Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?
Chapter 1

Five days to the big event. I should be feeling confident and prepared to take the other team down. For goodness sake, I'm the president of the Math Club, Science Club, and Scholars' program, so why am I getting the jitter bugs just days before the big Science Decathlon? I'm Cody Martin, and I seriously need a study break before my head hurts any further and stomach is feeling all upside down. I shut the huge encyclopaedia that I spent the whole afternoon in the library reading, and rested my head back on the board of my arm chair.

All of a sudden, I felt a grip from behind, hugging me close to the source of warm. My sudden jolt was soothed by the strawberry shampoo scent that greatly helped to calm my nerves, and all my troubles seem so far away. I embraced the warm, pulling my girlfriend from behind to face me and hugged her yet again which she happily returned.

Someone seems to be in a happy mood, I thought.

Bailey seemed to have read my thought, "You won't believe what just happened!"

I like it when she gets all excited, pumped up. Her cheeks turn to a light shade of pink, her bangs get all messy but yet still attractive, and her eyes filled with sparkle like a little kid given a full month of Christmas presents. I decided not to ruin her excitement and just let her share her news.

"I won the female lead role in the upcoming school play! I didn't think I'll get it since I never had any acting background like those students from drama club, but I went in and gave my best shot and not forgetting the days I spent memorising the whole script even though we only have to act from one small scene, and – "

She would have gone on if I didn't cut in. That's yet another reason about her that I like. She tends to rant when she gets excited or angry too, and it's cute that she can forget to breathe when ranting. And at times like this, I get to do my part as a boyfriend.

I leaned forward and closed the gap, giving her a peck on her lips.

Bailey raised her eyebrows at me as we parted, as if questioning my reason for interrupting her.

I smiled and reply a very familiar phrase, "Well, I had to stop you from babbling".

Bailey giggled and hooked her arm in mine, leading me to the sofa at the end of the study corner. As we settled into the comfy sofa, she leaned her head on my shoulder while her arm still stayed grip on mine. At times like this, it always felt like the world stop spinning and we were very much caught up in our own world. Even though neither of us spoke, we knew we enjoyed each other's company.

School term just began and we were both highly committed in our own activities. At the thought of that, I stared at Bailey, "Honey, with you at school play and me being busy with the decathlon, there's no way we can find time to spend with each other."

Bailey looked longingly at me before replying, "Cody, we've been through busier times, like those weeks where we both had to work and our extra enrichment lessons after school made break time the only time we could spend together. We've survived that, and this won't be a problem. Trust me, trust us." With that Bailey leaned in for a kiss.

"Hey Cody, you're the man! I don't understand how you can be so benevolent, allowing other guys to make out with your girl. Dude, I admire your confidence," Marcus gave me a pat on the back as he spoke.

However, I merely shot Marcus a questioning look, unable to follow. Marcus seemed to have realise he said something that should be kept a secret, for he tried to hurried off but I noticed right away as he stumbled over his own feet and nearly tripped. I caught hold of him and held firmly, turning him around and began questioning him.

"Uhhhh –" it was all that he could say as I shot him my threatening looks.

"Well, you see, the thing is that," he began, but quite slowly and kept stuttering away, "Maybe you should ask Bailey instead. Oh and don't tell her you heard it from me?"

I'm Cody Martin, and I won't take no for an answer.

After much interrogation, and probably because I never let go of his shirt since the moment he tried to scoot off, he pretty much gave in and ranted it all out.

Apparently, Bailey is going to be kissed by some dude acting as Romeo in the school play, and no way did Bailey mention anything about this to me that day! Wait, the school play is Romeo and Juliet? Oh no no no, that's not just any school play, it's a romance and tragedy play that my Bailey is taking part in! How could she do this to me? Well the least she could do was tell me about that scene! I've got to talk to her!

A/N: Hi all, thanks for reading. I know it's a little short but I'll still love to hear your comments :D