The Shortys

Michael and Me - 1984 - 1.3

Sunday, January 31st, 2016

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Any shortys with this title are basically some "notes" or rough drafts that are going to become another story I'm working on in my 'Michael and Me' Series, which is a fictitious story based on the life of Julia Daugherty, who meets Michael Hutchence and of their life together. Each book will contain a year or a couple of years of their lives, right now I have posted the year 1983 (an ongoing book); this "note" is from 1984. :)

The "1", "2", and so on aren't indicative of actual chapters as they will eventually appear in their respective books, just numbering them here to keep track of them. They're gonna kind of jump around a bit too, as notes often do.

---- The photo is one of INXS taken in 1984 at a stable somewhere in Spain or Guam (I think).

---- The video is 'Burn For You' from INXS 1984 album 'The Swing', and was directed by Richard Lowenstein.  INXS TRIVIA:  One of the back up singers in this video, Erana Clark, sang at Michael's memorial when his father spread Michael's ashes in Rose Bay, Australia on January 22nd, 1998.  You can read more about that here: http://michaelhutchence.org/happy-birthday-michael-hutchence/ .     UPDATE:   Apparently UMG has blocked the official version of 'Burn for You' from being aired on YouTube (complete BS, I know), luckily I could still find the song, just not the official video.  :(

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Current word count:  3,587  words

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(January 21st, 1984 - Continued...)

          Julia noticed most of the fans and industry people had gone now and the atmosphere was much more relaxed than it was previously as the three of them split up, Buffy taking James from Tim and Michael and Julia joining his mom and sister on the couch along with Andrew, Gary, and Jodie, who had joined them during her absence.

          Although the atmosphere was much more relaxed, she noticed the buzz she had felt in the air from earlier hadn't quite subsided, as it would sometimes do after a concert, and that everyone in the room seemed to be really happy and energetic.   Especially Michael, who couldn't seem to sit still for more than a few minutes at a time; he was constantly shifting around in his chair, and when he wasn't shifting he was fiddling with his hair or picking at his nails, or playing with the frayed ends of the small hole in his jeans, going back and forth between smoothing them out and making them stick up again.  She knew these were all signs of him being restless and nervous and placed a hand on his leg, giving him a gentle, reassuring squeeze as she looked at him smiling.  He responded by half-smiling and placing his "picking" hand over hers, giving it a gentle squeeze and she noticed his hands were warm and a little sweaty.