Chapter 2
Colleen stumbled out of her room around 9:30 am wearing her favorite plaid boxers and her tattered green sweatshirt, to find Mark, Maureen, Joanne, and Collins sitting at various places around the loft. Mark looked up from talking with Roger.
"Man she really is just like you." He said trying to break the sudden silence that had fallen upon the room when Colleen had walked in. Colleen flashed a weak smile at Mark then walked over to her mom who had been talking with Maureen and Joanne. Colleen had a stone face as she looked her mother straight in the eye and said strongly,
"I think that you or dad needs to tell me something about this." Roger got up from where he as sitting with Mark and Collins and walked over to where Mimi and Colleen were standing.
"Colleen," Roger took a deep breath, " Okay so to start I'm just going to say that your mom and I were not always the brightest people when we were younger."
"I'm listening." Colleen replied with her face still showing no emotion.
Mimi was the first to talk again, "To start I didn't use to be a dance instructor I umm I used to dance at the Cat Scratch Club. But only because it paid the rent, most of the time, and your dad didn't always have songs on the radio…"
Roger cut her off, "I used to play my music in clubs that didn't always have the best people there." He took another deep breath, "Your mom and I have AIDS. Your mom was born with it but I got it from doing drugs." A look of shock ran through Colleen's face.
Roger continued, "But you are still in the stage of HIV and it hasn't turned in AIDS yet don't worry okay? We set up an appointment for you with our doctor and he can give you more information." He looked relieved as he finished but Colleen was anything but relieved she was becoming more and more angry.
Colleen finally let it out, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME! How could you keep something like that from me? I mean you could have warned…" Then she turned to the rest of the people in the room, "You knew about this and you didn't tell me? Is there anything else I should know?" Colleen calmed down a touch then went to sit on the couch.
Collins was next to talk, " Well I have AIDS too that's why our beepers are always going off," he moved his head towards her parents, "it reminds us to take our AZT our medicine. And the reason that your middle name is Angel is because my boyfriend died from AIDS and your parents wanted to let her name live on."
"God I feel like I'm going mad and I feel like I should hate mom and dad but I don't know I just feel like I've know about this my whole life or something." Colleen said as she walked over to her parents and gave them a hug.
"Chica, your appointment is at 11 but it's kind of far away and we have to take the subway." Mimi said quietly. Colleen nodded then walked towards her room to get ready.
"Damn that was hard." Roger said as he flopped down onto the couch.
"At least she was understanding." Chimed in Maureen.
"Ya I guess but I would expect her to take it a little bit harder." Roger replied running his fingers through his hair, looking exhausted.
"Thanks you guys for coming," Mimi said quietly.
"Don't worry we are here for you, but we have to go but we will be back tonight." Joanne said taking Maureen's hand. Maureen nodded and they walked out of the loft.
"Sorry guys but I have to get some filming done today but if Colleen wants maybe we could meet at the Life Café tonight." Mark piped up as he grabbed his scarf and camera.
"Ya we'll ask her," Roger replied looking at one of his old band posters, "Collins don't you have a class today?"
"Ya but I can cancel its ok I just need to make a call…"
"No, go we'll see you tonight." Mimi said from the kitchen where she started to make some coffee.
"If you're sure." Collins said.
"Ya go ahead." Roger said as he stood up and went into the bathroom to get out Mimi's and his AZT.
"Ok see you guys later." Collins walked out the door fallowing Mark.
A/N: I know another shortchapter sorry but they will get longer, so what do you guys think? Please review with your thoughts and ideas of where the story could go. Please read and review TURN OF EVENTS and my friend and I wrote.
