Cute Michael Jackson Stories ( 16 )

Shaye Areheart，Moonwalk編輯，1983-1988

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中文來源：mjjcn.com  編輯翻譯：stroller

我們參觀的最後一間房裏有一個很大的帶蓋玻璃容器。那是一個低低的臺子，很難分辨裏面是什麼。Jackie和我正在四顧欣賞著籠子裏那些美麗的鳥兒，對Michael想要幹什麼毫無察覺。突然他從容器旁轉過身，帶著甜美的微笑對我說：“來，Shaye，你想要抱抱Muscles嗎？”趴在他伸出的雙手上的是一條非常漂亮的大蟒蛇。我接過它，感覺又濕又滑。讓我吃驚的是，它開始往一旁移動起來，我有可能會把它掉到地上。我告訴他我的擔心，Michael保護心切，從我手裏接過蛇，卻擋不住滿臉失望。過了挺長時間，他為這事取笑我，我才意識到他是希望——迫切地希望——聽到我發出的尖叫，或者是發瘋般地沖出房間。他在心裏就是個孩子，過去是，一直都是。

晚上，我們有時在音像室看電影。我還記得他帶著他的朋友及顧問Karen Langford和我去洛杉磯郡兒童博物館。他們為我們延遲閉館好幾個小時。我們在魔術貼牆前跳得筋疲力盡，站在旋轉燈前，縱身跳進滿是塑膠球的池子裏。回家路上，他讓司機在靠近好萊塢和Vine大道的十字路口停下，跳下車，找到好萊塢星光大道上他的那顆星星，在上面跳起舞來，嘴裏還和著節奏唱了一小段，然後才跳上車，和我們一起消失在夜色中。和他在一起總是很開心，他令人興奮、有趣又光芒四射。

 

Shaye Areheart, editor for Moonwalk 1983-1988



The last room we toured had a very large glass terrarium with a lid on it. It was a low table, and it was hard to see what was inside. Jackie and I were looking around admiring some very beautiful birds in cages, oblivious to what Michael was up to, when suddenly he turned from the terrarium and said with a sweet smile, ”Here, Shaye, you want to hold Muscles?”
Languishing across his outstretched hands was a very pretty boa constrictor. I took it. It felt like damp silk and, much to my surprise, began to move sideways, so that I was in danger of dropping it. I exclaimed to that effect, and Michael protectively retrieved his snake with a look of abject disappointment on his face. It was only much later, when he teased me about it, that I realized he was hoping — wildly hoping — for a shriek from me and, maybe, a hysterical dash out of the room. He was a kid at heart — then and always.

In the evenings, we would sometimes see a movie in the screening room. I remember him taking his friend and advisor Karen Langford and me to the L.A. County Children’s Museum, which they kept open for us after hours. We exhausted ourselves leaping against Velcro walls, standing in front of spinning lights, and throwing ourselves into the pools of plastic balls. On the way home, he asked his driver to pull over somewhere near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and jumped from the car to dance on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, singing some perfect little bit of a song before leaping back in, and off we went into the night. It was exhilarating to be in his presence. He was exciting and funny and brillianting to me. So I smiled and waved back, and he seemed to be as excited as a kid would be riding in a Fire Truck for the first time.