A/n: well here's your next chapter! I know you'll enjoy it! I just know it…cuz im physic! No b/c I just do…thanks for the reviews! And please review for this!

5:30 PM

Christine was in her bedroom trying to find something to wear, Erik said it wasn't a date but she always got dressed up anyway. She wouldn't get dressed up too much though, she didn't want to freak him out. She skimmed through her closet; she remembered doing this with meg in junior high and high school, picking out clothes for dates and double dates. She saw a shirt and held it out, it was one that her father sent her for her birthday. It was a rose color, with ruffed short sleeves. It wasn't too dressy she decided and picked out a black dress pants to go with it. The phone rang suddenly; she went over to the phone on her dresser and picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Christine! It's Meg! Im in town for a few days and I thought it would be a great time to get together."

"Oh Meg! It would be great to see you again! I would love…" but then she remembered her "date" with Erik. "Oh meg, I forgot I have plans but we could hang out tomorrow."

"Oh, sure that's fine. What are you doing tonight?"

"Oh, dinner date."

"a date! With who?"

"Meg stop he's a friend. My co-worker."

"It's still a boy, do you like him?"

"Meg!"

"What im just asking, do you?

"He's my friend and my co-worker, and he's taking me out so I can get my mind off of things. Ill call you tomorrow. Bye meg."

"Fine, but I will get things out of you Daae."

"You wish Giry." Christine laughed. "Bye."

"Bye Christine."

Christine hung up the phone with a sigh. Meg was always thinking her outings were dates, and it annoyed her. Erik was her friend, her co-worker…the man she almost kissed a few days ago. 'wow where did that thought come from?' she shook her head and decided to take a quick shower before going. After the shower it was almost 6:00, Erik would be coming soon. She got dressed and went into her bathroom again and put on some light makeup and then went into her living room and sat on the couch. She picked up the book she was reading before and continued; before she knew it she got interrupted by a knock on the door. At first she wondered who that would be, and then looked at clock. It read 6:30, well Erik was punctual. She got up and opened the door, and she felt her mouth drop slightly. He was dressed in black pants, a white dressy shirt and a black over coat. (just picture Erik like in the movie but more dressier.) His hair was back as usual but there was something about him that just took her breath away. Erik must have realized she was staring because he asked, "Are you alright?'

Christine shook her head and cleared her throat, "I'm fine."

"You ready to go?" he asked.

She nods, "let's go."

Meanwhile:

Teddy was at his house, he just got off the phone with erik an hour ago, and he knew he was in denial about it not being a date. After all he was madly in love with her, he caught them mere inches away from kissing the other day ( im not letting that incident go am i?). He was not ready to let Erik get away with passing it off as a "friend ship" dinner. Tonight he was going to play match maker, and he had the perfect plan. He picked up the phone and dialed the phone number of his girl friend, Jennifer.

"Hello?"

"Jen, It's Ted."

"Teddy! I haven't heard from you in so long."

"I know I'm sorry."

"Aww, it's alright Teddy."

"Listen, you know my friend Erik?"

"Uh…yes, the masked one?"

"Jenny, that's not nice! And yes that's Erik."

"Sorry, what about him?"

"Well, he asked the woman he loves out, except he says its not a date but I know he is in denial."

"Ok and?"

"I am asking you out to go the restaurant they are at for a "double date."

"Oh, you're going to try to get them together?"

"Exactly."

"You're very clever and that's why I love you."

"I know."

She scoffed, "what time?"

"Well like right now."

"Ted! Give a girl a little notice next time!"

"Sorry, I was trying to think up a plan."

"Alright ill be over in a few, bye I love you."

"Love you too. Bye."

He hangs up and smirks, he was going to get those two together no matter what.

Erik and Christine arrived at the restaurant about 10 minutes later. It was a pretty fancy restaurant, although not so much, it made Christine feel good about dressing not so fancy. There was a small orchestra playing soft, slow music in the background. There was a low chatter of people talking and silverware clattering. The walls were a dark red color and the lights were dim making it look dark and romantic. The tables were covered with the same color as the walls table cloths and the chairs were made of dark colored wood. There were also a few booths by windows at which the seats were covered with red leather. A waited came up to them and led them to one of the booths, they slid in across from each other and the waiter placed their menus in front of them. "Enjoy, I will come back in a few minutes to take your drink orders." The waiter said and walked away. The first few minutes they were in silence, not knowing what to say. Christine finally broke the ice, the silence really bugging her.

"So, have any ideas what next years musical should be?"

Erik looked up from his menu, "No, I usually let the kids decide. They seem to do better when they're doing something they enjoy."

She shrugged, "yes they did do good from what I heard." She says with a slight smile.

"They did wonderfully, one night they got a standing ovation." Erik said proudly.

Christine's smile widened. "That's great!"

"Well they did have great teachers." Erik says, sending the compliment more to her than himself.

Christine bites her lip and looks down; soon the waiter comes back asking for their drinks. Christine just orders a coke, Erik does the same.

Christine spots someone pointing in their direction to a waiter at the front desk, she raised her eye-brow in confusion, as they approached Christine recognized the man.

"Erik is that Teddy?"

Erik turns around looking over the booth and sure enough it is Teddy. Erik growled silently to himself, 'teddy im going to kill you.' he thought. Teddy reached the table grinning, "Erik! Christine! Fancy meeting you here!" he slides in next to Erik who gives him a look. "I thought I told you this wasn't a date." He whispered harshly so only Teddy could hear.

"I know," Teddy whispered back, "and I told you, you were in denial." Teddy smiled and told Jen to sit next to Christine. She did and smiled at Christine, "Hello, I'm Jen, Ted's girl friend."

"oh yes, I've heard a lot about you." Christine says, "I'm Christine. Nice to meet you."

Jen smiled and replied; "nice to meet you." she turned her gaze to Erik, "hello Erik, nice to see you again."

Erik shot her a look that said, 'don't play innocent I know you're part of this too.' She simply smiled.

The waiter came back with two cokes on a tray; he took one look at the now full booth and said, "Ill make it four." And turns around and goes back to the kitchen. This makes everybody at the table, including Erik, laugh.

"So Ted, what are you doing here?" Christine asked.

"Oh, I just figured I would take Jen out. There was a long over-due date."

Erik glared at him getting the double meaning of that last sentence. Teddy smirked.

"Teddy I love you." Jen says and leans over the table and quickly kisses him. Christine looks down, remembering her and Raoul. A memory flashed through her head of them doing stuff like that on their dates. She closes her eyes and tries holding back tears, the slow music in the background is not helping her either, at the music more memories of them dancing on dates like this flashed through her mind. "Will you excuse me for a moment." She whispers and Jen gets up letting her pass looking at her concerned. Christine disappears around the corner into the bathroom. Jen looks at Erik and Teddy are also looking in that direction. "I'll go check on her." She says and walks into the bathroom and finds Christine in one of the stalls. She is sitting on top of a closed toilet sit, her knees up and her head buried in her legs. "Christine?"

Christine gasped and stood up immediately wiping her eyes. "Oh Jen I didn't hear you come in."

"Are you alright?" Jen asked concerned. Christine nodded but then it turned into a shake. "No, im sorry I ran out like that. It's just my fiancé died almost three weeks ago, I loved him a lot and seeing you and Ted together just made me remember."

'Teddy didn't mention that she lost her fiancé…' "I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable."

Christine smiled lightly, "Thank you Jen, but it's not your fault."

"Christine, I know what it's like to lose someone you love, believe me I know. I lost my mother when I was little, but old enough to love her and know she was gone for good." Jen said, distant and sad.

"Oh, Jen. I'm sorry, I lost my mother too, but I didn't love her like you did, She a banded me and my father. And then years later she got sick and pretended to love us again but I didn't believe it, she left us why should I trust her again." Christine says staring angrily at the wall.

Jen nodded agreeing. "You're right, you shouldn't trust her."

"But my father did though, he knew her longer though, but I just couldn't see her." Christine said sliding down to the ground.

"It's alright. We don't blame you, or at least I don't blame you for running out like that, you've been through a lot." Jen said and sat down next to her. Christine smiled and looked at Jen.

"Thanks Jen, you're making me a lot better."

Jen grinned. "Oh Christine, your welcome, are you ready to go back out?"

Christine nodded, "Yea. I think so." Jen got up and helped Christine up. They smiled at each other and headed out of the bathroom.

After Christine excuse her self and Jen ran after her Erik turned to Ted. "I told you it wasn't a date! You're making it seem like it is and making her feel uncomfortable!"

"I'm not the one asking her to a dinner for two in a fancy restaurant, and is nervous as hell." Ted replied.

"I figured it would keep her mind off things and it did until you showed up!" Erik snapped.

"I'm just here to help speed the process."

"The process?" Erik questioned.

Ted smirked and nodded, "Why yes Erik, you two belong together and everybody can see it except for you two."

Erik rolled his eyes, "you know that's what I want but it's not what she wants."

Ted sighed, "Erik you do not know that, unless of course you can read her mind, and if so I would have liked to know sooner about your special powers."

Erik just shook his head and glared at him.

"Believe you what you want Erik, but like I said im only here to help."

Erik crossed his arms and sat back in his seat, "You can help by letting fate take its course I mean what if something goes wrong. What am i saying? Something already went wrong!" He groaned and leaned his elbows on the table and placed his head in his hands.

"Erik get your elbows off the table its very impolite." Teddy whispered to him. Erik lifted his head and glared at him.

"Im worrying about my relationship with Christine and you're lecturing me on proper etiquette!"

He shrugged, "im just saying you're in a public fancy restaurant and putting your elbows up is rude." Erik removed his elbows from the table still glaring at him.

Soon enough Christine and Jen returned and she seemed much better. Erik's glare disappeared and he looked at Christine. "You ok?" he asked.

She nodded and smiled softly, "yea im fine."

Another song started to play and Ted stood up standing next to Jen holding out his hand, "Jen my dear would you like to dance?" Jen smiled and stood up and took Ted's hand. Ted looked at Erik and gave him a, 'now you ask her' look and led Jen out on to the dance floor, and a few other couples from other tables joined them. Erik looked at Christine, "Would you like to dance?" He asked hesitantly. She looked up at him and opened her mouth to say something but he cut her off, "I mean you don't have to if you don't want to, im just asking." Christine smiled and slid out of the booth and looked at him, "let's go." His eyes lit up and he stood up next to her and they walked onto the dance floor. They started to sway to the music with each other, hesitant at first but then warming up to each other. Ted smiled while he was dancing with Jen at seeing them together.

Christine put her head against Erik's chest, as they continued to dance. Erik smiled a little and looked over at Ted, who quickly looked at him and gave him a knowing look and then turned his attention back to Jen. Erik sighed contently, enjoying the feeling of Christine in his arms. Toward the end of the song, Christine pulled away from Erik and looked into his eyes, and they just stood there for what seemed like ever just staring into each others eyes. Christine couldn't ignore the feeling inside of her any longer, and just standing here looking at him was torture. She was secretly longing to do this all night, all week, so finally she lifted herself up and pressed her lips to his. A warm feeling spread through her as soon as she did this, and after a few seconds she felt him kiss her back.

Ted again turned his gaze to them and smiled broadly when he saw this, he made a head motion for Jen to look that way she did and she smiled. "Well, well, well. Would you look at that?" Ted laughed and leaned closer into her and whispered into ear, "Will you marry me?" Jen stood there shocked for a few moments then stopped dancing and looked at Ted. The smiled returned to her face and she flung her arms around him, "oh Teddy!" she laughed and he brought her in for a kiss. When they broke off, he produced the ring from his pocket and slid it onto her finger. She smiled once more looking down on it and then leaned into Teddy and they continued to sway silently to the music.

Christine was the one to break off the kiss, she watched as Erik stood there, and watched as his eyes opened slowly. He looked down at her, a small smile forming on his lips. Christine smiled again and rested her head on Erik's chest. Erik was completely shocked to the core when she did that, he was not expecting that, but boy was he glad it happened. He wanted that to happen for so long and he didn't think tonight would be the night, but it was. But he was wondering, 'why? Why did she do that? You don't just go around kissing random people, could it be possible that she feels the same way as I do.' He looked down at Christine who was resting against him and he had the feeling that he was right.

A/n: yes! I pulled it off! I was planning it to happen this way for so long and I pulled it off! Yay me! –does dance- yes I do have problems…don't look at me that way! Review pleasy!