Amanda walked into the lair with puffy eyes and a smile on her face.

"Did you get it!" Lauren asked

"Yeah!" Amanda pulled her shirt up bellow her bra line. Erik looked away for a moment than realized that she wasn't doing what she thought she was doing and looked at her belly.

"oh Mandi!" she sighed.

"Its perfect!" She sighed. The red rose shed a single blood tear into a puddle to join the other tears. A violin was entwined with a violin. It had her name engraved into it.

"Where you crying?" Erik asked

"Hurt Like Nothing I have ever felt before." She said wiping a tear from her eye.

Lauren touched the swollen skin with envy.

"I'm going out." Lauren said

"Now?" Amanda said

"yes now. How do I get to the parlor?" Amanda sketched the map on a piece of paper, while Lauren got changed. She came out in cut off black jeans and a belly showing halter.

"Its a little cold for that." Amanda said.

"I am not making the same mistake as the last one!" referring to the time she had to strip to get one. Lauren said grabbing her wallet. Amanda Laughed as Lauren left.

"Does she know the way out?" Amanda asked

"No I only showed you." Erik said. They listened for a little while.

"ERRIIK!" Lauren whinnied.

"HEELLP." Erik smirked under his mask and left to help Lauren get out. When he returned Amanda was fiddling with the organ. She turned around to get up when she saw him standing there.

"Oh!" she said.

"didn't see you there."

"I have that affect." He said. Amanda smiled and got up.

"will you play for me?" she asked

"If you insist"

"I do." She said smiling

"if-" He said

"You sing for me." He said

Amanda thought for a moment. Weighing the possibilities.

"Fine." she said.

"But I Pick the music." She said,

"alright. I have several scores in the bench let me get them for you."

"No thats alright. I have some." Amanda left and returned with a thick black paperback book. She handed it to Erik who looked at the cover.

"The Phantom of the Opera?" He asked amused.

"Yes"

"I didn't see this in your things."

"When I went out today I went up to box five where we stashed out stuff in your pillar. Anyways I didn't want Lauren getting into her heavy metal music until I properly hide the Cd's"

"CD?"

"Compact Disk. Thats beside the point. The music was in my bag. You can pick the song."

"Oh, thank you." He mussed, flipping through the worn pages.

"This one I can improvise to work for the organ." He said. Setting the book on the organ so they could both see.

"You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could

Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle

Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try

No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say goodbye" Amanda was out of breath her chest rose and fell. Her belly ached from the tattoo.

This info is so common but a long time ago, I took voice lessons. Which i dropped because i suck, duh. Anyway this is what i DO remember. Lol mind you isn't anything! Back to Amanda!

"your out of breath." he commented.

"yeah," she gasped.

"your breathing wrong." He said

"What"

"Your breathing from the top of your lungs down. It should be the other way around. Also you have a diaphragm use it." He said smiling

"lets try it again." they did and Amanda wasn't out of breath after

"do you want to try a duet?" He asked

"Sure!" she said.

He flipped to the end of the book.

"whats this?" he asked

Past the point of no return

"ahh" Amanda said grabbing the book.

"lets.. not do that one." she said blushing furiously.

"Here!" she said.

"Lets do this one"

Phantom of the Opera

"alright." He said.

I won't paste this song no one reads them anyways,

They went over this song over and over perfecting Amanda's voice improving the music adding things and taking them away.

They where pouring over the music still when Lauren walked in triumphantly

"IIIIIIIIIIII GOT IT!" she cried making them jump

"How long where you gone?"

"a few hours."

"Oh."

"THATS not why i am so giddy! LOOK!"

Erik inspected the thing slung over Laurens Back.

"it looks like a case,"

"yes!" Lauren slung it off her shoulder and opened it.

"a guitar?" Amanda said

"YEAH!"

"I didn't know you played that?"

"Dad taught me A few summers ago. What else did I have to do? Cooped up all summer!"

"Whats a gutair?" Erik asked. Lauren stared. Amanda ignored him

"and what about the tattoo?" she asked Lauren lifted the back of her halter and reveled a dragon holding two flowers in its tail, a Larkspur and a Laural. It had several symbols on its back in some off language. Its mouth enclosing around a crab holding a pearl. With two symbols in it. On the back of the crab was four symbols.

"oh.." Amanda sighed.

"whats it mean?" Erik asked

"I made up a name long time ago meant dragons heart. They symbols are in Japanese. The crab is "Cancer" my birth sign and the symbol on the back is Japanese it says Lauren. In the pearl it says God. Annnnddd... OH! The flowers. The Larkspur is my birth flower, and the Laural is the flower I was named after. "

"complicated" said Amanda

"Pointless." said Erik.

"Bite me." Lauren said.