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Quick recap: Maureen and Collins realized that they didn't dance well together, so Collins went and introduced himself to Angel. Mark yelled at Collins for dancing with Maureen, but Mark still really wants to ask her to dance. Benny tried to feel Mimi up, then Mimi went and talked to Angel at the 'kids bar.' Angel left Mimi to go talk to Collins some more.
For this chapter, remember what I said before about Angel's name, and how Mimi is the only one that calls him "An-gel."
I don't own RENT.
Benny, meanwhile, had sat down next to Roger after dancing with Mimi.
"Hey Benny," said Roger as Benny sat down next to him. "You know that girl you were dancing with? Mimi?" Benny nodded. "Um………how do you know her?"
"We had classes together last year," said Benny. "I always kinda liked her………but she stepped on my foot while we were dancing, so I don't think anything's really going to happen between us."
Roger tried his best not to show how excited he was about Benny's comment. "That's too bad," he said. "But wait………did she mean to stamp on your foot?"
Benny bit his lip. "Well………I may have tried to put my hand on her ass………"
Roger rolled his eyes. "I wonder why she stepped on you then," he said sarcastically. Inwardly, however, Roger was thinking that he couldn't really blame Benny for doing that.
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Angel was surprised, and a bit disappointed, to see Mark talking to Collins; he had wanted to have Collins all to himself. Still, Angel sat down next to the two of them.
"Hey Mark," Angel said to Mark as he sat down. Then he turned to Collins. "Here's your Coke," Angel said with a smile.
"Thanks," Collins answered. The two of them held eye contact for a second. Angel couldn't help but think that he really was just so fucking gorgeous. Unfortunately, Mark interrupted his happy thoughts.
"Um, Angel?" Mark asked. Angel (regrettably) switched his focus back to Mark. "Isn't that Collins' jacket?"
Angel looked down at the jacket he was wearing for a moment before answering. "Oh, yeah," he said. Mark looked confused. "I was cold," Angel said with a shrug. "Collins offered to let me wear it."
"Wait a second," said Mark suddenly. "Do— do you two know each other?"
Collins and Angel looked at each other. "No," Angel answered with a smile.
"We just met," said Collins.
Mark looked like he was about to say something, but then thought the better of it. "Whatever," he said with a shrug.
"So, are you gonna go ask Maureen now?" asked Collins turning to Mark.
"Ooh, you're gonna ask Maureen to dance?" asked Angel excitedly, looking from Mark to Collins.
Mark turned a little red. "Well— well yeah, I though I might………" he muttered.
"Aww, you should," Angel told him. "I'm sure she'd be very happy to dance with you."
"Thanks," Mark answered. "So I………guess I'll go talk to the DJ now." He looked at Collins and Angel, as if he almost wanted them to tell him not to do it, but neither of them said anything. "See you later," he said.
"Good luck!" Angel called after him.
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A few seats away from Roger and Benny, Maureen had been talking to Joanne.
"You were staring at me before," said Maureen playfully with a smile.
"I— I was not," answered Joanne as her stomach plummeted. How could Maureen have noticed that?
"Yes you were," Maureen said in a sing-song voice. "When I was dancing with Collins. You were staring at me."
"Well, I may have glanced at you," admitted Joanne, "but that doesn't mean I was staring at you."
Maureen rolled her eyes. "Fine," she said with a pout. "You don't have to admit it. But I know you were."
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After Angel had left Mimi to go talk to Collins, Mimi had decided that she was going to introduce herself to Roger. Taking a deep breath, she left the 'kids bar' and walked over to his table, where he was sitting next to Benny. Trying her best to ignore Benny, Mimi sat down on Roger's other side.
"Hi," she said to him, crossing her legs so that he could see how short her red dress was.
"Um………hi," he answered. On Roger's other side, Benny was quite pointedly not looking at either of them.
"I'm Mimi," she said with a small smile that she hoped looked flirty.
"Roger," he told her.
"Uh………I was wondering," she began, "if you could help me get my sweater. I left it in the coat room, but I think that got hung up too high for me to reach."
"Sure," Roger answered, looking confused. "But, wouldn't you rather ask Collins? He's about six inches taller than me." Roger gestured over to the table where Angel and Collins were sitting, and where Mark at just left.
"It's okay, I don't want to disturb Angel and Fucking Gorgeous."
"You don't— what?" asked Roger, bewildered.
"Oh," said Mimi, shocked at what she'd just said. "I meant— never mind. Would you help me though?"
"I guess," said Roger with a shrug.
"Okay………so can you come help me now?" asked Mimi, giving him another flirty smile.
"Sure," Roger answered. He slowly stood up, and Mimi led him out into the hallway.
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Breathing heavily, Mark slowly walked over to Maureen's table. He'd just asked the DJ to play another slow song, and now it was starting up.
Mark swallowed as he got nearer to Maureen's table. After seven years of waiting, he was finally going to do it. He tried to convince himself that there was nothing to be nervous over, that even if Maureen didn't like him the way he liked her then she would still say yes anyway, because it was his Bar Mitzvah, but Mark's stomach still felt like jell-o.
Taking a deep breath, Mark approached Maureen. She was sitting next to Joanne, and right near Roger, Benny and Mimi.
"M—Maureen?" he asked tentatively. "Do you want to dance with me?"
Maureen's eyes widened. She obviously hadn't been expecting this. "Oh— sure, Mark," she said with a smile as she stood up.
Hardly believing his luck, Mark took her hand and the two of them headed out to the dance floor.
There's only one chapter left now. It'll probably be kinda short, I'm not sure.
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