All Rose Have Thorns
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Caroline sat with her family for dinner, but her mind was somewhere else. "So how is everything going at the Opera Populair." asked Therese "It going very well, Mother." replied Catherine "We just need the backround extras before we can put on a desent show. I'm afraid that the rumor of the Phantom made people frighten to come." Catherine added
"I think Catherine is right, but so far we haven't had any incounters with this so called ghost. So we have nothing to worry about. Do not you agree Caroline? After all you do not think there is one." Said Benoit. Caroline was just stareing out the window and didn't hear the conversation around her. "Caroline?" She was pulled out of her her world "Hmm?"
"We haven't seen the Opera Ghost, so we have nothing to worry about. Right?" repeated Benoit "Ye...yes. There is nothing to worry about." said Caroline. Therese looked at her daughter "Caroline are you feeling ill? You do not seem to be yourself. Are you risking your health because you miss Raymond." Caroline shook her head "No, Mother. I am fine, I am more then fine." She stood up from the table "Goodnight everyone. I am very tired" Then she left the table.
"Catherine, do you know what is going on with your sister?" asked her father. Catherine leaned on the table "No. Why would I? She never tells me anything." Then she remeber what Caroline told her earlier that day "But she did tell me that she heard a voice in one of the rooms. She said that the voice was haunting." Benoit looked at his wife with worry.
The next morning Caroline was ready to go to the Opera House, she even planned on staying over night. She walked do stair and saw her mom in the living room "Where is Father and Catherine? Are they not ready to go?" Therese motioned for her daughter to sit down beside her.
"They are already on there way to Paris." said her Mother. Caroline stared in shock as a one tear ran down her face, she wanted to talk to the man again "Why?" Therese put her hand on Caroline's lap "I think that it would be best for you to stay here with me. You seem to be drifting from the family. Now until you tell me what happened at the Opera House, I will not let you go back."
Caroline stood up, angry "Therese, I am a grown women." Caroline only used her Mother first name when she was very upset with her, which was hardly ever was. " You do not need to know everything going on in my life. Also nothing happened to me there; because I am always busy, with Father, getting things ready for the openning night." Therese looked up at her daughter "Catherine told us that your heard a voice in one of the rooms" Caroline laughed "It was one of the stage hand's children playing a prank, nothing more."
Therese noticed Caroline travel bag "Where you planning to stay over night?" Caroline looked down at her bag "Elizabeth invited me over for dinner tomorrow night and I did not want Father to wait for me. So she said I could stay over night." Caroline lied. "But I am not going, because their gone."
Therese looked at the ground "Pierre will give you a ride in. If it means that much to you." Caroline gave a soft sigh "It does mean alot to me. This Opera House is my life and I want it to suceed." Therese looked at her daughter "Then go. Tell Pierre to get the carrige ready." Caroline turned around and left her Mother all by herself.
Caroline ran up the stairs of the Opera House, then realized that her father did not know she was there. So she tiptoed her way in so no one would see her and went up the same staircase as always and into the room.
"Erik? Are you here?" Caroline spoke softly, but there was no reply. She frown then sat on the bed 'Was Erik a real person or someone she made up' she thought to herself.
"I am here, Caroline."