The Day the Skyline changed
Summary: How our favorite bohemians deal with a day that changed New York Forever. Pairings: Maureen/Joanne
I Don't own RENT…Jonathan Larson does
Chapter One: Good Morning
Joanne's POV
The morning started as any other typical morning in the Johnson-Jefferson household. As usual, I was the first one to wake-up because I was leaving for work early this morning. I had a meeting in lower Manhattan at 8: 15 and I needed to stop at my office to pick up the client's file. I got up quietly not wanting to wake Maureen and I got ready to go pretty quickly and headed out the door and to the office. I stopped at Starbucks to get some coffee and then headed to my office. Once I got up to my office, I picked up the file and then paused to look at the family picture that was on my desk. It had been taken a few months ago by Mark when he and Abby came over for Megan's 5th birthday. Megan was Maureen's and my youngest daughter. We had two other girls- Rachel and Katie. Rachel was eight and Katie was six. If anyone had told me that this was what my life was going to be like: having three kids and being married to Maureen, I would have laughed them off, but now I couldn't be happier. With a glance at my watch, I could tell I was going to be late if I didn't get a move on, so I picked up the phone and called the apartment. Rachel answered the phone and told me that Maureen was in the shower , I told her to say hi for me and to tell Maureen not to call back since I was going to be in a meeting anyway. I would catch up with her later….or so I thought
Maureen's POV
"Wakeup! Wakeup!" Megan .Oh well, so much for sleeping in, I thought to myself. I opened my eyes to see Megan sitting on my bed poking me.
"I'm up, I'm up" I mumbled as I got up and put on my bathrobe. I sleepily walked out into the hallway and then told Megan to go wake her sisters while I took a shower. I guess it worked because five minutes later I could hear the girls arguing about who was going to be first in the bathroom. Thank God we got an apartment with two bathrooms I thought to myself happily. A second later I heard the main bathroom's door close, a sign that they had stopped arguing.
By the time the girls were ready for breakfast, I was already dressed and ready to go. We had a quick breakfast and then it was off to school. Joanne had decided that the girls were going to go to Montessori school, so we had them in this school near Battery Park. It was a good school; the only problem was that it was far from where we live so we have to take the subway each morning. Finally, we got to the school and I dropped each of the girls off at their respective classrooms. I ran into my friend Kate on the way out of the school and we decided to go out for a cup of coffee. Since it was such a nice day, we decided to sit outside and have our coffee. As we sipped our drinks, we discussed our daughters, and our plans for the day. Little did I know of what was to come.