A slight breeze, blowing softly past her face. She smiled, spreading her arms out, closing her eyes. She sighed happily, breathing in the cool cliff side air. Her grin grew larger as a pair of arms wrapped their way around her waist.


Two households, both alike in dignity.

In fair Verona (where we lay our scene).

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.


The arms pulled her closer to the other, his hands turning her to face him. Lightning smiled down at her as she wrapped her own arms around his neck. The blond lowered his lips to her own, pressing lightly. She grinned into the kiss.


From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.


"Sometimes, Melody, Lightning wonders why we did what we did," Lightning sighed, hugging her to his chest.

"I do too," Melody replied, leaning into him.


The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which but their children's end nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;


"But we can't take back anything."

"Indeed. There's no going back."


The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


The story of Romeo and Juliet was always a point of fascination for me. I always loved the idea of a perfect story, a Cinderella and her Prince Charming. This was a story that was something beautiful and sad at the same time. Such as this story.

However, it is not as sad, and not as beautiful. It would be a tragedy, if one of us had died in the end. Not in this case.

It is a story of Romeo and his Juliet. The two young lovers, who slowly drifted apart. Moreover, it is a story of Romeo and Cinderella. The two lovers who connected instantly. Finally, it is a story of rekindling, the rekindling of Romeo and Juliet's relationship, as well as the thread of love between Romeo and Cinderella being destroyed.

This is Lightning's Melody.