I have this theory and I will just leave it hereâŚ. Michael Jackson has always been popular. We know that, but I felt like when his vitiligo became potent, thatâs where all the white fans came out ( cause thatâs when they consider him to be white) .. Iâm gone Iâm going to bed.
The most racist fan you know is trying to convince you Michael didnât love black women meanwhile this is one of the books in his collection of Black Literature. Itâs so embarrassing knowing that there are nonblack fans who practically worship Michael Jackson but are incredibly racist to his Black fanbase and completely dismiss his blackness because itâs not palatable for them. Michael was a black man first before he was an entertainer and never shied away from uplifting his black women. This is evident in the way he portrayed us in his romantic music videos, making us his sole perception of beauty. If you are a nonblack fan, you cannot disrespect his women while idolizing him because he would not tolerate that behavior at all. Although Michael wanted to be accessible to all people, he was incredibly loyal and protective of the men, women, and children of his community. You cannot separate his Pro Black message from Michael because it is ingrained in his music, his philanthropic spirit, his videos, and his artistry. Remember the same man you obsess over lived through segregation, Jim Crow, and was the target of racially charged discrimination while touring the Deep South during his Jackson Five days. This is the same man who forced MTV into airing his music videos Billie Jean and Thriller during a time when Black artists werenât allowed airtime. I abhor you to educate yourself, listen to his Black fanbase, and learn about his dedication to Black History.
Michael Jackson was a proud black American artist. He was from Gary, Indiana. He was born in 1958. He lived through segregation, racism and prejudice. He started performing at 5 years old. And continued to work until his final day.
He suffered through racism everyday. To his face, on TV, on magazines, newspapers. Even being called things like "wacko j*cko" (censoring). Even in death, does he still face these remarks.
He was the first black artist to appear on MTV. His "billie Jean" music video on heavy rotation.
He fought for equality. For the truth that all man was created equal.
His heroes were James brown, Martin Luther King, Jackie Wilson and little Richard.
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( ˜°ă °) !! ââ1.5k, angst ) otw bf!michael jackson x fem gf!reader: you love michael... but not enough to marry him, it seems </3
âââââââthere's a tension that fills every inch of yourâ michael'sâ bedroom tonight. the air between you two had remained thick ever since earlier that morning, when he got on his knee in the middle of a local park and opted to propose. he'd planned everything out perfectly: the weather was gorgeous, the park was cleared beforehand, the ring was something you were sure to adore, and the wedding would happen sometime in the spring. if you really wanted, he would've pushed it to the fall. if you really wanted, he would've bought a different ring. if you really wanted, he would've even redone the proposal at a completely different location, knowing that you'd say yes. michael had planned for everything, every possibly hitch or snag, everything.
everything except for the words that actually left your lips:
"i'm not ready." and then, after glancing away awkwardly, "it's just not the right time, yet."
rejection, in many ways, was an old friend as well as a hideous stranger. it's something michael's intimately acquainted with when it comes to others. even his family has rejected him at some points in his life, mocking his interests or maybe his pets or physical features. it's a completely unique and unexpected experience, however, being rejected by you, his girlfriend of so many years.
...is it his face?
is it his songs or his family or the house? are you just... feeling insecure? you've never said no before and meant it; even a seriously stern "no, you can't have my candy" has always ended in you giving him a piece or two by the end of the night. michael's not sure his heart's ever hurt more in his life. seeing you now, calmly tidying yourself up at the vanity he moved into his room just for you... if he could tear his heart out his chest, maybe that'd be less painful, something he could bear with more grace. if he could feel nothing at all, that apathy just might be better than this.
as he unbuttons his shirt, his gaze remains low, only occasionally looking over at you in all your beauty. you'd never thought much of yourself, but he saw the universe in your hair and the heavens in your eyes, andâ oh, why couldn't have you said yes?
the silence in the room is deafening, filled to the brim with anxieties from the only two people here, him and you. when michael finally does decide to speak, you almost jump out of your skin, shoulders tensing briefly before you ease yourself back down into a state of faux-relaxation.
"you're the only girl that i've ever wanted," he starts, his voice as wobbly as his legs as he takes a short step towards you, "and... i'd make a good husband, you know." his shirt, unbuttoned and loose, provides michael fabric to fidget with, keeping his hands busy. want doesn't feel like a strong enough word, but need feels obsessive and controlling. need doesn't sound like him at all, and yet it rings true for some fractured, hidden part of himself. something in him feels empty knowing you're "just together", knowing you've denied him the ability to call you mrs. jackson, his wife. "i'd be a good husband."
eye contact is a privilege he's seemingly lost, judging by how you focus on one of the vanity's drawers, observing the jewelry inside. "you would," you admit quietly.
"but you won't marry me," michael points out bluntly, finally shrugging off his shirt and tossing it aside as he closes the gap between you two. "why's that? what am i doing wrong, i don'tâ i don't understand, baby. tell me."
"i never said i wouldn't marry you, i just said not right now," you defend yourself, closing the drawer a little more roughly than intended. it clinks against the rest of the vanity, causing you to huff in agitation. "we're both young, we have time."
his brows furrow, hands moving to his hips while he sucks his teeth at you. the switch from saddened to annoyed is a sharp one, his eyes narrowed as he asks, "how much time? a month? a year? five years, ten? how long will i have to wait to love you?"
"there's nothing we'd do married that we can't do right now, michael." it's the only way you could think of to kindly say "be reasonable, be patient, be mature about this".
your words sting, the subtext clearly felt by michael as his eyes fixate on yours in the vanity mirror. they're harder than they usually are, morphing from softened brown beauties to something harder, a rough mixture of hurt and anger. "there's a few things i can think of," he mutters, tone growing more openly agitated, "things i thought you wanted, too."
"i want you. i want this, i love you, michael. i'm just not ready for all of that, marriage is a very huge, very serious thing!" you snap, your wrists resting on the flat surface of the vanity as you turn your head towards michael, "we can't just rush into it! we have to think about your assets, houses, our parents, all the legal documents we'd have to change, all the wedding planning, and the pressâ god, it's not just a romantic act, it's legal, michael!"
"i don't care about assets! i'm not making a business deal with you, i'm asking you to choose me, choose me forever!" michael nearly cries, throwing his hands in the air in frustration. he steps away shortly afterwards, turning his back on you as his large hands come up to hide his face, childishly running away from the possibility of crying in front of you. "i just feel like i'm auditioning for something that should be mine already!" he chokes out, the circular shape of his afro moving from side to side as he shakes his head, "i wish you were less sensible. i know, i'm... i know i'm being eager, i know that, but why aren't you? why can't you be immature with me? i'm overwhelmed by the need to be with you, baby, and youâ you're justâ"
michael's hands slide away from his face, revealing puffy, reddened eyes and tear-streaked cheeks as he gestures vaguely at you, stammering. embarrassment barely even registers for him, his heart's already too full of insecurity, of pain and frustration, to welcome in yet another emotion. that sensitive look in his eye, the one you'd fallen for years ago, is on full display, his soft, brown eyes staring weakly at your face. sorrow taints his expression, down to his body language, slumped and meek.
when he does return to you, sniffling, michael crumples down, getting onto his knees and resting his forehead against your leg. "too old to cry," he mumbles to himself, repeating something taught more than believed while he wipes his eyes, "i'm too old to cry like this."
"you're never too old to cry," you murmur, slowly moving to caress his shoulder. you can hear him hiccup into your thigh, but you see it more than you hear it, the small action racking his already drained body. his back and shoulders jerk, his hands briefly tightening their grip on two different areas of your leg as he tries not to hit his head or make a bigger fool of himself. "boys cry. big boys cry. there's no shame in crying."
it's a band-aid on a bullet wound, your comforting him over that. well, it's more like a band-aid on a separate cut while you ignore the bullet wound that's begging for medical attention. one of your hands remains stationed at the vanity while the other provides a pitying touch to the man currently knelt at the altar of you. michael's head stays bowed, his hands eventually letting go and resting on his thighs as his sniffles slow down and his breathing evens. quietly, his sobbing is replaced by silence, his teary eyes replaced by closed ones as he stays put by your side. if you were a statue, he'd be praying to you, but you're not. you're no saint and you're certainly no prayer-answerer; you wish he could see that, that he could see your flaws and know he wasn't rejected by an angel of his religion but by the real, raw woman of his loveâ hell, he was barely rejected at all! all you had ever said was not now!
right or wrong don't exist in situations like these, and you know it. still, if there was a wrong, here... would you really be in it? the touch you give him along his shoulder grows lighter the more you think, eventually culminating in your hand pulling away entirely. he's always had big feelings and you never minded them before. they were even endearing, then. this, however, this worship, this need, it might be... too much?
sensing the shift, michael finally lifts his head, his gaze more reverent than ever. too reverent. too much. he swallows, then asks in a fragile whisper, "will you marry me?"
the silence michael broke returns to haunt him as you don't reply. he can't tell what you're focused on: is it the wood of the vanity or is it your own thoughts?
"baby, will you...?"
no reply. you're paralyzed, trapped in your head as you realize, overwhelmingly, that it's all just too much. after all, if his love is this suffocating now...
then maybe you shouldn't get married to michael at all.
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this took such a turn but i wanted to explore michael being so anxious abt not being enough that he fails to consider the thought of being "too much" and possibly overwhelming you. no happy ending here, sorryyyy i just think it's more interesting like this. reader ofc has her own flaws, but they're both young & still growing their views/personalities so that's part of it, too. no right, no wrong. also iirc he cut his hair into a wet curl style shortly after otw dropped but idc i wanted that afro in this piece LOL anyways kay, byeee!
honestly, I get really mad about the backlash Michael got as a marginalized adult having any proximity to children. If anything, Michael understood that children can have multiple trusted adults outside of their own family. Secondary family units arenât a new thing⌠he himself had many close circles he integrated into as a way to form connection. Itâs a common practice in black culture for us to have unrelated people we call our âcousins,â âaunties/uncles,â godparents, etc. that act us extended family. Michael often called himself Uncle Michael when it came to his own family and other children in general. He didnât reserve his nurturing side just for blood relatives, and there is nothing wrong with that.
The philosophy of communal child rearing from trusted friends, elders, or authority figures in black communities is a form of extra stability and protection, NOT a gateway for abuse. For historical context, this network of âfictive kinâ has been key in African American society for centuries, as a survival tool for the effects of racial and economic oppression. This idea emphasizes unity and support, not pedophilia. Michael being a black man, with a skin condition, simply added to the social stigma that the media created around him and his relation to children.
He was very vocal about the importance of being nurturing towards kids who may lack the emotional or environmental support they needed. That man was always expressing his belief in family bonds and how the collapse of a nuclear family (mom and dad) will have negative effects on a childâs development. He saw teens who misbehaved or participated in crimes as a âcry for attentionâ and love. He believed that the core of a healthy psyche was to be loved unconditionally, especially as a child. He felt that a part of his mission in life was to extend that love to all humans, regardless of age to help heal our world.
There is a social discomfort with how adults interact with children and Michael was a victim of this on an extreme scale. Additionally, there is a bio-essentialist belief that being nurturing or âmaternalâ is only inherent to women. Michael being close with children in such ways added to tabloid fuel of him being a âpredator.â But the general public completely ignores the nuance of these situations and choose to believe that any boundaries were crossed. Adults can form community and bonds with children, regardless of relation, without it being something criminal. I remember Michael was expressing this sentiment at a fan event when he said the fansâ children were his children and vice versa.
Thereâs research that shows being too enmeshed with your family or isolated from other interactions has negative effects on children. Having unsafe parental figures or trauma in a household makes that psychological impact even worse. I feel like Michael knew firsthand what it was like to be isolated from others growing up, as well as not having safe adults around him (for example Joe). I can understand why he wanted to be that safe space for people of all ages. Given his own childhood, he would know the importance of children being an oppressed group that deserve autonomy and boundaries. Any interactions he had with children had the parents involved as well and nothing was ever forced onto them. That is a baseless accusation based on gossip and assumption.
Western society pushes the ideals of a nuclear family (mom and dad) being the only part of a childâs development and that is not an objective truth. Michael understood this, like when he asked Bashir, âYou wouldnât give love to a child who didnât have it?â He was talking about helping to heal and be a paternal figure to a terminally ill child, nothing more. Bashirâs biased reaction to that, intentionally twisting Michaelâs words into something criminal, reflects the social panic that followed Michael throughout his life. Such reactions will continue to discourage healthy adult-children relationships and solidarity, especially in marginalized groups where our actions are easily demonized.
Why canât yall age up the reader in the mature Michael fics?? Like itâs starting to get weird and I see yall do it with all the other eras of Michael so why donât yâall do it with this specific era,and itâs the same stuff over and over like can we be original Iâm seeing the same themes Michael with younger reader/sugar baby reader like guys put some spice in it I wanna see something new maybe try it where reader is his wife AND stay with me here the same age as Michael!! But frl guys itâs starting to get weird.
I have so much to say but its so hard to put into words. They never saw your true beauty, I hate that all my life I've had to listen to people discrediting you and making fun of you spread lies about you when you we're the most kindest and giving person.
Im so sorry they took advantage of you, I'm so sorry you never had true peace on this world. I just wish more people would take the time and actually get to know somebody before deciding if they are a bad person or a "weirdo". Hopefully you've found your peace and achieved true happiness with Tito and Brandon in Heaven.
I miss you, Michael, You where and still are the GREATEST of all time.
why do you write for black readers only if you still get hate? wouldn't it be easier to just write for everybody or make everybody feel included
No.Â
It probably would be easier, but that's not why I started writing in the first place.
I started writing Black reader fanfiction because I wanted to see myself in the stories I was reading. Growing up and even now, a lot of fanfiction felt like it was written with a white reader in mind, whether that was intentional or not. I wanted to create a space where Black women could open a fic and immediately feel like, "Oh, this was written with me in mind."
The hate doesn't change that.
For a long time, fanfiction has centered white experiences. White writers can write exactly how they want to write. They can describe blushing, someone's face turning red, gripping something until their knuckles turn white, running fingers through straight hair, or any number of experiences that are specific to the characters they're writing, and nobody expects them to stop and make sure every single reader can relate.
But when Black writers do the same thing, we're suddenly expected to make our stories "inclusive for everyone." We're expected to write in a way where anybody can insert themselves into the story, even though that same expectation has rarely been placed on anyone else.
That's the double standard I don't agree with.
Representation isn't about excluding other people. It's about creating something for a community that has historically had to search a lot harder to find itself in fanfiction. White readers already have countless stories where they can see themselves. Black readers deserve spaces where they don't have to imagine themselves into the story because they're already there.
So no, I don't plan on stopping. I'll keep writing the stories I wish I'd had to read, and hopefully they'll make another Black girl feel seen the way I wanted to feel seen.
Also, my stories are still public. I'm not stopping anybody from reading them. I
've had readers tell me they're Latino, Asian, and from all kinds of different backgrounds, and they still enjoy my stories because a good story is a good story. I write with a Black reader in mind, but if someone who isn't Black chooses to read it and enjoys it, that's completely fine.
If seeing a Black reader makes someone uncomfortable, I think that's something worth reflecting on. My story existing isn't the problem.
Black stories deserve to exist without constantly having to justify why they exist. I don't think Black writers should have to explain why we write Black readers any more than anyone else has to explain who they write for.
It's also about authenticity. I write from my own perspective and experiences, so naturally that's going to show up in my stories. I'd rather write something that feels genuine than try to water it down so it fits everyone. The specificity is part of what makes the stories feel real to me.
Seeing other Black writers made a huge difference for me. It showed me that there was space for stories like mine and encouraged me to start posting my own work. I hope my blog does the same thing for another Black writer who's thinking about sharing theirs.
At the end of the day, readers have choices. Fanfiction is huge. There are thousands of incredible writers out there, all writing different kinds of stories. Nobody has to read mine if they don't want to, and that's okay. I don't expect every story to be written for me either.
And honestly, I write for myself first. I write the stories I wish I'd had when I first started reading fanfiction. The fact that other people connect with them is something I'm incredibly grateful for, but the reason I started writing was because I wanted to create the representation I was looking for.
Lastly, I just want to show some love to other Black writers in the community. I'm going to tag a few of my favorites below. If you're reblogging this, feel free to tag some of your favorite Black writers too. I'd love for more people to discover them and support their work.
intro â´ď¸â¸ęł.ËđĽÝËâËđđËâ ( 9.5k ) childhoodbsf!popstar!reader x pre-otw!michael đłackson âą upon taking your first shower together, you and your boyfriend see each other naked for the very first timeâŚ
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notes âĄâ°ŕ established relationship of 3½ months. tooth-rotting fluff. } romantic shower. perfect excuse to use the wet fro pic ;). religious guilt. shyness: both reader and michael! avoidant!reader. đđ+ brief explicit description of michaelâs erection. no smut. sensual breast massage. mikey is so so gentle. experienced!reader n very inexperienced virgin!michael. caught by his brothers, oopsie! so much brotherly teasing. cute nicknames for each other: tinker bell, bambi, mickey n minnie. readerâs name signalled by heart symbol
AUGUST 17, 1978. Hayvenhurst, EncinoâŚ
Four weeks had passed since that night in Studio 54, where Michael had finally offered to hear you out on your valid criticisms of his mother's religion, its strict morals ingrained into his psyche after all these years.
Your criticisms were mostly influenced by the strict stance of the Jehovahâs Witnesses on condemning sexual intercourse outside of wedlock. You'd felt a little awkward and over-imposing at the time, but thankfully he eventually grew to understand, and promised you that he would think deeply about what he'd been forcing from himself for so long. Before the two of you had started dating in the spring, he had never before struggled all that much with his refusal to have sex, because even if one was to remove the orthodox religious aspect out of the equation, Michael was inherently somebody who would only make love to a lady he had a true emotional connection with. And so, since he had spent forever yearning for only youâwhile making a futile effort to distract himself with dates and sweet kisses with other girls because you 'clearly' never felt the same wayâit was only now that he actually had a real, viable opportunity to lose his virginity.
He'd been struggling so much with his restrained arousal since you'd began your romantic relationship together, because he was in a constant battle between the needs born of his heart and his lower body, and the rules he was supposed to abide by. It had been that hot summer night in July, under disco lights and smothered in your lipstick kisses, that he had finally declared with true honesty that he would at least try to look at this whole sex thing a little differently. For Michael, it wasn't even only about religion and his treatment of lovemaking as a sacred actâit was also that he faced quite a degree of childhood trauma that he didn't at all understand. Throughout his formative years and into his adolescence, he had seen only the worst of the actâloveless groupie hook-ups, promiscuous women receiving hurls of abuse in the strip clubs he was forced to perform at; and worst of all, the unmistakable, incredibly uncomfortable sounds of his older brothers, and even his own father, giving it rough to a different woman every night.
As a young child, Michael had been deeply disturbed; by not only the sounds and the reality of it happening right beside him, but also by the sheer disgust that he felt at experiencing how his own flesh and blood treated women so thoughtlessly. They would discard one, only to seek out another the following night, and each time, Michael knew very well that the girls weren't as happy as his brothers were after their one night stand. The girls would act cool and pretend that mindless sex with somebody famous was all they wanted, but Michael would notice the sad, passive look in their eyes as they left, having achieved nothing but the sad reality of being used. Most boys could look up to the older male figures in their lives, but young Michael Jackson would found his own morals as he grew.
The aggressive sex that surrounded him from such an early age had a profoundly deep effect on his psyche. It was all happening too often for a boy so empathetic and sensitive to just brush it off and move on, let alone to be able to easily slip into that sexual world once he became of age.
And then, to make matters worse, as he grew older he watched his best friend become one of those girls he'd seen his brothers discard. While the opposite of a groupie in your stardom, it was in your naivety as a young singer turning to adulthood that you found yourself falling into the trap of men who couldn't care less about you. Michael despised viewing such a thing from the sidelines, comforting you as you would cry over their behaviour, or even worseâwatching helplessly as you walked off with yet another. But you had been chasing dopamine hit after dopamine hit, unaware of that reasoning at the time, but altogether knowing one thing: that you were deeply afraid of a real, gentle relationship.
Sex with those sort of men was easy. It was a quick rush of oxytocin, adrenaline, all those hormones that could easily become warped into tools of self-harm.
And the most ironic thing was that not a single one of those men had ever made you cum. So what was the point, one might ask?
In your older adulthood, you finally understood the answer. Buried in your core, beneath all the avoidance and tension that kept you away from real love, was a genuine, bone-deep craving for such a love. You messed around with men because there was still physical touch involved, even if it was meaningless. There existed the act of lovemakingâalthough in reality how they treated you always stripped away that romantic term, and was more appropriately described as 'fucking with no strings attached.' Essentially, with those men you could experience small hits of affection from the opposite sex; you could convince yourself that you were 'dating' normally, like everyone else your age did successfully. And with that, you had led yourself under the illusion that you were right to avoid anything more. Gentleness didn't feel right to you, and as you mingled with all these different men, it became increasingly apparent that most likely, a sweet man didn't even exist to begin with.
You believed you were okay with the no strings circumstances you switched betweenâbut often, when you were all alone at night in your bedroom, you would cry yourself to sleep. Even then, without the maturity to make you understand what you truly needed, the reality was that your body had always known. It would break down, sending you warning signs that you were continually heading in the wrong direction, although you never listened.
And you were so far gone, so beyond distanced from logic, that you weren't paying enough relevant attention to whatâor whomâhad been beside you the entire time. The gentle lover your unconscious mind dreamed of had laid in wait for so long, in the form of your very best friend, the boy who was always prepared to show you nothing less than the adoration you deserved.
Since your dual love confessions, it had been a whirlwind of a few months. Incredibly difficult though it was in the beginningâwhere you struggled to adapt to such unfamiliar, attentive affectionâover time you'd gradually felt more and more comfortable. Three weeks had gone by since you and Michael had spoken seriously about your future first time together, and the more Michael waited, the more wild the concept seemedâthat while you obviously wanted your first night to come quickly, you couldn't fathom the very real fact that sometime soon, you would be making love with your childhood best friend. Youâd be taking his virginity.
Every single element of the prospect was incredibly intimate, and you found yourself actually getting quite anxious at the thought of it. They always say that anxiety and excitement are produced as the same feeling, and truly you struggled to discern one from the other in those weeks leading up to the first night.
It also didn't help that Michael wouldn't give any hints as to when this night would be, but you understood how difficult this was for him, and you would by no means wish to rush him. You were to be unlike how you carelessly behaved previously, where while drunk you had more than once ended up practically begging him to give up everything he believed in and take you right then and there.
Indeed there had been no hints from Michaelânot until the week before the intimacy would finally occur, when he suddenly approached you with something that was secretly way more anxiety-inducing than it should've been for a suggestion so romantic. Such a suggestion, then, was Michael's request that you might both take a shower together for the first time.
Your mouth had opened slightly in surprise, and Michael had then started speaking quite quickly, evidently shy of his own idea.
"Uh, I just think it would be... y'know, a good way for us to, um," he looked down at his feet, shuffling his weight, "break the ice a lil bit? 'Cause we've never seen each otherâuhâwell, naked."
He kind of whispered that last word, so crude in Michael's innocent manner, and you giggled. You deliberately maintained an outward feigning of normalcy as you responded, but inside your heart was beating incredibly fast, and suddenly you had slight heartburn. Taking a shower together? In your opinion, that was even more intimate than the lovemaking Michael was building up to. At least he was finally building up to it, but now the closer you got to going all the way with your boyfriend, the more your emotions attacked you. For you, sex had always been erotic escapism, something that was done quickly and, despite its inherent intimacy, actually didn't hold within it anything intimate at all.
But you knew what Michael was like. Even before you'd started dating you could've guessed, and these last few months had shown you just how deeply serious he was when it came to taking care of his girl. He was a hopeless romantic, and in the beginning that was awful for youâit all felt so strange and not something you deserved to experience, until finally you began to fully let him in. He was initially so shy with every new step he took to show you his love, yet shyness never stopped him from performing such displays of deep affection.
But now you had been requested to do the most romantic, the most private and intimate thing of allâand even in your sudden timidity, there was no way you could say no. This was how Michael liked to do things, and the butterflies in your stomach were an explicit sign of just how much you did in fact want to experience an adorable, romantic shower with himânothing sexual intended, just two young adults approaching what was foreign.
So, a few days later, Michaelâs en-suite was where you found yourself, preparing to undress on a sweet summerâs evening, after a long day of bathing in the sun.
"Um, I'm just gonna..." Michael began, as he awkwardly gestured how he was about to face the wall and slip out of his boxers.
"Mhm, I'll, umâyeah," you mumbled back, cringing at yourself as you turned the opposite way and rid yourself of your bra and panties.
And then you were under the running water as quickly as possible, so nervous that you desperately wanted this beginning part to be over and done with. You faced the showerhead as Michael stepped in behind you, and at the mere sound of his feet hitting the tile, your breath hitched.
Now you were both standing there, fully nude, in the most intimate situation you believed there was. You didn't like that you had your back turnedâit felt rude and dismissive, because you knew Michael wanted to look at youâbut you thought you might faint if you turned around.
"Hi," Michael whispered, slowly coming up right behind you, though with enough distance to ensure that a specific something of his didn't touch a sensitive something of yours.
You felt his long, cosy arms slide around your waist, followed by a soft kiss to your shoulder. You arched your head back, exposing your neck properly to the scalding heat of the water, and you placed a shaky hand over your boyfriend's, where his rested at your hip.
"Hi," you whispered back, smiling with so much fluster that Michael couldn't believe had adorned your face. He could see your side profile from his height and his proximity, and he grinned.
"Why you all shy, huh?" He began to pepper your cheek in kisses, and effortlessly tilted your head by your jaw to bring your lips to his.
All you could do was giggle into his kiss. "âm not shy," you pouted, finally turning your whole body to directly face him, as Michael carefully detached his arms from you. You didnât want him to know of your anxiety.
As he took you in, Michael's mouth dropped open instantlyâand just as quickly did he shut it, in his embarrassment at how visibly he'd folded. "Oh, mama..."
"Mikey," you laughed, running your hand up and down his armâoutwardly as a way to soothe him, but truthfully as a way of using his touch to soothe yourself. You really did feel a little lightheaded now, and you were perfectly hydrated and nourished, perfectly used to a blazing hot shower; so the only perpetrator was your hormones.
You had to be the luckiest girl in the world. This manâthis beautiful, smiling, handsome man, in his barest form before youâwas the man who would soon make love to you. You would guide him through it, bring him into this world he'd been so scared to enter, and upon crossing that threshold, you would feel the utmost contentânot just for the finally having had sex, but for the very truth that you had been the one to make him feel comfortable enough to change his mind. The boy who'd been so traumatised, so careful and so specific about who he gave his heart and his body to... That boy had chosen you.
And the most beautiful, the most emotionally poetic thing of all, lay in the romanticism of how this year would see you both guide each other into unfamiliar, uncomfortable worlds. You had already helped to dissect and unravel Michael's religious guilt and past sex-adjacent experiences, and you would continue to do soâyou would continue to reassure him that passion between man and woman was just human nature, that there was no sense in a manmade religion determining the act of out-of-wedlock lovemaking as a sin.
And then, parallel to your patience with him, was Michael's own unwavering patience in his endeavours to break down your hard-built walls. Where his unfamiliarity was with sex, yours was with the non-sexual arena of a relationshipâthe intimacy of soft words, gentle touch, protective embraces and hand-holding. Everything that Michael did with ease, everything that he insisted you deserved, he didn't force onto you, but he gradually guided you into, attentive to the cognitive dissonance between your mind and your soul.
Your mind had for so long shut out the craving for romantic love that belonged to your traumatised heart. In his tenderness, Michael was slowly stitching up the organ's tears, and bringing you into the territory of soft love.
So lost in your thoughts as you looked up into his gleaming dark doe eyes, his pretty lashes already wet to compliment the shine of the orbs, you almost missed what he was saying to you.
"Y' so beautiful," Michael whispered, overcome with emotion, in disbelief at the sight of you and at how this day had somehow been made true. His everlong dream, second to the one where he would surrender himself to you completely. "So magical, baby..."
You bit your lip, holding the back of your neck anxiously with a flustered smile. "Um... you look really good too."
Months ago you'd been made aware of how long he'd been in love with you, but you could've never imagined the extent of his feelings. As he looked at you now, in your purest form, an embodiment of ethereality, he couldn't believe his eyes. His life was complete.
That evening, Michael's en-suite had consisted of two flustered young adults with hearts that were in competition for beats per minute, and two pairs of eyes that erratically darted around at everything but the most intimate parts that lay before them.
It was very clear to you that Michael was making a seriously difficult effort not to stare at your breasts, and you found it very amusing, so you acknowledged the elephant in the room.
"Mikey. The more you try hard not to look at my boobs, the more you're just gonna wanna stare at 'em. 's fine, seriously." You held his hand, standing closer now, beautiful and entirely bare.
"Ohâyeah, but I feel like 'm objectifyin' y', Minnie."
Since you were kids and had sat down to watch Mickey Mouse together for the first time, you had declared the two of you as Mickey and Minnieâespecially because Mikey sounded so much like the name of the cartoon mouseâso from then on the names had stuck, used on and off as playful pet names, now even cuter in your romance.
"You're objectifyinâ me by just lookin' at me?" You smiled in amusement. "You're my boyfriend, MichaelâI sure would hope you enjoy lookin' at my naked body."
Michael squinted anxiously, looking to the ceiling and then down again. "I know, it's just... this is all so new to me."
"I know that," you whispered, taking hold of his other hand now too and stepping again closer, looking into the eyes that still continued to dart around. "Don't get me wrongâmy heart is beating out of my chest right now. I'm so nervous, baby. I didn't say anythin' before but... I really am."
"Why?" Michael furrowed his brows, a flash of worry crossing his mind that perhaps he'd overstepped the mark and made you uncomfortable. "You're... way more experienced than me. I've never even been naked in front of a girl before. Or⌠seen a girl naked.â
You raised a brow, knowing he most definitely had seen a girl naked, although not in real life of course.
âUm, except in Playboy,â he corrected quickly. âI have⌠seen naked girls in Playboy.â
âOh, I know you have,â you said humorously.
âBut only before we started dating,â Michael added. âI would never look at those while with you.â
âShh, baby,â you chuckled, holding his arm. âI know you wouldnât.â
He started to loosen up again, taking a long exhale as he looked at you with a small smile. You could see the excitement and content in his reticent expression.
You, on the other hand, had become entirely reticent. Shyness had overcome you, and while you kept trying to keep it together and conceal the ridiculous way you felt through playfully giving the shy title to Michael, that didn't help steady the beat of your heart. He looked so beautiful under the stream, the coils of his afro slick with water, rivulets falling from the tips. And this was your very first time seeing him fully naked, therefore it wasn't just the scary intimacy of the shower that was on your mind, but it was the mere sight of your boyfriend, too. You took in his long limbs, the physique that always made him look so tall despite standing at only 5'9; the wet droplets scattered over his broad shoulders and chest, the way his collarbone peeked just below a hickey you'd given him yesterday. To ensure nobody found out, he'd had to wear a sweater with a high neckline all dayâin the ninety degree heat of an LA summer.
You didn't dare look down at his lower half. For a woman who had been so desperate to have sex with her man, and for a woman who had literally just been critiquing said man for being hesitant to look at her own genitals, you couldn't bring yourself to face Michael in that way. While he was shy in regard to sexual encounters and sexual thoughts, you were shy of the oppositeâof romantic, soft encounters that asked for nothing more than love and care. Here you were, stood right in front of the man who just wanted to wash the body of the woman he admired, and wouldn't be desperate to hoist you up the shower wall and fuck you like any other man would. Every man besides Michael would take you into his shower for only one thingâand unfortunately, it was only that genre you were prepared for.
As crazy as it sounded, Michael having an erection would've actually made this easier. It would turn the moment into something you could tease him over, something that might steer you away from the very pressing truth that there was a man in your life who truly just wanted to admire you and take good care of you. Because Michael wasnât looking at your naked body right now to fulfil a sexual desireâhe was consuming the image to appreciate you at your most vulnerable, where you had laid your entire soul out bare to him.
In your peripheral, you could see that Michael was indeed soft down there, and while you doubted that it would last, the glimpse made your head spin. He was so big. Surely he couldn't be a grower...
You shook your head quickly, snapping yourself out of the thought as you stared absentmindedly at that dark bite on his neck.
He clicked his fingers in front of you, and cradled your cheek with his warm hand to bring your gaze to his. "Earth to my Tinker Bell."
Long before you'd become a couple, cute pet names had been the norm, but ever since your dynamic had entered the realm of romance, you found your heart fluttering with every usage of those names. Michael honestly hardly ever referred to you by your real name.
"Oh, 'm sorry," you chuckled, clearly looking bashful now. This wasn't like you, and Michael was confused.
"You're not uncomfortable, right?" he asked gently, while turning to take his soap from a shelf. He began to lather his upper half in it while you talked.
God, there was something about such a mundane action that just looked so insanely sexy on him.
Again, you blinked yourself out of the aroused thoughts, remembering that if you really wanted to succeed in a non-avoidant relationship, you would have to accept the circumstances that were merely innocent. Of course, Michael had primal, sexual urgesâlots of them, to be clearâbut he was also capable of being with you in an exclusively delicate, tender way too, even while you were both completely naked. The inexperienced individual was usually so uncontrollably horny, unable to do much about the appearance of an erection at the slightest touch, but Michael had worked out that thankfully, he could prevent the rigid enlargement between his thighs outside of makeouts. He assumed that the reasoning was probably because of the religious and sexual trauma that had messed around with his arousal and understanding of his own body for so long.
"What?" Your voice was a little high and anxious in response to Michael's question, as he now scrubbed over his shoulders. "No, you never make me uncomfortable. Why would I be uncomfortable?"
"Guess 'm just confused âcause you're all shy, y' won't look at me properly, even though it's not your first time like it is mine. You've already been naked in front of someone else before."
Now there was a slightly sad expression on your boyfriend's pretty face, because he could tell that there were lies in your words. You took a deep breath.
"Michael."
"Mhm?" He still looked melancholy as his eyes met yours, silently regretting putting you in this situation. He felt as though he'd forced youâand that was his worst nightmare.
"Yes. I do feel a little uncomfortable. Or... I think anxious is a better word. This isn't about youâI would never feel discomfort in your presence." You began to explain.
Michael nodded slowly, still confused. He turned to face the other way while he continued to wash himself, and your eyes widened at the sudden sight of his back profile, before again you collected yourself.
"So, basically... um, yeah, I'm experienced in sex... but not, y'know... real intimacy like this. With this sort of thing, I'm just as much of an amateur as you are."
He turned back, his sad eyes softening into those of compassion and understanding.
"You know I get anxious with the more romantic stuffâjust because I'm not used to it. It's not that I don't want to do these things with youâof course I do... It's just that in order to do them, I have to push myself out of my comfort zone, and something like this is a hard thing to push through."
"Honey, 'm sorry," Michael whispered, setting the soap down and stepping forward. "When you put it like that, I understand. I guess I was just gettin' caught up in makin' myself feel more comfortable before we make love, that I didn't view this as one of those things that would give you anxiety. 'm so sorry."
"Baby, it's okay," you smiled, interlocking both hands with his, and swinging them softly. "I'm not having a panic attack or anythin'âI want to be in here with you, and I love how romantic you are. It's just a lil bit of anxiety, and honestly I'm already feelin' it kinda slippin' away the more we stand here."
"Yeah?" His eyes lit up marginally, and he squeezed your hands to soothe you.
"It's just..." you started to giggle, covering your face. "Oh my god, this is so silly but every time you look at me I feel dizzy. I thought I'd got over this, but right here I feel the same as I did when I kept gettin' all shy after we first started dating."
Michael laughed, cupping your cheek. "I never stopped feelin' that way myself. I just manage it a little better now."
"Ugh, this is so... Wow, I'm here telling you that you should be looking at my boobs without restraint, but I can hardly look at you."
You continued to giggle shyly, while Michael was very amused, and emotionally moved by how wildly flustered he'd made you.
"Exactly, don't be a hypocrite now, baby," he grinned, using one finger to your chin to direct your eyesight up at him. "Look at me."
"Noooo," you laughed, playfully shutting your eyes, but in an instant Michael had you held tightly against his chest, your face mushed against his pectoral muscles. You squealed happily, wrapping your arms around his neck.
"Well, now you can't see me," you murmured airily, against his sandalwood-scented skin.
So Michael readjusted your head, cradling your face in a position that now allowed you to both snuggle into him and be seen by his higher view. "There. That's better," he smiled.
You hummedâthe vibration hitting Michael's grateful nervous systemâand you felt a strange glimpse of real calm now, as if finally experiencing what normal women felt like when their man would cuddle them in the shower. You tightened your arms around his neck, kissed his chest twice, and in turn Michael tightened his hold around your waist, stroking your hair. He rocked you in a slow sway for a period longer than you ever expected to be comfortable with in such silent intimacy, but it grew to be the most beautiful feeling ever, and you found yourself never wanting to leave it. He kept kissing atop your head, and then giving small pecks to your nose because he knew you'd instinctively smile.
After a few minutes, he finally spoke. "Are you just restin' on me because y' don't want me to look at y'?"
"No," you hummed into his neck, before pulling back slowly, and taking your hands in his again. Now that you were more relaxed, your clingy side was becoming further apparent. "I feel better now. A lot better."
"Mm?"
"I think I needed that," you admitted, referring to the standing cuddle. "You always know what I need, even when I don't know myself."
Michael's chest ached. Without sounding too egotistical, that was trueâhe did have some magical superpower that allowed him to help you in the situations in which you felt the most vulnerable. Even while he'd made the mistake of misunderstanding your hesitation tonight, it was upon recognising your feelings that he immediately knew what to do to make you relax.
"I'm glad, baby," he smiled, picking up your interlocked hands to kiss your knuckles. "Always want y' to be comfortable."
You suddenly felt like you were about to cry, but you turned quickly, blinked back the tears hard, and turned back. "Got somethin' in my eye," you laughed.
"An eyelash? Y'want me to get it out for y'?" Michael was already disconnecting one of your hands to reach out to help, but you stopped him.
"No, I don't know what it was but it's gone now. Wait, what are those?"
You quickly changed the subject, because the shelves behind Michael had been brought to your attention a moment ago. On the top were two extra bars of soap, decorated in a wrapper that told how they were most definitely not intended for a man's use, beside two bottles of what appeared to be body oil? Also clearly not for a man, even if your boyfriend did tend to enjoy more feminine notes when it came to cologne.
"Oh," Michael blushed, turning to look at the shelf. "Um, I bought these for you. So y' have 'em whenever youâre at mine and y' wanna shower. I didn't know which scent to get you of both the soap and the oil, so I got two different ones for each."
"Michael... Thank you, baby." You stood on your tiptoes and kissed him softly, before going over to the products and examining them.
There sat two pale French-milled bars of soap by Hermès, unopened in their decorative paper wrappers, in a porcelain dish beside two cut-glass bottles of body oil. One bar was delicately scented with lavender, the other with verbena and rose. Then, the first bottle of body oil was titled as a luxurious blend of gardenia and jasmine by EstÊe Lauder, while the second carried the fragrance of orange blossom softened with bergamot, by Guerlain.
"Wow, honey, you didn't have to..."
"Y' needed some soap, Minnie. 'm not makin' y' use mine," he answered, wrapping his arms around your waist from behind again, and leaning his chin on the crown of your head as you held the products.
"And the oil?" you questioned in amusement. "You wanna pamper me? Is that what you had planned, baby boy?"
"Maybe..."
"Michael Jackson," you began playfully, while turning around out of his hold with the lavender bar in your hand. "You lured me in here so that you could rub oil all over my naked body?"
"Don't put it like that..." he grinned bashfully, covering his face with one hand.
You instantly moved the hand away, giggling. "Don't worry, 'm not judgin' you, Mickey."
"Okay, then yeah, I wanna... um... do that. But not today, I don't think I'll, uhâbe able to handle it without accidentally, y'know..." He gestured his gaze downward to his crotch.
You nodded slowly, a happy grin on your face. But then you squinted, having caught another glimpse of his soft dick in your peripheral, and you decided not to second guess your next question. After all, Michael was your long-time best friend and your boyfriend, no matter how shy you sometimes felt with each other.
"Baby⌠I have a question.â
âYes?â
âAre you a grower?"
"Am I a what? What's a grower?"
You rolled your eyes with a sigh, then started laughing awkwardly. "Mikey, don't make me explain. I really can't do this while we're both stood here naked."
"Well, I don't know what y' mean, so I'm askin'. How do I answer the question otherwise?"
You continued to laugh through your words. "Ugh, I'm talkin' about your dick, silly!" You flicked his forehead. "I'm just gonna say it how it isâyou're big as hell down there considerin' you're soft, so I'm askin' if it grows much more when you're hard."
"Oh, um..." Michael's eyes widened upon understanding, but he didn't laugh with you. He actually looked quite anxious, because he'd just identified a potential problem. "Yeah, quite a lot more, actually. Is that gonna be an issue? When we..."
You gasped, followed by another giggle. "Just a slight issue. But you're not taking my virginity, so you're not gonna tear me apart, don't worry."
Michael furrowed his brows, looking seriously worried that you were being too naive and that he just might tear you apart with his size.
"Michael, you can't be that big."
"Baby, let's just end this conversation. I don't know how big I am compared to other guys."
"Okay, I guess I'll find out soon," you laughed, squeezing his cheek. You were entirely relaxed now. "Unless you back out because you're scared you're gonna break me?"
Michael rolled his eyes, fighting an adorable smile. "It's just... The last thing I wanna do is hurt y'."
"I know, Mikey, and we're gonna go so slowâI'll teach you all the very important parts of foreplay... We'll be fine."
His eyes lit up at the mention of foreplayâhe'd heard his brothers talk a lot about it, notably how satisfying it felt to make a woman cum with just tongue or fingers or both, and he'd been too nervous to ask about the details.
You paused to laugh at his expression, then suggested an additional component. "You can even get some lube for us, if you want?"
"Uh, yeah, okay."
"You're so cute," you giggled, reaching up to pet the wet frizz of his afro and squeezing his cheek again. "It's gonna be fine, baby."
"Stop it," he rolled his eyes with a smile; and then, with a hand on the back of his neck, you pulled your sweetheart down into a sweet, slow kiss.
When Michael pulled away to talk, he had his hands settled at your hips, and he looked a little nervous again.
"Honey, uh... would it be okay if I washed you?"
At his request, your eyes widened, but of course Michael would want a romantic evening shower to involve him doing everything for you, even if it was true that you hadn't even so much as grazed each other's nudity sensually before.
"Um, yeah, of course you can," you whispered, becoming a little shy again but without possession of the anxiety you'd carried in there earlier.
Michael nodded, then hesitated for a moment before taking the bar of soap from your hands, and picking up a fresh cotton washcloth.
Wordlessly, he began rubbing the product up and down your arms, the least anxiety-inducing part of your body to begin with, but all he could think about was how he would very soon be initiating touching the body part that sat just outside of his peripheral. Your breasts, what he'd yearned to touch for so long... And impossibly, he now had his very first opportunity.
You started to laugh again, because he had this adorable concentrated expression on his face, and because his wet fro was adorable enough in itself. The scrubbing also tickled slightly.
"Hm?" Michael looked at you, brows raised.
"I know I said this already, but you're so cute."
"Oh," he smiled bashfully, looking down at your arm again.
"Baby," you whispered, taking hold of his wrist. "Don't y' think you've washed my arms enough already? They're not that long, y'know."
Michael bit his lip, finally pausing, but still looking elsewhere from your face. "Uh, yeah, probably."
Truth be told, he was insanely nervous to touch your breasts for the first time. So much so, that he even began to share your concern from earlier. This was too intimate.
Michael never drank alcohol, but a sudden thought occurred in his mind that perhaps he should've taken a few shots before this shower.
"Mikey."
"Yes."
"Look at me," you laughed, reaching up to drag his jaw.
"I'm lookin'," he muttered, with a pout like a child.
"What's goin' on? Why have you stopped completely?"
No way could he say aloud that he, at the grown age of nineteen (to be twenty in two weeks) was scared to touch his own girlfriend's breasts. 'Scared' was perhaps a silly word to use, because one couldn't be scared of something they desperately craved. Rather, his inexperience was crushing him, overwhelming his free will and thereby rendering him unable to proceed with the next action in a normal, casual way.
And so, indeed unable to admit what was plaguing him, he shook his head and grinned. "Was nothin'. I just thought I heard somebody, 's all."
"Alright," you chuckled, although you felt a hint of a lie on his part.
You brushed it off. It was understandable if he was nervous.
Now he moved your hair out of the way and scrubbed gently over your neck, up to your jaw, making you gasp as he held your nape in place. His heart pounded as he did so, both with the thrill of hearing you gasp that way, and with the anxiety about what he would be doing next.
Finally, he lowered his hands, dragging the cloth over your upper chest, just below your collarbone, before setting it aside. He took a deep breath, shutting his eyes tight for a moment, before relieving his hesitation and opening them.
You looked up at him, wet lashes fluttering, heart racing too. He wouldn't touch you like all the restâyou knew that for certain. He was going to touch you so tenderly; with so much care, so much reverence, andâ
"Oh..." you involuntarily moaned, head rolling back slowly. Both of Michael's big hands had met your aching breasts, kneading carefully over the tissue. He eagerly lathered your chest in soap, lip between his teeth as his dilated pupils relished in the sight before him. You were breathtaking, and he couldn't believe he somehow had you like this. If he hadn't been so nervous and hesitant, he could've had you this way all the way back in spring. Or even earlier, if he hadn't taken so long to confess his love.
"This okay, mama?" he whispered, kissing your cheek, and then your lips.
Your eyes rolled back as you took another deep breath, reaching a hand up to his shoulder to steady yourself. How was he real? Michael took so much care, paid so much attention, and then had the nerve to kiss you twice, and ask if he was doing well enough. How quintessentially him. He never had any idea how innately talented he was at absolutely everything.
Because in that moment, as your supposedly 'shy' boyfriend squeezed and kneaded, you had quite literally ascended to cloud nine. Incredibly, Michael knew exactly what to do with what he had zero experience in. He was working the tissue in a way no man had before. All men loved breastsâthat was a givenâso Michael's infatuation with yours had been expected, but the men of your past did something very different. They would grab roughly, hold onto them tight for their own pleasure, without an ounce of tenderness. While here was Michael, doing something so particular, you wondered how on earth he was a virgin. If you hadn't known him on such a deep level, you would've chastised him for lying.
"Mikey..."
You didn't have to explicitly state a confirmation of how this was very much way more than okay. Your soft whines said enough, and they ran through Michael's body like the first hit of a hard drug.
Repetitively, he would run the palm of his hand along one breast, dragging the smooth skin over your erect nipple, and to the other breast he would provide a very slow massage, squeezing passionately as his thumb rubbed side-to-side and in circles over that nipple too.
You hardly looked down, too lost in one of the most pleasurable sensations you'd ever experiencedâand you hadn't even reached the sex yet!âbut whenever you did, your head would instinctively roll back again. His hands you knew were huge, except now they looked like the sexiest assets to inhabit the earth, you the lucky lady who had the digits sprawled all over your chest. And how tender he was...
All your life you'd done everything erratically, switching from one boy to the next in the hope that his pleasure might give you what you needed. But you had been so wrongâso naive and disconnected from what your safety hormone was really begging for. Beneath everything you sought that only harmed you, was a craving for this very touch.
Michael had a tendency to switch between shy and dominant. While you'd had only heated makeouts and dry-humping sessions so far, it excited you that there was a high likelihood he would behave the same way during sex itself. He would be shy during the build-up, but once he was settled, it was like all his inhibitions were hazy, and the only thing he could focus on was youâconsuming you, and pleasuring you. That was the reason why you often found yourselves making out in public, because you were equally addicted to each other, and Michael's shyness appeared to dissipate entirely once he became lost in your body.
Under the fierce shower stream, he sure was taking his sweet time. While just previously he had been too nervous to even touch the area, now he was reluctant to pull away from it.
But there was a problem. So lost in his provision of pleasure, so immersed in your sexuality and your angelic hums with each slight alteration of his movements, indeed Michael Jackson was getting a boner. The love he had for you, the arousal coursing through his veins, had rushed to his nether region, the blood flowing rapidly, much more insistent than he would've liked.
Michael knew he could've kept this shower at mere innocent romance, and when he initiated washing you, he hadn't intended to give you a full on massage. Except, that was what had ended up happeningâagainst his will, he believed, because he felt that his body was moving via his arousal and not his logical mind. He was supposed to save everything until the first nightâpartly because that was just how he had wanted it to be, and also because the last thing he wanted was to get hard in the shower right in front of you, unable to conceal an inch of it in his nudity.
He was surprised you hadn't noticed, but then again you had your eyes closed during ninety percent of the massage. If this had occurred a few minutes ago, however, you would've seen instantly. Where once his cock had hung limp, it was now risenâthe tip flushed mauve, thick veins running up and down the erect length. He wasn't fully hard yet, but he really was getting there, and the longer he touched you and stared at your beautiful chest, the worse this situation would become.
Quickly, he came up with an idea. He would guide you to turn around, so that he could wash your back. Perfect.
"Turn, honey. Lemme do your back," he whispered, cupping your cheek to kiss you again, and then he gently spun you 180 degrees, at which you giggled.
You were stunned by what he'd just given you. "Michael, what on earth was that?"
He gathered more soap and began spreading it from the nape of your neck and downward, scrubbing as he spoke. "Um," he chuckled, "I don't know, but it looked like you were enjoyin' it?"
"Quit this gimmickâyou know exactly what you're doin', sir. Have you been stealing porn from your brothers?"
Michael laughed louder. "Nothinâ but Playboy, I promise. 's all meâI haven't learned nothin' from nowhere."
"Ugh, you're incredible, baby. No one's ever touched me in that way before. Like, I've never had anythin' close to that, I swear." You sighed in disbelief and leaned back into his chest, wanting him to cradle you in a hold.
Michael was astonished by your reaction. Sure, it was clear you'd been enjoying yourself, but you'd been with several men before. How had he, in all his inexperience, managed to win such an achievement on first try?
When you leaned back into him, he took hold of you as you wished, now done with washing the plane of your back. He kissed your shoulder, but then froze in his place as he remembered his erection, and so gently pushed you forward again.
"What are you doin'? I wanna cuddle," you protested, about to turn around, but he stopped you with a hand on your hip.
"Not done yet, mama."
You sighed in irritation, but then felt the thrill of realising he was about to wash the lower half of your back profile. With a now content sigh, you let him continue.
Past your waist, Michael washed over the curve of your ass, lip bitten tight between his teeth as he stared at the image before him. He squinted in his sexual frustration, and you never would've guessedâto you he felt so entirely in control, those gorgeous hands running over where you so desperately wished he would just stop being such a gentleman and squeeze, but he didn't want you to think that he was like all the others, that he really had lured you in here just to touch you that way.
That was the last thing you would've ever believed of him, but Michael second-guessed a lot of things.
All of a sudden, he found himself speaking with sincerity. "Uh, y'know, baby, I'm sorry that we're waitin' so long to... um, have sex. 'Cause it's been nearly a whole month since I told y' I'd think about it. I guess this is kind of like me warmin' up to doin' it? I promise I won't make y' wait much longer."
"No, honey, don't apologise," you reassured, reaching back to hold his arm. "There's no pressure at all. We do it when you're ready."
Michael smiled to himself, and leaned down to kiss your shoulder again several times.
"And," you added happily, "I'm very impressed with the glimpse you've given me today. Well, in all fairness, it was really a lot more than a glimpse."
He chuckled, crouching down further now to wash over the backs of your legs. He pressed a kiss to your left hip, and to the skin just above your ass, again producing a pleasant gasp from your throat.
But just as he was about to consider what he might do next, about the problem concerning his own lower half, there was a loud, insistent knock at the door.
"Michael!" one of his brothers called. You didn't know which one it was, because the loud downpour of water above your head was quietening outdoor sound.
"Oh God..." Michael groaned under his breath from behind you, standing up from where he'd been crouched.
"Mike, y' in there? I can hear the water runnin'!"
"Is that Marlon?" you whispered in amusement, still facing away, but you were a little anxious that he might walk in and find out you were in there. The glass was fogged, but it was more than clear that two people stood behind it. Michael would lose his mind if anyone saw, because he knew that Katherine would lose her mind.
"Yeah," Michael muttered back, worrying now. Then he called to his brother, because he couldn't ignore him when it was very obvious he was in the shower. "Hey, yeah, 'm in here!"
"Alright man, y' still got my Afro Sheen?"
Oh no. Michael had borrowed the product off of Marlon earlier onâhaving run out of his own bottleâand now Marlon had a date, and needed it back immediately.
"Yeah, I can give it back to y' when 'm done!" Michael shouted, trying to disguise the unease in his chest. "See if anyone else has any, maybe?"
"Nah, 's cool, man, I can just come in right now and get it myself!"
You both heard the twist of the door handle, still facing away from each other but with expressions that were parallel, a mirror image in their horror.
"No, don't come in!" Michael yelled, much too defensively, but Marlon obliged, because living with so many brothers meant that you really could witness something you would regret if you weren't careful. That was never the case with Michael though, because he was always so innocent, therefore his anxious yell left Marlon now incredibly suspicious.
"Alright man, Jesus! But what the hell are y' doin' in there? Y' jerkin' off or somethin'?"
You tried not to laugh at that, but Michael didn't find it funny, scared that his mother might hear if she happened to be upstairs. She wasn't, but he couldn't be sure.
"Uh, noâno. I would never do that."
"Whatever, bro," Marlon chuckled. "What is it then? You got a girl in there? Oh shit, that's what it is, huh? Lil Mikey's got a lady in his shower..."
It hadn't taken very long for Marlon to work that one out, given the fact that Michael had literally no other excuse for why his brother couldn't quickly come in and out of the bathroom.
"Michael, this is so embarrassing..." you whispered. "What if he walks in?"
"He won't."
"Michael!" Marlon called again, with more frustration in his tone this time.
"What, Marlon?!"
"Tell meâam I rightâdo y' have a girl in there?"
What followed was more extremely telling silence, with the sound of the shower's persistent cascade. The quiet spoke for itself.
So Marlon continued. He was loving this, because he never thought he'd see the day that his younger brother would begin to break the rules. "If you don't have a girl wit y', then you'll let me in, but y' not lettin' me in, so that proves it!"
Again, more silence, while Michael groaned under the noise of the hot water.
"No way..." Marlon began to laugh again. "It's [âĽď¸] in there wit y', ain't it?" Then he raised his voice louder. "Jackie! Tito! Get over here!"
"I'm so sorry," Michael whispered from behind you, although you just found it all very amusing. As long as nobody actually saw you naked in the shower, this was some light entertainment to add to the romantic evening.
But Michael was stressed out, and for more reasons than just that he'd been caught. He had wanted to make this evening as romantic as possible, already nervous enough without the intrusion of his stupid brothers. In retrospect, he really should've done this with you at your place instead of the chaos that was Hayvenhurst, but he didn't want to impose, considering he was the man, and therefore the one who was supposed to initiate all these milestones in your relationship.
"What's gon' on, man? We're 'bout to go out." Jackie was now outside the door too, responding to Marlon's call. Michael's blood was boiling.
"Nah, listen to this." Marlon paused, then couldn't help but laugh again in his shock, so excited to deliver the live news. "Mikey's got a girl in his shower."
"Not [âĽď¸]?!â Tito asked, in disbelief. Surely his brother had to be kidding.
But for once, he wasn't. "Mhm. 'm sure of it. He won't let me in, 'n he keeps goin' all quiet whenever I ask."
Dumbfounded by the revelation, Jackie called into the bathroom. "Michael, y' can't be for real, man? When mother finds out?"
Each one of his brothers were hypocrites, because they all did whatever they liked, no matter what their mother believed in. It was just that Katherine was most protective over Michael, and Michael was the most compliant with her requests. He had vowed with sincerity never to do anything sexual with a woman until he married.
"God, shut up, Jackie!" Michael snapped. "All of y' need to mind y' own business. And don't y' even dare tell mother. She'll kill me. We're not even doin' nothin' in hereâwe're just takin' a shower. Washin' ourselves, 'n..."
"And each other?" Tito interrupted through laughter, which the others joined in with.
You'd found it funny until you heard how stressed Michael was, because he really was such a sensitive soul who'd wanted an entirely private night with his girl.
Although, unbeknownst to you, the one thing he had to thank his brothers for was a distraction from his erection. His cock was softening now, and as you turned back to face him, it was like nothing had happened down there at all.
Now, Jermaine had walked up to the door. "What's goin' on?"
"Michael's havin' sex in the shower," Marlon announced.
"Not even kiddin' neither," Jackie added.
"What? With [âĽď¸]?!" Jermaine asked, in the same shock the others had expressed.
"No, 'm not!" Michael yelled again. "Jesus, justâ"
"Michael, why else would you be in the shower with your girl?!" Jackie asked.
"None of y' business!"
From down the hall, a twelve-year-old Janet Jackson had peeked her head out of her bedroom door. "Why are y'all shoutin'?"
"Oh, 's nothin', Jan! You go'n!" Tito called back to her.
"Is Michael doin' somethin' bad?"
"No, I just want my Sheen back!" Marlon shouted.
"Shut up, mother's gonna hear!" Michael reminded. "Is she downstairs?"
"Yeah, she's outside, we're fine!"
"Alright, I'll get out of the shower quick, 'n give it to y'. Only if y' promise to leave me alone."
"Leave 'us' alone, y' mean!" Jermaine corrected. "You're not exactly alone in there!"
Out of respect, the boys didn't speak to you directly, and you were very appreciative of that. The Jacksons were like your brothers, and this was definitely not the most comfortable situation for you to be in with them.
"âm sorry, we'll be alone again in a minute," Michael whispered to you, kissing your forehead.
Then he grabbed a towel, and at the side dried his body with it quickly, before wrapping the cotton around his waist and stepping out. He picked up the jar that had been requested, handing it to Marlon through the now scarcely opened door.
Jackie, Tito and Jermaine were already walking off, done with their teasing because they too had girls waiting on them.
"Marlon, 'm so serious, don't tell mother about any of this. Or Joseph, 'cause he'll tell her himself and then he'llâ"
"Hey, bro, stop worryin'. Y' know 'm only messin' with y'. Have you guys been sleepin' together, though?"
Michael squinted in confusion. "Yeah, obviously. We have sleepovers all the time."
Marlon laughed, shaking his head. "Oh, man. Noâsleepin' together as in... y'know, makin' love."
The younger brother's face dropped. "Oh."
"You ain't done it yet, huh? How long y' been together?"
"Uh, 3 months. We're, umâ"
"Mikey!" you called, getting bored in there alone. "Is everyone gone?"
Marlon tapped his shoulder, before dapping him up with a supportive smile. "You go back in there 'n enjoy yourself, Mikey."
Michael smiled, but rolled his eyes at how his brother mocked your nickname for him.
After shutting the door again and taking off his towel, he stepped back into the shower, immediately pulling you flush to his chest. "So, where were we?"
You grinned, pulling your head out of his neck to lock your lips onto his. "Um," you started to giggle, "you were giving me a very sensual massage."
"Very sensual, huh?" He pecked your nose and squeezed your hips.
"Mhm. Latherin' me in all this luxury soap." You sighed happily. "Baby, I love how much thought you put into this. 'm sorry they ruined it for you."
"No, 'm sorry for you, not me," Michael stressed.
"Oh, shut up, Bambi. Honestly, it was funny. They didn't actually see us, so I can laugh it off. I mean, I would definitely be feeling much different had your mother found out, but if you know for sure that they're not gonna tell, then... Let's just resume our paradise." You beamed, wrapping your arms around his neck and feeling over his fro. "Y'know, if you really wanted something totally private, you would've been better off with a hotel suite, baby."
Michael's brows furrowed in concern. "Is that what you would've preferred? I should'veâ"
"Noooo, shut upâno. Honey, this is more than enough. Let's move on now. I've really enjoyed tonight."
"Yeah?"
The beautiful boy smiled so wide, it physically hurt you.
"It's been perfect," you whispered against his lips, between more kisses. "Even in its imperfections."
You both chuckled, and Michael now cradled your head, guiding you to rest against his chest again, nestled in the crook of his neck.
"I love you," he murmured. "I really think 'm ready to give you all of me."
angelcrescent Š 2026 â๨ŕ§ËâĄđ§âËâšâĄ âą writing this immediately after my last one shot was a fun twist lol ! what a dichotomy. also⌠initially i intended to include some light smut at the end but i decided against it bc i felt that it would taint the fluff !! there will be soooo much smut in the third part when they do everything together >u<
i wish yâall would stop mentioning how michaelâs music is for everyone and how he loves everyone regardless of races whenever us black people mention non black fans stepping over boundaries. this kinda feels like a form of manipulation having to constantly hear something like that, especially when your favorite writer is being called out. iâm seeing LOTS of yâall defend it and itâs okay to call out your friends/favorite writers, i promise you you donât need to hold their hand, theyâre grown and need to take accountability for themselves. and you should also educate them if theyâre not understanding anything in regards to black fans. everybody is human and makes mistakes, but if youâre coddling and babying them, they will not learn and will only hide behind you whenever they get called out. do better.