as 16 an old melissa walks out the door of her house she closes the door so she could lock it well on her way to the bus stop to go to school as she is standing at the bus stop her Friends notice that she is wearing her favoirte michael jackson chemise with her favoirte pair of blue jeans they start to giggle a little bit as they acknowlege her chemise a confused melissa stands there with the littless idea of what is so funny to them she askes what's so funny they tell her that its her chemise that's funny melissa now sad and angry at her Friends she tells them that her chemise isnt funny at all what's so funny about it they tell that its michael jackson and that they thought that he looked funny on it a sad melissa starts to tear up a little bit par the taunts that her Friends are making towards her melissa starts to get angry and says michael doesnt look funny at all leave him alone and dont ever tease him like that again her Friends stand there stuned at her reaction and now not saying anything melissa is still angry at her Friends not knowing what's going to happen suivant .... to be continued
Just a week before the telecast, Manilow stated the Michael asked a week in advance to participate in the musical tribute, and he told he would. Manilow spoke highly of Michael during that interview back in 2009.