With Michael

Chapter 49 - Proceed With Caution

5th of December, 1996
Brooklyn and Janet are 30, Michael is 38

Michael: "Brandon, I swear, if you tell him you're fired." Frank said loudly as I walked into my hotel suite after a great lunch.

He and Brandon were fighting in the other room.

"Jesus, Frank, there are things that are way more important than this tour!" Brandon yelled back.

I walked into the little living room, "Um, what's up?"

"Mike!" he exclaimed. "Good, you're here. We're going home, right now. I already arranged a plane to take us."

"What happened?" I asked, feeling my palms getting sweaty.

"Brooke passed out. Janet hadn't updated me yet, but we have to get home." he answered.

That brought tears to my eyes.

My worries soon exchanged with anger.

I turned to Frank who tried to avoid my angry gazes.

"You wanted to keep this information from me?! ME! You do realize this is my wife and son, right?" I screamed, ready to charge at him.

"We can't cancel anymore shows, Mike." he mumbled.

"I'm the damn boss, I decide what we can or can't do. I'm staying at home until after Christmas, make sure that happens."

Brandon pulled me by my arm and soon we were in a car.

I bounced my leg nervously on the way to be airport. Brandon's ringtone startled me since I wasn't paying attention to anything around me.

"It's Janet." he told me, holding the phone out.

I grabbed it and put it to my ear.

"Dunk, what's going on? Is she okay? What about the baby?"

"I just got to the hospital, Mike. I promise I'll call when I know something." my sister said.

"Why does she need to go to the damn hospital?!" I screamed.

The phone was snatched away from me by Brandon.

"Call me if anything changes." he said into the device and hung up.

I covered my face with my hands and let out a deep sigh.

He patted my back, "Mike, she's perfectly fine, I promise."

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Janet: We've been at the hospital the whole night, and they were still telling us nothing.

I couldn't help but feel guilty about this. Maybe if I went with her we wouldn't have been here.

"Why aren't they telling us anything?" Jermaine asked, obviously irritated.

Just then a doctor came into the room, making us all scatter to him.

"She's awake. Her blood pressure was off the charts, but we were able to stable it. The baby is absolutely fine. I'm still kind of worried, so I sent her to do an ultrasound. You should be able to see her in a few minutes. I'm allowing two people for now, I don't want her to be overwhelmed. She's still a little off." he informed.

Joshua attacked him in an unexpected hug and thanked him.

Everyone agreed that both of us should go see how Brooke was doing.

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Brooklyn: My eyes were watering as I looked at my baby on the screen.

"So he's okay?" I asked the nurse who applied pressure on my bump.