THE QUIET BOY || MICHAEL JACKSON

S2 🥀 E6

| Chapter 36 • Spotting / Strike Two |

Jt•

"Yall we have a concert soon, we have a choreography session later this week. I think practice is all week actually, up until two days before the concert." Ciara says causing us to nod

"Aren't we touring soon?" I asked earning a nod from Toke, "I think we're features on the Jackson 5 tour. Us and Whitney Houston I wanna say." Onyx says, "Yea, Prince will be there too." Token bites her lip with a smirk, "I'm telling Austin." Onyx teases cause T to scoff, "Fuck Austin, we're simply in an entanglement." Token says causing us all to burst out in laughter

This bitch is wild. We were actually all bonding and eating, basically having a break. Just talking about what life has been doing, fame, fortune everything.

"Jayden, isn't Prince's due date coming up?" Token asks causing me to nod, "Yep, been a little depressed about it but Michael gave me some encouragement. He told me our son isn't here physically but spiritually he is." I smiled at the thought causing the girls to aww

"Yall've been together for a while, what 3 years?" Onyx asks causing me to nod again, "Enough about me and him, how are yall?"

"I'm recovering from Tre's ass, I burned all the things he left at my place and got a restraining order." Onny explains, "I renting a house in Texas and I bought myself a new car." Ciara says, "I'm just chilling." Toke says causing us to grin

"Man I really wanna make a freaking Tejano album, like really bad." Onyx exclaims, throwing her head back, "Well write one, wait wouldnt it be fun if we all wrote our own albums? With just us individually on them?" Ciara suggested

Toke and I shared looks as Onyx nodded, "That would be fun wouldn't it?" She smiles

Anywho, for the rest of our studio time, we went over the songs we'd be performing in Houston- our home townnn! Then we went over our most popular songs that we can perform on tour

Michael•

Oh no. What am I gonna do? Staring in the mirror, I looked at my reflection as tears formed in my eyes. I was born with this rare skin condition called Vitiligo, it messes with the pigmentation of the skin. These white spots will form all around the body, and mine were on my face and neck. The spots aren't huge, but they're still there, my cheeks look horrible too. They're so red. I was praying it didn't get worst, how would Jayden-

"Babe, I'm home!" Her sweet voice was heard downstairs, "Crap!" I huff silently. You might as well come clean, Jackson.

I took a deep breath and slowly made my way downstairs to face her, she was in the kitchen, putting groceries up. Her back was facing towards me as Ben played through the speakers, "With a friend to call my own, I'll never be alone. And you my friend will see, you've gotta friend in meee." She sings

I'm guessing she felt my presence so she turns around with a big smile on her face, slowly it fell once she saw me, "Michael?" She mumbles

I couldn't hold back the tears, as I closed my eyes a tear fell causing her to rush over and pull me into her embrace, "Its okay, baby." Jayden rubs my back in a consoling way

"I look like a monster, Jayden. If you wanna leave, you can go." I sniffled, "No you dont, Michael. Look at me," she pulls away from me to cup my face, caressing it softly, "I can't say I know how you feel but I'm here, there's no way a skin condition will make me leave you. Has it spread?"