#jacksons diary

You were in Jermaine’s car, driving to the Jackson house in Encino. Jermaine had his hand on your thigh while you guys blasted music.

You were nervous, to say the least. You’ve seen his family online and they all followed you, but you’ve never met them in real life.

What if they didn’t like you? What if they didn’t see you as fit with Jermaine? What if they kick you out? What if they want him with a different woman instead?

You were just nervous and overthinking a lot. Jermaine noticed immediately, looking over at you. “You okay, mama?” He asked, genuinely concerned.

You nodded, lying. “Mhm, I’m good. Are you good?”

“No, stop all that lying, baby, I know you. What’s the matter?” He glanced at you and looked at the road.

“I’m just so nervous to meet your family. What if they don’t like me?”

“They’ll love you.”

“What if they hate me.”

“They won’t.”

“What if they don’t see me as fit with you?”

“They will.”

“What if they want you with someone else and kick me out.”

“They’re not like that. Stop overthinkin’ hunny. They’re gonna love you and see that you’re perfect.” He smiled at you.

His smile always calmed you down for some reason.

“You better be right.”

Around 5:56pm, you arrived at the house. It was much bigger in person. “Woah, look at this big house!” You said, wanting to get inside already.

You noticed a skinny and tall figure running around the front. His Afro was out and it looked as if was chasing something.

“Michael, what are you doing?” You hear your boyfriend said to the boy.

“Chasin’ the butterfly, Jermaine. I’m gonna take care of it!” He said, you noticed his voice, not quite hitting puberty yet so you assumed he was like, 16 or 17.

“Who’s that?” Michael pointed at you.

Jermaine smiled and grabbed your hand. “This is (Name), my lovely girlfriend.”

“Isn’t this your sixth girlfriend this year?” Michael asked.

Jermaine let go of your hand to chase Michael after that statement.

You noticed a little girl coming out with a basket of breadsticks. She saw you and immediately went to you.

“Hi! Are you the neighbor?” She sweetly asked.

“Noo, I’m (Name), your brothers girlfriend.” You told her, smiling shyly.

“Which brother?” She asked.

“Jermaine.” You answered.

“Ohhhh, how long?” She asked another question.

“4 months.” You told her.

“Oh wow! That’s longer than the one he had with his other girls. They always lasted 3 days. Anyway, want a breadstick?” She asked you.

“Of course!” You said. You were gonna ask Jermaine about them six girlfriends later, but right now, when you ate that breadstick, it felt like you were lifted into heaven.

“Woah, you made these?” You asked the girl.

“No! I’m too young, mother made them. We’re having a movie night, do you wanna join?” She asked.

“Yeah, of course! What’s your name?” You asked the girl.

“Um, 3,000.” She said, before walking into the house.

You looked at her like she was stupid, fuck she meant 3,000??

When Jermaine came back, he was all sweaty with a Michael in his arms.

Hours later, you had met the family and they loved you. You guys ate, answered questions, and watched a movie. Jermaine sat with his brothers, keeping watch on you a little bit, while you sat with 3,000 (Janet) and Latoya.

“Oooo, so someone’s got a long term girlfriend.” Marlon joked.

“Shut up, Marlon.” Jermaine looked away shyly.

“Right, I’ve never seen him like this ever. All his girlfriends usually last like, 3 days.” Jackie said, all his brothers laughed but Jermaine. If you looked closely, you could tell that his ears were red.

“I mean.. at least we like the girl this time. His last girl had an accident on herself when Jermaine made a joke.” Michael said, making all of them laugh, including Jermaine.

“Yall gotta stop this.” Jermaine said, rolling his eyes with a smile.

“Your last girl was also a little deaf, she kept sayin’ ‘huh’ every time we said somethin’” Tito chipped in.

“Exactly, call out to her, Jermaine. See if she’s deaf.” Marlon said, making the boys laugh once more.

Jermaine rolled his eyes but did it anyway, “You over there, mama? Need me to come over there? Keep you company?” He asked, basically flirting with you across the room.

You were about to give him the finger but you were at his family’s house. So you waved him off, making the boys laugh again.

Some hours went by again, it was around 1am. Everyone was sleep but you and Jermaine. You guys were in the kitchen eating. “So.. wasn’t so bad, was it?” Jermaine teased.

“It actually wasn’t. Everyone was so nice, including 3,000.” You said.

“What? Who’s 3,000?” Jermaine said, confused.

“The little girl, I ain’t wanna make assumptions or anything about her name but uh, why’d yall name her that?” You asked.

“Girl, ain’t nobody named her no 3,000. She just likes to play around. Her name is Janet.” Jermaine said, scoffing.

“Ohhh.. okay.”

“Hey, (Name)?” Jermaine called out to you, softly.

“Yeah?”

“I’m really glad you met my family. It’s like now that they like you, I feel like I can go all in with you.” He said. “Which is why I wanted to tell you, I love you.”

You smiled hard, he’s never said I love you to you yet, you felt as if this moment was really special to you. “I love you too, Jermaine.”