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Chapter 24

Erik had invited Aubrey to go out, so Aubrey was sitting in the shotgun seat in Erik's car and they were just driving around.

"I had an interesting dream last night." Aubrey said quietly.

"Did he do something to you again?" Erik asked in outrage.

Aubrey whipped her head around to look at Erik. "No, he just told me something that shocked me."

The muscles seemed to unclench in his jaw as Aubrey looked at him.

"What did he tell you?" Erik asked a little more calmly.

"Well he said I could break your curse."

"What? Why, are you magic?" Erik asked with a chuckle.

Aubrey giggled. "No, I'm not magic, but apparently I am a decedent of someone special."

"Who, the queen of England?" Erik asked shaking his head slowly.

"No." Aubrey said with a huge smile and slapped Erik's arm lightly. "I'm a decedent of Christine's."

Erik's jaw dropped open and he turned to look at Aubrey, and Aubrey let out a squeal and reached for the wheel since they were drifting into the other lane. Erik jerked his head back to face the road and jerked the steering wheel over so they were on the right side of the road.

"Maybe you should pull over so we can talk about this." Aubrey said with her hand on her heart. It was fluttering madly.

"Yeah, maybe your right." Erik said distractedly.

Erik took the next turn and stopped in a parking lot of the local grocery store.

"So your a decedent of Christine. Do you believe him? I mean he was just a dream."

"Hey, you've been having the same dreams, are you telling me that he didn't tell you that?" Aubrey asked.

"Well I did have a dream about him last night, but he just told me some sob story about how he didn't get his true love, and he married for convenience, and that I should always treasure you."

Aubrey smiled. "Well you should always treasure me, I'm special."

Erik rolled his eyes. "Yes your very special, that's why I love you."

The next day Aubrey had invited Jane over, she felt bad for not hanging out with her best friend. So they spend the day sitting on Aubrey's bed gossiping, and eating junk food, and listening to music, just a girl day.

"Aubrey, I have to tell yo something, and you may not like it."

The smile on Aubrey's face slipped off. "What is it?"

"Well, I've kind of been having feelings for someone. Someone close to you."

Aubrey felt her heart sink. Would Jane want to try to steal Erik from her?

"Who is it?"

Jane blushed. "It's Harry. I really like him. I kind of always liked him, but I was too chicken to say anything, then you two started dating, and so I told myself I couldn't like him anymore, but those feelings just wouldn't go away, then he left, and I thought, well maybe it's for the better, he loves you."

"Harry never loved me." Aubrey said as her heart rate went back to normal.

"Now that he's back those feelings have come up stronger. Do you hate me?" Jane asked with her head hung in shame.

Aubrey scooted closer to Jane and put her arms around her. "Of course not! Your my best friend, I could never hate you. I think you need to tell Harry that you like him."

"No I can't, I'm too big of a chicken." Jane said with horror in her eyes.

"What if he likes you too though?"

"I know he doesn't though, he's too hung up on you."

Aubrey shook her head. "No Jane, were just friends, and Harry accepts that. He knows I love Erik."

"Really?" Jane asked.

"Really. You need to tell him tomorrow at school."

"Yeah, maybe I will." Jane said with a smile on her face.

When Aubrey woke up on Monday she had butterflies in her stomach. She was so nervous for Jane. She was afraid that Harry would turn her down, and Jane would be worse off then she was now.

"What's eating you?" Erik asked a block from school.

"I'm just nervous that's all."

"What do you have to be nervous about?" He asked with confusion on his face.

"Jane is going to ask Harry out."

"What! Really? I didn't know she liked him."

"Well she's very nervous, and I'm nervous for her."

"Why are you nervous for her?"

"Because I'm her best friend, and that's what best friends do, they worry." Aubrey said with a small laugh.

Erik and Aubrey walked hand in hand into the cafeteria to wait for the bell to ring, but they stopped at the door. Harry and Jane were sitting at the table together and they were talking. "Maybe we should just go wait by my locker." Aubrey said with a smile.

"But don't you want to know what he says?" Erik asked as he was being dragged from the cafeteria.

"Well of course, but she will tell me during class."

Erik and Aubrey were the first in the class, and it felt like years until Jane walked through the door. She had a smile on her face, and Aubrey's heart jumped up into her throat with excitement.

"What did he say when you told him?" Aubrey asked before she even sat down.

"He said yes!" Jane squealed back.

Aubrey hugged Jane. "Oh I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks." She said with a huge grin on her face. "I can't stop smiling."

Aubrey laughed.

"Girls are too weird." Erik muttered and Aubrey swatted him lightly.

The rest of the day went by with talks of what Jane should wear to their first date, and where they should go, and weather Harry would take her out to dinner, and if he did, where should they go to eat. By the time Erik and Aubrey were in Erik's car, he had heard way to much girl talk.

"Wow you two can talk a lot." Erik said pretending to clean out his ears.

"Oh, hush, she's excited, and I'm excited for her."

"I know you are."

"So why are you so happy today?" Aubrey asked Erik. He had, had a huge smile plastered to his face all day long.

"Well, this makes me happy as well."

Aubrey looked at Erik with one eyebrow raised. "And why would this make you happy?"

Erik didn't say anything for a long time. "Go on, tell me."

"It's just now, I'm not worried that Harry is going to try to trick you away from me."

Aubrey laughed. "You really thought he would do that?"

"Yes! Why wouldn't I think that, he's already tried."

Aubrey rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I love you, so that's all you need to fret about. I talked to Harry at 5th period and he seemed genuinely happy that him and Jane are going out."

"Good."

Aubrey just shook her head and rolled her eyes again.

"I can't believe we only have 1 month left of school." Aubrey said with a smile. "We will get to spend every single day out of school, and us being together."

"We already spend every day together." Erik said with a smile.

"You know what I mean."

"Yes I know. Did I hear correctly when Jane said she was going to have a party on the last day of school?"

"Wow, you were actually listening, I'm surprised."

"So are we going?"

"Of course! There's going to be a lot of people there, and Jane's parents already said yes."

They pulled into the driveway of Aubrey's house and they walked in. Aubrey started to head towards the stairs up to her room and Erik followed.

She threw her stuff down on the floor and plugged her Ipod into her Ihome. Aubrey turned and saw Erik still standing in the doorway.

"You can come in you know."

"Your room is really weird."

Aubrey looked around and couldn't find anything that was weird about it. "What are you talking about?"

"Well look around, there's Phantom of the Opera stuff all over the place."

Aubrey grinned. "Does it bother you? We could just go downstairs, but then we wouldn't be alone."

Erik grinned at her. "Well it doesn't bother me that bad."

Aubrey giggled and stepped closer to Erik and placed her arms around his neck. "Good." Then she kissed him deeply.

It hasn't ended yet, so you at least get one more chapter, or more, it just depends when I feel is the right time to end it. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to end it, but I have a few ideas, if you have an idea, please let me know! Christine Destler: Okay for 1, your name is AWESOME!!! I'm so jealous, and 2 I'm so happy that you love my story, that really means the world to me. Oh and it wasn't my sister that passed away, both of them are still alive and healty, I think, we are not on speaking terms at the moment, but it was my oldest daughter, and I really appreciate your thoughts and prayers. I hope you keep reviewing. Thank you to anyone who reviewed this chapter, I have written you back, and thank you Cinnamon for the awesome idea!!! Please hit the review button and review this chapter and let me know what you think of it! I hope everyone had a good and safe Halloween!

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