Yessss!

Okay, I vote go to LA again IF he sends her roundtrip tickets asap and gets her a hotel room (just in case!). She needs some sort of security while she's there. He's still in the dog house.

Harry is a little too....much. "Hun"? No. That's a warning sign. 4 dates and they aren't official? Yeah, that's a warning sign.

On a side note, I'm peeved with Michael for his "Anything else and I'm sure I'll just put my foot in my mouth." Eff that. If they are going to be friends, the honesty and forthcomingness needs to come from both sides. He already put his foot in his mouth....saying nothing just leaves it stuck in there. And I don't know about his preferences in this story, but I don't think many people enjoy the taste of foot. Unless their cannibals or have pica or something.....

should she forgive him? idk he seems out of touch with reality and might hurt her again buuuuut he is michael jackson lol and at least he payed her back tho. in this situation i would probably run right back to him ._.

omg this storu is so different i realy enjoy reading it

No problem at all! ^^ I'm glad I could help make the writing process easier. Haha, I'd want to get to the Mike parts faster too if I was the writer, so I completely understand. It's great that you take the time to flesh out all your characters. And, lol!! I saw that Steven Perry thing! Her potential prom date's parents must have really liked Steve Perry from Journey, xD. I find it hilarious how it was almost Steven Tyler. Aerosmith is my favorite band! I would have been like, "Omg!!"

Well... that's progress. I'm so glad he finally paid her back the money he costed her! And, I can tell he's trying by giving her the journal with the drawing. That was pretty cute. He still has a bit of a way to go, though, before I can see him completely earning Julia's forgiveness. Lol, and I think Janelle might be even madder at him than Julia is! Haha, that's what friends are for. I wonder what role Henry will play later on.

The psychologists seeing him at the hospital after he got burned actually seems really believable. You worked that into the storyline very well. And, seeing as Michael was interested in psychology, I can totally see him reading the DSM as something he would do. He might have also been motivated by a desire to see if anything explained his feelings. I know many people self-diagnose depression.

Another awesome chapter! :)

woahhhh i love complex stories like these! one of my new favs :) 

WHAT. WHY THE HELL IS 1985 JUST NOT INCLUDED ON THIS MASSIVE TIMELINE??!? hahahahahahahahahhaha. It'll be nice for stuff before the current setting of the story though!

I completely agree with everything wonderfulmistake and Redone have said. Flawed people are people, and they are lovely. Something in the first link that wonderfulmistake posted popped out at me:

MJ: "And then I deal with this anorexia thing..."

"Joseph used to beat us all the time and... (inaudible) dance.. would... He would, he would just... get to me. And I bought into that, he was like, 'Oh, you put on a few pounds.' The only thing I could control in my life, what with Motown... 'cause they tell you - in the interviews when we used to go on Carson or Mike Douglas or whatever back then, when we used to do interviews as the Jackson Five, you know when you're in this kind of business they kinda like... okay, girl... 'Do you have a girlfriend? 'No' Do this... You know got, it's like, they dictate to you everything. What you wear, what you sing. 'Cause back then we weren't allowed to sing our own stuff and do our own stuff. They dictate to you what you can wear... The only control I had over my life was eating. I had no control. We had no control. *clears throat* I didn't, I didn't... I wasn't like my brothers. People, they're angry and they take it out on others. I was angry and hurt, and I took it out on myself. And being brought up with Joseph and stuff like that... when we were rehearsing on 2300 - where we used to live. It's like, if I danced wrong, if I sang the wrong note, I'd get the hell beat out of me, I'd get thrown in the basement. So instead of taking it out on other people, I withdrew and I'd take it out on myself. There was nothing I could control in my life but my eating. And Joseph told me, "Oh, you're... oh you have such a big nose."

The fact that Michael refers to his eating issues as anorexia and the fact that he demonstrates so much self-awareness over it tell me he was probably diagnosed with it at some point. Just speculation, of course. It just popped out at me because I didn't know that Joseph belittled him over his weight, too, and the self-awareness he demonstrated over why he restricted his eating amazed me. People with anorexia are often in denial over why what they're doing is harmful to their bodies. Of course, given the last link wonderfulmistake posted, it did seem as if he went through denial, too. I always thought he exhibited disorded eating because of some of his comments and my own struggles, but now there's more credence to my theory.

Man, this chapter of yours sure has sparked some discussion ;) Just keep doing what you're doing and make sure that you're still having fun while writing. As I've already mentioned and can't stress enough, I like what you're doing with the story, and I'm sure that whichever direction you're heading in, it'll still be great.