A/N

Meep. Hiya everyone! Wasn't the last chapter fun? I thought it was. Anyways, from now on, until I say so, I'm going to start each story with some type of flashback. And I mean a flashback from the main characters past or a flashback of others' pasts. Once again, I would like to thank my friends and of course my editor, ImmortalFire503. I love you guys and I hope you like my story, as well. Let's treat each and every day together, like it's a carnival, and not fight ever again. 'Cause I love you guys.

Editor's note- Armed with TV remote, media player, Reese's cheesecake, and a glass milk I begin to edit this chapter. I alternated between listening to Louis XIV, watching strange shows, and eating cheesecake whilst editing this chapter. I was told to make my editor's notes longer, so I shall… with rants about random things. My new favorite band is Louis XIV, and I highly suggest them to all of you. Their best songs, in my opinion, are Illegal Tender and Finding Out True Love Is Blind (easiest one to get free). I saw the music video for FOTLB and it was kinda weird. First off, I had no idea what anyone in the band looked like, so when I saw them I was like, 'wow, that look like that? They're funky lookin'.' Anywho… on to the story… (that wasn't much of a rant, I'll try to do better next time.)

Disclaimer- hmm… you know the drill. I don't own POTO or a few song lyrics, which I am saying right now so my story can't be pulled off, and I cant, be sued.

Part two of a sleepover at the opera house

Flashback

Meg Giry looked around after setting the mask down and sighed. She walked to the many men carrying torches and said, "They are not here anymore. Go back." The men looked confused but obeyed her, sneering. She rolled her eyes with another sigh.

She came down here to find her best friend, but she was gone with her handsome lover. Silently, she walked back to where she found the mask and looked at the trails of bloody broken glass.

She followed the trails to a blood red velvet curtain, covering the wall. Before it laid a candlestick. Curious, Meg moved the curtain aside and found a broken mirror, leading to a secret passageway.

She followed the dark passage, until she found a figure in the darkest damp shadows, sobbing. She knew who it was, but didn't feel frightened. She kneeled besides him.

He looked up at her with a lethal glare, but she did not move. His face held no horrible sight to her. He was a man and only a man. Not a horrible creature that her vain friend had said he was. He was almost beautiful and anyone who said he wasn't must have been blind. His features where angelic and strong, his dark eyes showed his mixed emotions of the world around him and his fears.

"Do you want to torment me more? Go away from my hideous face with your men in the light. Go, leave me. I will harm nobody else." He said with a half sob. It wasn't pathetic either.

She shook her head, tucking a dirty strand of blonde hair behind her ear and said, "I have sent them away, oh Phantom. Please do not kill me."

"I was planning on letting you live already, just leave me. Do I not frighten you with my hideous face that has scared away angels? Scared away my own mother?"

"No, Phantom, your face does not scare me. I am only scared of your hatred and anger. Your wrath." She says, shaking her head, though she was partially lying to him and herself. He looked at her surprised and she looked back blankly.

"But how?"

"I do not know phantom. I do not know." They sat in silence, staring at each other in the darkness. The whole world around them stopped for just mere seconds and they realized they where almost alike.

"It's freezing down here." Tiffiny says, rubbing her goose bump covered arms.

"No, it isn't." Amber says, shaking her head and skipping ahead.

"God damn, yes it is." Jennifer says, agreeing.

"Whatever." She says, flipping her long brown hair over her shoulder, making them roll their eyes. She wasn't vain, but sometimes acted like it.

"Nice corset." Liz suddenly said to Jennifer.

"Thanks." She says nodding. The candles shushed out further down the passageway, making it dark.

They where stopped suddenly by a large iron fence in front of them that blocked the rest of the passage. "Damn." Tiffiny says, kicking it.

Amber scowled and said, "I guess we'll have to come back with a key or something."

"Maybe Chase's great grandfather had the key." Nathan says, glancing at the lock.

"Maybe." Jennifer says, sighing.

They turned and headed back inside of the opera house slowly and sadly. "How about we choose where we girls are going to sleep." Amber says, trying to brighten them up.

"Sure." The other three say, a little happier.

"I vote we sleep in the costume room." Jennifer says.

"Yeah, because of all that soda in there, right?"

"Well, duh… and the music."

"I say we stay in here." Tiffiny says, ushering to Christine's dressing room. They shook their heads.

"How about we sleep in box number five? The guys can sleep on the stage." Amber suggests, raising her eyebrows happily. Liz nodded vigorously, while everyone else agreed. The girls were going to sleep in the haunted box five of the great, not to mention sexy, Phantom of the Opera.

Dragging in a karaoke machine she found in the back, Tiffiny turned up the song "I'm Just a Kid and Life is a Nightmare" by Simple Plan.

I woke up it was seven, waited till eleven
Just to figure out that no one would call
I think I've got a lot of friends but
I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone?
When you're spending everyday on your own
And here it goes

Liz dragged out blankets and things for everyone to sleep on. Amber brought out clothes, which were alright for the girls to sleep in, from the costume room with the help of Jennifer, who also brought popcorn and sodas. Jeron stationed his blanket and pillows right under the chandelier, while Nathan put his stuff against the back prop of the stage.

Liz gracefully pushed up the arms on the plush red chairs and made a bed out of them, after putting her hair in a messily cute bun. Amber put herself below the chairs against the side of the red box. Tiffiny, on the other hand, got near the closed door and Jennifer went on the left side of the opera box.

(chorus)
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid I know that it's not fair
Nobody cares
Cuz I'm alone and the world is having more fun than me

"Ok, now pajamas." Amber said, flipping her hair once again and digging through the clothes. She pulled out a light pink, cotton spaghetti strap top with short matching pink shorts edged with white lace and found a red ribbon to put her hair in messy buns.

Liz picked out a black sleeveless top that had dark purple ribbon lacing in the front, like a corset top, and matching loose cotton Capri's.

Tiffiny, on the other hand, put on a baggy black shirt, short enough to show her belly button every time she lifted her arms a little, black shorts that were a little tight, and her dark toe socks she had on before, yet now they were pulled up to her knees.

Jennifer found a tight black spaghetti strap top, laced along the bottom, flaming dark red short shorts, and put her hair in a ponytail like Tiffiny's, making sure to smooth out any bumps.

The girls sighed happy with their clothes and looked down to the guys, finding them in kick-ass, white frilly shirts, like that of the Phantom's and Raoul's, and their boxers. They giggled at them, making them glare. They had all been friends long enough to know, they would never like 'like' each other or care if the others was dressed whatever way.

"Toss me a soda." Jennifer called down to Nathan, who obliged turning the music down.

"So far so good." Amber said as her friend caught the soda.

"Duh."

"Let's play truth or dare." Tiffiny says, sitting cross-legged.

"Sure." Liz says, sitting down besides her.

"Hey Nathan! Jeron! Come up here, we are going to play truth or dare!" Amber yelled down to the two, who nodded and went up to the box.

"Ok, so, who's first?" Jennifer asks.

"Me!" Liz says, raising her hand and then looking at everyone in the box.

"Amber, truth or dare." She asks.

"Umm... truth."

"Do you like Chase in any relationship way? Do you think he's hot?"

"Well, that's two questions, but I'll answer your first. Hell no." She says, shaking her head.

"Right." Liz says, rolling her eyes.

"Nathan, truth or dare?"

"Huh, that's a real hard one. Dare." He says, sarcastically.

"Alright, I dare you to...climb onto the chandelier and sing the Think of Me song." Amber says, crossing arms with a smile. He rolled his eyes, left box five, took the stairs to the circular dome around the top of the opera, and looked down at them from his spot next to the chain rope that hung, bolted to the edge from the chandelier.

Then, without a word, he started climbing up it and sat on the edge of the large glass chandelier, shakily but there. "Sing for me!" Liz yells up, giggling. He sings the song with a glare, then crawls back down to the box.

"How was it, that high up there?" Jeron asks as soon as he came back.

"High but cool." He says, then truth or dares him. Jeron went with dare. Nathan, with a large grin, said, "Jeron, I dare you to blast the Britney Spears Toxic song, put on a costume of the girls' choosing as well as a wig, and sing along with it using strawberries and whip cream as props, which you have to use."

Liz, Amber, Tiffiny, and Jennifer, with their mouths agape, looked from him to Jeron and then cracked up with laughter. ((Hysterical laughter coming from nowhere)) Jeron looked shocked and said, annoyed, "Are you kidding me?"

"Nope, and you have to do it or...we will all seek revenge on you like before!"

Jeron shuddered, remembering their revenge and said quietly, "Fine."

The girls giggled loudly and went off to find a costume, while Jeron helped Nathan, grudgingly, find the strawberries and whip cream.

A man chuckled quietly from above, on the railing-edged dome, at the teens antics, shaking his head, sliding his hand across a small blade. "This is going to be very fun." He says in a whisper before stepping back into the shadows.

He wasn't ordered to kill them, but he was told to play with them. Playing can sometimes lead to injuries... bloody unsafe injuries. (Happens all the time... unless you don't play with knives. But people who don't play with knives are squares! –Editor)

((In costume room))

"Umm... you guys, look at this." Tiffiny says, ushering to her friends to go over there.

"What?" Liz asks, moving next to her, then gasping. Inside a chest, there was anime cosplay, and I mean skimpy anime cosplay. They giggle when they found a costume from Tokyo Mew Mew ((that was pink, skimpy, and frilly)) and decided Jeron would love to wear it.

Walking to the grand staircase, where Nathan decided Jeron should dance, they found Jeron with a steak knife, trying to kill Nathan, who was running in circles. "Umm..." Liz said, looking at the two, afraid for their sanity.

Jeron stopped, look at the dress Amber was holding, and let his eye twitch, annoyed. She smiled and shoved it at him saying, "Now, be a good Jeron and put it on quickly." Which he, of course, did.

The girls cracked up laughing at his long, almost curvy, girlish legs.

He winced at their giggles and then asked Nathan, in a growl "How am I going to use the whip cream and strawberries?"

Nathan's eyes practically sparkled with joy and laughter when he said, "You will make a skit with the Toxic song using the cream to dip your strawberries in."

Jeron almost fell over when he heard this, but shooed them to the bottom of the stairs and turned on the Britney Spears Toxic song.

Baby, can't you see

I'm calling

A guy like you should wear a warning

It's dangerous

I'm falling

Jeron did a creepy sway-y, hip-y, walk down the stairs, bobbing his head to the song and singing quietly. Liz, Amber, Nathan, and Jennifer all gasped.

There's no escape

I can't wait

I need a hit

Baby, give me it

You're dangerous

I'm loving it

Jeron swayed his hips and slid against the railing, looking like he was an insane man-stripper. He then took a strawberry, dipped it in whip cream, and licked it almost seductively, making Nathan and the girls partially crack up with laughter and partially gag.

Too high

Can't come down

Losin' my head

Spinnin' 'round and 'round

Do you feel me now?

They started laughing harder as he slid his tongue against it and then ate the strawberry.

-Chorus-

With the taste of your lips

I'm on a ride

You're toxic I'm slippin' under (Ohh Ohh)

With a taste of the poison paradise

I'm addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

And I love what you do

Don't you know that you're toxic?

Jeron then swayed his hips and dirty danced, with a small glare appearing on his face. Everyone stopped laughing and started twitching.

It's getting late

To give you up

I took a sip

From my devil's cup

Slowly, it's taking over me

Jeron licked whip cream off of his hand and then dipped in another strawberry, making the girls and Nathan crack up laughing. They all fell to the ground together, like dominos below Jeron, and continued laughing, while Jeron rolled his eyes and threw off the costume.

Too high

Can't come down

It's in the air and it's all around

Can you feel me now?

-Chorus-

Matt, the man all in black, stood somewhere in the shadows, planning when to strike and chuckled at the insaneness from the older teenagers.

With the taste of your lips

I'm on a ride

You're toxic I'm slippin' under

With the taste of the poison paradise

I'm addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

And I love what you do

Don't you know that you're toxic?

Don't you know that you're toxic?

They were still laughing when Jeron turned off the Toxic song and switched it to another station, which was blasting My Goodies by Ciara. The creepy thing was this was Jeron favorite song of all time, so he started dancing almost happily. The girls stopped, along with Nathan, and bobbed their heads to the song and climbed up the stairs to him.

"How about we try all sliding down?" Amber says, looking at the staircase with another smile.

"Wouldn't it be dangerous with that whipped cream on the edge?" Jeron asks, stopping his song.

"And?" Nathan asks, going to the top. He then grinned as Tiffiny and Amber joined him. The three slid down quickly, but before they could slip off at the end, they bumped Nathan, who hit the gold figure at the bottom with his crotch.

He fell on the ground with a grunt and pulled his legs together in pain. The two girls landed on top of him, giggling. Unfortunately, Jennifer, Liz, and Jeron didn't notice this when they slipped down the staircase, landing in a pile of whip cream, strawberries, and their other three friends.

"You're having an adult party without me? I am saddened." Says a voice from the grand doorway. Looking up from their disturbing-looking pile, they found Chase and Alex looking at them with raised eyebrows.

"Can I join?" Chase asks, kneeling besides Amber and running a finger across her whip cream-covered face.

She glared at him and said; "I thought we put you two asleep like pirates drugged up on rum."

"Well, not for long enough." He says, grinning. Jennifer smiled at Alex, who winked at her suggestively. Getting up from the pile, Alex brushed his hand across Jennifer's ass making her scream and punch his side.

Chase rolled his eyes and looked at Amber's ass, until she turned and kicked him.

"Somebody needs to shoot him," Amber mutters, rolling her eyes and looking at her chuckling friends.

Chase rolls his own eyes and wraps an arm around Jennifer, saying, "At least someone loves me." Jennifer blushed considerably, then blushed even more when Alex draped around her from the other side.

Amber gives him her middle finger and rolls her eyes and says, "We are staying over night here, whether you like it or not."

"Well, that's fine with me. You should wear those all of the time." He says, pointing to her shorts and making her redden.

"Baisez-vous a' l'enfer ((screw you to hell))" She says, glaring and turning to go to the costume room. Jennifer followed her, along with everyone else covered in whip cream.

Amber blasted the stereo inside of the room and then ran by a long rack of ties, letting her hand run across them, before slipping into a row of dresses. Jennifer went to the wigs, while Liz went to the jewelry. Jeron ran to the make-up, while Chase and Alex looked at each other confused.

Amber ran from Jennifer, who saw the cool gothic black dress she had in her hands, trying to take it. Amber turned the corner and her cell phone started ringing.

Sighing, she flipped under a rack still running away from Jennifer and answered it. "Hello?"

"Hey Amber." The voice of Hayley, one of Amber's best friends, comes from the phone.

"Hey, Hayley, what's up?" She asks, turning another corner hopefully loosing Jennifer.

"Nothing, just calling to say hi. What the hell is going on in Paris?"

"Jennifer is trying to take the gothic French dress away from me, I got a job at the Paris opera house and we are being insane as usual." She said, out of breath.

"Nice."

"I know! Just a second!" She yells, tossing her phone to Chase, running away from Jennifer who appeared from nowhere. She giggles, dodging a flying plastic knife from Jennifer, and falls over, accidentally, bringing a rack with her.

"Hello, this is Chase, Amber's boyfriend, does she bring insanity wherever she goes?" He asks, tilting his head to the side chuckling.

Hayley surprised says, "Yeah, she does. That's Amber for you. Are you really her boyfriend?"

"Yes I am. I might even propose to her." He says, now with a smile.

"Oh. Really now? Interesting."

"Isn't it?" He says, watching Amber and Jennifer fight over the dress and Amber eventually giving it up. Amber gets up, laughing, and then jumps down to the ground when Nathan flings a rubber band her way.

"Sorry!" He calls out, but it was too late. Amber was running after him with a large plastic salami roll.

The parties just begun

Everybody's having fun

Why don't we run away?

And play some one-on-one

Jeron came running out of the make-up corner, wearing red lipstick and dark blush, followed by Liz, who was holding a roll of cheese. Alex blinked three times, hoping the insanity would go away… but it didn't.

Lets find a place

For just you and me

On one around

Where we can be who we want to be

And no one brings us down

"Hayley? Am I right?" Chase asks.

"Yeah?"

"I think Amber will have to call you back..." He says, trailing off as Amber swished around in a medieval dress, looking like an Ange ((angel)). Jennifer, catching Alex's attention, was wearing the black gothic dress that revealed a generous amount leg.

"Oh, alright. Tell her I won't be available until tomorrow at noon." She says, sighing.

"Will do. Good bye." He says, flipping the phone shut without response and setting it down. "May I have this dance?" He asks Amber, who shakes her head and says, "Only if you can catch me." She runs away, laughing as Chase followed her smirking.

Alex, without even asking, grabs a hold of Jennifer and twirls her. She giggles and lets him spin her slowly.

I wish

I wish this night would never end

I wish

I wish this night would never end

We're on our own

Just me and you

No one around

Where we can do what we wanna do

I hope where never found

Chase tackled Amber to the ground, tickling her, and she giggled, trying to fight him off. He laughed and tickled the side of her stomach making her eyes widen and kick wildly around. She poked his sides whilst giggling, and became flushed.

I wish

I wish this night would never end

I wish

I wish the night would never end

When the song finally ended, the tickles stopped and Amber lay on the ground gasping.

Liz, then, with a bag of marshmallows and a miniature catapult launched some at Jeron, who ducked behind Chase and Alex. The two French brothers laughed and tossed some back at her. Jennifer, noticing a bag of rubber bands, picked it up and slung a few at Alex. Her last one hit his ass directly making it stick. Blushing crimson, she ran behind him and grabbed it, making him jump and say, "Attracted to my ass, eh?"

Jennifer nods and says "Verily much."

He then looked at hers and said, "Yours is quite nice too."

Jennifer glares and says, "Pervert."

Slowly the clock chimed midnight and Amber stopped swirling around, realizing she had another day amongst her dear friends and smiled to herself. Her eyes locked with Chase's and she found herself studying him. She noticed his tousled dark brown hair, his darker blue eyes that had a brownish tinge, his pale skin, lean muscles, and strong arms, that led to down to the perfectly sized hands. She then blushed, realizing she was checking him out.

He also was studying her. He looked at her dark green eyes, her long wavy brown hair, pale skin, and small freckles, her once plump body that was now slender, her small feet and ankles, and her small hands. This was the first time he saw her for herself in every way.

Jennifer ruined the moment by accidentally bumping into Amber as Alex tried to hug her. Chase caught her before she could fall and Alex caught Jennifer. Both girls thanked them and then went off to find Tiffiny, who was now chugging Pepsi's.

Matt slowly pulled out a dagger and ran his fingers across it, back and forth, then, behind a rack, flung it at Liz, who bent over to pick up a ballet shoe at that exact moment in time, barely missing it as it sunk into the mannequin behind her. She turned and looked at the dagger, shocked but shrugged it off. He cursed himself and crouched lower, pulling out another dagger and aiming for an unsuspecting moose. Wait one second. A moose? He blinked several times, staring at the sleeping moose in the corner of the room. What the hell was a moose doing in the Paris? Can we say psychotic? (Yes we can! PSYCHOTIC! –Editor)

He raised his eyebrows and shook his head. What had come to the Paris opera house? How could a bunch of eighteen year olds change this place? How could a century change it?

"Tiffiny, I think I'm going to go sleep." Amber says, slumping down tired. She raised her eyebrows at her and said, "Your going to sleep before us?"

She rolled her eyes and said, "Fine. I'll stay up, only a little longer though."

"So, how about we finish the dares, maybe do some murder in the dark games, have a pillow fight, and then do others things." Nathan says, sitting down and grinning. They nodded and sat around in a circle.

Amber's POV

"Ok. Jeron, dare someone." Nathan says with a smile.

Jeron looked at the group, turned to Jennifer and said, "Truth or dare?" Jennifer tilted her head to the side, thinking, then said, "Dare." He nodded and then rubbed his chin thinking.

"I dare you to…" He grinned and whispered it into her ear.

She turned red and said, "Hell no."

Liz and Amber looked at each other confused and looked back at her.

"Fine." She said turning redder and then leaning over to Alex.

Alex raised his eyebrows, and said "Bonjour." Jennifer then leaned in to kiss his cheek, but he turned, landing the kiss on his lips. The group hooted and giggled when Jennifer pulled back shocked. Amber put her head in her lap to keep from cracking up at Jennifer's face.

Alex grinned and said, " Lancez mes petits moutons?" ((Shy, my little sheep)). Chase rolled his eyes jealous.

"M-my turn, right?" Jennifer stutters. They all nod. "Ok. Truth or dare Liz?"

Liz said automatically, "Truth."

Jennifer smiled and asked, "Ok then, if you had to pick out of these guys, who would you marry?" Liz looked disgusted and about to retch.

"That's not fair, there are two perverts and two of our friends." Amber says shaking her head in disgust too.

Jennifer rolled her eyes and said, "Fine then Liz if you had to marry the phantom would you?"

Liz looked at her annoyed and said "Duh." Liz then looked around and her eyes stopped on Amber with a grin.

"Truth or dare?" She asked.

Amber turned pale, and said quietly, "Dare." Liz nodded and whispered to Tiffiny who also nodded. Amber's right eye twitched and she inched away from her.

"Amber I dare you to…whisper" Liz said whispering in her ear.

Amber pulled back shocked and yelled "Hell no! Are you insane?"

Liz rolled her eyes again and said, "Yes I am, and you have to do it." Amber turned red to her toes and shook her head furiously. Liz looked at her and nodded. She shook her head more.

"Do it." Liz said in a low voice. Amber looked at her hard with a glare, and then nodded turning red. Gritting her teeth, she turned to Chase. He grinned and tilted his head with a large smirk. Amber brought her face close to his and then was about to- and slapped him. He pulled back shocked and she smiled happily. Liz cracked up laughing. They had put on a show to make everyone think Amber was going to do otherwise.

"What the hell was that for?" He asked rubbing his check and she smiled sweetly and said, "For breathing." He glared daggers at her, and then hit the side of her head. Surprised, she gaped at him. Everyone cracked up laughing except those two.

Amber and Chase both turned to them and glared. Matt, in the shadows, even found himself laughing silently.

"Ok, dares are boring me. Let's just do random weird thing." Tiffiny says, holding in more chuckles.

"Ok, sure." Jennifer says nodding.

Alex and Jennifer talked silently in a corner, almost romantically; Jeron and Liz disappeared into the costume room to find random things; Nathan and Tiffiny argued about things on MTV, and lastly Chase and Amber argued about what costume she was going to wear at the opera on Friday gala.

"I am not wearing that! Alice in Wonderland is not supposed to look like a slut!" Amber shrieked at Chase.

"Yes, and your skirt is adorable, so with the way you look, it'll be perfect!" He says putting his hand on her shoulder. Amber glared and rolled her eyes.

"I'll kill you!" Suddenly came from behind the stage curtain. Liz came running out dressed as Obi Wan Kenobi and holding a blue lightsaber. Jeron came out in all black with a Darth Vader mask on, holding a red lightsaber. They battled against each other madly on stage and everyone watched. Liz turned and did an under-kick, making Jeron fall over and drop his saber.

"I win!" Liz yells, happily raising her arms in the air.

Hours later, Amber was passed out on her sleeping bag with Chase holding onto her carefully. Alex and Jennifer, in plush velvet box chairs sleeping with blankets over them, Jeron sleeping somewhere on stage, Nathan god-knows-where, and Liz in her sleeping bag.

Not long ago they had sat in a small circle feeling excited as they talked about the phantom of the opera and his wondering spirit.

A/n

REVISED!