Chapter 12: She's Back
"Mimi are you… do you remember…" Roger stammered but couldn't say what he wanted to say for Mimi was sitting on his crotch and kissing him on the neck. "Mimi I can't think straight with you doing that." Roger finally said.
"Well I've missed you. I mean I wake up this morning and you weren't there. How do you think that made me feel?" Mimi pouted. "First you say you love me and then your not there when I need you. What gives?"
"Mimi!" Roger said with happiness as he threw her down on the couch and got on top of her kissing her deeply on the lips.
"Roger let her breathe." Joanne and Angel both said with laughter.
"Yes please." Mimi said as she got up back on Roger's lap. So what's this I hear that you refused to see me when I had amnesia?"
"Mimi it was just to painful to see you and not have you know who I was." Roger explained pain written all over his face.
"Roger…" Mimi said as she started kissing Roger again.
"MARK
There is no future - there is no past
ROGER
Thank God this moment's not the last
MIMI & ROGER
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
ALL
No other road no other way
No day but today
(As the finale grows, the entire COMPANY makes its way on stage.)
WOMEN
I can't control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal is just to be
MEN
Will I lose my dignity?
Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow
From this nightmare?
(MARK's film resumes, along with two more films projecting on the back wall, "Scenes from RENT...")
WOMEN
Without you
The hand gropes
The ear hears
The pulse beats
Life goes on
But I'm gone
'Cause I die
Without you
I die without you
I die without you
I die without you
MEN
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
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
ALL
No day but today"
"Oh um I forgot to tell you all that my Uncle Richard wants us all to go to his place once I told you all that I got my memory back that we would see him." Mimi explained.
"What!?" Everyone asked.
"Mimi last time we were there you got hurt." Mark said with anger in his voice.
"Yes but my mother won't be there. And besides he only wants to see us. You all made a big impression on him. And that my friends is a good thing." Mimi explained.
"But how will we get there?" Collins asked with interest.
"Easy before I came down I talked to him and he sent us a limousine. Tim will be our driver." Mimi explained with a smile as she went upstairs to change her top.
"So what are we waiting for." Maureen asked as she lead everyone to the limo.
"Pigs to fly." Mimi joked as she came back from changing her top.
"Mimi that was quick." Joanne said with amazement.
"Thanks. Now let's go." Mimi said as she and everyone filed outside where Tim the driver and the limo were waiting for them.
*Richard Grey's House*
"Mimi my girl. So glad to see you well and with your memory back as well. But I was wondering if all of you could re-perform what you all did at the family reunion." Mr. Grey asked with hope that they would all say yes.
"Wait don't you think that Mimi's mother will hurt her again?" Roger asked putting a protective arm around Mimi's shoulders.
"No for I will have security around not only Mimi but her mother as well." Mr. Grey announced making everyone breathe an even breath of relief.
"I'll make the calls." Mimi said about to call her cousins.