[Phantom of the Opera] In Praise of Iris

For Gustav's idea of ​​apologizing, Ferry of course fully supports it, but mother Christine rejected the suggestion to take the siblings with her when she goes out.In view of Ferry sneaking out to find "Mr. Y"'s criminal record, she even deliberately locked the doors and windows before leaving-the opera star seems to be determined to isolate her children from her former mentor.

Of course, Ferry didn't take such clumsy tricks seriously, but she didn't take her younger brother to disturb the rekindling of their love - Christine's problem was just a common vocal cord knot, although she rested for about a week on her own. There was no obvious improvement, so she traveled thousands of miles to Coney Island, New York to seek medical treatment, but in fact, the vocal cord condition of this opera singer is not suitable for frequent vocal training; The viscountess of these years can forget all the vocal skills taught by her mentor back then.

To be honest, although Christine has not sung on stage for a long time in recent years, it is hard for Ferry to forget that when he sang to his mother on the spur of the moment, the former Miss Hongling reacted fiercely—that was clearly a long-awaited That ghostly singing voice is deeply engraved in my heart, so that when it reappears through the mouth of a childish child, it is still easy to evoke those dusty emotions for a long time.

"Ferry, Mr. Y always refuses to see me, have I made him angry?" The fourth time he received Miss Freck's reply "Mr. Y is busy", Gustav couldn't help but bowed his head in frustration, brown There was a melancholy and quiet light in the brown eyes, which is rare for children. Ferry knew that he must have thought of his father Raul—although under Christine’s insistence, Raul never attended a banquet where he could bring his family. He would not be missing; but beyond that, the boy actually had very little father's company.

"Of course not, I believe that Mr. Y likes you very much, but he may be scared by you." Ferry skillfully rubbed the soft hair on top of Gustav's head, and glanced at the hidden section behind his younger brother without any trace. The tripod in the shadow looked helpless, "Don't you want to learn to swim? Aunt Meg will go swimming in the sea every morning. Let her teach you in shallow water first, and then you can follow her to go a little farther from the shore. to the place, catch some small fish or seashells, and then we can have a nice beach barbecue."

Speaking of Meg, Ferry couldn't help being a little distracted—after all, in his life as Irene, the person he owed the most was that stubborn girl.

In addition, although the impression of "Dark Moon and High Night" in Ferry's mind is very blurred, she still remembers that at the end of the story, Meg Gilly, who couldn't love her, kidnapped Gustav and was fulfilling her wish again. After gaining the attention of the Phantom, she let the boy go, and it was she who accidentally fired her hand/gun in agitation and killed Christine by mistake.

But, to be fair, even to the very end, Meg was still a good girl, a... much, much better girl than I used to be.Ferry thought.And now, although the arrival of Christine, and even the existence of Ferry and Gustav may become the stimulus for Meg's collapse; but before she reaches the most desperate situation, Ferry still wants to try to pull her With one stroke, it is to make up for Irene's debt.

Even, the little girl still had a vague hope in her heart: it would be nice if Meg could get what she wanted in the end—she was determined to take this phantom as her father, but Christine here didn’t have much mother-daughter relationship with her. intimacy between.Under this premise, compared to Christine, who is vacillating between Raul and Phantom, Meg, who obviously devotes everything to Phantom, is more likely to gain Ferry's favor.

"As for Mr. Y..." At this point, the little girl added some teasing in her tone, "We come to Miss Freck every day, if he keeps avoiding her, the opening of 'Phantom Paradise' will be in two weeks Days, and he is the owner of the paradise, he will definitely be there - when the time comes, we will go directly to the backstage and wait for him."

"What about you? Don't you want to go swimming?" Perhaps because he thought his sister's suggestion was very reasonable, or because the suggestion of "swimming" was right in his arms, Gustav's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be happy again.

"I will go with you two times, but not every day—Gustav, you have to know that the hot sun on the beach is the enemy of a lady's skin whitening." Ferry then changed to a more Answer in a brisk tone.

In fact, as Ferry guessed, Gustav's overreaction in the maze of glass columns left a particularly deep impression on the ghost in the shadows, although Ferry repeatedly emphasized Gustav's apology , but he would rather wait until Gustav fell into a deep sleep every night, and then secretly use singing as a signal to guide Ferry to meet him, rather than walk in front of Gustav again, as if he believed that he should stay away from the perfect Average boy.

In the end, the opening ceremony, which was originally scheduled for two weeks, was postponed to the third week, when Christine's voice will almost recover to the point where she can control the Phantom's song—"Mr. Y" temporarily decided to invite the world-renowned opera singer Ling performed the finale at the opening ceremony of his theater "Phantom Paradise".

As early as the first day that Shani's family moved into the residence provided by "Mr. Oscar Hammerstein", Ferry saw the score—the score that condensed the phantom's immortal affection was placed on the black piano in the living room, Gustav also tried to play a short piece.But this has no meaning except to make his father Raul, who thinks he has been neglected, feel worse-because his wife has shown that he values ​​music, or there is the strange score written by Ferrimer, Viscount Shani temporarily has no idea about alcohol. She has no interest in other things; Christine may have a feeling for the melody played by her son, but she has to be busy appeasing her increasingly irritable husband; even Gustav is far from the age of appreciating love... ... so that for a short period of time, Ferry was the only one to enjoy this precious gift.

"Gustav, Christine said that you gave her this piece of music, didn't you?" But compared to the piece of music he wrote for Christine, the phantom at this moment obviously cares more about the music he is holding in his hand. That stack, from Christine's handwritten sheet music.The man's voice was a little cautious, as if he was afraid of breaking an overly beautiful dream. During the day, he could talk to his beloved Christine and watch the voice of the angel bloom again under his guidance; The daughter who is connected by blood continues to wander in the ocean of music... Compared with the bleak and lonely ten years when I was alone, the last half month is really a beauty that Phantom never expected in the most extravagant dreams.

"Yes, but I found it on my sister's table." The brown-eyed boy replied proudly, paused, and finally made up his mind to apologize to the generous Mr. Magician in front of him, "I'm sorry, Mr. Y, I Shouldn't have treated you like that when you took off your mask..."

"I hope you won't be angry, and..." Gustav hesitated, and lowered his voice a little, "don't be sad either... I like your Phantom Paradise very much, it's very wonderful - you are also very good." The boy said When he spoke the last sentence, he raised his head, his face was still a little shy, but his light brown eyes were staring at the white mask in front of him without hesitation, making it easy to see the sincerity in it.

Phantom was stunned, and even forgot about the music score in a blink of an eye.He turned his gaze to Ferry aside as if asking for help, but immediately turned back reluctantly, clinging to Gustav's body: the boy's outline was still soft and round like a child's, but his bones were correct, his skin was fair, and his pair of His dark brown eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky, and his own helpless shadow was reflected in them.

"Mr. Y, you won't blame him, will you?" Awakened by Ferry's slightly raised voice, Phantom followed the prestige blankly, and got a half-distressed and half-joking glance from the little girl, "Gustav is worried a lot God." Among them, the syllable of "many days" was deliberately accentuated by the naughty little girl.

"Of course not!" Phantom finally came to her senses and answered eagerly.He bent down and tentatively touched Gustav's shoulder, but the boy didn't dodge, so he hugged Gustav and turned around several times excitedly - if Ferry hadn't stopped him, it's hard to say he would I don't want to just go to the old world like this.

"My child, I will never blame you." In the end, Phantom stared at Gustav, and solemnly announced that the tone was so generous and compassionate that Ferry, who was on the side, felt an unspeakable move in his heart.As for Gustav, he only regarded Phantom’s words as an ordinary elder expressing his love for him, but that was enough to convince him of the touching tenderness in Phantom’s eyes—this kind of tenderness was not in the eyes of his father Raul. It's rare, so the last bit of uneasiness in the boy's eyes was replaced by a wonderful admiration.

That day, Phantom completely forgot her original intention of coming to Gustav.

He took Gustav, who had just learned to swim, to see the scenery far away from the land, carried the children on the performance horses of the theater, and even took them to the backstage of the theater to watch the intense rehearsal of the actors...

Phantom really regretted that he didn't dare to show up earlier to accept the boy's apology—because of the amazing score that Christine suddenly showed, he didn't wait until the opening ceremony to meet Gustav, but at this moment, he was far away from Chris. It has only been less than three days since Si Ting took the stage.

Less than three days...he can only be a father for less than three days, and after three days, Gustav, the perfect boy, his life-saving grace will leave him, and he will return to the distant place by the waves of the ocean. The northern country of the world... and Ferry, the fruit soaked in the ghost's singing, the most moving flame and light born in the darkness, will never be with him for a long time.

This day was so pleasant that he almost forgot the long and cold ten years of dark nights, and forgot... Shani was the nominal father of the two children in front of him.

But her own bloodline cannot be passed down, and she will continue to be named as that incompetent nobleman... Phantom looks at the warm back of the siblings who just said goodbye to him and left hand in hand, and feels a certain familiar desolation starting to intrude again Xintian: He didn't even have a chance to hear Gustav call himself "Daddy"!

"Father, are you going to ask mother to sing this score instead?" The little girl's voice seemed to be laced with honey, and she immediately pulled back Phantom's complicated thoughts.He subconsciously softened his expression, and added a little doubt when he met Ferry's eyes—this is not the first time she returned quietly after sending Gustave back to the room, but the Phantom is the first time she has been a pretty girl from a young age. See such a subtle look on the face.

"Of course, I'm not saying that I don't have confidence in my own work." Ferry signaled Phantom to open the rough bound handwritten score in his hand-this was the purpose of his original search for Gustav.The little girl used her white and well-proportioned fingers to carelessly draw a few lines on the pages near the end of the music score, and added a sentence as if concerned, "It's just that here, this sound, and the whole last paragraph, will it be okay?" Will it make my mother's newly recovered vocal cords too tired?"