longer her and Dee stayed around each other the more they were prone to start a argument. The unusual tension between the two of them had been growing over the last two weeks. This began right after the situation with Brittany.

The two women went in the garage splitting to get in the two different cars. Cara got in Dee's car while Ari got in the car with Booka. Cara wished she had gotten in the other car since Dee wasn't even acknowledging her presence. "You hear me Deion?" she pulled the seatbelt over her chest.

"Nah wassup?" he looked up from his phone and over at Cara.

"I said are we good? You being weird and shit" She looked down at his phone in hand and seen he was replying to someone in his Dm's. She couldn't make out most of the messages but seen that he sent her heart emojis.

"I'm good. Is you cool? You the one with the attitude" He shot back at her as he reversed out of the garage.

Cara just looked at him sideways. She couldn't understand if he was trying to test her patience again  or if he really just acted like this once he had been around a woman for a certain amount of time.

Three Hours Later

Ari and Cara sat on the couch in the studio while Booka and Dee indulged in the music playing. Looking at the lyrics they had. Ari was enjoying the entire session, she found it interesting to see the process artists went through with music. The recording, deleting, adlibs, all of it kept her attention. 

Cara on the other hand was tired and was fighting her sleep. She didn't even touch the food that they ordered thirty minutes ago.

"You haven't eaten all day Cara. You need to put something on your stomach" Ari slid the plastic container of food over to her friend. Only for Cara to slide it back to the middle of the table in front of them.

"I'll eat later Ari.I told you I'm tired" Cara spoke lowly since the music was paused.

Dee turned around from where he was sitting to look at Cara "Why you come if you so fucking tired Cara" he unexpectedly snapped at her.

Cara sat up "Who you talking to like that Dee?"

He pointed at her. "You Cara who else? You been having this attitude and that shit finna piss me off. Gone somewhere with that"

Cara pointed at herself, with her index finger right in the middle of her chest. "Me? Are you fucking serious right now. You been the one acting different so save it. How you mad because I'm sleepy make it make sense. The Fuck"

Both Booka and Arianna looked at each other in a odd way. The tension between their friends was thick. They had noticed it earlier when they were playing spades but didn't say anything but now it was unable to avoid. The crazy thing was they didn't know what the real problem between the two of them was.

Cara grabbed her jacket and stood up from the couch. "Weird ass nigga" She walked out of the door with Ari following closely behind her.

"Yeah iight" he watched her leave the room. 

Arianna and Cara were the same height but for some reason Cara's legs seemed to be moving way faster than hers. Once she made it out the front door she seen Cara leaning her back on the brickwall. "Cara what was that? I thought everything was good with yall?"

Cara kept her eyes focused on her phone as she texted Michael back. "I don't know Ari. Like I said he's been acting weird and it's making me regret even fucking with him"

Ari raised her eyebrow "Wait..Yall had sex? Ohhh I thought yall was still getting to know each other but damn I ain't know yall was exploring each other's body. Did you use that one trick I taught you?"

Cara looked up from her phone with a smirk on her face. "Yeah I did"

The both of them high fived each other while laughter left their mouths. "Mhm that's probably why he acting like that. He scared you gone do it on another man" she shrugged.

Cara locked her phone "I don't know Ari. I just can't get with the disrespectful, moody ass shit he got going on. Not when I have someone that's showing a little interest in me and ready to treat me right"

Ari went next to Cara and leaned on the same wall. "Who Michael?" a small sigh left her mouth when Cara nodded. "I mean Cara you know I support whatever you wanna do so if you wanna talk to Michael go ahead"

"He asked me to go on this 'business' trip with him" Cara held up air quotations when she said 'Business'

"A free trip? On a private jet or first class?" Ari moved her head so she could see Cara's face.

Cara nodded "Yes Private jet, all expenses paid, I would just be his company for the trip"

"Bitch and you just now telling me? Did you say yes? If not, I'll go but I'm not sleeping with him I'll just be there for the free trip" Ari was happy when Cara smiled a little.

"I didn't decide yet but I'll let yo-" She was cut off when the door suddenly opened.

"Man Ian tryna hear no shit about no pills Booka. I ain't tweaking her ass be on some psycho shit you just don't see it" Deion freely spoke since he didn't see Cara and Ari on the side.

"Don't react Cara" Arianna didn't like the fact that he was calling her psycho but also didn't want Cara getting out of her normal character.

"I swear I'm not. Matter of fact our ride is here. Come on" She grabbed Ari's hand and walked up to the Blacked out Rolls Royce that pulled up.

Ari furrowed her eyebrows together because she wasn't familiar with this person until she got in the back seat of the car. "Hey Michael, Ouu this is nice" she beamed looking around the interior of the car. 

Cara made eye contact with Dee before she slipped in the passenger seat of the car. "Thanks for coming to get us. I should've drove but you know"

Michael smiled, his strong Creed Aventus cologne filled the car. "No problem, I wasn't too far from here. Besides I'll always come whenever you need me to"

February 3, 2023
1:28PM

It's been about one week since Cara and Dee had seen eachother. The day after they were in the studio Dee immediately felt bad. He shouldn't have took his anger out on her and since he was still learning how to deal with his anger he retreated to his typical disrespectful manner.

Now here he was on Cara's Instagram with confusion running through his body. She rarely posted on here but now she was all of a sudden posting new pictures the past two days. She wasn't home and since Booka told him that Ari was home he wondered who she was with.

"And then she got on this lil ass fucking thong and shit. Ion like shit like that" he stared at the latest post she put up a few minutes ago.

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"You talking about you don't like that shit but you in her likes and in her comments. She got you out here looking like a simp" Bari laughed

"That shit ain't that funny" Deion looked up from his phone for a second.

Booka caught his breath and stopped laughing after a while "Aye look all Im saying is, You ain't never showed real interest in any other bitch you brought around so if you really fucking with her you need to get it together. Stop being mean Women don't like shit like that"

Dee agreed with him but didn't let him know that "Yeah but she just as fucked up as me in the head. Don't believe that good girl shit"

"To be honest both of yall fucked up in the head. That's probably why yall like each other so fucking much" Booka wasn't the best with relationships but he was definitely able to read between the lines.

Deion frowned at the multiple comments coming in from different men. He didn't want anybody else to have her or even look her way. He put his pride aside and decided to just call her, the worst thing she could do was just hang up or ignore the call.

He went to her contact and prayed she didn't block him. Once the dial tone rung through the phone he stood up and walked out the room. He didn't even think of what he would say once she answered. Maybe an apology? Maybe he should tell her how he really felt? A lot of things quickly ran through his mind.

"Hello?" A male voice answered the phone.

"What the fuck?" He said and looked at the phone to make sure he pressed the right contact.