December 21, 1991
The bright light coming from the window hit Mimi's eyes the moment she opened them, causing her to squint for sight. Once her eyes adjusted, she saw that she was still wearing her street clothes and coat. Confused, she got out of bed and went out of the bedroom. When she came out she saw Roger cooking eggs.
"Good morning" She said to him once she got closer. He turned around, grabbing her by her waist and kissing her, sharing a long, deep kiss with her.
"Good morning beautiful" He responded in a low voice once a he pulled away slightly, she smiled.
"Morning baby" She replied.
"Sleep well?" He asked.
"yeah, how long was I asleep?"
"From when we were in the car to now. And now it's 11:30 Saturday morning." He explained to her.
"Your eggs are burning." Mimi told him when she eyed the scrambled eggs that were turning black. Roger quickly let go of her and turned around, turning off the stove and putting the eggs on a plate. He brought them to the table with Mimi following. He sat down with Mimi sitting on his lap. She picked up the fork and began to feed Roger.
"I can feed myself." He protested. She rolled her eyes and handed him the fork.
As he was eating, Mimi got up and ran to the bathroom, emptying her stomach into the toilet. Roger heard her from the kitchen and put down his fork, running after her. He held her hair and rubbed her back as she leaned over the toilet. She leaned back and Roger wiped her mouth with some toilet paper.
"I'm fine" She tried to assure him, pushing his hand away. She got up off the floor, trying best not to need his help, and brushed her teeth. When she was finished, she went out to the loft and sat down on the couch, wrapping a blanket around herself. Roger followed her out put the dishes away. When he was done, he went over to Mimi on the couch, sitting by her feet.
"I'm going to the hospital, okay?" He told her, taking her hand in his. She nodded.
"Okay, tell your mom I say hi and I hope she feels better." She replied. He leaned over and left a trail of kiss from her forehead down to her nose and ending at her lips. After a minute, he pulled away from her.
"I love you" he whispered to her.
"I love you too" She whispered in return. He gave her one last kiss, put it was interrupted by someone's voice.
"It's Mimi and Roger, three days before the wedding. You wouldn't even think a big event was happening here because of the fact that it's so calm. I remember my sister's wedding was crazy days before the actual wedding. I have no idea how they do it." Mark narrated in a low voice as he filmed Roger and Mimi on the couch. They both looked up at him.
"Remind me again why we've allowed you to document our lives for the past months?" Roger asked, irritated that he was interrupted. Mimi giggled while Mark rolled his eyes.
"Because you'll want all of this later and will thank me." Mark told him. It was now Roger's turn to roll eyes. He pecked Mimi's lips, then getting up off the couch and going into his room getting ready to leave. Mark shut off his camera.
"You know he just gets frustrated." Mimi told Mark in a raspy voice.
"Yeah, believe me, I know." Mark replied.
"He knows you mean well and he appreciates it." She continued.
"Yeah, I know Meems. Do you want me to make you some tea?" He offered, noticing her raspy voice from getting sick.
"If you wouldn't mind." She answered. He assured her it wasn't a problem and put the tea kettle full of water on the stove. Just then, Mimi's beeper went off.
"Is that you or me or us?" Roger yelled from the bedroom when he heard the beeper go off.
"It's me." Mimi yelled back as she got off of the couch to take her AZT. She swallowed the pill with a sip of water. She put the glass down and then look down at herself and saw that she was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday. She then took off her coat, hanging it up on the coat rack and then went into her and Roger's bedroom to get changed into more comfortable clothes.
When she went inside the room, Roger had just gotten out of the shower. He was exiting the bathroom with just a towel around his waist.
"Hey baby" She said to him as she looked through her closet for something to change into.
"Hey" He replied as he came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her as he kissed her neck, slightly lifting her off the ground. She giggled a little and rolled her head back.
"Baby, you're going to be late." She told him. He turned her around and gave her passionate kiss.
"My mom can wait." He said in a low voice as he pushed her against the doorway of the closet. Mimi was shaking her head as they shared rough kisses.
"No she can't" She told him in an equally low voice, in between a kiss. Ignoring her, he wrapped his arms around her, picking her up while continuing to kiss her. She wrapped her legs around him as he carried her to their bed; he threw her down on the bed and got on top of her.
Mimi was sitting on the couch waiting for Roger to come back from the hospital. She was wearing sweats with her fake silk robe over them while drinking tea and watching TV. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard the phone ringing, she waited to hear who it was.
"Hello Mimi. It's Katherine Conners, I'm the one who is doing your wedding cake and I was wondering what time you wanted us to-" Mimi got up and ran to the phone.
"Hey Katherine." She answered. "What time you should bring the cake? Well the ceremony is at 2 and the reception starts at 6 and goes into the night. What do you think?" There was a knock on the door in the background.
"Could you excuse me for a minute?" Mimi said to Katherine as she put her hand over the part you talk into.
"Mark! Can you get the door?" She yelled. Mark came running out of his room and Mimi went back to talking to Katherine. "I'm sorry about that." She said into the phone.
Mark slid open the door, seeing Benny standing there.
"Rent isn't due yet." Mark spat out, speaking his first thoughts.
"I know" Benny began. "I came to see Mimi" He told him.
"She's busy." Mark told him, nodding back to Mimi on the phone.
"I'll wait." Benny insisted, pushing past Mark and walking in. Mark sighed and shut the door.
"No, it was supposed to be red" Mimi told Katherine through the phone.
"No, it was chocolate cake, vanilla frosting, with red and silver for design of whatever you come up with. I told some woman named Jessica the other day and she said she'd tell you." Mimi was now in a debate as to what the cake was supposed to be. Benny sat down on the couch while Mark leaned against the counter.
"Okay, well thank you. You have the time to come right? Okay, yes. Thank you. Goodbye" Mimi hung up the phone with a sigh.
"People can be so stupid sometimes." She complained to Mark. Mark just point to the direct of the couch. Mimi gave him a confused look and turned to the couch. She saw Benny sitting there.
"He came here for you." Mark told her. She sighed and went over to the couch.
"Hey" She said to him as she approached the couch.
"Hey" He replied, getting up.
"I wanted to see you." He told her.
"I realized that, what is it?"
"I just wanted to-" He began, but was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. They turned and saw Roger coming in.
"What's he doing here?" Roger asked when he saw Benny.
"I was just asking the same thing." Mimi replied, looking at Benny.
"I just wanted to see if you were okay. You didn't look good the other day." Benny told her, not looking a Roger.
"I'm fine. It was just a little bug." Mimi assured him. He glanced at all the medication on the counter.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
"Positive" She told him.
"Alright, see you all on Tuesday." He said as he started to make his way out.
"Bye" Mimi called after him.
"Bye" He shut the door behind him.
"That was weird." Mark said. Roger took off his leather jacket and hung it up.
"Yeah, it was" Mimi agreed as she sat down on the couch.
"He wanted to tell you something else probably, but then didn't because I came in." Roger told her as he sat down next to her. Mark looked at his watch.
"Shit, I have to go. Alexi wants me to fill in for someone tonight." He told them as he started putting on his coat and stripped scarf. He got his bag and camera and headed for the door.
"Bye guys" He said to them.
"Bye" They both replied as he left.
"How's your mom?" Mimi asked.
"She's getting better" Roger told her.
"That's good baby." She said as she slid into his lap. He wrapped his arms around her as she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Yeah. I miss you when you're not with me." He said in a low voice into her ear.
"I miss you too baby" She replied in an equally low voice. He kissed the top of her and smiled. But he kept thinking about Benny coming over and wondered what he wanted.