An unrequited love. A shattered chandelier. A mask.
Love is complicated. Like Life itself, Love can be very simple, and at the same time, very difficult. It brings pleasure and happiness. It also brings pain and misery.
Looks are deceiving. It lies and cheats. And when you are too...beautiful, you become vain and possibly mad. Conceited, egotistical, self-absorbed, and self-seeking. Even if you aren't, you would just bring it upon yourself. People would start abusing, bruise and use you. Not only that, abandonment and loathing would come after. For 19 years, and maybe even more, The Siren has suffered.
Now, she lives alone in the depths of the Opera Populaire. Hiding from the outside world. Her only recognition lies throughout the opera walls. By letter or by her own voice. If you were lucky, she would appear, but only for...'reasonable' reasons. "Never would you see her without her mask", says those whom works under the same roof.
Erik Destler would change it all.
Emilie Castille has always been intrigued by stories of the infamous Opera Ghost.
When her father tells her that auditions are going to be held at the Opera Populaire for singers, dancers, and musicians, Emilie wonders why only men can be musicians in the orchestra. When she decides to audition anyway as a violinist to prove a point, she becomes entangled with the Opera Ghost himself.
As it turns out, Monsieur Opera Ghost is nothing like she had thought. When she joins him in his home, everything she knows about the world gets turned upside down.
Emilie must face that the world is full of selfish people--including her own father. Will Emilie succumb to the Opera Ghost's thoughts about the cruel world, or will she be able to reach past it and manage to find the beauty underneath in him?
Note: Obviously, I do not own any of the characters or songs to "The Phantom of the Opera". I do own the characters I created in this story, the plot, the cover I created, and any pictures I post with this story.
This story starts when Messieurs Andre and Firmin have just taken over the Opera Populaire, however, there are some differences between the original "The Phantom of the Opera" story and mine.