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Baby S
Chapter Ten
"Let's all have a good time and believe me...Taylor is gonna give us all a nice show of what we can expect from this album but until that time every please enjoy themselves so in other words let's get this party started." Almost immediately Darius froze as he felt Taylor stiffened in his hold around her waist, wincing inwardly he heard the soft murmur of voices behind him and then looked out towards the crowd that was looking up at him in confusion. Placing a shaky smile on his face he chuckled and spoke up again. "Wow, you're all gonna have to excuse me and that drunken mistaken. Let me try that again," he replied with a chuckle that was quickly followed by the crowd and the people up top with him. "Tay-Ann is gonna give us a great show, and I hope that everyone enjoys themselves tonight cause lord knows I already am." he finished and as everyone applauded he stepped away from the end with a angry look on his face. Troy watched him silently as he marched off instantly being followed by Julius who looked almost worst than his boss. Walking over to Taylor he placed his hand on her lower back and smiled down at her for a moment.
"You alright?" he asked softly as he led her away from the crowd below that was once again dancing with another like the slip had never happened. Taylor had her arms crossed over her chest as Troy led her to a table. Once they were seated, Troy slid in next to her and wrapped his massive arm around her shoulder making sure he pulled her close. "You never answered my question are you alright?" he asked knowing more than anyone just how hard she hung onto the identity that Darius had created for her. He knew without a doubt that what had just happened to her had been apart of one of her nightmares. Taylor just nodded her head and rested it on his shoulder while allowing her arm to rest around his flat stomach.
"I'm okay."
"Hey, just think about it...he covered everything up pretty well right. They all seem to think it was just a drunken mistake...nothing major." he stated soothingly, as he looked at her for a moment. "Don't let something as small as this ruin your night."
"You really think no one took notice of what he said." Troy looked at her for a moment before nodding his head.
"Look, no one really knows you like I do...no one has a history with you like I do. I know what your name was before this whole ...," he trailed off and looked around for a moment before continuing. "Before this whole Tay-Ann business, besides I'm sure that Darius has never slipped up like this before so most people are going to think it is a drunken mistaken, me excluded and from the looks of things so is Julius."
"Of course he knows...he was with Darius from the beginning." she replied softly as she looked up at him. Troy just sighed, he had already figured that Julius was in on since he had confronted him that day after fighting Darius in his office. Troy clenched his jaw for a moment his dislike for the two men rising every second. She watched him for a moment, reaching out and placing a hand on his hand. "Troy are you alright?"
"I'm fine...come on let's go and get some dancing in." He murmured as he stood up and helped her out of the booth. Taylor followed close behind him as he led her to the makeshift floor that had been created for the recording artist so they wouldn't get mobbed by the crowd below. As they stepped onto the floor, Troy wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to him while Taylor tucked her underneath his chin.
"So are you performing tonight?"
"Maybe." he muttered as he spun them around the room, not really caring if they were taking up the whole floor as far as he was concerned this was Taylor's night and she could take up the whole floor with him only if she felt like it.
"I'm going to take that answer as a yes...oh I hope it's something sexy." Troy raised an eyebrow at that and just smiled brightly at her words before lowering his head to whisper in her ear.
"Anything I do is sexy, baby."
Julius gulped as he stumbled back away from Darius who was still raging from his slip, raising his arms above his face he spoke up his voice shaking in fear of the man that he had followed blindly for years. "Dee, you need to calm down."
"Calm down...are you insane, did you not see nor hear the slip I just made out there." he raged as he rubbed a hand over his face as he muttered some more things underneath his breath. Finally stopping he turned and pointed a finger in the other man's face. "This...this is all your fault."
"What?" Julius exclaimed as he looked at the man before him who was glaring at him as if he shot his favorite pet. Stepping closer to Julius, Darius reached out and slapped him against the head before speaking.
"You and your guilty conscience. You've been practically crying about what we did for months now all because that fool said something to you." Darius replied with a shake of his head as he once again had another feeling of regret for allowing Troy onto his record label, because it was obvious that he had a past with Taylor. He had asked around, but his name didn't appear in the records from her college and for the life of him he didn't remember if Taylor had ever mentioned her high school but he was seriously starting to think that was where he was from.
"It was true...we sort of did brainwash Taylor and-."
"I didn't brainwash her...I helped her realize that she was someone different, that she didn't have to be that girl that that sorry ass boyfriend of her used. She could be her own woman, someone that men dreamed their girlfriends, wives and crushes were. She's every man's dream and that's because of us helping her get over the rejection that, that guy did to her.
"Well we still should have allowed her to handle her business, instead of making her disappear and giving her a different name." Darius rolled his eyes and reached out snatching up Julius' shirt and pulling him close.
"You act as if we forced her. I did what I thought was right...and now because you're running around with this overactive guilt gland, you're influencing me and my ability to keep up with her name. It's on my mind all the time and you best believe that this will be the only time I slip cause I'm not doing this anymore and you certainly aren't going to talk about it anymore. Do we have an understanding?" he stated more than asked as he looked at him. Julius just nodded his head as a knock sounded on the door to the room they were currently in. "Answer me!"
"Yeah man I understand." Julius replied as he stepped back, trying his best not to be upset with his friend and boss. He didn't understand why Darius didn't see what they did to Taylor was wrong, but he wasn't going to try and ask him anymore. He wasn't going to try and make him understand what they did and how it made them look morally. Standing up, he walked over to the door and unlocked it and looked out only to see Carlos there looking at him. "Is there a problem?" he asked trying his best to keep the shocked expression off his face.
"Um, no not really...the band was wondering when the festivities would be starting and I was looking for Darius and they told me that he would be back here." Julius just nodded his head and stepped aside to allow Carlos entry. Carlos looked the room at Darius who was frowning.
"Everything alright boss?"
"Um, yeah...give me twenty minutes...get the opening act together and tell them to get ready and I'll be out to do the introduction for Tay-Ann only...Julius will introduce the opening the act alright." he replied with a dismissive gesture of his hand. Carlos and Julius nodded their heads and made their way out of the room. Once they were alone, Carlos looked over at Julius and spoke up.
"I'll go and tell Troy that it's almost time for him to get on stage." Julius nodded his head silently thanking Carlos for deciding to that task. He hadn't really spoken to Troy since the elevator confrontation.
Carlos watched as Julius seemed to settled his shoulders in relief before turning and heading down the backstairs which led to the stage. Once he was gone, Carlos walked over to the makeshift dance floor he spotted his wife over on the side talking to one of the other female artist and then his eyes settled on Troy and Tay-Ann who seemed to be enjoying their time dancing. Walking over, he tapped Troy on the shoulder and waited for them to acknowledge him. Troy was the first, turning around he smiled brightly and held out his hand for the other man.
"Hey, Carlos how you doing man?" he asked with a bright smile as Carlos accepted the offered hand. Carlos smiled and then motioned down towards the stage.
"Just over here to tell you that it's showtime man." Carlos replied with a small smile as he looked over at Taylor. He leaned down and pulled her into a one armed hug. "Hey baby girl how are you doing this evening I mean this is after all your big night." He watched as Tay-Ann shared a look with Troy before smiling brightly.
"This evening is turning out to be one of the best I've had in a while." Carlos looked between them and couldn't keep the grin off his face. He never really understand why Darius didn't like the idea of them being together. He and his wife thought they were actually cute and despite what they said, he knew and so did a lot of other people that they were in fact dating.
"That's good and I can't wait to see you perform but I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to take Troy right now he's needed on the stage." she smiled at him and then stood on her toes and gave Troy a quick kiss on the cheek before stepping back.
"Break a leg." Troy winced playfully and then kissed her on the forehead before following Carlos who told him that he would led him to the stage. Taylor watched them till they were gone and then silently wondering what she was going to do now that Troy was gone. After a while she decided to go and grab a seat up close so that she could see him and so that he could see her. Almost as soon as she made her way to a seat, Darius came up and latched on her arm. She looked up at him and smiled weakly. He studied her for a moment before sighing.
"I'm sorry." he whispered as he pulled her close to him, "I didn't mean to slip up like that lord knows what you were thinking." he whispered in her ear as he slowly released her from his hug. Taylor just sighed and wrapped her arms around herself as she studied.
"It's only really it is...everyone here just thought it was a mistake and no one really cares, now what they do care about is me and my album." He chuckled at her words and just smiled brightly as he draped an arm around her shoulder.
"That's the spirit." he stated softly as he looked at her. "So are you ready to see your...friend perform?" he deadpanned as he thought about Troy Bolton. Taylor just sighed at the hostility she sensed in his voice.
"Dee!"
"Sorry...you know what the problem is." he muttered, "Come on you need to go on down there and get ready."
"I wanted to see him perform."
"That's what the side of the stage is for." he replied with a shake of his head, while trying his best not to become to annoyed with her attachment to the one and only Troy Bolton, who was steadily proving to be a thorn in his side.
"Okay I guess you're right." she replied with a sigh, as she allowed him to take her downstairs and backstage.
Troy came out of his dressing room, just in time to see Darius and Taylor coming towards her. He smiled as he looked at Taylor who stopped right in front of him. "I guess I should tell you 'break a leg,' again."
"Please once is enough." he chuckled as he winced again, Taylor smiled at the gesture and turned to Darius briefly.
"He doesn't like that saying."
"Oh." Darius deadpanned as he looked at Troy who was frowning at him over the top of Taylor's head. "Don't mess up out there...you're a lead in, but you still have to get the crowd excited." Troy just rolled his eyes and shook his head in a bored way.
"Please all I do is make things go perfectly...now if you'll excuse me I'm off to steal some of Tay-Ann's fans." he replied with a wink as Taylor just laughed and called out to him with a disbelieving 'yeah right." Once they were alone again, Darius led her to the dressing room and told her to get ready while he looked over at Julius who was watching him.
"Get this show on the road." Julius nodded and walked out on stage to the roar of the crowd. Smiling he picked up the microphone and headed towards center stage and waited for the cheering people to die down a bit before he starting speaking. Once the room was as quiet as it could get he spoke up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen...as a part of Dee records I would like to truly welcome you again to the album launch of the one and only Tay-Ann McKessie. This album is what we studio execs like to call a record setting and breaking album. This album will make history...but before we get to the lady of the hour we have one of our new artist. A man who is making a name for himself in his own right on to the stage to perform his newest single, "Seduction," so please ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for the one and only Troy Bolton." he cheered as he stepped back and off the stage just as Troy walked on with his dancers.
Due to the long introduction, Taylor had finished up pretty quickly especially since she had so many wardrobe assistants. Once she was cleared she quickly made her way to the side of the stage and watched as Troy got into his song.
Sexy Sexy Sexy
OoOoOoO
[Women]
(sexy sexy sexy)
voluptuous
I love your confidence
When you got it
You got it
Seduce me baby
Seduce me
Troy smiled as the women backup dancers came on stands to help him out, he looked over to the side and spied Taylor watching. He winked at her and then turned his attention back to the crowd that was currently going crazy as he moved to the front and started grinding to the beat of the song as he started singing the first verse.
Just to get my attention
Send a note and a drink
When we made our connection
She just nodded and winked
On this note it says:
"Bout' time we get together
Lets dance now
Hook up later
We can do whatever"
She had Confidence
But it's all part of the game
Cos' to her who im with
Don't really mean a thing
She knew just what I like
And now I'm thirsty for more
Seduction
[Chorus]
{Since you are sexy erotic
How you workin' your body
You gon' get me
Do It
Do It
to ya
Seduction
You thought out your best
To get me outta control, baby
The more I creep around with you
Make me wanna get
Down
(down)
Down
(down)
Down with ya}
Troy had never felt more alive in his life. He loved performing and the feeling he was feeling at the moment was truly addiction. The way the people were cheering him on, really let him know that he had made the correct choice so long ago when he chose to forego a life of basketball for a singing career. Plus to top all of this off, Taylor was there watching him and from the expression on her face she was certainly eating this up. He remembered when he had came up with the idea for the song. He had been thinking of all the things that Taylor had been doing to him. Things she didn't even know, she was doing consciously. It was the little things, the little things that were constantly seducing him and making him fight his baser desires. Oh he wanted her, and she had been seducing him since day one.
You got my attention
What you gon' do with it?
Baby turn around
Stick it out
I wanna see it
She made the first move smooth
Intoxicatin'
She crazy
Im fightin' not to lose control
Now I'm feeling a little tension
Don't know whose watchin'
GETTIN' BIG
In too deep
And I can't stop it
(Your making me)
Your making it
HARD for me to stay
HARD to walk away
HARD don't wanna play no more
HARD I can't take it baby
He looked back over at over at Taylor and saw her eyes glued to him, he smiled before turning his attention back to the crowd so he finish up his choreography for the chorus before looking back at her and smiling brightly. As one of the ladies spun in front of him, he wrapped his arms around her and imaged doing the same to Taylor.
Baby whatever you want
Girl you got it
Long as your satisfied
Cos' it's so hard to resist
Oh your body
Got me un-tied
Got vivid thoughts in my mind
The positions that I'm gunna try
But is it worth all the hurt
Should I risk it?
Just for one night
Once I give it
She's gunna win
Either way I lose
But I gotta have you
I'm tryin' to chill
But she's got me on the spot
She's so cocky
And the way she watchin' me
Got me feelin' hott, uh
Shorty know that I gotta girl
And I really can't break the rules
Plus paparazzi snappin shots
And it's hard for me to shake these fools
So do I
One: put it on her
Work my way to the front
Do I
Two: Do my part
And sure don't try to pull no stunts
Or maybe
Three: Chase the cat
Cos' she's sending me on the hunt
Naw
Fuck that
I ain't no punk
Im gunna give shorty what she want!
Seduction
As he finished, the music died down and the crowd erupted in cheers all round. He smiled brightly at the crowd. He pulled the microphone away from his face so he could caught his breath. He turned and saw Taylor looking at him, but for the life of him he couldn't figure out what she was thinking. Her eyes looking quite hooded at the moment and he didn't know what to think about that. He continued to watch her as he made his way off the stage just as Darius made his way on to introduce Taylor. "Everything okay?" he asked with a soft smile while wondering what she was thinking. Reaching out Taylor grabbed hold of his hand and looked up at him.
"Yeah, I want you to come back with me on stage." Troy raised an eyebrow at the request and looked back at the stage, Darius was talking about the process that went into the making of the album and it looked like they had time to talk about this.
"I don't know the routine." he replied softly.
"There is no routine for this song, I'm free styling the entire thing and I want you out there." Troy lowered his voice and quickly spoke up to her.
"I'm not much of a free styler."
"Just follow me."
"Taylor, I don't think that's a good idea alright. You don't know what you're asking me and I'm pretty sure that you know that. Dancing isn't my best skill despite what you saw out there. That took a lot of practice...lots of hours."
"The words will tell you what to do," she saw that he was still undecided. "Look its either you or a total stranger." Troy's brow furrowed at the words and he shook his head for a moment before shaking his head.
"Excuse me."
"It's either you or a pick a stranger like I always been planning to do." Troy looked her over and decided that wasn't something he wanted. Especially with her dressed in that tight black suit like she was. She looked amazing and he wasn't to sure how he would handle it seeing her all draped over a complete stranger who had no business have the bodily reaction or thoughts he was currently having at the moment.
"Alright I'll do it."
"Good." she replied just as Darius introduced her, she latched onto his hand and pulled him after her so they both walked onto the stage at the same time. Troy slowly wondered what would happen since there seemed to be a single chair in the middle of the stage. Taylor took the phone away from Darius and addressed the crowd with the usual charm that she displayed for them on a regular basis.
"I'm so happy every last one of you could make it out here tonight for this event, you've really made this night a special one. I was initially going to pull a lucky guy from the crowd tonight and serenade him with one of the upcoming singles from my album, but after Troy's performance...well lets say he seduced me." The crowd laughed at the pun, and she quickly continued. "I know you guys are dying to know what song I'm going to see but Darius and Julius told me I have to give some background on the single. You know a reason as to why I wrote it," she then turned to Troy and motioned for him to have a seat. Troy quickly did as she wanted and watched as she walked further upstage and took a headset from a stage attendant. "Thank you," she stated once the headset was on. "Now as I was saying the reason I wrote this song is because I've been having some rather naughty thoughts about a man and to me this song is a declaration of my feelings for him."
"What are your feelings girl?" A fan yelled out from the crowd, Taylor just smiled and turned to the stage DJ and nodded her head for him to start.
"Oh you're all about to find out." she replied with a smirk as the beat of the song started. Troy watched as Taylor walked back towards him, the beat was incredibly slow and he wondered just what was she going to do to him on this stage. He sat back as she mouthed for him to follow the lyrics to the song. Settled back he watched as she caught his glaze just as she stepped between his legs.
In the thunder and rain
You stare into my eyes
I can feel your hand
Movin up my thighs
Skirt around my waist
Wall against my face
I can feel your lips
Oooh
Troy couldn't believe what was happening as Taylor grabbed his hand and made it land on her thigh. He watched as she sang the song moving sensually to the music, he immediately found himself in a trance one that had him on the verge of breaking out into a sweat. He was suddenly very glad that he had decided to come with Taylor on stage because there was no way in hell that he would have allowed a stranger this type of access to Taylor not like this and certainly not to this song. She place a hand on his chest and pushed him back and then settled herself down in his lap as his arms wrapped themselves around her to keep her in place so that she wouldn't fall.
I don't wanna stop just because
People walkin by are watchin us
I don't give a damn what they think
I want you now
I don't wanna stop just because
You feel so good inside of my love
I'm not gonna stop no no no
I want you
All I wanna say is
Taylor swung her hair around and then rested her forehead on Troy's forehead and looked him directly in the eyes. A smile on her lips as she looked at him and sang the song directly to him. She didn't care about the people watching them. She just didn't care at all anymore. He was the one for her and she was letting him know right now in this song. A song, that she wrote that came directly from the heart. She wanted that final piece of intimacy and judging by Troy's heated look he was now finally on the same page as her.
Any time
And any place
I don't care who's around
Mmmm
Any time
And any place
I don't care who's around
Nonononono
Weeoooh-hooo
Ooooooohooo
Hoohoo
Dancin on the floor
Feelin the slow groove
My mind is startin to burn
With forbidden thoughts
Strangers all around
With the lights down low
I was thinkin maybe we could
Well...you know
As she said the last part she looked Troy directly in the eye and sang the words to him. She saw him gulp as he looked up at her and smiled brightly at the effect she had on him. It felt wonderful to have that type of power...that type of hold over someone that cared about her just as much as she cared about him. As the song died down she finished it off by looking directly into Troy's eyes. The crowd wasn't there for her, and she didn't care at the moment if they liked the song or not. Because the truth of the matter was she didn't write this song for fans, she wrote this song directly for him. So he could know about her feelings and just how much she truly desired him and his love. She hadn't been looking for love in a long time but she knew with Troy and Troy alone that she was finally ready to experience all that he was offering her and had been offering her since day one of their relationship. She understand what he had said to her that afternoon in the pool and she accepted that but she knew now that she knew the difference. She knew the true difference between sex and love and Troy was the one that had thought her that.
I don't wanna stop just because
People walkin by are watchin us
I don't give a damn what they think
I want you now
I don't wanna stop just because
You feel so good inside of my love
I'm not gonna stop no no no
I want you
All I wanna say is
Any time
And any place
I don't care who's around
Mmmm
As she finished the song, the crowd erupted in cheer as she slowly moved off of Troy and looked back at her fans who were cheering wildly. She blushed and bowed slightly, before looking back at Troy who was watching her with dark blue eyes. It was at that moment that she knew they would be leaving the party earlier than they had expected. As they exited the stage, Troy leaned over to her and whispered. "You are in so much trouble." Just as Julius and Darius came up to her. Darius seemed angry but then again Taylor knew he wasn't going to say anything because the performance was on point.
"That was a great show, Tay-Ann." he exclaimed as he hugged her tightly while giving Troy a look over her shoulder.
"I'm just glad Troy decided to do that with me...it would have felt so weird if I had did all that with a complete stranger, Dee." she replied softly. Darius nodded his head in understanding and just sighed for a moment before looking at Taylor.
"So what are you going to do now?"
"Not really sure." she replied not really wanting to tell him that she was planning on heading home with Troy. Darius and Julius just nodded before walking away once they were gone, Troy pulled her closed and kissed her cheek.
"Trouble that's what you're in." he replied softly as he looked at her. "So are we staying for a bit or are we hightailing it out of here."
"I'll leaning towards the second option."
"As I knew you would." he replied with a chuckle before grabbing onto her hand. "Come on Ms. McKessie let's head on out of here alright." she giggled as he dragged her back to the dressing rooms so they could gather their things. After that, they quickly made their way to the back of the club where they knew the limos were just in case there happened to be a problem. Once they were inside the limo they could hardly keep their hands off one another as the car headed towards Taylor's home. Troy placed a kiss on her bare shoulder and chuckle before kissing the side of her neck.
"So you don't care about the place and time huh."
"As long as I'm with you." she whispered softly as she wrapped her arms around his neck and held on as he settled on her on his lap.
"Seduced me baby seduced me." he murmured quoting his song just before capturing her lips with his. She chuckled against his lips as he held onto her tightly to him. Once they were at Taylor's home they were both thanking God that Taylor had allowed Maria off for the night cause she certainly didn't need to see them in the state of undress that they were currently in. Once they were inside, Troy closed the door with his foot while Taylor locked the door with her free hand that was buried in his hair. Tearing his lips away from her he sighed and rested his forehead on hers. "Where to?"
"My bedroom." Troy nodded his head and kissed her again and then headed up the stairs two at a time. Once they were inside, he laid her down and then stepped back and looked at her.
"Are you ready for this?" Taylor just bite her bottom lip as she looked up at him and nodded her head her. He smiled then and lowered himself down kissed her softly as he quickly took off his shirt. "I love you, Taylor." he whispered softly as he kissed her neck while slowly peeling away her clothing. He smiled at the shudder that went up her body from his touch. Wrapping his arms around her, he kicked off his pants and underwear while she pushed herself out of her clothing. They both looked at one another as Troy pushed himself inside of her. She gasped as she clutched his shoulders and buried her head into the side of his neck.
"Oh Troy." she called out weakly as he started moving altogether faster within her. She clutched him to her as he moved quickly.
"I love you Taylor." he repeated softly as he held her to him while showing her physically just how much he loved and cared for her. He continued on and then he heard it. It was as quiet and unsure as he had ever heard anything before. Leaning down he whispered in her ear, "Say one more time for me baby."
"I love you Troy." she whispered softly again but this time it had gained some strength. Troy smiled as he continued.
"One more time baby." he whispered again.
"I love you Troy." she cried out as she wrapped arms and legs around him. Troy grunted at the intense feeling and felt himself let go. However he was mindful not to fully collapse on top of her. Rolling over on his side. He held her to him and kissed her temple.
"I love you, Taylor." she clutched him tightly and tucked her beneath his chin and sighed contently before whispering back with conviction.
"I love you too, Troy."
A/N: Songs
Seduction: Usher
Anything Anyplace: Janet Jackson