Chapter 11: Pain Loves Game
"Mimi Elizabeth Montenegro!" Mimi's mother yelled with fury.
"Yes mother?" Mimi asked in an innocent tone.
Once outside Mimi's mother really let her have it. "HOW DARE YOU EMBARRESS ME AND YOUR FAMILY LIKE THAT YOUNG LADY! I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ASHAMED TO HAVE YOU AS A DAUGHTER. YOU DISHONORED OUR FAMILY!"
"Mother shut up. I was just being myself and so were my friends and our cousins. Uncle Richard said we could anyway." Mimi defended herself and her friends.
"Mimi don't you think that those friends of yours are just using you to gain something for their cause?" Mrs. Montenegro asked lowering her voice.
"Mother if there is one thing I have learned its this.
The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today"
"Mimi stop singing." Mrs. Montenegro ordered.
"There's only yes
Only tonight
We must let go
To know what's right
No other course
No other way
No day but today" Mimi sang with tears now in her eyes.
Everyone of Mimi's friends and cousins now outside began to sing with her.
"I can't control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal is just
To be
There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No day but today..."
"Mimi…"
Mimi began to walk back towards the house to Roger when she turned around and said, "Oh mother by the way…" She walked back up to her mother. "I have AIDS."
With that Mrs. Montenegro said, "YOU SLUT! YOU WHORE! YOU JUNKY!" And with that she grabbed Mimi by the shoulders and shoved her down the hill that they were standing on.
"MIMI!" Everyone yelled. Roger being the fastest got to her first.
"Mimi talk to me?" Roger begged.
"Mmm." Mimi began to stir. "Who are you?"