What has happened to the people in Carmel by the Sea? Suddenly life is a musical and you can't get through many conversations without people breaking out into song and dance.

This has been in my mind for a while so I am doing this just for fun. Tell me what you think! R.R

Disclaimer: I am not Meg Cabot…last time I checked anyway…and this song if from the phantom of the opera…I sadly do not own it either. If you have not seen the movie go SEE IT.

A word in Italics means the song.

All I ask of you.

Suze and Jesse POV

The town has gone crazy. I swear it has. All of a sudden everyone is singing songs instead of talking and dancing around instead of just walking. And what is worse? I am beginning to do the same thing too! I really am…it is so weird. And let me tell you, my singing voice is pretty good! I just am not to great at the whole dance routine things. Are you confused much? Well good. Because so am I! All I know is it started with a certain hot Latino in my bedroom a night or two ago…

(Jesse enters the room and sees Suze lying on her bed fast asleep…except that she looks to be fairly restless as if a bad dream is happening)

I was back in the shadow land. Even after all these months since Paul left me up there to, well I think was, to die, I still get nightmares about it. You do not understand how incredibly creepy it is. The cold wet fog blanketing the ground and wrapping itself around your legs as you walk…the out of this world sea of stars in the sky…the sky itself is blacker than black but the stars are brighter then any I have ever seen on earth. I am walking through the valley of, well, death and I see a dark shadow flying towards me. This creature picks me up and I hear the voice of Paul Slater say, "You will never escape me, Suze. You will be mine…one way or another…or bad things are to come…very bad things…" I then was dropped and started falling, falling, falling…until my whole body jerk awake and shot up in my bed breathing heavily and almost in tears. Hey, you would be crying to if you kept having reoccurring dreams like that! It is enough creepy to last a lifetime.

"Susannah?" A silky caring voice asked out. Jesse.

I glanced over towards the window seat and of course there he was looking at me with concern in his eyes. "Jesse." I said looking at him with big sad pathetic eyes. "Oh, Jesse, I was there again!" I got up there and almost ran to him. He had me sit down next to him and wrapped his strong arms around me. Comfort flew threw me instantly. I still have yet to figure out how this happens every time he holds me…I suppose it has to do with being in the arms of the guy you love…

Suddenly, he did something he normally does not do when comforting me. He started singing. At first he was basically whispering the song into my ear but then he got more into it.

Jesse PoV

I do not know what came over me to start singing but I had heard this song the other day on Susannah's "Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack and since I heard it I had wanted to sing it to her.

No more talk
of darkness,
Forget these
wide-eyed fears.
I'm here,
nothing can harm you -
my words will
warm and calm you.
Let me be
your freedom,
let daylight
dry -your tears.
I'm here,
with you, beside you,
to guard you
and to guide you. .

I looked down at Susannah with smiling eyes. She sat up and wrapped her arms around me neck and sang to me with her voice in a whisper…

Say you love me
every
waking moment,
turn my head
with talk of summertime . . .
Say you need me
with you,
now and always . . .
promise me that all
you say is true -
that's all I ask
of you

Her voice was like a chorus of angels. It warmed my heart and it let me sing the next versus to her.

(Suze) I cannot believe I just sang that to Jesse. At first when he started singing it I just stared at him like he was crazy thinking 'oh my god he has been listening to my music!' then I dawned on me how incredible cute and sweet it was of him singing this song to me…in fact…maybe he really does love me! So I went and sang to him, but I had to whisper it since my family would hear my singing throughout the house if I did it loudly. As soon as I was done singing Jesse went on to continue with…

(Jesse)

Let me be
your shelter,
let me
be your light.
You're safe:
No-one will find you
your fears are
far behind you . . .

"Susannah…you know I would do anything for you. I want to protect you and guide you. I want to keep you safe from the shadow land and from Paul…and…I want…" I stopped. I could not tell my sweet Querida what I was going to say next. It did not matter anyway because she pressed her finger on my mouth, as to hush me, and went on to sing…

(Suze)

All I want
is freedom,
a world with
no more night . . .
and you
always beside me
to hold me
and to hide me . . .

I never realized how much this song worked with Jesse and I before, though I have loved it since I heard it. It is true, I wish I had freedom. Freedom from Paul. I wish I didn't have to bargain with him to keep Jesse safe. I feel like I have to give up part of my soul to the phantom in my own life…Paul Slater. I have to do what he wants in fear of what he might do instead. I have to tread around him carefully as to not piss him off. It is like walking on eggshells every moment of the day and I just want it to be over. All I want is Jesse to hold me and keep me safe from Paul…

(Jesse)

Then say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Let me lead you
from your solitude . . .
Say you need me
with you
here, beside you . . .
anywhere you go,
let me go too –Querida
that's all I ask
of you . . .

Ironic. I have been the one here alone for 150 years. I was the one needing to be saved from my solitude. Then Susannah came. I knew in my heart from the moment I saw her that I was still "hanging around" as she would say because of her. The women I was to love. I had never been in love before I died. What human can possibly move onto their next life without experiencing love? It just is not possible. She saved me from my solitude and now I must save her from her own. I know she always feels lonely and different due to being the mediator. I truly meant it when I sang "then say you'll share with me on love, one lifetime." I want Querida more then she will ever know. She is my one and only love.

(Suze)

When he sang that part of the song to me I started tearing up. I mean, the man you love is sitting here singing to you about how he wants to share one love with you and how he would go anywhere that I go…sadly…I am fairly certain he is only singing this to me to calm me down. He does not mean it, like I mean it. I am singing the words with complete truth and sincerity. Wait. He said my name. Well, Querida. He sang that instead of "Christine" who is the girl from the Phantom of the Opera. What does this mean? What does this mean…?

I looked him in the eye and sang:

Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
say the word
and I will follow you. .

I meant every word of it too.

(Jesse and Suze)

Share each day with
me, each
night, each morning . . .

(Suze)

"Jesse" I whispered and he looked at me.

Say you love me . . .

(Jesse)

"Susannah…" I whispered back to her and sang:

You know I do . . .

And I do. I really deeply do.

(Both)

Love me -
that's all I ask
of you . . .

As soon as the last words left our mouths I smiled at Jesse and he just scooped me up in his arms and kissed me in the most passionate kiss of my life. I, of course, kissed him back and we ended up sitting on the window seat once again. Jesse, with his back against the wall and me in between his legs with his arms wrapped around me. I believe I fell asleep like that but when I woke the next morning I somehow was back in my own bed with the covers over me. You got to be kidding me…that could not have been a dream! It felt so…real…so intense. I got up disappointed that it was all in my head. That was until I looked on my desk and there on a sticky notepad said:

No more talk of darkness…anywhere that you go let me go too… love me…that is all I ask of you, Querida…

J

(A/N very fluffy, yes? Do review.)