Chapter 1

It had been four long years for the Jefferson-Johnson family. During that time, Maureen had scored a lead role in a new Broadway Musical, making her an original cast member, which meant she was lucky enough to make a CD for that musical, which she played throughout the house for a year straight. Unfortunately as quick as her success came, it had vanished. After two years of opening up on Broadway, the show was pulled from Broadway, not making enough money. Maureen of course was heartbroken, but Joanne cheered her up, and it also gave them a bit of extra money to have fun with.

Leah went on with her dream majoring in Fashion Design. She was now currently residing in New York City, working retail at a clothing store, while at the same time she struggled to make designs on her own, so she could one day open her own store, selling her very own brand name clothes.

Brooke lived with Leah, the two of them still together and as strong as ever. Brooke however never ended up going to school. Instead she took a job as a bartender close to their apartment. Joanne wasn't too fond of her job choice, finding the twenty-one year old to young to be working at a bar, with drunken perverts ogling and hitting on her. But Brooke loved the job. She lived off her enormous tips and put her weekly paychecks towards rent.

Haley had stayed an extra year in high school. She once had dreams to be a performer and did achieve her goal at being in the school plays throughout high school. But as time went by, she started taking part in other school activities, such as the debate team (which Joanne encouraged very much) she became school president, and started torturing kids. She was now undecided about what she wanted to go to college for, so she decided to stay back an extra year and upgrade her marks, hoping by that time she would have figured out what she wanted to do with her life.

Tessa was now eight and was a little rebel. She was friends with everyone at her school. She would play dress up and dolls with the girls and play in the mud with the boys. She was still Maureen's little baby girl though. She was just a little tougher, and was turning out to have an attitude just like Maureen.

Kylie was now four. She had Haley's long brown hair, Tyler's brown eyes, and nice tanned skin. She was a bit shy at times, but could be loud when she wanted attention. Tyler, who was still together with Haley, was now working with Benny making a good amount of money, putting half away since Haley and he were planning for a wedding.

Then there was Joanne. She was making a bit more money at her law firm. Nothing had really changed with her. She did her job and watched over her family. She wouldn't change anything even if she wanted too. She came home to her wife and kids in a nice three story house every night. To her, she was the luckiest woman on the planet.

"Maureen I'm home." Joanne called out walking in the front door, kicking her shoes off, and hanging up her coat.

"Oh thank God!" Maureen shouted with fret, "Pookie come here quick!"

Joanne put aside her briefcase, briskly walking down the hall and into the kitchen where she found Maureen standing on a chair in the middle of the kitchen, her eyes wide with worry.

"Maureen what's going on?"

Maureen shrieked as something small and furry ran across the tile floor. She reached out her arm, her finger pointing in the direction of a small mouse, "Joanne get him!"

Joanne's eyes followed as the small animal scurried across the floor. She felt a bit disgusted knowing there was a small creature like that living in her house, treading dirt and god only knows what into her house.

Joanne grabbed a broom and tried swooshing him to the sliding glass doors in the dining room, but the little bugger just wouldn't move her way.

"Don't hurt him!" Maureen cried out, wrapping her arms around Joanne's shoulders from behind.

"Maureen I can't get him if you're hugging me." Joanne said.

"Right there he's by your feet!" Maureen shouted,

Joanne moved forward, Maureen going with her and since the drama queen didn't want to touch the ground with her feet she ended up climbing on Joanne's back piggyback style.

"Maureen you have to let go." Joanne said almost giggling at the situation they were currently in.

"What are you guys doing?"

The two women looked up, finding Leah, Brooke, Tyler, Haley, and Kylie in the doorway of the kitchen, their eyes thick with confusion.

"A mouse!" Maureen said.

"Where!?" Tyler yelped, leaping onto a chair.

Everyone turned to Tyler, who quickly jumped off the chair, sticking his chest out, and clearing his throat, "I mean where? I'll kill him."

"Don't kill him!" Maureen said, still hanging from Joanne's back.

"Coming through!" Tessa suddenly yelled, plunging through everyone landing inside the kitchen, her shoes covered with mud, this time causing Joanne to scream.

"Your shoes!" Joanne said, "They're filthy and in my house."

"Sorry Mama, but I seen Flo run in here and she's full of mud too." Tessa said, looking around for her cat.

"What did I tell you about letting that cat outside?" Joanne asked, "She's stays inside so it doesn't track in dirt."

"She got out." Tessa shrugged, crawling on her hands and knees, "I tried to get her back in, but she ran away from me going through mud and then I finally chased her in here."

"Oh my God gross!" Leah suddenly said, her hand covering her mouth hiding her eyes on Brooke's shoulder.

Brooke looked in the direction Leah was looking in, finding Flo with a mouse in her mouth. "I think your mouse troubles are over."

"Poor thing." Haley sighed,

"Cool!" Tessa shouted, walking over to Flo, but Joanne pulled her back.

"You are not touching that cat after she just ate a mouse." Joanne said.

"I love you Flo." Maureen smiled, "Thanks for saving me."

Flo simply dropped the dead mouse on the ground, and began to groom itself.

"Okay, I'll take care of the mouse, Tessa get Flo and put her in the garage. We'll clean her up and then clean you up." Joanne instructed.

"Grandma?" Kylie quietly asked, tugging on Joanne's paint leg.

Joanne looked down, smiling, "Yes sweetie."

"Can I have a piggyback ride after Aunt Maureen is done?" Kylie pleasantly asked.

Maureen preferred to be called Aunt Maureen, finding that Grandma made her sound way too old.

"How about after supper?" Joanne smirked,

"Okay." Kylie smirked, and bounced out of the room.

"So who's hungry?" Joanne asked.

Leah's eyes were still on the dead mouse, her face full of repulsion, "Not me."

"Yeah I think I'll wait for a while." Haley agreed,

Joanne sighed watching as the kids left the kitchen. She turned her head to face Maureen who was still clutched to her. "At least we're all together."

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WOOP WOOP! Sequel!

To be honest I was going to wait until October to put a sequel up, because my muse just wasn't working with me. But a certain story had helped with that. After reading the story 'Another Day' written by lovepb13, inspiration had struck and I began writing the frist chapter of this story. I fully recommend checking out that story. It's very well written and you get a good storyline on MoJo and Mimi/Roger with Collins and Mark thrown in too. There is a part 1 called 'Guardian Angel'. 'Another Day' is the sequel. Seriously check them out! ;)

Okay so for Parenthood Part 2 I'm going to make things a bit darker. The family is all happy now, but things will soon turn.

So enough blabbering. I hope you all enjoy the sequel as much as the first one! I'll try and update as much and as fast as I can.

Lastly: I do not own anything that has to do with RENT!

ENJOY!