a/n: Erik gets bad mood swings now and then. He gets a bad one in this chapter but we still love him.
disclaimer: i don't own Phantom of the Opera. If i can buy it for 20$ i would but seeing as it costs a bunch more, i cant have it.
My erik is based off of Gerry Butler because he is so hot. April is based off my friend April and a bunch of people i know.
Erik pulled back. "Now dearest, we don't want to go around doing that just after your dear father left me with your sweet self. Come, we must go now or we will look conspicuous."
"Oh, but do we have too? I was enjoying that." Erik nodded to her. "Fine Erik. But I really would like to continue that again soon."
As do I my sweet angel, and maybe more…Erik snapped quickly into reality. Stupid, damn perverted thoughts!
"April, will we go catch a carriage, or do you wish to ride on a real horse? Either way, we'll get to the opera house within a week. It's your choice." Erik told April.
"I've never rode on a horse before but I would love to try."
"It's quite simple. You just need to have confidence and the horse will get its confidence from you."
"I wont be that, er, confident on a horse that I don't really trust. Could I ride with you? You've ridden many horses before and know what to do around 'em."
"April, I would be honored if you would ride with me but you must have more self-confidence. It would do you some good," Erik said as he pulled her into his arms. April moaned in pleasure.
"Erik, I got more confindence in my self than I led you to believe. I just don't trust big horses that much…"
"Then why do you want to ride one?"
April smiled slightly. "I just mainly want to be around you without anyone else," She mummbled.
"Honey, you'll be around me from now till the day we die. Surely for only a week you'll be able to keep your feelings to yourself." His hands massageing her waist.
"Like you are doing any better. If you don't stop I will make you." She looked longingly into his eyes, "but I don't want too…" Erik's hands stopped.
"April, either shut up now or I will do something we both would regret latter on. You are really sending messages that I, of all people, want you to send but not when you're hardly sixteen. I never want to do that to you after only a few hours together."
"Erik, you are sending me worse ones! First you kiss me then you send me away. What am I to do? Hell, my boyfriend would gladly take my offer." April's eyes wideined in horror. "Oh shit. I said that out loud, didn't I? I never meant to say that. Oh god, please forgive me."
"Why should I forgive you? You, I, we… ARGGHH! DAMN IT! April you love another when you kiss me willingly. Why, why would you do this to me and you when you are in love? And not with me?"
"Erik, I do not love Robert. Rob is sixteen and he only just asked me out. He is a, well, a rich boy and he has everything that he could ever want. A loving family, a roof over his head, money, and many girls would do anything to get with him. Why he chose me over all those other people, I will never know."
"April, does he have some horses?"
"Yes. Rob has a bunch, but why?"
"Does he love you?"
"Erik, I do not know, I suppose he really likes me but I have no clue what his true feelings are towards me."
"Would he give you two of his horses to you asked him nicely?"
"Erik I don't know. I suppose he would but I might need to do something, ahem, extra if I were to keep them."
"What kind of extra?"
"A kiss or a series of them."
"April, it may be strange but would you kiss your boyfriend in my presence and make it convincing?"
"What?"
"Never mind then. Will you take me to his house so I can ask him?"
"Robert would not respond well to a strange man in a mask taking his horses and love at the same time. He might even follow us if he feels a need to. He's very protective about my safety and well being, sometimes to protective."
Erik thought for a minute. What am I to do? April won't be helping when we get there so what are my options? A: tell him the truth. B: kill him and steal the horses we need. C: just steal the horses. D: have April kiss him and beg for them. Or E: take some random guys horse and be on our way? Most likely C or D. I much rather would pay for them but I don't have money… Wait! Paul left us his entire fortune and said we could use it however we may need too.
"Does he need money?"
"No. Rob is rich and he has no need for our money," April replied.
"Shit. So do you want to kiss the son of a bitch or steal his horses?"
April slapped him hard on his cheek. "Never say his mother is a bitch! Rachael is a very kind and generous person." Erik rubbed his un-marred cheek and then laughed. "What is so funny, Erik?"
"You pity me for my right cheek but yet, you hate my left. Were you trying to make me wear another hideous scar on my face?" Erik continued to laugh. "Well do want to kiss him or steal the horses?"
"I WOULD NEVER STEAL FROM ROBERT UNLESS IT WAS TRULY NEEDED!" April bellowed at Erik. "I would much rather ask him and get them but I will do anything if it meant getting to Paris."
"Okay then, we shall go to his house and ask nicely. April, I thank you for offering your body to him if it is necessary. But nothing of that sort will ever happen to you as long as I am around. I promise you, that there is no need to jeopardize you virginity."
April slapped him again. "Erik, shut up. I would never sleep with him when my future husband is watching. I would not sleep with Rob even if you were not. Not yet, at least…"
"So… when do I get to meet him or do we only talk about your lover?" Erik asked. April's hand moved swiftly up to strike him again but this time Erik stopped her. "April, why are you so abusive to me when I make bad jokes? I'm always making jokes that you won't find amusing but you mustn't take them to heart. If I say or do anything that makes you feel insecure, tell me, I will try to stop as soon as possible. No more Erik hurting today." His hands still on her wrist and he was not showing any sign of releasing her.
"Erik, I'm sorry for hitting you. Can you let go? You are hurting me. Please stop…" April begged.
"No. Not yet my dear. Not until you feel the same pain that you have caused me tonight."
"Erik, please stop. You really are hurting me." April pleaded.
Erik
I let my grip loosen. "Ah crap. April? Honey, I'm so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. I, I am so sorry. Could you ever forgive me? I… I got carried away and I hurt you."
April pulled away from me and went across the room. "Erik, I trusted you. I can't trust anyone anymore. Papa should have known better with a boy like you, that you would do anything to get what you want." She put her hand on the doorknob and turned it slowly. My mind was racing.
"Erik, leave my house now and don't bother to return until the week of our wedding or stay with me and never poke fun at people I care about or personal manners. If you ever talk ill of one of my friends you will have hell to pay because I can not love a man who speaks badly of my loved ones."
Those words hurt me. I never wanted to hurt April by my 'humor'. I paused a moment before speaking.
"April, I never meant to hurt you. I shant do that again if I can help it. Please forgive me or let me forgive myself." I said, almost crying.
April's hand shut the door and paced around the room before speaking. "Erik, you know I love you but I also love Robert. He was always there when I needed a shoulder to cry on, a person to confide my deepest, darkest secrets and he was there even when I felt horrible because I just had I fight with my father and I needed to hurt someone." I looked up at her and she looked me in the eye. "He was always there. I have to love him for that. Erik, please understand that I need him or someone like him to talk to. Rob understands everything I say and I him."
"April, I…"
"No. Let me finish. When I was six, I went for a walk around the forest down the road from here. Now, I went out unsupervised and it was growing dark. I saw a man in the shadows, I could smell his liquor on his breath and he was drunk. Well, he spoke words I did not understand and then he assaulted me." April shuddered in remembrance of that night. "I screamed and ran in the forest. The man followed me. I climbed a large tree and went to the very top of it, but the man kept trying to get me. Then Rob ran into the forest after hearing my scream. He saw the man and stated that he did not want to harm the man if he stopped. The man refused. Then Rob started speaking in the man's native tongue and got him to leave me alone finally. Robert then asked if I was okay. I said I was. He then asked if I could get down. I couldn't. He started to climb the tree and when he reached me he introduced himself."
"April, I had no idea…"
"Shh! Well he asked if I wanted to go down, I said yes and then I just couldn't move because I thought that the man was still there. Rob said that nothing would happen to me if I was with him. So he helped me down and brought me safely home. He told me where he lived so we could visit each other if I ever needed to see him."
I was shocked at this story. No young girl should have to live through what April did.
"April, let me finish. I never knew what happened and I now feel horrible for saying that his mother was a… bitch. If I knew that he saved your life many times I would never have doubted him." I walked slowly over to her. "I've had a hard life and I have felt so much pain and sorrow that I don't know what to do with all the extra rage that's been building inside me. I do have mood swings but I always will love you. April, I just don't know how to control my feelings so I take it out on the people near me. I never meant to hurt you and now you don't trust me." I put my hands on April's shoulders but she flinched to my touch. "If there is anyway I can make it up to you, just let me know. I never intended for this to happen and I feel awful that it did. Please forgive me." I started to beg but she took my hands off her and started to cry. And when I tried to comfort her she only told me to mind my own business.
"Erik, you don't understand. My life has been living in fear that a man would come along and steal me away from my family and friends and make me his mistress when the time came. And now it is really happening. I… I am sorry for all the pain the world has caused you but I can not live like a whore."
"You would never be my whore. I promise you that."
"I know you wont but many others have tried and almost succeeded. If I wasn't such good friends with Rob, I would be on the streets like a common whore. I owe Robert my life and future."
"Honey, I know that. But please forgive me for my actions tonight."
"I will. I forgive you for the arm thing but I really mean if you ever speak badly about anyone I like and care for, you will have hell to pay or anything I can think of at the time."
I always speak badly of loved ones and even to my only 'friend' at the opera house. If I could do this, I would be able to do anything if I just set my mind to it. "Okay April. I will never talk ill of your friends or family. I promise." I opened my arms and gave her a loving embrace. Thankfully, she did not flinch or retreat.
"Erik, when can we leave here?"
"Once we get to your boyfriends house."
"You mean that I am still allowed to date other people?"
"Ha! Of course. Just go along with your daily life until you turn seventeen but until then you will live with me and do as I say, unless you don't trust me with my idea for the command."
"Oh Erik! I really do love you!" April kissed me on the mouth.
"Just don't have sleepovers with other boys." I am the only one you get to sleep in the same bed with.
"I won't, Erik."
"So when can I meet your love, my love?" I asked playfully.
"Right now! Follow me."
"One second April. We need the luggage before we can go anywhere." I went over to her bags and picked them up. "Now we must be off."
"Erik, what about your clothes?"
"Err, I have two pairs with me… do you think Paul would let me have a few of his stuff?"
"I think he would. He was just a bit bigger than you so most of it would fit."
"Good, because formal wear is not good horseback riding equipment." I went to Paul's closet and took some shirts, trousers and a belt.
"April, show the way."
"Yes, sir!"
April grabbed my hand and pulled me along the cobbled streets until we got to Robert's door.
So glad they make up. And isn't Erik the sweetest letting April date others?
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