"If profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
Anchor Beach's Juliet grasped the hand of her Romeo, and with a shaky breath she responded, "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this, for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
She spaced out for a moment, perhaps from stage fright or perhaps from the thought of the upcoming encounter. Her Romeo, however, confidently continued the dialogue.
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair."
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
Her heart thumped erratically in her chest. It's just acting, she tried to convince herself. It's one kiss; a stage kiss, it means nothing.
If only it meant nothing.
How Callie ended up on stage playing Juliet opposite Brandon's Romeo is an unfortunate (or was it fortunate?) coincidence for another time. As the spotlight focused upon the two lovers, green irises locked with brown orbs, and for a second the audience disappeared. It was just Brandon and Callie—no, Romeo and Juliet—hopelessly in love as they took the final step toward each other.
Romeo's voice dropped to a whisper, as he muttered, "Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take."
For the first time in months, their lips met with a soft brush.
"Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged."
It was hard to distinguish between fiction and reality in this moment, as Callie, truly one with her inner Juliet, answered, "Then have my lips the sin that they have took."
As the scene came to a close, Romeo (or was it just Brandon?) demanded, "Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."
Their lips molded together more fiercely this time, the applause from the crowd dimming into silence as they embraced in the spotlight. They reveled in this feeling, this sin, as long as possible until the curtains had fully descended upon them.
What neither Romeo and Juliet—nor Brandon and Callie realized, was that this day was to be the beginning of the end.
"For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
from this point forward, the majority of this story will be a flashback (this opening scene takes place in the present)
I've been toying with the idea of this story since the Fosters first released the fact that they would be doing a Romeo and Juliet musical, and with the mention of Star Crossed lovers and Brandon's senior project in tonight's episode, that idea was solidified.
I really hope you enjoy!