"Anna Marie? Will you please hurry up?"
"I'm coming mother!" I yelled down the winding stair case.
"Get your dress on! We are going to be late!"
"It's just an Opera Mom." I said while slipping my dress on.
"Just an opera to you but to me it's my one way of getting out!" My mother was always trying to make me feel guilty. Just because she stays her with Mike and Jerry and I go out with my friends doesn't mean any thing. Sure my dad left her but it's not that big of a deal. People abandon their families all the time. She's just retarded and doesn't know anything.
"Okay I'm ready. Let's go."
"Now get in your seat! It's starting!"
"yes mother." I said a little too smart -aleky cause the next thing I knew I had been back handed.
"Don't talk to me like that!"
"Yes mother." I said in the same tone
"Sit!"
"Look mother! There is someone in box 5!"
"Don't be silly girl. Why would any one sit in box 5? Every one knows that's the phantoms box!" She looked up and I saw her face pale. "Perhaps that is the phantom."
"I doubt it mother, unless the phantom is a very girlish looking man with long straight blonde hair."
"Well I'm sure that the phantom will settle his score with him later. Watch the performance." I did as I was asked. But I occasionally snuck a peak at the Manish girl or the girlish man…
Some men stood up at the stage4 and began speaking, I was sure that they were the managers
"Lady's and Gentlemen, We are pleased… err I mean sorry to announce that Carlotta Will not be able to perform tonight do to a bad case of Bronchitis. But the show must go on! Christine Daae will be singing on her behalf tonight we hope you enjoy the performance." Several murmurs had erupted threw the crowd one of witch belonged to my mother.
"This isn't what I paid for! I came to hear Carlotta!" The opera began. At the boring parts I would look up at the girlish man, or the Manish girl…
I was pretty sure that he was a man now because when ever Christine Daae would appear on stage he would smile and lean forward in his seat.
"Mother, I think that man in box 5 fancies her! I pointed to Miss Daae.
"Don't be silly girl, watch the play."
I did as I was instructed except for that I kept my eyes on the fop of a man that was constantly watching the soprano diva.
"Think of me, Think of me fondly when we've said good bye…" The girl began singing. I looked up at the boy in box 5. He had the stupidest look on his face! I laughed out loud.
"Quiet!" My mother hissed at me.
"Sorry Ma'am."
"You will think, of me!"
The singer had finally finished. The man was no longer there. He had left some time during the 2nd and 3rd verse. What a pansy! I hope he's not there all the time. All though I did enjoy watching him!
"What are you waiting for? It's time to go!"
"Hmm?" Something had caught my eye.
"What are you waiting for? The operas over!"
"Sorry I thought I saw something." I'd thought I'd seen a man wearing a white mask in box 5…
There ya go! All done!