It had been 3 months since the day that Christine and Raoul escaped from the Phantoms lair. Raoul and Christine had left France and traveled to the north to elope and start their new lives. Their wedding day had been one of the happiness days of their life. Christine and Raoul could finally live in happiness away from the darkness even though the darkness would always live inside Christines heart. There haven't been a day that she did not think of "the phantom", she would sometimes laugh at herself for going through so much with the man and not even knowing his name. She would sometimes find herself depressed thinking about him wondering where he was and how he was. Raoul would notice this sometimes and try to comfort her. Though he sometimes felt a jealously stir inside, remembering the day she had passionately performed with him that day on the stage, he would remind himself that she had been through so much in her life and could not help but feel so much simpathy and love at the same time. The first three months of their marriage were filled with innocent love and happy memories. Although Christine preferred to save her virginity till later Raoul could not wait till their bodies would at last become one. He often daydreamed of his future life with Christine and the children they would have and love forever. Raoul had really wanted to start their new lives early but Christine insisted that they wait because she was still young and was not ready. Raoul had agreed with her knowing that she was still recovering and that she was not ready to bare children. Raoul would sometimes think to himself that night during the performance of ""Don Juan Triumph" how she seemed so ready to give in to the phantom and passively make love to him. Raoul would also remind himself that she was almost hyonotic during that performance and probably had no idea what she was doing. But then again, why was he crying that night? Did he just say that for an excuse? Would Christine really have gone with him for not for Raoul and all the other people? At the moment Christine and Raoul were travailing back to France to live in the mansion that they both lived in now. Christine was staring out the window and Raoul would sometime give glances at her but then would look away and study the ceiling or his fingers.
Christine had so many things running through her mind that she was surprised that she didn't have a nervous break-down. She sighed heavily and leaned her head against the cold glass window. She was thinking about what the rest of her life would be like. Things certainly looked a lot brighter with her new husband and her but there was always the idea of the phantom that still haunted her mind. Christine would have thought by now the herself that she was ready to make love to Raoul but had always avoided it. The thought of the phantom would always jump to her mind and how he had touched her, She was to afraid that she would think of him when it was Raoul who would touch her. She loved Raoul so much and couldn't wait to spend the rest of her days with him. But for now she would have to recover from everything that had happened before she had any other things in her mind, She would often wonder where he was now. Raoul had told her the story of him in Mde. Giry and how he became to live under the opera. "Was she still taking care of him" she pondered. "Does he still live under the opera" The opera house which she had heard was beyond repair and no further intentions of rebuilding it. Many people still believed that the Opera ghost still haunted the opera house and did not dare cross his path. She had also heard that many people died that night in the opera house. She could not help feel responsibly for the cause and the thought would only bring her more deeply into depression. For now though, her only thoughts of concern were the pressure she would now have with being the new Mrs. Changy.