Author's Note – I was bored…my iPod was on random shuffle and this song popped up…and so did the idea.

Disclaimer – I don't own RENT or Build You Up by Nelly Furtado. And sorry, Nelly, I edited some of the lyrics so that they would make more sense.

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All I want is to tell Mark how I feel about him. It makes me sick to have to watch how Maureen treats him…like a piece of shit.

I was sitting there when she told him that she loved him.

Baby, they build you up…

I was sitting there when she admitted she was cheating on him.

Only to tear you down.

A year and a half later, I was sitting there when she called and asked for Mark's forgiveness and to take her back. I had to watch him accept her apology and take her back.

A time that you remembered.

You finally could go back.

If only…he'd stop going after Maureen. She only comes back for sex. Mark doesn't even realize that she doesn't give a fuck about him.

And you can't even comprehend

That she don't love you back.

I want to tell Mark, to open his eyes to actual reality, as Collins would say. I feel like I'm betraying him as a friend if I don't tell him…

Because…I love Mark, so it completely kills me to have to stand by and watch when he gets hurt time after time like he does.

Put your heart

In my hands

And I won't hurt you.

Put your heart

In my hands

I promise not to.

If he would just see me through different eyes. As more than Roger Davis, the best friend. I would never dream of hurting him, not in a million years.

I'd never build you up

Only to tear you down.

Please give her up.

Baby, please believe it.

Whenever Maureen spontaneously decides to leave Mark, it's for some stupid reason that is obviously just an excuse to ditch him. Once, she left him because she didn't like the way he shampooed his hair.

I love you the way you are.