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Chapter 4
Love or Lies?
Christine had been pacing the length of her dressing room for what had seemed like hours. What was she to do about Raoul? Everything had changed so quickly, she just didn't know what to do and the promise she had made to him... she'd never broken a promise in her whole life. Then there was the promise he had made to her, that if she refused to run away with him he was to carry her off by force if need be. What was a girl to do?
"What should I do?" she said to herself biting her nails, "Oh! Why must my heart torment me so?"
She had to try. She had to try and make Raoul believe that she didn't love him anymore, well at least not in the way she had once thought she did. She would march right up to him look him in the eye and tell him like it is, but she couldn't just break his heart like that. Even is she didn't romantically love Raoul anymore, he was still her best friend.
She couldn't just stand here all day, she loved Erik and there was nothing she could do. She had to tell him. She reached for the knob on her door and whispered to herself, "Raoul I'm so sorry," and left the room.
"Ah! Christine!" Raoul said light heartedly, "are you ready? We will be departing in a few hours time!"
"No Raoul." Christine said in a very serious tone, "I'm not going."
"N-N-N-not going?!" he stuttered, "why ever not?"
Christine did not, could not, respond, all she could do was stare at her feet.
"It's him! Isn't it!" Raoul started to raise his voice in frustration.
Christine nodded.
"I already told you I can protect you! Come with me Christine, come away to…"
"NO! I LOVE HIM!" She screamed at him tears welling up in her eyes.
"Don't you see Christine, he has cast some sort of spell on you!" he grabbed for her arm.
She pulled away, "it is no spell, just the beating of my heart. I couldn't stop it, he lay dying on the floor and I found my heart beats only for him and him alone, I'm sorry Raoul, but now I see I can love you no more like the way i did."
"I'm sorry to hear that." He said quietly, "and now I will fulfill my promise to you and take you away anyway. You said to me no matter what you said to take you away and that is what I'll do, because I love you." He grabbed her arm again and this time she could not pull away.
'NO!" she screamed, "ERIK!!" tears streamed down her face as Raoul dragged her to the carriage, "ERIK! RAOUL NO! ERIK!" she sobbed.
Raoul finally got her into the carriage still screaming for Erik, climbed in himself, closed the door, and they were gone.