Hello again! This is a somewhat angsty little One-shot I wrote about the life of Angel from RENT. I'm uber-sorry if there is anything in this fic that doesn't correspond to Angel's true characteristics from RENT. Umm...yeah, I hope you like it.
I DO NOT OWN RENT OR ANY OF THE PEOPLE IN IT!
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A 3-year-old boy sat in the floor of his mother's one-bedroom apartment playing with wooden blocks as his mother watched him. "He's truly a little Angel" she said before lighting up another cigarette. She dropped the one she had been smoking on the floor, which was already littered with old newspapers, empty TV-dinner boxes and of course, cigarette butts. Angel, in all of his toddler-innocence, picked up another of the worn wooden blocks as it fell onto a pile of dirty laundry, oblivious to everything that was to happen in his future.
He would enter kindergarten a year later than the other students, because his mother had spent all of his tuition money on cigarettes andcocaine again. Regardless of this, the other students still treated him fairly well.
At 11 he would recieve his first kiss, from a girl named Kaylie during a game of 'Spin-the-Bottle'. He never took it to mean much.
When he was 13 he dated one of his classmates for a short time. He dumped her two days after they started dating, because, as Angel said, 'It doesn't feel right to me.'
At 14 he started cross-dressing, because he felt more 'natural' in feminine clothes. He later dropped out of school, even though his grades were well above average.He discovered there were a large number of single men like himself living on the streets.
At 15 he was diagnosed as being HIV-Positive.
At 16, the HIV progressed into full-blown AIDS.
Sometime before he turned 17, his mother died of a cocaine overdose. Even though he was somewhat sad, he was also somewhat relieved that she would no longer be there to put out her cigarettes on his arms.
Between his 17th and 18th birthdays, his life began to look a little better. He was making friends, like Mimi, and had also befriended a man by the name of Collins who had a dream to 'Open up a restuarant in Santa Fe'
Two days before his 19th birthday, Halloween rolled around, andonthatchilly October day, Angel died due to complications with progressive AIDS.
But right now, he was oblivious to all this. Angel was merely a child, shrouded in innocence and cigarette smoke from a mother who couldn't keep her hands off the smack long enough to enroll him in kindergarten at the proper age. He smiled, picked up the worn block with an 'A' on it, and began stacking up a tower of blocks as high as his dreams would someday reach.
Okay, I edited a smidgent of this. I think everything is pretty much in order now,except for perhaps the ages. I don't really know the exact ages of everyone from RENT (except Mimi) so I kinda based it off guessing. Angel looks about 19 to me..but I'm not sure.I still haven't been able to watch some parts of RENT...I haven't bought a new DVD yet. But this should be more canon than the previous.
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