Title: Alphabet City Alphabet

Author: ello luv

Summary: A look into out favourite Bohemians' lives

Disclaimer: I do not own Rent. Many thanks go out to Jonathan Larson for creating such a wonderful masterpiece. If only he could have seen his dream come to fruition.

T is for Tango

Fifteen-year-old Mark Cohen stared at his mother in shock.

"Dance lessons?" he asked incredulously, the pamphlet still clutched loosely in his fist.

"It'll be fun!" she said, smiling widely.

"Right," Mark said skeptically.

"Don't take that tone with me, Moshe," Mrs. Cohen scolded, using Mark's Hebrew name.

"Sorry, mom," Mark replied. When her back was turned, though, he rolled his eyes.

"I signed you up to take the class with Rabbi Himmelfarb's daughter. What's her name?"

Mark's eyes widened.

"Nanette?"

"Oh yes, that's it."

Nanette Himmelfarb was the only other Jew in Mark's grade. A short, pudgy girl with long brown hair, green eyes hidden by cokebottle glasses, and bright blue braces, Nanette always wore the floor-length skirts of traditional ultra-orthodox Jewish girls.

"But mom—"

"Dom't you 'but mom' me, young man. You're going and that's final!"

Mark sighed, knowing that there would be no use arguing.

"What am I learning?" he asked, resigned.

"The tango."