Chapter 12- One Song Glory?
Disclaimer: I still can't seem to get my hands on anything to do with RENT (except for the CDs, DVD, RENT "Bible", a lapel pin, a Playbill, ticket stubs, and a scarf resembling Mark's)
AN: More crackfic goodness! My sister and her friend make an appearance in this chapter and, despite the way I portray her in this chapter and the following one, she is not an insane Mark fangirl. Happy soon-to-be birthday (Jan. 25th) Katharine!
"Hey, Roger, would you mind waiting here?" Mimi asked, "That is, unless you want to be seen in Victoria's Secret," she added with an impish smirk. "That's OK," Roger said, blushing a bit. "I'll wait for you." He went to sit at the nearest bench, glancing at the surroundings, and then doing a double-take.
Yes, he HAD read correctly! There was a small booth nearby with a sign over it reading "Make Your Own Music Video!" Past these cheap colored lights, Roger knew, there might be an actual chance for fame! He certainly wouldn't miss THIS opportunity! After seeing a tall, thin teenage girl with vivid red hair and a mischievous look leave the booth, Roger dashed inside. He didn't exactly know what to do, but when he figured he had the settings on a background he liked and the music on "original composition," he pressed the "begin" button. After a short countdown, Roger started to sing "Your Eyes," the song he had written for Mimi, as well as he could. When the tape was finished, Roger decided to wait for his girlfriend and surprise her with it.
Mimi soon came out of Victoria's Secret with a small bag. "Hey, Mimi," said Roger, "I got you something." He handed her the tape. "Good! There's a Sears!" Mimi pointed out. "We can probably watch it there." They went to the video section where Mark was being avidly watched by a girl with a brown ponytail wearing a brown Harry Potter t-shirt, jeans, and tall dark-red boots.
The girl was acting really strange, Roger noticed. Whenever Mark so much as glanced at her, she would blush and giggle! "Women," Roger thought, shaking his head. He and Mimi finally reached a tester VCR. Mimi eagerly popped in the tape. Roger couldn't help but be a little proud of himself. She would love this present. He was shocked, however, when he realized that Mimi and that other girl were laughing like hyenas!
To Roger's horror, the voice recording was good, but the background was not, as he had expected, a beautiful lake by moonlight. Instead, adorable, colorful ponies pranced across a grassy field under a pastel-blue sky with puffy clouds. To add to this monstrosity, the message that appeared at the end was not Roger's "I Love You" to Mimi, but "Happy Birthday, Katharine!" "Katharine?" Mimi asked, stopping her laughter and rounding menacingly on Roger. "Who is Katharine?" "I swear I don't know!" Roger cowered as Mimi began to beat him over the head with her purse. "Why, you…" she began swearing in Spanish and chasing Roger out of the store, still smacking him with the purse. Mark followed, trying to stop the fight. In the ruckus, the tape had been forgotten, and no one saw the brunette pocketing it.
