For Ricardo Montague, he thought today would be the same as any other day. Usually he would lazily climb out of bed, throw on some clothes, and hurry out the door to beginanother boring day of high school. But for some reason, something laid on his conscience that today was going to be different. He then shook his head and pushed aside his thoughts.
Ricardo grabbed his books and prayed that he wouldn't be late for first period. Running quickly down the halls, he collided into a girl with long brown hair. She fell andher books scattered everywhere.
"Oops, I'm really sorry!" exclaimed Ricardo.
The girl looked up for the first time at the sound of his voice. It was Julie Capulet. The Capulet family and the Montague family have always been sworn enemies. As long as Ricardo could remember, his family had despised the Capulet's since he was little. To tell you thetruth, he didn't even know what the reason was for this continuous feud. But whatever it was, he had to stay faithful to his family and hate the Capulet's too.
Ricardo groaned and thought to himself I'm going to be late because of a stupid Capulet, just my luck. Ricardo glanced down at his watch and murmured a quick goodbye.
Julie Capulet was a simple girl who came from a rich family. She wasn't the most popular girl in the school, but she didn't have a hard time fitting in. Her family was the owners of the high-classcountry club. Many of the "wealthy" families had membership to it. Personally, Julie thought they were all snobs, but according to her parents, they were all well respectedfamilies and she was supposed to like them. Well, all of them besides the Montagues. For some unknown reason to Julie, her parents hated them and they were only richbecause of inheritance money. Julie didn't see any reason to hate the Montagues, but she never argued about it to her parents.
Finally, school was over and at last it was the weekend. Ricardo was looking forward to a few days of relaxing and not having to worry about any upcoming tests. He walkedup to his door and fished his keys out of his pocket.
As he opened the door, he yelled "Is anyone home?"
A distant voice yelled back "In the family room!"
Ricardo dropped his stuff down on the stairs and headed towards the voices of his parents. They were laughing at each other as they were practicing their ball dancing.
" What are you guys doing?"Ricardo laughed.
Mrs. Montague twirled around in her long evening gown and said "I was seeing if your father remembered how to dance the waltz. We plan on showing those Capulet's that we are just as good as them at tonight's masked ball."
"You didn't forget that its tonight at the country club did you?"
Ricardo groaned and said "I wish I did. Do I really have to go? " He hated being around those stuck up snobs, it was bad enough having to deal with them at school.
Mr. Montague looked at his son and said "Yes Ricardo, we Montagues have to stick together and that means we are all going tonight. Your costume is in your room. " Ricardo sighed and retreated to his room.