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Sarah was calm as she listened to the song Think of Me at the same time that Christine Daee was singing it in her time. Sarah was still garbed in her old phantom mirror clothes, and she lurched as she realized that she was laying in her hammock one minute and sitting next to the phantom himself the next.
She was startled, but neither of them made a move. He simply looked her direction as the seat moved, narrowed his eyes, and went back to watching Christine. She let out a soft sigh of relief – safe from being killed. She knew that if she ran into him just now, she really would be killed. No, she had to time things just right, timing it so that when and if she was solid she would be able to comfort him in his time of need, or even re-enact his fight with Christine about Raoul at the same time and in the same place as them, only with a very shocking twist for the three singers.
"Can it be? Can it be my sons?" Sarah's mother asked shocked as she saw their performance as the new principal of the high school at the football games. "BRAVO!"
She left the bleachers, right from the box that her daughter liked to occupy, with her daughter snarling at her furiously silently from behind her.
"What a change. They're really not a bit, the cockish boys that once they were. They may not remember me, but I remember them," she smiled widely and sang as she left the arena.
If Principal Carlo hated Sarah at any given time, it was now. He was furious, and he nearly fainted as the two boys were received with so much more praise than he had ever been.
"Samuel, Joseph!" a new male yelled, and the two turned and smiled.
"Where in the world have you two been hiding? Really, you two were perfect! I seriously want your secrets, who taught you how to calm the phantom like that! I've never seen the phantoms so calm after half-time!" he gushed, and they blinked. "You do know who they say the phantoms are, don't you?"
"Yes," they said softly. "Sis promised us that she would send us an angel of guidance when she died. We think that somehow that angel was there tonight, watching over us and making sure we said the right things. We think that maybe if given enough time, we can calm our sister's ghost and help her pass on."
"Don't forget, you've also got the one in the basketball arena from the boy that was killed," he reminded them, and they shuddered. "I know, you miss your sister, but now that she's gone you two are free to do as you please without having to worry about babysitting!"
"She would have been nineteen in August," they murmured. "We miss her so."
As if by some strange turn of events, they found themselves looking around in the church section of the Opera Populaire, as if straight from the movie. They found themselves responding to their friend at the exact same moments and with the exact same answers that Christine had been singing, even though she was also in front of them. But the problem was that they couldn't communicate with each other. All they could do was see each other, and this scared them since they had no clue what was going on. out of impulse, and a strange desire to at least do one thing that their sister would have done, they began singing the song that they knew Christine would sing, with a few alterations. To their surprise, their friend sang along, albeit getting more and more confused.
Sister once spoke of an Angel
We used to dream she'd appear
Now as we sing we can sense her
And we know she's here
Here in these rooms, she calls us softly
Somewhere inside, hiding
Somehow we know she's always with us
She, the unseen genius
You two, you must have been dreaming
Stories like this can't come true
You guys are talking in riddles
And it's not like you
Angel of music, guide and guardian
Grant to us your glory
Angel of music, hide no longer
Secret and strange Angel
She's with me even now
Your hands are cold
All around me
Your faces, guys, they're white
It frightens us, don't be frightened
As their friend ushered them away from the church, they saw that instead of the church of the Opera Populaire, they saw that they had instead been singing inside of their school, in the lower floor of the three story senior high school for Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.
"You know, she really could be here," Joseph murmured.
"I wonder how often she comes back to visit her old friend in the gymnasium since it's where he died trying to free her," Sam murmured. "For all we know, we're next on the list."
"I doubt it. Phantom doesn't attack Christine until the very end of the movie, so we just have to make sure we don't reenact the movie," Joe said shaking and looking around. "Besides, the gender roles are reversed. She can't sleep with us because, well, we're her brothers."
"Doesn't stop a pedophile from raping his own kids," Sam pointed out with a shiver.
"Fair point," Joe conceded. "But what do we do? Raoul could be our girlfriends, Raoul's representation could be anybody!"
"Who are we willing to sacrifice?" Sam asked worried. "It could be anything, from our freedom, or our sanity, or – Merlin forbid – us to murder someone that we treasure just as those guys did to her virginity that day."
"Maybe we should talk about this later," Joe said shaking his head, "Moving on, if you would please."
"Fine," Sam huffed. "So, what are we going to do? The phantoms this time are truly ghosts. How do we please them enough to get them to pass on?"
"Torture and humiliate the ones who hurt her?" Joe asked, and Sam rolled his eyes.
"No," he said exhausted.
"Trapping their victims is only going to make them even angrier than before, that was just how a preteen, twelve-year old Sarah was like, always at the center of the trouble."
"And as sad as it is to say, that's become her legacy is for having the most office referrals in the entire school, maybe even in our generation," Sam said sighing. "Alright, let's move on. let's head back to the areas that we came through to get dressed."
So, they're starting to piece it together, but how do you think they'll figure out the rest of it? Well... a bit will be answered in chapter seven.
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