The Surrogate (A Michael Jackson Fanfiction)

A Little Too Happy Birthday

A little Too Happy Birthday

August 19, 2003

Nina Sofia Chambers:

Despite the desperate need to be with my mom right now, I couldn't even muster up the motivation to leave the house .Being that it was mid-August now, summer was at its hottest. About a month had passed since the doctor's visit. I was seven weeks pregnant with twins... I had morning, noon and night sickness and not to mention fatigue out of this world. Jisela had been over a lot helping me take care of Maddox, but I knew I was wearing her out. He'd been whining the last couple days over when we were going to go back to Michael's house. Michael had called me several times, left numerous text messages and voicemails, but I couldn't bring myself to talk to him. I should have just stuck to the type of surrogacy I had originally signed up for, but no... I had to go and get greedy and take that two hundred and fifty thousand...

A tear ran down my cheek and I wiped it away. Jisela walked into the room just at the same time. I was lying on the couch with a trashcan next to me.

"Are you ok?" she asked. We both looked a hot mess with messy buns on top of our heads wearing oversized T-shirts and shorts. Maddox was down for his afternoon nap.

"Oh yeah, this episode gets to me every time." I said staring at the drama playing on TV. I had been watching re-runs of Vampire Diaries all day long to take my mind off things.

"Well...uh...Michael messaged me on Facebook." She said looking guilty as ever. I sat up.

"He what!? You didn't answer him did you?" He has a Facebook account now!? This guy must be incredibly lonely.

"Look he said he really cares about you and just wants to make sure you're ok..." she pleaded."I said you'd call him tonight." She mumbled under her breath looking ashamed.

"It's ok, Jisela. I'll call him right now." I said just as nicely as I could. I couldn't very well be mean to her when she was doing all she could to take care of me. As much as I wanted to yell at her for talking to him... I picked my phone up off the end table near me and dialed his number. It rang twice before he answered.

"Stop harassing my friends..."

"You sound terrible... Are you ok?"

"I'm pregnant." I said in a monotone.

"Yes, you are. I just wanted to check up on you, you know... Making sure you're staying healthy and all that..." He sounded kind of down in the dumps as well. There was a pause. "...and mention that my birthday is in a week and a half..." he mumbled quickly.

"And?"

He sighed. "...and I was wondering if you and Maddox could come out to the ranch for the day...It would really make my birthday special. The doctor's appointment is the day after...so you guys could stay again...that is if you want to." He sounded so depressed... Zero enthusiasm. A day of relaxation at the ranch didn't sound like a bad idea. I'm sure he'd have his staff pampering the shit out of me once he seen how deathly ill his babies were making me.

"You don't sound too excited about it." I teased lightly.

He chuckled slightly. "Because I'm expecting you to say 'no way' and hang up on me..."

Shit, I couldn't stay mad at him... "I forgive you, Michael... but promise me..." I didn't even have to finish the sentence before he began.

"I promise Nina. I'll never cross that line again... I'm so sorry I offended you. I'm just, you know, used to women giving in to me..." I could hear him grinning through the phone and I just shook my head and rolled my eyes. "Seriously though... I miss you guys, especially my little buddy. And I'm not trying to play dad to him, I just enjoy being around children, you know."