Mark's POV

October 23rd

I took a sip of my morning coffee, it was nice having something warm to drink compared to the freezing chill of the loft. I was worrying Roger would catch a cold but I always stopped my self, whenever I told him to put on a jacket or say something a mother would, he would just wave me off. I listened to my roommate pluck away at the strings of his guitar and scribble down notes on the back of a flyer. I put my mug in the sink and checked my watch.

"Take your AZT" I told him

"Alright." He put down his guitar and went to him room to get it. It was a frequently exchanged conversation between us and was so nonchalant like I was asking him to check the mail rather then to take the medication that was keeping him alive. As I washed the coffee cup I saw blonde hair out of the corner of my eye.

"So I'm going out to film for an hour or so, you going to be okay by yourself?" Collins was out at a job interview.

"No, I think I'll set the loft on fire just for funzies while your gone, yes Mark I'll be okay," I rolled my eyes at him and grabbed my camera and walked out the door, my coat and scarf where already on.

I wandered the streets a bit, not really in the mood to film, I was really out there just to get away from the loft for a bit. It seemed that every time I walked in there I got an uncomfortable feeling, undoubtedly because of Roger, I knew he wasn't doing it on purpose but I felt as thou I had to tiptoe around him because I never could tell what kind of mood he was in, and if it was a bad one well no one wanted to be around him. I was sure Collins felt the same way. He was so depressed over Aprils death and the fact that he was now HIV positive that he refused to leave the house, but I still saw small glimpses of my best friend, I knew he would come out of it soon he just needed the right motivation. The one good thing that had happened was that with Benny was now rich because of his wife and bought the building saying we where golden and didn't have to pay, it was a peace offering after everything that happened with Rogers withdrawal, We haven't seen much of him thou. Turns out the girl I saw with Maureen was a lawyer names Joanne, Maureen raved about her every time we got together for lunch or when she just popped by the loft.

I realized that I had been out for over two hours and started heading back to the loft finding no reason to stay out side in the cold (Not like the loft was much better.) I held onto my camera and made my way through the busy streets of alphabet city when I was met face to face was no one other then the man. I tired to make my way around him but he grabbed my arm and pulled me into an ally.

"Where do you get off taking away my customers?" he growled at me as his grip on my arm tightened

"Look I don't want any trouble just let me g-" He cut me off with a punch to the jaw I landed on the ground in front of him.

"You steal my clients and you die, you hear me!" He grabbed my shirt and pulled me up. "I have to make sure you wont take away any more of my customers away." I saw the shine of a knife in the hand that wasn't holding my shirt. I gulped and shut my eyes waiting for the pain when his hand let go of me and I heard a grunt. I opened my blue eyes to see Roger and The man wrestling on the ground, I looked to my side and saw that the man dropped his knife out of surprise.

"It was my choice to leave your little business and I'd do it again too!" My best friend yelled. Punches started to be thrown as the two men continued to wrestle; I knew roger would be okay, he knew how to fight. Within in a minute the man was out and Roger stood up and came over to me who was sitting on the ground like an idiot.

"Jesus Mark are you okay?" He asked, I saw blood coming from a cut on his lip and a bruise starting to form on his cheek.

"Y-yeah I'm fine." Then a thought hit me, "I thought you said you weren't going to leave the loft ever again." He had said that during a fight we had one night,

"Well sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do." We smiled at each other before standing up and heading back to our cozy little loft.

Yes! This story is finally done! This is the first story ive completed and i thank you all for sticking with me! I knoe the ending was kind of cheesy but I felt like this story had to end semi-happy. Thankyou everyone who read this story and reviewed it. Im bringing a revised version of a story from my other account to this one and that should be up in a couple of days! So leave a review or shoot me a PM (im always up for the convo!) And i'll see you next time!