Rayne's POV

I yawned lowly, stretching my arms across a very familiar feeling bed. My eyes opened to see I was in Michael's room, but I was still clothed, and covered with one of the extra blankets we kept in the closet. I remembered falling asleep on his couch, I guess he carried me upstairs. I sleepily looked around and found Michael sound asleep on the floor beside me, nuzzled into the few pillows and our comforter from the bed. I smile to myself, shaking him awake. "Mike..."

"Hm?" He muffles.

"Why are you on the floor?"

"I didn't wanna disrespect you, I know we're in the middle of a divorce so... I didn't want to give myself the wrong idea..." he says mid yawn.

"I could've slept on the couch.." I sigh, "well, I'm awake now so you can get in bed if you're still sleeping.. I'm up.. I'll get Camille ready for school." I say standing, and stepping over him.

"I've gotten so comfortable down here, I don't think I'm gonna move." He smirks cuddling into his pillows more.

I giggle, "you've got a bad enough back.. it'd be best if you get in bed. But do your thing" I surrender shutting the room door.

I see my daughter, putting a plate of French toast sticks in the microwave, already dressed in her school uniform. "Well good morning." I grin, pecking the top of her head. "You're up early.. and all ready for school.."

She nods, "daddy taught me how to set an alarm to wake up for school." She was still pretty upset about Michael and I getting a divorce. "Dad just puts my hair in a bun and Leon takes me to school." She says, placing her plate in front of her.

I frown, "he doesn't ride with you to school?" I ask.

She shakes her head, occupied with her food. I place her hair in a neat bun. "How about, I ride with you today."

"No thanks.." she sighs.

My eyebrow raised, "you sure?" I stammer.

She nods once again, not saying much, she grabs her plate and places it in the dishwasher. "Will you be here when I get back?" She asks, her hopeful eyes staring at me.

"...I don't know.. maybe, if your dad still needs me." I wince with a shrug.

She sucks her teeth lowly, "ok. See you later. I guess." She says grabbing her bag and exiting the room without a second thought.

I run my hands across my face, this instability was affecting my daughter terribly. After about two more hours Michael and my 3 year old son were finally awake. Mikey really did take after Michael in every way imaginable even down to his sleeping habits.

"I thought you left after Camille left for school.." Michael says, carrying Mikey down the steps towards the kitchen.

"Hi mommy." Mikey smiles, reaching his arms to me.

I grin at him back, "I was gonna, I just- I didn't wanna leave until I knew you were ok. You don't need anything else?"

"Actually, I need you to hang on to Mike while I talk to my assistant and my lawyer. I can't avoid this forever right?" He scoffs, heading straight into his office.

I stammer, "are you gonna eat breakfast?"

"Uh... yeah. Sure.." he lies, without even facing me. Clearly, he can feel my eyes piercing through the back of his head because he turns towards me.

"Michael... you gotta eat. Please.." I sigh.

"Alright." He submits, heading to the kitchen.

I giggle, "that was easy... usually you fight me on that. I'd have to force food down your throat."

"It's good to hear you still care about me enough to force feed me." He smirks with a shrug.

Rolling my eyes, I chuckle, "I'm taking Mikey to my house, I need to get out of these clothes and shower. I'll be back. You'd better have eaten when I get back!"

"I'll be sure to gain 3 pounds!" He yells back as I close the door behind me.

***

Michael's POV

Once Rayne left, I grabbed an apple off the kitchen counter and head into my office, dreading what was coming throughout the day. I call my assistant Ramone, she was already working.

"Hey Mr. Jackson.. I've been calling you. I'm pretty sure you're under a lot of stress with what's going on here..." she says frantically, sounding like she was searching through papers. "Um... ok... I've prepared a statement. We need to schedule a couple hours out of your day to record you reading it to the general public."

"Ok.. what about Lawyers?" I ask.

"Then I've already scheduled the meeting with Mark Geragos, he said he's gonna be working with another lawyer, umm... Tom Messarau. I did some research on him and he's really good." She continues. "The meeting was actually scheduled for today at 12 but we can push it back if you need.."

I rub my forehead, "no.. it's fine Rayne's got Mike.. we can meet now. I need you over here to take notes."

"On my way, sir." She says with a click.

I chuckle holding the unbitten Apple in my hand, Rayne was always scolding me for not eating and even in the middle of our divorce she was doing the same thing. It felt so good having her back home, even if it was temporary. I hoped she'd at least think about staying for a week or two and brought extra clothing. I missed her so much.

"Boss, your lawyer is here" Wayne announced over my speaker.

"Go ahead, send him up.."

"Michael what the hell happened!" Mark says candidly.

"Mark... You said you wanted an extortion case.. well here we are... come on in, have a seat" I say standing to my feet welcoming Mark and Tom in.

Mark introduces Tom to me briefly, before we start discussing what happened and all of the events that occurred.

"Guys, I swear I slept on the floor. Those kids and their mother asked to stay because those kids were terminally ill. Why would I want to harm kids?!" I ask angrily.

"Michael I believe you, but we've got to get a jury to believe you... unless you just want to settle again." Tom says.

"No way, last time I settled they said I was guilty and I was hiding something. I'm not giving away my kids money for some crazy adults dragging their poor children into a lie." I say folding my arms. My meeting was interrupted by my cellphone vibrating in my desk drawer. I take a quick glance at it before placing it to my cheek. "It's my wife, one sec please."

"Hey.. we've gotta get to Camille's school.. apparently she's in trouble." She sighs.

"I'm meeting with my lawyers- you know what, I'll be right there." I say hanging up. "Guys.. my daughter's school.. I'm sorry."

"No go ahead and handle it. We'll get this straightened out." Mark says as he and Tom exit.

***
"Hi Mr. Jackson, have a seat please." Camille's principal smiles. I walk in to see Camille's face frowned and her arms folded tightly together. Rayne was holding on to Mikey who was sleeping across her chest.

"What's going on?" I ask sitting beside Rayne.

"Camille punched Maria. Apparently, they had some kind of disagreement and Maria got very upset and some mean things to Camille so, Camille punched her.... twice. Now, Mr. & Mrs. Jackson. We do not tolerate violence here and she will be suspended for two days.. but we care about our students and we just want to make sure that everything is ok. This is very unlike Camille especially towards Maria."

"Very unlike her. Camille and Maria have been best friends since practically kindergarten." Rayne frowns at Camille, "why did you hit your best friend?"

"Because." She retorts shortly.

"Because?" I echo.

"All that happened was, she got mad at me because I told her to stop bothering my other friend. She was being really mean to her. She kept calling her names and pulling on her hair. So I told her that wasn't nice and she needed to stop. She told me, to shut up and that my parents didn't love each other anymore. So I punched her two times for two reasons. One because, I told her that as a secret and told her don't say anything, and two, because it hurt my feelings!"

I give Rayne a side eye, as she grips the bridge of her nose, "that is your child" I mutter.

"I know.." she whispers back, embarrassed.

I continue, "Camille, what did we say about putting your hands on people?"

"Don't do it." She groans out.

" right! And you know that Rayne and I love each other... so why would you allow yourself to get upset over something that's not true" I ask.

"Because I don't believe it. Mommy doesn't even live with us! This family is not the same! If you really lived each other you'd get back together instead of getting a divorce!" She blurts.

"God..." Rayne says quietly. "Camille... I know it's hard to understand what's happening here. It happened to me too. I get it. But the only difference hear is that, Your dad and I will never leave you.. we're still a family no matter what. Ok?"

She shrugs, "come on Millie let's go home..." I sigh.

"Thanks for calling us..." Rayne says to the principal. "When you get home your gonna call Maria and apologize.. understood?" She continued.

***

Rayne had been back home for about a week now, and neither one of us had said anything about those divorce papers that sat in my desk drawer. Everything kind of fell back into place with us, we felt normal. We hadn't even argued in days.

"Mike, what are you doing?" She asks, watching me stretch while she laid in bed.

"Stretching. The floor is starting to get uncomfortable after a week of sleeping on it." I sigh.

" why don't you just... come to bed." She says coyly.

"Ray, I don't wanna-"

"Mike if it's taking a toll on your back.. I'd really prefer if you'd sleep up here.. seriously. Plus... I- I miss you." She admits, fiddling her fingers.

"What?" I ask.

"I miss you.. being here this week, I miss us. I mean... maybe we don't need this divorce. Look at what it's doing to Camille. Me being home for a week straight is the happiest thing she's ever been through right now."

"So what are you saying Rayne..." I sit on the edge of the bed, my eyes searching hers. She sits on her knees beside me, grabbing my hand in hers.

"I wanna try this again... I wanna move back home and we just start over. Ok?"

".....ok" I grin, those two letters leave my lips and Rayne's lips come crashing onto mine passionately.

That morning I woke up early to grab hers and my ring out of my office and slipped it on her finger. I wanted to be sure she woke up to see her ring on her hand. A promise we had made to each other years ago.

End.

Thank you guys so much for going on this four book long emotional love story with me! I hope you all enjoyed it!

As you know I never leave you all empty handed! I have begun a new book, "A Dangerous Dream" there is only one chapter up at the moment! Please be warned, this book is completely different from the "Michael/Rayne" saga. There will be graphic sex, violence, swearing, and drug abuse in this book. So if you're sensitive to those kinds of things or if you are one of "those" fans that think MJ was a saint please don't read it!

Other than that I hope to be reading your comments in my new book! See you on the next cover!-DD58 ❤️