Love Will Remember [Oneshot]

She woke up to unfamiliar surroundings, she rubbed her eyes and sat up. Turning to her left, she saw a DVD. She picked up the DVD from the bedside table and put it into her DVD player. She had no idea what it was but her mind was telling her she needed to watch it, it had the words 'watch me' printed clearly on the front. The TV loaded the tape and all she could see was a nice looking couch, it was obviously not a movie.

"I hope this works" An unfamiliar male voice said. Then a man walked across the screen and sat down. She found him very handsome, his caramel complexion and honey coloured eyes were magnifying. 

"This is hard" He said and ran his hand down his face. "Good morning or afternoon, I don't know what time you're watching this so yeah. You've missed a lot but I wanted to give you an update. So Barack Obama is president again, I know you're going to be happy about that." He updated her on everything she had missed in the last 6 months.

"Now this part is going to be hard to get your head around but the reason you don't remember much is because you had a really bad car crash. I'm not going to go into much detail but it was really bad but you survived and that’s all that matters. One last thing, I'm your husband of almost 3 years." A tear rolled down his face. The video switched and she saw a beach setting. There was a golden sand pathway with rose petals separating the seating areas. The chairs were covered by a white cloth with brown bows and pink bows. One side had pink bows and the other had brown bows.  She assumed that those were their favourite colours. Wedding guests were dressed nicely and were wearing flip flops, sandals or no shoes at all. She recognised a few people but not many. The camera moved around showing everything else then showed the altar that was covered by a beautiful flower arch.

"Do you Aubrey Drake Graham take Onika Tanya Maraj to be your lawful wedded wife?" She smiled since she now knew the name of her husband. 

"I do"

"Do you Onika Maraj take Aubrey Graham to be your lawful wedded husband?" She saw herself in her wedding dress, looking beautiful. Her hair was in a bun with loose strand framing her face and her makeup was so natural, you could hardly tell she was wearing any.

"I do" 

She patiently watched as the wedding went on.

"By the virtue of the authority vested in me it gives me great honour and pleasure to now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the Bride"

She moved closer to the TV screen and watched as they had their first kiss as a married couple. She paused the video and put her hand on the screen.

"Why can't I remember?" She softly cried. A few minutes later, she built the courage to watch the rest of the video. 

"This is going to be really hard for me to show you but here it goes" He disappeared out of the screen for a few seconds and came back with a newspaper. He lifted it up and it was the front page documenting her car accident. He held it up long enough for her to read it and she read how her friend who was in the car with her broke two of her ribs and broke her arm but what shocked her was how horrific her injuries were; she had hit her head pretty hard that led to short-term memory loss. Drake put the newspaper down and wiped his tears. "I love you and call me soon," 

Nicki stopped the DVD and went to look in the mirror. She pushed her hair out of her face and noticed a small scar on her forehead. That's when it really hit her, everything he said was true. 

~

"Can you tell me more about him?"

"About who?"

"Aubrey"

"I'm sorry baby, he will have to tell you himself and it will be good for you to talk to him and see him"

"I don't think I'm ready yet but I've been having visions of us and dreams"

"How do you feel after you've had them?"

"Like I really love him and I'm missing something"

"He has all the answers for you, believe me" Her mother ensured her and went to give her some privacy. Nicki picked up her phone and scrolled through her contacts, she found him and reluctantly called him. She needed to know about them and everything. It rang for a short while before his voice came through.

"Hello?"

"Aubrey, is this you?"

"Of course it is baby, how are you?" This was the first time he had heard her voice in almost a year.

"I'm fine, yourself?"

"I'm good"

"I was wondering if we could meet up and talk, it's okay if you don't want to"

"No no we can, when and where?"

"Later today, at mine... ours. Thank you"

"You don't have to thank me, I'll see you soon" They hung up after that. Nicki had no idea what she was going to say to him but she wanted answers and that's what she was getting. 

~

Nicki was dressed to impress in a sense, she was wearing a blue peplum with a black mini jersey skirt. Her hair was in a messy top-knot bun. The door knocked and her palms started sweating. Nerves were getting to her, it wasn't her first time meeting him but it felt like it. She opened the door and was met with his dazzling smile.

"Hey" He looked nothing like she imagined him to be, he was very handsome. She could see his muscles through his buttoned up checkered shirt. He was the height of a basketball player but looked as soft as a bear.

"Hey, come in" Drake walked in and waited for her.

"I need the toilet so you can go sit in the lounge, you remember where that is right?" She softly giggled at the 'joke' she said.

"Yeah" He walked to the lounge. Nicki returned just under five minutes later and sat next to him. "You must have loads of questions"

"Oh I do"

"So what do you want to ask?"

"Well from your video I know we're married. I've been wondering about us. No one will tell me what our relationship was like and I wanted to know about it from you. So can you tell me?"

"Well it all started in senior year. We were both popular and had feelings for each other but our cliques hated each other so we used to see each other in private"

"Where you going?"  "I need the toilet, is that a problem?"  Nicki walked quickly away from her group of friends. She went to their secret meeting place and waited for him. He appeared about a minute after she did. "I only have 4 minutes before they come looking for me" "Yeah, shut up" "Excuse me, who," Drake cut her off with a passionate kiss, their tongues were fighting to win but Drake took full control. His hands ran down her back and landed on her ass giving it a squeeze before he pulled away leaving Nicki in a daze. "Later baby"

"Nicki" He waved his hands in her face.

"I'm sorry, I just remembered something. Keep going"

"Towards the end of high school, everyone was suspicious of us so we told them about how were dating, it took them a while to accept it but they did. We've been together ever since"

"Tell me more about us, the engagement, marriage, everything"

"I can show you better than I can tell you" Drake went to look in the cupboard and pulled out a photo album. He sat back down and opened the first page. "This is at our engagement party. It was about 3 years after we started dating. It was probably one of my favourite days after our wedding"

"They are a strange couple. First they hated each other and now they're in love. But they're both good looking so the kids will be gorgeous" "Alright, alright that's enough" "Congrats on your engagement, you make a wonderful couple and I'll wish you both the best" "To Aubrey and Onika" "To Aubrey and Onika" everyone repeated and toasted. Nicki and Drake toasted and kissed before drinking.

"This one is of one of our beach dates. You had been bugging me for the longest to bring you so I did. And we had a romantic date and watched the sunset. It was the main reason we had a beach wedding"

Nicki smiled softly, letting him go through the other pictures and she moved closer to him, letting him show her all the pictures and explain each one. 

~

Day by day, week by week, month by month; Nicki was slowly remembering the missing parts from the life. Drake was supporting her each step of the way. It took a while but the weird feelings she got when she was around him disappeared.

Drake again was telling her a story of one of their many dates. "So we went to this cafe restaurant and I reserved us a table. You were really happy about it so when we sat down you kissed me and we ended up really kissing, tongue and everything then a waitress came over,"

"I remember this, the waitress said I didn't act like a lady and I snapped at her"

"You were about to beat her ass in that nice place, I had to calm you down fast"

"Show me"

"Show what?"

"How we kissed" Drake put his hands around her waist and pulled her towards him. He leaned in and kissed her just like they did that night. Nicki's hand lightly gripped his cheek as the kiss became more lustful. Her lips parted and accepted his tongue. They stayed that way for a while. He would have done exactly what they did that night but it was too early. 

He pulled away. "That's how we kissed"

"I love you, Aubs" This shocked both of them. Drake didn't expect her to say those words so early or for her to even say the nickname she gave him more so because he never told her about the nickname. Nicki couldn't believe she said it either but it was true, she did love him.

"I love you too, always have"

At the end of the day, they were cuddling on their bed. After their kiss, Nicki realised she couldn't spend another day without him and asked him to move in with her. Drake ran his fingers through her hair as she spoke.

"I don't want to forget again. I don't want to forget about us and everything we had... have. I'm happy you didn't give up on me" She spoke softly holding back her tears.

"I'm glad I didn't too. I couldn't imagine life without you" Nicki laid her head on his chest and Drake kissed her forehead. Nicki's eyes slowly closed, she felt tiredness taking over.

"Remember us" Drake whispered, stroking her face with the back of his hand.

"I'll try" Nicki whispered back before she fell asleep in his arms just like she used to.