Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I never saw true beauty till this night. Aria and Ezra have had a hard relationship. Duh. But what would happen if the two were in a Shakespearean time of love. Please give it a chance before you gauge your eyes out from what is sure to be a terrible story!

YES THIS IS A MODERNIZATION LIKE ROMEO + JULIET, I AM A RIP OFF ARTIST

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Cast:

Romeo\Ezra Fitz Juliet\Aria Montgomery Paris\Noel Khan Tybalt\Mike Montgomery

Mercutio\Hardy Prince Benvolio\Toby Cavanaugh Lord Capulet\ Byron Montgomery

Lady Capulet\Ella Montgomery Lord Montague\ Nathan Fitz Lady Montague \Carolyn Fitz

Nurse\Simone Dillon Alice (Abram)(Capulet)\ Hanna Marin Rosaline\Jackie Molina

Sandra (Sampson) (Montague)\Spencer Hastings Gabriel (Gregory) (Montague)\Emily Fields

Bridget (Balthazar)(Capulet)\ Mona Vander Waal Prince of Verona\ Officer Prince

Friar (Padre) Lawrence\ Mathew Ackard Apothecary\Caleb Rivers

*Yes, three of the male characters have been turned to female characters for the sake of keeping Spencer, Emily, and Hanna. Don't kill me, I love Shakespeare with all of myself but it was all I could do to save the other 'liars', thank you!

Verona Beach, California.

For the most part, the city is peaceful. Yet we find that two households, both alike in dignity, make it hard to stay that way. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, we see two cars drive up quickly to the Phoenix Gas Station. Normally this scene would not spark intrigue, if not for the fact that the cars come differently.

One of the house of Montgomery

One from the house of Fitz

Toby, a member of the family of Fitz, jumped out of the yellow Ferrari smiling down at his two female companions who were all but snarling, motioning toward the other car, "The quarrel is between our masters." Toby, always the peacemaker. He walked off into the gas station.

Long had stood the feud between the Fitz' and the Montgomery's, and just as long ago it had been forgotten. But still the mutiny had trickled down from generation to generation between business foes. Children who knew not one another, ready to kill in order to keep the state of their master.

Spencer and Emily looked at each other before smirking in the hot sun, "And us, their 'men'." They began laughing. A group of boys their age in church dress left the store with a sister from the church. A provocative song tuned from the car and Spencer stood up smirking, catching the boys attention.

"I am . . ." she sang along to the music, playing with the straps of her bikini top, "A pretty piece of flesh I am . . ." the boys were all but drooling as the nun hit at them and drove away. Emily began laughing and helped Spencer back down into the car.

"Slut . . ." A voice sing-songed out. Emily and Spencer turned to see Mona and Hanna, from the house of Capulet, resting against the signature red Lambo, awaiting Michelangelo Montgomery to return.

Emily sneered. "Don't start anything!" Spencer pushed. Emily sighed, then leaned against Spencer and smiled, "I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them . . . if they bare it." Emily jumped out fo the car, making good on her promise. Hanna began to walk over, but Mona stopped her. She shook Mona off, glaring at Emily.

"Do you bite your thumb at us?" she tossed her blond, sun bleached hair over her shoulder.

Emily, a bit shyer now, took a small step back, "I do bite my thumb."

"But do you bite your thumb at US?" Mona chimed in angrily.

Emily turned to Spencer, "Is the law on our side if I say yes?"

"No . . ." Spencer shook her head quickly.

Emily turned, "Then no. I DO NOT bite my thumb at you, but I DO bite my thumb!" Emily spat."Do you wish to fight about it?"

"Fight? . . . No!"

"Well if you do, let's do this! I serve just a good a man as you." Spencer hopped out of the car.

"No better?" Hanna asked.

Emily's eyes darted back and forth. "Say BETTER!" Spencer whispered between her teeth. Emily nodded, "Yes, better!"

Mona scoffed, "You lie!" stomping forward, a pistol drawn. Scrawled along the side it pronounced it was manufactured by the gun company 'Sword'. Spencer grabbed her own gun from the back seat positioning next to Emily. Toby walked out of the store, disturbed at what he saw. But he did what anyone would do in his position.

His gun exposed he yelled, "Put down the swords, stop this foolishness. You know not what you do!" At that moment Mike stepped out of the same store, only upon his face a smile emerged. Toby glanced at him, "Tell them to put away their swords. We mean to keep peace!"

Mike removed his own gun from the monogrammed 'Montgomery' holster to smirk, "Peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, All of the house of Fitz, and you." People began to scream and find shelter for what was soon to begin.

Toby yelled to Spencer and Emily, "Drive! Go, now!" They reluctantly did as told. Suddenly, as always, a riot slowly began as police approached and the yelling erupted. Mona and Hanna looked at each other once before retreating from the scene unfolding. Strangers began shooting, one hitting the gas chamber at the station. Toby looked around, choosing to shuffle the gun into his holster and run. Mike watched as the station began to engulf in flames and ran through the crowd, only to be caught alongside Toby by the police.

An hour later the two families sat in the police station. Officer Prince glared at the two men sitting before him. Nathan Fitz and Byron Montgomery did not so much as cast a glance upon the other. "Three times, your men have poured the city into a violent rampage. I am sick of it. If it is to happen again, it won't be you money or my citizens to pay the toll, but your lives . . ."

As the Fitz' drove away, Carolyn broke her silence, "Toby where is Ezra? You saw him today didn't you . . . I'm so glad he wasn't involved in this."

Toby wiped his mouth, "Aunt Carolyn, I did see Ezra at abandoned Sycamore theatre at the water front this morning. I haven't since."

Nathan shook his head, "Many a morning my son has been found there moping, lately."

Carolyn rested her hand on her husband's arm. "My poor son. He stays in his room all night and when the sun arrives to greet him in the morning he barricades himself in the darkness, prolonging an artificial night. Toby, what is wrong with him?"

Toby ran his fingers through his bushy, brown main. "Drop me off at the beach and I'll try to find out his grievance." As they drove upon the pier, Carolyn could just make out the shape of her son, sitting on the broken stage and scribbling something into a notebook of sorts. She smiled, having the joy of knowing he was safe.

Toby shuffled out of the car, approaching his cousin in the barely risen. "What's up, cuz?" he smiled, heaving himself onto the stage.

Ezra looked up, as if just realizing he wasn't the only person on the green earth. "What time is it?"

Toby looked at his watch, "9 a.m."

"The hours of my day tick my slower than yours. Was that my dad who just drove off."

"It was . . ." Toby nodded. "Why are you're hours longer?"

"Because I don't have what makes hours shorter . . . love."

Toby laughed, "You are in love."

"Out-"

"Out of love?"

"Out of her favor for being in love. She is not in love with me." Ezra pushed the scratchbook into his knapsack and hopped off the stage, "Later, cousin."

"Oh, no. I'm coming." Toby smiled following Ezra along the sandy beach. "Who is it that you love?"

"A woman. But she rejected me for another."

"Why? Who does she love?"

"God . . ." Ezra smirked to his cousin then looked ahead, "She wishes to become a nun and will have neither me nor any other man."

Toby nodded, simply saying, "That sucks." And pushing his cousin forward into a sand swept bar on the grove.

"Aria!" Ella screeched. Simone's figure came to view and Ella ran up, "Simone, where's my daughter?"

"Right here! What do you want?" Aria trickled down the stairs, her thick brown hair around her shoulders. Ella smiled at her beautiful daughter.

"Come, Aria. We must talk about something important!" She pulled Aria and Simone upstairs to Aria's own room and set them down. "Noel Kahn, the governor's son, wished to marry you!"

"Marry?" Simone and Aria asked in unison. Aria blinked several times, "Mother I don't want to get married! I'm young, I want to have a life before-"

"Aria, When I was your age I was already your mother for a few years. Now we are hosting a party tonight and I want you to at least talk to him." Ella smiled and patted Aria on the head before quickly leaving.

Simone got up but smiled down at the young girl who she had nursed her entire life. "Go to the party. Have fun and seek happy nights to happy days." She pecked Aria lightly on the top of her head before leaving the room, allowing Aria to spend a small amount of time to herself before the party.

Please tell me whether you loved it or want to kill me now! Either way I promise you it will get better!