~Michael's POV

I'm dreading going to tell my family that I've decided to leave the Jacksons, but Rayne is pretty much making me. She won't even let me sleep on the bed, I've been sleeping on the floor in her room. To make matters worse, she won't even come with me to do it. She told me "you have to deal with this yourself. This is a family issue." I groan inwardly, walking inside my home. "Well well well, look who finally decided to come home." Jackie immediately crooned. His demeanor looked almost aggravated. "Can you get the rest of the guys around? I've got something to say." I say, quickly getting to the point. Jackie nods walking around the house calling all my brothers. "Hey fellas! Mike's here! Come down!" I sigh at the potential reactions of my brothers.

"Ok..." I sigh. "I'm not sure if you guys know, but I haven't been around because I'm making my own album." I see all the facial expressions change immediately. "Nobody knew that Mike." Tito says quietly. "So you're doing a solo album.. Big deal.." Jermaine shrugs. I roll my eyes. I have no patience for Jermaine and his constant jealousy. "This album is obviously taking a lot of my time away from the group. So, I've come to the decision... I'm leaving the Jacksons." I announce with my eyes closed. "What?" Jackie says, his voice a little raised. "You can't just leave the group Mike, we are family you know." Marlon whispers. "This isn't about family.. I love you all. But this is about business, and business wise, I think I'm ready to move on and go solo.. I mean, you guys don't think that we've out grown this? My album will be finished in a couple months, who knows maybe we can do a reunion show or something." I shrug. "So that's it, The Jacksons are just done? That's crap." Jackie says, angrily leaving his seat. The rest of the brothers follow behind. "That's foul Michael.." Marlon says. I shake my head, flopping on the love seat behind me. "What's wrong son? You let that girl get in your head about going solo and now your brothers are all against you? You should've known this would happen." Joseph stands there smugly. I scoff, rolling my eyes at him. "Nobody got inside my head Joseph, you know I've been wanting to do this since I was 18." "But that girl is what made you actually do it." He points outside. "How can you turn your back on family?" He says angrily. "Oh please, you call this a family? We can't even say congratulations to one another without a small hatred for each other's success." I reply with a hint of sarcasm. "Family is all we got boy! Don't let fame get the best of you!" He yells as I walk out the back door. If it weren't for mother's garden, I'd probably be insane.

Once again the one of two people who can make me smile come and sit with me in the garden. "Mikey, what's wrong?" My little sister Janet asks. I just sigh heavily, she's just too young to understand. She simply wraps her arms around my neck and pecks my cheek. "It'll be ok Mike. Joseph is gonna be mad when you make it big!" I frown. "How do you know why I-" she cuts me off, "I heard Joseph and mom arguing about you leaving our brothers. I think it's a good thing. You don't need them. You sing and dance better." My attempt to hold my chuckle failed miserably as I hugged her tightly. "Thanks Dunk." "Why hasn't Rayne come over? I miss her." Janet pouts. "I'll tell her for you." She gives me a big smile, "I hope you and Rayne get married. I can tell you really like her." "I do really like her, but it's a long time before I get married to anybody." I giggle. We sit in the grass talking more and more about my feelings for Rayne until the moon came up.

~Rayne's POV

"I swear, you had chocolate all over your face" my dad continues as he chuckles. We lay on the sofa watching scary movies for the past 4 hours, I curled under his arm closer and closer. No matter how old I got, I'll always love my dad and nights like this meant the world to me. "I love you dad.." I smile. "I love you too kid.. You know you'll always be my baby girl. I'm sorry I wasn't always there for you, to save you from your mother.. But I'm glad you're here now." He pecks my forehead. "I've got a question for you-" "no no no, I've got a question for you missy." My father interrupted. "What's the deal with you and Michael, I know you two are dating. But do we need to have 'the talk?'" I giggle scrunching my face. "Oh my God, no dad.. Besides I'm 20 years old, I think it's too late for that.." I smirk. I hear his heart beat faster. "Ray! Did you? ...already?" I bellow loudly with laughter. "Yeah dad. With Michael." "Are you sure that's what you wanted??" He stammers. I can hear his panic in his voice increase. "Daddy, Michael is a beautiful being. I couldn't be more sure he's who I wanted to be with. I really really like him, and I know he cares for me. Don't worry." I smile. "I just want you to be careful. I don't want you falling in love with someone who could break your heart." He says sweetly. "Oh anyone could break my heart. But Mike, He's different. He makes me feel special and gives me those butterflies in my stomach just from smiling at me." I grin at him being in my thoughts. "It's crazy how you meet someone and you never know how much they could mean to you after a split second." "I know that feeling.." My dad mumbles. I grow silent, my thoughts began to race. "Dad.. Is that how you felt about mom?" I ask. He gives me a long sigh, His eyes close in recollection. "Your mother was the love of my life. She was perfect, everything I needed in a woman. Stability, humor, generosity, and she was filled with love.  When I met your grandma, I knew exactly where she got her angelic love from. I knew from that moment, I had to marry her. Then when you were born, I knew that life was complete. I loved you, she loved you, we loved each other. Until grandma died when you were 5, your mother changed. Her anger became intolerable and I had to leave.. I didn't know she would hurt you as much as she did." "I never remember a time of that woman ever loving me." I said angrily. "She did Ray. She loved you..."

Sorry, this chapter was kind of a filler. Tell me what you think of the story so far 😊