A/N: This is my newest story and my first attempt to write a RENT fic, so please be easy of me. Tell me what's confusing and what's not. Anyways I updated again cause there's a poll at the end that I want you guys to take. PLEASE REVIEW!

I DO NO OWN RENT!

I Should Tell You

Summary: Who is April? What if she was still alive? Would Roger and Mimi still fall in love? Would Angel and Collins still meet the same way? How would the plot of the movie/play change? Would Mimi, Angel, Roger, and Collins still have AIDS? Read to find out.

Prologue

(Four years earlier)

December 24th 1985

A fifteen year old girl bounced along the streets her best friend following closely behind her. "We have got to find someplace to live babe… We can't live on the streets for the rest of our lives." The girl had stopped moving and was starring at her best friend with her hands on her hips.

The girl's name was Mimi Marquez and her best friend was Angel Dumott-Schunard. They had both just run away from home and had no idea where to live. They had barely any money and no place to go.

"I knew we should have planned this before."

Angel finally spoke up. "But we weren't thinking… We shouldn't be so hard on ourselves."

"Angel… We have nowhere to go… We'll probably starve to death-" Mimi stopped talking as she heard screams coming from an open window on the fourth floor on the building. She glanced up and tried to listen. "Hey Ang, do you hear anything?"

Angel laughed, "Sounds interesting… Let's listen."

A man's voice, "Why didn't you tell me April? You could have killed both of us, but yet you decided not to tell me!"

"I didn't want you to get hurt! Roger… Please! You don't have it, why are you so angry?"

"Because I can't be with you anymore!"

Silence.

"I wonder what they're fighting about." Mimi quickly said and moved away from the building. There were crashes and then a girl came running down the stairs and crashed right into Angel. Angel caught the girl and gently steadied her. The girl blinked some tears away.

"Whoa honey, slow down, what's wrong?" Angel was always caring about other people.

"It's none of your damn business."

"Don't talk to her like that." Mimi shook her head and walked over to the two of them. "She's just trying to help."

"I'm-I'm sorry… I just don't feel that good." The girl finally keeled over and fell into Angel's arms.

Mimi shrugged and walked over to the brick building. "What's her problem?"

"Mimi-chica!" Angel laid the girl on top of the bench next to the building. "What are we suppose to do with her?"

"You're the one that helped her!" Angel glared at her best friend.

"Not funny."

Mimi took off her long leopard jacket and covered the young girl with it. She sighed and sat down next to the girl's head. "This is bullshit; I don't even know why you did this!"

"She's sick; it's the right thing to do."

"How would you know she's sick?"

"She's freezing cold! She was just having a fight with somebody out it."

"Alright, alright, Ang. But only for a little while, we still need to find a place to work and a place to live."

"Agreed."

-:-

(Later that Day)

The girl opened her eyes and smiled at the two other people standing above her. "Look Ang! She's awake"

It was a fifteen year old girl who said the first words. April shook her head and sat up feeling warm from underneath a leopard jacket and a red jacket. April leaned against the side of the building and exhaled deeply.

"I don't think I could ever repay you guys." April said quietly and handed the two people their jackets back. "Thank you."

"Don't worry about it sweetie! We knew you needed some help, so we couldn't leave you. Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine… For now, you wanna come upstairs to warm up? I live on the third floor."

"We would love too." April smiled and stood up before brushing off her jeans.

"I'm April."

"Mimi and this is my best friend Angel."

"Nice to meet you guys."

-:-

"So what are you two doing here… You look too young to even be around this kind of place."

"We ran away from home and now we're looking for jobs and looking for a place to stay." Mimi explained as they sat at the metal kitchen table sipping the hot tea silently.

"You ran away? From your families? That sounds familiar." April said and smiled as she stood up and walked around the apartment.

"You know, I found a way to repay you."

"You really don't need too honey!" Angel chimed in and smiled sweetly.

"No it's really ok; I could have died out there. This part of New York is very… Dangerous… I think that if you hadn't found me I could have gotten raped."

"Well I'm glad we found you then!" Mimi commented.

"You guys could stay here for as long as you want and when you find jobs, we can all pay for the rent of this apartment. I've been struggling for the past couple of years…" April trailed off and waited for the answer of the two of them.

"You know, that would be really great! Thank you so much April!" Mimi ran over and hugged her tightly. "We're going to have the best time!"

"Mmmmm, but first, let's get to know each other." April said and settled herself on the couch.

-:-

Mimi went first. She told them everything she could think about. Angel knew most of it but not all of it. Her last name was Marquez, she was fifteen, and she was addicted to drugs. It took all the pain away that she had. Mimi's mother was a failure and her father lived in California. Her parents had spilt when she was four. Her mother had remarried a rich man for his money and let him abuse her three children. Mimi ran away because she couldn't handle it anymore. She had tears in her eyes after she ended her story about herself. The story that led up to how she ended up here.

Angel went next; Angel had always been the odd ball of the family. She had always been called a boy since she was young because that's what she was born as. But now she enjoyed being a drag queen and only referred to herself as a 'she'. She understood that life in New York as a drag queen and a gay would be hard, but it was who she was and nothing was going to change that. She had run away with Mimi because they were best friends and both hated their families. Angel's family didn't except her so that's why she was here.

April Ericsson was her full name and she had lived here since she was born. Her parents were dead and she had just recently broken up with her long term boyfriend Roger Davis, the one she had been fighting with. She had just found she was HIV positive and told Roger that she was and that he should get tested. He got tested and found out that he didn't have it, but she did. They couldn't be together after that for the risk of Roger getting HIV. April didn't know how Roger didn't get HIV, but she was glad because if he had she would have felt so guilty that she had taken away his life as well as her own.

"I want you two to promise me that if you live in this house, you're not going to do drugs anymore. You won't smoke or inject anything into yourself. You're not going to die from this disease also."

"April…"

"Promise me Mimi and Angel."

"But… But…. It's the only way for me to survive." Mimi answered quickly.

"Find a new way. You're lucky that you don't already have this disease." April snapped and Mimi and Angel nodded.

"We promise you April," Angel and Mimi said in unison. "We're not going to do drugs anymore."

"Thank you guys… Now get your stuff and let's get this apartment the way we all like it." April smiled and watched the girls opened the door and go downstairs to get the bags they were carrying. She swallowed her AZT's and drank her water.

She had no idea how long she was going to live, but she was sure that she would make up for everything she did. She would save Roger, Mimi, and Angel from getting AIDS and she wouldn't fail.

End of Prologue

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