Sunday, October 16th

Michael's POV

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The Jackson Five." The interviewer calmly said sitting down on the couch.

The fans got up out of their seats and start to cheer and scream for us as they spotted my brothers and I walking on stage. I shyly waved to the fans with a huge smile and they screamed louder. My brothers and I sat on the couch next to the interviewer, Jerry Greene as the screams and cheers slowly faded away. There's a lot of cameras around and microphones hanging off the ceiling and Jerry, is dressed in a black and white tuxedo and he's sitting on a chair against a desk.

"So how are you Jackson Five?" Jerry asked.

"We're good. We're all good." Jermaine smiled and nodded.

"Wow. This is my first time seeing y'all in person ya know. It's great to see all of you." He smiled at all of us.

"Nice to see you too." Marlon smiled as the fans cheered.

"When you're on tour, you're on the road a lot? You travel all the time don't ya?" He asked.

We all nodded and smiled.

"You got tired of it?" The man asked.

We chuckled and shook our heads.

"No, cause we get a chance to see our fans." I told him.

"Well, uh, this is the Jackson five, now I see six. Am I loosing my mind or..." He pointed at Randy while the audience chuckled.

"Haha. You're not loosing your mind, Randy is the newest member." Marlon smiled at Randy.

"It's six of us but we still call it The Jackson Five." Randy smiled at the man.

"Sometimes we call it The Jackson Five and a half." Marlon said and everyone chuckled.

"How old are you?" The man asked.

"I'm twelve." Randy nodded.

"Who's the oldest in the group?" He asked.

"Jackie." We said together but the interviewer and Jackie.

"Why don't you all give me all your names. Start from left to right." The man smiled.

"I'm Jermaine."

"I'm Tito."

"Marlon."

"I'm Randy."

"Jackie."

"And I'm Michael."

We all introduced ourselves and everyone clapped.

"I've read that two of your are married. Right?" Jerry asked looking down at his papers.

"Right." We said.

"Tito and I are married." Jackie spoke.

"Ooh. Both of y'all are married? To who?" Jerry smiled.

"I'm married to Dee Dee and Jackie is married to Alexandra." Tito told Jerry.

"Wow. Are the rest of you single or taken?"

"Single. I'm too young." Randy chuckled.

"Single." Marlon raised his hand.

"Taken." Jermaine smiled.

"Taken." I smiled.

"Ooh Michael. I meant to ask you about that girl. Who is she and what's her name?" Jerry sounded excited.

"Her name is Kaitlyn and she's my girlfriend." I smiled at the audience spotting Kaitlyn sitting in the front smiling.

"Is she here?" He asked.

"Yup. She's right there." I pointed at her.

"Well, let's bring her up here. Come over here beautiful Kaitlyn!" He exclaimed smiling brightly as the audience clapped and cheered for her.

She's told up and blushed rushing towards the stage.

"Wow. She's very pretty." The man smiled at her.

She's dressed in the sparkly, long red dress I picked out for her beautiful body. She looks absolutely stunning! She looks like a queen.

She smiled, walking on stage and waving at the audience as they cheered and cooed for her. She chuckled and sat between Jackie and I.

"Wow. I thought it was a hoax. You are really dating a girl!" The man exclaimed.

"Yup." I chuckled and nodded.

"So tell me about yourself Kaitlyn. I want to know more about you, beautiful." The man smiled at her.

She blushed and smiled.

"What do you want to know about me?" She asked.

"What do you do for a living and what are your goals in life?" The man asked.

"Hmm. I cheer and I model and my goals in life is to be Michael's forever queen." She giggled.

"Awww!!!" Everyone cooed.

"You're already my forever queen." I winked at her.

"Awwww!!! Everyone cooed again.

"Wow. You guys are so adorable!" The man complimented.

"Michael, what made you want her?" He asked.

"Well, I used to have a crush on this girl, Ariel. Kaitlyn had a crush on me but I didn't really want to be with her. I did, but I didn't because I had a crush on Ariel. Then, I found out that Ariel was a bully and she bullies Kaitlyn a lot and I felt bad for her so Kaitlyn and I spent time for each other for a lil bit and then, I asked her to be my girlfriend." I explained.

The audience were so shocked, even my brothers.

"Are you talking about that girl, Ariel Bleu? The daughter of the beautiful model, Naomi Bleu?" He asked.

Kaitlyn and I nodded and I heard her groan a little.

"Oh, I thought she's a sweet girl." He raised an eyebrow.

"Ohh. No she's not! She's terrible, she called my grandmother a whore!" Kaitlyn cried.

The audience gasped in shock, so did my brothers and I.

"It's a long story, it's a heartbreaking story. She died later on from a heart attack after that, she was only ninety years old." Kaitlyn looked down.

I grab her hand and held it tight not wanting her to cry. My heart broke a little not believing what I just heard. Everyone was silent and shocked and I just want to change the subject before she gets really depressed.

I never knew Ariel was like that. I knew she was a bully and all but I didn't know she had no respect of elders! I'm gonna talk to Kaitlyn about this later.

"Wow. That's a sad story but that's good that you're with her. She saved you from being with a bad person." He said.

"Exactly. Michael doesn't deserve to be with a bad person like her, he's a very sweet, caring and loving guy, so that's why I finally admit to him that I was getting bullied from her because that'll be very terrible to see her treat a person like trash." Kaitlyn said.

Everyone clapped.

"You're such a sweet girl. I bet y'all we be married someday like Tito and Jackie.  Michael, would you like for that to happen someday?" He asked.

I nodded and chuckled a little.

"Yes, of course." I smiled a little at Kaitlyn.

"Too bad y'all are too young to marry. Haha." He chuckled with the audience.

"I would love to marry Michael some day. He's such a sweet heart and I love him." She smiled at me.

"Alright. Alright. Let's not talk about marriage at this age." Tito chuckled.

Everyone chuckled with Tito.

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Next Day
October 17th

•Ariel's POV•

Right after I got off the bus, I went to the bathroom to cover up my bruises from Saturday with...William.

Yesterday, paparazzi came over where I live and took a lot of pictures of me, I don't know why, but it was really annoying. They've been around for fifteen minutes and ran away with pictures of me. I hope it didn't look bad.

I rushed putting foundation on my face before anyone came in and fixed my hair. My hair is up in a messy bun, I'm wearing a black and red plaid shirt, black leggings and gold shoes.

Just a lazy Monday outfit.

The door swung open revealing Kaitlyn and Justice talking to each other and giggling. The feeling of irritation rushed into me by just looking at them from the corner of my eye. They stopped behind me and stared at me through the mirror.

"Uh. Excuse me. This is my mirror. I use this mirror a lot and I think you should move." She has this bitchy smile on her face.

"There's other mirrors in this huge bathroom and not its not yours, it's everyone's." I said putting eyeliner on my eyes.

"There's other mirrors in this huge bathroom. So can you like move to another sink so I can be on mine?" She spat.

"No. Please leave me alone. I don't wanna deal with you bitch." I mumbled.

They looked at each other and Kaitlyn turned her head back to the mirror.

"You know what?" She smiled. "Have you heard of the news lately?" Kaitlyn asked.

I didn't answer. I ignored her and continued to finish my wing eyeliner and forget she's here. It's so hard to forget she's here sometimes because she runs her mouth so much and her strong perfume gives me headaches.

"Michael and his brothers had an interview on tv yesterday and I was in it. Everyone in the world knows you bully me now and they probably hate you for that." Kaitlyn smirked.

I slowly put my eyeliner pen down and looked at her through the mirror.

Bully?

"What do you mean bully? I don't bully you!" I raise my eyebrow.

They both chuckled and looked at each other getting me more confused and angry.

"Kaitlyn! What did you do?!" I pound my fist on the sink.

"Well. Uh." Kaitlyn laughed and leaned on one hip. "I told everyone that you bully me and they all hate you for what you did to my grandma and I. And it's everywhere. News, magazines, newspapers, you name it!" She exclaimed.

"I'm so glad that you told everybody that, now everyone thinks she's a fool. She deserves it Kaitlyn." Justice chuckled.

I swung my body around in front of them and slammed my backpack on the floor.

"I don't deserve anything from y'all! That was all a LIE! I didn't do anything to your grandma or you Kaitlyn!" I yelled.

"Tell that to the paparazzi and everyone else, I'm sure they won't believe you." Kaitlyn crossed her arms and smirked.

Kaitlyn and Justice walked closer and stopped two feet away from me.

"Let me give you a hint. Hm.. Remember when you had a crush on Michael?" She smirked.

I walked closer to them, just a few steps closer just in case I gotta beat their asses today.

"I told him that you bully me everyday and he changed his mind about you, that's why I'm his girlfriend now. He hates you know, remember that. You can never be with him ever again because he hates you and you're with that midget Prince." She chuckled.

Heat begin to fill my head with anger and my fists clenched tight, ready to punch that smile off her fucked up face.

Now, it's my time to make her face even more fucked up. She deserves it.

"You LIER!" I swung my fist to the side of her cheek with a lot of anger and adrenaline, causing her to fall flat on the ground.

I could've been with Michael a long time ago if it wasn't for her! But it's too late because I'm taken from Prince. Michael and I can't even be friends now because he believes her! I have to tell him! I really have to! He doesn't deserve to be with her! She's a horrible person! He needs to find someone else!

"Omg! Why did you do that for!" Justice pushed me.

"Because she's a bitch and you are too!!!" I yelled and I pushed her harder.

"Now you did that to both of us, you're gonna get it big time!" Justice got up slowly.

Kaitlyn got up and chuckled a little.

"It's okay Justice. She really punched me and now there's proof that she bullies me." She held the side of her cheek and squeezed her face in pain.

"I don't bully you and you know that! That's the first time I've ever hit you Kaitlyn you BITCH!" I yelled.

She's the one that bullies me! How can she just turn it around on me?!

I snatched my backpack off the floor and stormed out of the bathroom into the half crowded hallway. As I rushed out, a few girls rushed in, hearing Kaitlyn's fake cry and all of a sudden, I bumped into Latoya.

"Hey girl. You pissed too?" She looked at me.

"Yes." I breathed.

"You beat her ass?" She asked.

I groaned and walked pass her quickly walking down the hallway. People stared me down with disgusted looks on their faces and some people are laughing at me.

I guess the whole school knows about this too.
Omg I hate my life so much . Why can't it be normal?

I stopped in the middle of the hallway nervously looking around, trying to keep my tears in. With people staring at me with anger and disgusted looks, I feel embarrassed.

I have to watch the news and look at all the papers. I wonder what she said for people to hate me now.

I felt my eyes get watery and my vision blurred.

Don't cry. Don't cry.

I quickly looked around for somewhere private so that I can cry but I couldn't see because my tears were forming quickly. I ran to a different girls' restroom and slammed the door behind me. I slid my back down the wall and begin to cry in the palms of my hands.

I feel so much hatred. I hope Prince didn't hear what Kaitlyn said yesterday. I have no idea if she told me everything she said on that interview. If that's what she all said to everybody, then that's horrible, if she said more, oh my gosh what am I going to do? I wanna go home and never come back to this school again.

The door swung open and I stopped crying.

"Ariel?" A soft voice spoke.

I heard the door close.

"Ariel, are you crying?"

"It's me Prince. Speak to me." I heard him sit beside me.

I looked over at him and sniffed.

"T-this is a g-iirl's bathroom." I stuttered.

"I don't care. I need to talk to you." He look serious.

I looked back down and covered my eyes.

"I- don't want to." I sniffled.

"I don't care Ariel. We're going to talk about this now." He tried to pulled my hands away from my face but I didn't budge.

"What's going on with you and Kaitlyn? I saw the news last night and I've been calling you a million times and you wouldn't answer. Why is that?" He sounded like he was getting irritated.

"I-we-nt to church- okay." I muffled in my hands.

"Church is in the morning not night. Why haven't you picked up?!" He yelled a little making it echo in the empty bathroom.

I start to cry more knowing that he probably hates me now.

"Ariel, this is the second time you ignored my texts and calls. I worry about you Ariel! Why can't you just answer me?!" His voice sound hurt.

I sighed and looked at him in the eyes.

"I- broke my phone from falling down the stairs on Saturday and Trey was getting me a new phone yesterday and he hasn't gave it back to me yet." I lied about my phone breaking from falling down the stairs.

"Why didn't you tell me? You could've called me through your mom's phone." He soften his voice.

"She's in the hospital. R-emember?" I kept breathing in fast trying to stop crying.

"Ugh. Anyways. Why is Kaitlyn telling people that you bully her?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I-I don't know. She hates me and she wants the world to hate me."

"I remember when you used to have a crush on Michael and he played you."

"Y-yeah and he changed his mind about me because Kaitlyn told him that I bully her." Tears rushed down my face.

"Please stop crying. You have me baby. Everything is fine."

I sniffed and looked down.

"You don't hate me?" I asked.

"Of course I don't. I love you Ariel. Kaitlyn is a lier and I know about all this. I've been talking to Latoya." He said softly.

He grabs my hand and locks his fingers in mine. I looked back at Prince and he puts one hand on my cheek and caress my face with his thumb.

"I love you Prince." My tears kept rolling down my face and he wipes it away.

"We'll go through this together, maybe tell the world that all of this is not true and actually show them proof." He mumbles.

He scoots closer to me and stares into my watery eyes.

"What's that on the bottom of your eye." He touches my bruise with his thumb, bringing me a sharp pain.

"Stop Prince." I squeezed my face in pain.

"Did Kaitlyn do this to you? If she did, I swear I-" He clenched his fist.

"No. I just fell down the stairs." I lied.

"Are you okay? You're a little clumsy." He weakly smiled.

"I know. I need to be careful." I mumbled.

He lifted my chin up and pressed his warm lips on mine softly making a long peck kiss. Then, he planted small kisses on my lips after that. I smiled a little and blushed.

"Aww. You're smiling." His smile brightened.

"Whatever." I mumbled and looked down.

He chuckled and got up and helped me up off the floor.

"Now let's hurry and get to class. We're already late. You might wanna fix your makeup or just wash it off cause you look like a zombie." He laughed.

My eyes widened and I looked at the mirror far in front of me and see that my black eyeliner is smeared under my eyes, cheeks and the sides of my nose.

"Just wash it all off. You look beautiful without makeup too." He winked.

I blushed and shook my head.

"Why not?" He shrugged.

Bruises. Cuts.

I didn't answer him. I just grabbed my makeup bag out of my back pack and grabbed some paper towel.

"I'll see you in Algebra next period. I love you." He walked to the door.

"I love you too." I said back.