FOR ALL TIME & ETERNITY

6. Millennium Moment

Michael was still friends with Tee.  He liked her but not in a romantic sense and he was without a doubt in love with Jasmine.  Tee said she wanted to talk to him and she actually flew out to Germany to see him without ask.  

Jasmine cleared her throat. "Still there?"

Mihcael had no clue how Jasmine found out. "I explained to her that we were back together."

"You couldn't say that over the phone?" Jasmine asked with an attitude.

"I did. And then she suddenly wanted to see me. I didn't ask her to come."

"But you didn't stop her."

Michael sighed.  "Baby, please not now.  I promise nothing happened.  We've always been just friends and we're going to remain just friends."

"I still don't even know who this girl really is.  What's her real name?"

"It doesn't matter."

"It does matter.  She's your friend."

"That you may never even meet. We're not going to make this something it's not. I have a lot of female friends you don't know about."

"And you're bragging?"

He chuckled at her remark.  "No.  I have to get some rest.  I love you."

"Whatever, bye."

"I'm in a hospital bed, remember?"

She rolled her eyes.  "Love you too, baby. Just let me be mad that I'm not there with you right now."

"Okay. Be mad, beautiful."

~*~

Michael was working on a new album and Jasmine was balancing her new career as a choreographer and being a mommy.  She had the twins but Prince and Paris were really starting to feel like her own now too.  She loved them just as much. With Michael and Debbie's divorce being final, Debbie completely disappeared from their lives and Jasmine was the closest thing the kids had to a mother.  

As months went by and Jasmine and Michael were still living together in Neverland, they both were feeling pressured.  Michael felt pressure about proposing again and actually making it down the aisle this time and Jasmine was pressured about having more kids.  They were pressuring each other and when they were both home they could feel the tension.

Jasmine was in the kitchen cooking and Michael came in to get something from the fridge.  He walked over to the stove and stood next to her and took off one of the tops to a pot.

"What are you doing?" Jasmine asked grabbing it from him to put it back in place.

"Just trying to see what you're cooking."

"I don't like people in the kitchen while I'm cooking."

Michael sighed.  "We need to talk."

Jasmine didn't say anything.  She lowered the burner and started walking to the bedroom and he followed.  As she walked in, he shut the door behind her.  She sat in a chair and he sat in one as well right next to her.  He leaned in close and grabbed her hand. 

"Baby, we're running out of time."

"What?" Jasmine asked confused.

"Well let me rephrase. We're wasting time.  I think we should start having more kids; build that family we always talked about."

"Do you see a ring on my finger?  Because I don't," she said flashing her bare ring finger to him.

He grabbed her hand and rest it in his hands.  "I'm just scared.  We're going to get married though."