All About Us - Phantom of the Opera Love Story

You, Me, We, Us

One week later

Christine POV

It was Monday again; Christine couldn't believe that the first week of school had flown by so fast, seeing how the week went. Roman was waiting for her in her kitchen to walk her over to school; he's been doing this the last few days since Christine wasn't extremely happy going. Little did he know, Roman waiting in the kitchen made her want to stay in bed even longer. She had thought about how it might have been a mistake being with him, but she knew she had to if she wanted to be at least somewhat protected from Charlotte and her posse. Walking down the stairs, she was greeted with the smell of eggs and burnt toast. Weirdly enough, Christine loved when toast was burnt a bit.

"Hi there, Sunshine," Bella started, handing her an egg sandwich with burnt toast, "made it just like you like them."

"Thanks, Mama," Christine said, as she took the sandwich from Bella's hand.

"Another Monday, huh?"

"Yep," Christine said as she put her satchel over her shoulder.

"Let me get that for you, babe," Roman stood up and tried to grab the bag from her.

Christine moved her shoulder away, "No, I have it. Please."

Roman put his arm over her shoulder, "Come on, Christine, don't be mopey. At least you have me to walk you to school."

Christine would have rather had Meg walk her, but this week she had to go to school earlier to work on the dance committee. The winter formal was only a few months away, before winter break, and Meg wanted to get a head start so she made the dance committee meet every Monday and Friday morning at 8:00 am so they can start getting ideas and budgeting.

"That's true," she looked up at Roman, "I appreciate it."

This weekend, Christine told her godmother about Roman and since Christine's birthday was exactly a month away, she allowed them to date, but under strict rules. At this point with her mood, she didn't even think they would last any longer than a month.

On their way to school, Christine saw Dr. Mulheim walk out of a dark Maroon house at the end of her block. He looked as though he was in a hurry, Christine was more shocked that he lived on the same block as she did.

"Dr. Mulheim?" She called, not knowing what came over her to try and get her Music Teacher's attention.

Dr. Mulheim looked up at the couple and only acknowledged Christine.

"Well hello there, Madmoiselle Day." Dr. Mulheim bowed to greet her. Their eyes locked for only that split second but it was just enough to get Christine's heart beating a bit faster.

Roman cleared his throat.

"Oh," Christine said, blinking a few times, "This is my boyfriend, Roman."

Dr. Mulheim just nodded his head and Roman did the same.

"Well, Mademoiselle, I should be off, have a lot of errands to run before today's class. I will see you there, hm?"

"Of course, sir."

As Dr. Mulheim walked away he took one look over his shoulder just to see Christine's eyes still on him.

Erik POV

Erik wanted to cut off that peasant's arm. How dare he have his arm around her? Walking to his car, Erik turned around to get one last look at Christine and noticed that she still was staring at him with her curious hazel eyes. Of course, her manfriend hugged her closer as they walked off but as they walked she was still staring until that boy told her something and she turned her head away, only leaving her strawberry-blonde hair to face him. He wanted very badly to run his fingers through her hair like he used to do. But alas, it was all in good time.