It was late December in 1882. Christine Daae had just returnedhome from trying to find her friends Christmas presents. Trying. Of all the things she saw, she couldn't find anything that Meg would like, had no clue what would interest Raoul, accidentally forgot the Managers, peuposely forgot Ccarlotta, got Madame Giry a new cane, and she knew she was forgetting one person. After thinking a few minutes, she realised she had forgotten Erik. Erik wasn't like the managers; he was a real friend. She hadn't meant to forget him as with Carlotta, but she felt bad nonetheless. Unfortunately, she had to have listened to Raoul and revealed Erik to all of Paris during the Opera's one performance of Don Juan Triumphant. Christine truly hadn't wanted to do that, and now that she had, Erik hadn't been seen or heard from in months. She felt that the reason for his hiding was completely her fault and decided that perhaps she could visit him and talk over her mistakes with him. The only problem was that Christine thought that Erik may not want to hear of her engagement to Raoul, as Erik loathed the boy. Christine, however, could not have been happier. So she decided to simply avoid talk of her engagement with her former tutor., and perhaps things would be between them as they were when Christine still believed him an Angel.

"Well, he IS an angel..." Christine mused to herself. "He's MY angel." She looked at the clock and realised that she would be late for a rehersal of The Magic Flute.

As Christien reached her dressing room, she ran into Meg.

"Meg! What are you doing down here?!"

"I was waiting for you," Meg said solemnly. "I'm sorry about the engagement, I really thought..."

"What on Earth are you talking about, Meg?! I couldn't be happier!" Christine exclaimed happily. Meg paled a bit.

"You mean you haven't heard...?"

"All right, Meg Giry. Spill it right now." Christine said forcefully, though she knew that whatever Meg had to say was most likely an enormous fibb.

"Well..... you know Isabelita?" Meg began slowly.

"Yes, yes, get to the point!" Christine implied.

"Well..." Meg took a deep breath. "I heard that she heard Raoul to ask Antoinette to marry him ans she said yess and Isabelita asked about what he would do with you and he said you already knew so she left him alone." Meg took another big breath. "And that's all I have to say."

"Meg, I believe that they are simple teasing with you. You know that they can tell horrendous fibbs. They are simply jealous of the fact that Raoul loves me and not them. Come Meg, or we shall be late for rehersal. You know that if we're late your mother won't be easy on us."