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I had trouble going back to sleep after I found Kayla’s drunk ass walking back and forth between the living room and dining room. I had heard her talking to herself from the kitchen and that’s what made me go see what was going on. Plus, one of my guards had told me that she had arrived and she seemed to be drunk. I knew I was fucking her head up with how I’d been treating her. Shit, I never know when I’m going to lose it. The night before we had a beautiful night, dinner and sex, but when she tried to wake me up with head, it triggered me. It had sent me back to a memory when Carol sucked my dick for the first time. She had come in my hotel room and woke me out of my sleep with head. Don’t get me wrong I like head, but only when I’m already engaging in sex. That waking me up shit I’m good on that. Then her trying to fuck me while drunk that was a trigger for me as well since cognac was always Carol’s drink of choice. I felt bad after I laid in the bed for a couple of minutes. I had went to check on Kayla and saw she wasn’t in the room. I went back downstairs and she was curled up in a fetal position sleeping. I walked over to her, picked her up, and headed to the guest bedroom.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you mad.” She said through slurred words.

“You good ma, no apology needed. I’ma take you to the room and help you get ready for bed and we can talk about this tomorrow.” I knew I couldn’t get into details why I acted the way I acted sometimes, but I needed to tell her something. I also needed to have a meeting with my agent and publicist. It was time Kayla and I had a breakup. I couldn’t keep hurting this girl this way. I had to end this fake ass relationship so that way she could go on with her life. I knew she could have any man she wanted, and I wasn’t the one for her. I had my own shit to deal with, not to mention, I wasn’t feeling her in that way. Yeah, I liked her, she’s beautiful sexy and about her shit. I just knew I would never be the relationship type. So yeah, Kayla and Poetic were not going to be y’all couple goals in Hollywood. After I laid Kayla in the bed, I took her clothes off and left her in the panty and bra set she had on. I then covered her up, kissed her forehead and left out of the room. I made my way back to my room and laid in the bed looking up at the ceiling hoping that sleep would take over me real soon.

The next morning my alarm went off and I eased out of the bed and headed to take care of my hygiene. I needed to send emails to everyone I needed to have a meeting with. I then had to head to the office to meet up with a client. After my shower, I decided on a gray Nike sweat suit and a pair of gray and white Dunks. I never dressed down but today this was how I felt. After I sprayed some Gucci Guilty on I grabbed my phone and everything else I needed and made my way down to my kitchen to grab my smoothie that Ms. Trish always had made for me. When I made it to the kitchen she was in there and so was Kayla.

“Good morning, Mr. Pain, here is your Green Machine.” Trish spoke while handing me my smoothie. I felt Kayla’s eyes on me which caused me to smile.

“Good morning, you look handsome as always.” Kayla smiled.

“Thank you beautiful!” I smiled. I headed out the door, but before I walked all the way off I turned back at Kayla.

“Kayla, meet me for lunch about twelve thirty. I’ll text you the place when I figure it out.”

“OK, will do.”

“Khary and Malcolm will be joining us.” I mentioned pertaining to my publicist and agent.

“Alright, I’ll be there.” I could tell she was worried the way her demeaner changed. I had to put that in the air because I needed her to know this wasn’t what she thought it was. I knew if I mentioned them she would know this was business. Since I felt like dressing down today and didn’t feel like being in straight business mode. I decided to hit up my driver to give him the day off today I felt like driving myself around in my black on black 2025 Maserati. I opened the front door, and my car was already parked in front of the door waiting for me. I hopped in, turned some Rod Wave on, and peeled off with my office being my first destination of the day. I had a busy day but I made sure to squeeze Dr. Barrel in after the meeting with Kayla. I needed my therapy sessions just like I needed the air I breathed. I hated that I had to depend on them, but that was the only way I functioned in everyday life.

Thirty minutes had gone by and after dodging in and out of traffic I was now pulling up to the gate of my studio and punching the number in waiting for the gate to open.

“Good morning Mr. Pain.”

“Good morning Jasp, what are you doing at the gate?”

“Tyree called out today his baby was sick, sir.”

“OK, and who’s covering your post?” I asked.

“Sisco is there, sir.”

“Alright, thanks for always making sure shit is straight here.” I spoke. I was so pleased with Jasper and the work he did for me. When I tell you that man did all types of jobs for me. I truly appreciated him.

“Your welcome boss, no thanks needed. You’ve always been good to me and my family. So, I am forever grateful and will always do my best here at P&P Studios.” I gave him a head nod and made my way into the gates and down the long ass path to reach the door to enter the studio. I made it up to the door and there Sisco was waiting to park my car.

“Good morning sir, it’s nice to see you.”

“Hey Sisco, thank you for joining us today.”

“No problem at all, I was free today. My mama has the kids for me.” Sisco worked for me as needed he was a fulltime daddy since his wife had passed from cancer a couple of years ago. I was surrounded with so many men that were good fathers and here I was hoping to never be a father so scared of bringing something so precious into this cold ass world. I shook my head annoyed by my thoughts.

“Oh ok, how are the kids?” I asked with a smile on my face.

“They are fine and getting big. I’ve been meaning to thank you for the gifts you sent on Sincere’s birthday.”

“No thanks needed. I told you I wouldn’t miss no birthdays or holidays after Lisa passed and I meant that.” I assured him while getting out the car and gathering my things. Sisco opened the door for me and I hopped out, I gave him the keys so he can go park the car.

“I know what you promised and I still can’t thank you enough.” He smiled. I made it my business to treat all my workers and their families good. They were my family as well and they made sure to keep P&P running nicely and for that they all will be appreciated.

“You don’t have to thank me the work you do here is enough. Now go ahead and park my baby and don’t scratch it.” I chuckled knowing we always played like that.

“I wouldn’t dare do that. Hell, I can’t afford to get no scratches fixed.” He chuckled. I entered the office and a guy was sitting on the couch in the lobby.

“Good morning Taylor,” I spoke to my receptionist.

“Good morning Mr. Pain, your first client is here.” I walked over to him to introduce myself.

“Hello Mr. Dashawn Taylor, it is a pleasure to finally meet you sir.” He stood up and pulled me in for a one arm hug.

“What’s good the great Poetic Pain? I am one of your biggest fans.” He chuckled.

“Dashawn if you don’t cut it out.” I chuckled. Dashawn was a known actor. He would be on and off with his appearance, but when he got to work he killed it every single time. He called me a month ago and told me he would be in Jersey and would love for us to collab while he was here and this was something that I would not pass up. Me and him could make some magic and great money while he was in town. I was surely looking forward to this. I was ready to start filming as soon as next week if he was ready. This meeting was for us to discuss and brainstorm exactly what we wanted to do.

“Man, I’m so serious you’ve become one of my favorites in this industry.” He smiled.

“Well, here we are. Two of the greats about to collab, please come on and follow me to my office.” I was smiling from ear to ear. I was so happy about this collab actually happier than I’ve been in a long time about work.

“Taylor, I need you to set up a lunch date for me, Kayla, Khary and Malcom. Send them all a text to let them know. You can set the reservation for Flemings Steak House, call and let them know I need the meeting room in the back. I don’t feel like a whole bunch of fans in my face today.”

“Alright Mr. Pain and I’ll forward all emails and voice messages after your meeting with Mr. Taylor.”

“OK, no problem.” I said while heading to my office with Dashawn right behind me. Once we made it to my office I walked in, laid my stuff down, and walked straight to my refrigerator.

“Would you like something to drink before we start?”

“I’ll take a water.”

“OK, cool, have a seat and make yourself comfortable.” Dashawn did as he was told and I grabbed us both a water. I also grabbed my laptop, a pen, and notebook.

“OK, let’s get to it.” I said while sitting down.

“So, I wanna do a cop series like New York Undercover . I think it should be called Jersey’s Finest . I know you have the cast and the production while I have the idea.”

“OK, this sounds good to me, so what you thinking as far as cast?”

“I want A dominate black cast but we can have other nationalities. We don’t have many dominate black cop series. Plus, we always have cop shows and they always about the black folks getting arrested, framed or being dirty cops. I want us to be great. As far as having the best arrest record and all of that.”

“So, how big of a series do you want this?”

“We can start out as a mini-series see how it does and take it from there.”

“OK, cool, I’m all for that. Start out with it being six hour long episodes.”

“Alright cool, now let’s use this time to come up with what the first six episodes will be about. Then we can come up with cast members names and all that good stuff.” Dashawn encouraged.

“We can indeed handle that. We can actually do this for the first couple of days. Then we can host a calling cast event. Then filming will start in approximately a week and a half.”

“Which means we will have this on the air in about a month. This is so dope that you have everything right here at your studio. You don’t have to find places to film. You have everything here from restaurants, police stations., hospitals. Man, you did your big one with this. You’re definitely an inspiration for so many young folks.”

“Thanks man, I truly appreciate that. People never know what I went through to get here.”

“I felt that, some of us have some scars that can never heal behind this shit.” He spoke in a sad tone. I could feel how serious the thought he was having felt, but I didn’t know what his scars was and to be honest, I didn’t wanna know because one thing I wasn’t going to do was talk about mine.

“So, what do you think this first episode should be about?” I inquired.

“How about a gang war or drug trafficking?”

“Those can be the first two they can go hand and hand and be connected somehow.” I suggested, causing Dashawn to shake his head. We went on for hours with many more suggestions. I felt like this was the start of something great and I was all for it.