Business With Pleasure

Chapter 27

India

I'm meeting Michael at the park today to see Ava. Ava is with me but she doesn't know that her surprise is to see her dad, she just know that we're hanging at the park for a bit. I parked my car and saw Michael leaning against a tree, wearing a dark grey sweater with the hood over his head, almost covering his face and dark shades. I get out the car and unbuckled Ava out of her seat. I carry Ava on my hip and walked over to where Michael is standing.

"Hey..." I say, trailing off. He looks at me and smiled widely.

"Hey." He says softly and once Ava realized that it's her father, she gasped and covered her mouth.

"Daddy?" She removes her hands from her mouth, while searching his face. He smiled as he walks up closer to us and take her from me.

"Hi princess." She throws her arms around his neck and bury her face in his neck, crying.

"I-I miss you d-daddy." Ava says, crying.

"I miss you too princess." Michael says softly to her while rubbing her back.

"I-I w-want t-to c-come h-home." She cries out. Michael looks over at me and I quickly looked away, with my arms crossed.

He then puts Ava down on her feet and told her to go play with the kids so we can talk. She quickly wipes her tears and nods as she runs off to play. Once she's out of sight, we sit quietly on the bench and after a second of silence, he breaks it.

"India..."

"What?" I snapped.

"I'm sorry." He apologizes. I looked at him.

"Michael, save it. Oh, and here you go." I say, handing him the engagement ring.

"It's over."

"No, it's not India. You can't do this to me and Ava. Just please come back home, my daughter misses me and I miss her... and you. India please, lets just work this out. I know I messed up and I'm sorry." Michael pleads in tears. I looked away feeling myself about to give in.

"No. You'll just hurt me again, Michael."

"No I won't, I promise."

"You said that the last time, Michael!" I snapped. He looks down.

"And I mean it this time, India. I didn't mean to have sex with Tatiana. I tried to push her away. I told her that I didn't want to do it, but she kept coming on to me... s-she seduced me." He shakes his head. I glare at him.

"And you gave in."

"That's my mistake. I shouldn't have gave in."

"Was Tatiana the only one you were sleeping around with?" I asked. He swallows hard.

"No... there's one more girl but I've known her for a long time." He say with disappointment in his tone. I shake my head.

"Why Michael?"

"I'm sorry.." He gets down on his knees in front of me and grab my hands.

"Do you love me?" He asked, looking deep into my eyes.

"If you don't love me, I'll leave you alone but if you do and I know that you're still in love with me, then come back home with me so we can work this out together."

"I don't know Michael, I do love you. I'm pregnant with our babies but... I don't know if I can trust you again. I don't know if things could be the way they were."

"It won't..." I give him a look.

"It won't be the same but it will be better..." He slides the engagement ring back onto my finger and he smiled softly.

"Please come back home, Ava wants to come home."

He looks at me with sad eyes. I sighed and looked down at my hands, avoiding eye contact and he speaks again.

"I'm not going on tour until we work and fix our relationship."

"What about your fans?" I asked, looking at him

"They understand. I've already sent out a video explaining why I've postponed the tour for a couple of months. I want to be with you India, you're the one for me. The one I've been looking for all my life. I need you in my life. For these past few days since you've been away has been crazy. I haven't slept, I haven't eaten, I haven't written any new songs and I haven't been in the studio. Can't you see how much I really need you? I'm nothing without you."

I'm in so much tears right now. He sounds so so sincere, but I don't know. Should I believe him? I searched into his eyes, and I see so much sincerity.

"Okay... I'll come back home." I say softly. He smiled as he gets up from off the ground and pulled me up to my feet. He wraps his arms around my waist and held me close to him.

"Oh god, thank you so much. I love you, India. I love you with all my heart and I'll never ever hurt you again." I smiled.

"I love you too, Michael."

~•~

1 Year Later...

I'm standing in front of my mirror and I find it so hard to believe that in less than a minute I will be Mrs. Jackson. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I can't believe it. I just can't believe that I'm about to marry the man of my dreams. There's a soft knock on the door, and I turned around and smiled when I saw Frank peeking his head through the door.

"Are you ready, India?" He asked and I nod.

"Yes."

I fixed my veil and walked out of the room. I lace my arm through Frank's and soon we were walking down the aisle. Once my eyes landed on my soon to be husband's eyes, I felt my heart stop and my breathing quickens.

He looks so handsome.

I looked over at Katherine and Joe, who's holding the twins, Mason and Mariah in their arms. I smiled and I continued to walk to the altar. As I get there, Michael reached his hand out to me and I placed mine in his. We both looked at each other and smiled.

"You look beautiful..." Michael said softly.

I looked down blushing. Once we're finished saying our vows, we prepared ourselves to say our "I Do's."

"Do you Michael Jackson take India to be your lovely wedded wife to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part." Michael stares me deep in the eyes as they sparkle with happiness.

"I do.." I smiled through my tears.

"And do you-"

"I do." I say, cutting him off. The priest smiled and all our family and friends started laughing.

"I love you so much." I say softly. Michael smiled.

"I love you too baby."

"Well by the state of-"

Before he can pronounce us husband and wife, Michael pulls me to him and kisses me.

"You may kiss the bride." Michael and I giggled.

"I love you Mrs. Jackson, and I'm glad that you're my wife." I bite my lip.

"I love you too Mr. Jackson."

We kissed again and we heard the fireworks exploding in the air. I pull away from the kiss and looked up at the night sky.

"Oh my god, it's beautiful."

"Mommy you look pretty."

We both looked down at Ava as she smiled and Michael picked her up and kissed her cheek as she giggled.

"And you look beautiful too, flower girl."

"I love you daddy."

"I love you too Princess."

Michael and I then both looked at each other and smiled before looking up at the sky. This is one night I'll never forget, and I'll always my other half, Michael Joseph Jackson... now and forever.

The End!