6/18/10

Keep in mind I've only read the first two chapters so far, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. Haha. Please enjoy..

Catlin (cat-LYN) and Anna and perhaps a Briana were sitting on a couch, bored out of their wits. There was nothing to do in this BORING house. Finally Anna let out a long sigh and sat up from her slouched position.

"Let's do something fun."

"Something inexpensive," Catlin chimed in, afraid that "fun" was pretty much chained to "money". In Anna's case, it was. The redhead threw herself back onto the couch and groaned.

"Whatever! We weren't gonna make YOU pay!"

"Yes, you were indeed planning on making me pay for a portion of this so called 'fun' activity, in which would most likely involve costumes."

Briana and Anna were silent before bursting out in laughter. Catlin was confused.

"What's so funny?" she asked cluelessly.

"You! You're funny. Oh, you joker, you ..." Anna said, wiping an imaginary tear from her eye. She giggled, "You're too funny."

Catlin did not laugh. She did not even crack a smile. She did not get why she was so funny. "Um..then let's .. sing ... LET'S LISTEN TO THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA CD!"

"You don't even have it," Anna said boredly.

"Aha, that's what you think .. but ... " the brunette pulled out a CD from behind her back and waved it in the younger girl's face. "I do!"

"Um." Anna stared at the cover. "That's my Hawk Nelson is My Friend CD."

"Once again, that's what you think but I ... " she turned away dramatically and held the CD to her chest, "I threw away that old fuddy-duddy CD and replaced it with mine .. "

"What."

"... a while ago."

"WHAATT!"

Anna jumped to her feet, "You mean that's the reason Jason Dunn is sounding like some strange disfigured hermit with an echoey voice and some high-pitched lady who's younger than Briana!"

"... " Catlin gazed towards the wall, " ... yes." This was starting to feel like a Lifetime Movie.

"How .. how could you do this to me? You're .. you're supposed to be my sister."

"... " Catlin turned quickly, her hair swooshing behind her like in many a movie. "I AM your sister!"

"NOOO!"

Briana watched this spectacle with slight amusement and slight confusion. She was silent as Anna fell onto the couch and bounced back off onto the ground.

"Ow."

Catlin took this opportunity to dash to the television on the wooden vanity and turned it on. She flipped it to it's DVD setting and plugged in the machine. She waited until it finally started up before turning on the DVD player and opening it. She placed the CD in and closed it. It was a process that took forever. Finally the screen came up and she pressed "Play". The Overture began so, though her fragile and perhaps glass heart was beating in a strange and uneven manner, she changed it to a different song. The truth was, she had only listened to the CD about one or two times and didn't know the names of the songs.

Whichever song it was, it began to play a beautiful melody. She swayed slowly, closing her eyes and sighing softly. She could just imagine the tall and mysterious Phantom standing beside her. Perhaps in front of her. With his back turned? She couldn't tell.

"NO!" She heard someone jump onto the ground and come towards her. "This song is EVILLL!"

Catlin opened her eyes and turned around just in time to see Anna swipe the CD case out of her hands, "I WILL PUT AN END TO THIS!" The brunette was unsure of what the CD case would do, considering it wasn't even the right one.

"Wait. I think I like this song," Briana began. The two girls looked at her; she giggled and snorted, "I'm joking." With a serious look and a monotone voice, she said, "I hate Phantom of the Opera."

"Oh." Catlin said, placing her hands over her glass heart. "I think my heart's breaking. Ah." She fell to the ground sadly. "This is too bad."

"Sucky way to tell her, Bri." Anna said, stifling her own laughter.

"Sorry."

A deep echoing voice, um, echoed around the room causing all three girls' heads to snap towards the DVD player. Well, the TV actually, and only two of them. Briana and Anna stared at the TV while Catlin was mending her heart with mental surgical tape and gauze. "Ah."

Finally the airhead looked over towards the TV to see that instead of the blue DVD logo it was a long hallway. She was silent, at a loss for words. What was this? A joke? She stood up and stared at the screen; was it a picture? She went to touch it but Anna shrieked.

"Don't! It could be like on Van Helsing!"

"Um," Briana began, "or it could be like on Phantom of the Opera?"

"Oh, yeah. Haha. Sorry."

The three girls blinked in unison and stared in silence. Finally Catlin's empty mind clicked and her face brightened. "HOLY TOLEDO! I'M GOIN' IN!"

Anna grabbed her around the wait, "No you ain't!"

"But! I! Must!" The girl tried to squirm out of the tight grip but it was nearly impossible. Actually, if it was "nearly" then she would have been able to do it, but with great difficulty. Ergo, it was impossible. For her at least. Not to get technical or anything ..

"Oh! Catlin! Don't you have some sort of list to do in your room!"

They looked over at Briana.

"How do you know about that...?" Anna asked slowly.

The girl smiled sheepishly. "I, uh, might have helped write it?"

"You did NOT!" Anna gasped, letting go of the choking brunette.

"I did."

"You DID!" Her eyes widened, "KIK!"

"What?"

"Kik .. um, like the wrong say to say lol."

" ... " Catlin took this opportunity to run to her room, grab the notebook on her dresser and reappear in the living room before anyone noticed she was gone. But then again she could have been gone for the rest of the night and no one would notice until perhaps the next week. She could have been dead by then; or worse - hungry.

"All right. I'm bored with this already. Let's go."

"Okay."

Briana and Catlin were ready to go but Anna wasn't. The two had to grab onto her arms and haul her over to the TV.

"Wait, isn't this supposed to be a mirror?" Catlin asked as she shoved the redhead towards the television.

"What? You don't know?" she shrieked. Catlin laughed. Maniacally.

"Don't worry. Be happy. BEEE HAPPPYYY."

"OKAY. I'M GETTIN' BORED OVA' HERE, CATLIN." Briana whined (not that she's whiny).

"Okay. On three."

"One."

"Two."

"Three - Wait, nooo!" Anna cried.

"There's Kisame on the other side." Briana said.

"OH! KISAME! HONEY, WAIT FOR ME!" Anna said and leapt through the TV (KIK!). Catlin was silent, staring.

"That worked?"

"What? Kisame? Of course."

"No. The TV."

"You didn't know?"

"Okay, time for Erik. This is getting too long for a one-shot."

"Yeah."

"In you go."

"What?"

Catlin grabbed her friend and threw her through the glass. "Glad that one worked too .. heh .. now ... for me .. hopefully I can .. find love .. and .. peace .. ah.. " She stepped forward and closed her eyes. She was ready for this! She was! Inhaling deeply she smiled and stepped forward into .. the TV. She fell back and hit the ground. "Ow! What? NOO!"

Ah. The luck of her ...

on the other side of the TV

"Um. Where's Catlin?" came an echoing voice (aka Anna).

"AIYYEEE!"

"AUUGHHH!"

Both girls screamed at each other, frightened. Finally they calmed down enough to find each other and breathe a sigh of relief.

"Now. Um. Where IS Catlin?"

"Wait, what? She's not here?"

" ... so ..we're stuck here ... " Anna began slowly.

" ... without her?"

" ... CATLIN! YOU BOOGER-BRAIN! YOU LEFT ME HERE WITH BRIANA - not that that's a bad thing," (Briana smiled half-heartedly at this), " - BUT YOU MEANIE! I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE WITH HER!"

"Hey!"

"What are you two doing here?"

The voice was deep.

Both girls clung to each other and turned around, screaming in fear. "IT'S A ZOMBIE!"

" ... " the voice did not reply. Anna could see the faint outline of a man. She inhaled.

"Oh. You're the strange man my sister likes! Edward, right?"

"Phantom."

"Oh, wait, wait, wait. Edmund! Yeah? Yeah."

"Phantom."

"No, no, it's .. it's .. "

"Phantom."

"Wait, you're a Phantom - it's .. Leslie! HAHA! YEAH! THAT'S IT! LESLIE!"

" ... Erik."

"Huh? Your name's Erik? OoooOOOoOoOoooOOOoOoOOo."

"Is that bad?" Briana asked, suddenly forgetting her irrational fear.

"I dunno," Anna shrugged.

" ... "

The girls looked back at the man. He quickly turned and disappeared with a swooshy-ness motion of his cape.

"Aw, man. NOW how are we going to get out of here?"

"Jerk."

"Pfft, whatever ... " Anna shook her head, "Let's find Cat."

"Yeah. ... wait, how do we do that?"

"I thought you knew."

" ... DANG IT!"

Briana and Anna let out grunts and groans, frustrated with it all. Stupid Catlin had to play her stupid CD and get them stupid stuck in that stupid place ...

"CURSE YOU CATLIN!" Anna's voice echoed down the empty hall. "I WILL GET YOOUU!"

"If the Phantom doesn't get you first," Briana said, half joking. As soon as she said that, both fell silent. They were scared now. Goosebumps ran up their arms.

"Why'd you have to say that, Briana?" Anna hissed in a low voice.

"Sorry. I thought it'd be funny."

Anna smacked Bri's head.

"Ow!"

"Yeah, well it ain't funny is it?"

"I'm sorry!"

"Let's just find a way out of here ... " Anna turned to the wall. "Maybe we ... can get back the way we came! Let's find a TV."

" ... uh, 1900s?"

"1800s... "

"1700s .. "

"Dangit. No TV."

"Ah, ah."

"Aha! The wall!"

"Wait, I don't think that'll work - "

"Just shush 'n' stand back, Briana!" Anna stepped back and geared up.

"I don't think that's a good idea - "

"SHUSH!" Anna closed her eyes and inhaled. " ... I am .. concentrating ... "

"Uh.."

Opening her eyes, she took off towards the wall. "TO HOOMMMMEEE!"

Needless to say the connection of body to wall did not really work. If you were to bet on Anna gettin' back to home, you were wrong. Dead wrong. You loser. Why'd you even think she'd win? Psh.

Anna fell back and screamed, "WHY DIDN'T IT WORK!"

Briana knelt down. "Do you need ice?"

"Yeah, it's just in the kitche ... " She moaned, crying. "Briiiaaannnnaa.."

"What?"

"Why didn't you talk me out of it!"

"I tried to."

"You tried to!"

"Yes."

"Well, did you succeed!"

"No."

"NO! NOO? Is that all you can say!"

"No - "

"Shush, I'm talking. I think I broke my arm."

" ... " Briana punched Anna in the pained arm, causing her to scream. "Is it broken?"

"If it wasn't, it is now!"

The two girls sat in the silent, damp hallway. They said nothing, trying to think of what to do to get back to home. They could care less about Catlin and getting her here, to her dream home.

So it was true. They were stuck there. Perhaps forever. On the other side of the TV. Could someone see them? It was a strange thing to think about. Being on a TV show ... but they weren't. Trapped with the Phantom .. in a hallway ... without light .. Ah..

on the other other side of the TV, aka the original side

Catlin sat on the ground, nursing her bruised face. She sighed sadly. "Ah, I guess it was never meant to be .. I guess Briana and Anna were supposed to be the Angels of Music ... not me ... " She sighed again and stared down at the ground. "Ahh, aha, ah."

She removed her hand from her nose to see blood drip down between her fingers. Nosebleed. "Darn ... " she said in a soft voice. Soon more blood leaked out onto the ground. "Noo .. this is champagne-colored carpet."

It seemed her nosebleed didn't really care.

"Ah."

Curse Erik and his singing voice. Curse him opening the portal into his world. Curse Anna for going first for Kisame. Curse Briana for going second. Curse herself for not going in. Curse The Phantom of the Opera. Curse her imagination - if this was all a dream (then there would be no need for cursing, or the tissue box which she was desperately trying to find). Curse it all!

Ah. Irony.

Life sucked sometimes.

end of part one