Family Ties

A Terrible Accident

Roberta's POV

4 months later ...

As I am preparing for a meeting with Malissa in downtown Los Angeles I am still nervous. Why you ask ? well I'm 5 months and one day pregnant with a baby girl . I'm showing and trying so hard to stay out the spotlight that this meeting was the one thing I was dreading for six days now . We are having a meeting to talk with major agents and clothing designers who wants me to be apart of their clothing line in the year 2000. So that's what brings me to standing in front of my mirror . I have one navy blue slacks , blue heels , a black turtle neck long sleeve shirt and I'm about to put on my military styled navy blue jacket.  My team came and did a phenomenal job with my hair and makeup. My hair is in a high pony tail with my baby hairs nicely geled down . I grab my navy blue Tommy Hilfiger purse and head out.  Once I am downstairs I am greeted by my bouncing baby boy and my princess.  I make sure they are fed and ok as I get ready to go . I have My a cup of tea but I do have a bottle of water with fruit in it . I use to wonder how long I could keep me being pregnant a secret from lyn and the answer came the day I got out the shower and was getting dressed and she was watching cartoons with rilley and she ask me if there was a baby in my stomach and me being the one to not lie to my children I said yeah and she said how did it get there and I simply told her . .God put her there.  I guess she understood because she never asked me about how she got here anymore. After making sure they were OK malissa came and we got into the SUV with my security team already in it.  It takes us about 45 minutes to get to this tall building and of course there is a small size crowd of paparazzi outside.  I get out and have Caleb on one side and Sabashton my new security guy on the other.  We enter the building and head for the 6th floor for a interesting meeting ...

Michael's POV
Nothing new has been going on lately. Evan and I keep in touch way more often now.  I helped him open his dentistry and he has made sure that I understood how appreciative he is . I'm always here to help .  I'm pretty sure Roberta has explained her update on our newest member of our family . It's a girl . I'm excited for another girl seeing that Lyn is a princess herself.  It's also important that I try my hardest to teach Rilley how to treat a lady from the way i treat his mother because she is my queen and from the way I treat his sisters because they are my princesses. I only have three sisters and one half sister and they all get treat as such.... How they are suppose to be treated . I still haven't told Roberta about me helping Evan out.  I told my mother though and she didn't like the idea but she knows me and she knows that when I want to help somebody I'm going to see it that it gets done.  Evan has been a great friend of mine and he needs help and i want to help him.  I know telling Roberta and my siblings will only cause problems and I don't need anymore problems.  However the other day Roberta said she talked to mother about my issue with Sony and although I didn't want her to worry about anything...  She's carrying our child and raising two of our children that's a plate in itself but she did anyways and she told me that they both think that me and Sony presidents should have a meeting.  Either we talk in person or I write a letter expressing myself and how I feel.  She made a point.  They don't see me as a musician anymore after I made Thriller. They saw how much that album blew up and how much money it generated. They saw the same thing for BAD and Dangerous and lastly for HIStory and Blood On The Dance Floor. They don't care about the work I put into my music.  They don't care how many hours I spent in the studio and how I am the perfectionist when it comes to my music or how I always have my fans in mind when I make my music.  I give them what they want and they in return give me soo much love that it's completely overwhelming.  So no they don't see me as an artist.  They see me as Roberta called it a " human money making machine". That's why they are hounding me because they know that if I make a album and go on tour they as a company will get even more money out of me.  Totally disregarding the fact that I have two children and one on the way and that when I'm on tour I go through hell . I know that it all for the fans and I would do it over and over again but my family is home and it pains me when I get home I miss a milestone in their lives.  I miss when rilley  first starting crawling because I was finishing up the second half of my tour.  I literally cried that night because Roberta called me and screamed and told me that he starting crawling.  When I got home and he saw me he literally cried and called me daddy.  As a father that grabbed at my heart strings because my only son missed me soo much thar he literally called me dad because of excitement.  I'm not missing a milestone because of a company who wants me to make them more money because right now they're aren't that many artist who have the stamina like me.  I don't mean to sound arrogant but it's true. I'm the biggest artist in music history thanks to Thriller. So once I'm cleared and have sometime to myself I am going to let Sony know that we have to make some changes in this company vs artist situation...