When You Were Mine [SEQUEL TO THE GIRL IS MINE]

The Final Sessions

(A/N: Ok so before we begin, I wanna explain this chapter a little bit. In the 1980's Prince had a girlfriend Vanity, she was the original choice for Purple Rain but they broke up before shooting began. Anyway, in 2016 Vanity died a few months before Prince. I got the idea to have her death be the back story for this song. She didn't die as she does in this book, this was solely for the story. R.I.P. Denise "Vanity" Matthews. 1959-2016)

29: INT. NEVERLAND RANCH (DINING ROOM) DAY FADE IN:

One week later, December 23rd, 1988.

RACHAEL: (comes in)

MICHAEL: Good morning beautiful!

RACHAEL: Morning!

MICHAEL: Hey listen, I know you're at the studio again today with the girls, can I come with you?

RACHAEL: Of course you can!

MICHAEL: What about Prince?

RACHAEL: Fuck him!

MICHAEL: (gives her a look)

RACHAEL: Sorry... Screw him!

MICHAEL: Good girl. (kisses her forehead)

30: INT. PAISLEY PARK (STUDIO) DAY CUT TO:

Rachael finishes up the last of the songs for the album.

PRINCE: Well look who's here, the voice of the heart and her old man.

MICHAEL: Hey, we're the same age!

PRINCE: (rolls his eyes) Listen, before we start recording, there's something I wanna play you. (sits down at the piano) I wrote my first Christmas song.

MICHAEL: (sarcastically) Prince wrote a Christmas song? The same Prince who wrote about a girl masturbating with a magazine?

PRINCE: (glares at him)

RACHAEL: (playfully slaps his shoulder) Hey, give him a chance! That's great Prince, we'd love to hear it.

PRINCE: (gives Michael a "haha" look) (starts playing) (starts singing) Last night I spent another lonely Christmas. Darling, darling, you should've been there. Cause all the ones I dream about, you are the only one that makes my love shout, you see. You are the only one I care for. Remember the time we swam naked in your father's pool? Boy, he was upset that night, but boy, was that ever cool. Remember the night we played Pokeno for money, and you robbed me blind. Remember how you used to scream so loud cause you hated that number nine. Hey, I saw your sister skating on the lake this afternoon. Good Heaven, how she's grown. She swoons the boy skaters she's so tall. But of all your father's children, all your father's children, baby, you know you are the finest of them all. You are brighter than the northern star and I... Last night I spent another lonely Christmas. Darling, darling, you, you should've been there. You see, of all the ones I dream about, you are the only one that makes my love shout, you see. You are the only one I care for, yeah. My momma used to say "always trust your lover." Well, now I guess that only applies to her. Cause baby, you promised me, baby you promised me you'd never leave! Then you died on the twenty-fifth day of December. Oh, baby! Last night I spent another lonely Christmas. Darling, baby, you, you should've been there, now. Cause all the ones I dream about, you are the only one that makes my love shout, you see. You are the only one I care for... Your father said it was pneumonia, your mother said it was strep, but the doctor said you were dead, and I, I say it's senseless! Every Christmas night for seven years now I drink banana daquaris til I'm blind. As long as I can hear you smiling baby, you won't hear my tears. Another lonely Christmas is mine. Yeah, mine. Yeah. Another lonely Christmas is mine. Last night, yeah, I spent another lonely, lonely Christmas. Darling, darling, you should've been there, yeah. Cause all the ones I dream about, you are the only one that makes my love shout, you see. You are the only one I care for.