I am so sorry for the long wait. I was busy with Regions(tests for NY state) and then i went camping. I hope you like the this chapter. I'll try to update soon. Review please!
Chapter 4
As suspected when she got home that night Roger was gone. "He had a 'Business meeting'. He thinks he'll be back Friday morning. Which basically means he will since I find out if I won for that independent film thing." Mark said rolling his eyes. He was making dinner, as he liked to call it. Angel thought making chocolate cookies didn't qualify as dinner. "By the way, just out of curiosity. Were my mom and Roger ever engaged?" Angel asked offhandedly. "No they weren't. Roger didn't believe in marriage. She wanted to get married though after she found out she was pregnant. But Roger didn't like the idea. Why do you ask?" He said shrugging. "No reason, just curious. One more question. When was this photo taken?" She had finally removed the photo from her mother's dressing room. "That would have been taken New Years 1989. Where on earth did you find that?" Mark asked, looking more closely at the photo. "Oh, um I was just going through my stuff; While I was a, cleaning my room." She said looking down at her feet. "I know that's not true just from looking at your room. I'll let you get away with it for now, but tomorrow you're telling me." Mark said winking. Angel shrugged.
The next day her and Mark went to the Cat Scratch Club. "How long have you been breaking in here?" Mark asked in awe. "Since I was ten and I found out she was stripper." She said smiling. "Here I'll show you my mom's dressing room." She said dragging Mark down the dark hall. "I remember this place. Me and her and Roger used to hang out here sometimes after her shows. It was a lot cleaner then." Mark said chuckling. "She never did get to completely clean out this place. I wonder if she still had stuff in that secret drawer." Mark said bending down and pulling at the base of the makeup counter. It popped open revealing a few items. They were: A picture of Roger, a $20 bill, a piece of paper folded in half, and cross on a chain. "Figures there would still be stuff in there. I remember this cross, it was the only thing she had from her mother. I guess it's yours now. I have no idea what this note is though." He slowly unfolded the paper. A quickly scrawled note was written. It said: Good Luck on tonight's show. I'm not mad at you. I just wasn't suspecting it. Being a father will be great, I'm sure we'll be great parents. And we'll both be around to see our baby graduate high school. I guess I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Anyways, love you always, Roger. Angel couldn't believe it. He had wanted to be a father when he had heard. She guessed that the only reason he was excited was because Mimi had been excited. "That's nothing that interesting. Hey what's that…?" Mark said pointing to the ring on the counter. "Oh, that, that's nothing." Angel said grabbing for it. But was to fast and he quickly had it in his hand. It was pretty ring, platinum with a little sapphire. "This is a nice ring. I've never seen it though. Who knows?" Mark said shrugging. Angel nodded. "Look Mark I was wondering if you could tell me something. I've never heard exactly what happened. And I'm definitely old enough to know. I mean I've always wondered. What exactly happened the night my mother died?" Angel asked, looking Mark right in the eye. "I don't know why no one has ever told you this story. I'll tell you everything I know. Mimi stopped dancing here when she was about 3 months pregnant. She never cleaned the place out because she always planned on coming back to work. The night she died you were about 2 months old. She and Roger had decided that she wouldn't go back to dancing, so she was doing one final performance that night. We were all at the life café waiting for her to be done. She and Roger had an announcement. My guess is they were buying an apartment sense I had seen him looking in the reality section a few weeks earlier. It was about midnight ……….'Roger would you please stop fidgeting. It's really annoying!" Maureen said rolling her eyes. 'Fine, if I have to. She'll be here in a few minutes she said 12:30 at the latest.' Roger said drumming his hands on the table. It was quiet for a few minutes. All of a sudden the restaurants door burst open and a very out of breath Casey entered. Casey was another dance at the Cat Scratch Club. 'O my god, Roger. I'm so sorry. She was fine before. I found her in her dressing room.' Casey said starting to cry. 'What are you talking about, where's Mimi?' Roger asked confused. 'Roger I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.' Casey said continuing to repeat the phrase crying. That was when I realized what had happened, 'Casey, did she go to the hospital?" I asked, starting to panic, I assumed she was just sick. Roger was still confused, but the others had started to realize what was going on. 'No, she didn't make it. I knew she had to meet some friends, so when she didn't come out after 20 minutes, I went to check on her. I found her on the floor, but by that time she was already…' Casey dropped off, starting to cry again. That was when Roger realized, 'Dead.' He said a blank look on his face…He handed me you, and then he left. That's all I remember." Mark said looking sad. "Thank you for telling me. I have to get going. On your way out make sure to leave the latch off." Angle stood up and left. Her face a little stonier than before.
