(( Still, don't own them))
Chapter CincoTed finally came out of the shower and he looked like a giant raisin. Shriveled up fingers, wet, matted down hair, with crumpled up shirts and pants on. If I hadn't been feeling so weird I would have made fun of him. Good thing Collins was there to tease him for me. "RAISIN BOY!" Collins exclaimed. I sat on Teddy Bear's bed with my hands in my lap, and staring so intently at them you would have sworn I was trying to burn holes through them with my eyes. I was lost in my own thoughts, memories really, not thoughts, so I didn't hear Ted say my name. I was jolted out of past memories by a shoe being thrown into my lap. I looked up to see Collins grinning like a complete idiot. I looked down and saw that it was my shoe.
"Thanks Collins. I would have been searching for that shoe forever if it hadn't been for you. Where's the other one?" His grin grew.
"I'll tell you the answer to that, once you tell Ted what we did today." Ted's face changed from a smile to a confused look.
Poor Ted. He was such a sweet guy, cute in his own way, and incredibly intelligent, but he could be so confused at times. I'm not insulting confused people, HELL; I'm confused all the time! He is just so sweet, and so trusting that he has to have been screwed over many times. I started to feel pangs of guilt in my stomach. I had always used my looks to manipulate men, to get what I wanted. I had never stopped to think before, if I had hurt them. I was lost in my thoughts again when Ted sat down beside me and wrapped an arm around my waist.
"Are you alright baby?" His eyes searching my face with genuine concern. Collins bent done in front of me.
"Yeah, Mimi, are you alright? You didn't hit your head too hard when you blacked out right?"
"Huh? Yes, I'm fine. I just, uh, maybe I should get home." Ted and Collins looked confused. Ted looked at Collins and shrugged. Collins stepped forward.
"Honey, why don't you stay here tonight? I think your coming down with something." I just wanted to be left alone!
"But, uh, my roommate will worry." Ted felt this was his opportunity to crack a joke.
"Well, you know Mimi, there is such a thing as a telephone" He laughed at his own joke while Collins and I rolled our eyes.
"Um, alright." I picked up the phone and called Angel.
"Angel and Mimi's residence, if you are calling for Mimi, she's with one of her other boy-toys right now. If your calling for Angel, she's not with a boy-toy right now and please proceed speaking." I laughed, cleared my throat and spoke in a deep voice.
"Oh, Angel! I want you baby!" She immediately knew who I was, she giggled.
"MIMI! Where are you babe!? There were these really hot guys outside the club today asking for you!"
"I'm sure you helped them find a substitute Angel!" She giggled her devilish giggle.
"Well, you know me, those boys didn't know what they got themselves into. They didn't complain either." Time for a change of subject.
"ANYWAYS, I'm with Teddy Bear, I'm goin---" I was cut-off.
"Oh! Teddy Bear, any sign of the Tall, Dark, and Handsome guy?" I giggled MY devilish giggle now.
"Tell you later."
"MIMI! Tell me NOW! You can't leave me like this!"
"Goodbye Angel…"
"MEEMERS!!!"
"Bye!"
"Grrrr."
I love Angel. I don't care that she was a boy in women's clothing. She was my best friend. My only TRUE friend. She was 24 when I met her, I was 14. She took my under her wing. She cared for me and was always there for me. I loved her. She loved me too. She protected me. I, in turn also got to protect her. It was when we first met. We saved each other, in a way. I was leaving after my first night at Cat Scratch Club. I had no home then, and was living on the street. I was settling down for the night, when two rather large men approached me. I can still remember it clearly. They came up to me, with money, in hand.
"How much?" they asked me! I was so young then, I didn't know what they meant.
"Huh?" I stared at them confused.
"The two of us. How much for you to screw the both of us?" My jaw dropped open. I had only been living on the street there for one night, and in one night I had seen everything but hookers. I didn't know what to say.
"I-I-I'm not a whore." They looked at me with questioning eyes. Then they smiled and looked at each other. I sat there confused, and scared. The suddenly one of the men reached down, grabbed me by my wrist, and flung me up into his arms. I screamed. No one even turned around. A hand was clapped over my mouth.
"Well, if you're not a whore, we will just have you for free then." The taller man growled. I tried to speak, to beg. The hand was clapped too tightly. I could barely breathe. I tried to squirm free but the man just held me tighter. I was panicked, thoughts flooded into my mind. I squirmed and tried to break free. Nothing worked. Tears started coming as hands ripped my threadbare coat off, the hands then moved under my shirt. My squirming was to no avail. Sometimes I would hear the men mutter something.
"You're a feisty little thing aren't you?" Or "Come on little one, you young whore, you can't prance around like that and expect not to get what's coming to you."
I was terrified. I stopped squirming and the sobs racked my body. The sobs blocked out everything, I could no longer hear what the men were saying, my eyes were shut tightly I was too afraid to open them, as to what I would see, I could barely feel the hands as they ripped at my clothes. I went into a state of nothing; I felt, saw, and heard nothing. Everything went black. Suddenly I felt the pavement underneath me, my face making contact with it. I looked up to see Angel (or a drag queen for all I knew then.) She was yelling at them, and in return they started to push her around. I couldn't let them hurt her! I looked around and found two abandoned beer bottles. I mustered up all my courage, and yelled "HEY! Stop that!" They immediately turned around and I slammed them each in the head with the beer bottles. They fell to the ground with a thud. They weren't unconscious, but they weren't going to hurt us any more.
The drag queen ran over to me "Are you alright dear?"
"I will be, how about you?"
"I'm fine. Lets get out of here." I nodded. She grabbed my hand and started to walk quickly away. Then she turned and walked back to the men.
"I may be a drag queen! But I'm more of a man than you'll ever be, and more of a woman than you'll ever get, without raping, or paying money!" I smiled and she grabbed my hand and we ran back to her apartment. Long story short, we became instant friends and roommates.
Later that night, the three of us sat around, ate chinesse take out, and played charades. Ted won the award for most movies guessed, Collins won for the hardest things to act out, and I won for the dirtiest ideas. I loved making those boys blush. We talked, laughed, and I listened to them tell stories about classes, and professors. I was having a great time. Until the day's events flashes before my eyes. I felt the "weirdness" coming back again. I needed some time alone.
"Uh, I'm going to uh, use the bathroom." I stuttered. Collins looked at me with conern in his eyes.
"Are you alright Mimi?" Ted persisted.
"Yeah, I'm fine I should probably get home."
"Nonsense!" Collins snapped. "You are not going home like this, you're getting sick honey. I want you to lie down." With that Ted picked me up and put me in his bed. Collins wraped the blankets around me and told me to go to sleep. I giggled and tried to talk, but Collins covered my mouth with his hand so I couldn't talk. They turned out the light and proceeded to talk in whispers. I dozed off to the sound of their voices.
* Yes, I know it was a random chapter. I don't know. I'm going somewhere with it all. Just kinda got off-track. I don't know, I don't think I'm a good writer, but I'm trying. All right SMOOCHES! *