Title: The New Girl Of Avenue A Better Title Suggestions Welcomed!
Genere: Ummm Romance/Drama perhaps?
Rating: PG, Maybe PG-13 later
Subject: Rent
Summary: A girl comes into the Alphabet City Evanguarde's Lives, and she brings with her a secret that will change one of their lives, forever!
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent by Jonathan Larson. I own my own character...who you'll find out about later. TEEHEE.
Prolougue
December 24th, 1995; 10:45 pm Eastern Standard Time
The small girl with caramel kissed skin, chocolate brown hair and eyes that could hypnotize the blind walked the cold, unforgiving streets of New York City's Greenwich Village all by her lonesome. She carried in her tiny frame a duffel bag, and a small piece of paper that constantly threatened to blow from her hands in the harsh winter blast. Walking past each building with more and more desperation, both to find her destination and to just get out of the snow she tried reading each number atop the doorways of stoop after stoop. All the buildings here looked the same to her, and none of them was the one she needed. Finally, after hours of this aimless wandering and freezing her ass off she gave in, collapsing on the next stoop she came to, her bag loosely at her side. She kept one arm clutched around it, in case some bum ran up and tried to grab it; she was young and alone, and her mother had told her all about how those were the muggers and "hobos" favorite prey. Her mother...the words rang in her head like an alarm clock. What would her mother do when she woke up tomorrow and found her note, letting her know her decesion? She instantly felt a pang of guilt for not letting her dear mama know where she was going in person, at least to try and explain why she had to go. But it was too late for regrets now, she was far from home with no money, no shelter and no sense of direction. Her heart sank deeper and deeper as she watched each person passing her in the cold streets, not even giving her a second look. Could no one see she was lost? Maybe it was no one cared, too much to do in their own lives to worry about a teenage runaway. Hot tears began stinging the girl's bright red cheeks, while she buried her face inbetween her knees and shivered in the cold night air.
"What am I gonna do...What am I gonna do! God...oh God, please send something, SOMEONE to help me..." She prayed silently, her sobs overtaking her thoughts.
"...Are you okay honey?" A voice as if out of nowhere asked. The girl's head shot up, coming face to face with the first drag queen she had ever seen in her young life. "She" was quite a sight; She wore a short black wig, dressed in a santa jacket and skirt, with black tights and bright red platform heels.
"I...I...I'm lost," Was all she could get out inbetween the shock of her prayers being answered so quickly, and the fact that they were answered in the form of a Santa Claus drag queen.
"Well, Alphabet City can be quite a confusing place, all the hustle and bustle. Kind of a bit much for a newcomer, but it's great once you get used to the chaos! Now where you trying to get, sugar?" A semi-thick, hispanic accent came spilling out of the stranger as she talked a mile a minute, finally pasuing and waited for a response. Still in disbelief this was all actually happening, the young girl handed her piece of crumpled paper to her "guide" who read it quickly, a smile spreading across her lips.
"Oh! Avenue A, yes I know this building quite well; Well honey grab your stuff and we'll be good to go!" She chirped, motioning toward the duffel bag and holding out her hand to the still wary young girl.
"I...you...you'd really take me there? Don't you have somewhere else...more important to be?" She asked in dumbfoundment. Surely this stranger in santa clothing had better things to do than help a wandering "newcomer", as she had put it.
"Oh trust me honey, the only place I'm supposed to be is right here," She flashed another warm smile, so warm the girl swore she could feel the cold streets get a bit warmer as they walked arm in arm down the avenues.
What did you think? NICE putting one certain "miracle" girl in there huh? Sorry so short, but it felt like a good cutting off point. Chapter 1 should be up almost immediately following this, so it'll be a good complete start I promise!