Pre-Rent/Rent

MPOV- Mark RPOV- Roger --

MPOV-
I walked down the road with Roger on our way back to the loft after having lunch at the Life Cafe. It was a beautiful, warm day for March, an awesome day for filming.. I would have to come out later. I slowed my pace, enjoying the scenery. Roger got impatient and sped up, knowing his girlfriend, April would be home by now. I smiled a bit and sped up to match his pace.

It was unusually quiet when we got back to the loft. I didn't hear any of the comforting sounds that I usually heard. No bubbling of the coffee pot, no page turning of a magazine, no giggles from April.

"She must be napping." Roger whispered, sounding just as unsure about that statement as I did. He walked back towards the room that he and April shared as I walked into the living room to check the voice mail. What I saw stopped me dead in my tracks.

"Roger...?" I called quietly for him.

"She's not in the bedroom, I wonder where sh-" he stopped as he saw what I did. He picked up a small slip of paper from the table and read to himself:
We've got AIDS