Here's the next chapter! Really short, but I wanted to get something up ASAP. I won't be updating until at least Thursday. Thanks for all the reviews, too. They push me to update sooner! Haha. More reviews= sooner update. Please R&R!
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I woke the next morning to puffy red eyes from my tears. I had thought my heart couldn't break any more than it had when Raoul died, but I was wrong. My whole body ached with sadness.
I slowly got out of bed, dismayed to find I still wore Erik's cloak. No wonder everything smelled of him. I groaned and started to get ready for work, splashing cold water on my face. The girl that stared back at me in the mirror looked barely recognizable. My usually bright, round brown eyes had grown dull and droopy. I had lost a considerable amount of weight in five weeks. My cheek bones were obviously protruding, and I looked a bag of bones. I sighed and pushed my chocolate curls into a bun. Right as I was going out the door to work, I saw a letter on the ground with the all too familiar red skull wax seal. Tears pricked my eyes again as I scooped up the letter with trembling hands and retreated to my room. Work could wait.
Feeling as though my legs could no longer support me, I sat and opened the letter. The envelope contained two papers, but I opened the first. His graceful script flowed across the page.
My dearest Christine,
I know you have changed and you are hurt, so I will respect your wish and leave you alone. The other paper enclosed is a song I wrote for you so that wherever you are in the world, you could sing it and feel close to me. I ask that on every new moon, no matter where you are , take this song and sing it, and I will too. Even if you will never love me, at least allow me the liberty to sing with you. It's all I will ever ask. Remember Christine, my love for you will never die.
Love,
Erik
Tears streamed down my face onto the parchment as I opened the other paper and read the song.
I know you're going somewhere new And I know it's never going to feel like home to you But this time the only way around is throughSo keep looking up, on past the birds And keep looking up past the clouds And when you reach up and clear away the stars I will be there where you are
I cried and cried until I had no tears left and I had to go to work. It was torture, and I didn't improve for two agonizing years.
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Wow. Melodrama. Haha don't worry, things will get somewhat better for Christine soon. Again, I apologize for the shortness of this chapter. I don't own Phantom, or Landon Pigg's song "Keep Looking Up". Please R&R!