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Tough Love Part 96; Part 4
Wooow! So since I read that â??*tough loveâ? post last nite, I actually decided to bring my pc to skool today so I can attempt to write again :). Stepping back from it and coming back I think will help. I even went to sleep trying to complete a plot I started. Butâ?¦.enjoy!! ~A. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Chapter 96; Part 4 Date Nite with Jermaine After I let Michael go, I tried walking away but he lightly grabbed my arm. I tried looking at him like it didnâ??t matter, but Michael forced me to look at him when he kept searching for my eyes. â??What was that for?â? I folded my arms and looked at him like it didnâ??t matter. â??To get you to shut upâ?¦you ask too many questions.â? Then suddenly I try to turn this into a joke, â??And if I want to come home in the middle of the day to give you a HUG DONâ??T question ME!â? â??Well Iâ??m SORRY. Itâ??s just when you come home from slipping out again, it worries me. Makes me wonder what youâ??re getting into.â? â??Michael Iâ??m not a dog or a two-year-old. Grow up.â? But Iâ??m glad when he changes the subject. â??Wanna see a movie with me? Or have dinner? We only have a few days left here, and I know because of your accident, itâ??s been hindering us A LOT.â? Based off the last part of his sentence, I can tell it was really stressing Michael out because I saw the tired look in his eyes. Then I briefly began to think about all the money Michael has invested in this vacation. I BEEN known I wasnâ??t being fair so before I chickened out, I told Michael Iâ??d pay him back. â??You know Michael, I donâ??t know how, but Iâ??ll pay you back all of the money.â? But he puts his hand up at me. â??Noâ?¦no. Donâ??t even speak like that Lyric. This is from the kindness of my heart. You know I donâ??t roll that way.â? â??â?¦â? I looked at him in disbelief because I knew if I was Michael, Iâ??d want my money back or something. Iâ??d freely express my stress at the other person for putting me through this. â??How about we watch a movieâ?¦.Does â??Dynamite Chickenâ?? starring Richard Pryor sounds like a good pick? Or what about something else?â? â??Noâ?¦no thatâ??s fine.â? Michaelâ??s idea for watching the movie included us moving the couch closer to the T.V. and moving the coffee table out the way. We were going to sit on the floor under blankets while we watched the movie. But I had to tell him early on that I wouldnâ??t be able to stay long because I had to â??take care of somethingâ?. I knew he didnâ??t want to necessarily hear that, but he hid his emotions. â??Okay,â? was all he said. And despite the fact I couldnâ??t make up for all the time Iâ??ve missed with him on this trip, I gave him a tight hug, kissed him on the cheek, and whispered in his ear, â??Iâ??m sorry Iâ??ve been missing so much time with you. But I PROMISE this time itâ??s WORTH it.â? After taking a few seconds to respond, Michael mumbles, â??I hope so.â? Once again I have to shift gears from one Jackson brother to another. â??There is a note left for you by Mr. LaJuane Jackson. He said to meet you at this table.â? I know by my miserable expression, the girl started to doubt his claims. â??Are you sure this note is for you? The young man said youâ??d look confused. Whatâ??s your name?â? I bunched up my eyebrows. Shouldnâ??t I be asking YOU that? I was thinking to myself. â??Lyric Swan.â? â??Thatâ??s the person!â? she smiles and hands me the note. â??Whereâ?¦is this table?â? â??See all the tables that are being used right there.â? I follow her finger. â??Well yours is the one in-between J-4 and J-6.â? Wooowâ?¦the weird irony of that. But I just say, â??Okay.â? I walk over there, and see in a booth thatâ??s facing the back of the restaurant. I shift in my booth as I do my best to get comfortable under these circumstances. Then I hear footsteps and look up as Jermaine was walking up to our table. I stare at him for a few moments. And it wasnâ??t because he was wearing shades and a nice, but casual suit. It was because I was expecting a bag of clothes to be in his hands. Right as he sits down, he takes his shades off. â??It was once I was on my way to the restaurant that I remembered I had forgotten your bag of clothes. I wanted to turn around to get them, but I was closer to the restaurant and I didnâ??t want you to have to wait either.â? â??Thatâ??s fine.â? Although I felt a little awkward with my light pink t-shirt on and simple pants. Plus my cast is on, so I know I looked a tad bit like a terrestrial-alien or something. As the waiter took our orders, I didnâ??t say much. I just did my best to soak in the â??Jermaine personaâ?. â??So, how EASY was it to get away from Michael? And the sarcasm IS intended.â? He gives me a smile. â??Boy oh boy. Youâ??re going to get me in trouble, Jermaine. For all I know, Michael probably thinks Iâ??m seeing someone.â? â??Well he doesnâ??t know youâ??re here.â? he jokes. â??Yeah, but we know it isnâ??t in that way. I almost wish I could tell him sometimes.â? â??I meanâ?¦Michael will eventually know. But I wanted to get to know the real you before Michael comes around. Then your personality will change some.â? â??Well doesnâ??t it supposed to?â? I joke with him. Oddly enough, Jermaine and I havenâ??t said much. However, I could tell he was looking at me. Once our food came, Jermaine finally takes his deep breath, then he addresses me. â??Your sixteen?â? â??Yes,â? I nod. I thought we already established this. â??Tell me a little about yourself.â? â??Wellâ?¦Iâ??m the only child. Iâ??m from Valdosta, but Iâ??ve lived in Tennessee briefly and maybe Texasâ?¦ I' sorry, I'm just trying to search my memory bank. But then I moved here when I was about to turn seven.â? I didnâ??t want Jermaine to think I was some nut, so this time I didnâ??t choke on the words although I wanted. â??My parents were a young couple when they had me. My dad was twenty-two when I was born, and my mom was turning twenty. A lot of people say I take after my dad because of the shape of my eyes appear kinda small, but what say cat-like; especially when I was younger, theyâ??d say, â??Clarence, she takes AFTER youâ??. But I look a lot like my mom too if you hadnâ??t noticed. Even when my eyes are small or appear bigger. And I get a lot of my mannerism from the both of them.â? â??Okayâ?¦.How did your father become a cop?â? I shrugged, â??He wanted to become a cop. And Iâ??m guessing his job called him to be out here so thatâ??s how we came here.â? â??Ohâ?¦right when we became famous?â? I smile. â??Yeah! Right at the same time. So you can imagine a seven-year-old delight for seeing five handsome brothers perform so close to her town. She even had a crush on the fifteen and eleven-year-old.â? I began to crack up. â??Ohâ?¦so you had a CRUSH on me?â? â??Yeah,â? I was still laughing, â??You were every girlâ??s dream!â? â??Oh.â? Jermaine began to laugh. â??Thatâ??s so sweet.â? â??Yeahâ?¦.Well Iâ??d always aggravate my dad to meet yâ??all. Even as a youngster, I felt it made no sense for me to live in California like yâ??all, but never meet my future husbands.â? I just shake my head as if I was still the seven-year-old. My sarcasm and dramaticness had Jermaine hooting. â??Yâ??know, I wish we met you when you first moved here Lyric. It wouldâ??ve been a hoot.â? â??Yeahâ?¦.â? I really began to dig in my food then. The egg rolls had me in Heaven until Jermaine brings up Michael again. â??Soâ?¦what do you think of my brother?â? â??Who? Randy?â? â??Yeahâ?¦letâ??s talk about RANDY!â? â??Wellâ?¦heâ??s nice. Heâ??s seventeen. Randy and I donâ??t know each other that well so I think heâ??s kinda quiet. Now that I reminisce over interviews when he was younger, I think itâ??s true. He kinda reminds me of a younger Michael. But like I said, we donâ??t know each other that well. I kinda think heâ??s shy.â? â??Really?â? â??â?¦â? I look up at him. â??I mean Iâ??ve barely been in a room with him for six hoursâ?¦at least it seems like it. I donâ??t KNOW Randy the way I know Michael. Or maybe even you. I donâ??t know enough about him or Tito or Jackie or Marlon. The bottom line is, I gotta get to know yâ??all Jacksons a little more, yâ??know?â? He smiles. â??I know. But when I first asked about it, I meant Michael.â? â??Thatâ??s a pretty abstract question Jermaine, I must say.â? â??Is that too hard of a question? Do I need to make it more specific?â? â??Noâ?¦â? I shook my head. â??Iâ?¦.Well. Truth is Michael is honest, awesome, niceâ?¦um, heâ??s serious at times.â? â??For once, I think, you didnâ??t say he was handsome or talented. You dodged it this time.â? I took another fork full of food. â??Wellâ?¦you know.â? I PURPOSEFULLY skipped those phrases. Theyâ??re too much of a cliché. When I was stuff and I didnâ??t think I could go any longer, Jermaine got the bill, and we walked out into the somewhat chill night, I stood out there, soaking in this moment while I waited for Jermaine to unlock the doors. â??Reminiscing huh?â? â??Noâ?¦.Yeah. Well something like that.â? I breathed in sharply because I was sad that our meal was over and Iâ??d have to go back to Michael, smile in his face, and act like nothing ever happened. I really didnâ??t want to have to go through that. I guess Jermaine kinda picked up on that because I came over to my side and gave me a genuine hug. â??I hope Iâ??m not overwhelming you Lyric. Youâ??re alright?â? I nod, doing my best to swallow this lie. â??Yeah, Iâ??m fine. How about yourself?â? â??Iâ??m doing just dandy!â? then he opens my door and closes it behind me. Once Jermaine asks me for the directions, I donâ??t say much of anything. When he catches site of the house, he quickly says, â??You were really quiet tonight. I guess you feel more comfortable when Iâ??m talking about my family.â? I smile. â??I guess so.â? Once again I quickly hug Jermaine and thank him. â??I must admit, I didnâ??t find out all I wanted, but Iâ??ve learned enough for now.â? Then he flashed his smile. â??Thatâ??s good.â? When I walk up the pavement and open the door to the beach house again, Michael was at the door this time. â??Whoâ??s out there?â? â??Huh?â? â??Who just dropped you off?â? â??Michael.â? I try to laugh it off. â??No. Who just dropped you off in that black, mysterious car?â? Then I remember what Jermaine told me to say. â??Itâ??s your surprise Michael.â? â??I really donâ??t want a surprise Lyric. I wanna know whatâ??s going on.â? â??Whatâ??s going on isâ?¦I got an amazing surprise for you. And if I tell you now itâ??s going to ruin things. So there!â? I walked away this time but I already knew this â??disagreementâ? wasnâ??t over between the two of us. I canâ??t keep a secret like this for too long. â??Oh by the way, Danielle called.â? â??Danielle? Cool, Iâ??ll call her up.â? For once, I finally go back into MY actual room, not the one Iâ??ve been sharing with Michael just â??cause. When she answers, I teasingly say, â??Hey trick. Keeping things from me?â? She laughs but she probably knew what I was getting to. â??What do you mean?â? â??You know what I mean.â? â??WHAT?!â? she laughs. â??Youâ??re seeing someone ainâ??tâ??chu?â? â??Who you heard that from?â? â??That donâ??t matter, youâ??re seeing Prodigy?â? â??Wellâ?¦yeah, something like that.â? â??Oooh, unhuh. So it IS true!â? â??Yeah. Weâ??ve been on a few dates.â? â??Do you really like him?â? â??Wait one second. Let me make sure my door is fully closed.â? After a few moments Dani is back on the phone. â??Giirrrl, yes. I do! Heâ??s so nice! So smooth! And donâ??t let me forget that heâ??s fi-ine-ine! Girl, Mr. Prodigy got it going on! *Hello! He can sing and when he dances with me, he makes me want to dance forever! Thatâ??s how special he makes me feel.â? â??Danielleâ??â? â??Plus weâ??ve got basketball in common. We play it all the time!â? Unlike me, my girl is freakinâ?? beautiful, but sheâ??s always on the court. For one, she is on the girlâ??s team, but she practices a decent amount as well. Danielle Hicks may have beautiful long black hair, but she isnâ??t afraid to get it sweaty when it comes to her practice. â??Dani?â? â??Yeah Lyr? I know that voice!â? â??Well Iâ??m glad youâ??ve found someone who makes you feel special. But when you said heâ??s â??smoothâ?? just be careful. Make sure he isnâ??t smooth like a snack in the grass. Donâ??t let him override your good judgments.â? â??Lyric geez I see where youâ??re getting at! I know this stuff.â? I can tell she was beginning to smile. â??Heâ??s like that; at least I know that for now. But thank you bestieâ??for the advice.â? â??Oh itâ??s just one sister passing it along to another. Thatâ??s all.â? â??Okay.â? I kinda wanted to bring this up but I knew once I did Danielle would have questions. â??Have you spoken to Patricia lately?â? â??Yeah of course I have. Sheâ??s told me yâ??all havenâ??t in a few days.â? â??Yeah. And I havenâ??t talked to Sherry in a minute either.â? By Danielleâ??s silence, I knew Pat mustâ??ve told her a little more than that. â??Yeahâ?¦Patricia was a little worried about mine and M.J.â??s relationship. And even my spending a bunch of time with the MJâ??Michael Jackson. She was just a little wary, thatâ??s all.â? â??Did she include Ray Ray in the conversation?â? Oh God, not that again! â??Yeah. She did.â? â??She was just trying to get the point across that Ray Rayâ?¦well Ray Rayâ?¦.â? â??Well Ray Ray what, Danielle?â? â??I meanâ?¦from some of the things Iâ??ve heard, heâ??s a little more gentler. Now youâ??ve probably havenâ??t noticed, but weâ??re your friends girlie! We love you and like any other family, weâ??ve kept our eyes out on you and M.J. Hate to say it, but weâ??re more familiar with yâ??all than you and Michael because we go to school with you two. And as your friend, Iâ??ve picked up on a few things.â? â??â?¦Like?â? â??Like that time we had plans to eat an early dinner after school. Remember when you and Nick performed that magic show and all of a sudden, youâ??re guy came and just changed your plans? It wasnâ??t for the fact that he wisped you away. Itâ??s just HOW he did it, yâ??know? He wasnâ??t holding on your shoulder naturally. Then all yâ??all break ups. Like the night after the Christmas concert and you were down and out. Us girls ASKED Donovan about it. We knew out of all people, heâ??d know and heâ??d tell us about it.â? â??Okayâ?¦so?â? â??We feel, well I canâ??t speak for everyone ELSE, but Iâ??M beginning to feel that Levi is stressing more than what is normal. He may be attractive Lyric, and seem like heâ??s got it all together, but Lyric, maybe you should cool things a little, you know?â? Okayâ?¦why the HELL arenâ??t you telling Patricia and Austin this? M.J. and I arenâ??t having sex. â??Itâ??s not to say that I havenâ??t been on Patricia about her situation. You know, I just donâ??t want to see you in the same thing. Thatâ??s all.â? â??Ohâ?¦well good to know.â? â??Yeah.â? â??You know Lyric, we love you. Thatâ??s all it is. Weâ??re not trying to control you.â? I understood. â??I understand.â? â??Okay girlie. And Iâ??ll give you the skinney on our relationship.â? â??Okay. Right on! Speak to you later sis.â? â??Okay.â? â??Hey and one more thing?â? â??Yeah?â? â??Howâ??s Drew?â? â??Oh heâ??s great! He came home for the holidays of course.â? Drew Hicks is Danielleâ??s older foster brother. Heâ??s super adorable, and I must admit that as a kid, Iâ??d had my lingering feelings for him. But it was PATRICIA that had the biggest starry eyes for him, and he knew it! With Drew being so shy and Patricia being aggressive, and not to mention younger by a few years, what she felt for him was more than likely puppy love. â??Think I should tell Patricia?â? I teasingly ask. â??Yeah. She might need to hear it from you,â? I could tell she was smiling. â??Okay, Iâ??ll have to think of a way.â? â??You knowâ?¦I just wonder if she still feels the same about Drew since now she has Austin.â? â??Yeahâ?¦me too.â? â??And guess what? Prodâ??s birthday was a day after Christmas.â? â??No shit.â? She laughs, â??No..Iâ??m not lying. He just happen to turn seventeen the day after Christmas.â? â??Okay. Did you show him a good time?â? â??No! We just went skiing with our other friends.â? â??Why didnâ??t you tell me!â? â??Well it was supposed to be us until I finally admitted that I thought he should share his day with others.â? â??Oh okay. Thatâ??s better. Hope yâ??all had fun.â? â??Yeah, and if you were around more often you wouldâ??ve known,â? I could tell a smile was gathering on her face, â??But hey, Iâ??ll talk to you later. The family is nagging me to come downstairs about something.â? â??Okay Dani. Chat withâ??chu later.â? Click, and we were done. I just sat there on the edge of my bed, soaking in all that information. Some of it I smiled about. Others were harder to accept. I did my best not to dwell on it though. Right now I didnâ??t feel like thinking about it. But I got another phone call. â??Hello?â? â??Hiâ?¦is this Lyric Swanâ??s beach house?â? â??â?¦Whoâ??s speaking?â? â??Ray Ray. She knows me by this name.â? â??Ohâ?¦hey Ray Ray. Whatâ??s going on?â? â??Oh! Hey Lyric!...â? â??Whatâ??s happeninâ???â? â??Well Iâ??m turning seventeen in January and I was having this small get-together. Nothing big or spectacular Iâ??d say.â? â??Un-huh?â? â??And I wanted to know if youâ??d like to attend.â? â??Woahâ?¦umâ?¦Ray Rayâ??â? â??If you donâ??t have an answer yet, thatâ??s fineâ?¦.I know M.J. shouldnâ??t mind.â? Yeahâ?¦. â??Wellâ?¦what have you been up to since that Christmas night?â? â??Ohâ?¦Iâ??ve been doing a lot of dancing for the past three days.â? â??Yeah? Okay.â? I donâ??t even know if I should being doing this. Like what if M.J. did that with one of my friendsâ?¦I couldnâ??t help but become suspicious of his motivations. Now I feel like Iâ??m doing that. â??Lyric?â? â??Hunh?â? â??Since you asked me what about yourself? I mean with you and Michael. Iâ??m assuming yâ??all left again. We;; yâ??all wouldâ??ve had to if I just called this number.â? Then he giggles real quickly. I was about to give him an honest, but one-dimensional answer until I thought that, â??Hey! Wait a minute! What if heâ??s spying for M.J. or something?â?? â??Donâ??t worry. If itâ??s something you donâ??t want your boy to know then I wonâ??t tell. Depending on what it is though.â? â??Oh no itâ??s nothing like that. Well I did a little pottery and watched some T.V. To be honest, I havenâ??t done that much like Iâ??ve wanted Ray because of my leg. The leg hinders EVERYTHING!â? I laughed. â??I bet it did. Well I guess Iâ??d better let you go. I donâ??t wanna hold for too long.â? Should Iâ?¦go to his party? I mean, whatâ??s the damage. I know M.J.â??s going because theyâ??re tight like that so why canâ??t I just go with him? I know at least Danielle would be there because of Prod so Iâ??d feel less uncomfortable. â??Ray Ray sure Iâ??ll go to your party.â? â??Whatâ?¦.I mean you WILL?â? â??Sureâ?¦I mean I know M.J. wonâ??t mind. I know heâ??ll go.â? â??Yeah. And then Iâ??m inviting some more people from your school so you wonâ??t be alone.â? â??Yeah. Okay.â? â??Wellâ?¦I guess Iâ??ll see you then.â? â??Oh what about the skinney?â? â??The details?â? â??Yeah,â? I laughed because I caught him off guard with that term. â??Oh. Well to be honest Iâ??m still getting that together so I canâ??t say right at this moment.â? â??Okay. Thatâ??s fine.â? â??Bye Lyric.â? â??Bye Ray Ray.â? When I hung up, I felt this little flutter in my heart. I mean that usually happens when I talk to an attractive guy who I donâ??t know that much. But I shook the thought away. I had to. â??Iâ??m sleeping in my bed tonight.â? I told Michael later on. â??Okay. Thatâ??s fine.â? When I was going to bed that night, I was happy I did because my thoughts began to heavily drift back to my conversation with Jermaine earlier today. I didnâ??t know if he wanted me to meet up at his rental house again and I hadnâ??t called. I just said I would in the morning. â??Oh, I got a surprise for you too.â? Michael comes to my room and says as I was drifting to sleep. â??Yeah? What?â? â??You have to live â??til tomorrow so you can see it.â? For some reason, I felt he winked afterwards. â??Hey thatâ??s not fair.â? â??Canâ??t talk girl in the cast. You did the same to me. Plus Newman is coming back tomorrow in the morning. He wants to see the progression of your leg. He knows how bad you want to walk on it again.â? â??Un-huh.â? â??â??Night Lyric.â? â??â??Night Michael.â? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The â??*Helloâ? is a double meaning. Plus I was listening to is while I was typing that part :). And I know Ray Ray really isnâ??t 17 yet but for the storyâ??s sake, it makes sense to bump them up a year since Iâ??ve fictionalized them a little. I knew I said I was going to hold out on my posts but when I said that, that was May 4th. Now itâ??s 28 days later, and I decided what the hay, I havenâ??t posted another part and yâ??all want another part so Iâ??m posting it :). And the heat is about to be turned up a notch in the next part if all goes according to plan ;-). ~Aariyan.
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