Cowboy Mike XXII Sneak Preview!
The car pulled into the parking lot and Sabah hiked up her tight, dark skirt, careful not to rip the inch split in the back. As she stepped out of the car she caught a flash of gold in her peripheral vision. She didn't know what made her notice it or what made her stop but something told her to turn around and look a little closer. Well, she did and it took about a half a second for her to recognize who it was that she was looking at. Jogging as best as she could in her high heels, she caught up with Melissa as she was sticking her keys in her car door.
"Excuse me." Sabah called out, even before she had reached her. To Melissa, the clatter of her heels on the pavement were ominous. When Melissa didn't answer Sabah called out a little louder. "Excuse me!"
Melissa hesitated and looked in Sabah's direction but she didn't stop or turn around to acknowledge Sabah in any way. If anything she tried to open her car door faster but Sabah had already caught up to her. She arrived at her side, slightly winded and gave Melissa a leveled look.
"Melissa, right?"
"Yes," Melissa replied apprehensively. The last thing she wanted to deal with this morning was a confrontation. She tried to do so inconspicuously, but she couldn't help but take in how Sabah was dressed and she kicked herself for pulling on an old pair of jeans, a dusty pair of sneakers and a simple T-Shirt this morning. Right about now she'd kill for some heels, if only so she could look Sabah in the eye. As it were, Sabah was dressed to kill in an obviously designer suit, tailored to accentuate every curve on her shapely body. If Melissa didn't feel intimidated enough, the fact that she towered over Melissa in her two inch heels was even more daunting. The dark color and the simple lines of the form fitting skirt and jacket made Sabah look elegant while Melissa felt frumpy and unwanted. She came in hoping to catch a minute with Michael and though she knew he was there, he had avoided her like the plague. Thirty minutes she hung around and not once did he come out of his office, not even to say hi.
Sabah's penetrating glance spoke for her, even before she said a word. Considering what had just happened, Melissa couldn't help but feel small. She felt like hired help being cornered by a VIP business exec. And Sabah looked like she meant business, too. Melissa swallowed. It didn't take a rocket science to guess what this conversation was going to be about.
"Sabah Graham," Sabah held her hand out with confidence and Melissa hesitated before giving her a weak hand shake. Sabah's grip though was firm, and as soon as she released Melissa's hand she pinned her with an accusatory glare. Her tone though remained misleadingly disinterested.
"Um, what are you doing here?" . . . .
Meanwhile, the driver who had driven Sabah there peeped his head into Bill's office. Michael was laughing at something Bill had said and Bill was still talking when he interuppted them.
"Heads up guys. Mr. Jackson," The driver nodded at Michael respectfully. "Bill, Ms. Graham is here, and unfortunately she spotted a woman leaving - Melissa, right?" The driver glanced at Michael. When he saw Sabah run away from the front door towards Melissa, he made a mad dash for Bill's office immediately. He knew who Sabah was and Melissa -- well, she'd been sniffing around Michael for a couple of weeks now. "They're in the parking lot, um, having a discussion."
The guard wasn't even able to get the last words out before Michael sat up in his chair. "What?"
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"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." W. Shakespeare
"----->His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child’s. If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity”. ~ Jane Fonda
Melissa with little Nelson, Annie?
Wow, you really DON'T like her, huh!!!!!
hi hunny bunny
MWWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
i know i have been mia lately but i have ssooooooooooooooooooo much going on now, i dont eeven have rtht time to visit my favorite haunts *wink* but girl you knoww as a CCC addict i have to at least leave 1 comment 
BUT i understand Sabah speaking purely from experience, i had to do what she's doing now but then again i feel for melissa too because while she may look foolish now the girl did fall in love and with the KINGof ALL COBRA too, cant blame the girl if that snake *mike's cobra*
made her go off the deep end!! :sideways:
did not LMP follow that pipe ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way to AFRICA? you know how longgggggggggggggggggggggggg that flight was just to get at mike's cobra?
sabah do not want mike's cobr hissing at anyone else but her , dont fault he one bit either
MGIRL, i'm expecting there's going to BE some KISSING & RUBBING of 'heads' and '' triangles'' verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry soon with our resident cowboy and his gal
i mean those two CANNOT resist SLURPING AND SUCKING
Annie, I'm sending you a new Dynamo by MikeMail but how will you see it?
WOW!! 105 comments ALREADY??????????
soo sabine.. when is the next chapter coming up? :P
:shocked: OMG!
Ohhh, snaaaaaaaap!!! Throwdown... perhaps...!! OMG.. Captain Eo is coming back to Disney World! My Disney World not Disneyland!! I live SOOOOO close to there!!
I've never been to Disneyland (I've never even left the East coast) but when I thought Captain EO was only coming to Disneyland, I was like California or bust! But, luckily he's coming home with me too!
Sabine
I'm not sure what Sabah will do, but I still think she should not rat out Melissa a whole lot, because the way I see it, even if Melissa orchestrated something once, that doesn't mean she doesn't have genuine feelings for Michael. I admit using sex to lure someone thinking it will bring you closer to them is a bad idea and it was a bad choice on her part, but I guess Melissa was just doing the only way she knew how to. So what if she told Michael right off the bad she loves him, I wouldn't compare what Melissa was doing to all those millions of fans, she was just head over heels in love with Michael and Melissa was just more sure of her feelings than him that's all. I think its really unfair to hold it against someone if they get so taken by you even if they seem to be coming on a little strong. Melissa is still human with feelings she made a bad choice but I wouldn't crucify her for that. If Michael felt Melissa was coming on too strong and he wasn't sure, he shouldn't have gone to her place and had sex with her. By doing so Michael only gave her more false hopes that there was something in it for them, and this act only strengthened Melissa's belief that she had a chance with Michael. I know its not Michael's nature to get into a confrontation but he is still partially at fault and needs to take responsibility. He sleeps with her and without telling disappears and finds Sabah, I think some explanation is in order from Michael here.
Oh and yesterday I said Sabah was TAKING the trouble of confronting Melissa and you thought "choosing" was a better word. Well Sabine I still have to disagree, I mean what would you do if your boyfriend's ex was poking around like this and the boyfriend is just unwilling to step up and do something about it. Obviously Sabah has NO choice but to do Michael's dirty work since he won't. So I don't think she is choosing but rather being left with no choice she has to TAKE the trouble of confronting Melissa. I wouldn't just stand around and watch, nobody would. Sabah doesn't feel insecure about Melissa stealing Michael, she trusts him, but since Michael is not being honest with her and not knowing what is going on inside Melissa's head she can only find out by talking to her. I don't think Sabah ever felt threatened that her mother will take Michael away from her, on the contrary she stood up to antoinette and said very confidently that Michael loves and trusts her. I don't think she feels as threatened or upset by her mother as she is about Melissa, there's a difference between your own mother and your boyfriend's ex.
Hi Ladies! Are we still debating lol? Here's my two cents:
"Sabah was taking the trouble of confronting Melissa..."
To do that first Sabah is willing to go about the confrontation even though it could be difficult. She accepts this. Isn't that a choice? She didn't "have to" do anything.
Morning Sonia! I see you are just warming up to your topic!!! LOL! How many cans of CobraCrack did you have yesterday?
If I had a boyfriend who was unwilling to step up, I would have to decide what I'm going to do -- whether I will speak for him or request that he do so, and if he refuses, decide from then what to do about it. But be sure, every step along the way, I would be making choices.
It's a misconception that people are "left with no choice". No one has their hands up our butts making us do things.
We all DECIDE what we're going to do based on our feelings. It's really that simple. We can "feel" like we have no choice, and that feeling is valid, but we all have choices.
Sabah doesn't have to do anything. But whatever she CHOOSES to do is a choice: She can choose to leave Michael, because she doesn't like his inability to handle this situation; she can choose to ignore Melissa, she can choose to write her a letter or leave a message for her, or file a complaint with the police against her for harassment
She can choose to talk with Michael about this and try to communicate how serious she is about him dealing with it -- she has LOTS of choices. One of the choices is TO DO NOTHING.
That's a subjective statement and not entirely accurate. I, myself, have no interest in fighting other people's battles for them, that includes exes. If I was with a man who could not create clear boundaries with his exes, I would seriously consider leaving him as that is not something I'm about to deal with.
To me, one of the ingredients of a successful relationship is when you're able to accept a person as they are. So Michael is non-confrontational -- Sabah is never going to MAKE him deal with issues that he doesn't want to, even if she thinks he should and most people would agree with her.
She could only hope to communicate to him how important it is for her, and then he may DECIDE to do it.
As for Sabah not feeling insecure about Melissa -- I see it a little differently.
Sabah doesn't feel insecure about Melissa because she has good self -esteem. To me, anytime a woman feels threatened by another woman it is because she doesn't feel good about herself. If she feels good about herself and knows her worth, she KNOWS her man is not going anywhere, because she is not going to be in a relationship where she is not valued and loved.
I wouldn't talk to ANY woman to find out about my relationship!!!
I would talk to my man!!! That's if I valued the relationship. I mean, to me, if you need to talk to another woman to find out what happened between your man and her, there is a SERIOUS trust defect in the relationship!!! If you can't expect your man to be honest and truthful with you, your relationship is in trouble.
To me, if anyone needs to have a conversation, it should be Sabah and Michael, don't you think?
Sabah felt threatened that she would lose Michael because he would not want to deal with her mother's plotting and scheming, not that her mother would take Michael away from her. Truthfully, no one can take Michael away from Sabah unless he WANTS to leave.
She knows Michael loves her, but she also knows what her mother is capable of.
Well realistically speaking she didn't HAVE to do anything.
But that's just because she was left with NO choice. Yeah she doesn't have to do anything, so we just let Melissa keep coming around, trying to chase down Michael, coming to their apartment and who knows where else. For how long will this continue?? Ask yourselves, if this was happening to you, would you just stand back and watch, because Melissa has no intentions of just going away on her own anytime soon. Any boyfriend/girlfriend would be bothered by their ex snooping around them.
I personally think just on the grounds of humanity both Michael and Sabah should just confront her together and get it over with. Sabah wouldn't be having to do this if Michael had taken care of this long time back. I doubt if she really wants to talk to Melissa willingly at all. Sometimes people need to hear in clear words, but even then Melissa may not get the message in which case as someone said get a restraining order.
Look at what you're saying:
"Let" -- no one has control over Melissa. They can't "make" her do anything, they can only talk to her and ask her, but she decides.
I mean it probably would be nicer if Michael left Sabah out of it, but he did that, didn't he? Melissa didn't listen.
See the thing that is being left out of your view point is Melissa's responsibility to herself.
Michael is not responsible for making Melissa feel better or be okay, although it would be nice, neither is Sabah.
Melissa has the responsibility of making sure she's okay. Melissa is NOT doing that in this situation. She's not taking good care of herself.
Oh, and by the way, as I illustrated, Sabah has lots of choices. I could probably think of some more!
Hey Music, girl the debate is going strong.
I had to read your sentence twice though and I still don't think I get it, though we're probably saying the same thing. You're saying Sabah has to orchestrate the confrontation which is in itself a choice?
Well Sabine, about all those choices you listed that Sabah can do any of them, true indeed, but to me they are really all one in the same. Either way Sabah has to take some action. Now if after talking to Melissa she still doesn't stop, then I would go to the police file charges, get restraining orders and stuff like that. After Sabah tried talking to Melissa and she still doesn't get the message, then YES Sabah will have to make choices in how to further handle her. All I'm saying if things can be settled by talking why get into the legal stuff with things getting ugly that's all.
In my mind the way it stands is first Sabah has to TAKE the trouble of confrontation and if that doesn't work, then Sabah will make CHOICES.
As for a woman feeling threatened by another woman because she doesn't love herself. I don't think that is really true. I fully love myself and totally trust my husband but when there were woman trying to get his attention, I just didn't like them poking around, it was just plain annoying. It had nothing to do with feeling insecure of not loving myself, on the contrary nothing could be further from the truth. Not even for one second have I ever doubted my husband. So I don't think just because a woman doesn't like another woman poking around it always means she doesn't love herself. Its like you feel secure about your home, and all of a sudden one day a person just walks in off the street and comes into your home without permission, you wouldn't feel too good about that now would you. Its not that you live in fear everyday of your home being broken into, but if it happens you're not just gonna stand by and watch right?? It's only human nature to be troubled by people where they don't belong, I don't think its necessarily because of pre-existing insecurities, but that's just my opinion.
You're right, Michael and Sabah do need to talk about this, but Michael doesn't want to talk, so what to do?
Sabah loves Michael for who he is and has accepted him for him, no question on that. But there are gonna be times when you do have to make a person do the right thing. Its not as if Sabah is asking Michael to get into confronations everyday, this was something he had a hand in partially so he should take care of it also. If Sabah was to make Michael confront Melissa its not that she doesn't love him for who he is, but she just realizes that he made a mistake and needs to take care of it that's all. Loving someone unconditionally doesn't mean you let them forget their responsibilities.
I agree with you Sabine, I wouldn't want to be with a man either if he didn't know how to set boundaries when it comes to exes, I wouldn't want to deal with that nonsense. But throwing away a relationship just like that is alot easier said than done. Okay so Michael doesn't want to confront, then let Sabah do it. To me in a relationship its like there is no such thing as yours and mine, everything is "ours". Now whether Michael does it or Sabah does one in the same. But Michael also doesn't want her to do that also. Now they can't just go on like this. Michael is a nice guy but everyone is flawed, but agreed that sometimes if such things aren't taken care of they can ruin a relationship and it isn't healthy. Melissa means nothing but she is starting to become a nuisance.
No she doesn't
Sabah can CHOOSE to do nothing!!!
Oh, no Sonia!
That's not a good analogy. Melissa is not IN their home -- she is not in their relationsihp.
She is just being annoying. So it's like if someone walks past my house everyday and waves at my husband or stops to say hi, would I be annoyed?
Hell yeah!!!
But if my man is not paying this woman any attention and I am secure in myself, no reason for me to confront her.
Now if this woman is calling my house; if she is coming over -- then you know what?
Someone LET HER IN!!!
So my problem is not with her!
If she's is breaking in, that's a WHOLE 'nother conversation -- but Melissa is NOT doing that here.
When she showed up at the condo, Michael handled it, so shamone, you have to give him some credit!
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, people still do what they want to. And Sabah does not have the power to make Michael do anything. If he ends up talking to Melissa, it's because he WANTS to.
I cannot emphasize that enough. She can tell him I think you made a mistake, and I'll like for you to do x, y, z, but Michael DECIDES what he will do.
I mean, sure. she can if she wants to
But she can't blame him for her CHOICE. He didn't make her confront, in that case -- she chose to.
Hi Sabine!
It really was in reference to what Sonia said yesterday about Sabah "TAKING the trouble" to confront Melissa rather that CHOOSING. Sorry I was trying to break down the steps, what Sabah would be going through before the confrontation. Everything is a choice. Sabah was willing to do this. She accepted it would be difficult/uncomfortable and she made the choice to go ahead. We are saying the same thing differently.
hello fellow CCC'S mike'ettes
debate still going strong today also i see,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, good! . i like that
MELISSA'S problem is that the GIRL just cannot take a HINT 
I MEAN, how much cleare does she want mike to get with her about his position on matters between them? does mike have to moonwalk over her @zz for her to GET IT that he's gone? :dizzy:
how willl validating her feelings make her feel any better about the situation? she's still going to feel HURT...LET IT GO; GET OVER IT
it's hard yeah we jknow! NO ONE likes being dumped
BUT if mike pulled out all his curls he loves so much, gave her his Billi Jean ensemble including his fedora and loafers, promised to stop wearing black and red his favorite colors, cried like he did when he sang She's Outta My Life, told her he was a Smooth Criminal to steal and play with her heart, threaten his own butt b/c he was Bad, so now she should stay away from him because he's Dangerous, but he just could not help himself because he's the THRILLER
BUT MELLISSA i'm telling you now if you don't LEAVE ME ALONE now; it's just HUMAN NATURE that my girl Sabah will kick you @ss , she's ANOTHER PART OF :kissing: , so please mel plese just BEAT IT, and right now her love for me makes her feel INVINCIBLE :face: so i CANT LET HER GET AWAY, and when i say THIS IS IT? i mean this is really it, her love to me is MORPHINE
, she has no interest in my MONEY, so if i'm making a mistake please let me make my damn mistake......... LOL..................she's not feeling THREATENED 
by you but you should be by her; what we had is HISTORY 
, so why you wanna trip on me ? hmnnnnn WHY? I know the cobra felt like 2000 WATTS, you're acting alittle OFF THE WALL now 2 BAD olease girl now let us just have some PRIVACY....if he said ALL Of this TO HER would she feel any better? no, so again, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! 
oh Sabine
please forgive me for the long @ss comment 
i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo got carried away 
Ahhhh deedeluvmike I'm loving it. Can you make a CD and Fed-Ex it to Melissa?
As far as the house analogy is concerned. That's like having given the keys to a guest but you forget to take the keys back. One day out of the blue that person decides to come back knocking at your door, and thinking they have a right to gain entry because they have been in your home once before or you just forgot to choose not to make it clear that they are not welcome back. I don't see Melissa as just someone who is waving from the sidewalk, because today its like she is just waving and if not dealt with, she could potentially become more daring and do something else. Had nothing happened between her and Michael then I'd be like okay Sabah should just ignore her and that chick is a crazy lunatic. There's always gonna be people like that out there, but the ones who did have something to do with your partner in the past and are now lurking do have to be dealt with, that's just how I feel about it.
I guess in my mind when you are in a relationship you do have certain rights over a person, and its not about controlling or anything but its just like there is nothing wrong in wanting to protect and take measures if you see potential trouble that's all. If one person ain't gonna do it, then let the other person do it. Not paying attention doesn't make problems go away always. In my mind if Sabah was to make Michael do it, agreed if though she can't, its not that she is being controlling or pushy, but that's her right as his girlfriend, and perhaps even as his future wife. And if the other person feels they are being demanding, then I think that is not genuine love and concern for the other person. In a relationship there is some range of right you are entitled to over a person, and that should not feel like suffocation. Well that's just my opinion.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
HOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
Once upon a time mike met a girl named Melissa who was a little OFF THE WALL, here she was with the THRILLER himself MICHAEL JACKSON every girl'S dream boat....
what Mel did not know was that MJ was BAD and could be DANGEROUS, especially to young girl's heart [no fault of his though ,he got it like that]
Before Mel could blink what she had with mike was over , it was HISTORY, when she confronted mike in rehearsal he told her, MELISSA please i do not want any BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR
You see, mike had found a new love named Sabah and she made him feel INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!! [raising fists in air]
hey MUSIC
i dont think i will need to , i think she's gonna get the message when Sabah is through with her!
if the embarrassment alone doesn't do it , then NOTHING else will...poor baby
hey sabine i tried to vote on your poll and couldnnt but i'm doing something wrong, i gues
Just finished cleaning my house . Sitting down for some nice relaxing CCC and what do I see. ITS ON!! I know how this story ends in my mind but sadly I am not the author. I would just like to say that you ladies know that you would act the same way if you were Melissa. Hell most of us spend tons of time just looking at pictures of this man that we never even met, never mind spent a passion filled night with.Love your writing Sabah,now let run out of here before I get pummeled!! Hope you like the new Avi (Mike & Melissa?) ducking and running away
Damn!1 New avi didn't show Up!!
Sabine, Hi, Girl! The long lost PCakes has resurfaced! Missed this place like crazy! Now my 2 cents.....The preview looks a bit like it could be leading to a smack down or a KO! My money is on Sabah. I was not able to read all the posts cause I am at work and uuuhhmmm suppose to be working. I believe our life is filled with choices in every moment and most of the time those choices are made based on the emotions that we have at the particular moment that the choice is to be made. Not always on logic. I also have come to believe that in most cases we can "lead the horse to water but we can't make them drink". Michael has a problem dealing with confrontation and a lot of times (including myself) we want to step in to "help" someone who we deem weak . I know I have because I am kind of a no nonsense kind of girl and dislike procrastination. But by doing that, it enables the person to continue that behavior instead of them sooner or later have to deal. It will be interesting how this plays out. To be honest i feel sorry for Melissa. I think she truly cares about Michael and is concerned for him in a way that is more than just wanting him to love her back. I know in my own life I have been in Sabah's shoes and kind of in Melissa's so I hope this plays out nicely.......But where would the fun be in that??? Ohhh to be a fly on the wall on this one! Mikey better high tail it to the parking lot cause I think Sabah could take Melissa and her broken spirit & heart down with one swipe of her tongue or her hand!!! Can't wait for Chapter XXII baby!
Sabine.....
i like the poll you have! HAHAHAHAAH
I don't think Sabah will get into a physical fight .. she is too much of a lady. I think she will just tell melissa to back off..
<3! plus.. is sabah gets to a physical fight i think michael would be SOO turned offf by her lolol
Hey girls ! Deee Deee oooo loving your posts, should Sabah tell Melissa off using Michael's lyrics? That would be funny!!!!!
Sonia, girl, OMG, you have me cracking up over here.
With L.O.V.E.!!!!!
Michael didn't forget to tell Melissa it's over. He purposely avoided her. There's a big difference between "forgetting" (how can you forget to tell someone it's over!!!! AND CHOOSING not to tell.
But it doesn't matter, Melissa showed up one day and rang his bell, literally, and he was like OMG, what are you doing here. GIve me back my key! I have another guest, you CANNOT come in!!!!!
Melissa still keeps coming back. She's not listening. She's waving from the sidelines.
Sure, I see your point, but they don't have to be dealt with by Sabah. Michael should deal with them, her -- in this case Melissa. But if he doesn't want to, Sabah can't make him!!!!
Sonia
All I will say is if my husband told me I was not "allowed" ANYTHING there would be a big problem!!!!! And because i don't want to be treated like that, I would never treat someone like that. I want to be with a man who respects me enough and is intelligent enough to know for himself that having a friendship with someone from his past is dangerous or someone he finds attractive -- I sure don't want to be "allowing" him or "telling him what to do" like he's a child!
UGH, that's no fun for me!
Agreed, that's why I never try to control people, because people have a way of doing what they want to anyway
Ha, to me it might not feel like suffocation but it sure does sound like control!!!!
PinkFrosting hheeeeeeey girl!!!!
You know I see your point, girl, but just pulling out something you wrote:
See, when you think that your partner is weak and you have to help them, that's help masked as control. The relationship is doomed because you are already taking a superior position to him and relationships cannot work if they don't involve equals! Like you said, it's crippling to the person, how will they ever learn to over come their weakness when you're "helping" them.
Like you said, it's not helping -- it's ENABLING.
Sabah should tell Michael how she feels, and that melissa is making her uncomfortable, and ask him to do something about it, if he doesn't right away,she will have to let Michael take care of it in his own time I guess! She can't make Michael do anything, Sabah shouldn't solve Michael's problems for him, but they could tell Melissa together to help Michael alittle!
Hey Mel, I see your new AVI, but I hate to break it to you, that's not Michael and Melissa!!! That's Michael and Sabah, you've read all about it!!!!
*Thinking* It was soooooo swweeet
Hey Collette, well from my NUMEROUS posts, lol, you know that's how I see it -- we'll see what Ms. Sonia Fierce is furiously typing as a response now
The thing is if she asks Michael to do something and he says No, I don't want to or whatever, in my opinion, in a functional healthy relationship she has to respect his right as an adult to say he doesn't want to do something and try to understand where he's coming from.
Personally, I wouldn't look at telling Melissa together is a good idea. I mean, how mortifying for her. UGH!
I personally am allergic to drama so I would be like, Michael, handle it please.
HI Elmira!!!! WAving over everyone's head!
You don't think Michael would like a Sabah rolling on the ground ripping out Melissa's hair.
Don't take each and every word of my analogies and use word for word in Michael's case. I guess its not always clear when communicating over the net what we may actually mean and its misunderstood.
Okay let me say it this way. Michael avoided her I know that and didn't FORGET! But because there was no closure for poor Melissa, what she's now doing is hovering around Michael and Sabah, perhaps looking for that one loose end to be tied up, and lets be fair to her. If that happened to any of us, we just couldn't move on like that, it HURTS!! I do believe Melissa loves Michael alot, and she is genuinely concerned for him, but the poor girl is in denial and hasn't accepted that whatever she had with Michael is over. This being in denial and the love she has for Michael is still what is I think driving her to encroach on his and Sabah's relationship, whereas she has lost that right over Michael because there is no relationship anymore. Melissa has no right to be doing what she's doing. In that house example, its like if I was to see a woman walk by and wave to my husband and he didn't respond I wouldn't be concerned at all. But if that person starts showing up repeatedly and doing what we call suspicious activity, you bet its gonna get my attention, like coming and standing in front of the house everyday. Its gonna feel uncomfortable. So that's why I said to me its not really a choice but having to TAKE some kind of action. Because the way I see it, if you let this suspicious activity go, then you might run the risk of bigger problems in the future. You know its kinda being safe than sorry. But agreed Michael should be the one doing it and not Sabah.
For example the very first time Sabah saw Melissa and asked Michael about her, he reassured her that she was a past thing and nothing to worry about. Thus Sabah trusted Michael and left it at that. The second time Melissa showed up at the condo unexpectedly that sure got Sabah's attention, and now it looks like this is the third time, Sabah has caught her hovering around. Its only natural that its going to raise Sabah's eyebrows and put her on high alert. I don't think her being threatened by Melissa has anything to do with feeling insecure, I mean if Sabah was feeling insecure after all this time being with Michael there would have been big problems by now, and they might not have even lasted this long. So I don't link feelings of insecurity with such a situation but rather its just a natural human emotion that is triggered off, because someone is crossing boundaries where they have no right being.
That last line where I said in a relationship where there is some range of right a person is entitled to the other, I don't see it as being controlling or suffocation. This degree of right over a person does not exist in just romantic relationships between bf/gf or married people but in all relationships. Such as your parents having rights over a child and vice versa. The challenge and trick to maintaining a well balanced relationship is to not cross that range of right and start abusing your position in that person's life. For example parents have the right over their children to guide them, teach them and raise them to be good loving people, with good self-esteems and all. Let me just use the example of my parents for a minute. Whatever right they were exercising over me and all the decisions they were taking were not for my benefit or happiness. They never thought about me and they were only worried about using me as a pawn, and they abused their power,authority and position as parents to try and mold me into what they wanted so it serves their purposes. Thus I had no choice but to kick them to the curb since they overstepped that normal range of right they had over me. They could never see what the problem was because they felt they had every right to do that since they were my parents and they just couldn't accept that even as my parents EVEN THEY didn't have a right to cross certain boundaries. The key is accepting people and loving them for who they are.
Lets just take Michael and LMP's example for a minute. LMP never accpeted Michael for who he was she didn't respect that he was his own person, and always tried to mold him to what she wanted him to be so it served her purposes. Result she too crossed boundaries she had no right going into, because she was not acting in the best interests of her husband, which every spouse has a right over their better half. To the key is exerting that right over your better half and acting in the best interests of that person and not just thinking about your own selfish motives so it serves your purposes. But yes, to act in the best interest of your significant other is a right the other person has. Like the time, Michael received that ransom note and he was scared out of his mind for Sabah, because Michael genuinely cares for Sabah and didn't want anything to happen to her, so she was cooped up in the condo for a week. That's not because Michael was trying to control Sabah but because he was just trying to protect her and looking out for her. To me that is a right Michael has over Sabah being the love her life and since they will probably even get married one day. The same goes for Sabah at this point in their relationship and the comfort level they have reached I do feel Sabah also has that right over Michael that if she feels their relationship is being encroached upon, she does have a right to demand Michael step up, but since he's being so stubborn Sabah might as well do the honors. To me having this degree of right over someone is in a way a very loving thing also, provided that you act in the best interests of both of you and not just because you are trying to control due to your own fears and insecurities.
This feeling might also be what is making Melissa do what she's doing. Like I said she does love Michael alot but he doesn't love her back. She has no right over Michael because there's no relationship anymore therefore her encroachment on their relationship is a nuisance rather than a loving gesture. The poor girl is acting out of love, but too bad that is probably not going to be on Sabah's mind, when she gives her a piece of her mind, LOL! I'm sure if Katherine was doing what Melissa is doing being very interfering in her son's relationship it would be looked upon differently because she's a mother and its a parent/child relationship,and she has that much right over her son, since she would be acting in the best interests of her son.
I hope I wasn't sounding to argumentative. I didn't anticipate that I would be commenting on a sneak preview this much, LOL! I wonder what's gonna happen when the whole chapter comes out!! I'll be up all night commenting and looking like this!
All I was saying was saying that when in a relationship, we come to a point that we have certain rights over each other that are basic and normal. Its like when said, I would be okay with my hubby having woman who are friends, but if there is a potential threat from someone who is bound to cross that plutonic friendship or does so at a later time, then as his wife, I have the right to chuck that person out of "OUR" lives and my husband has the same right over me. Its not about controlling each other or being push and bossy, its about looking out for each other, because outsiders shouldn't hold more importance to a couple over one another.
I know it would be so humiliating for Sabah and Michael to tell Melissa to get lost together, but it might have to come to this if Melissa keeps up her stalkerish obessive behaviour
but it would be hard for me to confront her also It would be too awkward 
Hey Sonia, I don't take your posts word for word!
You know they're long, girl!!! I just take the parts I want to address:
True, but the only person responsible for dealign with that is MELISSA. The truth is neither Michael nor Sabah owe her anything.
Not Sabah or Michael's problem.
You're still confusing your FEELING that you have to do something, as you having no choice to but to act. Not true. You always have the ability to CHOOSE your behavior. There also seems to be this idea you have that you can stop the other person from doing what they're doing. You keep using the word "let". You can't stop people from doing anything.
Michael and Sabah can talk to Melissa until they are blue in the face and if she wants to still come back to see him she will. The only person who can stop her if the cops by taking her freedom away. But individually we do not have the power to make, stop or prevent anyone from doing whatever they want.
OMG
I'm repeating myself. That's not good debating!
I so disagree!
I can't agree that anyone has "rights' OVER another person. Especially since you're saying the individual to has the right DECIDE what's in the best interest of the other, when only an individual can decide that for themselves.
So if you have an abusive boyfriend, husband, he's going to be telling you this is what is best for you, because he'll say, I have rights over you?
But in that case, Michael insisted and Sabah agreed. Believe me, if Sabah didn't want to she would have told Michael to Fuck off!!!!
You know she would!!!!
In the end Sabah made the choice to stay.
She can demand all she wants, doesn't mean he's going to do it.
Nope, I think loving is trusting your partner has the capacity and ability to make good decisions. Talking to them about disagreements and deciding to respect their decision, even when you might disagree because you respect the person as an adult and as an equal.
I'm sorry, no. 1, Katherine has no business in Michael's relationship if he's a grown man!!! She has no right to interfere and she's not acting in his best interest if she won't allow him to make his own decisions like an adult.
No. 2, you can't compare a relationship between a parent and a child to one between two adults. Children need guidance because they are not grown and can't take care of themselves. But no self-respecting adult likes to be told what to do and how to do it f they are self-sufficient.
In truth, adults cannot be controlled like children can, unless of course one person makes that adult dependent on them and manipulates them using that dependence. That's how adults control children, but even children can't really be controlled because they have their own mind and thoughts. And if an adult allows themselves to be manipulated, even that is a choice, though it might be unconscious.
I don't think anyone wants to get in the ring with me and Sonia!!!!
That's what my daughter just said about confronting her with Michael! It's so awkward!!! OMG!
Sabine
I did say, as in the example of my parents or as you said an abusive boyfriend, that if they abuse their position in one's life and use it for their own advantage then NO, they do not have any right telling you what to do. I said if the person does NOT only think of themselves and not act abusively then there is nothing wrong with it. I think its very loving. Otherwise why be in a relationship at all??? In my experience and observation I have found this to be a real pitfall in many relationships. That even when one person is being loving and acting out of love and looking out for the other person, that person is just too stubborn and hard headed to see true love. But I don't give this right to abusive people I think you misunderstood me on that.
I also said the same thing, in the childrens' example as well, they do have a mind of their own but some parents feel they can control that also, when they can't.
As for Katherine's example I used. Well then that's my perspective because of the culture I was raised in I guess. In certain cultures parents always play a role until the last day until they end of their life, and they will never stop giving you advice or guiding you because they will ALWAYS be your parents. My hubby still talks to his parents and I talk tons and listen to his mother because she is a wise woman and I do take in learn from them but they have never tried controlling us just advicing. But I guess that is just a difference in culture and upbringing. I will be in my daughter's face till I die, LOL!! Some cultures are just more collectivist and there is alot of importance placed on the family unit, and here we are more individualistic, and everyone is more reserved and value privacy. I'm kinda somewhere in the middle.
As for Sabah going along of her own choice by staying in the condo for 1 week. Well to me I would say she complied out of love and respect for Michael's feelings. I know that's why I would have. If my hubby was just being plain and controlling for no reason I'd also tell him to screw off. But Michael had a good reason to be concerned. So I guess if in the future when they are married and Sabah has a concern for Michael's safety unless he considers her feelings and only thinks of himself he will tell her to fuck off as well I guess??
As far as Melissa being in denial and not being able to get over, not being Michael and Sabah's problem. Mmmmm.......Don't you think Michael just out of humanity to could at least talk to her once. If after that she still doesn't stop, have her thrown in the slammer, and THAT wouldn't be Michael and Sabah's problem.
Sabine
I wonder how many people here are comfortable with getting into a confrontation and others not?? That be a nice poll result to see.
Personally I have no problem getting into a confrontation. So I guess I'm having a hard time understanding Michael's discomfort with this situation, but on the other hand SABAH YOU GO GIRL!! I was about to nail my mother one time on the phone and she ran away to never call back. She couldn't even come to the phone but when I was little she had no problem picking on a small child, LOL!!
Sabine your turn, I think this is found 5 or 6 It's hard to keep count
Great minds think alike
I think you would just want to diasappear or melt into the ground after a confrontation like that 
The problem I have with what you're saying is when you say the spouse has rights over the other, each individual (the husband or wife) would be deciding what is good for the other person, and abusive, controlling people NEVER think they're unfair or selfish or controlling. They always think that they are right, that they are acting in your best interest, that they are not selfish and are doing the right thing.
In short, they're in denial. So if you go into a relationship thinking you have rights over another person or if you're a woman, that your husband has rights over you, and you meet up with that person in denial about their abusive controlling personality, then OMG, poor wife/husband!!!!
LMP thinks she was the victim, remember!
I come from a culture where family is important too, but i still think parents should respect adult relationships. Advising does not = controlling/commanding/demanding/telling a person what to do.
Complied out of love means agreed. We're saying the same thing.
She could have chosen to not comply. Also don't you think she might have thought, hey, Michael has a point and my life is in danger, no matter how much she complained?
I'm sorry, I don't understand that question, you'll have to say it again another way. A person can consider BOTH their feelings and the other persons feelings, it's not mutually exclusive, my way or the highway.
Yeah, he could and he did, remember -- but he didn't owe that to her. He owed it to himself, to be a good person -- it's not for Melissa, IMO, it's for himself if he chooses to do that. Melissa only benefits as a by product of that.
How long has Michael known Melissa?
Collette, that's why I wouldn't want to confront Melissa, because I would feel so bad for her!!!!! I guess that's why Michael doesn't want to either, because he feels so bad, but since he was involved with her, he is INVOLVED and after all she still wants him, so she's that girl he can't shake.
I've been in the position where someone is calling and calling and you don't want to be with them. OMG, it's awful!!!!
Musicnme, I would think for the sake of the story he knew her work wise for a while but only considered dating her briefly, maybe a couple of months?
Honestly I didn't give it much thought. But that's a good question Musicnme -- YOU TELL ME!
I asked because it doesn't seem very long to me for her to be telling him how much she loves him. WTH? Who is she? They slept together one time. He told her he's moved on. I just don't see the big hoop-la.
No Sabine
I think you have misunderstood me a little. When I say rights over someone, it doesn't mean you are always making decisions for that person left and right all the time, and one person doing it all the time and the other person just taking it. I said its looking out for each other, because their are going to be times when one person has better judgment in a given situation as compared to the other, and there will be times when the other partner will be in a better position to handle a certain situation. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and that's how you compliment each other. One makes up for where the other lacks, and the other way around.
Okay let me really use a simplified example since you didn't quite get what I meant by that example. Let me give you an example just like with my hubby, just a hypothetical example. Its a really cold day outside and out of concern and love I tell my hubby to put on warm clothes and stuff so he doesn't fall sick when he goes outside, thinking that I'm being controlling he tells me to fuck off. Now does that sound very loving on his part I could careless about all the people on the streets they are no one to me, but my hubby is my hubby so I tell him that. Or if it was the other way around and I told him to go to fuck off I don't think that would be too loving either. That would demonstrate the lack of love between us, and it doesn't sound like much of a relationship. But both of us feel we can tell this to each other because as husband/wife we have the right over each other. I don't know if that makes it more clear what I'm saying. I tried using a very simplified example so you tell me, if I made sense.If you both love and respect each other then you won't look at it like controlling but love. Personally speaking my hubby and I do it all the time, and let me tell you we have anything but an abusive relationship, when he lovingly requests me to do something I listen and he does the same for me. On the contrary I use to tell my parents to fuck off because I knew they didn't really genuinely care about me. Like if Sabah hadn't agreed to comply then that would show just how little love she has for Michael and then somewhere in the future Michael telling her to fucking mind her own business, when if fact both had good intentions at heart. I'm talking about a good pure unconditional relationship and not controlling or abusive one.
Oh, okay, Music, yeah, it's not long enough for her to be telling her she loves him, you can tell that from where Michael is -- he's still trying to figure out how they ended up dating and she's all like whatever it takes -- I love you no matter what -- I just want to spend time with you.
Talk about desperation! I mean to me that's how that dialogue reads, but that's just me! If he wanted to be with her, he would have. She wouldn't have to look for him.
Sonia,
No I don't know what you're talking about!!!!
j/k
Your analogy is just not a good one. You're using language to make the situation more abrasive than it is. The fact of the matter is if you said to your husband, honey put on a jacket it's cold out and he said, Nah, I'm good, with this little sweater. I don't want to wear a jacket he has that right. Even though you love him and are only concerned, he's not being unloving to you to tell you, no, I don't want to wear a jacket. He doesn't have to wear a jacket if he doesn't want to. And if you insist, IMO, YOU are being unloving. (in that hypothetical of course
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It's really that simple.
If Sabah said, I don't want to stay in the condo, that doesn't show she doesn't love MIchael, it means she doesn't want to do what he's asked, and he would have just had to figure out how to protect her another way, something she is okay with, like maybe hiring round the clock security for her own apartment -- it's all about compromise.
Well if I remember correctly Sonia didn't you tell your hubby something terrible when you blamed him for your daughter being sick. That was not very loving.
I can relate with Michael when it comes to having a hard time telling someone to get lost especially if that person is a sweetheart. I've always had that problem because I can't stand confrontation.
Don't get me wrong, if the guy was purposely trying to cause problems in my relationship then I would let him have it.
I don't believe that Melissa wanted to create problems. She never returned to the condo at his request and she is his employee so we don't know why she was at the office.
*Sabine knows how to trick us with these sneak preview* lol