Smile

Chapter 16

February 27th 1989 (5:34 pm)

Mariah slowly took a sip of her sparkling water that was in a wine glass and looked at Michael. "You remember this place?" He asked her.

Mariah nodded. "Yep, this is the place you took me on this day last year when we first met." She replied and then looked around the restaurant.

"You were so shy." He said.

Mariah looked down on the floor and laughed remembering that night.
"Well I was nervous... you were my favorite singer and I literally adored you." She explained.

"Do you still adore me?" Michael asked jokingly.

Mariah laughed. "Well now I know you on a personal level so I adore you even more." She replied.

"Aww that's nice, your pretty cool too." Michael joked. "So what are you ordering?"

Mariah's picked up the menu that was in front of her and then squinted her eyes trying to find something she might want. "Why couldn't we just go to McDonald's? The names of the foods here are so damn confusing... what the hell is a Cassoulet?"

"It's a French dish." He replied.

Mariah ended up ordering some well-done stake with macaroni on the side and some iced tea to drink.

The two of them eat they're food and chatted it up. "So how's your album going?" Michael asked.

"Eh, I wrote this one song called hypnotized and then when I presented it to that man what's him name? Something Mottola and you know what he said? He said that it was 'too R&B'." Mariah explained to him as she finished the last little bit of her macaroni.

"Oh really? Maybe he wants you to go in the pop direction... cause you know it's more mainstream i guess you could say, but don't worry Tommy always does this with his artists. He has a vision for them and then makes them into that and then once people acknowledge you as a singer and an artist he lets you go in your direction." He told her.

Mariah shrugged her shoulders. "I guess... but other then that my album have been going great. I still have to write one more song for it but that'll be easy... they've already decided for me that the song vision of love is going to be the lead single." She explained.

"Have you even recorded it?" He asked.

Mariah shook her head. "No they just like the lyrics and they think it'll be a hit."

Michael smiled. "Anything with your voice on it will be a hit." He replied.

She laughed. "Yeah right."

February 27th 1989 (8:34 pm)

Michael grabbed a bottle of wine out of the bottle cabinets and opened it. "I know your under the drinking age but it'll just be our little secret." He said and then poured the wine into two glasses.

Mariah giggled and picked up the
glass. "I won't tell if you don't." She replied and took a sip.

He raised his eyebrow at her. "Usually people think it's disgusting when they first drink, but you didn't even make a face... I'm impressed." He noticed.

Mariah sighed as she thought about those nights Marvin practically shoved liquor down her throat but she didn't want to bring it up and kill the moment so instead she make up something random. "Well me and my friend Jada got fake IDs and used to buy it."

"Interesting." He replied and then took a sip himself.

"Do you think it'll always be like this?" Mariah asked out of the blue.

Michael raised his brow. "What do you mean?"

She sighed and then frowned. "Do you think we'll always be happy? Like we'll always love each other... whatever that means."

Michael walked closer to her. "All I know is that I'll always love you."

Mariah smiled and looked up at him. "And I'll always love you too." She replied. She looked deeply into his eyes and got lost in them. For some reason she had the urge to kiss him and so she did.

He kissed her back passionately and the passion intensified as they fell on to the leather couch. She held the back of his head and they continued what they were doing.

Suddenly Mariah pulled back and slid off the couch. "I'm sorry... I cant do this."