Disclaimer: I don't own RENT or any of the characters. My life could never be that awesome.
Maureen Johnson never understood what it meant to be broken. When she was in high school, all the novels that she was forced to read were about couples breaking up and the man and the woman both being so broken without the other.
It never made sense to Maureen. She was an independent woman. She didn't need anyone to feel complete. Maureen vowed to herself to never let breaking up with any mane make her feel broken and alone. No man was worth that.
Breaking up with Mark had been easy. The relationship had died long before Maureen had left. They were just staying together because it was easy. She knew that there would be other relationships.
When she first met the Queen of all control freaks, Joanne Jefferson, she hadn't been expecting more than a one night stand. She sure as hell wasn't expecting to fall in love with the uptight, though very beautiful lawyer.
And Maureen was definitely in love.
Cheating on Joanne never crossed the Drama Queen's mind. Flirting and cheating were two completely different things. At lease to the performance artist. She never thought that Joanne wouldn't understand.
But now, standing in a hospital room, looking down at her dying friend, doing everything she could to steal glances at her ex-girlfriend without being caught, Maureen Johnson knew what it was to be broken.