2 Weeks Later.....



"Jermaine, Marlon, Tito, Randy, I would like for all of you to meet someone very special." Michael said. He was preparing to reintroduce me to his brothers before we were to begin rehearseal. "I would like you to meet. . . .Taylor" I came around the corner I was hiding from and all the boys except for Michael came running to me and hugging me. They actually lifted me off my feet and they were all hugging me so tight, I couldn't breath. I was trying to call for Michael but I could barely hear myself over all of the guys saying how much they have missed me. "Guys guys guys! Let the girl breath! She just got here." As they all let me have space, Michael walked to my side and as put his arm around me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine. Didn't know they missed me THAT much." We all shared a moment of laughter. I felt like I belonged again. Like I was back with my real family, only I was in love with one of my "brothers",



"Wait. Mike, what was that?" Jermaine asked. "What was what?" "What was that little kiss for that you gave her?" Michael gave a silent laugh and then said,"I gave her a kiss on her cheek because I love her." Marlon broke into the conversation and said,"Yeah, but we love her too and none of us have kissed her cheek. So what was that?" I decided to break in now and say,"Michael doesn't mean he loves me as a sister anymore. He means he is in love with me as I am in love with him. We're together as boyfriend and girlfriend." There was dead silence. I felt as though I just told them I was dieing and this was my last day. All of their jaws dropped to the floor except for Tito.



Michael looked at Tito and said,"And how come your jaw isn't in contact with the floor? What are you mad that she isn't with you?" Tito took a few steps forward and looked at Michael. "No. I'm happy you two are together and in love. I knew it was going to happen one day. It was predictable." I looked at Michael then back at Tito and said,"What do you mean 'predictable'?" "I mean, I knew you two would end up together. It was obvious. The two lead singers of the greatest family band get seperated and now they have reunited. Doesn't that sound like the two singers would sometime along the way fall in love?" Michael let go of me and took a few steps towards his brother and said,"Me and Taylor fell in love with each other because, not only did we miss each other terribly, but we love who we are. We don't want to be seperated like we were again." "I'm just saying, the tabloids are going to have a lot to say about this relationship, so gear up."




Jermaine seperated the two boys and said,"Okay, you two. Break it up. This is supposed to be a day of reuniting, not seperating. Michael, Taylor, we are happy that you two are together and we hope for the best for you two. And Taylor, welcome back to the family." I looked at Jermaine with a smile and said,"Thank you, Jermaine. So, when do we begin rehearsal?" Michael came to my side and wrapped his arm back around me. "We are going to start rehearsal. . . . now. Okay everyone, let's rehearse and do it like never before!" We all put our hand in the center like we used to and chanted "J 5! J 5! J 5! J 5! J 5! WHOA!" and then headed for the stage for the first time together in 8 years. I actually felt complete. I was with my real family again. I was where I belonged and I wasn't going to leave them again. Never.



11 hours later. . . . .


"Wow. I don't think I have ever worked that hard before in a rehearsal. And we only did what we are doing for half of the show? I don't know if I can make it for the whole thing." I said while trying to catch my breath. We were all laying side my side on stage because we were too tired to move. "I know. The Jacksons have never worked that hard in a rehearsal before. I feel like I just drank a 5 hour energy drink and now I'm feeling the after math. I wonder what got into us." Michael said. Jermaine decided to join in and said,"I think I know why we were so much more energetic. I think we were like this because Taylor is here." I looked at Jermaine and asked,"What do you mean 'because I'm here'?"




"I mean, this is the first time that the real Jackson have reunited. When you left, we weren't that strong without you. We needed you terribly. And now since you are here, we probably wanted to make this feel like we were performing the real thing because we felt like the real Jacksons again. You were our weakness and now you are our strength. I think that's why we worked so hard." As I thought about, it did make sense. And all the others thouhght so, too. Even Michael. "So you're saying that whenever I'm around now, we can do anything and feel that way too?" I asked. Jermaine nodded and said,"Exactly. You were the missing piece to our family and music puzzle. Now that we can see the full picture, we can celebrate!" "I actually think he's right" Marlon said. All the other boys were agreeing. "Well, I don't plan on leaving anytime soon so we have nothing to worry about!" I said. Then at the same time, we put our fists in the air and yelled out "JACKSONS!!!!!!!!".




As we were saying goodbyes since it was 1 in the morning, I was started to fall asleep standing. "I think someone getting sleepy." Michael said. "Yeah, so what? I'm human." Michael was saying goodbye to his brothers and gestured me to start walking so we could go home since we now live together. When we finally got home, I realized Michael was carrying me to the house.



"Sweetheart. Hey, babe. C'mon, wake up. You gotta wake up so you can get to bed." I was straining to keep my eyes open. "Why can't you carry me? You were able to from the car to the house?" Michael silently laughed to himself and said," I can't carry you the whole way up. I'm tired, too. C'mon, babe. Let's go." Michael was basically pushing my body up stairs but keeping one arm in front of me so I didn't fall forward. I actually felt like I was drunk but I didn't feel the urge to hurl and I didn't have a splitting headache.




We finally got to our bedroom and Michael was guiding me to the bed. I plopped right on to my side of the bed just curled up right there. "Babe, maybe you should get into your night clothes so you can feel more comfy." "I would feel so much more comfortable if you were in bed with me with your arms around me." Michael again giggled to himself and made me sit up. "Just sit right there, okay? I'm going to get you some clothes." "Mkay"




Michael got out from my part of the dresser my favorite black spaghetti tank top with lace trimming. He turned around and asked me, "Do you want me to find you bottoms?" I shook my head and he closed up the drawer and came over to me. He started to take of my shoes and then my socks. He then unzipped my pnats and took those off and headed for my shirt. Michael noticed I was falling asleep even though I was fighting myself. He knew how to wake me up.




When he lifted up a little bit of my shirt, he kissed my stomach. I looked at him and asked him,"What are you doing?" He looked back at me and said, "I'm trying to keep you awake long enough for me to undress you and put your tank top on." "Oh." Michael pulled the rest of my shirt off and stared at me for a minute. "What? What is it?" I asked. "Nothing. You're just really beautiful and I don't think I tell you that enough." I giggled and gave him a kiss. Michael then laid on me and I stopped him. "Michael, you know I'm tired. Can you wait until tomorrow?" Michael looked at me as if I had bugs crawling out of my ears. "Love, I was making you lye down. I put your tank top on you and now you can go to bed. I'm going to put on my night clothes and then we can go to bed. I promise."



I didn't notice that Michael had put my tank top on me already. I guess I got lossed when I was kissing Michael. I got under the blood red silk sheets and waited for Michael. He crawled into bed and kissed me slowly and romanticly. I caressed the side of his face and then kissed his neck and then his shoulder while he kissed my neck. He went back to my lips and gave me one more quick kiss. "I love you." he said. "I love you, too. Goodnight." "Goodnight, my love". We fell asleep within minutes with my arm acrossed his body and him holding me with one arm and holding my hand with the other. I knew that how we looked when we fall asleep together that we really are happy together and we belong together.