CHAPTER 14…

WATCH OUT!

When they were finally finished eating and signing the contract. They all went there separate ways. Kathy, Prince, Paris, and Blanket helped Mike to the limo. The limo was on the other side of the road. After they finally got him to the other side without getting hit by a car, Blanket realized that he had left his "action figure" as he liked to put it, in the restaurant. Prince and Kathy agreed to go get it. So, they did. As they were walking back across the road, Prince saw something shinny and looked back.

"Lucky Penny!" He said grabbing up the small copper coin. He was still in the middle of the road. Kathy didn't realize that he was still out in the road until someone yelled out,

"Watch out Kid!" Kathy looked back to see a truck coming straight for Prince. Prince looked up and was walking the rest of the way when he tripped on a pothole in the road. He had already had stitches in his leg before, so it hurt worse when he just fell on it.

"Prince! Get up! Hurry!" Kathy yelled.

"I can't! My leg hurts too much!" Kathy ran over to his aid as the truck neared closer.

"Come on!" She lifted him up. He squealed with pain and fell right back over.

"I can't do it Kathy!" She looked back up to see the truck almost right on them. She saw the driver was a white woman with long light brown hair and green eyes. Kathy of course had long dirty blonde hair and light blue eyes, but this woman reminded her of her mother so much that she went blank. "Kathy!" Prince yelled. She snapped out of it and stared down at Prince. The lady was talking on her cell phone, so she wasn't really paying that much attention to what was in front of her. Kathy had to be brave though if she wanted Prince and herself to live. She stood right up in front of Prince and put her hand up in a stop position. She gulped and prayed to God that this would work.

"STOP!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. She could scream quite loud, she figured that out when she saw her parents' heads. The woman in the truck looked up and screamed. She slammed on her brakes as the truck went skidding. At last, it finally came to a stop a centimeter before her hand. Kathy swallowed hard glad that neither she nor Prince got hit. The lady that was in the truck jumped out and ran over to them.

"Are you alright?" She asked. She had mascara and bright ruby red lipstick on. Kathy helped Prince to his feet and looked at the woman. She was about as tall as Mike.

"You almost hit us, what do you think we are?" Prince said.

"Shush Prince," Kathy said. "What he means is that we're just glad you stopped in time. Talking on the cell phone and driving at the same time is dangerous." The woman looked at her.

"Well, I don't need a speech about that." Kathy put her hands on her hips.

"I have proof that it can be very deadly." The woman rolled her eyes.

"Well, if you don't mind, I'm going to move my truck from out of the middle of the road." So she did so and pulled it on the side of the road. Paris and Blanket came running up to Kathy and Prince.

"Are you Ok?" Blanket asked.

"We thought for sure you all were going to get smashed." Paris said.

"Thanks for the encouragement." Kathy replied.

"Well, that's what we thought!" Blanket replied. Kathy chuckled. Mike came hobbling over there on his crutches as fast as he could. Prince helped him the rest of the way. Mike grabbed a hold of Kathy and Prince and hugged them.

"Oh, I'm so glad you all are ok!" He said. "I didn't know what I was going to see before my eyes. If I had lost you two-" He paused as they looked at him. "I don't what I'd do. To loose two of your children? It'd be impossible for us." They all agreed. Mike looked up then to see the woman standing there staring at the family. Mike tilted his head a little to look at her. She sighed and turned the other way.

"I see you all have this under control, I better get going." Every one turned around to face her. Her back was to them, but they could tell she was sad about something. Kathy broke the unusual silence.

"Can you tell me, what was so important that you were talking on the cell phone?" The woman was surprised at this question Kathy asked. She turned to face them. Mike looked at her more.

"You all are the Jackson family?" They nodded. She looked at Kathy. "And you are the girl that is now staying with them?" She nodded.

"I'm part of the family too."

"I know." She paused. "My name is Diana." Mike was surprised and crutched over to her.

"Diana? Diana Doyle?" He asked. They all stared at him.

"Who?" Blanket asked. The woman named Diana stared at him.

"You remember?" She asked. Mike nodded.

"I couldn't forget." He replied. The 4 were confused as to what they were talking about.

"I don't know if it's just me or what, but I think Dad knows this lady." Paris whispered to them. They all agreed.

"I couldn't forget Paris." Mike said aloud. The 4 cringed knowing that he had heard. They looked at him to see him staring back at them. He turned back to Diana. "Diana, what-"

"I must be going." She turned to get into her truck.

"Diana! Wait!" He crutched as fast as he could over to her truck. "Diana!"

"Mike, it has been almost 8 years since the last time I saw you, and I don't plan to see you anymore!" She got into the truck and tried to start it but it wouldn't start. The 4 just looked at each other confused. Mike leaned against her door.

"Seems like you need some mechanic help." She stared at him through her window.

"No, it just is acting up is all!" But it still wouldn't start. She gave up and leaned back in her seat. Mike proudly smiled at her. "Alright Mike, impress me, I need a mechanic." He took out his phone. "Oh, you don't have one already? That's surprising." He looked at her.

"I might be a celebrity and be rich, but I don't got everything." He dialed a number and waited for them to pick up. After he was finished, he hung up and looked at her. "They said they were coming to pick it up, but it probably won't be finished until next week."

"Next week? But I'm supposed to leave tomorrow!"

"You can stay at my place until the designated time it's ready." She looked at him.

"Fine, but I'm not going to enjoy this visit." Mike smiled at her as she helped him over to his limo. The 4 were still confused. Diana seemed even more upset before, so again, Kathy asked,

"What's wrong?" Diana looked at her. She sighed.

"I barely get to see my son," Mike was surprised and suddenly his smiled faded. He turned to look at her. "He was 5 you know, he had cancer." They all gasped. "He passed away today around 2." Kathy grabbed her mouth.

"What was his name?" She asked.

"Billy." Kathy was shocked. Billy? That name sounded familiar. "It's sort of hard for me you know?" She started to choke up as they all watched her. "He loved to listen to you Mike, he always wanted to meet you. And then when Katherine here won AGT, he thought she was his hero. He wanted to meet her too." Billy? That name. "Then, one day, he called me up on his fathers cell phone to say that he had met you dear. Katherine, do you remember a boy named Billy? He said you and him sung-"

"The Earth song!" Kathy yelled. She was suddenly struck with sadness. "No, not Billy. He-he, died?" Diana nodded.

"I live in Las Vegas Nevada, so I wanted to rush up here soon to see him, he was dieing yesterday. You could see the light going out of his eyes. The torture." Kathy new how she felt and put her hand on Diana's shoulder.

"I feel your pain. I know." Diana turned to her.

"How on earth could you possibly-" Kathy stared at her. Diana shut up then. "Oh." She knew very well that Kathy had lost her parents and her family didn't show up for the funeral. Why, it was all over the news. 'Winner of America's Got Talent, Katherine Waxon, has decided to live with Michael Jackson after her parents tragic death.' Diana remembered that news reporting very well. Everyone did. Diana turned to see the tow truck pulling her precious truck away and taking it to the nearest mechanic shop. She sighed and turned to Mike. "Could you take me to the hospital please? I'm dieing to see my late son Billy." She was crying as she said it. Mike nodded as they got into the limo.

After they went to the hospital and Diana cried for more than two hours, argued with her ex-husband about the arrangements and just different things, and fought with the doctors to not take the dead 5-year-old away, they finally went to a secure place. Kathy and the others still didn't completely understand why they had to stay at a different place besides their home. The story was, the protection program was afraid that if they went back to their home, then someone would try to strike again. They tried desperately to get the family to change their names but they all refused, they believed that if the person didn't like them the way they were, then they would have to deal with it. They quite like their names. Diana was still sobbing a little when she told them that she was going to take a shower. After they heard the shower turn on, the 4 looked at Mike. He stared back at them as in what?

"How do you know her?" Prince asked.

"Yeah!" The others said. Mike looked at them and sighed.

"I suppose I can't hide it from you all forever." They sat down on the floor and listened. "Diana Doyle is an old childhood friend. When I was 4, she moved into our neighborhood."

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YEAR 1963…

"Go! Come on Michael! You better not miss this!" A 1963 Tito yelled.

"I won't! Just throw the ball!" A 4-year-old Mike replied. Tito looked at Jermaine; Jermaine was the next batter up. Mike was at the bat liking his lips, he couldn't miss this, and if he hit this then his team would win. It was 10 to 10. His team was the thunder team. It contained Himself, Jermaine, Tito, and Marlin. The other team was the Lightning team; it contained His sisters Rebbie and Latoya, then their friend Shelby, since there were only three girls and 5 boys, they demanded that one of the boys come on their team. So, Jackie was forced into it by vote.

"Your team is going down Tito!" Rebbie yelled.

"Yeah? You just watch! We'll win this! Right Mike?" Tito asked.

"Yeah! I'm going to hit it out of the field!" He replied. Tito was the pitcher; Jackie was the catcher behind Mike.

"You better not hit me in the face Mike." He told him.

"I'm not. Tito! Throw the ball already!" Tito clutched the ball and threw it hard at the 4-year-old. Mike started to sweat as the ball neared. He swung the bat and it hit the ball dead on. Mike looked up to see the ball fly into the air and over the fence. "I told you! I told you I'd hit it out!" He said excitedly. The girls frowned as Mike ran to first base, the second, but as he was heading for third, something hit him. He fell over and heard screams of joy from the girl's side.

"Yeah! We won! We got it!" Latoya exclaimed.

"That's impossible! He hit it out of the ring!" Jermaine replied.

"Well, who threw it?" Marlin asked. Mike got up and saw a short light brown haired girl with bright green eyes; she was white, on the other side of the fence. He walked over there as his siblings fought. The young girl smiled.

"Did I win?" She asked. Mike looked at her.

"No. But you just made us loose." He replied. She looked down.

"I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this game." Mike smiled at her.

"My name is Michael, what's yours?"

"Diana. I'm 4, you?"

"Me too!" She smiled.

"Can I come over and you teach me to play?" Mike thought.

"Well, I suppose I could, I'd have to ask Jackie and Rebbie first." He turned around as Diana climbed over the fence. "Hey Jackie! Can we teach this girl to play Baseball?" The siblings stopped arguing to look over there. Jackie walked over to Mike.

"That the girl that threw the ball?" He asked. Mike nodded. "HA! The game's still on! That girl wasn't on a team!" The girls' team let out frustrated sighs.

"Could she be on my team Jackie?" Mike asked. He turned around to him.

"Mike, your team won already. It was a homerun and that was the last play." Mike shook his head.

"I want to cancel out my play and let Diana swing."

"Diana? That's her name?" Mike nodded.

"She don't know how to play so she just threw it." Jackie sighed.

"Alright Michael." Mike smiled.

"Here that Diana? You get to play this once." She smiled.

"Oh thank you!" She exclaimed. Mike's team looked at her.

"Jackie, you crazy? She might cost my team the game!" Jermaine said.

"Yeah, what if she misses?" Marlin said.

"Hey! Us women are a minority, we should get her!" Latoya yelled.

"This whole town is a minority Latoya!" Tito said.

"Alright! Everyone calm down! It's just a game, remember that!" Rebbie said. They all sighed and got back in there original spots.

"She better not miss this Mike." Marlin said as he passed him.

"She won't." Mike smiled at Diana. "You need help holding it?"

"No. I've been watching you play, I know how to do this part." Mike nodded.

"Ok Diana, here it comes!" Tito said. He threw it. Diana gripped the ½ pound bat as her hands started to sweat. She swung and waited to feel the ball touch.

"Strike one!" Jackie yelled. The Thunder team let out frustrated sighs as the Lightning team cheered. The Ball was thrown and again, "Strike two!" Diana let loose. They were loosing, one more strike and that was it.

"Come on Diana! You can do it!" Mike yelled. Tito threw the ball again. Diana closed her eyes and swung. Everyone's heart raced. The ball hit. Diana opened her eyes to see the ball flying in the air. It was just like off of those movies. She dropped her bat and started to run, everything seemed to be in slow motion. The ball kept flying in the air as the Lightning team raced to catch it. Diana made it to first base, second base, her team kept screaming at her to run. She looked once more in the air to see the ball fly over the fence as she made it to third base. The lightning team gave up as she ran to home base and the thunder team cheered for her. They all ran up to her and picked her up off the ground.

"We won!" Jermaine yelled.

"She did it, she did it!" Yelled Marlin.

"Yeah! Alright little girl!" Tito screamed. She laughed as the lightning team just smiled and congratulated her as well. Even though they lost. Diana looked at Mike and he looked back. She jumped down from everybody and ran to him.

"Thanks for letting me play this game." She said. Mike smiled.

"It's alright, you won the game for us anyways." He replied. They smiled at each other. Mike thought for a moment. "Hey, how about you come over for supper?" Tito and Jackie looked back at Mike as the others ran home. They came up to him.

"Michael, we can't have anymore people over, you know that." Tito said.

"Momma already has enough people to feed." Jackie said. Mike frowned.

"But she won the game for us. We got to repay her somehow." Mike replied. Jackie and Tito looked at each other and smiled.

"Alright Michael, I know something." Tito said. Mike jumped up and looked at him.

"What?"

"Kiss the girl Mike, kiss her." Jackie finished. Mike put on a disgusted look.

"Kiss a girl? Girls are yuck!" Jackie and Tito laughed.

"We can't feed her Mike, you're going to have to kiss her." He still refused. Tito poked Jackie and did an eye movement. Jackie got the message and nodded his head. He sighed and looked at Mike. "Well, that new girlfriend of yours sure is going to be disappointed knowing that nobody cares to appreciate her." Mike looked at him.

"She's not my girl friend, and you think she's sad?" Jackie nodded.

"But oh well, guess we're going to have to tell Joseph and Momma that you didn't appreciate a girl that won our game." Tito said. Mike stared at him.

"Joseph?" Tito nodded.

"That's right Michael, you know how Joseph don't like men being impolite to women." Mike looked down at the ground. "We're going to have to tell him what you did." He stared at them and shook his head.

"No! Joseph will whip me! He'll whip me!"

"Then you better go and kiss that girl Michael." Jackie said. Mike looked over his shoulder at Diana who smiled back at him. He sighed and went over to her.

"I got to appreciate you." He told her. She looked at him confused.

"Appreciate me? How?" He gulped and looked at her.

"I have to kiss you." She was surprised.

"You mean like what mommy and daddy's do?" He nodded. She shook her head. "Ew! No way! I'm not doing that! That's gross!" Mike looked relieved and turned to leave when he saw his brothers there. They had the expression like, you better. He sighed and turned back around.

"I have to though, it's the only way to appreciate you. I would invite you over, but we already have too many mouths to feed. At least, that's what momma says." Diana thought.

"Well, if it really is the only way." Mike nodded as he puffed his lips out. Diana stared at him. "How do we kiss? I never had done this." Mike stopped and looked at her. He shrugged.

"I don't know. Rebbie says that her dream kiss will be with her lips poked out like this." He demonstrated. "Then she'll kiss the guy of her dreams." Diana giggled.

"That's silly!" Mike laughed as well. They thought. "I know!" She yelled. "We'll just do it like my daddy and mommy does!" Mike nodded.

"Sure." Diana grabbed Mike's hand. He looked down. "What are you doing?"

"Demonstrating silly." He looked at her. "See, my daddy, which will be you, takes his hand and usually forces it around my moms back and pulls her toward." She made Mike do that. Mike was starting to get uncomfortable. "Then my mommy gets real close to daddy and they start forcefully kissing, then they fall on the ground and start doing weird things." Mike looked at her.

"Like what?"

"They take each others cloths off." Mike looked at her confused. "Do we have to do that?" He shrugged. He turned to look at his brothers.

"Jackie, Tito, is taking each others cloths off part of kissing?" They stared at him.

"What? No Michael! Where did you get that idea?" Jackie asked.

"Diana says her parents do that all the time." Jackie and Tito looked at each other.

"Um, Michael, you don't have to kiss her, I think momma and Joseph will be just fine feeding her." Tito said quickly.

"But you said-"

"I know what I said but I'm sure they'll be fine!" Mike looked at him and pushed Diana away a little bit.

"Well, that's over with." He said.

"I'm glad." Diana replied.

"Me too." Mike and Diana blushed at each other and grabbed each other's hand. "I liked it only a little."

"Me too." They blushed even more and ran off to his house.

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PRESENT DAY: SETEMBER 9, 2009

"AW! That is so sweet!" Kathy and Paris said.

"That's kind of weird." Prince said.

"EW! You all were going to kiss? I about throw up when I see Prince and Kathy kiss, but you? Ew!" Blanket said. They all laughed. Mike was quiet though. They all stopped laughing and looked at him. They looked at each other confused.

"What's wrong Mike? Wasn't that funny?" Kathy asked. Mike looked up at them.

"Oh, yes it was very funny, it's just that-" They looked at him. "That there's more to it." They all had sympathy on their faces until Diana came out of the bathroom. That's when they realized that the shower hadn't been going for a while.

"I remember that Mike." She said as they looked up at her. She sighed. "We were 4." She turned and looked around. "So, where will I sleep? This place is sort of crowded." The hiding place they were at was sort of crowded. It was only fit to temporarily hold 3 people, but there were 6 in it right now. It was a tight squeeze. Mike got up and crutched around and moved some things. There was a pallet already made out. Diana and the others were surprised at this.

"There are only 3 beds in this whole place. I've been sleeping on the floor because it elevates my foot." She stared at him. She was wearing a long dress for a nightgown. "The girls sleep in one bed and the boys the other, you can take the bed if you want." Mike looked at the kids signaling them to leave. They did as well. Once they were gone, Mike looked at Diana.

"It'd be rude of me to let you take the floor." She said.

"No it wouldn't." He slowly got into the bed. "But sense you said you would." He smiled at her and she rolled her eyes.

"You always did take opportunities."

"I never got that many regular opportunities." She rolled her eyes again and layed down on the floor. She looked up and sighed. She got up and took a blanket and layed right beside Mike in the bed. Mike was surprised and turned his head to find her there.

"You didn't tell them the whole story."

"I won't if you don't want me to." They said all sexy. She smiled. She sighed then and turned to face the ceiling.

"You know, you always made promises and you came through with them, I suppose I ended up separating myself from you because I could never do the same for you." Mike looked at her. "I just-" She paused and turned to him. "I just always felt like I could never amount to what you wanted me to amount." Mike smiled and hugged her. He let her go and got closer to her.

"Diana, I liked you the way you were. That's what made me always come back to you, because you were you, and you weren't one of those obsessive fan girls wanting to marry me and have their babies." She giggled. She got closer to him. "I loved you." She was surprised.

"Really?" He nodded. She smiled. "I loved you too." They looked down then back at each other. They got closer and kissed. He put his hand around her head and her the same and they just kissed. Passionately kissed. They stopped kissing and she leaned her head on his chest. She looked up at him. "You can tell them the whole story." And once again, they kissed.