A/N: Here's the next chapter!  I hope you enjoy it…it might be a little shorter than my previous ones, but it is sweet.  Enjoy! 

Ch. 5: One Love

            Georg walked to a small pond in the park.  It was in a small-secluded area of the park and all one could hear was the bubbling brook.  His face broke into a smile when he saw Renee sitting on a bench nearby, deep in thought. 

            "I thought I might find you here." Georg told her softly.  Maria turned around glancing up at him.  "Aime told me you were gone and unavailable, I couldn't help, but think it was something I did.  I am sorry…"

            "Georg no it is not you.  It is me.  I am sorry I haven't been myself for the last few days." Maria told him.

            "Come, I have something to show you if you are feeling all right." Georg told her.  Maria nodded and took his hand.  Georg walked her to Notre Dame slowly.  He was eagerly awaiting her face to light up when she saw it. 

            When they were approaching the building he had an even better idea. 

            "Renee, close your eyes." He told her. 

            "What?" She asked. 

            "Don't you trust me?" He asked. 

            "Yes of course…"

            "Then just take my hand and close your eyes." He smiled at Maria lovingly and Maria took his hand with full trust.  Georg led her inside of Notre Dame to the main alter by an enormous stain glass window.

            "Can I open them?" Maria asked impatiently. 

            "All right now you can open them." Georg told her while squeezing her hand tightly.  Maria's eyes opened and with awe she spun around soaking in the beauty of the church.  Tears began to form in Maria's eyes as she looked at the beauty and wonder of the massive church. 

            "Georg it is beautiful.  Thank you." She told him as she wrapped her arms around him.  He smiled loving the way she felt in his arms. 

            "Come I have more to show you." He told her excitedly.  He led her up countless numbers of stairs to a small room with enormous bells in them. 

            "What is this?" Maria asked him having an idea of what it was, but wanting to learn from him. 

            "The bell tower.  This is what inspired the book "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," he told her happily.  "Come look through this window."  Through the window Maria could see all of France down beneath her.

            "I just don't see how someone can see these views and not believe." Maria told him.  "No one else, but God could have made things this beautiful…well I mean everything including other sites.  The mountains are prettier than the city of course." 

            "I would have to agree." Georg told her while lightly touching her on the back.  "Do you ever get homesick for the mountains…and Austria Renee?"

            "Well of course I do…everyday I dream of going back and climbing to the very top of the mountain and just watching nature.  Hopefully one day God will let me go back."  She answered him.  Georg however barely heard her because he was deep in thought. 

            "Georg is something wrong?  Are you going back to Salzburg soon is that what you had to tell me?" She asked.  As she was asking Georg got even closer to her. 

            "Renee, I should have told you this weeks ago…" He began not knowing how to finish.  He hadn't felt so in love in years and he never remembered being nervous in front of Agathe.  "I…I love you." He finished.  He took a deep breath and leaned into her.    

            Maria against all her instincts found herself pulling closer to him and soon their lips met in a passionate kiss.  She knew she shouldn't be leading him on, but what could she do?  She was sworn to secrecy. 

            "I love you too." Maria whispered to him as Georg moved closer to kiss her again.  Both didn't want the moment to end, but soon realized they better get down.  They walked down to the outside of the church hand in hand. 

            They had a nice romantic stroll through the park on the way back.  Neither of them talked much they just held each other close and at times stopped to kiss.

            "Georg?" Maria asked softly. 

            "Yes my love?" He replied softly. 

            "I know how much you love your children and you have been gone for so long.  I know you have to go back sometime soon.  When are you planning on going back and why haven't you gone back yet?" She asked. 

            "You want the truth." He asked somewhat embarrassed. 

            "Well the truth would be nice." Maria told him with a smile. 

            "Well that is easy then.  The truth is I was afraid I was going to lose you." He told her staring into her blue eyes. 

            "But Georg…I…" Maria started. 

            "I know how people as wonderful as you are.  You are the type of person any man would dream of and if I left then…" He didn't want to finish. 

            "Georg?" Maria asked.  He looked back up at her. 

            "I don't love anyone in the world except for you.  I would never leave you for someone else.  I love you." Maria told him. 

            "Will you come back with me to Austria then?" He asked. 

            "What?" She said surprised. 

            "You told me you always wanted to go back there.  Then you can meet my children and we can see the places you grew up.  You have a week and a half before your next performance."  He told her. 

            "I don't know what to say…" Maria concluded. 

            "Please?  We can climb up in the mountains and have a picnic up there all alone and see all the beautiful sites."  Georg pleaded. 

            "Oh how can I resist?" Maria told him giving him a gigantic kiss on the lips. 

            "Is that a yes then?" He asked.  Maria nodded as she covered her mouth with his again.

            "What have I done?" Cried Maria as she thrust herself on the bed next to her suitcase. 

            "Are you all right Maria?" Came Aime's voice as she rushed into her friend's bedroom. 

            "How can I be all right?  I am leaving for Salzburg in less than two hours and I am leaving with a man I am in terribly in love with that thinks he is in love with a girl named Renee, which may I add that she has told him she loves him and will never leave him.  We are going to Salzburg and my home was at the Abbey…how am I supposed to explain that to him?  I am going to meet his seven children witch are going to hate me because I am their Father's latest girlfriend and here I am with the man that I love and he doesn't even no my name and I am in the middle of the biggest lie of the century." Huffed Maria.  She usually didn't get so worked up, but lately she had been in the middle of a breakdown. 

            "Maria it is going to be okay.  Just be yourself the loving and caring person you are."  Aime told her.

            "But he still thinks I am Renee.  And he loves her!" Maria sobbed.

            "Ssssh.  It is you he loves; he just doesn't know that your name is Maria." She stated.

"Yeah, but once he finds out I am Maria who is not rich and does not own anything he is going to turn on me like that." Maria told Aime.  Aime sighed she knew that what Maria was saying was a possibility, but she also knew that she had to brighten Maria's spirits. 

  "Look he is going to be here in a few minutes.  Its okay Maria.  I can tell he loves you and even if and when he finds out about this name thing he will understand." Aime told her soothingly.  "Let's go and make sure you are already, okay?" 

            Maria nodded and gave Aime a hug.  After freshening up and making sure the bags were ready they heard a knock on the door.  Maria ran and opened it. 

            "Are you ready to go my darling?" Georg asked as Maria greeted him with a kiss.  Maria nodded and told Aime goodbye and left with Georg to see her birthplace once again. 

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