The Life I've Never Known Chapter 1: The Life I Never Wanted, a phantom of the opera fanfic

Scene one: The Life I Never Wanted

The scene is set in an old big Victorian house. Christine is in the library and Raoul is at a desk deep into his work. Christine is cuddled in a chair, staring at a book pretending to read it, she is really lost in her thoughts and is playing with the ring on her left hand. She stands and walks over to Raoul.

"Raoul." she said standing next to him.

"Hmm?" he answered still involved in his work.

"You know I love you, and I always will, but this life is not what I wanted."

This grabs Raoul's attention he drops the pen he was working with and looks up at Christine. "What don't you like?" he asked his eyes pleading with her not to do this to him.

Christine hated to do this, but she wasn't happy, and her angel would want her to be happy. "I really do love you Raoul, but I can't go on with out my music, with out the Opera House. I just don't understand why you have taken these things away from me. I know you have told me a thousands times before, but I just don't understand you're reasons."

"You cannot have your music because it will bring back memories of him' and then you will want to go back to him', and you can't go back to the Opera House because once again it brings back memories and he' might come to take you away from me, and I just couldn't stand to loose you."

"Raoul, if I wanted to go back to Erik" Raoul shuddered at the name, "I would have already gone, in fact I would have never left him. If Erik wanted me so bad that he would have come and stolen' me from my own home, he would have never let us leave from his dungeon that he calls a home. Raoul, this isn't working for me, I am afraid you are going to have to loose me, whether you can stand it or not, there are lots of girls out there who would throw themselves at your feet, maybe you could satisfy one of them. I am leaving you, good-bye." and with her last kiss to Raoul, she left, but she did not leave him empty handed, she left him the ring from her left hand.

Raoul sat his desk dumb struck, what had happened? He had never been dumped before. He set the ring on the desk and an old familiar voice drifted into his head.