THE QUIET BOY || MICHAEL JACKSON

S2 🥀 E8

She nods and sighs, "I've been wanting to do solo for a while- hell I think we all have. We can record this last album and split privately, after a while we can get together and discuss if we like being solo or being together." Toke says, I agree to the plan and pick up my phone seeing that someone was calling. None other than Onyx

I answer the phone with Hello and put it on speaker, "What did you do, Jayden? Was it really that serious you kick her out of the group just for kissing Michael on accident? Seriously? Jayden, my patience is running out with you because you literally think everything is about you, literally. You dont run shit but your mouth and Michael! Got it?" Onyx yells, Token looked at the phone in shock as I let out a breath

"Onyx, please stop calling me with bullshit. I haven't spoken to Ciara since she kissed Michael purposely and I punched the hell out of her. You're losing patience with me? Its taking everything for me not to rearrange your brain cells, baby. Cause you constantly speak on topics you have no idea about and this shit is getting old Onyx, its getting fucking old. You know what, Onyx fuck-." Before I could finish Token takes the phone away and slaps her hand over my mouth

"Jt and I agreed for one last album but we'll let the label release it whenever they want. After we finish recording the album we'll split privately. Are you down with that?" Token asks and slowly takes her hand down from my mouth, "Onyx seemed to have some sense with everyone but me, "Yea, thats fine. I'm just done with this group." She agrees, "Great, future performances and interviews, yall don't fuck it up."

"Yea, hang my phone up." I said before standing

Token shakes her head and says her goodbyes to Onyx before hanging up, I chuckled softly before taking my phone and going in the kitchen. "Jay I'm out, text me." Toke says, "Be safe, love you."

"Love you too. Hey, Mike." Toke says before walking out, "Hey Token. Butterfly, where are you?" Michael calls out, a smile formed on my face, "In the kitchen, babe, come here."

I turned on some music which meant I was about to cook something, to me cooking and music go together like peanut butter and jelly. Michael walks in and places a kiss on my ear, lately thats been his favorite place to kiss me, I find it cute

"Whats going on, Buggo?" I greet pulling out some ground turkey, I decided to make some burgers and homemade air-fried fries, "Just left the studio as usual, we dont know if we wanna use Carousel or Baby Be Mine." Michael says, "Thats a tough decision, Carousel is very catchy but Baby Be Mine has what reminds me of an Off the Wall song type beat, ya know?"

He giggles and grins, "We're gonna get Toya and Janet to be the background singers for PYT, I still gotta record it though." He says

I grinned and nodded at the excitement in his voice, I could tell he was really excited about Thriller. Hey did you know, Thriller was supposed to be Starlight? I thought it was really catchy, honestly, but Thriller gave Michael that rush of horror he wanted.

"Hey I thought you recorded PYT already? I loved your vocals on there, it sounded so...soothing." I admit, occasionally looking over my shoulder to see him, he chuckles as he scrolled down his phone

"I did too actually but Quincy and another producer came up with a new beat, I think it gives Thriller that funky song I wanted ya know?" Buggs explains, I nodded as the instrumental to the new PYT began

It was waaayyy different than the original PYT, its more funky like he said. Its very catchy, honestly.

"I like that, Michael, I really do. I can see it now, PYT by Michael Jackson on the charts, trust me." I giggle earning one in return, "Thank you Butterfly, I appreciate it. I decided that and The Girl is Mine will be the singles for Thriller." Michael explains causing me to nod

"So when are you releasing Thriller?" I ask, swaying my hips softly to the music in the background, it was Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All. I'm deeply in love with this song

"We're thinking about somewhere close to Christmas, somewhere in December." Michael responded earning a nod from me

A couple seconds of silence went by before Michael spoke up again, I'd just sat the burgers on the skillet, "Hey, I saw an Article about Ciara leaving the group, whats that all about?"

Scoffing silently I shake my head, turning towards him, "She left without telling us, I'm guessing. I found out by Token, we're thinking it was planned honestly." I responded before flipping the patties

"Does Onyx know? Have you even talked to her?" Buggs asks as he takes the orange juice out of the fridge, "She called, basically blamed her departure on me because she kissed you and I almost broke her jaw and my hand in the process. I haven't talked to her since that, but Onyx seems to think I think everything is about me, I run everything. She told me the only thing I run is my mouth and you." I explain

Michael sighs, I could tell he was rubbing the space in between his eyes, "This is annoying, so what are you guys gonna do?" I sat another burger on the skillet after putting the other one on a paper towel to dry

"We've came to the conclusion to disband, we still have like nine months worth of interviews and performances left so we'll do those. We'll work on a good album, possibly do the music videos but after that we're done. Well, we're gonna separate for a few months, then we're gonna get back together and see how we feel. If we like solo we stay solo, if we miss each other we get back together." I explain with a nod as I put the fries in the air fryer

"Are you sure about this Butterfly? You all are gonna let some girl mess up your friendship?" Michael expresses, "Its deeper than some girl, we have different vibes. We wanna be solo, its like you and your brothers, tired of the same thing ya know?" I explain, looking over at him

He nods and wraps his arms around my waist, allowing me to lean on his chest, "Well, solo or together I'm here for you and I'm gonna support you." Michael smiles, I did the same and stood on my tippy-toes, placing a tender kiss on his lips

"Ready to eat?" I ask with a smile after the air fryer beeped, Michael lets out a groan before clapping, "Yes! I'm starving girl."

A//N

Well, we've come to an end, an end of two eras. Time skip coming soon, most likely after the next two chapters. We're also gonna sorta skip some events in the Thriller Era, not tooooo much tho🤍