On My Own

Looking at his home through tear filled eyes, getting ready to leave, Lizzie felt almost a need to stay there. Leaving would like almost turning her back on Erik, turning her back on everything they had shared those past months. But she knew she could net stay here. She neglected the feelings of Fredrick and her father. They had only tried to protect her. With this in mind Lizzie took a deep breath, wiped away her tears and left The Phantom's Lair.

Slowly she crept through the passageway, but made it to the door leading to box five. Silently sliding opening the door and closing it, when Lizzie established no one was close by she walked from the box, and into the bright hallway. She then made her way from the opera house, greeting no one.

Once inside a taxi that had stopped just out side the opera house she let her tears fall again.

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"Where to Mademoiselle?" The driver's voice startled her but she replied:

"The Duke's house." Right after she had gotten the words out the carriage was moving in the direction of Fredrick's estate.

Almost twenty minutes later Lizzie found herself on the door step just out side or Fredrick's home. She knocked briskly and almost immediately the door was answered by an older butler.

"My I help you?"

"I need to speak with Monsieur Heaton."

"Which Heaton male are you referring to?"

"Fredrick. I am Lizzie De Chany." The Older man nodded the opened the door further.

"Please come in Mademoiselle I will show you to the parlor." He took her down a hallway then into a room decorated in a sky blue.

"Please sit. Monsieur Fredrick will be with you shortly."

"Alright, Thank you." Lizzie sat and tried to make herself look more presentable. She ran her fingers through her hair and patted her cheeks as if that would rid any suspicious that she had been crying.

Moments later Fredrick walked in, looking surprised her.

"Lizzie I--"

"Fredrick please I have to tell you something and I'm afraid if I do not say it now I will never be able to." Taking his hand she pulled down onto the couch next to him. He was completely silent and was staring at her intently, yet worry flickering in his eyes.

"Fredrick, these past months I have not been faithful to you. I am in love with another." Fredrick's eyes slid shut and he looked to the ground. "I am sorry it was wrong of me but I am afraid that the feelings of love I have for the other man will not fade with 'I Do's.'"

"Lizzie are you aware of how much I care for you? I have waited all these weeks for you. Please tell me what I have done incorrect, I have lost you yet I do not what I have done to do so."

"No, you have done nothing--"

"Then why have you treated me like this?" Fredrick had stood from the couch and was pacing the room. "The last time we spoke you yelled at me for a reason I know not, then when I came to apologize for what ever I had done your father informs me that I am no longer betrothed to you. Just tell me what I can do to have you Lizzie. Please, choose me."

On my Own

Les Miz. 3

And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to.
Without a home, without a friend
without a face to say hello to
But now the night is near
And I can make-believe he's here

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him 'til morning
Without him, I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me

In the rain
The pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever

And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say there's a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers

I love him
But every day I'm lonely
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me, his world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness that I have never known

I love him
I love him
I love him...
But only on my own...

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