Well, it was the day that Michael Jackson passed away.
Due the ongoing trial against his doctor Conrad Murray I cannot say that he killed him, but I am pretty sure it was his fault.
So, I remember that day like it was yesterday, the 26th, German time you know.
I wasn't in school, everyone hated me so I tried to stay away from it as much as I could. I slowly went to the living room that my father had built when he moved back in 10 days ago as he married my mother for the second time.
When I turned on TV I switched around as fast as I could to get to the music channel, but hey, there were pictures of Michael Jackson everywhere...Sat.1 morning show had a picture of him in black and white and so I switched back.
"Yes, we also can't believe it, but Michael Jackson is dead." They showed his corpse in the ambulance car, the crying fans and the hosts wore black, the whole studio was only black and they repeated it for hours. I couldn't switch away. I was shocked. I sat there on this couch with an open mouth. Michael, to me he was immortal. When I was little my mom used to tell me who he was and in 2007 I became a fan...untill my friends told me I would embarrass myself...I stopped caring only to find out that it was totally wrong. But I was just a 12 year old child, please forgive me!
Anyway, after about 3 hours my mom came home from work to have a break. I told her "MOM MOM MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD!! I CANT BELIEVE IT!!" and she told me she knew it already. She was shocked about it, but just went back to work. Then I called my friend who was in school all that time and she told me: "I know." I called another friend but she only replied "So what, a musician less." Was I the only one who was shocked? I kept on watching the music videos all day, and although I never watched Thriller cause I was scared of it I watched it, for Michael! I went online and did alot of research about him for the next few days and I couldn't get bothered to get ready. I didn't eat anything for 4 days until my mom forced me to eat a joghurt, and that was my meal for the next 2 weeks. A Joghurt per day. I was too sad and shocked to eat. On the 27th I started crying. Everyday. And on the 7th of July I watched the Memorial service. In my room, alone. I wore black clothes and stood in front of my TV, not daring to sit down or even move. When the women began to sing "We are going to see the King" and they brought the casket in, I was about to faint. I have never fainted in my life and I've seen my mother fighting for the life of my uncle, I've carried my uncles ash to his grave...well let's just say I've seen alot more than this. But in this moment my legs started to shake, my whole body was cold and tears ran down my cheeks which became thinner, cause of my weight loss. It was like I would stand in front of the immortal, in front of the biggest thing ever!
I stood during the whole memorial service and cried, when Brooke Shields told us to smile for Michael I had to force my face to do so and when Paris cried I screamed "NOOO!" and broke down to the floor, crying...The next day at school someone said "One child molester less" and for the first time I dared to say something against it. I shouted "FUCK YOU YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM SHUT THE FUCK UP!!" and she apologized, telling me she didn't know what else to say.
My family understood my sadness at first, but then it all changed. They didn't even seem to care. I lost about 24 pounds of fat, I spent my day like this:
7:00 getting up for school without putting on makeup or doing my hair
01:00 coming back home going into my room, closing the lights and listening to Michael, drawing Michael.
04:00 or any other time in the late afternoon: looking at a picture of the casket and crying for hours, desperately screaming for death.
09:00 going to bed, praying for death.
The man who I just talked about in the beginning, my father, made it worse. He kept calling me insane, he talked to my dog and told him "Hey Jacko!! You are not dead are you?" He knew it hurt me. He called me a dirty slut. And so I stopped talking to him.
The only one in my family who accepted me for being a fan, was my mother. She didn't say positive things but also no negative things.
I signed up for facebook and because my profile picture was Michael, a fan added me. She told me about MJ and it was good to talk about him to her, she listened, she understood and we were able to share our sadness. A lot of fans added me.
One of her, is my best friend. She lives in Serbia and will visit me in Spring. Another one lives in London, I had the opportunity to visit her and her family, it was the best time of my life! Some fans were so desperate that they wanted to die. Me too, until November and since than I tried to help those fans. We were a strong family, sister and brothers and we understood each others. We were agains the tabloids that destroyed Michael, we protested against shows that portrayed him in a bad way.
This year, Fans have seperated. Some are so called "BeLIEvers" who believe MJ is still alive. Some are "Non-BeLIEvers" who know he is dead. Some buy the new album, some don't. Some believe that the Illuminati killed MJ, some think Murray killed him. I am just a fan and I don't care what other fans think, I accept their opinions and I love them no matter what.
Sometimes we get back to being a unit again. When it comes to demonstrations against the airing of MJ's autopsy, when a celebrity says something bad against "our" Michael. Michael taught us to love.
You can call me crazy, but since I am a fan a lot has changed!
I don't judge people anymore, I don't swear that much, I care about the world and want to make a change, I learned what love is, I know what good music is and I became a much friendlier person. Ask my family, ask my friends. I went through a rough time but Michael is worth every pain.
So, 1 year, 6 months and 9 days later, I found out that the man who called himself my father is/was an abusive a**hole, I know who my real friends are, I became a better person. The Life of everyone has changed in a way. And by the way, my english is much better now!