Chapter 1:
Discovery
In the early morning on an October's day, a yellow bus stops at a house on a silent road. Four children run out of the house to board the bus while the background talking of other students goes on. The children board and the bus drives away. A few stops later the bus finally stops at the school and the children walk off. They run up the steps, walk into their high school, and begin to chat on their way their way to their lockers. The Hallways echo of clanking metal, words over words, and shoes that tap on the stone like floor. The bell rings, and the freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors walk quickly to their homerooms. They make it to their seats as their teachers scold or write on papers. Soon the overcome sounds and a feminine, soft voice say's "Good morning students, today is October 9 at 8:06am please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance" a clatter of seats ring throughout the school as everyone chants the Allegiance of America. The chant ends and the same voice announce events for the school. Then another voice talks about other events, then another voice talks about a certain event "Attention students, Hopkins Theatre has teamed up with Jefferson high school to find some talented actors and actresses to play in their plays. They will be paid weekly along with having their personal dressing rooms. This is because Hopkins Theatre is running out of actors and actresses. If you would be kind enough to become one of their actors/actresses, you would be helping the theatre greatly. Sign up's will be at the office at the end of the day. Thank you" that particular announcement attracted the attention of one girl who kept looking at the intercom, thinking if she should sign up. "Krista Chagny! Stop looking at that intercom and turn your head in my direction!" Krista is startled and immediately turns her head to the front. Now Krista Chagny is actually the fourth most popular girl in school. Her and her three sisters are the most popular actually. Rebecca Chagny , the oldest and most popular, Tina and Fiona Chagny, the second and third most popular, twins, and Krista Chagny, the youngest of the three. Lots of boys watch them like hawks and drool whenever they pass by. They don't take boyfriends because they like the guys drooling all over them. Krista, on the other hand, has a different view on boys.
At the end of the day, Krista goes to the office to sign up as an actress at Hopkins theatre. Rebecca, Tina, and Fiona wait impatiently outside of the office. Rebecca calls out "Come on Krista! We don't have all day, were going to miss the bus!" Krista calls back "I'll be out in a sec" she takes a pen, signs her name on a piece of paper, and picks up another and turns around till she runs in to someone "oof!" they both fall back and the other gets up. "Oh my gosh I'm so so…" Krista looks at the person she runs into and finds that its Rick, a long time friend. "Oh hey Rick!" Krista says "Hey Krista, I didn't know that you were into acting, I was about to sign up myself!" Krista's blue eyes light up as she exclaims "No way Rick! This is so awesome! Now we can act together!" the two friends laugh together then sigh "Well I gotta go Rick, my sisters are waiting for me, I'll see you later" Krista waves to him as she walks out of the office "See you soon Krista!"
When she walks out of the office, her big sister, Rebecca says harshly "Ugh thanks a lot Krista, we missed the bus." Krista silently growls to herself "great" then looks up at Rebecca "Well should I call mom to pick us up?" Tina chimed in "I already called her, she'll be here in a minute or so" Krista nodded and walked to the door that leads to the school yard with her sisters following behind. She sits on the steps and pulls out her fat free yogurt and begins to chow down waiting for mom to come. Fiona sighs and tells her "did you really have to flirt with your friend Krista?" crossing her slender legs. Krista's face turns to a mix of shock and embarrassment exclaiming "For the last time Fiona, I don't flirt with Rick!" rolling her eyes and pushing back her brunette, blonde streaked hair back. Fiona rolls her eyes and says "yeah right" Then Krista turns to Fiona and Rebecca comes in "Enough you two alright? There's no point in fighting over something Krista claims not to be true so just leave her alone." Fiona sighs and leans against Tina. A nice red sports car comes up to the school with a very pretty lady driving "I'm here girls lets go home" Rebecca, Tina, Fiona, and Krista get up and walk to their mom and get in, speeding away from the school
Later that night during dinner, Krista toys with her spaghetti while the rest of her family chats about school and other things. Then mom turns to Krista and asks her "Are you alright Krista?" Krista nods her head still toying with her spaghetti, Mom asks again "So anything interesting happen at school honey?" She looks up from her dinner and says "oh, um in signed up to act at Hopkins theatre today to be an actress" Mom's eyes light up and tells her "Oh really!? Did you know that your great-great-great-great-great- grandmother was an opera singer at an opera house in Paris? Back then opera singers were like actors" Krista sighs and says "Would that be Christine Daaè mom?" she nods with excitement as her sisters widened her eyes as well "whoa I didn't know that" said Tina "Neither did I" says Fiona "That is so cool, does that mean acting runs in our blood!?" exclaims Rebecca. Krista looks wide eyed at her plate and whispers "whoa" Mom tells them again "So you know about the Phantom of the Opera, right? Well we have ancestors that were actually victims in that event! What do you think about that?" all four girl's perfect faces form a surprised look Rebecca says "Of course I've heard of the Phantom of the Opera! But I had no idea that my ancestors were the victims! Raoul, Christine, they're…related to us?" Mom nods in triumph and says "Actually, our direct descendents" the four girls voices raise their voices and begin to make a big thing out of it.
After dinner, Krista goes to her room, but she still hears her sisters talking about the talk they had at dinner. She smiles a bit and rolls her eyes looking at the paper for Hopkins theatre. She already got her mom and dad's signature, now to sign it herself. She looked over the paper and read when she's supposed to be there. "Every Wednesday after school" she says to herself. She usually doesn't have anything to do after school except homework over the week, so she could do it. She smiled to herself and folded the paper up and put it in her backpack by the door for tomorrow. She went back to her room; put on her pajama's, brushed her teeth, and went to bed, dreaming of being a successful actress in Hopkins theatre.