"What's the matter Oliver? You look like you lost your best friend." Roger asked as Oliver sat at the bar. He was nursing a beer and he wasn't his usual fun loving self.
"Roger, lemme ask you something. Is there something wrong with me?" he asked looking up at him.
"Now that's a loaded question." Roger laughed looking down at him.
"I'm serious. You would tell me if there was, right?" he asked looking up at him.
"No Oliver, there's nothing wrong with you. Where the hell is this coming from anyway?" Roger asked confused.
"It's Mimi. I'm losing her." he said looking up at him.
"You are not losing her man. Come on, tell me what's going on. Maybe I can help." He asked leaning on the bar.
"We've been dating a long time and she refuses to get serious." he said looking up at him.
"What do you mean? You guys practically live together." he asked looking over at him.
"Yeah, but she refuses to tell me that she loves me. She just keeps telling me that she's not ready." he told him drinking his beer.
"I don't believe that. She's the one who got me to believe in love again." he said looking over at him.
"Yeah well, how could she love me when she's still in love with you." he said chugging his beer down.
"She is not still in love with me." Roger argued looking down at him.
"Yeah she is Roger. Think about it." he said looking up at him.
"Think about what? She broke up with me. Plus, she's been throwing me into Keely's arms since the day Tommy told me about her. If she was still in love with me, don't you think she wouldn't have done all those things." he said looking down at him.
"Roger, she's been wanting you to be happy this whole time. She knew you never would be happy with her, so she let you go to find Keely. Now look at you. You're the happiest man on the planet and Mimi's still holding me at a distance." he said picking up his beer again.
"Damn. I'm sorry man. I... uh... I didn't know." he said looking down at him.
"Yeah well, Keely does. She's known this whole time." he said looking over at him.
"She has?" he asked looking down at him.
"Yeah, man. She figured it out the morning after you and she slept together." he told him before downing the rest of his beer.
"Why wouldn't she tell me?" he asked looking over at him.
"You're wondering why your fiance wouldn't tell you that your ex girlfriend is still hung up on you? Roger, are you serious?" he asked looking up at him.
"I'm sorry man, really. I mean, I do still love Mimi, but as a friend. She's like a sister to me now." he said looking over at him.
"Yeah, I know. It's nothing you did. It's just her feelings. I just wish she could love me the way I love her." he told him sliding the empty beer bottle to the front of the bar indicating that he wanted another one.
"She will Oliver. You just gotta have faith." he smiled looking down at him before getting him another beer.
"Keel, how come you never told me that Mimi is still in love with me?" he asked looking down at Keely as she fixed her hair.
"How did you find out about that?" she asked stopping what she was doing.
"Oliver told me. Do you believe she hasn't told him that she loves him yet?" he asked looking over at him.
"Are you serious? They've been dating almost as long as we have and she hasn't told him that she loves him yet? What the hell is wrong with her?" she asked beginning to pace around the bedroom.
"I don't know, but we have to do something." he said looking over at her.
"I agree. I'll talk to her when we get to the loft." she said going back over to the dresser to finish her hair.
"What are you gonna say to her?" he asked looking over at her.
"Don't you worry about that. I'll say plenty." she told him before turning around to face him.
"That's my girl." he laughed looking down at her.
"No, Mimi's positive too Roger. Why is it that we get to have happiness and she can't? It's not fair to either of them." she asked looking up at him.
"I know Baby. I just don't understand her." he said looking over at her.
"Me neither, but trust me. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this." she said getting ready to go to the loft.
"There they are. The future Mr and Mrs Roger Davis." Collins called out as Roger and Keely entered the loft.
"And the future Angel Mffph and Randi Mffph Davis." Roger said running his hand over his mouth.
"What the hell was that?" Keely asked laughing at him.
"My lame attempt to throw off the fact that the girls don't have middle names yet." he laughed leaning down to kiss her head.
"They'll have middle names. We just have to think of one." she laughed looking up at him.
"Is everything ready for the wedding? Does your dress fit? Do you know how you're doing your hair and make up? Do you have your shoes?" Mimi asked coming out from behind the metal counter bombarding Keely with questions.
"Yeah Mimi. I have everything I need. Listen, I need to talk to you in private please?" Keely asked looking over at her.
"Um… yeah sure. We can go down to my place." she said looking over at Oliver before leaving the loft with Keely..
"Where are they going?" Mark asked looking up at Roger.
"To talk. My wife to be has some ass kicking to do." he smiled looking over at Oliver before going to the refrigerator for a beer.
"Mimi, are you insane?" Keely asked as they entered the apartment.
"In order for me to answer that question honestly chica, it would help if I knew what you were talking about." she said smiling over at her.
"Are you in love with Oliver?" she asked putting her hands on her hips.
"What?" she asked being caught off guard.
"Are you in love with Oliver?" she repeated looking over at her.
"Why are you asking me that?" she asked avoiding the question.
"Just answer the damn question Mimi. Are you in love with Oliver?" she asked yelling at her.
"I don't know." she answered sitting down on the couch.
"What do you mean you don't know? How could you not know. You've been dating him for almost a year. How could you not know?" she asked sitting next to her.
"Yes OK. I love him." she yelled getting up from the couch.
"So why haven't you told him yet?" she asked looking over at her.
"I don't know." Mimi told her looking down.
"Mimi, you better think about what you want your life to be. You're 21 years old and you're HIV positive. Why is it that me and Roger deserve happiness, but you don't?" she asked looking up at her.
"I'm afraid Keel." she confessed.
"Afraid of what sweetie?" she asked looking up at her.
"Afraid to love him. I don't want to fall in love with him and then have him watch me die." she said looking down at her with tears in her eyes.
"Is it because you're still in love with Roger?" she asked turning to her.
"No. Sweetie, I'm over Roger. Seriously. It's just... I don't know if I could bear it if Oliver lost me the same way Collins lost Angel." she said sitting next to her again.
"Sweetie, you of all people should know that no one's guaranteed forever. It's what you do with the time you have is what counts." she said looking over at her.
"I know. I've been wanting to tell him, but I'm afraid of getting too attatched to him." she cried looking over at her.
"It looks like you're already attached." she smiled looking over at her.
"Yeah, I am. What am I gonna do?" she asked looking over at her.
"I'm gonna give you the same advice a very smart woman told me one time when I was in the same predicament. No day but today chica." she smiled putting her hand on her shoulder.
"Sounds like you have a guardian angel." she laughed wiping her eyes.
"I do. She gave me my husband to be and these little ones here." she smiled caressing her 8 months pregnant belly.
"Looks like the student has become the teacher, huh?" she smiled looking over at her.
"Well I had a good role model." she smiled hugging her before the women left the apartment to go back up to the loft.
"Maureen, I'm not staying with you and Joanne tonight." Keely argued as they sat on the couch at the loft.
"Honey, you can't stay at your place with Roger. It's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding." she said looking over at her.
"Sweetie, that's just a silly superstition. I don't believe in those things." she smiled looking up at Roger who had his arm around her.
"You just don't want to be without Roger for one night." Joanne teased looking over at her.
"No, I just don't see a reason for me to sleep away from home the night before my wedding. I mean, Roger and I have been living together for a while and we're having 2 daughters together. It's not like I'm a virgin and we're getting married in a church or anything." she laughed looking up at her.
"But aren't you afraid of bad luck?" Maureen asked looking over at her.
"I don't believe in bad luck." she smiled as Roger leaned down to kiss her head.
