Oh my God! I'm so happy people read my story YAY! So as promised here is my
newest chapter :) This is gonna be a long one. Love me, people. I did this while
having horrible cramps.
Nuit's POV:
I woke up squinting my eyes to the sun streaming in through the slants in the
blinds. wha? I said twisting the covers from around my body. Whilst turning, I
hit something soft and warm. I turned around and saw Jess. Instantly, like a
plunge into an icy pool, the memories of the night before resurfaced in my mind.
Gasping, I slowly took a few deep breaths and calmed myself. I'm going to get
through this I thought to myself. If not for me then at least for Jess.
I lightly pushed Jess to the side, smiling softly as she slightly mewled in her
sleep. Slowly a smirk made it across my face. Quietly, making sure I didn't
disturb her, I crept to the bathroom.
Once inside the bathroom, I took a large (and I mean LARGE. Fishbowl size) mug
and filled it with ice cold water from the bathtub. Walking back carefully, I
lifted the mug and put it on the bedside table. Then I slowly inched the sheet
completely off of Jess. I stopped, waiting for her to move. All she did was
mumble and curl into her pillow. Then I brought the mug over and lifted it high
and dumped out all the water on Jess.
"AH!" was suddenly heard all around the world at that second, and several people
in the Alps claim to this day that they had heard a eerie echoing scream up in
the mountains that day. She sat straight up like a vampire coming out of sleep
and start looking wildly around. That set me off...I started laughing
hysterically.
Jess's POV:
So I had just been having a nice dream about sea otters...yes, sea ottersI was
one and I had been eating crabs on my back and then I was turning toward the
water and SPLOSH! I had actually felt icy cold water all over me. So I did the
most natural thing to me...I screamed. Loudly too.
I sat up and looked around quickly for Nuit. That's when I heard it and saw it,
Nuit holding a the large mug and laughing her ass off.
"Oh my God, Nuit! That was cold!"
"I know," she said with a slight smirk on her face. but hey, since you've
showered already she giggles, ...then get a move on it. We have to set up
arrangements for Louis."
"Oh, yeah." I said. Although it had happened yesterday, it seemed so surreal.
Louis had been there for us for what seemed like forever and for him to suddenly
be gone was still too hard for me to grasp.
"Hey," she said, "Jess look up at me." Nuit grasped my chin, bringing my face to
look at her. "Louis would want us to be happy, you know that."
"Yeah, I guess so," I replied, still unsure.
"Come here," Nuit said, holding her arms open for a hug. I came forward and was
soon engulfed in the smell of roses and various spices. I sniffed deeply and
found my nerves slowly calming. "Now come on, get dressed, we have things to
attend to" Nuit called out while walking into the kitchen.
Nuit's POV:
I called out to Jess while I was walking out to get dressed. Grabbing my outfit
for today I walked to the bathroom. Once inside I locked the door and turned the
shower on to very hot. Curling up directly under the spray, I let out a few
sobs. Fortunately, the sound of running water masked the sound from outside the
bathroom. Calming down, I stood up and let the water stream down my skin. Then
getting out, I slowly brushed my hair and got dressed in this outfit. I gave a
weak smile to the mirror and headed toward the living room phone to make several
calls including the mortuary and several close friends. On a last minute thought
I remembered that Louis had once said that he wanted to be cremated so that his
spirit could be free to travel and explore.
Jess's POV:
"So, the wake will be today." I sighed to myself. I looked in my closet; all
color...hm...I looked to the very back. "AHA!" I triumphantly yelled, pulling
out one black dress. While going to the bathroom I smelled toastum...toasting. I
yelled out, "Put out the cream cheese and jam!" Once inside the bathroom I took
a quick shower and quickly pulled my dress on. Whoo..." I sighed. "No deodorant
marks...yay." Slightly curling my hair, I trounced out to the dining room. Eight
pieces of toast, a very large vegetable plate with dip in the middle, a plate of
lox and cream cheese, cheese and crackers and a sponge cake were all on the
table.
"Ooh," I said reaching out for some lox. Nuit who was sitting in the chair right
in front of me, slapped my hand away,
Its not or you, stupid, it's for the wake. You can eat the toast and cream
cheese though.
"That's it?" I whined.
"Yes Jess, that's it" I snatched two pieces of toast and smothered them in cream
cheese. Ah...cream cheese. "So Nuit,"
"What?"
"When is this wake going to be?"
"Around noon, I already ordered flowers." the doorbell rang. "Oh, that would be
them now. I'll go get them, Nuit said. I took this opportunity to grab one piece
of lox.
Nuit's POV:
Hearing the door ring, I got up to get it. While exiting the dining room, I saw
Jess sneak a piece of lox but didn't say anything about it. Getting to the door
I saw a truck and a man who was carrying what looked like a very heavy bouquet
of flowers. I looked at him and at the truck. All the flowers were beautiful
white lilies. Louis's favorite.
"Umm...A Miss Nuit Schwartz?"
"Yeah, that's me."
"Ok ma'am, just sign here." I quickly did and got the huge bouquet of around 100
flowers. Closing the door with my foot, I struggled to get in all the flowers.
Once inside, I called out to Jess to help me set everything up by placing the
flowers around the house in little arrangements.
(I'm skipping the actual wake because I'm lazy. See? No fake excuse!)
After the wake, the urn which contained Louis's ashes was delivered. Calling out
to Jess, who was currently looking through a scrapbook and eating leftover lox,
I asked her if she wanted to help me spread the ashes. "That's a stupid question
Nuit, of course I do."
"Okay then get changed."
Jess met me in the Living room 15 minutes later wearing regular blue jeans with
peach peasant top, white sneakers, a small peach purse that she slung over her
shoulder and her charm bracelets. I was wearing Black bondage pants, (not only
are they silent when you walk but they start at the top of your pelvic boneyou
know how your hips have that bone that kinda juts out) I had on a spike belt and
a very form fitting red tank top that showed cleavage and really showed off my
curves. Grabbing a single wristband and my satchel bag, I completed my look with
my Army boots.
Grabbing Jess's jacket, I saw something fall out.
"Hey Jess you dropped this really nice charm"
"Oh yeah, that." she said, "I picked it up at a yard sale...isn't it nice?"
"Yeah, it is. Do you want me to put it on for you?"
"Really! Thanks Nuit" As I put it on her bracelet, I admired the fine
craftsmanship of the small roses and of the masks.
"Okay come on Jess, I got the car"
Yes, I know usually 16 year olds don't have cars but since our parents are
always away and we need to get places my mom made an agreement with the mayor:
One accident and it's taken away. In order to be able to drive I had to take the
test twice and had to get a almost perfect score on both times. I had passed and
thus the beautiful Silver Porsche Carrera GT!
Driving down to the river, Jess and I exchanged funny stories and memories. As
we pulled up by the gate, I told Jess to sneak with me to the spot'. The spot
was a secret hiding place that Louis and I had found when we were around nine
years old. Crossing behind the old drain pipe there was a small clean clearing.
Inside there were flowers growing and you could see and hear the river going by.
The only people who knew of this spot were me, Louis and after 1 year of begging
and offering to do our chores...Jess. This spot had become our favorite place to
hang out; for me and Louis to chat and for Jess to collect flowers and weave
grass baskets. Many times we had picnics or just laid around looking at the
clouds or stars in the sky contemplating life or just enjoying it.
Taking the urn and taking off the top, I took out a handful of the ash.
"Area of peace and tranquility, area of want and need and forgiveness, one of
our friends has died. We spread his ashes here to ensure a happy after life and
to be accepted to become one with your land." Slowly I spread the ashes around
while turning in a circle. Silent tears streaking down my face.
Jess's POV:
I had glanced at Nuit while she was spreading the ashes. Seeing tears running
down her cheeks, I feel really sorry for her. Louis had always been there for
her and for his to be suddenly gone... She doesnt know but I heard her in the
bathroom crying. I have seen her training her sword fighting and working out
even harder. I don't think she is aware yet of how much this has affected her.
I sighed slightly. Reaching down to the urn, I took a handful of ashes, "Louis,
I knew you pretty well and you were a brother to me, I wish...I wish you were
still alive." Spreading the ashes around neither of us noticed the charm
starting to glow a small blue light.
Picking up another handful I made a second wish. "Louis, I know that you would
want Nuit to be happy, so my second wish is that we could go somewhere she
really yearns to go." I spun around, spreading the ashes and not noticing the
blue glow on my bracelet grow even brighter.
Nuit's POV:
I heard Jess plop down on the grass beside me, I held my hand out and she sighed
as she took it and pulled herself up. Spinning around, we said a quiet prayer
for Louis before dizzily falling to the ground. Pulling Jess to my side we
slowly drifted off to sleep.
A couple of hours later I woke up. I had no idea where we were. I glanced
frantically at my side and silently sighed in relief when I saw that Jess was
still at my side. Looking on my other side I saw my bag lying there. Picking it
up I took out my mechanical pencil and a piece of paper and a safety pin. After
jotting down a quick note and pinning to Jess's shirt, I got up. Looking around
I figured we were somewhere near a body of water, I could smell the dampness of
the stone. What the-- stone? Butthen we would have to be underground. Climbing
over the rocks that were splayed out all around me, I almost fainted at the
sight. THE lake. No, ERIK'S lake!
Running back to Jess, I immediately stopped, seeing a tall man with a bone white
mask approaching her. Silently I climbed above onto a rock that jutted out about
10 feet above where they were. Knowing that she wakes when people stare at her
intensely (weird, right?) I crossed my fingers that she wouldnt scream.
After about 5 seconds of him staring, Jess opened her eyes up. Instead of
screaming like I though she would, she looked in front of her, rubbed her eyes
and...started poking THE Phantom. It was actually quite amusing. He jumping
nearly a foot when she did this (he obviously wasn't expecting it) He looked at
her like she was a deranged criminal, which I'm not so sure she isn't. Turning
her focus away she read the letter and glared at it. Erik, was still currently
in shock that this...this child had poked him of all things. Then she did
something not even I expected. She yelled out, "Nuit! Get over here!"
Silently jumping down right in front of them (10 feet down!) I landed in a
crouched position. The Phantom seemed even more surprised at that and took a
step forward.
"Qui es-vous? Que faites-vous? que faites-vous ici?" Erik said growling.
Me knowing a lot of languages (yay me) Immediately replied, "Excusez-moi
monsieur. Pouvez-vous parler anglais?
Then man turned to look at me from where he had been growling at Jess. "Yes, I
can."
At that point I could practically hear Jess singing in her head "He can
understand me YAYI can talk to him YAYI can ask for his shirt YAY..."
"Oh, umm...good...so this is awkward." I replied.
"Who are you? His arm slipping toward his side slowly, to where we all know he
keeps his Punjab lasso.
"We're from the future" Jess piped up doing the Star Trek thing with her
fingers. I smacked myself on the head, then paused and smacked her. The Phantom
stared at this interaction.
"You liefrom the futureHa. Who told you how to get here?"
"Umm...dude?" Jess said, "We have proof that we are from the future."
"Let me see the proof then." Jess suddenly went for my bag. Knowing what she was
thinking, I started digging around until I found what she wanted. My iPod.
"Wait Jess the song next on that is..."
It was too lateshe was already shoving the earphones into his ears and turning
it on. What happened next was the funniest thing in the world. Jess turned on
the iPod, then she pressed play. As the first rifts of Avenged Sevenfold 'I
won't see you tonight part two' began at full blast. Erik jumpednot one or two
feet, but more around five...to on top of a rock and began cursing in French
about "that unholy racket" All in the matter of about five seconds.
Avenged Sevenfold." I said finishing my sentence lamely, "Ahem...Sir...that was
a type of music from our time."
"That...that NOISE was MUSIC!"
"Hey!" I went over on reflex and punched him in the arm hard. (years of
training) Then I slowly realized what I had doneI had punched The Phantom Of The
Freaking Opera.
Seeing my iPod laying on the ground I quickly scooped it up. The man looked at
Jess imploringly, who shrugged her shoulders.
"Music and fighting is her life. Take one away from her and she would kill
everyone." Erik then looked back me almost appraisingly; not that I noticed, I
was giving my iPod a full examination for scrapes or a low battery. Luckily the
night before i had charged it so it blinked happily at full battery. The red
nail polish eyes that Jess had done on it a while ago shined happily. Smiling at
it fondly, I quickly ran through my genres until I reached classical.
Meanwhile Jess was talking to him, "So Erik.." His whole body stiffened...
"HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!"
Almost lazily (well nothing happened to my baby, so I didn't really care about
much after that) I walked over, Ok look, in the future we have documents that
tell us who everyone in the past was.
Yes I slightly lied, but you can't exactly say "Well, youre famous in our time.
Everyone loves you" to a man who's life work is staying below the radar.
Still gaping at our wonderful future knowledge, I reached out my hand with my
iPod in it.
"Here, put these in your ears.
"But that noise.."
"No, this is different musicjust put it in." Cautiously, he slowly put the
earphone to be surprisingly delighted with Clementi's Sonatina in D major op.36
nr.6. (a man who was a contemporary of Mozart, and his music is very playful and
nice) Widening his eyes he practically grinned in glee.
"Yes, THIS is music." After the song ended I heard the opening rifts of
Faraway by Apocalyptica. Closing my eyes I listened to the music. What I didn't
notice was Erik looking over at me while I started to sway to the music. When I
heard the songs ending I opened my eyes.
Jess looked at me and nodded. Reaching up to take back the iPod. ("Gasp! No! But
you can't take this maker of fine music!" "Well, I just did") "So Erik.." I
started off.
"Hmm..?"
"You know, we were never really introduced."
"Ah, of course. My name is Erik, which you already know and I am also known as
the Phantom of the Opera." After this he took a dramatic bow and finished by
saying "At your service." Right there I saw Jess starting to drool.
"Ok, this is Jess, she is my younger sister, and my best friend, And my name is
Nuit. Taking our hands one at a time, he said he was honored and gave them a
slight brush of the lips. Even me, the ever stoic (ha) blushed slightly at this.
Jess though was practically bouncing up and down at this.
"Umm...Erik?"
"Yes?"
"We really don't have anywhere to say so could we?"
"Stay with me you mean? You want to stay down here in the dark where even the
suns farthest reach can't touch?"
"Well, at least it's brighter then Nuit's room" Jess said excitedly.
Quirking an eyebrow at this he said, "I guess, I have no choice cue dramatic
sigh, follow me." As he lead us to the bottom of the rocks, we saw that we were
on the edge of the lake opposite to the organ and rooms.
Disappearing for a second Erik came back with the small gondola, skulls and all.
Jess had all but fainted at this moment. Hoisting my bag on my shoulder, I led
her onto the boat as she was unable now to do anything but gape with her eyes
wide open. That is what I call Christineittis.
Almost turning the small boat over, I managed to get her settled and sat down on
her lap. Erik looked confused at this but decided to not question it.
Reaching the shore, Erik immediately jumped out and helped us out. (sigh if only
guys were like that now) Still holding Jess I looked toward him imploringly.
"Umm...do you have a room which we can sleep in?..."
"Yes, I do. Over here" Taking out a set of keys, he opened a red door and held
it open. I held in a gasp. It was done in an oriental manner with tapestries on
the walls and detailed wood furniture. All of it was made out of hues of red and
black.
After I dropped Jess and my bag on the bed, I turned to him, Thanks, Erik.
Softly he replied "It is alright." As he was exiting I could have sworn I heard
him say "Maybe they will liven things up around here." Smiling I took off my
shoes and laid down on the bed.
Hearing the door open again I turned to see Erik in the doorway.
"Yes?"
"Excuse me, Nuit, but what exactly is a 'dude'? I laughed softly, "I'll tell you
in the morning. But here," I got up and handed him the iPod and quickly showed
him the basics of how to use it.
Then out of compulsion I gave him a hug. Surprised by my audacity I gave him a
slight smile and closed the door to the room.