Hey all! This is my first time writing a story so I hope it goes well and you all like it. I will be co-writing this story with my best friend and sister Mariah. This story will only be available under my account. The inspiration for this song came from the song 'Love Story' by: Taylor Swift, Mariah and I were sitting in my room listening to the song when we had an idea to create some OCs and write a story with them. My OCs are Crystal and Romeo aka Taylor and Mariah's OCs are Mariah and Juliet. This story could be considered as a spin-off of Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet'. I apologize for any misspelled words or improper placement of puntcuation but Mariah and I are human so we aren't perfect which causes mistakes to happen. Anyways I really hope you enjoy reading about Romeo/Taylor and Juliet and fall in love with them like Mariah and I have.
Day One
Romeo's P.O.V
Romeo slapped the snooze button on his alarm clock as it blared. He lay in bed for 10 minutes, sighed thinking to himself about how this was the third night in a row that passed without sleep. He got up and slicked back his messy hair with his hand heading to the bathroom in the small one bedroom apartment his mother left him when she died. He showered then went back to his room to get dressed. His entire morning routine was performed on auto-pilot because his brain was focused on the possibilities of the day. He put on his favourite Guns and Roses t-shirt given to him by his mom, a pair of blue jeans, his cowboy boots, a baggy blood red sweater that he wore so it hanged off of his left shoulder and then finished off the look by sliding the Cheshire Cat snap-back hat he won from a fight on his head backwards.
Romeo grabbed his bag from the couch then his keys and a pair of aviator sunglasses from the side table in the entry way. As he walked out the door he waved to the sweet couple that lived next door to him. Heading to the elevator he stuck his headphones in his ears and into his phone then turned on his favourite song which happened to be 'Love Story' by: Taylor Swift. It was his favourite because his mom named him after her and he connected with the song in a way unexplainable to anyone but him. Exiting the elevator he headed for his car a dark blue Mazda RX-8 with tinted windows.
In the car he noticed that the chain he always wore was sitting on top of his shirt instead of under it. He quickly fixed it then inserted the key into the ignition turning the car on. He loved the sound of the engine rumbling to life. Romeo put the car in reverse and backed out of his parking spot then switched into drive heading out of the parkade. Merging into traffic to head to school he tugged his headphones out and turned the radio in the car on tuning into some random station that happened to be playing music. He rolled down all four windows and blasted the song (which was 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica) the last few blocks left in his journey to school.
Getting out of the car Romeo put on his sunglasses and grabbed his bag from the passenger seat. He walked into the same school he'd be going to for two years North Valley High. Heading to his locker he took off his sunglasses and slide them onto the collar of his shirt. He returned his headphones to his ears and put on 'Untitled' by: Simple Plan. Romeo put his bag in his locker and only took out what he needed for his morning classes English and Advanced Acting which wasn't much because in English was a substitute which meant boring movie and in Advanced Acting was scene rehearsal.
The bell rang as he walked into his English class. Romeo took a seat at the back of the room away from everyone else and prepared himself to explain to the Sub that he preferred to be called Romeo not Taylor. That was one thing he hated about substitutes, the constant explaining which took a good ten minutes each time. But to Romeo's surprise the Sub called him Romeo instead of Taylor. All he could think was that the teacher must have left a note for the substitute to save time. Whatever the case was Romeo was thankful he didn't have to do any explaining. The movie was started was started and even though the Sub said no phones everyone including Romeo pulled out their phones.
While most people texted about how boring the movie was, Romeo scrolled through the few remaining photos he had of Kyle his best friend that died of cancer three months ago. Romeo choked back tears as he paused on a photo of him and Kyle at the beach before everything went downhill for them. Romeo never visited the beach again because he wanted to remember it how it was with Kyle. Losing Kyle was the turning point in Romeo's life, he became more aggressive and started acting more like a guy than a girl.
Class ended without much excitement for everyone else but for Romeo it ended with him questioning all of the choices he'd made since Kyle's death. Romeo shook off the feeling and headed to his Advanced Acting class. He loved this class because in the theatre was where he could be himself and put all his pent up energy into the parts he played. Romeo took off his sweater and joined his group in the warm-up. After warm-up the class broke off into the groups to work on their scenes. Romeo's group had chosen to do Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' and because his group members though it was hilarious they made Romeo play the part of 'Romeo'. Of course he didn't mind playing the part because he didn't have to get used to being called a different name. The scene they were doing was a mash-up of the street fight scene and the balcony scene but the group had a slight problem. They were missing someone to play the role of 'Juliet'. Due to this they could only rehearse the parts of the scene without 'Juliet'. There was a rumour flying around that a new student would be joining the class soon but Romeo wasn't one for believing rumours.
After class Romeo headed to his locker to switch his morning stuff for his afternoon stuff before heading to the cafeteria to get food. In the line for the food in the cafeteria there were a couple of kids obsessing over the new girl they had seen in the office registering for classes. Romeo didn't think anything of this information until one of the kids said something about the new girl liking theatre. This only caught his attention because of the nagging fact that his drama group was missing a character. Romeo grabbed a sandwich and a pop then elbowed his way out of line to pay for his items. After paying he ate the sandwich in two bites and drank the pop in one gulp.
On the way to Chemistry Romeo came across an abnormally large group of people. He made his way through the group to the front where he witnessed a jock knock books out of a girl's hands before backing her into a corner where she slid to the floor. At this point Romeo was running on pure rage which he used to spin the jock around and punch him in the face effectively breaking his nose. The jock and his lackeys ran off and the group of spectators broke up. Romeo picked up the girl's books then helped her up before handing her the books and continuing on his way to Chem.
