Megan's POV
2 weeks later
Today was the first day running the show with the full orchestra. Today was also our first rehearsal on stage acting. Tomorrow we would do this again and then in Friday have dress Rehearsal.
Tomorrow all the set pieces would be set up but today we are using just the stage.
"Alright from the top!"
First Adrik started, then Hannah who plays Meg and Connie who plays Madam giry.
Then it was my turn to sing with Jackson.

"What a dreadful town, what a vulgar place
What an awful mistake to have come here
To be on display in that shameless way
For the crude common lower-class scum here
How do they dare to treat us so?
Father dear, come play with me
Come and see this toy I've got
What a snub at most from our so-called host
Did he think sending freaks would be funny?
Could the fool have thought that our pride was bought
By his filthy American money?
What a farce, what an outright slap in the face
It's an utter disgrace
I've got a mind to pack and go
Never you mind the debts we own
Who would believe we've sunk this low?
Father please, come play with me
Please tell the boy the answer's no
Must you make that racket?
It's the aria I'm to sing
It hurts my head
Please, let's not fight, dear
I'm sure that no one intended a slight, dear
Don't you patronize me
It's your fault we came here
We need the money, that's all
That's why things haven't been right, dear
Why doesn't it surprise me
That I get the blame here?
Let's leave tonight, dear
If that would serve to ease
Your troubled mind
Leave the hurt behind
Father dear, come over here
And look at what they gave to me
Wind the top and father, see
Look, it plays a melody
I need some air
Raoul, please
Please what?
Nothing, nothing, only
Raoul, don't drink anymore
Father never plays with me
Doesn't he love me?"

"Love's a curious thing
It often comes disguised
Look at love the wrong way
It goes un-recognized
So look with your heart
And not with your eyes
A heart understands
A heart never lies
Believe what it feels
And trust what it shows
The heart always knows
Love is not always beautiful
Not at the start
So open your arms
And close your eyes tight
And when it finds love
Your heart will be right
Learn from someone who knows
Make sure you don't forget
Love you misunderstand
Is love that you'll regret
Mother
And not with your eyes
The heart can't be fooled
The heart is too wise
Forget what you think
Ignore what you hear
It always sees clear
Love is not always beautiful
Not at the start
But open your arms
And close your eyes tight
And when it finds love
Your heart will be right"

"Time for bed now Gustave."

"I should have known that you'd be here
I should have known it all along
This whole arrangement bears your stamp
You're in each measure of that song
How dare you try and claim me now?
How dare you come invade my life?
Oh, Christine, my Christine
In that time when the world thought me dead
My Christine, on that night just before you were wed
Ah, Christine, you came and found where I hid
Don't you deny that you did
That long ago night
That night
Once there was a night beneath a moonless sky
Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try
I stole to your side to tell you I must go
I couldn't see your face but sensed you even so
And I touched you
And I felt you
And I heard those ravishing refrains
The music of the pulse
The singing in your veins
And I held you
And I touched you
And embraced you
And I felt you
And with every breath and every sigh
I felt no longer scared
I felt no longer shy
At last our feelings bared
Beneath a moonless sky
And blind in the dark, as soul gazed into soul
I looked into your heart and saw you pure and whole
Cloaked under the night with nothing to suppress
A woman and a man, no more and yet no less
And I kissed you
And caressed you
And the world around us fell away
We said things in the dark
We never dared to say
And I caught you
And I kissed you
And I took you
And I begged you
With a need too urgent to deny
And nothing mattered then
Except for you and I
Again and then again
Beneath a moonless sky
And when it was done before the sun could rise
Ashamed of what I was, afraid to see your eyes
I stood while you slept and whispered a goodbye
And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky
And I loved you
Yes, I loved you
I'd have followed anywhere you led
I woke to swear my love
And found you gone instead
And I loved you
(How I loved you)
And I left you
(And I loved you)
And I had to, both of us knew why
We both knew why
And yet I won't regret
From now until I die
The night I can't forget
Beneath a moonless sky
And now
How can you talk of now?
For us, there is no now."
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