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Chapter 11
Ally stirred, slowly opening her eyes. She had had another dream about her father. She frowned. Why does he still haunt me so? Then, she heard Erik's voice singing to her and it eased her troubled dream. She stood up on the bed and saw a red rose tied with a black ribbon beside her. Ally picked up the rose, smiling. She inhaled its sweet scent.
Erik... she thought. I still remember the way he held me...so loving. I wanted to kiss him so badly. He always makes me yearn for more. Did we actuallykissafter allor was that just part of a dream? I heard his voice singing in my head while I was sleeping. She heard a soft knock at the door, interupting her thoughts. "Come in," Ally said with a slight annoyed tone.
Brooke came in, shuffling her feet and closed the door. Not now! Ally thought with despair. " It's snowing," Brooke mumbled. Brooke went and sat down at Ally's bed and looked at her expectantly. Ally sighed. "What do you want, Brooke?" she asked even though she knew the answer. " Who was that man I saw you with, Ally?" she questioned.
Ally averted her intense gaze. " His name is Erik. I met him 2 days ago. He took me to his lair that night. He is a very lonely man, Brooke.I don't know how to explain it but he seems trustworthy and someone I could confide to..." Ally drifted off.
Brooke's eyes filled with hurt and rage. " Someone trustworthy and can confide to? I thought I filled that role! So you can tell a stranger your deepest secrets but not your best friend!"
Ally jumped out of bed and glared at Brooke. " Maybe I don't tell you anything anymore because you take things too seriously! I think you are overreacting and stop referring to Erik as a stranger! I can't believe you of all people! I thought you'd understand but you are just acting like a spoiled brat! What happened to the girl that had comforted me when I was mourning over my father's death?"
Brooke stood up and slapped Ally right on the cheek. Ally froze. Realizing what she just did, thecolor drained from Brooke's face.
Brooke opened her mouth to speak but Ally silenced her. " Shut up! I can tell that we aren't friends anymore." Ally said shakliy. Ally opened the door and ran out of the room blindly, threatening tears making her vision blurry.
She ran unaware where she was going and burst out of the back door of the opera house and stepped outside, oblivious to the fact that it was snowing hard.
The howling wind pressed hard and bit Ally's tearstained face as she raced to the only other person that ever comforted her when she was little that now lived in a dreadful cemetary.
She finnaly knelt down, helplessly. In front of her was her father's grave. " Daddy..." she cried. Sobs wracked her body and sent tremors all over her. She sang, trembling.
You were all my life, my world
We shared such a close bond
Now you are no longer here
Why, Daddy, why are you gone?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed...
If I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here!
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you
Wont help me to
Erase you from my mind
Laughter ringing in my ears
We had such good times together
Now you're gone from my life
Will you still haunt me forever?
Too many years
Fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Trying to forgive...
Teach me to live!
Give me the strength to try!
No more nightmares!
No more haunted dreams!
No more speaking as if you were there...
Help me say goodbye...
Help me say goodbye!
She plunged onto the snow and let sorrow overcome her. Ally hoped she was at last free of her father's haunting memories. She hoped she finally learned to let him go. She burst into tears. Tears of relief, she thought.
It was good of her to come here but she also wished she never did. Brooke and her would have never had this heated arguement. The only person she could turn to was Erik. "Erik," she whispered faintly. She shivered violently.
She blinked her eyes and took in her suroundings. She was in the middle of a snow storm and in her nightgown! She would have laughed but given under the circumstances, she had to get out of there and quick.
She stood up dizzily and winced at a sharp pain in her abdomen. She grimaced. Her head pounded and she felt like she wanted to puke. Her whole body was numb.
I'm going to die... she thought grimly. She thought she heard a voice but that was the last thing she heard before she fainted, falling onto the snow.
