Invader of the Opera

Chapter 20

Madame Bitters

"Please, Tak, I know no more than anyone else." Dib and Tak were following Md. Bitters through the opera house's corridors in hope that she' would tell them the story behind the opera ghost.

Tak grabbed her mother's shoulder. "That's not true." She said.

"Please, Madame Bitters, for all our sakes..." Dib said as Bitters reached the door to her room.

"Very well." She said, ushering them into her small room. She took a seat on her bed and Tak and dib sat on her loveseat. "It was years ago," She started slowly. "There was a travelling fair in the city. Gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina. One of many living in the dormitory of the opera house." Tak nodded. She knew this much. Dib gestured for her to continue.

Bitters looked off into space. "He was there. They had him in a cage. Called him an alien and made him expose his skin for money. It was horrific. At night, when he thought he was alone, he strangled the old man keeping him. He didn't know I was watching. I hate to say this, but I helped him escape that night. I brought him here." She looked at Dib.

"I have hidden him from the world and its cruelty. He has known nothing else of life since then except this opera house. It was his playground and now his artistic domain. He's a genius; he's an architect and designer. He's a composer and a magician. A genius."

Dib sighed and gave Tak a glance. She looked surprised by what her mother just told her. Dib placed his hand over her and turned to Md. Bitters. "But clearly genius has turned to madness,"

Author's notes:

Hey, guys, how's it going? I told you I would finish this story and by golly, I am. I think I started this story in middle school and I am now a senior. I really sorry for not updating in…years….This chapter is so short. Ah, I'm a horrible person.