Disclaimer: I don't own Rent. However Eli, Bluebelle and any other characters you don't recognize are mine.

1994

Bluebelle Léa Avril Ericcson is a ten-year-old who was raised for a year to hate animals. "Animals aren't important!" people would tell her besides this, Bluebelle was bright and caring (to people at least).

September 6, 1994. Bluebelle's thirty-year-old mother, April came for a visit. Her blissful green eyes turned to rainy gray at the fact that the framed newspaper articles of abused and dead animals were looked at as miracles in this house.

"Are you….okay, mom….me?" Bluebelle asked as she watched a tear roll down her face. April was heart-broken. Bluebelle is now being brainwashed to believe animals aren't meaningful! She thought of the love Bluebelle had for Lady and the Tramp and The Aristocats and the stories Bluebelle wrote about the cat named Bluebelle and now animals were next to nothing.

That evening as Blysse slept. April, her father; Roger and her step-mother; Mimi argue about how Bluebelle is told to see animals. April wanted Bluebelle to see animals as families and believe that animals are a lot like her. Roger and Mimi saw otherwise.

"Blue is not being brainwashed woman!" Roger insisted. April did not like being called 'woman' and knew her daughter hated being called 'Blue'. She refused to back down and say "you're right. I shouldn't have over-reacted." Unlike the step-mother, who to see that lady just take this lightly broke her heart.

"Aren't you going to say something?" April asked her. Mimi rolled her eyes and got up to hug Roger.

"They're just animals, they die every day." She said.

"And that's why I like her." Roger said, and then in the blink of an eye he kissed Mimi. Hurtfully April walked to Bluebelle's room. Woke her up at 10:59 pm and the two of them left to go live back in Owen Sound, Ontario to live with Bluebelle's caring step-father; thirty -year-old Canadian native Eli Almonth.

In Canada, Eli and April worked at an animal shelter for neglected and abused. Day in and day out they spend healing injured animals and love the neglected ones. On the side they sing country songs.

On the eighth, they took Bluebelle to meet a very special kitten.

"This is Blysse." Eli said holding a golden and white kitten in his hand. Bluebelle noticed Blysse's eyes had bruises around them. "She is six-months-old and already abused." Bluebelle felt something, something strong. So strong it could lift the whole wide world. She loved Blysse so much that she wanted to adopt her, but they just couldn't, Eli placed Blysse back in the room to join her parents.