Chapter 8: I'm Disaster

*Lunch*

"You want us to go where?!" the whole table apart from Mimi and Roger asked in shock and confusion.

"I want all of you to accompany me to my family reunion tomorrow." Mimi repeated.

"Why?" Angel asked trying to understand what it is that Mimi is planning on doing.

"Well because, having you all there with me will help me survive my mother and Allison. Plus, you guys can help me make dinner more entertaining and fun." Mimi explained, glowing with the thought of the plan that she has devised to show her family that she is who she is and that they should either accept her or lose her.

"What is it that your devising in that lovely head of yours, Mimi?" Joanne asked as she continued to stroke Maureen's legs which were on top of hers.

"Well…"

"Well if it isn't the so called 'bohemians'" sneered Allison as she and Benny walked up to the table.

"What do you want Muffy?" asked Collins in annoyance as he rolled his eyes at Allison's comment.

"Watch it Col…" Benny began to say but was cut off by Allison when she held her hand up to stop him.

"Look we didn't come over here to be ridiculed, okay. We just came over here to see if its true." Allison said as she glared at the back of Mimi's head.

"If what's true Muffy?" Mark asked getting annoyed and frustrated by the tension that Allison and Benny had brought to their upbeat table.

"That all of you low lives are really coming to my father's family reunion tomorrow. I saw that under Mimi's name that there was a plus seven. And you seven are the only ones who even hangs out with my pathetic slut of a cousin." Allison explained, never breaking her glare at the back of Mimi's head.

"Yes it's true." Roger said through clenched teeth while giving an assuring grin to Mimi.

"Mimi was actually just telling us about what we can and can't do." Angel added with an equal glare towards Allison.

"Well then I guess I'll just see you all at my house properly dressed and well behaved. And not dressing or acting like the low lives you all really are." Allison sneered and inquired not allowing the fact that Benny was trying to tell her to 'stop' and 'tone it down a bit' too actually stop her from implying to the group that they actually were in fact not welcomed to her house or to her family reunion.

Knowing exactly what Allison was trying to do Mimi stood up and turned to face Allison while shooting daggers through her eyes as she to glared Allison down. "You know what Allison, we will be there tomorrow and we will behave however the fuck we want to. You wanna know why? Well I'll tell you, it's because your father, my Uncle Richard said that we can dress however the fuck we want to as long as we're all comfortable. That and he also wants us all to have fun and to be our low life selves. So why don't you and your jackass of a boyfriend leave us low lives the hell alone, you mother fucken sluty ass bitch!?" Mimi snapped glaring Allison down. Both cousins now had daggers shooting out of their eyes at one another. Neither hearing any of the chuckles, cheering, or snickering that was going on throughout the entire cafeteria.

"Just know that this is war, skank." Allison said in a low voice that only Mimi could hear. "Oh and by the way, Roberto was a lot of fun in the sack. We had a go before he offed himself. I guess he couldn't think of breaking up with you to be with me so he just offed himself. Better hope that you can keep Roger with you unlike your own sister or unlike you could with Roberto." Allison added still only low enough to where Mimi could hear, with a sinister grin.

And then both she took hold of Benny's arm; Benny who was now wearing a confused and concerned look as he looked at Mimi's now distraught and saddened face, was pulled away by Allison before he could say a word of comfort to his once good friend. 'What the fuck did Allison say to her? I've never seen Mimi this distraught except for two times since I've known her. Once when she found out that I was dating Allison, and the other was when Roberto committed suicide. SO what the fuck did Allison say to her?' Benny asked himself as he tried to pounder what it was that Allison could have possibly said to have affected Mimi so much.

Once Benny and Allison were gone the entire Bohemian table erupted with applause just as the entire cafeteria quieted down and Mimi sat back down in her seat which was between Roger and Angel.

"Camino chica. Dije realmente." Angel said in Spanish with laughter as she patted Mimi's back.

(Way to go girl. You really told her off)

"You were fucken awesome!" cheered Maureen through her gasps of breath for she was laughing so hard,

"You okay?" asked both Mark and Roger as they closely watched Mimi with concern. For instead of smiling and/ or laughing at what just went down between her and Allison like the rest of the table and possibly the whole cafeteria. Instead Mimi was in fact almost on the verge of tears. Her face showed that of distraught and sadness not that of Mimi's usual upbeat loving and laughing self.

"Meems?" Joanne asked with concern as she too noticed the same thing that both Mark and Roger had.

"Mimi… chica le parece bien? Hable con mi niña, por favor? ¿Qué tiene de malo? ¿Qué hizo Allison decir a usted cuando estaba asomada en y habla tan bajo que no oímos?" Angel asked in a confused yet concerned and worried voice. (Mimi… girl you okay? Talk to me girl please? What's wrong? What did Allison say to you when she leaned in and spoke so low that we couldn't hear?)

"Yeah… What?" Mimi asked, clearly not really listening to what her friends were saying, as her voice cracked a bit. However her emotions were showing in flying colors, allowing her friends to see that something Allison had said had really gotten to her and was really troubling her.

"Oh, cariño por favor, hablar conmigo. ¿Qué pasa?" Angel asked once again in Spanish, ingoring the fact that no one else at the table knew what it was that she was saying except Mimi and hersef, as she pulled Mimi into her arms. (Oh, sweetie please, talk to me. What's wrong?)

"Angel…no…." Mimi said as tears began to fall from her eyes as she maneuvered herself out of Angel's embrace. As she looked around at all of the concerned and worried faces of her friends at the table Mimi gathered her stuff ignoring all of the protests that the table was saying. Then as she put on her leopard print jacket and picked up her backpack and purse, Mimi turned to her friends and said with pleading eyes, "Please excuse me." And with that Mimi left the bohemian gang in bewilderment and confusion as they watched their friend in tears and distraught leave not only the cafeteria but the building to go outside.