Writer's Note- Sorry it took me so long to get chapter out. Hope you enjoy! And like always thanks for the great reviews.
Chapter 14- A Little Chat
Gabrielle was very busy for the next couple weeks with the funeral, packing her parents things away, trying to find an apartment. She didn't want to stay in the house any longer it was too painful for her and since she turned 18 in August she was able to take care of herself. The few past weeks were very lonely for her. Elizabeth offered for her to have dinner with her family and Gabrielle would go a few nights out of the week but it wasn't the same. School was even harder for her. Mrs. Glass really didn't have any experience in the theatre department so theatre class was pointless. Her other classes were tough and Gabrielle was falling behind because of having to take care of everything since her parents death. One lazy Friday afternoon after the last class was let out Gabrielle headed out to her car.
"Hey Gabby were you going, I thought we were going to hang out tonight?" Elizabeth called after her.
"Oh right well I have to take care of his first, then we can hang out."
Gabrielle got in her car and started to drive on the other side of town. She had snuck into the office files and gotten Mr. Axle's file. She looked at the copy where she had copied his address. On the paper and got out of there as soon as possible afraid to get caught. She pulled up to an apartment complex. It was fairly nice. The apartments were painted blue with white trim and the doors were a dark red, quiet not burgundy. She found the door she was looking for; B6. She knocked lightly and stepped back waiting for a response. She heard the door being unlocked and it opened slightly. Mr. Axel head popped out.
"Gabrielle? What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to ask you some questions, if that's alright."
"Sure of course let me get my coat." He shut the door then quickly he stepped out and quickly shut the door and locked it.
"Lets go to the park." He said pointing to a grassy knoll a block away.
They started to walk in silence but it was quickly broken.
"So what brought you to visit me, aren't you afraid people will start talking?"
"Like they haven't already, oh look at her, isn't she strange, did you hear about her, she use to date the phantom of the school, she picked a 20 something year old instead of some one her own age, and the most recent one that I just love is, oh did you hear her parents died and now she is all alone." She said in a mocking and cold tone.
'Oh I heard about that and I'm sorry." He said looking down.
"Thanks, I need all the support I can get." She said with a tiny smile.
"So I know you didn't come here to talk about your parents, so what did you come here for?"
"Well I have a really weird story to tell you, but before I do, I think you owe me a story, about Erik and that story will lead to my story."
"What kind of story, what do you want to know about him?" he asked with a small grin.
"I Dunno everything since I hardly got to know him." she said her voice trailing off.
"Well I don't think I can tell you everything about him but I can tell you that his birthday is October 19th, He went to Henry Lee High School High School with me, and from what he has told me, and for as long as I known him, he was born with the deformity, the doctors don't know how it happened. His parents were rich so they had him home schooled until high school. He wanted to try to live a normal life, but it was nothing near normal, the kids at school teased him and called him a name, that's when he started to get his temper. He would often get in trouble for threatening other students and playing mind games with them, but he could always sweet talk the principle and get out of it. He was into theatre, and that's how we met. He used makes-up to cover up his deformity, and I once asked why he doesn't use it for everyday and he told me that there is no point everyone knows he looks like a hideous monster and would most likely make fun for him trying to cover it up. I didn't ask anymore, I knew it was a sensitive subject for him. So we went through the hellhole that is called school and we graduated. I went on to get a degree in theatre and come back to the school to teacher, Erik I am not sure what he did but we did keep in touch, until one day I am teaching a class on stage and a see a dark shadow on the catwalk, after class I go up there to confront it and to find out it was Erik. He came and visit often, then one day his parents died like yours and for some reason he asked me to live under the school, he said there was no reason for him to live a normal life and no one would miss him if he just disappeared so I let him and I would often be visited by him, but then they got very common because he told me he was in love with one of my students and I think you know that story."
"Yes, and let's skip that story and I will tell a story that makes the legend of the Phantom of the school keeps on going. And with that she told him how she thought she saw Erik at the mall and then the whole ordeal at homecoming seeing Erik wink at her.
"So what is going on, am I seeing things or did you lie to the cops and he really is alive?"
"There are so many ways I could answer that and I have no clue how."
"Will you just answer the question!" she said giving a dirty look
"No I will not answer the questions but I will answer any more questions about Erik."
She rolled her eyes. " Fine, what does the tattoo on his hip mean?"
His eyes got big. "How do you know that he has a tattoo on his hip?"
She looked all innocent." I am sorry I can't answer that question but you can ask any other questions about me." She said in a teasing voice.
"If you must know it means beauty, it's an oxymoron, it's something he never can never have unless he meets a pretty girl, but that will never happen right." He said in a joking manner.
Gabrielle looked up. They were back in front of the apartment building that Mr. Axel lived in. Mr. Axel was saying something but Gabrielle didn't hear it because she fainted. She fainted because she saw Erik in the shadow of Mr. Axle's door. It was true he was alive.
Oh shyte what is going to happen, ok I will get the next chapter done before I got to bed tonight, which is now like 4 in the morning so it will be coming up soon and oh yea hey cookies what's in the box for gabby I am dying to know, oh while I have your attention sorry for making Aiden a Jedi and giving him a green light saber, I should have made him a sith. : - P
