Guardian Angel // The Phantom of the Opera // Book one

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Yesterday was a very eventful day and today will not be. Today really All I will be doing is practicing and visiting Erik. But I know that soentime today Erik will have his scene of deciding that Carlotta is going to croak like a frog. I skipped into the practice room and found Meg.

"Hey Meggy!" I say and skip over.
"Someones happy." She comments and smiles at me.
"Yep, how are you?" I ask and bend over to touch my toes.
"Good, how are you?" She replies and stretches her leg on the bar.
"Im good-"
Madame Giry walks into the room and looks at us, her eyes stopping on me before announcing "Girls, we have a new opera to practice for, we will learn the new dance tomorrow." She looks back at me before leaving again and I smile back, she knows.
"Well I guess stretching for today Meg?" I ask the girl beside me and smile.
"Yeah."

We then stretch and practice basic dances for a few hours and I glance at the clock in my room. 9:57 am. Might as well leave now. I stand from my bed and put down my book I was reading on my table. I grab my loevly cloak and swoosh it on. Then I leave my room to the closet a hallway over.
I walk through the passage after openning it and I hum a tune of my own.
It was a simple song, it had no lyrics, only mellody and rythm.
I arrive at the end of the passage and enter Erik's bedroom. I look around the room and see a thing that catches my eye. It was a book, 'Beauty and the Beast'. A lovely classic really. Such a great story. I open the book to read a sentence.

"Snooping around are we?" A voice calls from behind me.
"Maybe," I turn and face him, I place the book back into its place "Hello mon ange."
"Hello Katherina." He smiles at me, "Do you want to learn more Organ today?"
"Of course, did you eat today love?" I ask and hurry to the organ.
"Yes Katherina, thank you." He joins me at the seat of the instrument. "What to learn today?"
"Oh I dont know, what are you writing?"
"A piece for an opera your preforming." He says and opens a booklet to a sheet of music.
"Yes, Madame Giry just told us actually, did you perhaps tell her about me?" I look up at him and try to place my fingers on the first note.
"No, did she question you?" He fixes my finger placements and then looks at me.
"No not exactly, just watched me I guess." I shrug and keep my hands in place.
"You have nothing to worry about then, even If she did, you still neednt worry, shes no harm to you."
I smiled and nodded. I mean I kinda already knew but thanks. "Should we get to playing then?" I ask.
He nods, "Tell me if you get stuck."

I start playing and smile as usual, the feeling of playing an instrument is so calming and powerful. I was interupted by an ugly note compared to the rest.

I giggle at my mistake and look at Erik. "I think I messed up."
"Yes you did," he smiled slightly, "see you played this note," he played it. "You need to do this one," he played the correct note this time. "So from the note to this one," he plays the notes before my mistake and pauses, "Only go over a key, not two like you did."
I nod and try it, I did it correctly this time.
"Good, now continue from then on."

I got lost in the music again and I could feel myself sway to it. He hold my shoulder before I could move to much.

He smiles slightly, "try not to get lost to much when you dont even know the notes Katherina."

I refocus and say, "You always call me my name, call me something else, only if you want of course, but my name is too formal dont you think?" I ask and slowly play the music before I got to a note I havent learned.
"What should I call you then?" He asks.
"I dont know, something other than Madamoiselle or Katherina."
"What about ange?" He asks with a smirk.
"Although its my name for you I think thats alright." I smile at him and stop playing all together. "Why dont you play something for me?"
"Okay, what to play then?"
I sift through he papers and find the original paper that I first learned how to play, it had more notes on it then earlier.
"Erik.. You wrote here?" I asked and he looked over my shoulder to see what I held.
"Uh, yes actually once you played, it sounded alright."
This made me smile, I handed the piece to him. "Play this one."
He nodded and put it on the stand and started playing.

It started with the familiar tune, soft and peaceful until I heard the new notes, they gently turned into harsh and powerful but also calming. I was entranced in the music again and closed my eyes. It was truely a lovely song, a song that lulled me asleep. I fell to my left onto his shoulder and fell into a slumber. I guess because I used to listen to music to help me fall asleep in my time that it has the same effects on me now.
I distantly felt myself being lifted and placed and I almost could put together the thoughts in my mind, I was thinking that Erik had brought me to either his or my bed.
I then heard a very distant 'Goodnight'. I shuffled in my sleep to try to return the wish. Steps left the room and I quickly fell into a deep slumber.

I dreamed of music and sky during the night.