Chapter 10! Enjoy!

Miranda (Rabid RENThead): Yeah, I know it's been a long time :P Deal with it

Disclaimer: I don't own the RENT-y goodness.
--While the Parents Are Away...--

-Collins' POV-

We've survived the rest of the week without too many incidents. The first was that guy in the cafeteria. The next was someone spraying Cheese-Wiz into my locker (which did nothing, because I don't use my locker). Another was in class, when someone threw a pencil at Angel (and almost missed). That was it, pretty much. Not too bad, considering what happened to this other kid I know. About two years ago, he came out to his "friends," and they told their other friends, and soon the whole school knew. Basically, he got beat up so many times that his parents sent him to a different school. Last year they moved out of town.

See why I was so worried?

"Tom? What are you doing?" My mom? Wha? Oh yeah. It's Saturday. Of course she's here.

"Uh… until you interrupted me I was musing on the meaning of life. I almost had it, but it's okay. Nothing important." She rolls her eyes.

"I just wanted to let you know that your father and I are going out tonight. You can order pizza, but don't make a mess. And no sneaking out of the house. I'll call you a few times to make sure you don't. You know the rules." I sigh as she walks out of the room, but as soon as she's gone I start laughing.

I'm going to get all of my friends over here. Not really a party, just a get-together with my friends. I run down the stairs.

"Hey mom, what time are you leaving? What time are you getting back?"

"Why do you need to know, sweetie?"

"Because I would like to know when you're leaving, and how long I'm going to be all alone."

"We leave at five and we should get back around ten. Is that okay?"

I smile, but don't let on that I'm very happy about it. "That's fine. I can handle five hours alone."

As soon as my parents are out the door at five, I call Angel.

"Hey babe. Come over here as soon as possible- my parents went out for the evening."

I call Roger, April, Maureen, and Mark too. They all agree to get there as soon as they can.

Soon everyone is here, and we call and order pizza. Of course there's an argument while I'm on the phone with the guy at the pizza place.

"I want pepperoni!" Angel says, poking my arm.

"But I don't! I want chicken and onions and pineapple!" Maureen argues.

"All of you shut up- we're getting pepperoni and sausage, okay?" Roger tries to end the argument.

"Since when do you decide, Davis? I don't like sausage." April pouts and turns to Mark. "Do you like sausage, Marky? See! Mark doesn't like it either!"

While they're fighting I tell the guy to send a large cheese pizza, no other toppings. I hang up the phone and it suddenly gets quiet.

"So what did you get?" Angel asks sweetly.

"Plain cheese pizza. Is everyone okay with that? If not then too bad- you'll starve." Mark starts laughing.

"That's what I would've gotten anyway." He nearly falls over when Maureen attacks him, poking him in the ribs.

"Marky, no wonder you're so thin! You don't eat enough meat!"

-Angel's POV-

This is so fun! We're just hanging out at Collins' house, eating pizza, and being complete dorks. We're apparently discussing the physics from Star Trek right now.

"But see, the warp drive thingy, is that even possible? I mean, wouldn't we have figured it out yet? Plus isn't there that thing with the time going at a different speed when you go faster?" Roger is trying to comprehend the situation.

"Well I think we still have a long way to go in that area of physics. I'm pretty sure it's possible, just we don't know how to do it yet." Collins is trying to convince him. The rest of us are sitting and trying to understand whatever they're saying.

"Mark, I don't get it. Why don't we just point out that it's a TV show with almost no relevance to our lives?" Maureen whispers. I decide to act on her idea.

"You know Collins, no one except you and Roger have any clue what you're talking about. So since it's just a stupid TV show, can we talk about something else?"

"Sure. What do you want to talk about?"

I decide to be mean to him. I turn to Maureen and April.

"Oh my gosh! The other day I saw the most adorable shoes EVER!" I wink, and they play along.

"Ooh! What color were they? Heels?"

"Yeah, big green funky heels. I loved them, but I didn't have any money with me."

"It reminds me of this one time when I was shopping with Roger, and I saw the most amazing pink sweater and he wouldn't even consider buying it for me!" April pouted. Maureen and I gasped in pretend-shock. Mark caught on to what we were doing.

"Wow. Well one time my mom took me shopping and picked out these really ugly pants… and then she forced me to buy them! With my own money! And to this day I have not worn them. They're in my closet- I'll show them to you sometime!" We all start giggling, and Roger and Collins look amazed and bored and disgusted at the same time.

"Okay, okay. We get it. We were being boring. Stop talking about shopping, please!" Roger shouts. I laugh, and April hugs Roger.

"It's okay Roggy. We were just kidding. Don't worry! I'm not that scary."

I look up at the clock and realize it's past nine thirty.

"Shit! Collins what time will your parents be home?"

"Sometime around ten."

"It's nine… forty-five." I point out. Suddenly everyone is up and putting garbage in the trash cans, picking up empty soda cans, and straightening couch cushions. Collins says goodbye to everyone, and they all leave as quickly as possible. I stay behind for a few minutes, to give him a goodbye kiss.

"Good night Angel. Love you-"

"I love you too Collins. Now go in the house and act like you didn't have any fun this evening." I start to walk down the street when I see headlights coming my way. I realize it must be Collins' parents, so I run off the sidewalk and into someone's yard, hiding behind a large shrubbery. If they saw me, I know they would suspect something. Once they're gone, I keep walking down the street to my house. Well, that was certainly a good evening.

Okay well… I can't focus and I have to write a ton of chapters for backup. OH yeah… but I'll be gone by the time this is posted anyway. Well... please review? Please?