"You should stop looking at me like that," I whispered. Michael's smile was small, almost careful. "Like what?" "Like you know exactly what I'm thinking." His eyes stayed on mine. "I don't," he said softly. "But I'd like to." - Arthemis Lou becomes Hollywood's newest obsession after a role that hits too close to her real life. Michael Jackson is already living under the kind of spotlight she's only beginning to fear. They meet quietly, behind the noise, and what starts as understanding turns into something softer, deeper, and harder to hide. A slow-burn romance about fame, tension, healing, and two souls the world was never meant to understand.

Los Angeles, 1978. By twenty years old, April Bellamy already understands how the entertainment industry works. She knows how quickly talent becomes a commodity. How easily ambition can be mistaken for worth. How often people are rewarded for performing versions of themselves that have little to do with who they actually are. When her career brings her into the orbit of Michael Jackson, she expects another industry friendship-pleasant, temporary, and ultimately transactional. Instead, she finds someone who understands. Their friendship grows in recording studios, family kitchens, Hollywood parties, darkrooms, late-night phone calls, and long drives through Los Angeles. Beneath the glamour, success, and spectacle, both are struggling with the same question: what remains of a person when their image belongs to everyone else? While the world watches a star being manufactured in real time, April witnesses the private cost of perfection, the labor hidden behind performance, and the loneliness that can exist inside extraordinary success. At the same time, she finds herself confronting her own history, her family, and the role she's been playing for so long she no longer knows where the performance ends. When the Lights Go Out is a coming-of-age story about friendship, identity, exploitation, and survival in an industry built on consumption. It is a portrait of two young people trying to remain human while the world turns them into something else.

"Don't leave me again...please." "I won't, Michael. I promise." ••• all eras!michael jackson X fem!reader

( 𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙤𝙣 x𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞! reader / oc! ) ━━━ The year is 1978 and Astoria Briggs is a board mixer for Capital Records, when one day her boss tells her the infamous Quincy Jones' client is stuck on a song. They need a mixer, someone fresh to the scene. Astoria was just the person they were looking for and the rest, well...... it's difficult to explain. ──────────── ━━━ [ 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 ] All pictures and images do not belong to me, nor does Michael Jackson, all credits to their respectful owners.

‎‎ ‎❛ 𝓞𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 ❜‎ ‎ (n). ‎‎ ‎ the version of someone that exists in your memory.‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ﹝𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 graphic reconstruction: 07 ╱ 22 ╱ 2026﹞ ⠀ ⠀© grlbemine 2026 ⠀ ⠀ m. jackson ﹠ oc.

"The songs," he clarified. "Sometimes I write based on my personal experiences. Sometimes I write about things that I want to happen.... I wanted you to happen." Or Violet Brown was an ordinary person. She works a job to earn a living, she takes the bus, and she lives in a run-down apartment. She never would have thought that working in her suburban town's hospital as a care aid would lead her to one of most famous people in the world. More importantly, she never thought he would want her. Thriller Era Michael Jackson x femOC (Will eventually go into Bad era as well)

── 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐃𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐋 ۫ ꣑ৎ

In the summer of 2026, the world is buzzing with the release of the Michael Jackson biopic. For twenty-two-year-old Xiomara Vega, the theater is a sanctuary, a place to lose herself in the music of the man she's spent her whole life admiring from afar. But as the silver screen fades to black and the hum of the theater lulls her into an exhausted sleep, the world shifts. Xiomara doesn't wake up in a plush cinema seat. She wakes up on a cold park bench in 1984, greeted by the sound of a police officer's baton and a world without smartphones, Uber, or the internet. Trapped in the neon-soaked peak of the Thriller era, Xiomara is a ghost from a future that hasn't happened yet. To survive, she secures a job at the periphery of the King of Pop's whirlwind life. She knows every headline before it breaks, every secret before it's whispered, and every heartache before it strikes. She's determined to keep her head down and find a way home, until she meets him. Michael is lonely, shielded by fame, and searching for someone who sees the man behind the sequined glove. In Xiomara's "futuristic" spirit and mysterious origins, he finds a soul he can't explain. But as the timeline begins to blur and the pull of 2026 grows stronger, Xiomara must decide: do you save the man you love from the future you already know? Or do you risk disappearing forever? The studio was quiet, the smell of old mahogany and expensive cologne hanging in the air as he reached out, his fingers barely brushing her wrist, his voice a soft, desperate anchor in the dark. "Mara, stay... with me... stay here."

At the dawn of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall era, the studio becomes more than a workplace-it becomes a world where music is born, dreams are chased, and everything is about to change. Nina is a songwriter with talent hidden behind quiet confidence, working long nights in the same studio where Michael is creating the sound that will redefine his future. When their paths cross, what begins as simple collaboration slowly turns into something neither of them expected. Between late-night sessions, unfinished lyrics, and melodies that feel like fate, Nina finds herself drawn into Michael's world-one filled with ambition, pressure, and a rising spotlight that never stops growing. And sometimes... the most unforgettable love stories begin in the place where songs are made.

Michael Jackson had been in love with the same woman for more than 10 years. He was 11 when they met; she was 14 years his senior. She seemed like an untouchable goddess, always just out of reach. And, until he came of age, that's just what she was. But when the time came, she took what he'd longed to give her. And he gave it willingly. Michael thought it would grow, develop into a mutual relationship built on love. It didn't. Then along came Ruby Keane. She was everything Michael could want in a best friend; charming, witty and never one to put up with celebrity BS. She helped heal him of his heartache, patching him back up, piece by piece. And then, out of nowhere, she became the one to make his heart race that little bit faster.