Dislcaimer: I do not own anything related to Phantom of the Opera, sadly.

Timeline:

1872 Erik marries Iris. Erik has a disfigured face.

1873 Erik and Iris have Samson.

1877 Erik and Iris have Zella.

1896 Samson marries Delia.

1897 Samson and Delia have James. James has a disfigured face.

1914 James marries Elnora.

1916 James and Elnora have Albert.

1918 James and Elnora have Edgar.

1936 Albert marries Celeste.

1940 Albert and Celest have Frederick. Frederick has a disfigured face.

1968 Frederick marries Francine.

1968 Frederick and Francine have Elliot.

1990 Elliot marries Linda.

1993 Elliot and Linda have Erik. Erik has a disfigured face.

Chapter 1

A month had passed since her mother told her they were moving. Moving day, how depressing are those two words?

Aubrey had been in the car for ten hours already and have three more hours to go. She took out her binder and a black sharpie and continued the work of art on it. She had drawn and elaborate design of Erik with the words Phantom of the Opera surrounding it.

She kept day dreaming that she was back in time and had made Erik forget about Christine and the two of them ran away. Just then she felt a nudge in her side and looked round at Delilah who was sitting in the back seat with her. "Ouch Delilah, that hurt what did you do that for?" Aubrey said slapping her arm.

"Mom Aubrey hit me!" Delilah cried out as she held her arm.

"Girls, settle down, were almost there. I can see the driveway from here." Their dad shouted.

Though she didn't want to, she felt a thrill of excitement run through her, but quickly reminded herself this wasn't a good thing.

They were moving to a town called Faith in South Dakota.

Aubrey didn't get a good luck at the house since it was starting to get dark. She followed her mother and father into the house and up the stairs. There was a bedroom that had her bed, dresser and boxes.

She bade them goodnight and fell fully clothed onto her bed where she had thoughts of men in masks whisking her away into the darkness.

Morning came all too soon when her mother was shaking her telling her to get ready for school. She slowly rolled out of bed and pulled a pair of skinny jeans from a box on her floor. She pulled out a plain red long sleeve shirt and a white with little blue flowers baby tee. She threw on the baby tee over the red shirt.

She opened a second box and couldn't find her boots she was looking for. She opened two more boxes until she found her black boots that were form fitting up to her knees. It had a one inch heel on it. She pulled them over her jeans. She glanced at the full length mirror and smiled.

She pulled half of her curly hair up into a high pony tail. She reached up and grabbed small chunks of hair out of they pony to hang around her face. She quickly rushed to the bathroom brushed her teeth and applied her makeup.

She was waiting on her mom and Delilah downstairs to go to her new school. She had her binder with her Phantom of the Opera art work on it.

When they got to the school her mother had gotten out. "Are you sure you don't want me to come in with you Aubrey?"

Aubrey had to resist rolling her eyes. "Mother, I am 16 I can do this on my own." Aubrey said.

Her mother sighed but headed with Delilah to the middle school, which was right next door.

Aubrey walked into the big building. She looked around trying to find the office. She headed down the left part of the hallway and walked until the hall ended. So she turned around and headed back in the right direction, finally finding the office.

After she had gotten signed up on classes a teacher walked her to her first classroom. Aubrey took a deep breath before walking in. There was a bored looking male teacher behind a desk watching the clock. She shuffled to the front and handed a slip of parchment to him.

He looked at it and signed it. "Welcome to Faith" he said. "There is a seat towards the back somewhere."

She looked around the class room slowly filling up and grabbed a seat towards the back like the teacher said.

She had slumped down in her seat hating all the eyes on her. She could hear whispers of people daring each other to talk to her first. She rolled her eyes at the childish people around her. There is a new student in school and people act like they had never seen anyone new.

"You're in my seat" A gruff voice said to her right side making her jump. She looked up at him and saw that he wore a flesh colored mask covering the right side of his face. She instantly felt as though she had known him for years instead of seconds.

Aubrey jumped up out of the chair as if electrocuted. "I'm sorry; I didn't know it was your seat." Aubrey said with a smile. She noticed the desk next to his was still vacant and she hurried over to it and sat down.

She looked over at him once she sat down. She leaned across the aisle. "Hi, I'm Aubrey, I'm new here."

"Yeah I've noticed." He said as the teacher called the class to order since the bell had rung.

Aubrey was a little taken aback by his rudeness. She had tried to listen to the whole lesson as the teacher droned on and on, but she couldn't focus on the lecture. She was concerned about the way that jerk acted toward her.

She had come out of her thoughts when she heard the bell ring. She looked up at the board and saw the homework scrawled on the white board and copied it down in her binder. She stood up and was suddenly surrounded by a group of girls.

"Hi, I'm Ashley" "Jane" "Alice" "Natalie"

Aubrey was bombarded as she tried to say hi to the girls who were introducing themselves. She looked around where he was and couldn't see him anywhere. She was slightly disappointed.

"Where are you going next?" Natalie had asked her.

"Oh, umm…" Aubrey pulled out her schedule from her binder and looked down at it. "I have English next."

"Oh I Jane and I have that next" Alice had said and grinned, "We can show you where to go."

Alice had taken the binder out of her hands and put it on top of her own books and placed her free arm through Aubrey's arm. She was led out of the classroom and down the hallway.

Jane was on her other side pointing out different things. "Okay, so never go into that bathroom unless you want to be chocked on smoke, that's where the girls who smoke go. And down there is the cafeteria, I would suggest not eating anything that has potatoes in it, they never buy new ones, and they are totally nasty."

"Okay Jane, let her breath were here."

Aubrey's head was spinning with all the information being shoved at her. She saw an older woman teacher at the front talking to another student about something they had in his hand.

"Mrs. Dalton, we have a new student here. You need to sign her form." Alice said dragging Aubrey up to the front.

"Ahh a new student huh, well let me see it." Mrs. Dalton said holding out her hand. The other student went to sit down when the bell rang. "Class listen up, this is Aubrey Inmon, she is new from…"

Aubrey was horrified that her teacher was making her stand in front of the class and tell the whole class about herself, like she was 7.

"I'm from a no where town in Kansas"

"So what brings you to Faith?"

"My parents"

The class laughed and Mrs. Dalton signaled her to sit down. She saw that Jane and Alice had saved her a seat and she gladly sat down in it.

After class ended Alice and Jane told her it was break. "We have ten minutes to do nothing." Alice said linking her arm through Aubrey's once more and leading her outside. It was very chilly and she was glad she had her jacket on.

The three girls met up with Natalie and Ashley. "So are you liking it here so far?" Ashley asked her.

"Oh, yeah I guess, it's just different from what I'm used to." She had though of the boy who was rude to her and a small frown came to her face.

"What is it?" Jane asked her looking concerned.

"Oh this guy was rude to me in first period" Aubrey said shrugging it off.

"Oh you mean Erik Destler, yeah he is rude to everyone." Natalie said she looked across the way and saw him huddled on a bench by his self reading a book.

"Why does he wear that mask?"

"He was born like that" Jane said looking at him as well. "Just forget about him."

Aubrey wish she could forget about him, but something was pulling her towards him.

Her next class had Alice in it as well and they walked to the class together. Alice was telling her who to hang out with and who were the people she didn't want to get mixed up with.

She had gotten her note signed and was glad she didn't make her stand up in front of the class again. She felt a tap on her shoulder. "Look Aubrey, it's your best friend." Alice said with a smirk as Erik had strolled into the class and sat a few rows away from her.

That's just what she needed, a chance for this Erik guy to be rude to her again. But she was wrong. He didn't even look at her and felt a little disappointed.

Through the class she kept shooting glances over at Erik but he looked forward at the teacher the whole time.

Aubrey was soon being dragged to lunch where she met another girl named Danielle and four guys named Harry, Chad, Alex, and Aaron.

Chad and Aaron had paid her special attention like pulling out her chair asking if she needed anything, even willing to give her a tour of the school.

"You guys are really sweet, but I'm okay." Aubrey said flashing them a smile. She was flattered by all this attention.

Harry had picked up her binder and was looking at it. "Did you do this Aubrey? It's really good, what's Phantom of the Opera though?"

Aubrey was shocked that he had never heard of him and jumped into a detailed account of it. "He is the perfect man" Aubrey finished with a laugh.

She was escorted to the rest of her classes from the girls she met earlier. Some of the guys she met at lunch as well.

Jane and offered her a ride home and she accepted, but called her mom to let her know not to pick her up.

On her way home she timidly brought up the subject on Erik again.

"Aubrey listen, he isn't a really friendly guy. I would really stay away from him. He is always a loner and never social. I'm just trying to do you a favor."

"Thanks Jane, I was just curious about him."

"Shall I pick you up for school tomorrow?"

"Yeah that would be great, I'll see you tomorrow then."

Aubrey bounded out of her car and into the house where she went directly to her room and laid on her bed thinking of Erik Destler.

So I hope you liked my timeline. I was going to wait to post this chapter, but I didn't want to leave you all with just the prologue. I'm so nice I know! Please review so I know weather my readers like it.

Desiree'