"Your name is Ashley Taylor Sosa-Lugo, correct?" Hannah asked as she saw the red recording light go on.

"Correct."

"You married David Christopher Lugo?"

"Yes, He died a little over a year ago."

"How did you two meet?"

"School."

"Could you elaborate?"

"Mimi, isn't Dave so cute?" I asked looking up from the rough draft of the story she was writing.

"Sure." She laughed.

"But he doesn't even know I'm alive." I sighed.

"Yes he does." She smiled evilly. "DAVE!" She yelled to the table across from us. Dave got up and walked over to us.

"You're trying out for the school play, right?" She asked.

"Oh, I don't know Meems." He said.

"Please, you are so talented." She gushed. "Isn't he just too talented not to Ash?" She said glancing towards me.

"Totally." I said to the ground. "You have too much talent to waste." I said looking up into his warm brown eyes.

"The rest is history." I smiled. "I fell for him right then and there. No one else I was with mattered."

"That's so cute." Hannah smiled. "Okay, wait, who is Mimi?"

"Marcela Camilla Conord. One of my best friends."

"Does she have a story?"

"Okay." Miss DiMatteo's voice on the overhead began, "Alec Gottlick, Ashley Sosa, Nicolette Sosa, Mimi Conord, Angel Shultz, Alicia Vincento, Adelina Vincento and Elizabeth Whiney to the office now please." I got up from my seat and walked through our tiny little middle school to the main office.

"I'm Ashley, I was called down." I said to the petite lady behind the wooden counter.

"Here you are." She handed me a letter.

"APA?" I asked reading the front of the letter.

"The Academy of Performing Arts." A voice said behind me. I turned around and saw a girl with green eyes and medium blonde hair. "I'm Mimi." She smiled. "You're Ashley, right?" I nodded. "Nice to meet you. Well this is for all the kids the advisors at the school saw to display the qualities and talents they want for APA's class of 2015."

"Oh." I said. She laughed.

"You're gonna be going to a high school for just talented kids in dance, acting, singing, stage crew etc."

"Awesome." I said. She smiled.

"I'll see you around Ash." She linked arms with a boy who had dirty blonde hair and beautiful hazel eyes. I think he had a tongue ring.

"Then after that I found out the boy's name was Angel. He really lived up to his name over the years. Mimi and I became instant friends after that, we stayed friends till she died."

"How did she die?" Hannah asked.

"She died like she lived, very dramatically with a theatrical flare." I said smiling. "Her husband Russell died 5 years ago of a heart attack. Mimi was heartbroken. She loved Russell more then anyone could possibly love another person. After Russell died in the hospital Mimi kissed him and told him she would see him soon. She went home put on the dress she wore to her last Tony award's show, she laid in bed and died. The doctors said she died of a broken heart."

"That's so romantic." Hannah gushed. "Is it true?"

"Is what true?"

"How Mimi died?" She asked.

"As true as can be." I said smiling. "Mimi was a very, how do I put it, she was simply remarkable. I knew from the day I met her she would march to the beat of her own drummer. She never got a traditional job, she never had a traditional family. Everything she did was out of the ordinary." I laughed. "She managed to outdo herself in everything, even the way she died."

"Aw." Hannah said whimpering. I smiled fondly as I saw in my mind Mimi as the young girl I met in the main office.

"Did Mimi ever do anything else extraordinary?" She asked. I laughed.

"Well she was on Broadway, raised 5 kids, and survived the death of her brother when he was only 18."

"That's Jimmy, right?"

"Correct."

"Wow." Hannah said.

"Yeah." I smiled. "I loved Mimi." Hannah turned the recording light off.

"Let's take a break." She said taking out her phone.

"Okay dear." I closed my eyes and saw Mimi again, this time as the bright girl who made her debut in Rent at age 18 as Maureen.

"Simply Remarkable..." I muttered to myself.