[MJ Fanfiction] Whatever Happens (Sequel to "What Happened That Day")

Part I: Time Flies

June's point of view

Manhattan, New Yok, April 4th 1990

"Come on, mom! It's not even funny," I said, slightly laughing.

"It is funny! I cracked this joke at work, and they were all laughing," she proudly said. "Tell her yourself, Damon!"

"Well, a few were chuckling, yeah," he admitted, while coming back to the table where my mother and I were gathered with a bottle of wine in his hands.

"They're a good audience, because this joke sucked," I giggled.

As you can see, things have changed between my mother and I. It took around a year for me to accept she fell in love again, but I think I'm good with this situation now. Things were kind of weird at first, because I didn't speak to her a long, long time, but one day, I just decided I needed to face reality. I missed her, and Karl gave me a few days so I can go to New York and fix things with my mother. As soon as I was back, Damon took me aside and apologized over and over again for what happened between us back in 1988, but I forgave him. He explained he just acted out of love and anger. He was really mad at me for taking my mother responsible of her feelings: we can't control our feelings. The heart has its reason that Reason can not know. They moved away in Manhattan together, and I became upset at first because I didn't want my mother to sell the house I grew up in, the house my father once owned, but then, I understood in needed to move on from the past, because I couldn't continue to live in the past: I needed to live in the present.

"Whatever," my mom said, rolling her eyes playfully. "Where are Jeremy and David?"

"They had an appointment with Oprah's assistant. Apparently she still wants me to give her an interview, but I really wanted to stay here with you, so I asked them to go for me," I explained.

"They're really good at their new jobs, aren't they?" Damon asked, smiling.

"Yeah," I smiled. "It's so fun to have two of your best friends as assistants. The fact that Jer lost his job was not a bad thing, after all."

"Doesn't he miss being a doctor? I mean, it's not the same thing at all," my mom laughed, sitting back on her chair next to Damon.

"I don't think so. He seems to really enjoy being my assistant. Well, he's not quite my assistant. He's a lot of things, actually," I laughed. "He's more like my agent, and my doctor," I chuckled again, "and he deals with my schedule with Karl, while Dave is more like my fashion assistant. He advises me what I should wear, he helps me with my hair and make up. They're both really helpful, honestly. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have them."

My mother hummed in response, "So you're finally down to do this interview for Oprah, huh?" she asked me.

"Yeah," I asnwered, putting my glass of wine down. "Karl said it would be a good thing because she's really influent in her field, so I accepted."

"You know you don't always have to listen what this man's telling you, right? He's not that good of an adviser."

"Please, not that again..." I pleaded. "I get that you don't like him, ok, even though I don't see why."

"I already told you why. Sweetie, since you work for that man, you lost too much weight, and I don't like this."

"Mom, I'm a model, I need to keep my figure," I explained. "Karl is paying for a fitness intstrucor for me, and he makes sure I have healthy food to eat. He really care about my health, you should be happy about this. And I'm not even that thin," I added.

"See? It looks like he wants you to be the way he wants you to be, and I don't like it," she explained. "He changed your hair, he changed you style... He changed everything."