EPOV
"For the thousandth time Alice, no!" I said as I tried to get up the stairs to my room.
"Oh come on Edward, your practically just like the phantom!" she said, making me halt on the stairs.
"I am nothing like that homicidal psycho!" I growled through my teeth.
"Please Edward, give me a break! You're an early 20th century creature of the night, in love with a girl much younger than you, and your rival for her affections was her childhood sweetheart! The only big difference is that Bella is a freak and chose the monster instead of the sweetheart." She said, rolling her eyes and blocking my way up the stairs.
"He was a stalker!" I yelled
"So were you" she retorted
"I was not!" I said, unintentionally taking a step closer so I practically towered over her even on the steps.
"You climbed through her window every night and watched her while she slept AND you followed her out of town whenever she left! What do you call that?" she said, flatly crossing her arms across her chest.
I knew that she was right but it painted me as a monster, and ever since Bella and Renessme came into my life, I no longer believed I was one.
"Okay, but its not the same! She needed protecting" I said, but not with as much force as before.
"Is too. Besides, think of how much this will mean to Carlisle! This is one of his favorite plays and we can't do it without you and Bella! Pleeaaassee!" she begged
"Fine" I groaned, and then a sudden thought occurred at me, and I said with a evil grin " but you have to convince Bella!"
"Oh I will," she said and her eyes glazed over and I saw
"Please Bella!" Alice said
"Why Edward and me?" Bella asked
I smiled at my angel's signature grimace.
"Because Bella, this is practically your story. You love Edward the mysterious dangerous man, and then you loved Jacob your childhood sweetheart! The only difference is that you're a freak and chose Edward!" Alice said with a smirk.
" I don't know Alice…I can't even sing" Bella said playing with her hair
"Of course you can! I've seen it and think of how much this means to Carlisle. Pleeaassee!!" said Alice.
I can't believe she stooped that low! She told Bella the same thing that she told me and then she lied about the vision! (Not that I don't agree. Bella has a wonderful voice, but to stoop that low!)
"Oh fine Alice" said a very irritated looking Bella, then she screamed" Edward!" and went of to find the future me.
"Dammit Alice!! Fine, you win!" I muttered and walked off.
BPOV-later
Alice had gathered all the kids and some of Jake's pack to give out the cast list and do some background research on the play. I was curled up in Edwards lap on the couch, watching Nessie and Jacob have a tickle fight on the love-seat. I was still not used to seeing them as a couple even after they got married. I still couldn't get used to it.
"Alice I can't believe you got everyone to do this, even Jacob and Seth are excited about it!" I said as she pulled the cast list from her pocket.
"OK so the cast list goes as follows
Phantom of the opera a.k.a Eric=Edward
Christine Daae=Bella
Raoul De Chaney= Jacob
Carlotta=Rosalie
Piangi=Emmet
Opera owners Andre and Firman=jasper and Seth
Joseph bouquet= Emmet
Meg Giry= Nessie
And Madam Giry= myself any questions?"
"Yeah, why aren't you Meg, Alice?" I asked curiously.
"Well, since I'm director, producer, costume designer, stage manager, and an actor, I really don't have the time to memorize Meg's songs and lines. Besides you and Nessie have really good chemistry on stage, and Edward and I already have the brother sister bond going on." She said nonchalantly
"Oh, Okay. We will have fun anyway, right Nessie?" I said and I winked at my daughter.
We spent the next five hours watching the Broadway musical, the movie based on the book, and now we were watching the 2004 musical movie. We had just gotten finished with "all I ask of you" when I noticed that Edward had been unusually silent through the whole scene and he had just gone extremely rigid, his arms locked tight around me as though if he let go I would run away. I looked up at his face and the pain I saw in his eyes nearly broke my dead heart. I picked up the pad of paper and pen that was lying on the coffee table (so that we wouldn't bother anyone) and wrote
Edward, What's wrong?
I just realized that you have to kiss Jacob, AGAIN!
Edward, you know I don't have romantic feelings for him and that it's just a stage kiss.
Yes. I know love, but you also have to leave with him at the end of the play. The thought just brought back some old memories and I realized how dark my life would have been if you had chosen him and disappeared.
I read his note and looked at him. I leaned in and whispered so only he could hear "Edward. I love you and only you! I always have and I always will." And then I kissed him with as much force and passion as I was capable of until something hard smacked me in the head
"Hey lovebirds! Focus, this is the turning point of the whole movie!" Alice said looking slightly agitated. And I sank back down and started watching the movie again.
As I watched I realized I could empathize with Christine more than I thought. Edward represented that darker part of me I never knew, and his voice had always been one of my weaknesses. Jacob was my shelter and my light when things got too dark. It was spooky that our stories were so similar.
When we got to the most dramatic part of "point of no return" I watched as the phantom and Christine had an extremely personal looking moment. He had spun her around so that she was facing away from him, grabbed her hands and moved them so they were both caressing her body. This looked like it could be a fun scene to do with Edward. The only problem is that our family and closed friends would be watching this. As I was contemplating the pros and cons of this I was interrupted when Emmet yelled
" Great! We have to watch Edward feel Bella up! As if we don't catch them around here enough already!"
"Like you have room to talk Emmet. Do I need to remind you how much everyone has caught you and
Rose in the last month?" I asked, feeling Edward's laughter behind me. That shut Emmet up for all of about three minutes until he saw Piangi's dead body and said
"Oh this is flippin sweet! I get to get hung!….. Twice!!!!!" And then we all broke into hysterical laughter before finishing the movie.
"Ok girls! Its time to come get fitted for your consumes! We start rehearsals tomorrow!" and she drug Rose and I away from Edward and Emmet. I looked at him one last time to see him smirk and mouth I love you before I grudgingly trudged up the stairs for a hellish night of costume fitting.
