Chapter Seventeen – Peace At Last
Once they were both outside Erik finally spoke. "Take me someplace where we will be alone, please." Christine's eyes were suddenly wide with disbelief when she saw their surroundings. "I didn't realize we were this close." She said "Come, I know just where we should go." She led him to the edge of the pavement and waved for a taxi.
Ten minutes later they were once again both sat underneath Christine's willow tree in Central Park. "Why do you want us to be alone Erik?" She asked. Erik had been silent all the way in the taxi, also while they had been walking through the park and even now he wasn't himself. The expression he was now wearing was the same one a man would wear when he just got told that he was inheriting a massive fortune of money. Disbelieving and amazed at the same time. He Looked into Christine's eyes took her hand in his and said "Touch my face Christine" She looked surprised why he would say that of all things. But all the same she reached up and placed her palm on his cheek. She could not believe what she felt and let out a small gasp "Erik! Your face it….it feels so warm, like… real skin. Are you sure you were telling me the truth about your masks being prophetic?" As she asked this her heart started to pound. "Because if it's this warm…..you must be suffocating in there. Are you getting fever or something?" her voice was almost to the panic stage. "Rip it off then!" Erik said. Christine shook her head and moved her hand away "Erik we're in public! And we don't have another mask for you to put on." Erik took her hand in his and raised it up to his face again. "Please I insist Christine! Rip it off my face!" He said this with so much insistence that Christine could not refuse him. Even though she knew this was so stupid, being out in public and having no spare mask for him.
She dag her nails into his forehead "Ouch!" Erik cried and clasped his forehead. Christine stared in astonishment what she had just tried to dig her nails into felt like real human skin against a human skull. And she didn't seem to have felt his mask at all. Erik turned back to face her "Try it again but don't use your finger nails." Christine reached up again but this time with both hands. She pressed her fingers to his forehead and tried to get a hold of his mask. But there was nothing to pull she was touching real human flesh. "Erik!" She cried in surprise "Your mask, it's….it's not there anymore. I can't feel it….it's gone." Erik grasped her arms and they both got to their feet "Christine my love, do you realize what this means?" he exclaimed. Christine's smile stretched so wide that it was almost touching her ears. "Erik Destler, your curse is broken!" She cried. "Christine Day, We're both free!" He shouted.
They ran out from under the tree and with Déjà vu in the air, he picked Christine up off her feet and swung her round and round in the air. When he set her back down on her feet Erik looked into her chocolate brown eyes and Christine looked into his bluey-green eyes. They both felt something wet dropping on their heads and they let out a small laugh. Just like in the movies, ignoring the rain that now poured down soaking them to the skin. They kissed with all the passion and love that the world had ever known, with arms wrapped tightly round each other.
Author's Notes
YES! At last Erik's curse is broken and now they're both free from the Devil. The reason this chapter was short is because it is one of the separate ones that I had to cut down from the previous chapter.
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