For All Time

Chapter 7

"I've missed you so much."He said. Hugging me again.

"I didn't think you would've came." I said.

He pulled me away from him."Are you kidding? I had to use the opportunity, with Joseph being in Los Angele's and La Toya always being with her boyfriend. It was my only chance to see you."

"What was all that one the phone the last time we talked?"I asked."I mean, what did you mean by it wasn't safe for me to come."

"Joseph said if he ever cached you on our property again that he'll get you thrown in jail."He said, he started looking down at his feet."I couldn't let that happen."

"What about you, How come you never came to my house?"

"Joseph took my car."

Damn, really?

"Oh"

I walked back up the steps and sat down on the first one.

"Where's Susanne?" He asked."Knowing her you would've been grounded for the rest of your life." I said then added a chuckle.

"She's on a business trip, I told the driver that drives me around to just drop me off her and then come and get me in about four hours." I said then looking down at my watch. I had been there for an hour already."So I guess your acne is going away."I added looking at his face.

"Yeah, well, I stopped eating meat, I'm on a strict vegetarian diet now."He said, adding a smile."It's a good thing to, I feel so energized now."

"Really?"I said. "I was wondering why you got thinner."

He shook his head."I've been on for two months now." He sounded proud of himself. HE started looking at me, Like he was checking me out or something.

"What?" I asked.

"I'm trying to see something different about you."He said.

"Did you find anything?"I asked,

"No. Your eyes are gray and it's Saturday so that's about right." he smiled then reached over and ran his finger through my hair."You hair is still long and you still wear in that same style. So that didn't change." He sat down on the steps."Your lips..."He kissed me again, taking my breath away."are still as soft as i remembered so that's about right too." He smiled back at me.

I blushed so hard my checks started hurting."Your are too." I said looking away.

"So, how the album going."He asked.

I looked back at him and smiled proudly."The album is finished."

His mouth dropped."What? Your Kidding right?"

i shook my head."Nope." I said."With all the time I had on my hands I just stayed in the recording studio all day, Because i knew i wasn't just gonna sit at home listening to Susanne run her mouth all day."

"So what's the name of it then?"

"Age ain't nothing but a number." I singed. Then laughed.

HE shook his head."I heard that song on the radio before, and i was like, i cannot believe that that was the Aaliyah Dana Haughton I knew."

"What you trying to say Michael?"I laughed."i can't sing or something."

"No!" he said putting his hands up in surrender."I'm just saying, It's like your happy that you get to do your own thing, and you can actually here it in your music."

"well I am, It feels good to be known as Aaliyah or baby girl as every one else calls me."

HE laughed."You still get called Baby girl?"

I rolled my eyes."Yes, that and Princess to."

He shook his head."Those names will never get lost."

"that's what I'm afraid of." I said. Thinking about the photo album she had should me. IT made me think about the photo i had found."Hey I'll be right back." I said then ran back in the cabin. and grabbed my purse.

I pulled the photo out as I walked back out."Tell me what do you think about this." I asked handing it to him. he studied the picture really hard as if he had memorize or something. Then he looked back up at me.

"He looks like your mother."He said.

"I know."

He looked back down at it."is this like your long lost brother or something?"

"Something tells me deep down inside that it is. But the thing is I never really noticed it before until I actually picked up that African vase and it was hidden behind there."I said staring at the photo.

"I think your mother wanted you to find this."He said almost in a faint whisper."I meanit's like a sign or something."

"You think so?"

"She wan't you to find your brother."

I raised my eyebrow."But how?" I asked."i don't know a thing about this dude."

"Wait a minute,"He said. his feeling up with so many expressions I couldn't even tell what he was thinking."Your diary."

"What about it?" I asked.

"Didn't you tell me that your diary was actually your mother before it was yours?"

"Yes." I said.

"Maybe she has some information in there about it."He said.

I looked over at it, I never really read the things that she had wrote in her diary. I just skipped it all and started writing my own. I guess i thought i was invading her privacy or something. I reached in my purse and pulled out the thick book and opened it to the very first one. I looked at Michael and pushed it towards him telling him to read because i couldn't do it.

He looked at me and then back down at the book."January 16, 1958.....  Today has been, well. Let's just say it's the start of something new. I gave birth to my baby girl Aaliyah Dana Haughton, I just had to give her Momma Dana's name because her eyes changes colors just like hers.I already that she is a very special little baby girl, and she will go very far in life. And I'm saying this right here and right now that I would not allow any person to my baby away from me. I've been through that once and I'm NOT going through it again. Signed Leah Haughton."

so somebody took him away from her.But Who? I just couldn't think about who it was. Could it have been my father? Or what. Then I realized that I only had one person to ask.

Susanne.