Star crossed lovers leading to disaster

A Chapter by MusicLover

Not a romeo and juleit story

*James pov*

Today is the day that we will make plans. We will find some way for them to meet us at the Ice cream place, Mimis, after school. We leave and then we make our move.

"Jacob! Pay attention to the lesson please." the teacher Mrs. Green says.

We are taking notes on Shakespearian Literature. Apparently the dude died on his birthday and left a bed for his wife. The second best bed. I would have given her the best one, no matter what. We are reading Romeo and Joliet in class.

I want Autumn to be mine.

And she will be. No matter what.

*Autumns POV*

Jacob has been acting wired lately. Everybody has. Maybe it's because I am still tipsy from the party. Eh, oh well. I mean they were so close and touchy and now they act like we have rabbis.

Maybe it was the party that is making them crazy. No Jake is different. We are now on Act 2 scene 2 of the play. Bleh the balcony scene. She chose Jake and I to read.

"Mrs. Green can I please not read today?" I ask trying to make my voice crack.

"Come on hun, don't be a baby." she says. She always calls everyone hun, darling, exept if they tick her off.

"Ok…. and …….. action!" she yells.

Lines from the play.

Enter ROMEO.]

ROMEO
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

[JULIET appears above at a window.]

     But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
     It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
     Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
     Who is already sick and pale with grief,
     That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
     Be not her maid, since she is envious;
     Her vestal livery is but sick and green
     And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
    It is my lady, O, it is my love!
    O, that she knew she were!
    She speaks yet she says nothing; what of that?
    Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
    I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks.
    Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
    Having some business, do entreat her eyes
   To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
    What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
    The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
    As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
    Would through the airy region stream so bright
    That birds would sing and think it were not night.
    See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
    O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
    That I might touch that cheek!

JULIET
Ay me!

      ROMEO
                               She speaks!
    O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
    As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
    As is a winged messenger of heaven
    Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
    Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
    When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
    And sails upon the bosom of the air.

      JULIET
    O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
    Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
    Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
    And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

ROMEO [Aside.]
Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

      JULIET
    'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
    Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
    What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
    Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
    Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
    What's in a name? That which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet;
    So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
    Retain that dear perfection which he owes
    Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
    And for that name which is no part of thee
    Take all myself.

      ROMEO
                              I take thee at thy word.
    Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
    Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

      JULIET
    What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
    So stumblest on my counsel?

      ROMEO
            By a name
    I know not how to tell thee who I am:
    My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
    Because it is an enemy to thee;
    Had I it written, I would tear the word.

      JULIET
    My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
    Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:
    Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?

ROMEO
Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.

      JULIET
    How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
    The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
    And the place death, considering who thou art,
    If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

      ROMEO
    With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
    For stony limits cannot hold love out,
    And what love can do, that dares love attempt;
    Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.

JULIET
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.

      ROMEO
    Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
    Than twenty of their swords! Look thou but sweet,
    And I am proof against their enmity.

JULIET
I would not for the world they saw thee here.

      ROMEO
    I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
    And but thou love me, let them find me here:
    My life were better ended by their hate,
    Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

JULIET
By whose direction found'st thou out this place?

      ROMEO
    By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;
    He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.
    I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far
    As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,
    I would adventure for such merchandise.

      JULIET
    Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,
    Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
    For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight.
    Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
    What I have spoke, but farewell compliment!
    Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say "Ay,"
    And I will take thy word; yet if thou swear'st,
    Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
    They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
    If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully;
    Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
    I'll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay,
    So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
    In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
   And therefore thou mayst think my behavior light,
   But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
   Than those that have more coying to be strange.
   I should have been more strange, I must confess,
   But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
   My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
   And not impute this yielding to light love,
  Which the dark night hath so discovered.

      ROMEO
  Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
   That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops�"

      JULIET
  O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
  That monthly changes in her circled orb,
  Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

ROMEO
What shall I swear by?

      JULIET
                                      Do not swear at all;
   Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
   Which is the god of my idolatry,
   And I'll believe thee.

ROMEO
If my heart's dear love�"

      JULIET
   Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
   I have no joy of this contract tonight:
   It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
   Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
   Ere one can say "It lightens." Sweet, good night!
   This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
   May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
   Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
   Come to thy heart as that within my breast!

ROMEO
O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

JULIET
What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?

ROMEO
The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.

      JULIET
   I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
   And yet I would it were to give again.

ROMEO
Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?

JULIET

But to be frank, and give it thee again.

      And yet I wish but for the thing I have.
   My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
   My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
   The more I have, for both are infinite.

[Nurse calls within.]

   I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!
   Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.
   Stay but a little, I will come again.

[Exit, above.]

      ROMEO
   O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.
   Being in night, all this is but a dream,
   Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.

[Re-enter JULIET, above.]

      JULIET
   Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
   If that thy bent of love be honourable,
   Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
   By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
   Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;
   And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay
   And follow thee my lord throughout the world.

Nurse [Within.]
Madam!

      JULIET
   I come, anon.�"But if thou mean'st not well,
   I do beseech thee�"

Nurse [Within]
Madam!

      JULIET
          By and by, I come:�"
   To cease thy strife, and leave me to my grief:
   Tomorrow will I send.

ROMEO
So thrive my soul�"

JULIET
A thousand times good night!

[Exit, above.]

      ROMEO
   A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
   Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,
   But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Enter JULIET, again [above].

      JULIET
   Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,
   To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
   Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;
   Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
   And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
   With repetition of my Romeo's name. Romeo!

      ROMEO
   It is my soul that calls upon my name:
   How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
   Like softest music to attending ears!

JULIET
Romeo!

ROMEO
My niesse?

      JULIET
                                      At what o'clock tomorrow
  Shall I send to thee?

ROMEO
At the hour of nine.

      JULIET
   I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.
   I have forgot why I did call thee back.

ROMEO
Let me stand here till thou remember it.

      JULIET
   I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
   Remembering how I love thy company.

      ROMEO
   And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,
  Forgetting any other home but this.

      JULIET
   'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:
   And yet no further than a wanton's bird;
  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
  Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.

ROMEO
I would I were thy bird.

JULIET
Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

[Exit above.]

ROMEO
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!

Hence will I to my ghostly sire's close cell,
His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.

Exit.

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I go to my locker and a sheet of paper falls out.

My dearest Juliet (Autumn),

Though you have touched my heart, you need to help touch my mind. I request your assistance in the matter if CHemistry. Please be a hero and rescue me at 4:00 this afternoon at Mimi's. It would mean the world to me.

From your romeo,

Jacob

I have a bad feeling about this.

*Pennys POV*

"I got one from David." I say, looking at my note again.

"I got one from Nick." Brooke says, reading the new issue of People magazine.

"I got one from Jacob." Autumn says, playing with her hair.

"I got one from Brad." Maria says, slurping her smoothie.

"I didn’t get one, but I want ice cream." Maddie says, writing something in her notebook.

"So should we meet them after school?" Autumn asks as she stops plating with her hair. We are sitting at our table before we leave for 5th period.

"I think we should. I mean you don’t want them to fail do we. I mean how mean would we be if we let them fail." Maddie says, biting into a Twix.

"Yeah but I have to study for my AP tests on Thursday." I say.

"You can spare an hour or so right? Besides it is only Monday. Come on we'll meet at Maddies locker after school today and head over. Besides, I want ice cream too." Maria says.

"So it's settled. We are going." Maddie says.

Before I can say anything the bell rings, and I am alone with my own thoughts.

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