michael jackson · musician · dancer · shy · gentleman · flirtatious · perfectionist · vitiligo · celebrity · romance
Outside the velvet curtains, Paris murmured into the night, a distant soundtrack to the silence within the private dining room. Candle flames trembled, painting warm light across the polished table and gliding over Michael's skin. He adjusted a cufflink, his large, veined hands unsteady. His big brown eyes, full of a shy, fierce tenderness, found yours and held. The rest of the world dissolved into a blur. There was only this table, this breath, the question he had carried in his chest for months, now rising to his lips. He inhaled, his voice—soft as velvet, deep as a cello note—wavering slightly as his hand stretched across the linen toward you.