A/n

Hey everyone! I love this font don't you? It's seven in the morning, and I'm feeling perky as usual! I'm a night owl, and a morning lark! Tee hee I've had way too much Pepsi! So I would like everyone to review me about his or her favorite characters, and why they are your favorite. Well anyways here's the fifth chapter of a black rose!

Editor's note- while I was editing this I went back and forth from listening to Numa Numa Iie (AKA Ma Ya Hi or Dragostea Din Tei) and watching The Mask of Zorro.

Random Guy: I thought you were tied up.
Joaquin Murieta: That's because you are stupid. (I love this quote! )

(I read a book called Bandit's Moon when I was in 5th or 6th grad and I think that that's the same guy from The Mask of Zorro, you know the one who shot himself to the captain wouldn't have the honor of killing him. Yeah… that's off topic back to the chappie!)

Disclaimer- doesn't own POTO or the Upside down song at the end of the chapter.

Chapter five- Ambers unwanted vacation job

Yawning Liz sat up pushing away hair that started sticking to her face. Last night all she could remember was lots of yelling that she brought on herself. Not like she cared though. Suddenly she looked down to her lap and found a head! Screaming she realized it was chase lying across the girls on the large king sized bed.

"Get off!" Tiffany screamed waking up.

"Gah!" Amber screamed kicking him. He flipped off the bed cursing in French when he landed with a thud. Sadly he was still intact ((darn)).

"Why where you sleeping in here? Why not with the guys? They won't mind you." Liz shouts.

"The devil made me do it." He says with a straight face.

"Well I'm going to make you do something to!"

"Oh? What?"

"Make you get out!" she snaps tossing a pillow at him full force.

"Your making me feel like a fox in a henhouse of Christian girls ((phrase from sweep book #6))." He says chuckling.

"FYI, we are Christian." Tiffiny says shoving him out the door, and slamming it shut as she flipped the lock.

"That loser!" Liz says glaring at the door. The girls quickly changed and fixed their hair except for Amber that did everything sluggishly.

"Cheer up it's not the end of the world!" Tiffiny says.

"It is for my world! I can't sing! I can't dance!" She yells at her.

"Why do you lie? You can so sing! You where in choir for three years and in ballet dance for two. You rock!" Liz says putting her hair in a ponytail.

"Yeah but not in front of a crowd! I wanted to spend my vacation checking out France and the hot guys! Not spend my time in the opera house which is totally cool, but…ugh. I need to focus on college, I can't forget what's important and get caught up in other crap!"

"We understand what you're going through but you'll have tons of fun. Knowing you you'll find something awesome to do. If you get side tracked, we'll help you." Liz says walking over to her, wearing black cargo pants and a red spaghetti strap top.

"Yeah she's right." Tiffiny says sitting down in, red converse, tan cargo capris and a black good charlotte t-shirt.

"No. I'm not going. Chase the pervert king can deal with it. He's so obnoxious" She says crossing her arms.

"Why did you get dressed up then?" Tiffiny asks looking her up, and down confused. She was wearing a black mini skirt, black convers, and a green top with cross neck chocker.

"So I could tell him so, and then go to the mall with Ashleen."

"Nice." Liz says.

"I know. You guys can go ahead out I'm going to quickly put on some eye liner and lip gloss."

"Alright. We'll be waiting." Tiffiny says following Liz out of the room. In the bathroom that adjoined to the guy's bedroom, Amber put on lip-gloss and messed with her hair.

The door leading to the guy's bedroom opened, and Nathan scrambled inside shutting door behind him locking it. "What the hell! Nathan what are you doing?"

"Protecting myself from Liz! Jeron said I was the phantom and she totally snapped, and screamed phantom trying to hug me."

"She's doing that again? When will she ever get over that obsession?"

"Never probably." He says up against the door, his eye twitching like there was no tomorrow.

"Phantom!" screamed Liz from the other side of the door behind Nathan.

"Crap!" He screamed jumping. Pounding footsteps showed Liz had run all of the way to the girls access to the bathroom, throwing open the unlocked door. "Help me!" Nathan screamed ducking from Liz, and running out of the bathroom pursued by Liz. Amber shocked started laughing her head off and soon found herself clutching her side.

"You have the oddest friends." Chase said slipping into the bathroom.

"So?" Amber says glaring, and going back to her hair.

"Come on. Why do you despise me so much?'' He asks letting his arms circle her waist and his lips lightly press the back of her neck.

"Get off of me loser. I'm not going to work at the opera house," She says growling.

"Why? That isn't the only reason I'm so nice to you."

"Because." She says turning pink.

"Why" he repeats softly walking behind her and putting his hands on her shoulders.

"I'm not going to work at the opera house because I would never be able to leave." She says shrugging his hands off of her shoulders.

"I wouldn't keep you their." He says into her ear.

"Chase-" She was cut off by his mouth overlapping hers.

"Hey Amber, what's taking you so-oh never mind." Liz says entering, and quickly leaving.

"Pervert!" Amber screams shoving chase away.

"You really need to keep those doors locked." He says grinning. Glaring Amber stomps on his foot, and leaves the bathroom, and goes to the living room.

Everyone in the living room goes silent, and stares at her. "Yeah, Chase kissed me!" Amber screams at them growing in rage.

"Anger management." Jeron whispers to Nathan who nods.

"Come along the opera awaits." Chase says limping out of the bathroom ushering to the door.

"Goodbye." Liz says cheerfully. "You can come along, and see what Amber has to do." Chase says smiling.

"I already told you, I'm turning down your request and not going." Amber says turning to Chase.

"It wasn't a request mademoiselle Amber. It was a demand of your new boss."

"Your not my new boss, and never will be." She says glaring.

"Oh, are you so very sure about that?" Chase says pulling something out of his pocket.

"This is your contract, that you signed." He says ushering to it.

"I don't remember signing any contracts." Amber says shaking her head.

"Well you where a little drunk at the moment." He says shrugging.

"I don't drink, Chase." Amber says, laughing.

"You did last night."

"When?"

"At the restraunt. I ordered wine for all of you."

"Oh my god. Are you serious!" Amber shouts her eyes going wide.

"Very much."

"That's why I remember seeing double Liz when we left the restraunt." Nathan says.

"Oh my god." Amber says sinking into the couch holding her head annoyed.

"Unless you want to be sued you will have to work for me my sweet."

"You gave us wine, and didn't tell us. Got her secretly drunk and had her sign a contract in with your evil twisted ways?" Tiffiny asks also clutching her head.

"What can I say I'm a rich kid with issues." Chase says putting a hand through his hair.

"Can I shake your hand?" Jeron asks laughing.

"Jeron!" Liz snaps at him annoyed.

"What? He did something as evil as me." Jeron says trying to look innocent.

"To the opera house!" Chase says cheerfully.

"Oh dear god." Nathan mutters standing up.

Outside of the hotel on the roof

"So Eric what is your next plan?" Asks a man with short brown hair with blue eyes in black cargo pants and tight black turtleneck fiddling with his belt that had two gun holsters, and other weapons.

"We wait until the time is right then strike." Says Eric sitting on the edge of the building looking out across Paris.

"Alright. You have my number." Says the man in black turning around. Eric lets him leave the roof, and silently gets up, his eyes never leaving Paris.

"Rick, come out of the shadows." Says Eric in a commanding voice.

"Eric, you are not my master, you are my brother, my twin."

"I'm older."

"By what? Seconds?" shouts Rick pushing hair out his face.

"No I am older by knowledge and spirit." Eric says shaking his head and turning away.

"You are insane." Rick's spat, walking over to him.

"No you are. To not care about what happened. To not care at all about mother's running away. Her death." He says spitefully.

"Go to hell." Rick says walking away.

"I've already been there dear brother, and next time I go I'm taking you with me."

Ten minutes later front of opera house

"I never thought we would see this place again." Nathan says sarcastically rolling his eyes with a smile appearing on his face. Smirking Liz elbowed him as she got out of Chase's limo.

"Follow me." Chase says tugging at Amber's hand.

"How can I not when you're practically holding my hand." Amber asking raises one eyebrow.

"Oh." He says looking down at his hand and let's go. Rolling her eyes she followed him towards the opera house.

Looking up, she took in the old building with every detail. Breathing in the scent of roses and popery as she stepped inside she noticed the old buildings small flaws such as crack, and missing tiles.

"Bonjour Monsieur Chase." Said a short redhead, with blue eyes and creamy skin carrying a clipboard.

"Bonjour Megan. What is it now?" Chase asks annoyed somewhat at her presence.

"Well, Madame De Chagny has not returned our calls these last three days and Robert is refusing to sing a duet with Alexis."

"Not again. Will they ever get along?" Chase asks rolling his eyes, and walking away from 'Megan'.

"Who are they?" Nathan asks curiously.

"Robert is like Piangi from the movie Le fantôme de l'opéra, and Alexis is like Carlotta. It is quite strange actually." He says shaking his head and continuing across the red soft-carpeted floor towards double doors leading to the stage and its many settings.

On top of the stage was a group of people arguing with each other, loudly. Chase takes the small staircase at the side to the stage, while the group of friends sat in the front row of velvety red chairs.

"Every please! Be silent!" Chase yells waving to them. But nobody heard him sadly, and continued arguing louder. "This is your manager speaking! Shut up!" He yells letting his French accent cover his words. Trying to separate the group, he got pushed to the edge of the stage almost falling off.

Laughing Amber says, "Maybe we should help him."

"But this is fun!" Liz says ushering to the argument that was getting violent.

"She's right. Why would we want to interrupt our daily entertainment?" Jeron asks raising his delicate man pretty eyebrows ((He really has those! Along with long girly eyelashes)) tilting his head to the side.

"I don't know." Amber says giggling.

"Can I use your phone?" Chase asks Nathan, grimly rushing away from the argument.

"My phone?" Nathan asks tilting his head then letting his mouth make and 'o' shape he pulled out his black cell phone, handing it to Chase.

"Thank you." He says taking it, and dialing a number. Suddenly Cell phones all around started ringing. People from the group ran to their purses, and bags picking up their phones with confused faces.

"Finally," Chase says closing Nathan's cell, and yelling to everyone on stage "Sit down! I need to introduce you all to a new member."

Oddly enough, everyone on stage sat down, some glaring, some smiling, and some with blank faces.

Tossing Nathan his cell phone back he got on stage ushering Amber to stand up. Which she did. "Alright everyone one at a time stand up, and introduce yourselves." He says nodding.

The first to stand up was an Asian girl with shoulder length black hair, and dark chocolate brown eyes with pale white skin wearing a tight white t-shirt, a black mini skirt, and black socks with no shoes. "Konnichiwa Amber- san. I am Mai-lin. You can call me Mai, I guess. I'm a dancer in this group, and I work on the routines, and…. I love working for Chase, who is a great manager. And I come from the land Japan."

"Hi." Amber says waving to her slightly with a smile.

Next another girl got up this time she was African American with dark black, blonde highlighted hair and mocha colored eyes. She was wearing a red spaghetti strap top with cargo pants, and white thick socks. "Hey. I'm Tatiana. You can me Tiana if you want. I don't care. I'm the music lyricist of the group, I love rap, and hate it when others get serious and stressed out. I also hate all preppy music. I'm from England. Born in New York though." She says in a slight English accent.

"Hi Tiana. Raps cool with me, and I also hate it when others get stressed. Cool to meet you." Amber says nodding with a smile at Tatiana and how up front she was.

Sitting down a guy with surfer length blonde hair, tan skin, and light blue eyes got up wearing a blue baggy t-shirt, and knee length black cargo shorts. "Hey. I'm Cal, from California. Weird I know. Cal, California. Anyways I'm a dancer in this group, and I also do some singing. On my free time I used to surf but now I don't have much time." He sat down with a nod.

"Hey Cal. I'm from Cali too." Amber says trying not to crack up laughing. She could feel Liz's annoyance radiating behind her. Preppy surfers from Cali were one of her personal pet peeves.

"Yo. I'm Mark. I'm from here. I'm a dancer, and singer. I also do backgrounds, and others stuff when needed." Says a guy with short brown spiked hair, and dark green eyes. Wearing the same as Cal instead of cargo capri's they where cargo pants.

"Hiya." Amber liked Mark immediately, like Tatiana. He seemed like he didn't care about what others thought, and didn't wait for people to move for him.

Second to last to stand up was another girl with dark brown hair that had an almost pinkish tint with dark brown eyes covered by thick dark eyelashes, and tanish skin. "Hello I am Alexis. The Best singer, and dancer in this group. I'm from Spain, and love it here in France with its cold weather. If you are to join this group you better understand this now. What I want, I get. So don't get in my way unless you want to be kicked out."

Amber glared at her. She had a cocky attitude, and put on to much make-up for her likings. Next stood up a man who was obviously Spanish too, and ate way too much. ((His description doesn't matter))

"Hola. I'm Robert, an aspiring actor and, sadly, an acquaintance to Alexis. I love to act and sing. Nothing much more to say." And with that he sat down sighing.

"Hi." Amber said not liking him much either.

"As you might have noticed Amber, everyone is split into groups. The other three groups have the day off, and the ballet girls are most likely in their dorms drunk from last night. The younger ones might even be with them." Chase says sighing dramatically. Giggling Amber nodded and sat back down.

"Now why in the world is she joining the group? She's American." Alexis stands up pissed.

"Because she is perfect for this opera."

"And how can she be perfect for this opera? She is simply pathetic looking? A wet dog out in the rain." Alexis says going on and on. "Is there anyway she can prove that she belongs?" She finally yells.

Amber stands up glaring, and says, "How about I sing something."

"Amber you don't have to do anything. Alexis please understand. I am the manager, and I hire people who can meet up to my requirements."

"Are you saying she's good in bed then?" She shouts flinging her arms out.

"SHUT UP!" Amber screams silencing Alexis. "Everyone off the stage. I'm going to sing and prove to you that I can work here and I am better than you could ever be in a million years."

Shuffling off stage she glared at Alexis, and smiled at everyone else, and said, "Here I go."

"Upside Down" ((she sings it with more of an opera voice, and makes it less pop sounding))

'My grades are down from A's to D's
I'm way behind in history
I lost myself in fantasies
Of you and me together

Everyone went silent, and stared at her shocked, everyone but Chase at least.

I don't know why - I - I but dreamin's all I do
I won't get by-I-I on mere imagination

Chorus:
Upside down
Bouncing off the ceiling
Inside out
Stranger to this feeling
Got no clue what I should do
But I'll go crazy if I can't get next to you

My teacher says to concentrate
So what- his name was Peter the Great
The kings and queens will have to wait
Cuz I don't have forever

I wish that I - I - I could walk right up to you
Each time I try- I-I the same old hesitation

Chorus

Somehow someday
You will love me too
One day will be the day when all my dreams come true

Upside down...

Chorus

Upside down
Bouncing off the ceiling
Inside out
Stranger to this feeling
got no clue what I should do
but I'll go crazy if I can't get next to...
But I'll go crazy if I can't get next to...
But I'll go crazy if I can't get next to you'

Smiling she said "And that's why I am now in this opera. Now if you don't mind I'm starving, and want some French Mickey D's. Anyone want to come? Oh, and that invitation even goes to you Alexis." Everyone nodded but Alexis who glared, and stormed off in her short mini skirt with a small curly black poodle trailing after her.

"Lets take my Limo." Chase says smiling as he grabs Nathan's cell phone again to call Smee.

"How about instead of having Alexis play the lead in the next play we use Amber!" Robert asks suddenly grinning.

"Yeah she would be perfect for the part! Come on!" Mai says nodding.

"Let me think about that.' Chase says closing the cell phone, and smiling. Amber nodded with a small grin about ready to appear on her face.

The day passed by within seconds, and the night passed by like a flash, and soon Amber, Liz, Tiffiny, Nathan, and Jeron found themselves dragging each other to the opera house so Amber could practice singing.

A/N:

So what did everyone think of this new chapter? Was it any good? Now everyone as I asked you at the beginning of the chapter please tell me about your favorite characters so far.