Disclaimer: I don't own Rent. All characters that you recognize belong to Jonathon Larson and all characters you don't recognize belong to me.
Kelly sat on her bedroom floor putting clothes into two oversized duffle bags. She was becoming quite frustrated trying to figure out what she would need. She picked up a pair of shoes and threw them at the wall.
"You show those shoes whose boss." Kelly turned around and saw Roger leaning against the doorframe.
"They were mocking me." She pouted. Roger laughed and walked over to her bending down and kissing her on her cheek.
"I'm sure they were baby." He said sitting down behind her. "Kelly we'll only be gone for a month. You're packing like we're going to be gone for years." He said wrapping his arms around her and resting his chin on her shoulder.
"I just want to make sure I'll have everything I need." She said leaning back.
"All you need are some shirts, some pants, some sexy underwear," he said grinning down at her. Kelly elbowed him in his stomach.
"Shut up." She said standing up. She walked over to the dresser and started pulling out shirts. Roger got up and walked over to the other dresser to help. He smiled when he realized what drawer it was. He reached in and pulled something out and hid it behind his back.
"Kelly?" Roger asked grinning as he turned around. Kelly turned around to face him.
"What?" She asked.
"What are these?" He said smiling as held a pair of pink lace panties in the air.
"Give those back Roger." Kelly said jumping for them but the height difference made it impossible for her to reach.
"Now why would I want to do that? I really like these." He said smiling as he wrapped an arm around her waist.
"I don't know Roger I don't really think pink goes with your skin tone." Roger and Kelly turned to find Collins standing in the doorway laughing. Roger threw the underwear down and shot Collins a dirty look.
"Ever hear of knocking?" Roger asked.
"But then I wouldn't be here for moments like this." Collins laughed.
"So what brings you by Collins?" Kelly asked as they walked into the living room.
"I just wanted to let you guys know that there will be a celebration at The Life in one hour." Collins said laughing.
"What are we celebrating?" Kelly asked.
"We are having a going away party for you and Roger since you are leaving tomorrow." He said.
"Aww aren't you guys just the sweetest." Kelly said hugging Collins. "But we can't be out all night. We have to be at the airport and 9 am."
"I promise to have you home at a semi reasonable hour." He said laughing.
"Semi?" She asked laughing.
"Well you know how things go sometimes." He laughed. "I have to go but I'll see you soon." He said hugging her goodbye.
When Kelly walked into the bedroom she saw Roger lying on the bed. She walked over and sat next to him.
"And what do you think your doing?" she asked.
"All this packing has made me so tired." He said smirking with his eyes closed. "Lay down with me." He said opening his eyes.
"We got to go soon." She said leaning down and kissing his cheek before getting up. Roger got up and followed her into the living room.
"Do you think that Mo will be there?" He asked sitting down on the couch.
"Yeah. Why?" She asked.
"I need to apologize to her." He said.
"For what happened at Benny's?" She asked. Roger nodded.
"I was kind of an ass her." He said. "You should have seen her yelling at me. If Mark wasn't holding her back she probably would have hit me." He laughed.
"Well you can't say that Mo isn't a loyal friend." Kelly said.
"Yeah she is." He said standing up. "You ready to go?"
"Almost." She said grinning as she stood up and pulled him into a deep kiss. "Preview for later." She said when they pulled apart.
"That's just mean." He said pulling her closer to him.
"Sooner we leave the sooner we can come back." She said pulling away from him. "Let me go change real quick." She said walking to the bedroom. She came back out a minute later wearing the same thing.
"I thought you were changing?" He asked. She just smiled at him and grabbed his hand leading him out the door.
Kelly and Roger were the first one's to arrive at The Life. They got a table and ordered a round for everyone while waiting. Maureen and Joanne walked in ten minutes later.
"Mo, can we talk outside for a minute?" Roger asked before she sat down.
"Sure." She said a bit apprehensively. They walked outside and Roger lit a cigarette.
"Listen about the other night," Roger started out saying.
"Its fine Roger you and Kelly worked everything out so it's fine." She said.
"No I shouldn't have yelled at you especially since you were just trying to help. I was an ass and I'm sorry." He said.
"Well I was a bit bitchy so I guess we're even." She said hugging him. "But next time you two need to talk it out. You two need to work on the whole talking thing." She said pulling away from him.
"We will." He said wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "Let's head back in." When they walked back in everyone else had arrived.
"Glad we didn't need to call the cops this time." Collins said laughing. Roger rolled his eyes and sat down next to Kelly.
"So are you guys excited?" Joanne asked taking a sip of her beer.
"Yeah. I can't wait." Kelly said smiling. "I still don't believe I'm actually going to be taking pictures of U2 on tour."
"So why exactly is Roger getting paid to go with you?" Mark asked laughing.
"I needed an assistant to help me." Kelly said.
"And we all know how much Roger knows about photography." Mark laughed.
"He really doesn't need to know much. Just what kind of film I use and I'm going to show him how to put film in. It's just small stuff like that." Kelly said.
"Yeah, good luck with that." Mark said laughing and shaking his head.
"Shut up, I'm not an idiot." Roger said defensively.
"Didn't Kelly try showing you how to do that stuff before?" Benny asked.
"Yes she did!" Mark said laughing. "He ruined like fifty dollars worth of film."
"This time he's going to actually pay attention to what I'm telling him." She said looking at Roger. "Aren't you?" She said sternly.
"Of course." He smiled and wrapped his arms around her. "And you can't blame me for before; I was sixteen and had other things on my mind." He said kissing her neck.
"Translation: he tried getting Kelly to have sex with him in the dark room." Maureen said laughing. Everyone burst out laughing. Kelly buried her face in Roger's chest.
"Maureen!" She said into Roger's shirt.
"Dugouts." Roger faked coughed.
"Shut up Roger!" Maureen and Mark both yelled.
"What happened?" Joanne asked grinning.
"Well back when we were seniors Maureen and Mark decided to skip the last period of the day and um let's say they were studying each others anatomy." He said laughing while Maureen and Mark's faces turned red. "Anyway so there out there going at it, and who walks by?"
"Who?" Joanne asked laughing.
"My mom and Billy. She runs over there and starts yelling while Billy's in the background yelling 'Go Cohen.'" Roger said laughing.
"I hate you Roger." Mark said with his face in his hands. Caitlin leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"It's not that bad Mark. Everyone gets caught with girlfriends sometimes." She said sweetly.
"Oh that's not what was so embarrassing." Kelly said laughing.
"Please don't." Maureen said.
"Sorry Mo but I think I need to hear this." Collins said laughing.
"Kelly." Maureen warned.
"Fine, I won't say anything." Kelly said.
"Oh if they won't finish the story I will." Benny said laughing. "So you have to understand that we not only grew up together but our parents were all really good friends, especially our mothers. So Mrs. Davis drags the two of them back to her house and calls Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Johnson and my mom over. We come home from school and Maureen and Mark are on the couch getting lectured about the dangers of sex."
"Oh I can see that perfectly in my head." Joanne laughed. Mark's face was beat red while Maureen glared at everyone.
"It's not funny when people talk about your embarrassing sex stories is it Markie?" Roger teased.
"Everyone always remembers my embarrassing stuff but heaven forbid you talk about Roger's sexual short comings." Mark said.
"Well that's because I haven't had any sexual short comings." Roger said grinning. "Right baby?" He said wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
"Well, there was that one time," Roger's hand quickly went over her mouth.
"Don't even think about finishing that sentence." He said looking down at her. Kelly laughed and pulled his hand away from her mouth.
"Gee Roger you are so sensitive about some things." She said laughing as she leaned up and kissed him passionately.
"I see their back in their exhibitionist phase." Benny said dryly. Roger pulled away and flipped him off.
"Jealous much?" Roger asked.
"Roger believe me I am not jealous of you." Benny said laughing. An hour later they were all drunk with the exception of Allison and Caitlin. Caitlin had decided to not drink so Allison wouldn't be the only sober one. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Roger stumble over to the jukebox.
"This should be interesting." Caitlin whispered to Allison.
"Oh you have no idea. This group drunk and a jukebox never ends well." Allison laughed. A minute later a familiar tune came blaring over the speakers. Allison and Caitlin watched as Roger climbed up onto the table. "Oh my god." Allison said putting her face in her hands.
"In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a run away American dream. At night we ride to mansions of glory on suicide machines." Roger sang standing in front of Kelly. He held out his hand to Kelly. She laughed and drunkenly climbed up onto the table with him. She stood there dancing around with him as he continued the song.
"Kelly let me in; want to be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions. Just wrap you legs round these velvet rims and strap you hands cross my engines." He said picking her up. She laughed and wrapped her legs around his waist. "I want to die with you Kelly on the street tonight in an everlasting kiss." He said kissing her passionately. He pulled away and started to sing again. "Together Kelly we can live with the sadness I'll love you with all of the madness in my soul. Someday girl, I don't know when we're gonna get to that place where we really want to go when we walk in the sun, but till then tramps like us baby we were born to run." Roger finished singing the song setting Kelly down on the table and pulling her into a deep kiss.
"GET OUT." Kelly and Roger pulled apart on looked to see the manager pointing at the door. Everyone burst out laughing and filed out the door.
"I'm not tired. Can we head back to the loft?" Maureen asked as she clung to Joanne.
"Sure why not?" Roger said wrapping his arms around Kelly tightly. When they got to the loft they continued their celebration for another two hours. Kelly was sitting in Roger's lap.
"I'm pretty tired." She said turning around in his arms and kissing his neck. Roger grinned and stood up with her still in his arms.
"Night." He said before shutting his door.
"I guess I should get the ear plugs out." Mark said dryly as everyone burst out laughing.
Roger put Kelly down on the bed and softly kissed her before moving down and kissing her neck. Kelly quickly pulled his shirt off and threw it, hers followed soon after. Roger reached down and unbuttoned her pants and pulled them off. He smiled when he saw she was wearing the pink panties from early.
"Told you I had to change earlier." She said smiling up at him as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"You are amazing." He said before leaning down and kissing her passionately.
Kelly groaned when someone started banging on the door. She buried her head under the pillow.
"Go the fuck away." Roger yelled and he wrapped his arm around her. "Assholes." He muttered into her neck.
"Guys come on get up. It's six. You need to get up and get ready." Mark called through the door. "Maureen will be here in fifteen minutes don't make me send her in." Kelly groaned and sat up.
"Come on get up." She said yawning while wrapping a sheet around her and getting out of bed. Roger opened his eyes and saw Kelly standing there with her back to him nothing but the sheet on. He quietly reached out and yanked the sheet down.
"Roger!" Kelly shrieked as she went to grab the sheet. He pulled it away from her before she could get it.
"Yes?" He asked getting out of bed and wrapping his arms around her. He started kissing her neck.
"We half to get ready." She moaned trying to pull herself away from him. "I have to take a shower."
"Want company?" He grinned against her neck.
"We have to hurry Roger." She moaned, she could barely think.
"Promise we won't take long." He said looking her in the eyes.
"Fine." Kelly said giving up as she picked up t-shirt and a pair of boxers. "Come on we still have a lot to do." Roger nodded and pulled on his boxers and a t-shirt.
Everyone stood outside the building as Roger and Kelly put their things into the cab. They hugged everyone goodbye.
"Have fun, and make sure he takes his AZT." Mark said hugging them.
"I will don't worry. And we'll try to call everyday." She said hugging everyone else.
"We got to go now." Roger said. Kelly nodded and they got into cab. They waved through the windows. They turned around and Roger wrapped his arm around her.
"You excited?" He asked looking down at her.
"Yep." She said leaning up to kiss him. "It's much more exciting because your with me."
"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else." He said kissing her.
A/N: Another chapter complete. Thanks to Moowitmi324 and Renthead621 you guys are too awesome for words. I'll put another chapter up tomorrow sometime.
Until Next Time, Lot's of Love,
BohemianGirl06
