Thanks Twinkle22 for being a great reader.

I know that I skipped over the unmasking and the notes…but I will make up for it…I hope.

DISCLAIMER: It is my fault for not mentioning this earlier but I forgot…everybody and everything in this story well until the later chapters do not belong to me.

Chapter 7: 'Il Muto'

Christine's POV

I was all shaken up after I had unmasked Erik, his face…it was so distorted so ugly so heart-breaking, there was a time when I was down there that I had actually fallen in love with Erik, my phantom of music, but his face ruined my love for him. Meg had to bring me to the ballet dormitories to rest but I was to shaken up to think about sleeping. I knew that telling somebody would calm me down but nobody would believe that the phantom of the opera took me to his lair and fell in love with me, not even the ballet girls who talked about him all the time. The next time somebody came into the dormitories it was Madame Giry, who told me I was to play the silent role...the pageboy I didn't dare argue, the managers assigned the countess to Carlotta and if they had assigned it to me I wouldn't have done it anyway I was being haunted…haunted by Erik…by Erik's face. He was like a ghost that was all around me, and the mask and his real flesh gave me shivers many times.

"Oh Erik, if only you didn't look like that I would love you!" I cried silently to myself.

What I said was meant for Erik but even so I didn't want him to hear it, it could have broken his poor heart.

At the gala, I played my part and Carlotta played hers, I tried to go crazy when she 'tried' to hit those high notes.

'It will all be over soon, it will all be over soon' I thought over and over again in my mind.

Suddenly a voice rang out, I knew from the first word it was Erik, and I began to worry, who knew what he would do…then it hit me I could have, if only I wasn't so scared of his face, or scared of the mannequin that he made of me he would have told me what he would have done.

"Stupid Christine stupid" I said quietly to myself as he spoke.

I soon found out that he had planned several things. First he made Carlotta croak like a frog making me play countess, so while I went to put the large outfit on I had found out he had killed Buquet.

"Raoul come with me!" I said as I ran out of my dressing room taking Raoul's hand.

That's the chapter please tell me what you think!