Alice Fairchild has never been famous, never really wanted to be. I mean, deep down, sure...she had that little voice in the back of your mind that told her she'd flourish under the spotlight. She was rather quiet, but had a sharp bite to her, and she never let anyone kick her while she was down. She ran a bookstore with her two best friends, spending each day surrounded by literature and art and music: something straight out of a fairytale. Michael Jackson was a rising pop star, soon to be the biggest in the world. He was soft spoken, gentle, kind. He tried not to let the negative voices impact him. Alice had never thought that she'd be the kind of person to have an opportunity so luckily fall into her lap, but when the doe-eyed, sweet-voiced singer stumbled into her world, she knew she would never be the same. (this story begins taking place post Off the Wall era, before Thriller!)

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.

In 1987, Michael Jackson is at the height of fame during the Bad era - adored by the world yet painfully alone behind closed doors. One sleepless night changes everything. While wandering the city after midnight to escape the pressure of celebrity life, he meets a mysterious Liberian woman standing beneath the glow of rain-soaked streetlights. She doesn't treat him like a superstar. She treats him like a person. What begins as a chance encounter turns into secret late-night phone calls, stolen conversations, and a connection neither of them can explain. Her voice becomes his comfort during exhausting tours and endless studio sessions. And without telling her, Michael records one of their calls - preserving her native language inside a song inspired entirely by her. A song the world would one day know as "Liberian Girl."

AHHHH hiii this is my first story I've written! This story will be a Michael x Reader story in first person view! The images in the stories help show how he looked during the chapter. I hope you enjoy! Sequel to this story is currently out and still being updated frequently❤️ Before the fame, before the concerts, before everyone in the world knew his name, he was just Michael. Your best friend. You grew up together in Gary, Indiana, spending summers outside, listening to music, and talking about the future like it was so far away. But as the years go by and Michael's life starts changing faster than either of you can keep up with, feelings start getting involved too. From childhood best friends to first love, this story follows you and Michael through every era, every heartbreak, and every moment that tried pulling you apart. But no matter how famous he becomes, to you he'll always just be Michael.

❝i was so lonely that i used to walk through my neighborhood, hoping i'd run into somebody i could talk to,❞ - michael jackson. encino, 1978. delilah kingston can't sleep. neither can the boy she finds sitting alone at a bus stop in the middle of the night.

In 1982 Los Angeles, aspiring immigration lawyer Eliana Alves balances law school with working as Quincy Jones's trusted assistant, grateful to the man who became family after her mother's death. While witnessing the creation of music history in the recording studio, she finds herself at odds with Quincy's enigmatic collaborator, Michael Jackson. Convinced he dislikes her, Ellie struggles to make sense of his guarded behavior - unaware that first impressions can be as misleading as they are unforgettable. But the more time they spend together, the more Ellie begins to question everything she thought she knew about Michael - and herself. With fame, ambition, and secrets standing between them, one thing becomes clear: sometimes, the person you think you understand the least is the one who changes your life the most. ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ── This story contains potentially triggering material such as violence, sexuality, domestic abuse, and other mature themes. "Glory" is a work of fiction and is for entertainment purposes only.

Before the tours. Before the headlines. Before everything changed. There was a girl backstage Michael Jackson couldn't stop thinking about.

When you reconnect with your childhood best friend Janet Jackson in 1987, the last thing you expect is for Michael Jackson to remember every little thing about her. Between late-night phone calls, hidden feelings, jealous moments, and the chaos of fame, the two slowly grow closer inside the walls of Hayvenhurst. But loving the most famous man in the world comes with attention, pressure, and secrets neither of them are prepared for. Some feelings never really disappear. Even after all those years.

After a tragic stage accident, rising singer Seraphina Vale vanishes from the public eye and returns years later hidden behind veils and shadows. Rumors about her appearance spread endlessly, but nobody truly knows the woman behind the angelic voice that captivated the world. When Michael Jackson hears her sing one night in a recording studio, he becomes drawn not to the mystery of her face, but to the sadness in her voice. As music brings them closer together, Seraphina slowly learns what it means to be seen again.

he was my best friend before the world knew his name. savannah reed never forgot the boy who promised her he would become a star. before the screaming fans, before the sold out concerts, before the fame took him away, there was just michael and sav. years later, the victory tour brings him back into her life, forcing old memories, hidden feelings, and unfinished goodbyes to the surface. but when someone belongs to the world... can they ever belong to you again? childhood memories. fame. heartbreak. first love. this story is strictly fiction and is created for entertainment purposes only.