A/N: Anika and Lucious aren't together and he's the only Lyon she's been with.

-ED

Cookie was at home flipping through television channels when her phone vibrated signalling that she had a text message. She ignored it and resumed flipping through channels. This was her first weekend to herself in months since starting at Empire and she planned on keeping it interruption free. The person on the other line, however, obviously had other plans as her phone vibrated twice more. Cookie picked up the phone and saw Anika (3) on her screen. She wondered what Anika could possibly be texting her about at 10 o'clock at night on a Sunday.

'Cokie I need to talk to yu'

'*Cokkie I need to take to you'

'*Cookie'

Cookie looked at her phone in amusement as she read the texts. Anika hardly ever texted her and whenever she did, her responses were always precise and error free. Cookie texted back:

'You drunk, Kitty?'

'Noo, Im not drunj'

She obviously was.

'Sure ur not. Shouldn't u be sleep? Thought kitties slept a lot?'

'am not a cat Cookie'

Cookie replied back with a cat emoji.

'Grrrghd why ar you so induriatting'

'?'

'Infuriratibg'

'*Infuriating'

'Autocorrect exists for a reason maybe u should use it'

'Mabe you should sh ut up!'

'Maybe u should stop texting my phone'

'Noooooo i ned t talk to you'

Cookie wondered what on Earth Anika could need to talk to her about that couldn't wait until tomorrow. She didn't even know why she was entertaining Anika. Cookie let out a yawn before she replied.

'About what?'

There was a 5 minute delay before the next text.

'wy do you hate mee?

Well. That wasn't what she expected. Questions about Lucious, yeah. But not a question that didn't have an answer to begin with. Cookie didn't hate Anika anymore but she wasn't going tell her that. She would have some fun, though.

'Who said I hated you?'

'you don have to say it I cn tell you do.'

'Believe what you want Boo Boo Kitty'

'I don't hat you and shouldnot hate me'

Anika really wasn't letting this hate subject go…

'Why shouldn't I hate you Kitty?'

'becus I dont hate yu'

'*because'

'You said that already'

'iam not with luscious anymore'

'So? That doesn't concern me'

'thas why you hate me'

...She had a point.

'That's all you needed to tell me? That I shouldn't hate you?'

'No.'

Cookie waited for Anika to text back but when 10 minutes passed and she hadn't, she went to the bathroom. When she came back to her phone, she had 4 waiting texts.

'you should not bate me because I like yiu. I want you'

'I think you shuld like me to Cokie"

'*hate *Cookie'

'wat I dont hate you. I like you. Like like you. I wanna you forreal'

Plot twist. Now Cookie was intrigued. It seemed drunk Anika held nothing back. Cookie filed that tidbit of information away for future reference. Right now, she was focused on the task at hand.

'You like me?'

'tgats what I said'

'And what am I supposed to do with that information?'

Another break before Cookie received a series of kiss face emojis.

'You want to kiss me?'

'Uh huh I have been wanna kiss you sinve yur ass'

Cookie had to think about what Anika was talking about before she remembered. She'd shown her literal ass after Lucious played her.

'I thnk you should kis me'

Anika had to been drunk if she thought Cookie was going to kiss her. Anika could like Cookie all she wanted but Cookie left pussy back in prison. There was no use for her to start back now. Although, if she decided to start again, Cookie wouldn't be opposed to Anika. She was fine and looked like she'd be fun to play with.

'No I'm good'

'no ur not'

'I really am Kitty'

'you shid kiss me an then you will like me'

'I'll pass'

Anika sent a crying face emoji next.

'im gonna kiss you'

'You wouldn't have the space or the opportunity to'

'wach me'

'Don't get yourself hurt little girl'

'imma koss you anf you gonna'

Another break.

Cookie shouldn't have even started entertaining Anika in the first place but since she had, she had to see it through. She took the bait.

'Gonna what?'

Cookie felt like Anika waited to text back simply for dramatic effect.

"Show me what tha mout h do"

Cookie burst out laughing. Anika definitely took her chance to shoot her shot and she couldn't say she was upset about it. Surprised, maybe, but definitely not upset. Anika had some gumption and Cookie couldn't wait to harass Anika about her feelings when saw her. Drunken words were sober thoughts, afterall. Gaining her wits back, Cookie sent one last text to Anika before turning in for the night.

'Night, Kitty.'

She figured Anika had finally passed out from her drunkenness when she didn't get a text back by the time she went to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she saw one last text that was sent at 11:42 p.m.

'Goodnight, Cookie.'

Cookie re-read the text before smiling to herself and getting ready for the day.

Anika was sitting in a chair in her living room with her head in her hands although she wasn't nursing a hangover. No, she was ruminating over her dumb ass idea to finally tell Cookie how she felt about her. She had started and deleted text messages so many times before finally sending the first message and cringed when she read it after. Cookie's name and other words were misspelled in her anxiousness and she sent another attempting to correct the mistake but she had ended up making more.

She said to herself, "She's going to think I'm drunk" before she actually considered that it may not have been a bad idea. Thinking that she could always blame it on the non-existent alcohol she was drinking, she sent another text. Then Cookie texted her back and eventually all hell broke loose. She had actually told Cookie that she wanted to see what her mouth did. By then Anika actually had started drinking and the liquid courage was like gold. But in didn't seem to matter because Cookie hasn't responded to her forwardness other than to answer her questions with more questions. Even then, Cookie had made it clear that she didn't care how Anika felt about her. The only thing Anika accomplished was making a fool out of herself.

She was shaken out of her thoughts by loud knocking on her front door. She wasn't expecting any visitors and it wasn't like Lucious was going to check in on her. She'd texted Lucious that morning to let him know that she wouldn't be in that day as she felt ill. He didn't care enough to inquire about how she was doing and she couldn't find it within herself to care. She got up and answered the door and watched as Cookie slid into her apartment. Perplexed, she closed the door behind her and turned to find Cookie standing next to the bar by her kitchen.

"How are you feeling?" Cookie asked.

"What?" Anika replied. Cookie was in her home and they were alone and she was not prepared.

"All those texts? You had to have been drinking something serious. You don't have a hangover?" Cookie asks as she puts her clutch down on the countertop.

Anika brings a hand up to her head, "Oh. No, it's….I'm fine."

Cookie has a sly smile on her face, "Thought you'd be."

"Is there something that you needed, Cookie? I didn't know you knew where I lived."

Cookie leaned against the bar and and crossed her legs at the ankles.

"It wasn't hard to find your address. When you didn't come in, I figured you'd be home throwing up and hating life."

"As you can see, I'm fine."

"Uh huh, I can see that."

"Sooooo…..thank you for stopping by," Anika moved to open the door for Cookie but her next words stopped her in her tracks.

"You liked my ass, huh?"

Anika didn't turn around, "What?"

"My ass, you said you've been wanting to kiss me since you saw my ass."

Anika finally turned around. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You sure about that?"

Anika looked at Cookie before glancing at her phone that was sitting on her island between them. Cookie followed her eyes and glanced at the phone as well.

They both reached for the phone at the same time but Anika was quicker and she snatched up her phone before Cookie could. It didn't matter that the phone was locked via fingerprint; she was paranoid about Cookie seeing her texts. While she was checking to make sure her phone was still locked, Cookie pinned her between the island and herself.

"Wha...What are you doing?"

Anika cursed the shorts she was wearing as Cookie trailed a finger nail up Anika's leg and watched as goosebumps followed in their wake.

Cookie had said that she wasn't going back to women once she was out of prison but she'd said a lot of things and so had Anika.

She brought her mouth up to Anika's ear, "I'm about to show you what my mouth do."