Authors Note : Wow. I haven't added in awhile. I miss this story - but I've been really busy lately. So I'm back and here is chapter 19 - I promise I will never abandon for too long ever ever again. This chapter s really lame it's been sitting in my comp for awhile.

Chapter Nineteen : One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Mimi and Roger ventured off to the restaurant they stiffed the waiter at. It looked just as beautiful as it did at night, the fancy drapes and decorations the perfectly dressed employees and customers. The floral arrangements in the foyer were so expensive you wouldn't even want to look at them for too long, and they stuck out like a sore thumb. Roger went to the matr'd's podium.

"Hello, how many?"

"We aren't dining." Roger told the slightly ticked off man who was dressed in a suit. He recognized Roger from the week before, and he wasn't surprised if the waiter told him about him. From the look on his face, he obviously knew. He was slightly embarrassed, but he knew he had to make things right. "A few weeks ago, my credit card got declined and I promised I'd return when I got things sorted out." he added.

"Oh. I heard about you." Roger looked down and sighed as the matr'd waltzed back into the kitchen briskly pulling aside the waiter and talking to him for a few moments, he shook hands with him at the end of the conversation before the waiter had walked up to Mimi and Roger. He smiled and he was surprised, "I-I. . ."

"You don't have to say anything. I'm a man of my word."

"Thank-you. Next time, dinner is on me."

Roger smiled and nodded, "No, I want to thank you. You took really good care of us the night before and thanks for that. Goodbye."Roger said to the waiter before waving and taking Mimi with him out the door of the restaurant. Mimi held his hand as they walked around town together, "So now that we have that sorted out, what do you want to do?"

Mimi smiled at Roger and shrugged, "What do you wanna do?" As they were walking the screeching sound of sirens were echoing along the main street in the distance becoming louder as Mimi and Roger stepped to the sidewalk. The vehicles were going on the direction of their complex. She worriedly looked at her boyfriend and sighed, "Why do I have a bad feeling?" Mimi sighed, "I gotta go."

Mimi just thought the worse, she thought something happened to her friend. She knew Trixie's ex was a violent guy. She ran quickly, luckily the main street wasn't far of a hike. Roger ran quick but wasn't as quick as Mimi.

When they reached the house Trixie's door was open and she was being wheeled by stretcher into the ambulance. Roger out of breath leaned against the wall of the hall in the apartment. Mimi tapped the paramedic who was on the scene, he turned quickly around stopping what the was doing and Mimi saw her friend. She had that bad gut feeling, she was badly bruised up.

"The neighbor heard an argument, it sounded violent and they called the cops and the cops called us." The paramedic said to Mimi sternly.

"Mimi." Trixie murmured amongst the chaos. Mimi turned her attention to her friend, "Come with me to the hospital, please?" she asked pleadingly.

The paramedic nodded Mimi looked to Roger and he nodded as Mimi boarded into the vehicle.