Baby

26

October 1, 1991

She didn't feel good, she didn't feel good at all. She was crampy and she was due literally any day now but there she was sitting in her living room, wearing a purple leather jacket and a black dress with all different colored shapes on it, very early nineties.  But the thing that was alarming her were the sharp pains that would squeeze a band around her uterus and would radiate down her sciatic nerve into her legs causing her to keep shifting uncomfortably in her chair. All of her Timespace interviews were scheduled to be done at home because she was so far along she didn't want anything to happen. She shifted uncomfortably in her chair, one of her hands caressing her stomach as she starts breathing deeply. The big problem was that she had two of them she had to get through, both were waiting in the wings. Nicky Horme was going first. 

"Why did you decide to leave Fleetwood Mac for good?" He questions. She didn't want to answer this question. 

"Well mainly because I thought that after fifteen years of fighting like a dog to do both my solo career and and my Fleetwood Mac career it was time for me to rest especially because I have two little girls that now that I want to devote my whole life too." She states caressing the side of her stomach lightly with her thumb thanking god that they were only filming her chest up. "And then because it was a Friday a couple of months ago, and I called up on a Friday Afternoon to try to get Mick and got his answering service and ugh...I said to him Mick, this is very serious I need you to call me. And he didn't call so I finally tracked down his manager and I told them that I wanted Silver Springs because it belongs to my mother the whole thing was that my mom won't take anything from me. The only thing she'll take from me is a gift of song and so that's why I gave her this song because I wanted to give her some money. I wanted to give her some money to do somethings she wanted to do for a long time. I wrote it for Rumours and the record was basically done and Mick said I need you to come out to the parking lot and I knew it was serious. So we walked out and he said I'm taking Silver Springs off the record. My first reaction was why and he said its as basically too long and we thought another one of your songs was better. And I asked what song he said I don't wanna know and I didn't want it on the record and he said then don't sing it and then I got really angry and screamed at him and walked back into the studio completely freaked out. They said you better go sing it or you can take a hike so basically with a gun to my head I sang it and they put Silver Springs on the back of go your own way. But I learned to live with it, so when Timespace came around it didn't occur to me that they wouldn't let me have it back. That was the tipping point. Because Mick said over my dead body will you ever get that song back. Because you DO NOT mess with my family. You Don't mess with my husband, my children, my brother OR my parents." 

"Why do you Think Mick would do that do you. I'm thinking about his autobiography too saying things like they didn't want you in the band, they wanted Lindsey but you were with Lindsey so they decided they'd take you on." 

"Lindsey wouldn't go without me. That's just how it was. I was the extra housecat." 

"But he also talked about a relationship with you. Why would he do that to you Stevie?" 

She sucks a sharp breath as the pain comes in her stomach.

"I don't know. Now he's ruined Fleetwood Mac's future. I don't think unless he sits down and tells me why I'll ever go back to that band. I could've dropped out when Lindsey left. It could've been easy, easy nobody would've questioned it. I could've left then and gone to my solo career and but I chose to stick it out and do both my solo career and Fleetwood Mac." 

"Other than being angry, what other emotions are there after leaving Fleetwood Mac.' 

"I will always love the band, that's why I stayed after Lindsey left and I would've stayed had it not been for my girls. I loved being with them. I love John to Death, I love Christine. Lindsey and I are married now, he's the father of my children, and the five of us had a very special relationship it was like a dream come true."