Chapter Fifteen
The Strange Crush
As they left Raoul hurried up to Erik and grabbed his hand pleading for him not to leave.
As Erik pulled away Christine started yelling at Raoul about how Erik loved her and was not gay.
This hurt Raoul's feelings. HE fell down crying. Christine felt guilty for what she had said and went to help him up but was stopped by Erik. "Come on lets go before he asks me out on a date."
Christine started cracking up at Erik's remark, and fell over from the hysterics. Then Raoul got back up and pleaded to Erik just to at least stay for dinner. And since Christine thought that Raoul flirting with Erik was funny obliged.
After dinner it was getting late and Raoul offered them a room. And of course to torture Erik she obliged again. Erik was about to loose it. Christine was making him go though with spending the night at Raoul's just for giggles.
When they got their room they went straight to bed. Raoul had offered to let Erik borrow a pair of pajamas for the night but he refused. Christine accepted a nightgown that she had left. Erik fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. But woke suddenly in the middle of the night wit a jump to find Raoul asleep in a chair next to his side of the bed. Obviously he had been watching him as he slept but fell asleep. Erik reached over and woke Christine. "May we leave please, he was watching me as I slept. I think he is more obsessed about me then I ever was about you. I hate to admit it but I was obsessed. So may we please leave? PLEASE?"
"Can we please wait until the morning? I'm exhausted."
"The only reason your exhausted is because you laughed at Raoul's crush on me too much. So I'm putting my foot down. We are leaving right now and that's final. Change you clothes and write him a note telling him we left."
"Why don't you write the note?"
"Because if I do he might think that I have a crush on him and didn't want to leave. So please write the note for me."
"All right."
"Thank you. I love you."
"I love you too, and sorry about the whole dinner and spending the night thing. It was just really funny at the moment but he has gone too far. O.k. I wrote the note. Lets go."
When Raoul woke up there was nothing in the bed except a note. It read:
Raoul,
We left early this morning. Erik was getting tired of the way you were acting and so was I. Thank you for dinner last night and the room. But you went way too far by watching him sleep last night. So we left very early. And I took the privilege of telling Bob where you keep you diary and he read the page about confessing your love for another man you didn't even know. So like you said 'you guys are like so totally O.V.E.R.' I couldn't resist.
Well Lots of Love,
Christineď
All of a sudden Raoul collapsed crying. How could Christine break him and Bob up. Now he had to get her back. But what could he do? He now knew what he had to do. He would post himself out side the easiest way to enter/exit Erik's lair. And as soon as he left he would go and dispose of Christine. It was a great plan, but would I work? There was only one way to find out.
He called Jewel to his room, where here asked her to pack him a bag filled with enough provisions to last him for up to a week or more. When she asked him why he responded with "I'm going on a small trip."
