Chapter 1- Always There For You

It had been 2 weeks since the incident with drake had occurred. Nicki didn’t want to go anywhere or do 

anything because she was still scared that Drake was going to do something else. Her schedule was clear for 

the next 3 weeks, so she didn’t have anything planned other than writing new music.  Safaree was making sure everything was absolutely perfect for Nicki because he didn’t want her to beat herself up over what happened with Drake. If she was hungry he would go out and stock the house so that he could cook for her. He would answer the phone for her and take messages so that she didn’t have to talk to anyone, unless it was her family. He would also sleep with her in her bed because she couldn’t sleep unless he was lying next to her. Safaree didn’t mind doing all these things for Nicki because he loved her and would do anything to make sure her safety was endured.

It was 3 a.m , Safaree was lying in Nicki’s bed just staring into the darkness thinking about how he could get her out the house and somewhere safe where she would go and feel safe. Safaree heard a little sniffing and small noise that broke him from his trance and caused him to look into Nicki’s direction. SB noticed that she was crying and spoke up.

“Nicki…are you alright?”

“Yes, I’m fine SB I didn’t mean to wake you”

“You didn’t wake me Nic, I never went to sleep. Why are you crying?”

“im not crying , m-my nose is stuffy that’s all”, she said lowly.

Safaree rolled over and flick on the lamp next to the bed and sat up.

“look at me”, SB said.

“Safaree can you turn the light off your hurting my eyes”, Nicki said as she pulled the blanket over her head.

“No Nicki look at me”

Nicki didn’t budge. But SB saw the blanket moving and heard sniffing again and assumed she was crying some more. He walked over to her side of the bed and kneeled down in front of her. He pulled the blanket down off of her and immediately saw her face. She opened her eyes and they were blood shot red. Underneath of her face wear she was laying was a huge wet spot that looked like she had been silently crying for hours. He got up off of the floor, crawled into the bed and pulled Nicki into his arms. Every time they woke up in the morning, Nicki’s eyes were always very red and puffy like she had been crying. Safaree felt like it was something she wanted to talk about but wouldn’t push it. He laid there with her head resting on his chest holding her, letting her cry out everything she needed to let out. An hour passed and Nicki had finally stopped crying. Safaree thought she fell asleep until Nicki’s voice proved him wrong.

“Safaree?”

“Yes?”

“What’s wrong with me?” Nicki said her voice cracking. SB knew she was on the verge of crying again, but if she was ready to talk he was too. He sat up and pulled Nicki up with him and held her.

“Nicki there is nothing wrong with you”

“So then why did he hurt me? Why was he so evil and rude towards me? Why was he so disrespectful? All I wanted to do was make him happy but it seems like all I ever did was make him mad. I let him walk all over me because I didn’t want to lose him as a friend. ”. Nicki was crying so hard that SB could barely understand what she was saying.

“Nicki, Drake doesn’t deserve you. Any man that disrespects a woman has no purpose on this earth. I’m sorry that I wasn’t there to protect you when he hurt you but I swear on my life I will never let anybody hurt you ever again. I will protect you with every fiber of my being everyday all day if I have to. There is nothing wrong with you. You are the most beautiful, smart, talented, caring, genuine woman I have ever met, and any man that lets you go is insane.”

Safaree never liked the relationship between Drake and Nicki, but he never said anything because she made it seem like she was happy and he didn’t want it to seem like he was jealous. He couldn’t understand for the life of him though that if she was being disrespected and mistreated why she never talked to him about it. Every time he asked her how she and Drake were doing she always responded with a “we’re doing good” followed by a small smile. He wanted to know why she kept that from him.

“I don’t think I’ll ever find a man that can respect and accept who I am, make me feel like a queen and understand that I have feelings. I want to be happy Safaree”, Nicki said.

“I promise you I’ll try my hardest to make you and keep you happy. But can I ask you a question Nic?”

“Anything faree” Nicki said almost sounding like a whisper.

“Why didn’t you tell me that Drake was disrespecting you and hurting your feelings?”

Nicki sat up and moved closer to Safaree’s chest. She knew this question was coming and felt a little scared to answer. She didn’t like keeping things from Safaree, but she was keeping this from him for 3 months and didn’t think he was going to be too happy about it.

“I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want you to think that I was being dumb or look at me like I was crazy. i wanted to tell you so bad but I also knew that you were going to flip and go approach him and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want my boyfriend and my best friend fighting and going at each other’s neck pitting me in the middle. I just wanted to be happy but in all reality I wasn’t.”

They sat quietly just staring at one another. A tear dropped from Nicki’s eye and he wiped it away.  

“What if you would have never came home when you did? I swear Safaree it looked like he wanted to hurt me more than what he did. The look that he had in his eyes wasn’t normal. I was really scared and I felt defeated”, Nicki said through her sobs.

Safaree was tired of seeing her cry, it made him feel use less. All he wanted to do was see her smile.

“Nicki no one is going to hurt you like that ever again, I already told you that. As long as I’m around you’ll be safe. I hate seeing you like this, it makes me mad and it makes me feel like I’m not doing my job as a best friend. You’ve been crying for weeks now and you’ve been doing nothing but staying in the house. I want you to tell me what I need to do to be able to see that beautiful smile of yours.”

She smiled at his last comment.

“see, there you go. Now what do I have to do to make that smile permanent?”

“ I don’t know, but I really don’t want to be bothered with other people so can we like do something in the house, but make it fun?, Nicki asked.

“Yes that’s fine as long as your smiling and happy. When you wake up tomorrow that’s when we’ll start our day.”

“ok.” Nicki cuddled up with Safaree and just smiled to herself. She was lucky that she had someone that she could talk to and protects her. She was lucky to have someone that was willing to spend all of their time making sure that she was happy. Nicki loved Safaree and honestly didn’t know what she would do if he wasn’t around. But she would never have to find out. SB always made it clear that he would never leave her, no matter what the circumstances were, he would always stand by her side.

“I love you Safaree”

“I love you too Nicki”, he bent down and planted a kiss on her forehead.

“Now get some rest”

Minutes later, Nicki and Safaree both fell into a deep slumber. Both snuggled up with one another, feeling much better than what they did earlier. Nicki would soon wake up and realize that the only man she ever wanted was always right in front of her.