A/N: I love all you guys! Thanks for the reviews! ROCK ON! REVIEW THIS CHAPTER PLEASE! JUST A WARNING, BUT THIS IS THE MOST BORING CHAPTER I'VE EVER MADE... MY FAVORITE CHAPTER WILL BE PROBABLY TWO CHAPTERS FROM NOW SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT! Well I'll Cover You was one of my favorites also... Anyways hope you like this chapter and I wonder what April will do to Roger and Mimi's relationship...
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April Showers Bring May Flowers
Summary: Who is April? What if she was still alive? Would Roger and Mimi still fall in love? Would Angel and Collins still meet the same way? How would the plot of the movie/play change? Would Mimi, Angel, Roger, and Collins still have AIDS? Read to find out.
Over The Moon
(Present Day)
December 26th 1989
6:32pm E.S.T.
"Is that Maureen?" She asked dumbly and Roger nodded. She pointed to woman who was upon the stage.
"Yeah." Their hands lightly brushed against each other and both of them blushed. Mimi pulled her hand away and placed it back in her pocket as Maureen started to speak.
"Last night, I had a dream… I found myself in a desert called Cyber land. It was hot. My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty. Out of the abyss walked a cow - Elsie. I asked if she had anything to drink. She said, "I'm forbidden to produce – milk. In Cyber land, we only drink... Diet Coke." Maureen spoke into the microphone this time and it echoed. "Diet Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Coke..." She moved around the little stage as Joanne did the lights for her.
"She said, "Only thing to do is jump over the moon." They've closed everything real down... Like barns and troughs and performance spaces… And replaced it all with lies and rules and virtual life…" She spoke into the microphone again and it echoed once more. "Life, life, life… But there is a way out..."
People were cheering her on and Mimi looked over to see Benny. She hadn't seen him since she broke up with him because she had found out that he was married to Allison. She shook her head and gently tapped April on the shoulder as Maureen went on.
"Leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith. "Only thing to do is jump over the moon." Leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith." The background voices said the 'leaps of faith' while Maureen sang 'only thing to do is jump over the moon.' April turned her head and looked at where Mimi was looking. She gasped slightly and eyed Mimi.
"What are you gonna do?"
"Nothing right now." Mimi whispered back and looked at Maureen who was still talking.
I gotta get outta here it's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer and fuel oil, pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse." Maureen inhaled deeply and started again.
"I've gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta…" She kepty throwing her head back and fourth as she said each word. She breathed once more and started up again. "Gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta, find a way to jump over the moon."
"Only thing to do is jump over the moon, leap of faith, leap of faith… Leap of faith, leap of faith."
Maureen smiled to the crowd and continued. "Then a little bulldog entered. His name we have learned was Benny. And although he once had principles, he abandoned them to live as a lap dog to a wealthy daughter of the revolution. 1,2,3, "That's bull," he said. "Ever since the cat took up the fiddle that cow's been jumpy, the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table and eloped. She's had trouble with her milk and that moon ever since. Maybe it's a female thing," Maureen placed her hands against her breast and then let them drop to her side.
"Cause who'd wanna leave Cyber land anyway? Walls ain't so bad. The dish and the spoon for instance, they're down on their luck, they come knockin' on my doghouse door." Maureen continued to mock Benny. "And I say "Not in my backyard, utensils! Go back to China!" Be De Bah!" The background voices ended the whole section about Benny.
"'The only way out is up…" Elsie whispered to me, "A leap of faith. Still thirsty?" PARCHED!" The TVs behind Maureen lit up and echoed her. "Parched, parched, parched, parched… "Have some milk." And I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder and I sucked the sweetest milk I had ever tasted. "Climb on board," she said. And as a harvest moon," A moon rose up behind Maureen it was made out of light-bulbs.
"Rose over Cyber land, we reared back. We sprang into a gallop! Leaping out of orbit! I awoke singing: Leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith. Only thing to do, only thing to do is jump. Only thing to do is jump over the moon, only thing to do is jump over the moon… Over the moon…Over the... Moooooooo…" Maureen quickly 'moo-ed' and urged everybody else to do the same. "Moooooooo, moooooooo…"
Everyone didn't move. Maureen looked around and her eyes settled on Mimi, Mark, Roger, Angel, Collins, and April. She looked at them for help. "Moo with me… Please sir could you give me a little moo?" Maureen questioned Mark and Mark shook his head glaring at Maureen.
Thank god he didn't need to do anything because somebody else did and Maureen turned her attention to them instead. "Moo yes! Moo… YES! Moo with me! Moooooooo! Moo!" Mark turned to Mimi who was starring at Maureen quite interested.
"Don't worry, she's not always like this." Roger stepped into the conversation.
"Yes she is Mark." Mimi giggled as Maureen spoke up again.
"Yes moo with me! Yes it sounds beautiful! Moo! Let me hear you New York City! Thank you!" The music took over the whole building as some people started to fight. It started out with a push from somebody else and then everybody started to join in.
"Please – everybody calm down!" Maureen's voice came over the speakers. "Sir! Don't do that!" Mimi looked around as Angel was getting dragged away from her.
" ANGEL!" Mimi squealed as Roger grabbed her arm firmly and pulled her outside of the building along with April and Collins. Collins had a tight grip of Angel's arm and he pulled her out of the police's mans grip. Roger's hand was still on her arm as he spoke to the group.
"We have to get out of here, before we all get arrested." Roger pulled Mimi and April along with Collins and Angel behind them. "Let's meet them at the Life Café. We'll wait for them there."
Mimi turned her head. "Angel-chica, are you alright?"
"Yeah, are you alright?" April chimed in and Angel nodded.
"Thank girlies, I'm fine… But I did give that stupid police man a taste of my mind." She winked as she motioned to her platform heels. Mimi and April laughed and faced forward again. Mimi didn't even notice that Roger still had a grip on her arm.
"Do you think Maureen and Joanne are alright?" Mimi questioned, not noticing that Mark wasn't with them.
"Yeah, they will be fine as soon as they get out of there." Collins said as he joined hands and Angel. They ended up walking in silence until they were at the front of the Life Café. They stayed outside waiting for Joanne, Maureen, and Mark.
"Has anybody seen Mark?" Mimi questioned.
"No… I don't know where he is." Roger said as Angel and April talked quietly. Mimi had joined arms with Roger, a friendly gesture even though she wished it had meant more. "It's freezing out here; I hope they get here soon." Roger noted and Mimi giggled.
"I'm sorry it's so freezing Mister Fussy-Pants." Mimi teased as Joanne and Maureen turned the corner. Mimi quickly took her arm away from Roger's and hugged Maureen then Joanne.
"I'm Maureen and this is my girlfriend Joanne… You two are...?"
" Mimi and Angel." Mimi introduced as they all shivered. "We should get inside."
"Anybody seen Mark?" Collins asked and Roger shook his head again.
"No – let's wait for him inside." Once they were inside, Maureen pounced on April.
" April – honey! I haven't seen you in FOREVER!" April laughed and hugged her long lost friend.
"Thanks Maureen, it's good to see you too." They all stopped talking as Mark burst through the door grinning from ear to ear.
"Are you alright?" Angel questioned and Mark nodded.
"I'm fine… I have the best news.
End of Over The Moon