Authors Notes- I'm not the greatest author in the world but I thought of this story as I was trying to plan a Phantom of the Opera Convention and thought I would share it on Fanfic. It's just a silly story about what if the real Phantom showed up at PhantomCon. It's mainly a mystery but thought I would throw a little romance in but not too much. The OC is not based on anyone I know but if I had to picture someone playing it I would say Emily Osment. Enjoy!
A teen girl of 17 enters her bedroom and turns on her computer. She quickly signs onto Facebook and starts to update her status. "My mom just bought me a ticket to PhantomCon. I can't wait. Is it really going to be a whole year from now? I heard there was going to be a Open Mic Night so I guess I will take this time to practice what I'm going to so sing. I wonder if there are going to be any cute guys there?"
After updating her status, she then proceeds to the event wall and starts scrolling thru the rsvp's. Mainly to see what guys were going. A couple catch her eye, but some have fake pics. So she then proceeds with clicking on their names to see their timeline posts and pics. Finally, she gets bored and heads downstairs for dinner.
An hour later she heads back up stairs to her room and notices something rather odd on her computer screen. There is a status update from a guy named Erik Destler. His profile pic is the Phantom. The actor portraying Erik in the pic doesn't look like anyone she has seen before. Very odd. He almost seems younger than most of the men that have ever played the part. She starts to wonder if the person behind the Facebook status is actually the person in the picture. But the really odd thing was she didn't remember ever accepting him as a friend. Maybe he was just someone she met on one of the RP group pages.
After she read what he wrote she froze and didn't know what to do. It simply said, "I'm planning to attend PhantomCon next year. Is anyone else going? I need a date for the Masquerade Ball." She didn't know whether to pm him or what to do. She herself needed a date. But what did he really look like. Not that looks matter. After all, it would be very hypocritical to claim to be an Erik lover but only go after the Raouls of the world. After her initial shock, she decided to check out his profile page. Most of it seemed fake. Everything indicated that he lived in Paris etc. It matched the Phantom's profile. He had a few pics on his page and it whoever it was, it was obviously the same actor behind the mask. But the background in all the pics almost looked photoshoped.
After much delay, she finally commented on his status. "I will be your date." When she hit the enter key the page displayed an error message that said, "You cannot access this page." Starting to get frustrated, she decided to pm him. The same message popped up. She thought maybe his account had got removed for maybe harassing girls or maybe he was some old creepy guy that would eventually talk her into meeting somewhere. She thought about all the Dateline episodes she had seen and figured it was for the best that he didn't receive her message. What she didn't know was...he did!
Okay that's all for now. I hope you stick with me on this journey. Please excuse me for not writing in proper book style. I don't claim to be an author, but I did want to share the story. And I'm super excited about planning this convention. :o)