For Better or For Worse

Chapter 42---Love Never Dies part 2

A/N: brief reminder...please do read the lyrics. I know it can be boring and it's easy to just skip the whole thing. Remember, this play has something to do with something huge. In these lyrics, I also squeezed in some clues in what these characters felt and thought of while doing the scenes and singing the songs. Please bear with me. All elements are needed here so that no one will be left in confusion. Thankies :) xxx

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Monique's P.O.V.

The moment of truth came. It is time to settle this once and for all. I am going to see this Phantom.

Being in character, because it is my job, I do what I'm supposed to like grabbing the very large music globe and putting it aside, and looking all panicked and scared with the background music. I can't help but think. What if what I thought of was wrong? What if I mistaken someone else for this understudy?

The fanfare did startle me. I would usually fake it, but it really did. I looked at the glass doors in front of me open and I got a glimpse of this Phantom.

Behind that mask and costume, I knew it was Carson.

Being honest here? I felt my knees wobble, and that faint that was scripted? It is not scripted anymore because I felt like doing it anyway.

No, no, no. Of all men in this country and in this world, they cast Carson. Seriously?

And I am fully aware that he is going to touch me and carry me. For someone who I didn't rehearse with, his timing was perfect and he knew what to do. What can I say? Carson is also a huge fan of Phantom.

Just the idea of him being The Phantom made me angry for some reason. What if he really stalked me and thought of being here instead of Peter. What the hell happened to him anyway?!

He laid me on the chair, on timing surprisingly just in time for me to act all scared again, but I felt angry instead, I was raging!

So it was all an empty lie 

One final lie to fool us all 

To make your death our story's end 

To put your life beyond recall

How dare you come and claim me now? 

Invade my life, ensnare my voice?

It was hard to not scream and to just being in character, but the thought of critics being here made me think twice about it.

If you could know the pain I've known 

Then you would know I had no choice 

My Christine...

His Christine my behind.

Your Christine 

I was yours one brief night long ago 

Long ago 

With a man that I no longer know

Exactly what I feel.

Ah, Christine 

You came and found where I hid 

Don't you deny that you did 

That long ago night

Now this is an embarrassing song for the two of us singing. This is just. Oh, I could shudder all day.