A/n –

Holy shit! I don't cuss much, but damn that was really loud thunder! Like the thunder you hear in a movie when it gets really scary… and now it's pouring. I love the rain, and wind, but I hate the thunder and really fast wind.

Also, I would already like to thank my great editor and friends for being there for me, and I will miss them a whole lot next year! I love you guys! This is dedicated to all of you!

It's going to be very hard to say goodbye to all of you because I won't be saying goodbye. I'll be saying hello to more memories to come. Wow that was cheesy… Wasn't that cheesy? That was cheesy.

Also in the last chapter I left out that Kristin got a ride home, don't worry she wasn't left in the cold.

Editor's note- umm… yeah, really cheesy… I like question marks? … AND CHEESE!

Disclaimer- I do not own POTO but wish I did, and I don't own the few songs I put in here. Please do not sue me.

Chapter 8- sleepover at the opera house!

Flashback- three years ago

'Amber, Jennifer, Julie, and Tiggy sat on Jennifer's couch watching the Phantom of the Opera, a few days after it came out on DVD, for their sleepover. They giggled and sang along to the song Think of Me. Amber and Julie sang most of it, while Jennifer sipped Pepsi going along with a hum.

As soon as the Phantom appeared in the mirror the three girls squealed, "He's so hot!"

Amber tilted her head to the side and said looking at Christine's face "I swear Christine is on crack in this scene or something." The other three girls giggled.

"Yeah I wonder where that smoke is coming from." Says Jennifer's friend Tiggy.

Later on in the movie, when Christine arrived in the phantoms lair and he started loving/seductively touching her, Tiggy said, making the other girls giggle "God Christine's face screams take me to your bed."

"Stalker!" the girls said together as Christine saw the manikin of her wearing a wedding gown and fainted. They giggled saying Christine was most likely thinking 'take advantage of me!'

Slowly the memory faded from Amber's mind, leaving a small smile upon her face. She missed those old times with her friends.

Jennifer, in the shower, lathered up with soap while singing a song from Inu-yasha called Every Heart.

Ikutsu namida o nagashitara

Every heart

Sunao Ni nareru darou

Dare Ni omoi tsutaetara

Every heart

Kokoro mita sareru no darou

She flipped her hair closing her eyes and happily continued on singing. Images of hilarious memories from middle school entered her mind slowly, bringing the song to her lips again she sang.

Nagai nagai yoru Ni obieteita

Tooi hoshi Ni inotteta

Little did she know that Alex and Chase, being the perverts that they were, went into the bathroom and watched her shadow as she sang. "She's good." Alex said loving the sound of her voice.

"Yeah she is." Chase says nodding.

They listened to her singing a little longer then slipped out.

Later Jennifer got out of the shower, realized she left her clothes in the bedroom, wrapped a towel around herself blushing, and stepped outside the bathroom. She jumped back immediately when she found Amber screaming for Chase to get off of her ((he's sitting in her lap, cuddling her in a weird way)), and Alex was sitting on the floor laughing softly.

"Maybe I should go." Jennifer says walking back to the bathroom and forgetting her clothes.

"No, stay, I would love to have a show." Alex says looking up at her with a grin. She blushed a dark cheery red.

"So…when's the fashion show?" He said, giving her his seductive smirk and wink.

"Right now," she said, torturing him some more. He gave her a surprised look. He actually thought she was going to strip for him. "Too bad you're not invited"

"Oh, by the way, before I forget, you sing really well." Alex says, looking sad for a second.

"How would you know?"

"Because we heard you singing in the shower when we were spying on you." Chase says calmly.

Jennifer went crimson and started stammering, while Amber turned pink and screamed "PERVERT!" She slapped Chase hard on the head and kicked Alex in the side. Both boys winced and started laughing.

"And nice body too." Alex says, holding in some of his laughter.

Jennifer went rigid, started turning red again, and kicked him on the shin.

He winced again, but started laughing.

Both girls looked at each other annoyed and crimson faced. The slowly smiles spread across their faces.

"Are they asleep?"

"I think so."

"Cool."

"Yep."

Amber, Liz, Jennifer, and Tiffiny stood over Chase and Alex who where passed out on the small couch. They snickered as they looked over to Jeron and Nathan who didn't care and were watching TV.

They had spiked the brother's drinks in plans to steal the keys to the opera house and go for a late night adventure. Little did they know that someone else knew about this. ((But who? You will have to wait and find out now wont you)).

Amber wearing her trademark black converses, knee high black socks, a black mini skirt with lace, and a black fleece turtleneck top, walked over to Nathan and Jeron and asked them, "So are you guys going to come with us to the Opera Populaire?"

"Sure." They both said at once.

She smiled at her two long time friends and called out, "Hey, you guys! Nathan and Jeron said they would come with us!"

"Coolness." Jennifer said walking out of the bedroom in tight black cargo jeans, black converses, and a tight dark blue turtleneck top with a scarf. Following her was Tiffiny in black cargo pants, a black turtleneck with a shirt overlapping it saying, 'I don't hear little voices inside my head. I am the little voices.' Last, but not least, was Liz in dark purple cargo pants, a violet long-sleeve fleece shirt with a black v-neck t-shirt overlapping it. She, like the others, was also wearing converses.

"Well, I guess we'll go now." Amber says, smiling at them all happily.

"Well, duh."

After Jeron, with his credit card, hailed a cab, they arrived at the opera house within minutes. ((They decided not to waste gas in Liz's car))

In a window above

"It seems we have some late night visitors." Says Erik, raising his eyebrows and looking out of the window.

"Yes it does." Says the man before him, in all black.

"I would like you to keep them occupied with some fun."

"Really now?"

"Yes, now get to work."

"Alright."

The man all in black left the room with a nod. Erik sat back, now smiling, and brought his hand across a ring on a chain that hung from his neck. Memories of his grandmother's best friend entered his mind.

Back to the teens ((young adults whatever))

"So, I vote we split up into groups." Amber says turning to them after opening the Paris opera house and sneaking in.

"How about we split it into groups like this: Nathan, you, and me; Jeron, Liz, and Tiffiny."

"Sure."

"Since we all have cell phones, let's call each other if we find something interesting." Amber says, pulling out her cell phone.

"Gotcha." Jeron says, pulling his out too.

"We'll meet on the stage, if none of us finds anything interesting, at…eleven." Jennifer says, looking at the time quickly.

"Check, check."

They split into their groups and started on their adventure. Jennifer, Nathan, and Amber headed to the grand staircase while Jeron, Tiffiny, and Liz took the back way to the stage.

Group one ((Amber's group))

"Wouldn't it be insane to slide down this staircase railing?" Jennifer says sliding her hand across the smooth surface, looking at the golden carvings and other small, but beautiful, details.

"Well, duh. Nobody's that insane though."

"Are you so sure." Nathan says, going up to the top and getting on the railing, setting his trademark glasses aside. Although, he usually wore contacts, so I don't know how that qualifies as a trademark.

"Oh my god. You are so going to hurt yourself." Amber says, going up after him shocked, but laughing almost.

"Nah." He says, letting himself slide down quickly.

Jennifer laughed as Amber, with wide eyes, watched him go down quickly, giggling on the way down and landing on his feet without hurting himself.

"Oh, no way." Amber says shaking her head. She then, ignoring her skirt, got on sideways and said, "If he can do it, so can I." She then slid down, squeaking slightly as she landed on her ass. "That was so flipping fun!" She says, punching her hand in the air.

"Oh, what the hell! I have to try to." Jennifer says, going to the side and sliding down.

"Wahoo!" She yelled, also punching her fist in the air happily.

"We should use Nathan as our test dummy for anything fun but dangerous looking." Amber says giggling.

"Heehee that would work." Jennifer says, looking Nathan up and down.

He stepped back waving his hand around saying, "Don't even think about it."

"Too late." Both girls say, each grabbing onto one side of him and almost skipping up the stairs.

All Nathan could think was 'This is not going to be good.' But, hey, he was used to his insane freaky friends.

Group two- ((Jeron's group))

Tiffiny with her headphones, as usual, slipped them on and started listening to Simple Plan.

"Ok, so where to first?" Jeron asks turning to Liz.

"I don't know." She says shrugging.

"Where do you want to go, though?"

"I don't know."

"Liz, I have now known you for about three or so years and you say 'I don't know,' to almost everything." He says, crossing his arms.

"So?"

"Ugh. Never mind. Why do I try?"

"I don't know." She says, smirking.

Jeron rolled his eyes, and said, "Well, how about we go to the pantry and grab some food?"

"Sure."

"I'll never understand you."

"That's precisely the point."

"Ugh." He says, rolling his eyes

Group 1

"Hey lets go to the costume room and get all dressed up!" Jennifer says perkily.

"Yeah!" Amber says nodding vigorously. Nathan rolled his eyes and followed them inside.

Both girls started digging through cloths quickly while humming the Phantom of the Opera theme song. "I found it!" Jennifer says, pulling a black corset top with a lacy blood red ribbon in the front, tying it up, and a black lace skirt with a small black underlying one.

"Oh, that's cool." Amber says, giggling as Nathan walked around in a Raoul costume. She then found herself a black ballet costume that had a lace bow in the back that went almost to the ground. Both of the outfits where skimpy-ish but cute, almost like nightwear.

The giggled spinning in their dresses and turned the radio on and started dancing to the song "Barbie Girl"

I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!

Which scared the crap out of Nathan, who almost ran out of the room shrieking, but they forced him to dance with them. Once again, several memories of the past danced in the two girl's minds, memories of their first and last middle school dance.

They stayed, dancing together in their ring for a while until they became exhausted.

Group two, at the same time

"This muffin looks disgusting." Liz says looking at the large blueberry muffin set before her.

Jeron rolled his eyes, and said, "Look in a mirror, it doesn't compare."

This earned a pissed Liz, who threw her deformed muffin at his head. He gasped, looking at his black curly minifro in a mirror, shocked at the muffin crumbs in it. "That's what you deserve." She says crossing her arms looking smug. Tiffiny nodded sniffing her sparkling water.

"Oh, did I now?" He asks, glaring more.

"Yeah, you did." She says looking even smugger, until Jeron picking up another muffin and throwing it at her head. She almost dodged it, but it ricocheted off of her head onto Tiffiny's shoulder. Both girls got up glaring and said together "It's on." Making Jeron gulp and duck as a food fight was started.

"Stop! My French Gucci will get ruined!" He yelled covering himself up.

"God, don't sound so gay!" Liz says tossing more food at him. Though she had nothing against gay people ((Neither do I)) Tiffiny laughed, dodging food coming from Jeron.

"Take that!" Tiffiny yells, tossing a cookie at his head.

"Gah!" He says, dodging the cookie.

"God, we act like kindergarteners!" Liz says, ducking from food Jeron was throwing.

"Yeah, so what?" He yells, throwing more food.

"Good point." She says, laughing her head off, when a cream pie hit Tiffiny directly in the face.

Glaring at Liz, she picked up the fallen pie from her face and shoved it at Liz's face, making her jump back and bump a whole stack of pies that, sadly, landed on top of Jeron, who… screamed like a little girl, but hey they still loved him even with his man pretty girly-ness.

"How about we go to Christine's dressing room?" Tiffiny says holding her sides from laughter.

"Good idea."

Group one

"I just realized something!" Amber says, surprising her two friends as they stopped dancing around.

"What?" Nathan asks with a sarcastic voice.

"That I bet the others are going straight to Christine's dressing room!"

"You just realized that? Wow, are you really blonde?" He asks rolling his eyes.

"No, I am not, I forgot okay? God." She says, hitting his head lightly.

"Well, let's beat them there." Jennifer says, running ahead of them.

"Hey!" Amber says, going after her.

"Wait for me, damn it!" Nathan says, running after the two girls and easily catching up with them.

They ran down the hallway, where they found some sleeping cast members and a few drunken sleeping ballet girls. Passing the ballet girl dormitories, they turned to Christine's dressing room to see Jeron and the others going towards it too.

"Trying to steal our idea, eh?" Jeron asks, stepping aside as Tiffiny rocked out.

"Your idea? Yeah right." Amber says, almost cackling.

Liz and Jeron looked at each other and laughed. Amber rolled her eyes and said, "Let's all check it out." They nodded and went inside, straight towards the mirror.

Jennifer and Amber got there first and looked at it, almost annoyed. Jennifer silently reached at the mirror and, with all of her strength, tugged on it, but she didn't realize, until she was on the ground, that the mirror was already slightly ajar. "Fuck." She says, looking up, then gasping along with the others.

The mirror led to the secret hallway, with dark candles on the sides of the stone walls covered in cobwebs, leading down.

"Oh, my holy flying crap," Amber says, trying to steady herself.

"It's real." Tiffiny says, slipping her headphones off, shocked.

"It is." Liz says, nodding mutely.

Then, after realizing what they discovered, Liz, Jeron, Amber, Jennifer, Tiffiny, and Nathan looked at each other with glee and all slipped into the passageway. "This is so cool!" Amber says, giggling in a high pitched voice, making the others smack the side of her head. "Damn." she says, rubbing her head, annoyed.

As they made their way down the darkened hallway, suddenly all of the candles lit up and started moving back against the wall. They gasped, moving further along the now illuminated hallway. Liz suddenly said out loud with an almost old lady voice ((like the one Jamie Spears uses in All That.)) to Amber, "Do you have a hall pass?"

Once again a short flashback entered her mind.

Amber sat on the reclining chair at Liz's house, while Liz put in the Breakfast Club DVD. She then got up and stretched as Liz went into the kitchen to get snacks, suddenly, out of nowhere, she asked, going to Amber with her hands behind her back, in an old lady voice, "Do you have a hall pass?"

"Umm, no." Amber says, confused.

"Well, then you will have to go." She says, pulling out a knife from behind her back.

"Oh my god! Liz, your mom said not to play with the knives again or set the house on fire!" Amber shrieked stepping back.

"Well missy… I'm not playing," she says, lifting the knife above her head.

Amber, knowing already where the safest place to run was the bathroom, turned and ran. Liz chased after her, giggling insanely. Amber, luckily, made it to the bathroom and heard a loud clunking sound as she locked herself inside. Liz had thrown the knife against the door. She screamed, knowing that her fake impending doom was going to come.

She then whipped out her cell phone, jumping back as Liz started attacking the door with her knife. Jeron picked up his cell phone, tiredly and asked, "What do you want? I so don't feel up to hearing you rave on about Jeremy Sumpter."

"LIZ HAS CORNERED ME IN THE BATHROOM WITH A KNIFE AGAIN!" She shrieked into his ear, making him wince. Liz had been doing this a lot lately.

((She actually does this to me, and no, she is not mentally insane, though I do believe she needs major meds.)) ((HEY! –ImmortalFire503, editor (Liz)))

"Tell her good luck." Jeron says, hanging up on her.

"GAH!" She screamed as the door creaked open.

The memory faded and Amber found herself having a laughing seizure. Her five friends watched her, shocked. A light mist appeared around them as they started walking again further down into the cold passageway.

Tiffiny then started humming the POTO theme and Liz, Jennifer, and Amber started singing. Jeron and Nathan both rolled their eyes, but hummed as well. Little did they know a dark figure followed them. A figure that wasn't alive.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN

A/N

Well, I hope everyone like this chapter as much as I liked typing it. My friends, if you are reading this, there will be more memories that will make you a little sad but I bet you'll laugh though. Love you all, byes for now.