Note: This is what I think that Roger was thinking while being with Mimi this on will be short because when Roger sees Mimi for the first time ( besides when Mimi is dancing) it is that glance after Rent. I made it italics because that is how I think of thoughts. If you like it I will do the other songs.

I didn't know how to pay the rent but I guess that on one else did either, because there we all stood yelling at Benny to let it go. We were just trying to survive.

"Come down here I want to talk to you!" Benny demanded I looked at Mark and he looked at me in resent.

I looked around the way a child would before they moved away from their house. I knew I would be back there was no doubt about that, I guess that I was just looking at the world that I had chosen for myself. How my dream isn't as easy to make it a reality as it seemed when I was a kid.

I looked around then I looked down to see Benny, the battle that I had to fight today. Before my glance caught Benny's I saw a woman. I don't know why I hadn't noticed her before, but I guess that I hadn't. She looked up at me and caught my glance I never wanted to let go of her eyes. She seemed, like me, broken but trying to fight even though she had already was losing the battle. Somehow I felt comfortable in that glance. A securely sung, I hadn't felt that way since April died.

I never wanted to let go of her gaze but I had to follow Mark to deal with New York City burdens like paying for the rent, getting food, surviving deadly diseases.