Chapter 10: Secrets Revealed

Christine threw up in her bathroom. Just as she had begun to do each morning for the past few days. The sick feeling seemed familiar, but for some reason, Christine could not seem to figure out why.

She was certain enough that she had never had a sickness in which she felt ill enough to vomit every day. Still, she was sure that something about this was, indeed familiar.

Suddenly, she understood. She remembered. She knew what was happening to her.

"Damn it…" she whispered to herself, "not again."

That night Christine and Raoul attended the performance of The Phantom of the Opera.

Raoul seemed a bit overexcited when Elizabeth (Christine) left Adam (Erik) for Oliver (Raoul). Christine wasn't the least but surprised by Raoul's immature reaction.

The cast received a standing ovation. After the show, Christine went to see Elizabeth.

"Christine!" Elizabeth exclaimed before running over to give her mother a hug.

"Hi Elizabeth, I… I need to talk to you about… well, about something."

Raoul came in then, "Well, I see you two have gotten close. That's good! Now, if you ladies will excuse me, I'm going to find Oliver and congratulate him on his fabulous performance."

As soon as he left the two girls began to laugh, "He is so strange!" Christine laughed.

"Well, you married him." Elizabeth said, while continuing to giggle.

"Sad, isn't it."

"He's just so… so"

"Strange, annoying, idiotic, full of himself, stupid, arrogant, egotistical, self-centered, dense, brainless?"

"Yes, exactly."

They broke into another fit of laughter. Then, abruptly, Christine shut her eyes and began feeling very dizzy.

"What's wrong?" Elizabeth asked as Christine sank to the floor.

"Just… just a short, dizzy spell. I'm fine. It's very normal. Don't worry so much, you'll get wrinkles. Besides, all of this happened last time too."

"Last time? What do you mean Last time?" Elizabeth said frantically.

"Well… I… Elizabeth, I'm…"

"You're sick, you're hurt, what?"

"I'm pregnant."

"You're WHAT!" Elizabeth shouted after a moment, "I trusted you! I mean, I didn't at first, but then I just… I thought that… Well, I guess what Father said was right. Never show weakness, and don't trust anyone. You betrayed us once, I should've known you'd do it again."

"What are you talking about? I've don't nothing to betray you! Actually, I've done just the opposite. Although, I'm not sure how I'm going to explain any of this to Raoul."

"What? You think that telling us you care about us, and then telling my father you love him, and then running off with Raoul and… and…"

"Wait a minute. You think…" at this, Christine began to laugh, "No, no, no. It's not Raoul's child, it's Erik's! You remember the other day, when you were practicing… after we left you… we, well, you know the rest…" she smiled.

Christine leaned over and enveloped Elizabeth in a hug. "You don't have to worry about me ever betraying you again. I'm just trying to find a way to tell Raoul that I'm leaving him." She told her daughter.