A/N: Ok, this is my first Phantom phic, but I've been a phanatic since I was 8… im 15 now, so im pretty sure I know what im talking about. If I get anything wrong tell me please I love reviews even if they are ones telling me that I need to improve something.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the plot and the characters you don't know.
On with the show!
Chapter 1: Box 5!
She couldn't believe it, or maybe she could and it hadn't sunk in yet. Either way, Toni was living the biggest dream she had ever had in her whole entire life.
At the moment she happened to be on a tour of the place where she would be spending most of her life now… the Paris Opera House. Ever since she was a little girl she had trained to be a singer and now, at age 18, all of her hard work had finally paid off.
A couple of months ago Toni had showed up for Auditions for her favorite musical in the whole entire world, The Phantom of the Opera. Then a week later she had gotten the call explaining she would be playing the role of Christine Daae.
"And here is the extremely famous, Box 5!" The tour guide said in French.
'Thank god I chose to take French all throughout high school, or I'd be totally lost!' She thought to herself.
"If I were you, I wouldn't find yourself alone near this box, bad things could happen to loners who don't watch out for the Opera Ghost!" The guide warned jokingly.
"Yeah right, there's no such thing as the Opera Ghost!" A boy by the named of Steven said from the back. Most of the girls, Toni included, gasped.
"No such thing as The Opera Ghost!" She couldn't help herself. "How can you say that! There are so many things proving that he was real." All the others murmured their agreements.
"So what if he WAS real, that doesn't mean he's still alive now." Steven shot back
Toni raised her left eyebrow, "Who ever said that Ghosts can die?" The others laughed at how mysterious she had said that, and then laughed at the freaked out expression Steven had on his face.
"Okay, enough with the torture, leave the poor guy alone." The guide said smiling. Toni, wishing she had a camera so she could capture the look of surprise with a mix of scared that was pasted onto Steve's' face, turned back around towards the guide, ready to keep walking around the beautiful building.
"Okay next we will move on to the back stage where a lot of the action takes place." Toni held in a loud groan. She didn't want to leave the box, it may have been scary and eerie to the others, but Toni felt warmth and comfort when it came to the box… 'No wonder the kids always made fun of me… I am such a dork!' She said to herself amused.
Toni felt an arm snake around her shoulders, "You're so good at creeping people out you know that right?" She laughed.
"You have to remind me of this again because….?" She turned her head towards the boy who was walking next to her.
He shrugged his shoulders, "I just wanted to make sure you didn't forget m' dear." Toni pushed the boy's arm off of her.
"Gee thanks Sirius, im so glad I can count on you to make sure that I know how scary everyone thinks I am." Sirius grinned. "No problem, anything I can do to help out my best friend." Toni laughed, but quickly shut her mouth because she found that the group had already ended up backstage.
"Now by a show of hands, how many of you have seen the movie?" Everyone raised their hands. "Good, well then you will all know that even though you see most off the dancers or singers back here drinking or smoking, unfortunately we cant do that so easily now a days, there have been to many accidents." Most of the actors groaned at the no drinking back stage rule, Toni again was one of the ones included.
"Yeah it may be against the rules but aren't rules meant to be broken?" Sirius spoke quietly so the tour guide wouldn't hear, but loud enough so the rest of the people on the guide could hear.
"As you can see it is very big and very roomy back here, so if the dancers need to warm up a little just before they go on the can without getting in anyone's way." The tour guide spoke louder than from before trying to speak over the sniggering that were caused because of Sirius's comment. 'She is totally oblivious' Toni thought amusedly to herself.
"Now that you've seen that, follow me to the last past of your tour." The tour guide smiled and turned her back on the rest of the group and took a left.
Toni and Sirius looked at each other, grinned and said in unison "The stage!" and quickly followed the tour guide, not bothering to listen to all of the objections being made by the others because they were being pushed out of their spot.
The stage had always been a place where Toni felt the most comfortable. She had been taking singing lessons ever since she spoke her first word. Her mother was a Broadway fanatic and her father had written a couple of musicals himself. Toni loved singing, no matter what it was, Opera, Rock, Country, Pop… anything as long as she could open her mouth and use those strong vocals God had given her.
Everyone was in awe with the sight that was laid out before them. 'Beautiful!' was all she could think. She looked around, 'Im actually going to get to sing on this stage! Most of my life I've been waiting for this moment, and now im here! If this is a dream I really, really don't wanna wake up!'
"Alright everyone please settle down, we have a couple of announcements to make so if you would please sit where you are now standing, the quicker we get this done the quicker you all have to explore not only the rest of the Opera house and your dressing rooms, but all of Paris as well." Whispers rippled through the group such as "Oooo the dressing rooms" "Paris is so beautiful" or "We? Who's we? There's only one person here"
/A/N: They were talking about there was only the tour guide there talking, sorry if I confused you with that/
Sirius leaned over towards Toni and whispered into her right ear, "Who do you think they're talking about?" Toni grinned and whispered back, "Two guesses." She then turned her focus back to the person in front of them. Sirius gave her a questioning look so she pointed at the man that was walking up the stairs onto the stage.
"Everyone please put their hands together for the wonderful, Andrew Lloyd Webber!" The guide said loudly, catching everyone's attention. Immediately the whole cast started cheering and clapping loudly.
"Woot! You're my hero! WOOT!" Sirius yelled out, which caused many of the others to laugh.
"Alright that's enough, no need for that." Andrew waved his hand out in front of him showing he didn't like the attention. "Now as you all start learning the music and moves to each scene I will be hanging out in the corners in the back of the opera house making notes, watching your progress. Don't worry, your not being watched to see if your good for your parts… I already know that you are, so if you happen to see me don't be afraid to say hello or pretend im not there." Andrew smiled as he looked over the cast.
"Now I'll leave you all to the rest of your lecture and I shall see you all in rehearsal tomorrow morning!" With that he turned around and walked off the stage.
/AN: Thank you I really hope you all enjoyed this so far! Please r&r! Tell me what I did right and what I need to change! Please you know what to do/