Angel Of Music (Phantom fic)

       "Lovelle!  Darling, come on, you’re going to be late for your audition!" her mother called.
       Lovelle trudged down the stairs in her new dress and shoes that pinched.  She knew she had a voice, but didn’t want to sing in front of so many others.  But her mother was determined to have her be the next diva of the Opera Populaire.  She’d once been a singer there, during the famous events of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained.
       Her mother had tried to frighten away the ghosts of so many years ago with an illumination on Lovelle and her singing.  But honestly, the legend of the Opera Ghost and the famous chandelier crash were the only things hat interested Lovelle about the world of opera.  She wanted to find this man’s secret lair and draw him out.  Find out what made him so lonely.  Though perhaps that was only because of how isolated she felt.
       Her mother never truly cared for her.  All she wanted to do was hone her daughter’s voice to be good enough to make it whereas she never had.  But Lovelle, though she had a beautiful voice, was never one for the rose and pearl, as the saying went.  All she wanted was for someone to understand the loneliness and the darkness that would swallow her up at times.  All she truly wanted was to be loved.  She always hoped that after this performance, or after this audition, she would earn that love form her mother.  But no.  It was never good enough.  There was always some place that she didn’t breathe correctly.  Some place that she fell flat, or was a bit sharp.
       So perhaps the Opera Populaire was the best place to go, she pondered as she descended the last of the steps.  Perhaps this was the place where she would find an answer to that loneliness.  Perhaps she would find this Phantom, and he could answer her questions.  About him and within herself.
       "I’m ready, Mother."